Monte Carlo Methods For Applied Scientists. by McKee, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Basic Results of Monte Carlo Integration; 2.1 Convergence and Error Analysis of Monte Carlo Methods; 2.2 Integral Evaluation; 2.2.1 Plain (Crude) Monte Carlo Algorithm; 2.2.2 Geometric Monte Carlo Algorithm; 2.2.3 Computational Complexity of Monte Carlo Algorithms; 2.3 Monte Carlo Methods with Reduced Error; 2.3.1 Separation of Principal Part; 2.3.2 Integration on a Subdomain; 2.3.3 Symmetrization of the Integrand; 2.3.4 Importance Sampling Algorithm; 2.3.5 Weight Functions Approach; 2.4 Superconvergent Monte Carlo Algorithms.…”
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Efficient Implementation of High-Order Accurate Numerical Methods on Unstructured Grids by Li, Wanai

Table of Contents: “…3.1 The Limiters on Unstructured Grids and the Methodology of Constructing Limiters3.2 The Secondary Reconstruction; 3.3 The Quadrature-Free K-Exact WENO Limiters; 3.3.1 The Stencils for the Secondary Reconstruction; 3.3.2 Quadrature-Free Nonoscillation WENO Reconstruction in Characteristic Space; 3.4 The WBAP Limiters; 3.4.1 The Introduction of WBAP Functions; 3.4.2 The Mechanism for Controlling the Numerical Oscillations; 3.4.3 The Successive Limiting Procedure; 3.5 The Group Weighted Limiters; 3.6 Summary and Comparisons on These Three Limiters; 3.7 The Problem-Independent Shock Detector.…”
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Bio-based plant oil polymers and composites by Madbouly, Samy, Zhang, Chaoqun, Kessler, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…5.5 -- Unsaturated Polyester Resin (UPR)5.6 -- Other Applications -- 5.7 -- Applications of Plant Oil-Based Polyester as an Alternative for Petroleum-Based Polyester -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 -- Plant Oil-Based Polyether -- 6.1 -- Background -- 6.1.1 -- Introduction -- 6.1.2 -- Molecular Weight and Networks -- 6.2 -- Methods -- 6.2.1 -- Extraction Process from Natural Source -- 6.2.2 -- Purifications after Extractions -- 6.2.3 -- Modification from Oil to Polyether Monomers -- 6.2.4 -- Polymerization from Oil Source to Polyether…”
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Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy : Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications. by de Vries, Nico

Table of Contents: “…5.1 Introduction and Definitions -- 5.2 Geographical Differences -- 5.3 DISE in Naive OSA Patients -- 5.4 DISE in Positional OSA -- 5.5 DISE and UA Surgery -- 5.6 DISE in Simple Snorers -- 5.7 DISE after UA Surgery, MAD, and UA Stimulation Treatment Failure -- 5.8 DISE after Weight Loss -- 5.9 DISE and CPAP Failure -- 6 Preparation for DISE: Informed Consent -- 6.1 Introduction -- 7 Organization and Logistics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Materials and Methods -- 7.2.1 History of DISE in Our Hospital -- 7.2.2 Patient Indication for DISE -- 7.2.3 Staff -- 7.2.4 Sedation Protocol -- 7.2.5 Logistics…”
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Composites Engineering by Alam, Parvez

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Preface -- Author biography -- Parvez Alam -- Chapter 1 'A' -- 1.1 Abrasion -- 1.2 Accelerated testing -- 1.2.1 Accelerated life testing (ALT) -- 1.2.2 Accelerated degradation testing (ADT) -- 1.2.3 Time, temperature, stress superposition -- 1.3 Additives -- 1.3.1 Cost-saving additives -- 1.3.2 Manufacture and process additives -- 1.3.3 Functional (performance) additives -- 1.4 Adhesion -- 1.4.1 Adhesion in composites -- 1.4.2 Adhesion of composites -- 1.5 Air bubble voids -- 1.6 Angle-ply laminate -- 1.7 Anisotropy -- 1.8 Areal weight -- 1.9 Aramid -- 1.9.1 Meta-aramids (m-aramids)…”
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Biotribology

Table of Contents: “…Wear and deformation mechanisms of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene; 3.3. Deformation behavior of polyethylene on the molecular scale; 3.3.1. …”
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Design, User Experience, and Usability: UX Research and Design 10th International Conference, DUXU 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual...

Table of Contents: “…A Novel Heuristic Evaluation -- Understanding Customer Value Propositions through the Lens of Value Equations Method: A Systematic Approach -- Developing and Validating a Set of Usability and Security Metrics for ATM Interfaces -- Challenges and Opportunities on the Application of Heuristic Evaluations: A Systematic Literature Review -- Consumer Experience Research based on the Background of Experience Economy and Digital Economy -- A Study on Scale Construction of Adjective Pairs for Evaluating Audiovisual Effects in Video Games -- A Review of Automated Website Usability Evaluation Tools: Research Issues and Challenges -- Web Analytics for User Experience: A Systematic Literature Review -- Validation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate the Usability in the Peruvian Context -- Design Research on Visualization of Life Behavior and Rhythm -- YERKISH: A Visual Language for Computer-Mediated Communication by an Ape -- The Canadian Cultural Diversity Dashboard: Data Storytelling and Visualization for the Cultural Sector -- Visual Writing at the State-of-the-Art -- Expressions of Data: Natural State, Specific Application, and General Pattern -- Pasigraphy: Universal Visible Languages -- Emojitaliano: A Social and Crowdsourcing Experiment of the Creation of a Visual International Language -- Research on Information Visualization Design Based on Information Weight - A Case Study of Information-based Scene Design of the Airport -- From Hieroglyphs to Emoji, to IKON: the Search of the (Perfect?) …”
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Progress in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition 8th International Congress on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, IWAIPR 2023, Varadero, Cuba, September 27...

Table of Contents: “…A case of study -- An M-SALD_AHP and GIS-based approach to watershed analysis during the development of small and large-scale hydraulic structure construction projects -- Fuzzy Granulation for Feature Extraction in EEG-based Stress Pattern Recognition -- A parallel approach for RegularSearch algorithm -- An improved fault diagnosis scheme based on a type-2 fuzzy classification algorithms -- A new proposal for detection and location of cyberattacks in industrial processes -- Computational capabilities of Adler oscillators under weak local Kuramotolike coupling -- Echo State Networks for the prediction of chaotic systems -- Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Applications -- Weighted t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding for Projection based Clustering -- Evaluation of XAI methods in a FinTech context -- Towards Automatic Principles of Persuasion Detection Using Machine Learning Approach -- Indirect condition monitoring of the transmission belts in a desalination plant by using deep learning -- A novel method for filtering a useful subset of composite linguistic summaries -- Harnessing key phrases in constructing a concept-based semantic representation of text using clustering techniques -- A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Methods for Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction -- Improve Spanish Aspect-Based Opinion Mining Through Deep Learning Approach -- Semantic Features Extraction for Hybrid Approach of Emotion Recognition from Texts -- A Knowledge-Based User Feedback Classification Approach for Software Support -- A metaphorical text classifier to compare the use of RoBERTa-large, RoBERTa-base and BERT-base uncased -- Improvements to the IntiGIS model related to the clustering of consumers for rural electrification -- Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease Progression Stage from Cross Sectional Cognitive Data by Deep Neural Network -- Robust MCU oriented KWS model for children robotic prosthetic hand control -- Detection of malicious bots using a proactive supervised classification approach -- Hybrid selection of breast cancer risk factors in Cuban patients -- Good Negative Sampling for Triple Classification -- Polarity Prediction in Tourism Cuban Reviews using Transformer with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms -- Biometrics, Image, Video and Signals Analysis and Processing -- SqueezerFaceNet: Reducing a Small Face Recognition CNN Even More Via Filter Pruning -- Drone navigation and license place detection for vehicle location in indoor spaces -- Comparison of root mean square index and Hilbert-Huang transform for detection of muscle activation in a person with elbow disarticulation -- MinimalAI: Brain Hemorrhage Detection in Images through Minimalist Machine Learning Approach -- Enhancing License Plate Recognition in Videos through Character-Wise Temporal Combination -- A comparison of some gradient threshold estimators for the Nonlinear Diffusion of Perona-Malik. …”
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Linking constructions into functional linguistics : the role of constructions in grammar

Table of Contents: “…The factors that influence word order -- 5.1 Syntactic weight -- 5.2 Information structure -- 5.3 Animacy and definiteness of referents -- 5.4 The animacy, thematic and nominal hierarchies -- 6. …”
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Bioinformatics Research and Applications 16th International Symposium, ISBRA 2020, Moscow, Russia, December 1–4, 2020, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Mitochondrial Haplogroup Assignment for High-Throughput Sequencing Data from Single Individual and Mixed DNA Samples -- Signet Ring Cell Detection with Classi cation Reinforcement Detection Network -- SPOC: Identification of Drug Targets in Biological Networks via Set Preference Output Control -- Identification of a novel compound heterozygous variant in NBAS causing bone fragility by the type of osteogenesis imperfecta -- Isoform-disease association prediction by data fusion -- EpIntMC: Detecting Epistatic Interactions using Multiple Clusterings -- Improving Metagenomic Classi cation using discriminative k-mers from sequencing data -- Dilated-DenseNet For Macromolecule Classifi cation In Cryo-electron Tomography -- Ess-NEXG: Predict Essential Proteins by Constructing a Weighted -- Protein Interaction Network based on Node Embedding and XGBoost -- mapAlign: an efficient approach for mapping and aligning long reads to reference genomes -- Functional Evolutionary Modeling Exposes Overlooked Protein-Coding Genes Involved in Cancer -- Testing the Agreement of Trees with Internal Labels -- SVLR: Genome Structure Variant Detection Using Long Read Sequencing Data -- De novo prediction of drug-target interaction via Laplacian regularized Schatten-p norm minimization -- Diagnosis of ASD from rs-fMRIs based on brain dynamic networks -- miRNA-Disease Associations Prediction Based on Negative Sample Selection and Multi-layer Perceptron -- Checking Phylogenetic Decisiveness in Theory and in Practice -- TNet: Phylogeny-Based Inference of Disease Transmission Networks Using Within-Host Strain Diversity -- Cancer breakpoint hotspots versus individual breakpoints prediction by machine learning models -- Integer Linear Programming Formulation for the Uni ed DuplicationLoss-Coalescence Model -- In silico-guided discovery of potential HIV-1 entry inhibitors mimicking bNAb N6: virtual screening, docking, molecular dynamics, and post-molecular modeling analysis -- Learning Structural Genetic Information via Graph Neural Embedding -- A New Network-based Tool to Analyse Competing Endogenous RNAs -- Deep Ensemble models for 16S Ribosomal Gene Classification -- Search for tandem repeats in the rst chromosome from the rice genome -- Deep Learning approach with rotate-shift invariant input to predict protein homodimer structure -- Development of a Neural Network-Based Approach for Prediction of Potential HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors Using Deep Learning and Molecular Modeling Methods -- In Silico Design and Evaluation of Novel Triazole-Based Compounds as Promising Drug Candidates Against Breast Cancer -- Identification of essential genes with NemoPro le and various machine learning models -- NemoLib: Network Motif Libraries for network motif detection and analysis -- Estimating enzyme participation in metabolic pathways for microbial communities from RNA-seq data -- Identication of Virus-Receptor Interactions based on Network Enhancement and Similarity -- Enhanced functional pathway annotations for differentially expressed gene clusters -- Automated Detection of Sleep Apnea from Abdominal Respiratory Signal using Hilbert-Huang Transform -- Na/K-ATPase glutathionylation: in silico modeling of reaction mechanisms -- HiChew: a tool for TAD clustering in embryogenesis -- Generation of Hi-C maps from DNA sequence data using Deep Learning -- SC1: A Tool for Interactive Web-Based Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis -- Quantitative analysis of the dynamics of maternal gradients in the early Drosophila embryo -- Atom Tracking Using Cayley Graphs -- SPOC: Identification of Drug Targets in Biological Networks via Set Preference Output Control -- Identification of a novel compound heterozygous variant in NBAS causing bone fragility by the type of osteogenesis imperfecta. .…”
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Quantitative trading : algorithms, analytics, data, models, optimization by Guo, Xin, 1969-, Lai, T. L., Shek, Howard, Wong, Samuel Po-Shing

Table of Contents: “…2.1.1 Time series of low-frequency returns2.1.2 Discrete price changes in high-frequency data; 2.2 Brownian motion models for speculative prices; 2.3 MPT as a ""walking shoe"" down Wall Street; 2.4 Statistical underpinnings of MPT; 2.4.1 Multifactor pricing models; 2.4.2 Bayes, shrinkage, and Black-Litterman estimators; 2.4.3 Bootstrapping and the resampled frontier; 2.5 A new approach incorporating parameter uncertainty; 2.5.1 Solution of the optimization problem; 2.5.2 Computation of the optimal weight vector; 2.5.3 Bootstrap estimate of performance and NPEB.…”
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Statistical Applications for Environmental Analysis and Risk Assessment. by Ofungwu, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…5.2.4 Histograms and Kernel Density Plots -- 5.3 Graphics for Two or More Univariate Data Samples -- 5.3.1 Quantile-Quantile Plots for Comparing Two Univariate Data Samples -- 5.3.2 Side-by-Side Box Plots -- 5.4 Graphics for Bivariate and Multivariate Data Samples -- 5.4.1 Graphical Data Analysis for Bivariate Data Samples -- 5.4.2 Graphical Data Analysis for Multivariate Data Samples -- 5.5 Graphics for Data Presentation -- 5.6 Data Smoothing -- 5.6.1 Moving Average and Moving Median Smoothing -- 5.6.2 Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing (LOWESS or LOESS)…”
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Generalized Sturmians and atomic spectra by Avery, James

Table of Contents: “…Goscinskian configurations with weighted nuclear charges. 3.2. Derivation of the secular equations. 3.3. …”
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Reactions and mechanisms in thermal analysis of advanced materials

Table of Contents: “…1.5.1 Preparation1.5.2 Thermal Stability; 1.5.2.1 The Thermal Treatment of the Si Surface with NH3; 1.5.2.2 Thermal Stability of the Modified Surfaces; 1.6 Summary; References; 2 Thermal Analysis to Discriminate the Stability of Biomedical Ultrahigh-Molecular-Weight Polyethylenes Formulations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Suitability of TGA Analysis for the Study of Stability of Medical Polyethylene; 2.2.1 Introduction; 2.2.2 Degradation Curves of UHMWPE Depending on the Reaction Atmosphere; 2.2.3 Decomposition Processes of UHMWPE in Air; 2.2.3.1 Thermo-oxidation Process.…”
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Statistical Applications for Environmental Analysis and Risk Assessment by Ofungwu, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…5.2.4 Histograms and Kernel Density Plots -- 5.3 Graphics for Two or More Univariate Data Samples -- 5.3.1 Quantile-Quantile Plots for Comparing Two Univariate Data Samples -- 5.3.2 Side-by-Side Box Plots -- 5.4 Graphics for Bivariate and Multivariate Data Samples -- 5.4.1 Graphical Data Analysis for Bivariate Data Samples -- 5.4.2 Graphical Data Analysis for Multivariate Data Samples -- 5.5 Graphics for Data Presentation -- 5.6 Data Smoothing -- 5.6.1 Moving Average and Moving Median Smoothing -- 5.6.2 Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing (LOWESS or LOESS)…”
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The role of the study director in nonclinical studies : pharmaceuticals, chemicals, medical devices, and pesticides

Table of Contents: “…2.14 Comparing GLP Standards: FDA, EPA, and OECD2.15 Summary; References; 3: International Guidelines and Regulations of Nonclinical Studies; 3.1 General Introduction; 3.2 Scope; 3.3 Legislation, Guidelines, and Regulations; 3.3.1 General; 3.3.2 Globally Acting Organizations; 3.3.3 Region-Specific Regulations; 3.4 Studies; 3.4.1 Screening Information Dataset (SIDS) Dossier; 3.4.2 REACH Data Requirements (Tiers 1-3); 3.4.3 A Discussion on Weight of Evidence and Klimisch Codes; 3.5 Summary; References; 4: Facilities, Operations, Laboratory Animal Care, and Veterinary Services; 4.1 Introduction.…”
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Engineering principles for electrical technicians by Smith, K. M., Holroyd, P.

Table of Contents: “…Momentum, inertia, mass, and weight; 5.7. Systems of units; 5.8. Comparison of units; Problems; Chapter 6. …”
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Stevioside : technology, applications and health by De, Sirshendu

Table of Contents: “…5.1 Advantages of the membrane-based process5.2 Classification of the processes; 5.2.1 Reverse osmosis; 5.2.2 Nanofiltration; 5.2.3 Ultrafiltration; 5.2.4 Microfiltration; 5.3 Characterisation of membranes; 5.3.1 Membrane permeability (Lp); 5.3.2 Retention; 5.3.3 Molecular weight cut-off; 5.4 Membrane modules (Bungay et al. 1986; Ho and Sirkar 1992; Rautenbach and Albrecht 1986); 5.4.1 Plate and frame module; 5.4.2 Tubular module; 5.4.3 Hollow-fibre module; 5.4.4 Spiral-wound module; 5.5 Limitations; 5.5.1 Concentration polarisation; 5.5.2 Membrane fouling and cleaning.…”
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The quartz crystal microbalance in soft matter research : fundamentals and modeling by Johannsmann, Diethelm

Table of Contents: “…Small Load Approximation in Tensor Form; 6.1.1 Derivation; 6.1.2 Parallel Plate; 6.1.3 Parallel Plate with Energy Trapping; 6.1.4 The Modal Mass and Limits of the Sauerbrey Equation; 6.1.5 Statistical Weight in Area Averaging; 6.1.6 Parallel Plate with Surface Roughness; 6.1.7 Piezoelectric Stiffening.…”
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Linear Systems Theory, Second Edition by Szidarovszky, Ferenc

Table of Contents: “…8.1 Realizability of Weighting Patterns8.1.1 Realizability Conditions; 8.1.2 Minimal Realizations; 8.1.3 Time-Invariant Realizations; 8.2 Realizability of 'fransfer Functions; 8.2.1 Realizability Conditions; 8.2.2 Minimal Realizations; 8.3 Applications; 8.3.1 Dynamic Systems in Engineering; 8.3.2 Applications in the Social Sciences and Economics; Problems; 9: Estimatian and Design; 9.1 The Eigenvalue Placement Theorem; 9.2 Observers; 9.3 Reduced-Order Observers; 9.4 The Eigenvalue Separation Theorem; 9.5 Applications; 9.5.1 Dynamic Systems in Engineering…”
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