Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recursion -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Case Study: Computing Factorials -- 15.3 Case Study: Computing Fibonacci Numbers -- 15.4 Problem Solving Using Recursion -- 15.5 Recursive Helper Functions -- 15.6 Case Study: Finding the Directory Size -- 15.7 Case Study: Tower of Hanoi -- 15.8 Case Study: Fractals -- 15.9 Case Study: Eight Queens -- 15.10 Recursion vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.7.1 Examples of the Application of Fuzzy Methods in Infrastructure Management -- 4.8 Summary and Conclusion -- 4.9 Questions and Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Automatic Detection and Its Applications in Infrastructure -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Photometric Hypotheses (PH) -- 5.1.2 Geometric and Photometric Hypotheses (GPH) -- 5.1.3 Geometric Hypotheses (GH) -- 5.1.4 Transform Hypotheses (TH) -- 5.2 The Framework for Automatic Detection of Abnormalities in Infrastructure Images -- 5.2.1 Wavelet Method -- 5.2.2 High Amplitude Wavelet Coefficient Percentage (HAWCP) -- 5.2.3 High-Frequency Wavelet Energy Percentage (HFWEP) -- 5.2.4 Wavelet Standard Deviation (WSTD) -- 5.2.5 Moments of Wavelet -- 5.2.6 High Amplitude Shearlet Coefficient Percentage (HASHCP) -- 5.2.7 High-Frequency Shearlet Energy Percentage (HFSHEP) -- 5.2.8 Fractal Index -- 5.2.9 Moments of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.10 Central Moments q -- 5.2.11 Hu Moments -- 5.2.12 Bamieh Moments -- 5.2.13 Zernike Moments -- 5.2.14 Statistic of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.15 Contrast of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.16 Correlation of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.17 Uniformity of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.18 Homogeneity of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.19 Entropy of Complex Shearlet -- 5.2.20 Local Standard Deviation of Complex Shearlet Index (F_Local_STD) -- 5.3 Summary and Conclusion -- 5.4 Questions and Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 Feature Extraction and Fragmentation Methods -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Low-Level Feature Extraction Methods -- 6.3 Shape-Based Feature (SBF) -- 6.3.1 Center of Gravity (COG) or Center of Area (COA) -- 6.3.2 Axis of Least Inertia (ALI) -- 6.3.3 Average Bending Energy -- 6.3.4 Eccentricity Index (ECI) -- 6.3.5 Circularity Ratio (CIR) -- 6.3.6 Ellipse Variance Feature (EVF) -- 6.3.7 Rectangularity Feature (REF) -- 6.3.8 Convexity Feature (COF)…”

“…Thus, the modern theory of fractals and multifractals now plays a major role in turbulence research, and turbulent states are being studied as important dynamical states of matter occurring also in systems outside the realm of hydrodynamics, i.e. chemical reactions or front propagation. …”
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“…Also discussed are the evaluation of rainfall time series and the use of fractal analysis. Finally, the book contains information on the governance crisis and governability of the use of groundwater in arid zones…”

“…La economía, las políticas, la disponibilidad y la accesibilidad, el conocimiento, el comportamiento y la cultura son los vectores matrices de este sistema fractal…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.3.2.1 Run-Length Encoding -- 1.3.2.2 Differential Pulse-Code Modulation and Predictive Coding -- 1.3.2.3 Entropy Encoding -- 1.3.2.4 Adaptive Dictionary Algorithms -- 1.3.2.5 Deflation -- 1.3.3 LOSSY IMAGE CODING TECHNIQUES -- 1.3.3.1 Color Space Reduction -- 1.3.3.2 Chroma Subsampling -- 1.3.3.3 Transform Coding -- 1.3.3.4 Fractal Compression -- 1.3.4 VECTOR QUANTIZATION -- 1.3.5 BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING -- 1.3.6 JPEG -- 1.3.7 JPEG2000 -- 1.3.7.1 Color Component Transformation -- 1.3.7.2 Tiling -- 1.3.7.3 Wavelet Transform -- 1.3.7.4 Quantization -- 1.3.7.5 Coding -- 1.4 OVERVIEW OF INFORMATION HIDING TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGES -- 1.4.1 ROBUST IMAGE WATERMARKING -- 1.4.1.1 Background -- 1.4.1.2 Definitions -- 1.4.1.3 Image Watermarking System -- 1.4.1.4 Characteristics -- 1.4.1.5 Overview of Techniques -- 1.4.2 FRAGILE IMAGE WATERMARKING -- 1.4.2.1 Background -- 1.4.2.2 Classification -- 1.4.2.3 Requirements -- 1.4.2.4 Watermarking-Based Authentication System -- 1.4.2.4.1 Authentication Watermark Embedding -- 1.4.2.4.2 Authentication Watermark Extraction and Verification -- 1.4.2.5 Overview of Techniques -- 1.4.3 IMAGE FINGERPRINTING -- 1.4.3.1 Background and Basic Concept -- 1.4.3.2 Differences Between Watermarking and Fingerprinting -- 1.4.3.3 Requirements -- 1.4.3.4 Overview of Techniques -- 1.4.4 IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY -- 1.4.4.1 Background and Basic Concept -- 1.4.4.2 Image Steganography System -- 1.4.4.3 Overview of Techniques -- 1.4.5 LOSSLESS INFORMATION HIDING IN IMAGES -- 1.4.5.1 Background and Basic Concepts -- 1.4.5.2 Classifications of Schemes -- 1.4.5.3 Overview of Techniques -- 1.4.5.4 Performance Evaluation Criteria for Lossless Data Hiding Schemes -- 1.5 APPLICATIONS OF LOSSLESS INFORMATION HIDING IN IMAGES -- 1.5.1 LOSSLESS HIDING AUTHENTICATION -- 1.5.2 FIDELITY CONTROL FOR COVER MEDIA -- 1.5.3 STATUS RECOVERY FOR COVER MEDIA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.22.1 A Simple Master-Worker Setup -- 5.22.2 A Multithreaded Master-Worker Setup -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: GPU programming -- 6.1 GPU Programming -- 6.2 CUDA's programming model: threads, blocks, and grids -- 6.3 CUDA's execution model: streaming multiprocessors and warps -- 6.4 CUDA compilation process -- 6.5 Putting together a CUDA project -- 6.6 Memory hierarchy -- 6.6.1 Local Memory/Registers -- 6.6.2 Shared Memory -- 6.6.3 Constant Memory -- 6.6.4 Texture and Surface Memory -- 6.7 Optimization techniques -- 6.7.1 Block and Grid Design -- 6.7.2 Kernel Structure -- 6.7.3 Shared Memory Access -- 6.7.4 Global Memory Access -- 6.7.5 Page-Locked and Zero-Copy Memory -- 6.7.6 Unified Memory -- 6.7.7 Asynchronous Execution and Streams -- 6.7.7.1 Stream Synchronization: Events and Callbacks -- 6.8 Dynamic parallelism -- 6.9 Debugging CUDA programs -- 6.10 Profiling CUDA programs -- 6.11 CUDA and MPI -- 6.12 Case studies -- 6.12.1 Fractal Set Calculation -- 6.12.1.1 Version #1: One thread per pixel -- 6.12.1.2 Version #2: Pinned host and pitched device memory -- 6.12.1.3 Version #3: Multiple pixels per thread -- 6.12.1.4 Evaluation -- 6.12.2 Block Cipher Encryption -- 6.12.2.1 Version #1: The case of a standalone GPU machine -- 6.12.2.2 Version #2: Overlapping GPU communication and computation -- 6.12.2.3 Version #3: Using a cluster of GPU machines -- 6.12.2.4 Evaluation -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: The Thrust template library -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 First steps in Thrust -- 7.3 Working with Thrust datatypes -- 7.4 Thrust algorithms -- 7.4.1 Transformations -- 7.4.2 Sorting and searching -- 7.4.3 Reductions -- 7.4.4 Scans/prefix sums -- 7.4.5 Data management and manipulation -- 7.5 Fancy iterators -- 7.6 Switching device back ends -- 7.7 Case studies -- 7.7.1 Monte carlo integration -- 7.7.2 DNA Sequence alignment -- Exercises…”

“…Multifractal Financial Markets explores appropriate models for estimating risk and profiting from market swings, allowing readers to develop enhanced portfolio management skills and strategies. Fractals in finance allow us to understand market instability and persistence. …”

“…It includes practical application such as relating fractal dimension of nuclear membranes in cells to disease, or relating harmonic analysis to weathering of sediments, or classifying the genetics of squash seeds by dimensionless ratios--…”

“…Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in physics as well as in psychology, its basis being combinatorics, coincidence, complementarity, and fractal emergence. The authors prompt a mechanism cutting through particle physics, perception, psychology, and culminating into playfulness. …”

“…Mediante la inmersión en la obra y el pensamiento cinematográfico de David Lynch, David Cronenberlg, Bela Tarlr y Nicolás Pereda en el presente volumen la autora ensaya la creación de conceptos operatorios (imagen-fractal, imagen-repetición, des-dramatización...) que articulan una filosofía de cine a la vez que piensan, expresan e intentan conservar la singularidad de cada filme exponiendo los recursos expresivos de cada autor…”

“…It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) reviews, and (v) reminiscences covering related topics like mathematical geosciences, mathematical morphology, geostatistics, fractals and multifractals, spatial statistics, multipoint geostatistics, compositional data analysis, informatics, geocomputation, numerical methods, and chaos theory in the geosciences…”

“…En ella, el «padre de la geometría fractal» relata su infancia en Varsovia, en el seno de una familia judía pequeñoburguesa. …”

“…Otros finalistas: Del eterno retorno; Click; La flor natural; Tal vez morir; Tacto; Atracción fractal…”
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“…Otros finalistas: Del eterno retorno; Click; La flor natural; Tal vez morir; Tacto; Atracción fractal…”
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“…Several applications, including image transformations, fractal generation, image convolution, and computer vision tasks, are used to describe and demonstrate these methods. …”

“…Also, discussions are presented on particle motion in vortex flows, on the simulation of vortex-dominated flows, on vortices in saturable media, on achromatic vortices, and on ultraviolet vortices. Fractal light vortices, coherent vortex beams, together with vortices in electric dipole radiation, and spin wave dynamics in magnetic vortices are examined as well…”

“…The keywords proposed in this reprint were as follows: organogels, hydrogels, ionic gels, chitosan, and fractal analysis. These terms were extremely pertinent to this research piece, hereby presented. …”

“…Key topics: Approximation and Fourier Analysis Construction of Wavelets and Frame Theory Fractal and Multifractal Theory Wavelets in Numerical Analysis Time-Frequency Analysis Adaptive Representation of Nonlinear and Non-stationary Signals Applications, particularly in image processing Through the broad spectrum, ranging from pure and applied mathematics to real applications, the book will be most useful for researchers, engineers and developers alike…”