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Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking (Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, & Multimedia Processing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006

In biological and medical imaging applications, tracking objects in motion is a critical task. This book describes the state-of-the-art in biomedical tracking techniques. We begin by detailing methods for tracking using active contours, which have been highly successful in biomedical applications. The book next covers the major probabilistic...

Python For Dummies

For Dummies, 2006

Python is one of the most powerful, easy-to-read programming languages around, but it does have its limitations. This general purpose, high-level language that can be extended and embedded is a smart option for many programming problems, but a poor solution to others.

Python For Dummies is the quick-and-easy guide to getting...

Pharmaceutical Project Management, Second Edition (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Informa Healthcare, 2008

This second edition of Pharmaceutical Project Management is published one decade after the first edition. What has changed over the past decade in drug development? Actually, a lot. The move to outsourcing has intensified and the successful management of relationships between sponsor and contractor is recognized to be a...

Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement (Series on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering)

World Scientific Publishing, 2011

The expansion of our reliance on software in many aspects of modern society has coincided with a number of incidents in aeronautics, astronautics, transportation, medical devices, energy generation, banking and finance. Failures caused by software have introduced more than just inconvenience, but significant property damage,...

Augmented Reality: An Emerging Technologies Guide to AR

Syngress Publishing, 2012

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology whose time has come. Conceived in rudimentary form as early as the 1960’s, AR is only now becoming truly practical. Recent advances in mobile processing, coupled with an explosion in digital storage capacity, ubiquity of wireless broadband connections, mass adoption of smart phones, and...

Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

University of Nebraska Press, 2019

Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting this pathologization...

Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV: 4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Springer, 2004

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in London, UK in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book; also included are 2...

Controlling the Quantum World: The Science of Atoms, Molecules, and Photons (Physics 2010)

National Academy Press, 2007

As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly the next decade, in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and technology. In particular, the National Research Council was asked to cover...

Critical Reflections on Information Systems: A Systemic Approach

IGI Global, 2002

While implementing IS and IT in support of their business strategies, companies are looking for ways to bridge the gap between their competitive position and technological investment, including ways to use this investment to the advantage of the organization. Critical Reflections on Information Systems: A Systemic Approach faces this challenge by...

Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration

Apress, 2009

Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration is critical for database administrators seeking in-depth knowledge on administering SQL Server 2008. This book covers the impact of the new features available in SQL Server 2008 specifically targeted for database administrators, along with the tried-and-true advanced techniques required to support and...

Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise for Lecturing Birds On Flying

"Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial...

The Cloud at Your Service

Manning Publications, 2010

Cloud Computing is here to stay. As an economically viable way for businesses of all sizes to distribute computing, this technology shows tremendous promise. But the intense hype surrounding the Cloud is making it next to impossible for responsible IT managers and business decision-makers to get a clear understanding of what the...

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