A Garden of Quanta : Essays in Honor of Hiroshi Ezawa

Table of Contents: “…Ohya -- Amenability for weighted Hopf C*-algebras / Y. Nakagami -- The Bessel equation and dissipation / E. …”
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Business Valuation An Integrated Theory. by Mercer, Z. Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Defining Equity Cash Flows -- Reinvestment Rates and Interim Growth Rates -- Terminal Growth Rates -- Expected Cash Flows and the Integrated Theory -- Marketable Minority Interest Level: Public Company Equivalent -- Financial Control Level: Private Equity Cash Flows -- Strategic Control Level: Strategic Acquirer Cash Flows -- Assessing the Reasonableness of Projected Enterprise Cash Flows -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Income Approach (Discount Rate) -- Introduction -- Return Basics: Realized versus Required Returns -- Components of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital…”
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Transformations in Slavery : a History of Slavery in Africa. by Lovejoy, Paul E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Transformations in Slavery; AFRICAN STUDIES; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Tables; Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures; Preface; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; 1 Africa and Slavery; Slavery: A Definition; Slavery in Social Formations; The African Setting; The Islamic Factor; The Trans-Atlantic Trade; 2 On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600; The Medieval Slave Trade: The African Frontier; The Institution of Slavery in Muslim Africa; Origins of the Atlantic Trade: The Muslim Connection; Slavery Along the Guinea Coast.…”
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Advances in geometric modeling

Table of Contents: “…Peha (Spain) -- Piecewise power basis conversion of dynamic B-spline curves and surfaces / Deok-Soo Kim and Joonghyun Ryu (Korea) -- Computational methods for geometric processing of surfaces : blending, offsetting, intersection, implicitization / Andres Iglesias (Spain) -- Weighted Nu splines : an alternative to nurbs / Muhammad Sarfraz (Saudi Arabia) -- Generation of parting surfaces using subdivision technique / C.L. …”
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Applications of management science

Table of Contents: “…Literature ReviewModel Development; Market Share Function; Expected Warranty Costs; Mathematical Model; Results; Conclusions; References; Weighted-Sum Approach for Bi-objective Optimization of Fleet Size with Environmental Aspects; Introduction; Road Transportation; Vehicle Routing Problem; Algorithms and Multi-Objective Approach; Eroski Group; Related Work; Transportation Fleet Capacity versus Number of Trucks; Noise, Pollution, and Fuel Consumption; Computational Experiments; Mathematical Models; Mathematical Equations; Real Input Data; Obtained Results for Bi-Objective Problems…”
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Three-Dimensional Partonic Structure of the Nucleon. by Anselmino, M.

Table of Contents: “…DIS in the parton modelDIS beyond the parton model; Semi-inclusive DIS; Semi-inclusive DIS in the parton model; The correlation functions; Structure functions in the parton model; Beyond the parton model; Beyond the parton model: high transverse momentum; Some phenomenology: unpolarized cross-sections; Weighted asymmetries; Phenomenology of transverse-momentum-dependent distributions; Introduction; Moments of TMDs and three-dimensional partonic structure; The Hilbert space of state vectors; Unitarity; Hadron tensors and structure functions; SIDIS cross-section; Structure functions; F_UU, T.…”
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Building AI driven marketing capabilities : understand customer needs and deliver value through AI by Zaidi, Neha, Maurya, Mohit, Grima, Simon, Tyagi, Pallavi

Table of Contents: “…The Fuzzy Inference System: Essential Decision-Making Component in Fuzzy Logic -- Step 1: Fuzzification -- Linear Membership Functions -- Nonlinear membership functions -- Singleton Membership Functions -- Step 2: Designing Rule Base -- Mamdani Systems -- Sugeno Systems -- Tsukamoto Models -- Step 3: Rule Evaluation -- Utilization of Fuzzy Operators in the Antecedent -- Deriving Consequences from Antecedent -- Aggregation of the Consequences Across the Rules -- Step 4: Defuzzification -- Maximum Membership Principle -- Centroid Method -- Weighted Average Method…”
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Chemical reactor analysis and applications for the practicing engineer by Theodore, Louis

Table of Contents: “…CHEMICAL REACTOR ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE PRACTICING ENGINEER; CONTENTS; Preface; Overview; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1 HISTORY OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS; Introduction; Early History; Recent History; The Chemical Industry Today; Microscopic vs Macroscopic Approach; References; 2 THE FIELD OF CHEMISTRY; Introduction; Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Other Chemistry Topics; Analysis Procedures; References; 3 PROCESS VARIABLES; Introduction; Temperature; Pressure; Moles and Molecular Weights; Mass and Volume; Viscosity; Heat Capacity; Thermal Conductivity.…”
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Survey Research for Public Administration. by Folz, Professor David H.

Table of Contents: “…The Dangers of Nonprobability SamplingProbability Sampling Methods; Simple Random Sampling; Systematic Sampling; Stratified Random Sampling; Cluster Sampling; Weighting Cases; Obtaining Samples for Telephone Surveys; Random Digit Dialing; Estimating the Size of the Sampling Pool for Telephone Surveys; Screening Respondents for Telephone Interviews; Processing Sampling Pools; Calculating Response Rates; Summary; Chapter 4 -- Survey Design and Implementation; The Basics of Question Order; Question Types; Open-Ended Questions; Closed-Ended Questions; Choosing the Question Type…”
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Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things

Table of Contents: “…A Focus Group Study -- The Relevance of Software Requirements Defects Management to Improve Requirements and Product Quality: A Systematic Literature Review -- Finding the Effectiveness of Software Team Members Using Decision Tree -- Data Completeness Measures -- Cloud Computing: A General User's Perception and Security Awareness in Malaysian Polytechnic -- The Correlations between Big Five Personality Traits and Social Networking Sites Usage of Elementary School Students in Taiwan -- A Cryptographic Encryption Technique of MPEG Digital video Images based on RGB Layer Pixel Values -- The Impact of Knowledge Management in Pair Programming on Program Quality -- Social Networks Event Mining: A Systematic Literature Review -- Personalized Learning Environment (PLE) Experience in the 21st Century: Review of Literature -- Social Networks Content Analysis for Peacebuilding Application -- Tree-base Structure for Feature Selection in Writer Identification -- Factors That Affecting The Effective Online Collaborative Learning Environment -- Comparing Features Extraction Methods for Person Authentication using EEG Signals -- A Comparative Study of 2D UMI and 3D Zernike Shape Descriptor for ATS Drugs Identification -- Risk assessment for Grid computing using Meta learning Ensembles -- Modeling Cloud Computing Risk Assessment Using Ensemble Methods -- Design Consideration for Improved Term Weighting Scheme for Pornographic Websites -- A novel secure two-party Identity-Based Authenticated Key Agreement protocol without Bilinear Pairings -- An Efficient Pairing-free Certificateless Authenticated Two-party Key Agreement protocol over Elliptic Curves -- Selection of Soil Features for Detection of Ganoderma Using Rough Set Theory -- Category-based Graphical User Authentication (CGUA) Scheme for Web Application -- An Improved Certificateless Public Key Authentication Scheme For Mobile Ad hoc Networks Over Elliptic Curves -- A Resource Efficient Integrity Monitoring & Response Approach for Cloud Computing Environment -- A Resource Bookmarklet-triggered Literature Metadata Extraction System using Cloud Plugins.…”
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Socioeconomic environmental policies and evaluations in regional science : essays in honor of Yoshiro Higano

Table of Contents: “…; References; Consumption and Environmental Awareness: Demographics of the European Experience; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Review; 3 Data; 4 Method; 5 Results; 6 Conclusions; Appendix 1: Survey Questions Analysed; Appendix 2: A Note on Weighting; References; Cultural Capital and Local Development Nexus: Does the Local Environment Matter?…”
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National Academy of Sciences : the First Hundred Years, 1863-1963. by Staff, National Academy of Sciences

Table of Contents: “…Dearth of Government RequestsThe Philosophical Society and the Cosmos Club; The Committee on Weights and Measures; Removal of Restriction on Membership; The Silliman-Whitney Controversy; The Centennial Observance; Illness and Death of Henry; Establishment of the U.S. …”
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A history of the first half-century of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1913.

Table of Contents: “…Committees appointed by the academy on behalf of the governmentcommittee on weights, measures, and coinage. 1863 -- committee on protecting the bottoms of iron vessels. 1863 -- committee on magnetic deviation in iron ships. 1863 -- committee on saxton's alcoholometer. 1863 -- committee on wind and current charts and sailing directions. 1863 -- committee on the question of tests for the purity of whiskey. 1864 -- committee on experiments on the expansion of steam. 1864 -- a committee on materials for the manufacture of cent coins. 1864…”
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Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design. by Coker, A. Kayode

Table of Contents: “…Autocatalytic ReactionsIrreversible Reactions in Series; First Order Reversible Reactions; Second Order Reversible Reactions; General Reversible Reactions; Simultaneous Irreversible Side Reaction; Pseudo-Order Reaction; Practical Measurements of Reaction Rates; Regression Analysis; Weighted Least Squares Analysis; Problems and Errors in Fitting Rate Models; References; Chapter 4. …”
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LATIN 2022: Theoretical Informatics 15th Latin American Symposium, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 7–11, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Algorithms and Data Structures -- Cutting a tree with Subgraph Complementation is hard, except for some small trees -- Elastic-Degenerate String Matching with 1 Error -- Median and Hybrid Median K-Dimensional Trees -- Weighted Connected Matchings -- Space-efficient data structure for next/previous larger/smaller value queries -- Near-Optimal Search Time in &-Optimal Space -- Computing and Listing Avoidable Vertices and Paths -- Klee's Measure Problem Made Oblivious -- Approximation Algorithms -- A parameterized approximation algorithm for the Multiple Allocation k-Hub Center -- Theoretical analysis of git bisect -- Pathlength of Outerplanar graphs -- Approximations for the Steiner Multicycle Problem -- Approximation Schemes for Packing Problems with `p-norm Diversity Constraints -- Obtaining Approximately Optimal and Diverse Solutions via Dispersion -- Cryptography -- On APN functions whose graphs are maximal Sidon sets -- On the subfield codes of a subclass of optimal cyclic codes and their covering structures -- Social Choice Theory -- Multidimensional Manhattan Preferences -- Theoretical Machine Learning -- Exact Learning of Multitrees and Almost-Trees Using Path Queries -- Almost Optimal Proper Learning and Testing Polynomials -- Estimating the Clustering Coefficient using Sample Complexity Analysis -- Automata Theory and Formal Languages -- Binary completely reachable automata -- Conelikes and Ranker Comparisons -- The Net Automaton of a Rational Expression -- Embedding arbitrary Boolean circuits into fungal automata -- How many times do you need to go back to the future in Unary Temporal Logic? …”
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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems 26th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2021, Saarbrücken, Germany, June...

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Learning -- You can’t Learn what’s not there: Self Supervised Learning and the Poverty of the Stimulus -- Scaling Federated Learning for Fine-tuning of Large Language Models -- Overcoming the Knowledge Bottleneck Using Lifelong Learning by Social Agents -- Methodological Approaches -- Word Embedding-based Topic Similarity Measures -- Mixture Variational Autoencoder of Boltzmann Machines for Text Processing -- A Modular Approach for Romanian-English Speech Translation -- NumER: A Fine-grained Numeral Entity Recognition Dataset -- Cross-Domain Transfer of Generative Explanations using Text-to-Text Models -- Semantic Relations -- Virus Causes Flu: Identifying Causality in the Biomedical Domain using an Ensemble Approach with Target-specific Semantic Embeddings -- Multilevel Entity-Informed Business Relation Extraction -- The Importance of Character-Level Information in an Event Detection Model -- Classification -- Sequence-based Word Embeddings for Effective Text Classification -- BERT-Capsule Model for Cyberbullying Detection in Code-Mixed Indian Languages -- Multiword Expression Features for Automatic Hate Speech Detection -- Semantic Text Segment Classification of Structured Technical Content -- On the Generalization of Figurative Language Detection: the Case of Irony and Sarcasm -- Extracting Facts from Case Rulings through Paragraph Segmentation of Judicial Decisions -- Detection of Misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazilian Portuguese WhatsApp Messages -- Sentiment Analysis -- Multi-Step Transfer Learning for Sentiment Analysis -- Improving Sentiment Classification in Low Resource Bengali Language Utilizing Cross-lingual Self-supervised Learning -- Human Language Comprehension in Aspect Phrase Extraction with Importance Weighting -- Exploring Summarization to Enhance Headline Stance Detection -- Predicting Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Sentiment using Topic Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization -- Sentiment Progression based Searching and Indexing of Literary Textual Artefacts -- Social Media -- Argument Mining in Tweets: Comparing Crowd and Expert Annotations for Automated Claim and Evidence Detection -- Authorship Attribution using Capsule-based Fusion Approach -- On the Explainability of Automatic Predictions of Mental Disorders from Social Media Data -- Linking Documents -- Using Document Embeddings for Background Linking of News Articles -- Let’s Summarize Scientific Documents! …”
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Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury : challenges and developments

Table of Contents: “…Initial screeningPost-concussional symptoms; Factors associated with continuing post-concussional symptoms; Management of mild traumatic brain injury; Treating physical and neurological symptoms; Pharmacological interventions and homeopathy; Managing cognitive problems; Addressing psychological issues; Sports-related mTBI; Conclusions; References; 5: Developments of neuroimaging techniques to diagnose and visualize white matter damage; Introduction; Pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury; Traumatic axonal injury; The imaging of blood and blood products: susceptibility weighted imaging.…”
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Quantitative Psychology 84th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Santiago, Chile, 2019

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Stories Of Successful Careers In Psychometrics And What We Can Learn From Them -- Chapter 2: Developing A Concept Map For Rasch Measurement Theory -- Chapter 3: Person Parameter Estimation For IRT Models Of Forced-Choice Data: Merits And Perils Of Pseudo-Likelihood Approaches -- Chapter 4: An Extended Item Response Tree Model For Wording Effects In Mixed-Format Scales -- Chapter 5: The Four-Parameter Normal Ogive Model With Response Time -- Chapter 6: A Bayesian Graphical And Probabilistic Proposal For Bias Analysis -- Chapter 7: Comparing Hyperprior Distributions To Estimate Variance Components For Interrater Reliability Coefficients -- Chapter 8: A Hierarchical Joint Model For Bounded Response Time And Response Accuracy -- Chapter 9: Selecting A Presmoothing Model In Kernel Equating -- Chapter 10: Practical Implementation Of Test Equating Using R -- Chapter 11: Predictive Validity Under Partial Observability -- Chapter 12: Multiple-Group Propensity Score Inverse Weights Trimming And Its Impact On Covariate Balance And On Bias In Treatment Effect Estimation -- Chapter 13: Procrustes Penalty Function For Matching Matrices To Targets With Its Applications -- Chapter 14: Factor Score Estimation From The Perspective Of Item Response Theory -- Chapter 15: On The Precision Matrix In The Semi-High Dimensional Settings -- Chapter 16: The Performance Of The Modified Continuous A-Stratification Indices In Computerized Adaptive Testing -- Chapter 17: Constant CSEM Achieved Through Scale Transformation And Adaptive Testing -- Chapter 18: Synergized Bootstrapping: The Whole Is Faster Than The Sum Of Its Parts -- Chapter 19: Synchronized Time Profile With Applications To Nearest Neighbor Classification -- Chapter 20: Topic Modeling Of Constructed-Response Answers On Social Study Assessments -- Chapter 21: Impact Of Measurement Bias On Diagnostic Clinical Measures -- Chapter 22: Reliability And Structure Validity Of A Teacher Pedagogical Competencies Scale: A Case Study From Chile -- Chapter 23: Psychoperiscope -- Chapter 24: Modeling Household Food Insecurity With A Polytomous Rasch Model -- Chapter 25: Classical Perspectives Of Controlling Acquiescence With Balanced Scales -- Chapter 26: Testing Heterogeneity In Inter-Rater Reliability -- Chapter 27: An Application Of Regularized Extended Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Estimating Equations To The Study Of Co-Occurring Substance Use Among US Adults -- Chapter 28: Permutation Test Of Regression Coefficients In Social Network Data Analysis -- Index.…”
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Proofs that Really Count : the Art of Combinatorial Proof

Table of Contents: “…3.1 Combinatorial Interpretations of Linear Recurrences3.2 Identities for Second-Order Recurrences -- 3.3 Identities for Third-Order Recurrences -- 3.4 Identities for kth Order Recurrences -- 3.5 Get Real! Arbitrary Weights and Initial Conditions -- 3.6 Notes -- 3.7 Exercises -- 4 Continued Fractions -- 4.1 Combinatorial Interpretation of Continued Fractions -- 4.2 Identities -- 4.3 Nonsimple Continued Fractions -- 4.4 Get Real Again! …”
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Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research: Recent Trends 22nd International Conference, MOTOR 2023, Ekaterinburg, Russia, July 2–8, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Invited Papers -- Towards Subderivative-based Zeroing Neural Networks -- Mathematical Programming -- An Algorithm for Decentralized Multi-agent Feasibility Problems -- Online Optimization Problems with Functional Constraints under Relative Lipschitz Continuity and Relative Strong Convexity Conditions -- A Cutting Method with Successive Use of Constraint Functions in Constructing Approximating Sets -- Implementing One Variant of the Successive Concessions Method for the Multi-objective Optimization Problem -- Stochastic Optimization -- UCB Strategy for Gaussian and Bernoulli Multi-armed Bandits -- Estimation of Both Unknown Parameters in Gaussian Multi-armed Bandit for Batch Processing Scenario -- Zero-order Stochastic Conditional Gradient Sliding Method for Non-smooth Convex Optimization -- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization -- Tabu Search Metaheuristic for the Penalty Minimization Personnel Task Scheduling Problem -- An O(n log n)-time Algorithm for Linearly Ordered Packing of 2-bar Charts into OP T + 1 Bins -- Approximation Algorithms for Graph Cluster Editing Problems with Cluster Size at Most 3 and 4 -- On Cone Partitions for the Min-cut and Max-cut Problems with Non negative Edges -- A Pattern-based Heuristic for a Temporal Bin Packing Problem with Conflicts -- Integer Models for the Total Weighted Tardiness Problem on a Single Machine -- Solving Maximin Location Problems on Networks with Different Metrics and Restrictions -- Operations Research -- On Probability Shaping for 5G MIMO Wireless Channel with Realistic LDPC Codes -- Additive Routing Problem for a System of High-priority Tasks -- Public-private Partnership Model with a Consortium -- Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for the Bi-criteria Competitive Location and Design Problem with Elastic Demand -- Decomposition Approach for Simulation-based Optimization of Inventory Management -- Optimal Control and Mathematical Economics -- The Algorithm for the Construction of a Symbolic Family of Regulators for Nonlinear Discrete Control Systems with Two Small Parameters -- Analytical Construction of the Singular Set in One Class of Time-optimal Control Problems in the Presence of Linear Segments of the Boundary of the Target -- On the Existence of Fuzzy Contractual Allocations, Fuzzy Core and Perfect Competition in an Exchange Economy -- Linear Interpolation of Program Control with Respect to a Multidimensional Parameter in the Approach Problem -- Behavior of Stabilized Trajectories of a Two Factor Economic Growth Model under the Changes of a Production Function Parameter -- Optimization in Machine Learning -- Uncertainty of Graph Clustering in Correlation Block Model -- Multi-target Weakly Supervised Regression Using Manifold Regularization and Wasserstein Metric -- Using General Least Deviations Method for Forecasting of Crops Yields -- Searching for Distance Graph Embeddings and Optimal Partitions of Compact Sets in Euclidean Space.…”
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