A comprehensive reference survey on the identification and development of promising cancer chemopreventive agents that will help stimulate further novel research and new approvable drugs. For each agent, the authors review the relevant mechanisms of action, the criteria for populations benefiting from intervention, the safety and...

I know what you’re thinking: “If this is Part 2, where is Part 1?” Well, Part 1 is actually Chapter One back in volume 2. “Wait a darn minute—you’re pulling that old ‘bait and switch’ scam, right?” No, a bait-and-switch scam is where you see an advertisement for a washer and dryer for a...

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

*Ideal module text for courses in artificial...

Since the first part of the twentieth century, cybernetics and systems research have been developed as scientific disciplines. Investigations, launched in the area of cybernetics, previously dealt with control and information processing. In a more narrow sense, they consisted in the consideration of analogies of the control and the...