Universal methods of design : 100 ways to research complex problems, develop innovative ideas, and design effective solutions by Martin, Bella

Table of Contents: “…A/B testing -- AEIOU -- Affinity diagramming -- Artifact analysis -- Automated remote research -- Behavioral mapping -- Bodystorming -- Brainstorm graphic organizers -- Business origami -- Card sorting -- Case studies -- Cognitive mapping -- Cognitive walkthrough -- Collage -- Competitive testing -- Concept mapping -- Content analysis -- Content inventory & audit -- Contextual design -- Contextual inquiry -- Creative toolkits -- Critical incident technique -- Crowdsourcing -- Cultural probes -- Customer experience audit -- Design charette -- Design ethnography -- Design workshops -- Desirability testing -- Diary studies -- Directed storytelling -- Elito method -- Ergonomic analysis -- Evaluative research -- Evidence-based design -- Experience prototyping -- Experience sampling method -- Experiments -- Exploratory research -- eyetracking -- Flexible modeling -- Fly-on-the-wall observation -- Focus groups -- Generative research -- Graffiti walls -- Heuristic evaluation -- Image boards -- Interviews -- KJ technique -- Kano analysis -- Key performance indicators -- Laddering -- Literature reviews -- The love letter & the breakup letter -- Mental model diagrams -- Mind mapping -- Observation -- Parallel prototyping -- Participant observation -- Participatory Action Research (PAR) -- Participatory design -- Personal inventories -- Personas -- Photo studies -- Picture cards -- Prototyping -- Questionnaires -- Rapid Iterative Testing & Evaluation (RITE) -- Remote moderated research -- Research through design -- Role-playing -- Scenario description swimlanes -- Scenarios -- Secondary research -- Semantic differential -- Shadowing -- Simulation exercises -- Site search analytics -- Speed dating -- Stakeholder maps -- Stakeholder walkthrough -- Storyboards -- Surveys -- Task analysis -- Territory maps -- Thematic networks -- Think-aloud protocol -- Time-aware research -- Touchstone tours -- Triading -- Triangulation -- Unobtrusive measures -- Usability report -- Usability testing -- User journey maps -- Value opportunity analysis -- Web analytics -- Weighted matrix -- Wizard of Oz -- Word clouds.…”


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Combinatorial Algorithms 23rd International Workshop, IWOCA 2012, Tamil Nadu, India, July 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers by Arumugam, S.

Table of Contents: “…Bounds on Quasi-Completeness -- Infinite Random Geometric Graphs from the Hexagonal Metric -- Saving on Phases: Parameterized Approximation for Total Vertex Cover -- On Graph Identification Problems and the Special Case of Identifying Vertices Using Paths -- Disjoint Set Forest Digraph Representation for an Efficient Dominator Tree Construction -- On Some Properties of Doughnut Graphs (Extended Abstract) -- On the Steiner Radial Number of Graphs -- Further Results on the Mycielskian of Graphs -- Approaches and Mathematical Models for Robust Solutions to Optimization Problems with Stochastic Problem Data Instances -- Faster Replacement Paths Algorithm for Undirected, Positive Integer Weighted Graphs with Small Diameter -- Acyclic Coloring with Few Division Vertices -- Degree Associated Edge Reconstruction Number -- Touring Polygons: An Approximation Algorithm -- Super Connectivity of the Generalized Mycielskian of Graphs -- A Graph Radio k-Coloring Algorithm -- Maximum Order of a Planar Oclique Is 15 -- Sufficient Condition for {C4, C2t} - Decomposition of K2m,2n – An Improved Bound -- Incomparability Graphs of Lattices II -- On Antimagic Labeling of Odd Regular Graphs -- A Graph Theoretic Model to Solve the Approximate String Matching Problem Allowing for Translocations -- Deterministic Fuzzy Automata on Fuzzy Regular ω-Languages -- Border Array for Structural Strings -- Computing the Partial Word Avoidability Indices of Ternary Patterns -- Computing a Longest Common Palindromic Subsequence -- Multiset, Set and Numerically Decipherable Codes over Directed Figures -- A Sequential Recursive Implementation of Dead-Zone Single Keyword Pattern Matching -- A Catalogue of Algorithms for Building Weak Heaps -- On Counting Range Maxima Points in Plane -- Indexing Highly Repetitive Collections -- Range Extremum Queries -- Design and Analysis of a Tree-Backtracking Algorithm for Multiset and Pure Permutations -- GRP CH Heuristic for Generating Random Simple Polygon.…”
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Fundamentals of Computation Theory 23rd International Symposium, FCT 2021, Athens, Greece, September 12–15, 2021, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Invited papers -- Two sided matching markets with strongly correlated random preferences -- Communicating Finite state machines and an extensible toolchain for multiparty session types -- Contributed papers -- First-Order logic and its Infinitary Quantifier Extensions over Countable Words -- From Symmetry to Asymmetry: Generalizing TSP Approximations by Parametrization -- A Poly-Log Competitive Posted-Price Algorithm for Online Metrical Matching on a Spider -- Computational Complexity of Covering Disconnected Multigraphs -- The Complexity of Bicriteria Tree-depth -- TS-Reconfiguration of Dominating Sets in circle and circular-arc graphs -- Bipartite 3-Regular Counting Problems with Mixed Signs -- The Satisfiability Problem for a Quantitative Fragment of PCTL -- Beyond the BEST Theorem: Fast Assessment of Eulerian Trails -- Regular Model Checking with Regular Relations -- Minimum Consistent Subset of Trees -- Parameterized Complexity of Finding Subgraphs with Hereditary Properties on Hereditary Graph Classes -- The Space Complexity of Sum Labelling -- On Minimizing Regular Expressions Without Kleene Star -- Computational Complexity of Computing a Quasi-Proper Equilibrium -- Computational Complexity of Synchronization under Sparse Regular Constraints -- On Dasgupta’s hierarchical clustering objective and its relation to other graph parameter -- Mengerian Temporal Graphs Revisited -- Faster FPT Algorithms for Deletion to Pairs of Graph Classes -- Fast Algorithms for the Rooted Triplet Distance Between Caterpillars -- Deciding Top-Down Determinism of Regular Tree Languages -- Propositional Gossip Protocols -- Complexity of word problems for HNN-extensions -- On Finding Separators in Temporal Split and Permutation Graphs -- The Possible Winner Problem with Uncertain Weights Revisited -- Streaming Deletion Problems Parameterized by Vertex Cover -- On the Hardness of the Determinant: Sum of Regular Set-Multilinear Circuits -- Concentration of Collision Estimator -- Valency-based Consensus under Message Adversaries without Limit-Closure. .…”
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Engineering fluid flows and heat transfer analysis II

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Engineering Fluid Flows and Heat Transfer Analysis II -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- On the Flow of Oil-Based Nanofluid on a Stretching Permeable Surface with Radiative Heat Transfer and Dissipative Energy -- Time-Dependent Hydromagnetic Boundary Layer Flow across a Porous Vertical Surface with Internal Heat Generation -- Numerical Investigation of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows in a Cylindrical Channel -- Investigation of the Natural Convection within a Cold Circular Enclosure Containing Three Equal-Sized Cylinders of Hot Surface -- Natural Convection from Two Hot Semi-Circular Cylinder Confined in Cold Circular Cylinder -- Effects of Hydrodynamic Slip on Rotating Magneto-Electro-Osmotic Flow through a Periodic Microfluidic System -- A Brief Technical Note on the Onset of Convection in a Horizontal Nanofluid Layer of Finite Depth via Wakif-Galerkin Weighted Residuals Technique (WGWRT) -- Quadratic Mixed Convection Stagnation-Point Flow in Hydromagnetic Casson Nanofluid over a Nonlinear Stretching Sheet with Variable Thermal Conductivity -- Effect of Fin Inclination Angel on Heat Transfer Improvement in an Annular Space of a Rotor Stator -- Second Law Analysis of MHD Micropolar Fluid Flow through a Porous Microchannel with Multiple Slip and Convective Boundary Conditions -- Scrutiny the Heat Transfer Effect in an Annulus by Mounting Axial Fins with Different Shapes: Without and with Taylor Number -- Reynolds Number Effect on the Flow Demeanorin a Vertical Circular Free Turbulent Jet with Cross Flow -- Effect of an Anchor Geometry on the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Nanofluid in Agitated Tank -- The Effect of Fin Length on Free Convection Heat Transfer in Annular Space of Concentric Arrangement Using Shear-Thinning Fluids as a Thermal Medium -- Keyword Index -- Author Index.…”
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 6th IFIP TC 5, TC 12, WG 8.4, WG 8.9, WG 12.9 International Cross-Domain Conference, CD-MAKE 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 23–26, 2022, Pr...

Table of Contents: “…Explain to Not Forget: Defending Catastrophic Forgetting with XAI -- Approximation of SHAP values for Randomized Tree Ensembles -- Color shadows (part I): exploratory usability evaluation of activation maps in radiological machine learning -- Effects of Fairness and Explanation on Trust in Ethical AI -- Towards Refined Classifications driven by SHAP explanations -- Global Intepretable Calibration Index, a New Metric to Estimate Machine Learning Models' Calibration -- The ROC Diagonal is not Layperson’s Chance: a New Baseline Shows the Useful Area -- Debiasing MDI Feature Importance and SHAP values in Tree Ensembles -- The Influence of User Diversity on Motives and Barriers when Using Health Apps - A Conjoint Investigation of the Intention-Behavior Gap -- Identifying Fraud Rings Using Domain Aware Weighted Community Detection -- Capabilities, limitations and challenges of style transfer with CycleGANs: a study on automatic ring design generation -- Semantic Causal Abstraction for Event Prediction -- An Evaluation Study of Intrinsic Motivation Techniques applied to Reinforcement Learning over Hard Exploration Environments -- Towards Generating Financial Reports From Tabular Data Using Transformers -- Evaluating the performance of SOBEK text mining keyword extraction algorithm -- Classification of Screenshot Image Captured in Online Meeting System -- A survey on the application of virtual reality in event-related potential research -- Visualizing Large Collections of URLs Using the Hilbert Curve -- How to Reduce the Time Necessary for Evaluation of Tree-based Models -- An Empirical Analysis of and Guidelines for Synthetic-Data-based Anomaly Detection -- SECI Model in Data-Based Procedure for the Assessment of the Frailty State in Diabetic Patients -- Comparing machine learning correlations to domain experts’ causal knowledge: Employee turnover use case -- Machine learning and knowledge extraction to support work safety for smart forest operations.…”
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Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction

Table of Contents: “…-Situated Interaction in a Multilingual Spoken Information Access Framework -- WFSTDM Builder - Network-based Spoken Dialogue System Builder for Easy Prototyping -- A demonstration of a natural-language pedestrian routing system -- Web-based Multimodal Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System -- A Framework for Domain-specific Multi-modal Dialog System Creation -- A Trialogue-Based Spoken Dialogue System for Assessment of English Language Learners -- A Turbo-Decoding Weighted Forward-Backward Algorithm for Multimodal Speech Recognition -- Engine-independent ASR Error Management for Dialog Systems -- Restoring Incorrectly Segmented Keywords and Turn-Taking Caused by Short Pauses -- Investigating Critical Speech Recognition Errors in Spoken Short Messages -- A semi-automated evaluation metric for dialogue model coherence.…”
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Theoretical Computer Science : Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on ICTCS '07. by Italiano, Giuseppe F.

Table of Contents: “…Weak Markovian bisimilarity: abstracting from prioritized/weighted internal immediate actions / M. Bernardo and A. …”
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Nutritional aspects of bone health

Table of Contents: “…-- The effect of mineral waters on bone metabolism and bone health -- Dietary vitamin K and skeletal health -- The role of dietary magnesium deficiency in osteoporosis -- The role of trace elements in osteoporosis -- Vitamin A and fracture risk -- The influence of food groups upon bone health -- Soy isoflavones and bone health -- Alcohol and caffeine : effects on osteoporosis risk -- Influence of diet on bone health : the twin model approach -- Nutrient- gene interactions influencing the skeleton -- Nutrition and bone health in the Asian population -- Nutrition and bone health in Middle Eastern women -- Interaction between nutrition, physical activity and skeletal health -- The treatment of osteoporosis and interaction of medications with nutrition -- Weight reduction and bone health -- Clinical eating disorders and subclinical disordered eating : implications for bone health -- Nutrition and bone health : effects of pregnancy and lactation -- Can nutrition alter the population burden of fractures? …”
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The Applied Law and Economics of Public Procurement. by Piga, Gustavo

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- An introduction to four fundamental aspects of EU public procurement law from the point of view of an economist and a lawyer -- PART I Competitive dialogue and contractual design fostering innovation and needs analysis -- 1 Dialogue -- 2 Competitive dialogue and innovation: the case of the Spanish health sector -- 3 Contract design for procuring complex projects -- 4 Some law and economics considerations on the EU pre-commercial procurement of innovation -- PART II Separation of selection and award criteria, including exclusion of reputation indicators like references to experience, performance and CVs from award criteria -- 5 Dialogue -- 6 Implications of the Lianakis decision -- 7 OPTIONCARDS: an interactive approach to elicit qualification and award criteria weights -- 8 Is public procurement going green? Experiences and open issues -- 9 The Lianakis ruling and good procurement -- PART III Re-tendering a contract for breach of procurement rules or changes to contract -- 10 Dialogue -- 11 When amending leads to ending: a theoretical and practical insight into the retendering of contracts after a material change -- 12 Strengthening the level of integrity of public procurement at the execution phase: evidence from the Italian National Frame Contracts -- 13 Retendering or sale of contract in case of bankruptcy of the contractor? …”
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Multilevel analysis of educational data

Table of Contents: “…What can go wrong with iteratively re-weighted least squares? / Peter McCullagh -- 8. Toward a more appropriate conceptualization of research on school effects: a three-level hierarchical linear model / Anthony S. …”

Mobile phone panel surveys in developing countries : a practical guide for microdata collection by Dabalen, Andrew, Etang, Alvin, Hoogeveen, Johannes, Mushi, Elvis, Schipper, Youdi, 1969-, Engelhardt, Johannes von, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Sample Size CalculationStratification and Clustering; Sample Weights and Reweighting; Notes; References; Chapter 3 The Baseline Survey; Introduction; Groundwork: The Distribution of Mobile Phones and Solar Chargers; Considerations in Purchasing Mobile Phones and Solar Chargers; Handling the Registration of SIM Cards; Choosing the Mode of Data Collection during the Baseline Survey; Obtaining Official Licensing for the Survey; MPPS Instruments: The Baseline Survey; Piloting an MPPS; Building Team Spirit and Community Engagement; Challenges Associated with the MPPS Baseline Survey; Notes…”
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Adaptive high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics

Table of Contents: “…High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for CFD / Jaime Peraire and Per-Olof Persson -- ch. 6. Weighted non-oscillatory limiters for Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods / Jianxian Qiu -- ch. 7. …”
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A Local Relative Trace Formula for the Ginzburg-Rallis Model by Wan, Chen

Table of Contents: “…. (,)-families -- 2.4. Weighted orbital integrals -- 2.5. Shalika Germs -- Chapter 3. …”
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Differential Geometric Structures and Applications 4th International Workshop on Differential Geometry, Haifa, Israel, May 10–13, 2023

Table of Contents: “…Vˆılcu) -- 16.A Lagrangian program detecting the weighted Fermat-Steiner-Fr´echet multitree for a Fr´echet N-multisimplex in Euclidean N-space (A.N Zachos).…”
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Romania During World War I : Observations of an American Journalist. by Reed, John, 1887-1920

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Kids in the middle : the micropolitics of special education

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The presidential campaign of Barack Obama : a critical analysis of a racially transcendent strategy by Clayton, Dewey M.

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The dictionary of homophobia : a global history of gay & lesbian experience

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The queen's coronation : behind palace doors

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Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense, The by Szor, Peter

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