Tabla de Contenidos: “…ANNEXES 291 Annex A: Organisation of the Review 293 Annex B: Energy Balances and Key Statistical Data 297 Annex C: International Energy Agency Shared Goals 303 Annex D: Glossary and List of Abbreviations 305…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.3 Understanding Conflict Onset: Simulation-based Models8.4 Forecasting Global Conflict Hotspots; 8.5 A Spatial Model of Threat; 8.6 Discussion: The Use of a Spatial Threat Measure in Models of Conflict; References; Chapter 9: Riots; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The 2011 Riots in London; 9.3 Data-Driven Modelling of Riot Diffusion; 9.4 Statistical Modelling of Target Choice; 9.5 A Generative Model of the Riots; 9.6 Discussion; References; Chapter 10: Rebellions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Data; 10.3 Hawkes model; 10.4 Results; 10.5 Discussion; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1 Introduction5.2 Motivation; 5.3 Notation; 5.4 Income Polarization; 5.5 Bipolarization; 5.6 Social Polarization; 5.7 Socioeonomic Polarization; 5.8 Multidimensional Polarization; 5.9 Polarization in Practice; 5.10 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chapter 6: Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Data; 6.3 Density Estimation; 6.4 Welfare Indices; 6.5 Distributional Comparisons; 6.6 Other Estimation Problems; 6.7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Part II. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Enabling Logging in Hibernate; Problem; Solution; How It Works; Inspecting the SQL Statements Issued by Hibernate; Enabling Live Statistics; Summary; Chapter 2: Basic Mapping and Object Identity; 2-0. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Updating the Example Blog LinkCreating a Shared Partial View for the Blog; Adding Partial View to the Blog; Summary; Part II: Enhancing; Chapter 3: Understanding ASP.NET MVC 4 Performance Optimization Techniques; Setting a Performance Baseline; Using Online Tools for Performance Testing and Optimization Tips; Understanding Bundling and Minification; Scaling a Windows Azure Cloud Service; Fifteen Performance Enhancing Tips; Useful Links; Summary; Chapter 4: Fine-tuning the ASP.NET MVC 4 Project for Performance; Using Fiddler to Capture Performance Statistics; Implementing MiniProfiler…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DNS Security ExtensionsDNS Devolution; Zone Level Statistics; Record Weighting; Netmask Ordering; DnsUpdateProxy Group; Windows PowerShell Support; Introducing DNS Record Types; Start of Authority Records; Name Server Records; Host Record; Alias Record; Pointer Record; Mail Exchanger Record; Service (SRV) Record; Configuring DNS; Installing DNS; Load Balancing with Round Robin; Configuring a Caching-Only Server; Setting Zone Properties; Configuring Zones for Dynamic Updates; Delegating Zones for DNS; DNS Forwarding; Manually Creating DNS Records; DNS Aging and Scavenging…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.1 Integration of the World's Markets2.2 Balance-of-Payments Statistics; 2.3 Exchange Rate Systems; 2.4 A Brief History of the International Monetary System; 2.5 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Chapter 3: Foreign Exchange and Eurocurrency Markets; 3.1 Characteristics of Financial Markets; 3.2 The Eurocurrency Market; 3.3 The Foreign Exchange Market; 3.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Quotations; 3.5 Hedging with Currency Forwards; 3.6 The Empirical Behavior of Exchange Rates; 3.7 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Separating Updates from RenderingPausing and Resuming; Other Animation Approaches; Swing Timer Animation; The Utility Timer; Worms in Windows and Applets; Preliminary Considerations; The Choice of Timer; Class Reuse; Testing for Speed; Class Diagrams for the WormChase Application; The Worm-Chasing Application; The Game Panel; User Input; The Animation Loop; Statistics Gathering; Drawing the Canvas; Storing Worm Information; Growing a Worm; Calculating a New Head Point; Choosing a Bearing; Dealing with Obstacles; Moving the Worm; Drawing the Worm; Testing the Worm; Worm Obstacles…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Complex-Valued Adaptive Signal Processing -- 1.1 Introduction -- -- 1.2 Preliminaries -- 1.3 Optimization in the Complex Domain -- 1.4 Widely Linear Adaptive Filtering -- 1.5 Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering with Multilayer Perceptrons -- 1.6 Complex Independent Component Analysis -- 1.7 Summary -- 1.8 Acknowledgment -- 1.9 Problems -- References -- Chapter 2 Robust Estimation Techniques for Complex-Valued Random Vectors -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Statistical Characterization of Complex Random Vectors -- 2.3 Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) Distributions -- 2.4 Tools to Compare Estimators -- 2.5 Scatter and Pseudo-Scatter Matrices -- 2.6 Array Processing Examples -- 2.7 MVDR Beamformers Based on M-Estimators -- 2.8 Robust ICA -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 2.10 Problems -- References -- Chapter 3 Turbo Equalization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Context -- 3.3 Communication Chain -- 3.4 Turbo Decoder: Overview -- 3.5 Forward-Backward Algorithm -- 3.6 Simplified Algorithm: Interference Canceler -- 3.7 Capacity Analysis -- 3.8 Blind Turbo Equalization -- 3.9 Convergence -- 3.10 Multichannel and Multiuser Settings -- 3.11 Concluding Remarks -- 3.12 Problems -- References -- Chapter 4 Subspace Tracking for Signal Processing -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Linear Algebra Review -- 4.3 Observation Model and Problem Statement -- 4.4 Preliminary Example: Oja's Neuron -- 4.5 Subspace Tracking -- 4.6 Eigenvectors Tracking -- 4.7 Convergence and Performance Analysis Issues -- 4.8 Illustrative Examples -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- 4.10 Problems -- References -- Chapter 5 Particle Filtering -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Motivation for Use of Particle Filtering -- 5.3 The Basic Idea -- 5.4 The Choice of Proposal Distribution and Resampling -- 5.5 Some Particle Filtering Methods -- 5.6 Handling Constant Parameters -- 5.7 Rao-Blackwellization -- 5.8 Prediction -- 5.9 Smoothing -- 5.10 Convergence Issues -- 5.11 Computational Issues and Hardware Implementation -- 5.12 Acknowledgments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Serving users who speak multiple languages -- 7.2. Statistical machine translation -- 7.3. Working with parallel corpora -- 7.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix 3B: The elements of ISO 9000Part 4: How ISO 9000 Can be used to Check a Company's Quality System; 4.1 Internal audit; 4.2 Responsibility; 4.3 External audit; 4.4 The surveillance or quality audit visit; 4.5 Assessment of quality-management systems; 4.6 Recommended further reading; Appendix 4A: ISO 9000 auditor's checklist; Part 5: Statistical Methods Applied to Quality Control; 5.1 Probability function; 5.2 Failure rate; 5.3 Mean Time Between Failures; 5.4 Quality control and testing; 5.5 Planning a graph; 5.6 How a manufacturer can 'guarantee' quality; 5.7 Quality-control charts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.7 Acknowledgments4.8 References; 5:Prognosis and life-cycle assessment based on SHM information; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Statistical and probabilistic aspects for efficient prognosis; 5.3 Decision analysis based on availability of SHM data; 5.4 Life-cycle analysis using monitoring data; 5.5 Conclusions; 5.6 Acknowledgements; 5.7 References; 5.8 Appendix: Notation used; 6:System-level design of a roaming multi-modal multi-sensor system for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Need for health monitoring of transportation infrastructure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SummaryChapter 6: Data Structures; Lists; List Syntax; Birthday Paradox; Simple Blackjack; Maps; Map Syntax; Caesar Cipher; Baseball Statistics Exercise; Sets; Revised containsDuplicates(); Great Set Use Cases; Summary; Chapter 7: How Does the Web Work?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""7.6 MonoDevelop: Refactoring Variables and Functions""""7.7 MonoDevelop: Quick Navigation and Tasks""; ""7.8 MonoDevelop: Code Readability""; ""8 Performance and Optimization""; ""8.1 Rendering Statistics: The Stats Panel""; ""8.2 Draw Calls and Batching""; ""8.3 Avoid Reflection: Event Systems""; ""8.4 Use Atlas Textures""; ""8.5 Optimizing Meshes""; ""8.6 MipMaps""; ""8.7 Miscellaneous Rendering Optimizations""; ""8.8 Shader Complexity""; ""8.9 Updates and Coroutines""; ""8.10 FixedUpdate and Time Steps""; ""8.11 Static and Dynamic Arrays""; ""8.12 Audio""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SQL_TRACE: Writing a Trace File 388TKPROF: Interpreting the Trace File 391; EXPLAIN PLAN: Explaining the Optimizer's Plan 397; ORADBX: Listing Events 406; ANALYZE: Validating and Computing Statistics 408; UTLBSTAT.sql and UTLESTAT.sql: Taking Snapshots 410; Other Oracle Scripts 424; Some Scripts of Our Own 427; Oracle Performance Manager 442; Identifying Untuned Application Code 444; Tuning Memory 453; Tuning Disk I/O 479; Avoiding Contention 497; Introduction to Parallel Server 521; Parallel Server Architecture 523; Parallel Server Locking 525; Parallel Server Design 529…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Performance evaluation: an econometric survey; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Statistical properties of performance measures; 2.3 Mutual funds style; 2.4 International empirical results of performance; 2.5 Conclusion and future research…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 5.3 Introduction to Machine Learning: Algorithms and Applications -- 5.4 Natural Language Processing -- 5.5 The Internet of Things -- 5.6 Prospective AI Advantages in Orthopedics -- 5.7 Diagnostic Application of AI -- 5.8 Prediction Application With AI -- 5.9 Conclusion -- 6 Significance of Artificial Intelligence in Spinal Disorder Treatment -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Machine Learning -- 6.3 Methods Derived From Statistics -- 6.4 Applications of Machine Learning in Spine Surgery -- 6.5 Application of AI and ML in Spine Research -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Osteoporosis Biomarker Identification and Use of Machine Learning in Osteoporosis Treatment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Biomarkers of Bone Development -- 7.3 Biomarkers for Bone Resorption -- 7.4 Regulators of Bone Turnover -- 7.5 Methods to Identify Osteoporosis -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8 The Role of AI in Pediatric Orthopedics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Strategy Based on Artificial Intelligence -- 8.3 Several Applications of Artificial Intelligence -- 8.4 Conclusion -- 9 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Imaging for Bone Cancer -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Applications of Machine Learning to Cancer Diagnosis -- 9.3 Artificial Intelligence Methods for Diagnosing Bone Cancer -- 9.4 Methodologies for Constructing Deep Learning Model -- 9.5 Clinical Image Applications of Deep Learning for Bone Tumors -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Questions about Long-Term Benefits of R&D; III. Patent Statistics; IV. Patent Citations; V. Scientific Merit of Patents; VI. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Web Marketers; Web Developers; Managers; How This Book Is Organized; Part I; Part II; Chapter 10; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Credits; Acknowledgments; Part I; Search Behavior; SERP Viewing Statistics; Click Patterns: Higher Is Better; Prune Your Prose; Let the Optimization Begin; Natural Search Engine Optimization; The Benefits of SEO; Core SEO Techniques; Common SEO Barriers; Inadequate inbound links; Drowning in splash pages; Flash fires; Unprofessional design…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Charts That Use a Single Data PointUsing a Dummy Axis; Column and Bar Chart Variations; Creating a Timeline; Creating "Impossible" Charts by Stacking and Overlaying; Displaying Multiple Charts on a Chart Sheet; Chapter 9: In-Cell Charting Techniques; Visualizing Data with Conditional Formatting; Plotting Data without a Chart; Creating Sparkline Charts; Chapter 10: Mathematical and Statistical Charting Techniques; Drawing a Circle with an XY Series; Connecting Scatter Chart Data Points to the Axes with Error Bars; Connecting XY Points to the Origin…”