Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data

The topic of variable selection in high-dimensional spaces (often with hundreds or thousands of dimensions) has attracted considerable attention in data mining re- search in previous years, and it is common in many real problems. In a nutshell, feature selection is a process that chooses an optimal subset of features according to a certain criterion. The selection of the criterion must be done…

How the Stock Market Works

Making money demands effort, whether working for a salary or investing. You get nothing for nothing. Anyone who tells you the stock market is an absolute doddle, and money for old rope, is either a conman or a fool. And the proof of that became very clear with the stock market depressions starting in 2007. But doing a bit of work does not necessarily mean heavy mathematics and several hours eve…

Managing the Macroeconomy

Having originated in the advanced economies, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–09 spread rapidly to the rest of the world. The impact on the emerging markets, especially those in Asia, though not as severe as that in the advanced countries, was still quite signifi- cant. India withstood the crisis initially but could not remain entirely unaffected for long (especially after the collap…

FUZZY LOGIC ALGORITHMS, TECHNIQUES AND IMPLEMENTATIONS

Algorithm is used to define the notion of decidability. It is a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations. This is essential for computers to process information. Computer programs contain algorithms that detail specific instructions a computer should perform to carry out a specified task. The traditional computer program performs specific instructions sequentially, and use…

Modern Statistics

There are two general goals in this book. Assuming the reader has had no prior training in statistics, the first is to provide a graduate-level introduction to basic, routinely used statistical techniques relevant to the social and behavioral sciences. As can be seen from the Table of Contents, a wide range of topics is covered. Included is a nontechnical description of three major insights reg…

ON FREUD’S “CONSTRUCTIONS IN ANALYSIS”

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Blind Equalization and System Identification

Discrete-time signal processing has appeared to be one of the major momenta to the advances of science and engineering over the past several decades be- cause of the rapid progress of digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits in processing speed, functionality, and cost effectiveness. In many science and engineering applications, the signals of interest are distorted by an unknown physical s…

Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB

We wrote a second edition of this book for two reasons. First, the Statistics Toolbox for MATLAB® has been significantly expanded since the first edition, so the text needed to be updated to reflect these changes. Second, we wanted to incorporate some of the suggested improvements that were made by several of the reviewers of the first edition. In our view, one of the most important issues t…

Normalising the Balkans Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

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CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

The Internet, as well as other telecommunication networks and information systems, have become an integrated part of our daily lives, and our dependency upon their underlying infrastructure is ever-increas- ing. Unfortunately, as our dependency has grown, so have hostile attacks on the cyber infrastructure by network predators. The lack of security as a core el- ement in the initial design of…

Constructing Quality

How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? This is the question addressed in this book. Each chapter focuses on situations where quality is highly uncertain: such situations provide excellent opportunities to analyze how quality is the outcome of a construction process involving producers, consumers, and marke…

Learning Responsive Web Design

By now pretty much everybody in the web world has heard of responsive web design (often referred to as RWD), but a surprising number don’t have a good understanding of what it is . In this chapter, you’ll learn the basics of what it means for a website to be responsive . After that, we’ll go through a little of the history of web design, so you can understand where the idea of responsi…

Data Quality and its Impacts on Decision-Making

For all types of businesses, there is an increasing trend towards the utilization of data, as well as information that can be gathered from data. Big Data or Data Scientist are the new terms that emerged from recent developments in the field of data and information science, just to mention a couple examples. The assurance of data quality has become an integral part of information management pr…

Projected Art History

My wish to make this book available to an English-speaking audience finally came true. Had it not been for a chance encounter with Francisco J. Ricardo through an introduction by Candy Coleman at a museum opening in Los Angeles in 2011, this book would probably not exist. Francisco’s enthusiasm and support, along with his wonderful contacts Katie Gallof at Bloomsbury and Jörgen Schäfer,…

Neuropsychological Formulation A Clinical Casebook

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NEUROIMMUNITY A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains He…

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RESEARCH ON MANAGING GROUPS AND TEAMS VOLUME 14 NEGOTIATION AND GROUPS

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Narrative Medicine Bridging the Gap between Evidence- Based Care and Medical …

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Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain A Practical Guide for Clinicians

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MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING A GUIDE FOR MEDICAL TRAINEES

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Most Underappreciated 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most U…

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Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language

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A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder New Dir…

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Messages: Self Help Through Popular Culture

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Mentoring Today’s Nurses A Global Perspective for Success

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international sales law

The genesis for this book was an interest in looking at the world’s most successful substantive international commercial law convention – the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – from various national and methodological perspectives. Success here is measured by the overwhelming reception of the CISG by countries throughout the world. By late …

Virilio and Visual Culture

Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical and anthropological questions but also extremely important political questions. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offe…

Mental Toughness in Sport Developments in theory and research

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Men and Masculinities Around the World Transforming Men’s Practices

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Folk Art

In 1989 years of planning and hard work came to fruition when the University of North Carolina Press joined the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. While all those involved in writing, reviewing, editing, and producing the volume believed it would be received as a vital contribution to our understanding of …