Intelligent Data Analytics for Decision-Support Systems in Hazard Mitigation
Intelligent Data Analytics for Decision-Support Systems in Hazard Mitigation

Author: Ravinesh C. Deo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 9789811557743

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This book highlights cutting-edge applications of machine learning techniques for disaster management by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting hydro-meteorological variables. Predictive modelling is a consolidated discipline used to forewarn the possibility of natural hazards. In this book, experts from numerical weather forecast, meteorology, hydrology, engineering, agriculture, economics, and disaster policy-making contribute towards an interdisciplinary framework to construct potent models for hazard risk mitigation. The book will help advance the state of knowledge of artificial intelligence in decision systems to aid disaster management and policy-making. This book can be a useful reference for graduate student, academics, practicing scientists and professionals of disaster management, artificial intelligence, and environmental sciences.

Airborne Particles in Museums
Airborne Particles in Museums

Author: The Getty Conservation Institute

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1993-11-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0892361875

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This study represents the latest in a series of research activities aimed at a better understanding of the origin and fate of air pollution within the built environment. Most previous studies of air pollution in cultural institutions have focused on gases. Particles were ignored for many reasons: they seemed to be more easily removed by the building; gaseous air pollutants had been well studied by industry, and their effects on commercial products were heavily documented; and many particle types were considered chemically benign to almost all surfaces. Even carbon black, which is now known to pose enormous degradation risks to the optical and color qualities of paintings and tapestries, is almost totally inert. Recognizing this, and understanding that we needed to know much more about the physics of particle intrusion in museum buildings, in 1987 the Environmental Engineering Lab at the California Institute of Technology, under contract to the Getty Conservation Institute, began a detailed examination of five different museums in Southern California. These structures represent a diverse range of architectural and ventilation types. Through this study a powerful computer model was developed that could predict the soiling effects of changes made to the operation or maintenance of a building. This model can even be used to estimate the soiling rates of new buildings or major rehabilitations before any construction work is begun. This is an important contribution to both the conservation community and the broader field of air quality science.

Molecular Organometallic Materials for Optics
Molecular Organometallic Materials for Optics

Author: Zuqiang Bian

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-10

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3642018653

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Aimed at a multidisciplinary scientific readership, this publication covers a number of specific topics in what is now a rapidly developing field, including coordination and organometallic complexes as second-order nonlinear optical molecular materials.

Noise Reduction in Speech Processing
Noise Reduction in Speech Processing

Author: Jacob Benesty

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 364200296X

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Noise is everywhere and in most applications that are related to audio and speech, such as human-machine interfaces, hands-free communications, voice over IP (VoIP), hearing aids, teleconferencing/telepresence/telecollaboration systems, and so many others, the signal of interest (usually speech) that is picked up by a microphone is generally contaminated by noise. As a result, the microphone signal has to be cleaned up with digital signal processing tools before it is stored, analyzed, transmitted, or played out. This cleaning process is often called noise reduction and this topic has attracted a considerable amount of research and engineering attention for several decades. One of the objectives of this book is to present in a common framework an overview of the state of the art of noise reduction algorithms in the single-channel (one microphone) case. The focus is on the most useful approaches, i.e., filtering techniques (in different domains) and spectral enhancement methods. The other objective of Noise Reduction in Speech Processing is to derive all these well-known techniques in a rigorous way and prove many fundamental and intuitive results often taken for granted. This book is especially written for graduate students and research engineers who work on noise reduction for speech and audio applications and want to understand the subtle mechanisms behind each approach. Many new and interesting concepts are presented in this text that we hope the readers will find useful and inspiring.

SADT
SADT

Author: David Marca

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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The MBR Book
The MBR Book

Author: Simon Judd

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0080465102

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The MBR Book

Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO 2014
Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO 2014

Author: Juan A. Garay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 3662443716

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The two volume-set, LNCS 8616 and LNCS 8617, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2014, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2014. The 60 revised full papers presented in LNCS 8616 and LNCS 8617 were carefully reviewed and selected from 227 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on symmetric encryption and PRFs; formal methods; hash functions; groups and maps; lattices; asymmetric encryption and signatures; side channels and leakage resilience; obfuscation; FHE; quantum cryptography; foundations of hardness; number-theoretic hardness; information-theoretic security; key exchange and secure communication; zero knowledge; composable security; secure computation - foundations; secure computation - implementations.

Software Development and Reality Construction
Software Development and Reality Construction

Author: Christiane Floyd

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 3642768172

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The present book is based on the conference Software Development and Reality Construction held at SchloB Eringerfeld in Germany, September 25 - 30, 1988. This was organized by the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) in cooperation with the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Sankt Augustin, and sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation whose financial support we gratefully acknowledge. The conference was an interdisciplinary scientific and cultural event aimed at promoting discussion on the nature of computer science as a scientific discipline and on the theoretical foundations and systemic practice required for human-oriented system design. In keeping with the conversational style of the conference, the book comprises a series of individual contributions, arranged so as to form a coherent whole. Some authors reflect on their practice in computer science and system design. Others start from approaches developed in the humanities and the social sciences for understanding human learning and creativity, individual and cooperative work, and the interrelation between technology and organizations. Thus, each contribution makes its specific point and can be read on its own merit. But, at the same time, it takes its place as a chapter in the book, along with all the other contributions, to give what seemed to us a meaningful overall line of argumentation. This required careful editorial coordination, and we are grateful to all the authors for bearing with us throughout the slow genesis of the book and for complying with our requests for extensive revision of some of the manuscripts.

Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments
Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments

Author: Cecily M. Grzywacz

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0892368519

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With an emphasis on passive sampling, this volume focuses on the environmental monitoring for common gaseous pollutants. It offers an overview of the history and nature of pollutants of concern to museums and the challenges facing scientists, conservators, and managers seeking to develop target pollutant guidelines to protect cultural property.

Time Series Prediction
Time Series Prediction

Author: Andreas S. Weigend

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 042997227X

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The book is a summary of a time series forecasting competition that was held a number of years ago. It aims to provide a snapshot of the range of new techniques that are used to study time series, both as a reference for experts and as a guide for novices.