This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance is the most complex field of music. It comprises the study of a composition’s expression in terms of...

Change detection using remotely sensed images has many applications, such as urban monitoring, land-cover change analysis, and disaster management. This work investigates two-dimensional change detection methods. The existing methods in the literature are grouped into four categories: pixel-based, transformation-based, texture analysis-based,...

In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed....

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to...

Conceptual and technological advances in chemistry and biology have transformed the drug discovery process. Evolutionary pressure among the diverse scientific and engineering disciplines that contribute to the identification of biologically active compounds has resulted in synergistic improvements at every step in the process. Exploiting...

Steve Holzner,award-winning author of the best-selling Inside XML,brings you a comprehensive and easy-to-understand resource on XSLT. Not only will you master the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation, the XSLT 1.1 Working Draft, and the XSLT 2.0 Requirements, you also get coverage of related specifications...