Tribo-Behaviors of Biomaterials and their Applications : Fundamentals, Recent Advancements, and Future Trends

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Lean sustainability : a pathway to a circular economy by Cudney, Elizabeth A., Furterer, Sandra L., Laux, Chad M., Hundal, Gaganpreet S.

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Songs of the women trouvères

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Cybernetical intelligence : engineering cybernetics with machine intelligence by Wong, Kelvin K. L.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- About the Author -- About the Companion Website -- 1 Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetical Learning -- 1.1 Artificial Intelligence Initiative -- 1.2 Intelligent Automation Initiative -- 1.2.1 Benefits of IAI -- 1.3 Artificial Intelligence Versus Intelligent Automation -- 1.3.1 Process Discovery -- 1.3.2 Optimization -- 1.3.3 Analytics and Insight -- 1.4 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Artificial Intelligence -- 1.4.1 Artificial Narrow Intelligence -- 1.4.2 Artificial General Intelligence -- 1.4.3 Artificial Super Intelligence -- 1.5 Pattern Analysis and Cognitive Learning -- 1.5.1 Machine Learning -- 1.5.1.1 Parametric Algorithms -- 1.5.1.2 Nonparametric Algorithms -- 1.5.2 Deep Learning -- 1.5.2.1 Convolutional Neural Networks in Advancing Artificial Intelligence -- 1.5.2.2 Future Advancement in Deep Learning -- 1.5.3 Cybernetical Learning -- 1.6 Cybernetical Artificial Intelligence -- 1.6.1 Artificial Intelligence Control Theory -- 1.6.2 Information Theory -- 1.6.3 Cybernetic Systems -- 1.7 Cybernetical Intelligence Definition -- 1.8 The Future of Cybernetical Intelligence -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 2 Cybernetical Intelligent Control -- 2.1 Control Theory and Feedback Control Systems -- 2.2 Maxwell's Analysis of Governors -- 2.3 Harold Black -- 2.4 Nyquist and Bode -- 2.5 Stafford Beer -- 2.5.1 Cybernetic Control -- 2.5.2 Viable Systems Model -- 2.5.3 Cybernetics Models of Management -- 2.6 James Lovelock -- 2.6.1 Cybernetic Approach to Ecosystems -- 2.6.2 Gaia Hypothesis -- 2.7 Macy Conference -- 2.8 McCulloch-Pitts -- 2.9 John von Neumann -- 2.9.1 Discussions on Self-Replicating Machines -- 2.9.2 Discussions on Machine Learning -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 3 The Basics of Perceptron -- 3.1 The Analogy of Biological and Artificial Neurons -- 3.1.1 Biological Neurons and Neurodynamics -- 3.1.2 The Structure of Neural Network -- 3.1.3 Encoding and Decoding -- 3.2 Perception and Multilayer Perceptron -- 3.2.1 Back Propagation Neural Network -- 3.2.2 Derivative Equations for Backpropagation -- 3.3 Activation Function -- 3.3.1 Sigmoid Activation Function -- 3.3.2 Hyperbolic Tangent Activation Function -- 3.3.3 Rectified Linear Unit Activation Function -- 3.3.4 Linear Activation Function -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 4 The Structure of Neural Network -- 4.1 Layers in Neural Network -- 4.1.1 Input Layer -- 4.1.2 Hidden Layer -- 4.1.3 Neurons -- 4.1.4 Weights and Biases -- 4.1.5 Forward Propagation -- 4.1.6 Backpropagation -- 4.2 Perceptron and Multilayer Perceptron -- 4.3 Recurrent Neural Network -- 4.3.1 Long Short-Term Memory -- 4.4 Markov Neural Networks -- 4.4.1 State Transition Function -- 4.4.2 Observation Function -- 4.4.3 Policy Function -- 4.4.4 Loss Function -- 4.5 Generative Adversarial Network -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 5 Backpropagation Neural Network -- 5.1 Backpropagation Neural Network -- 5.1.1 Forward Propagation -- 5.2 Gradient Descent -- 5.2.1 Loss Function -- 5.2.2 Parameters in Gradient Descent -- 5.2.3 Gradient in Gradient Descent -- 5.2.4 Learning Rate in Gradient Descent -- 5.2.5 Update Rule in Gradient Descent -- 5.3 Stopping Criteria -- 5.3.1 Convergence and Stopping Criteria -- 5.3.2 Local Minimum and Global Minimum -- 5.4 Resampling Methods -- 5.4.1 Cross-Validation -- 5.4.2 Bootstrapping -- 5.4.3 Monte Carlo Cross-Validation -- 5.5 Optimizers in Neural Network -- 5.5.1 Stochastic Gradient Descent -- 5.5.2 Root Mean Square Propagation -- 5.5.3 Adaptive Moment Estimation -- 5.5.4 AdaMax -- 5.5.5 Momentum Optimization -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 6 Application of Neural Network in Learning and Recognition -- 6.1 Applying Backpropagation to Shape Recognition -- 6.2 Softmax Regression -- 6.3 K-Binary Classifier -- 6.4 Relational Learning via Neural Network -- 6.4.1 Graph Neural Network -- 6.4.2 Graph Convolutional Network -- 6.5 Cybernetics Using Neural Network -- 6.6 Structure of Neural Network for Image Processing -- 6.7 Transformer Networks -- 6.8 Attention Mechanisms -- 6.9 Graph Neural Networks -- 6.10 Transfer Learning -- 6.11 Generalization of Neural Networks -- 6.12 Performance Measures -- 6.12.1 Confusion Matrix -- 6.12.2 Receiver Operating Characteristic -- 6.12.3 Area Under the ROC Curve -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 7 Competitive Learning and Self-Organizing Map -- 7.1 Principal of Competitive Learning -- 7.1.1 Step 1: Normalized Input Vector -- 7.1.2 Step 2: Find the Winning Neuron -- 7.1.3 Step 3: Adjust the Network Weight Vector and Output Results -- 7.2 Basic Structure of Self-Organizing Map -- 7.2.1 Properties Self-Organizing Map -- 7.3 Self-Organizing Mapping Neural Network Algorithm -- 7.3.1 Step 1: Initialize Parameter -- 7.3.2 Step 2: Select Inputs and Determine Winning Nodes -- 7.3.3 Step 3: Affect Neighboring Neurons -- 7.3.4 Step 4: Adjust Weights -- 7.3.5 Step 5: Judging the End Condition -- 7.4 Growing Self-Organizing Map -- 7.5 Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map -- 7.5.1 TASOM-Based Algorithms for Real Applications -- 7.6 Oriented and Scalable Map -- 7.7 Generative Topographic Map -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 8 Support Vector Machine -- 8.1 The Definition of Data Clustering -- 8.2 Support Vector and Margin -- 8.3 Kernel Function -- 8.3.1 Linear Kernel -- 8.3.2 Polynomial Kernel -- 8.3.3 Radial Basis Function -- 8.3.4 Laplace Kernel -- 8.3.5 Sigmoid Kernel -- 8.4 Linear and Nonlinear Support Vector Machine -- 8.5 Hard Margin and Soft Margin in Support Vector Machine -- 8.6 I/O of Support Vector Machine -- 8.6.1 Training Data -- 8.6.2 Feature Matrix and Label Vector -- 8.7 Hyperparameters of Support Vector Machine -- 8.7.1 The C Hyperparameter -- 8.7.2 Kernel Coefficient -- 8.7.3 Class Weights -- 8.7.4 Convergence Criteria -- 8.7.5 Regularization -- 8.8 Application of Support Vector Machine -- 8.8.1 Classification -- 8.8.2 Regression -- 8.8.3 Image Classification -- 8.8.4 Text Classification -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 9 Bio-Inspired Cybernetical Intelligence -- 9.1 Genetic Algorithm -- 9.2 Ant Colony Optimization -- 9.3 Bees Algorithm -- 9.4 Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm -- 9.5 Cuckoo Search -- 9.6 Particle Swarm Optimization -- 9.7 Bacterial Foraging Optimization -- 9.8 Gray Wolf Optimizer -- 9.9 Firefly Algorithm -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 10 Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence and Cybernetics -- 10.1 Multi-Agent AI Systems -- 10.1.1 Game Theory -- 10.1.2 Distributed Multi-Agent Systems -- 10.1.3 Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning -- 10.1.4 Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems -- 10.2 Cellular Automata -- 10.3 Discrete Element Method -- 10.3.1 Particle-Based Simulation of Biological Cells and Tissues -- 10.3.2 Simulation of Microbial Communities and Their Interactions -- 10.3.3 Discrete Element Method-Based Modeling of Biological Fluids and Soft Materials -- 10.4 Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics -- 10.4.1 SPH-Based Simulations of Biomimetic Fluid Dynamic -- 10.4.2 SPH-Based Simulations of Bio-Inspired Engineering Applications -- Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Further Reading -- 11 Revisiting Cybernetics and Relation to Cybernetical Intelligence -- 11.1 The Concept and Development of Cybernetics -- 11.1.1 Attributes of Control Concepts -- 11.1.2 Research Objects and Characteristics of Cybernetics -- 11.1.3 Development of Cybernetical Intelligence -- 11.2 The Fundamental Ideas of Cybernetics -- 11.2.1 System Idea -- 11.2.2 Information Idea -- 11.2.3 Behavioral Idea -- 11.2.4 Cybernetical Intelligence Neural Network -- 11.3 Cybernetic Expansion into Other Fields of Research -- 11.3.1 Social Cybernetics -- 11.3.2 Internal Control-Related Theories -- 11.3.3 Software Control Theory -- 11.3.4 Perceptual Cybernetics -- 11.4 Practical Application of Cybernetics -- 11.4.1 Research on the Control Mechanism of Neural Networks -- 11.4.2 Balance Between Internal Control and Management Power Relations -- 11.4.3 Software Markov Adaptive Testing Strategy -- 11.4.4 Task Analysis Model -- Summary -- Exer.…”
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The origin of the logic of symbolic mathematics : Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein by Hopkins, Burt C.

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The nearness of others : searching for tact and contact in the age of HIV by Caron, David

Table of Contents: “…; It Is Tempting to Forget; Nights You Can't Sleep; Depression Is Crazy; Depression and Life; Depression and Metaphor; Passing; Depression and Incongruity; Depressed Thinking; Making Sense; Political Discomfort; Thinking of Bleeding; Kids Say the Darndest Things; Negative Logic and a Positive Point of View; "How Can Plain Curiosity Be Unkind? …”
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Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond

Table of Contents: “…Detroıt Jazz; A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes; Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn; The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61; Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown; Rebirth of Tribe; Strata Records; Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat; Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. …”
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Live Well, Teach Well. by Mann, Abigail

Table of Contents: “…Love your library; 67. Events nights; 68. Careers talks; 69. Elderly love; 70. Facility-friendly school; 71. …”
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Masterworks of 20th-Century Music : the Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra. by Lee, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…An Orkney Wedding, with SunriseManuel de Falla; Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Suite from El amor brujo; Suites from The Three-Cornered Hat; George Gershwin; Concerto in F; Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Cuban Overture; Alberto Ginastera; Variaciones concertantes, Opus 23; Dances from Estancia, Opus 8a; Henryk Górecki; Symphony No. 3, Opus 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs); Paul Hindemith; Symphony, Mathis der Maler; Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Gustav Holst; The Planets, Opus 32; Charles Ives; A Symphony: New England Holidays.…”
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Earth, water, air and fire : studies in Canadian ethnohistory

Table of Contents: “…McNab -- "Under the earth" : the expropriation and attempted sale of the oil and gas rights of the Walpole Island First Nation during World War I / Rhonda Telford -- The Reverend Simpson Bingham (1875-1926) : the worlds of Henry Ford and Simpson Brigham collide / Jim Miller -- Mi'kmaq fishing in the Maritimes : a historical overview / Janet E. …”
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A political companion to Flannery O'Connor

Table of Contents: “…The pivotal year, 1963 : Flannery O'Connor and the civil rights movement / Margaret Earley Whitt -- part II. …”
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Cultural property crime : an overview and analysis on contemporary perspectives and trends

Table of Contents: “…Fossey -- The Gurlitt case : German and international responses to ownership rights in looting cases / Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel -- The internet market in pre-Columbian antiquities / Neil Brodie -- Local and international illicit traffic in Vietnamese cultural property : a preliminary investigation / Damien Huffer and Duncan Chappell -- A regional case study of cultural property trafficking networks over there, and how they link into the international market / Simon Mackenzie and Tess Davis -- Transnational forfeiture of the Getty bronze / Derek Fincham -- On art, crime, and insanity : the role and contribution of mental disorders / Frans Koenraadt -- Conclusion : cultural property crime / Joris Kila and Marc Balcells.…”
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Humanizing Pedagogy Through HIV and AIDS Prevention : Transforming Teacher Knowledge. by American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Table of Contents: “…6 Inquiry-Based Approaches to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education: Standards, Practices, and Outcomes7 Preparing Teachers as Prevention Agents: An On-Line Learning Course; Part III: Diversity in Teaching and Learning; Overview; 8 HIV/AIDS: A Global Human Rights Issue; 9 Influences of Family and Cultural Values, Language, and Religion on HIV/AIDS Behavior Change; 10 HIV/AIDS: Sexuality and Disability; 11 HIV/AIDS: Understanding Men's Decisions and Choices; Part IV: International Dimensions of Prevention; Overview.…”
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Contingent citizens shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture

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America Is to Blame for Mexico's Drug War A Debate

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Translating slavery : gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823

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Table of Contents: “…"Black slavery, or the happy shipwreck" / translated by Maryann DeJulio. "Declaration of the rights of woman (excerpt)" / translated by Maryann DeJulio. …”


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Globalization and health

Table of Contents: “…Reidpath -- Health impact assessment: towards globalization as if human rights mattered / Eileen O'Keefe and Alex Scott-Samuel -- Structural adjustment programs and health / Anna Breman and Carolyn Shelton -- Poverty reduction strategy papers: bold new approach to poverty eradication or old wine in new bottles? …”
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Cultural encyclopedia of vegetarianism

Table of Contents: “…. -- Alternative and holistic medicine -- American Vegetarian Society -- Animal liberation front -- Animal rights and animal welfare -- Antivivisection -- Asia -- Attwood, Charles Raymond -- Australia -- Backlash -- Barnard, Neal -- Battle Creek Sanitarium -- Baur, Gene -- Bible and Biblical arguments -- Bible Christians, English -- Bible Christians, Philadelphia -- Childbearing and infant feeding -- Childrearing -- China -- Christianity, influences of -- Clubb, Henry S. -- Colonies, communal societies, and utopias -- Consumer products -- Cookbooks -- Dinshah, H. …”
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Education, Colonial Sickness A Decolonial African Indigenous Project

Table of Contents: “…Ubuntu: Social Justice Education, Governance, and Women Rights in Pre-colonial Africa -- 4. Women to Women Marriage, Social Justice and House Property System in the Precolonial Period: Implications for Educating the Youth -- 5. …”
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Sexuality and gender in postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sexuality and gender in times of transition / Aleksandar Štulhofer, Theo Sandfort -- Gender inequalities in a nationalist, nontransitional context in Serbia, emphasizing Vojvodina, during the 1990s / Tatjana Đurić-Kuzmanović -- Hierarchies of difference: national identity, gay and lesbian rights, and the church in postcommunist Romania / Voichita Nachescu -- From sworn virgins to transvestite prostitutes: performing gender and sexuality in two films from Yugoslavia / Kevin Moss -- The spatiality of identities and sexualities: is "transition" a challenging point at all? …”
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