The American Cancer Society's principles of oncology

Table of Contents: “…Surgical Oncology Overview / M Andrew Sicard, Benjamin D Li -- Radiotherapy / Curtiland Deville, Gaurav Shukla, Ramesh Rengan, Charles R Thomas -- Cytotoxic Chemotherapy / R Donald Harvey, Fadlo R Khuri -- Hormonal Therapy for Cancer / Amelia B Zelnak, Bradley C Carthon -- Immunotherapy of Cancer / Diwakar Davar, Ahmad A Tarhini, John M Kirkwood -- Targeted Therapies / Elizabeth Kessler, Paul Brittain, S Lindsey Davis, Stephen Leong, S Gail Eckhardt, Christopher H Lieu -- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Cancer / Joshua F Zeidner, Christopher G Kanakry, Leo Luznik -- Diet, Physical Activity, and Weight Control for Cancer Patients and Survivors / Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Laura Q Rogers, Catherine M Alfano, Cynthia A Thomson, Kerry S Courneya, Jeffrey A Meyerhardt, Nicole L Stout, Elizabeth Kvale, Heidi Ganzer, Ted Gansler, Jennifer A Ligibel -- Clinical Trials / Olwen M Hahn, Richard L Schilsky -- Complementary and Alternative (Integrative) Oncology / Gabriel Lopez, Richard Lee, M Kay Garcia, Alejandro Chaoul, Lorenzo Cohen -- Geriatric Oncology. …”
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Interdisciplinarité et nouvelles approches dans les recherches sur l'âge du Fer. by Wilczek, Josef

Table of Contents: “…-C.)MORPHOMETRICS OF (ESPECIALLY CERAMIC) CELTIC ARTEFACTS -- NEW METHODS OF ACQUISITION, SYSTEMATIZATION AND VALORIZATION OF THE PAST; " WEIGHT METHOD " : NOUVELLE APPROCHE DE L'ESTIMATION DES POIDS DE VIANDE POUR LES SITES LATÉNIENS; CHAPITRE 3 ASPECTS D'ARCHEOLOGIE FUNERAIRE; LES PRATIQUES FUNÉRAIRES AU SECOND ÂGE DU FER DANS LA ZONE MÉDIO-ATLANTIQUE.…”
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Forensic seismology and nuclear test bans by Douglas, Alan, 1936-2015

Table of Contents: “…2 Statistical solutions to seismological problems2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The method of least squares; 2.2.1 Linear least squares; 2.2.2 Generalized least squares; 2.2.3 Least squares with constraints; 2.2.4 Non-linear least squares -- hypocentre estimation from P-wave arrival times; 2.2.5 Confidence limits and significance tests; 2.3 Maximum-likelihood estimators; 2.4 Weighting; 3 Seismograms as time series; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Analogue and digital beamforming; 3.3 Fourier spectra; 3.4 Digital filtering; 3.5 Least squares estimation of approximate filters…”
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Functional Neuroradiology Principles and Clinical Applications

Table of Contents: “…Magnetoencephalography: Epilepsy and Brain Mapping -- PET-CT/MR Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer: Physiologic Variations, Pitfalls, and Directed Applications -- Simultaneous PET and MR Imaging of the Human Brain -- The Role of Molecular Imaging in Personalized Medicine -- Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Case for Bioscales in Medicine -- Part VIII Functional Spine and CSF Imaging -- Functional MRI of the Spinal Cord: Diffusion-Weighted, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, and Fiber Tractography -- MRI of Hydrocephalus and CSF Velocity Imaging -- Part IX: Neuroanatomical Brain Atlas -- Neuroanatomical Atlas of Key Presurgical and Cognitive Eloquent Cortex Regions -- Normal Anatomic Atlas of Common White Matter Tracts Using DTI -- fMRI Paradigms -- Part X: Major Advancements -- Diffusion kurtosis (DKI) and Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI):Principles and Emerging clinical applications -- Radiogenomics of Brain Tumors: Principles and clinical emerging clinical applications -- Autism: Review of Functional Neuroradiology research and emerging clinical applications -- Traumatic Brain Injury: Review of Functional Neuroradiology research and emerging clinical applications -- Alzheimer’s Dementia: Review of Functional Neuroradiology research and emerging clinical applications -- Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MR Imaging (CEST): Principles and emerging clinical applications.…”
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Thermoplastics and thermoplastic composites by Biron, Michel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: Future Prospects for Thermoplastics and Thermoplastic CompositesDisclaimer; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Outline of the Actual Situation of Plastics Compared to Conventional Materials; 1.1 Polymers: The Industrial and Economic Reality Compared to Traditional Materials; 1.1.1 Plastic and Metal Consumption; 1.1.2 Mechanical Properties; 1.1.2.1 Intrinsic Mechanical Properties; 1.1.2.2 Specific Mechanical Properties; 1.1.3 Thermal and Electrical Properties; 1.1.4 Durability; 1.1.5 Material Costs; 1.1.5.1 Cost Per Weight of Various Materials…”
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Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifiers by Du, Chao-Hai

Table of Contents: “…2 Fundamental Theory of the Electron Cyclotron Maser2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Theory of the Waveguides; 2.2.1 Theory of Uniform Dielectric-Loaded Waveguide; 2.2.2 Theory of Periodic Dielectric-Loaded Waveguide; 2.3 Theory of the Electron Cyclotron Maser in Waveguide System; 2.3.1 Partitioning the Transverse Plane of an ECM System; 2.3.2 The Linear Theory of Dielectric-Lined ECM System; 2.3.3 The Nonlinear Theory of Dielectric-Loaded ECM System; 2.3.4 Basic Concepts; 2.3.4.1 Frequency Domain Steady State; 2.3.4.2 Instability Threshold; 2.3.4.3 The Weight Factor; 2.3.4.4 The Boundary Condition.…”
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Information Search After Static or Moving Targets : Theory and Modern Applications. by Ben-Gal, Irad

Table of Contents: “…4.3.2 Simple search using the IMTS algorithm4.3.3 Dependence of the IMTS algorithm's actions on the target's movement; 4.4 Remarks on programming of the ILRTA* and IMTS algorithms; 4.4.1 Data structures; 4.4.2 Operations and algorithms; 4.5 Summary; References; Chapter 5 Applications and perspectives; 5.1 Creating classification trees by using the recursive ILRTA* algorithm; 5.1.1 Recursive ILRTA* algorithm; 5.1.2 Recursive ILRTA* with weighted distances and simulation results; 5.2 Informational search and screening algorithm with single and multiple searchers.…”
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Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management 14th International Conference, AAIM 2020, Jinhua, China, August 10–12, 2020, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Polynomial-time algorithms for the touring rays and related problems -- Polyhedral Circuits and Their Applications -- Online Bicriteria Algorithms to Balance Coverage and Cost in Team Formation -- Approximation Algorithm for Stochastic Set Cover Problem -- On Approximations for Constructing 1-Line Minimum Rectilinear Steiner Trees in the Euclidean Plane -- Minimum Diameter Vertex-Weighted Steiner Tree -- Community-based Rumor Blocking Maximization in Social Networks -- Improved hardness and approximation results for single allocationhub location -- Approximation algorithm for the balanced 2-correlation clustering problem on well-proportional graphs -- 2-Level Station Location for Bike Sharing -- Approximation Algorithms for the Lower-Bounded Knapsack Median Problem -- The spherical k-means++ algorithm via local search -- Local search algorithm for the spherical k-means problem with outliers -- A Bi-Criteria Analysis for Fuzzy C-means Problem -- Approximating Max k-Uncut via LP-rounding plus Greed, with Applications to Densest k-Subgraph -- Online BP functions maximization -- Adaptive Robust Submodular Optimization and Beyond -- Approximation guarantees for parallelized maximization of monotone non-submodular function with a cardinality constraint -- Fast Algorithms for Maximizing Monotone Nonsubmodular Functions -- Non-Submodular Streaming Maximization with Minimum Memory and Low Adaptive Complexity -- On Fixed-order Book Thickness Parameterized by the Pathwidth of the Vertex Ordering -- Selfish Bin Packing with Parameterized Punishment -- Multiple Facility Location Games with Envy Ratio -- Strategyproof Mechanisms for 2-facility Location Games with Minimax Envy -- Robustness and Approximation for the Linear Contract Design -- Scheduling many types of calibrations -- Efficient mobile charger scheduling in large-scale sensor networks -- Revisit of the Scheduling Problems with Integrated Production and Delivery on Parallel Batching Machines -- Range Partitioning within Sublinear Time in the External Memory Model -- New Results on the Complexity of Deletion Propagation -- Search Complexity: A Way for The Quantitative Analysis of The Search Space -- Multi-AGVs Pathfinding based on Improved Jump Point Search in Logistic Center -- Distance-based Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Algorithm for Green-PDPTW -- The theories of a novel filled function method for non-smooth global optimization -- Complexity of tree-coloring interval graphs equitably -- Approximation algorithms for balancing signed graphs -- Computing the One-Visibility Copnumber of Trees -- Maximum subgraphs in Ramsey graphs -- Independent perfect domination sets in Semi-Cayley graphs -- A Parallel Algorithm for Constructing Two Edge-disjoint Hamiltonian Cycles in Crossed Cubes -- Antipodal radio labelling of full binary trees -- Total coloring of outer-1-planar graphs: the cold case -- Edge-face list coloring of Halin graphs -- Injective Coloring of Halin Graphs -- The list L(2, 1)-labeling of planar graphs with large girth -- The frequency of the optimal Hamiltonian cycle computed with frequency quadrilaterals for traveling salesman problem -- Single bounded parallel-batch machine scheduling with an unavailability constraint and job delivery -- A Batch Scheduling Problem of Automatic Drug Dispensing System in Outpatient Pharmacy -- A two-stage medical expenses estimation model for inpatients during diagnosis process under artificial intelligence environment -- The Early-Warning Model of Evaluation and Prevention for Venous Thromboembolism in Gynecological Tumor Surgical Patients based on WSOM -- The coordinated decisions of service supply chain between tumor healthcare alliance and patients under government intervention -- Medical data compression and sharing technology based on blockchain -- Model Establishment and Algorithm Research of Tumor Marker Combination Prediction for Colorectal Cancer -- Safety Evaluation and Lean Disposal of Clinical Waste in Outpatient and Emergency Department of Large Hospitals -- Effects of Taiji on Participants' Knees: A Behavioral-Modeling Approach -- Mixed Distribution of Relief Materials with the Consideration of Demand Matching Degree.…”
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Nanotechnology applications for tissue engineering

Table of Contents: “…2.8.2 Ophthalmologic Applications2.8.3 Cardiovascular Applications; 2.8.4 Dental Applications; 2.8.5 Wound Dressing Applications; 2.8.6 Other Applications; 2.9 Future Directions in Biomaterials; 2.10 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Electrospinning of Polymers for Tissue Engineering; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 History of Electrospinning; 3.3 Experimental Setup and Basic Principle; 3.3.1 Theoretical Background; 3.4 Effects of Parameters on Electrospinning; 3.4.1 Solution Parameters; 3.4.2 Concentration and Viscosity; 3.4.3 Molecular Weight; 3.4.4 Surface Tension…”
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Adhesion and Adhesives Technology: An Introduction. by Pocius, Alphonsus V.

Table of Contents: “…Problems and Review Questions -- 4 The Basics of Intermolecular Forces and Surface Science -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Fundamental Forces -- 4.2.1 Electrostatic Forces -- 4.2.2 van der Waals Interactions -- 4.2.2.1 Dipole-Dipole Interactions -- 4.2.2.2 Dipole-Induced Dipole -- 4.2.2.3 Dispersion Forces -- 4.2.3 Interactions through Electron Pair Sharing -- 4.2.4 Repulsive Forces -- 4.3 Surface Forces and Surface Energy -- 4.4 Work of Cohesion and Adhesion -- 4.5 Methods of Measurement of Surface Energy and Related Parameters -- 4.5.1 Surface Tension -- 4.5.1.1 Drop Weight/Volume Method…”
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Handbook of formal languages. Volume 3. Beyond words

Table of Contents: “…Grayscale images and WFA -- 4. Weighted finite transducers -- 5. Examples of WFT -- References.…”
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Strength of materials and structures by Case, John, 1888-1969

Table of Contents: “…1.8 Ductility measurement1.9 Working stresses; 1.10 Load factors; 1.11 Lateral strains due to direct stresses; 1.12 Strength properties of some engineering materials; 1.13 Weight and stiffness economy of materials; 1.14 Strain energy and work done in the tensile test; 1.15 Initial stresses; 1.16 Composite bars in tension or compression; 1.17 Temperature stresses; 1.18 Temperature stresses in composite bars; 1.19 Circular ring under radial pressure; 1.20 Creep of materials under sustained stresses; 1.21 Fatigue under repeated stresses; Chapter 2. …”
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Adaptive filters by Sayed, Ali H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- Title13; -- Copyright13; -- Dedication13; -- Contents13; -- Preface -- Notation -- Acknowledgments -- Background Material 13; -- A Random Variables -- A.1 Variance of a Random Variable -- A.2 Dependent Random Variables -- A.3 Complex-Valued Random Variables -- A.4 Vector-Valued Random Variables -- A.5 Gaussian Random Vectors -- B Linear Algebra -- B.1 Hermitian and Positive-Definite Matrices -- B.2 Range Spaces and Nullspaces of Matrices -- B.3 Schur Complements -- B.4 Cholesky Factorization -- B.5 QR Decomposition -- B.6 Singular Value Decomposition -- B.7 Kronecker Products -- C Complex Gradients -- C.1 Cauchy-Riemann Conditions -- C.2 Scalar Arguments -- C.3 Vector Arguments -- Part I: Optimal Estimation13; -- 113;Scalar-Valued Data -- 1.1 Estimation Without Observations -- 1.2 Estimation Given Dependent Observations -- 1.3 Orthogonality Principle -- 1.4 Gaussian Random Variables -- 213;Vector-Valued Data -- 2.1 Optimal Estimator in the Vector Case -- 2.2 Spherically Invariant Gaussian Variables -- 2.3 Equivalent Optimization Criterion -- Summary and Notes -- Problems and Computer Projects -- Part II: Linear Estimation13; -- 3 Normal Equations13; -- 3.1 Mean-Square Error Criterion -- 3.2 Minimization by Differentiation -- 3.3 Minimization by Completion-of-Squares -- 3.4 Minimization of the Error Covariance Matrix -- 3.5 Optimal Linear Estimator -- 4 Orthogonality Principle13; -- 4.1 Design Examples -- 4.2 Orthogonality Condition -- 4.3 Existence of Solutions -- 4.4 Nonzero-Mean Variables -- 5 Linear Models13; -- 5.1 Estimation using Linear Relations -- 5.2 Application: Channel Estimation -- 5.3 Application: Block Data Estimation -- 5.4 Application: Linear Channel Equalization -- 5.5 Application: Multiple-Antenna Receivers -- 6 Constrained Estimation13; -- 6.1 Minimum-Variance Unbiased Estimation -- 6.2 Example: Mean Estimation -- 6.3 Application: Channel and Noise Estimation -- 6.4 Application: Decision Feedback Equalization -- 6.5 Application: Antenna Beamforming -- 7 Kalman Filter13; -- 7.1 Innovations Process -- 7.2 State-Space Model -- 7.3 Recursion for the State Estimator -- 7.4 Computing the Gain Matrix -- 7.5 Riccati Recursion -- 7.6 Covariance Form -- 7.7 Measurement and Time-Update Form -- Summary and Notes -- Problems and Computer Projects -- Part III: Stochastic Gradient Algorithms13; -- 8 Steepest8211;Descent Technique13; -- 8.1 Linear Estimation Problem -- 8.2 Steepest-Descent Method -- 8.3 More General Cost Functions -- 9 Transient Behavior13; -- 9.1 Modes of Convergence -- 9.2 Optimal Step-Size -- 9.3 Weight-Error Vector Convergence -- 9.4 Time Constants -- 9.5 Learning Curve -- 9.6 Contour Curves of the Error Surface -- 9.7 Iteration-Dependent Step-Sizes -- 9.8 Newton8217;s Method -- 10 LMS Algorithm13; -- 10.1 Motivation -- 10.2 Instantaneous Approximation -- 10.3 Computational Cost -- 10.4 Least-Perturbation Property -- 10.5 Application: Adaptive Channel Estimation -- 10.6 Application: Adaptive Channel Equalization -- 10.7 Application: Decision-Feedback Equalization -- 10.8 Ensemble-Average Learning Curves -- 11 Normalized LMS Algorithm13; -- T$137.…”
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Cognitive modeling of human memory and learning a non-invasive brain-computer interfacing approach by Ghosh, Lidia, Konar, Amit, Rakshit, Pratyusha

Table of Contents: “…Principal Component Analysis -- 2.2.3 Feature Extraction -- 2.2.4 Phase 1: WM Modeling -- 2.2.4.1 Step I: WM Modeling of Subject Using EEG Signals During Full Face Encoding and Recall from Specific Part of Same Face -- 2.2.4.2 Step II: WM Modeling of Subject Using EEG Signals During Full Face Encoding and Recall from All Parts of Same Face -- 2.2.5 Phase 2: WM Analysis -- 2.2.6 Finding Max-Min Compositional Inverse of Weight Matrix Wkc -- 2.3 Experiments and Performance Analysis -- 2.3.1 Experimental Set-up -- 2.3.2 Source Localization Using eLORETA…”
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Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming : Languages, Semantics, Inference and Learning. by Riguzzi, Fabrizio

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 -- Lifted Inference6.1 Preliminaries on Lifted Inference; 6.1.1 Variable Elimination; 6.1.2 GC-FOVE; 6.2 LP2; 6.2.1 Translating ProbLog into PFL; 6.3 Lifted Inference with Aggregation Parfactors; 6.4 Weighted First-Order Model Counting; 6.5 Cyclic Logic Programs; 6.6 Comparison of the Approaches; Chapter 7 -- Approximate Inference; 7.1 ProbLog1; 7.1.1 Iterative Deepening; 7.1.2 k-best; 7.1.3 Monte Carlo; 7.2 MCINTYRE; 7.3 Approximate Inference for Queries with an Infinite Number of Explanations; 7.4 Conditional Approximate Inference.…”
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Proportionate-type normalized least mean square algorithms by Wagner, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Proportionate-type least mean square algorithms; 5.1.1. Weight deviation recursion.…”
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Mechanical characterization of materials and wave dispersion : instrumentation and experiment interpretation

Table of Contents: “…Supported end; 3.4. Additional weight or additional torsion lever used as a boundary condition; 3.5. …”
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Theory of sampling and sampling practice

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A systems approach to systems and syhthetic biology I : models and system characterization

Table of Contents: “…3 Guaranteeing Spatial Uniformity in Reaction-Diffusion Systems Using Weighted L2 Norm Contractions3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Spatial Uniformity in Reaction-Diffusion PDEs; 3.3 Spatial Uniformity in Diffusively-Coupled Systems of ODEs; 3.4 LMI Tests for Guaranteeing Spatial Uniformity; 3.5 Conclusions; References; 4 Robust Tunable Transcriptional Oscillators Using Dynamic Inversion; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 System Description; 4.3 Stability Analysis for calS; 4.4 Background Results for DI Controllers; 4.5 DI Controller for Tunable Oscillations 1; 4.5.1 Problem Formulation.…”
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Handbook of Graphene Materials : Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. by Tiwari, Ashutosh

Table of Contents: “…4.2.2.2 Derivation of the Form Factor4.3 Numerical Implementation; 4.4 Fermi Velocity Renormalization; 4.5 Optical Response; 4.6 Drude Weight; 4.7 Precise QMC Study of Graphene Conductivity; 4.8 Conclusion; 4.9 Acknowledgments; References; 5 Computational Determination of the Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons; 5.1 Computational Material Science; 5.1.1 Application to Low-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures; 5.1.2 DFT; 5.1.3 An Example Application of DFT; 5.1.4 Periodic Boundary Conditions; 5.1.5 Polyacenes, an Example of a Low-Dimensional Carbon Compound; 5.2 Graphene…”
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