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Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorizations: Applications to Exploratory Multi-way Data Analysis and Blind Source Separation

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book provides a broad survey of models and efficient algorithms for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). This includes NMF’s various extensions and modifications, especially Nonnegative Tensor Factorizations (NTF) and Nonnegative Tucker Decompositions (NTD). NMF/NTF and their extensions are increasingly used as tools in signal and...

Shipping Interdiction and the Law of the Sea (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

In this comparative study of shipping interdiction, Douglas Guilfoyle considers the State action of stopping, searching and arresting foreign flag vessels and crew on the high seas in cases such as piracy, slavery, drug smuggling, fisheries management, migrant smuggling, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and maritime terrorism....

Milton and Maternal Mortality

Cambridge University Press, 2009

All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton's life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet's engagement with maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on...

Keyword Search in Databases (Synthesis Lectures on Data Management)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010

It has become highly desirable to provide flexible ways for users to query/search information by integrating database (DB) and information retrieval (IR) techniques in the same platform. On one hand, the sophisticated DB facilities provided by a database management system assist users to query well-structured information using a query language...

Advances in Digital Government (Advances in Database Systems)

Springer, 2002

Book Series: THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON ADVANCES IN DATABASE SYSTEMS : Volume 26

Advances In Digital Government presents a collection of in-depth articles that addresses a representative cross-section of the matrix of issues involved in implementing digital government systems. These articles constitute a survey of both the technical and...

Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security

CRC Press, 2009

Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security provides an understanding of what cloud computing really means, explores how disruptive it may become in the future, and examines its advantages and disadvantages. It gives business executives the knowledge necessary to make informed, educated decisions regarding cloud...

Memory Management: International Workshop IWMM 92, St.Malo, France, September 17 - 19, 1992. Proceedings

Springer, 1992

This is the first book entirely dedicated to the problem of memory management in programming language implementation. Its originality stems from the diversity of languages and approaches presented: functional programming, logic programming, object oriented programming, and parallel and sequential programming. The book...

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science,...

The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History

Oxford University Press, 2009

The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In this fascinating book, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the...

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (International Year of Planet Earth)

Springer, 2010

Man’s intensifying use of the Earth’s habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced ‘geo-prediction systems’ that accurately locate subsurface resources and forecast the timing and magnitude of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and land subsidence.

As advances in the earth sciences lead to...

Optimizing Wireless Communication Systems

Springer, 2009

This book is a comprehensive collection of advanced concepts divided into two main parts: resource allocation and adaptive transceivers for link optimization. These two research areas are at the core of the recent advances in wireless communication systems. Each chapter covers a relevant, timely, topic and is developed with two focuses. First...

A Field Guide to Geophysics in Archaeology (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)

Springer, 2009

Geophysics operations in archaeology have become well known through exposure on television. However, the technique is presented as the action of specialists and something of a mystery, where people walk about with strange contraptions, and results appear from a computer. This is not the case, however. Some scientific knowledge is needed in order...

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