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Multilayer Perceptrons: Theory and Applications opens with a review of research on the use of the multilayer perceptron artificial neural network method for solving ordinary/partial differential equations, accompanied by critical comments. A historical perspective on the evolution of the multilayer perceptron neural network is provided. Furthermore, the foundation for automated post-processing that is imperative for consolidating the signal data to a feature set is presented. In one study, panoramic dental x-ray images are used to estimate age and gender. These images were subjected to image pre-processing techniques to achieve better results. In a subsequent study, a multilayer perceptrons artificial neural network with one hidden layer and trained through the efficient resilient backpropagation algorithm is used for modeling quasi-fractal patch antennas. Later, the authors propose a scheme with eight steps for a dynamic time series forecasting using an adaptive multilayer perceptron with minimal complexity. Two different data sets from two different countries were used in the experiments to measure the robustness and accuracy of the models. In closing, a multilayer perceptron artificial neural network with a layer of hidden neurons is trained with the resilient backpropagation algorithm, and the network is used to model a Koch pre-fractal patch antenna.

Chapter 1 - In accordance with the authority conferred by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, GAO annually audits IRS''s financial statements to determine whether (1) the financial statements are fairly presented and (2) IRS management maintained effective internal control over financial reporting. GAO also tests IRS''s compliance with selected provisions of applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements. Chapter 2 - GAO audits the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government. Because of the significance of the federal debt to the government-wide financial statements, GAO audits Fiscal Service''s Schedules of Federal Debt annually to determine whether, in all material respects, (1) the schedules are fairly presented and (2) Fiscal Service management maintained effective internal control over financial reporting relevant to the Schedule of Federal Debt. Further, GAO tests compliance with selected provisions of applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements related to the Schedule of Federal Debt. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-136 provides agencies with the guidance for reporting financial and performance information to Congress, the President, and the American people on an annual basis. In lieu of the consolidated Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), the U.S. Department of the Treasury''s (Treasury) Office of Financial Stability (OFS) has chosen to prepare a series of separate reports to provide the fiscal year 2019 financial and performance information for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as discussed in chapter 3.

This book consists of contributions from preeminent experts in the field of network science, signal processing and machine learning, focusing on the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of online social networking technologies. As online social networks provide an important and diverse medium for spreading and disseminating various types of information, this book offers new perspectives and applications of these large-scale networks in engineering cyber intelligence. The book introduces and explains how to design predictive analytics and computational tools, but also presents insights into forward-engineering new applications such as community detection, rumor source detection and large-scale online learning. Mathematical tools based on statistical inference, graph theory and machine learning as well as real-world data analysis are provided to help readers understand the advances in cyber intelligence. As such it is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in understanding the developments of online social networking technologies.

Edwin Bearss'' Government career created National Parks and Presidential Historic Parks, including his direct relationships with President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Jimmy Carter. He created and improved many parks, and thus, made the history that Americans see and read when they experience these important American lands, battlefields and buildings. Ed Bearss has made indelible marks on the American landscape, and in so doing, defined much of the historical culture of the United States. His contribution to our understanding of American history is immense. He is the author of 140 National Park Service reports, more than any other person to work for the National Park Service. The quality and popularity of his tours and books are rare among present-day historians. He has mentored generations of younger historians who now teach American history, and continue along the path he has pioneered. He has frequently testified before Congress, was interviewed by television reporters and guided senior-level Government officials in critical events in American history. Ed Bearss became a television celebrity following his appearance to mass television audiences who watched the Ken Burns Civil War Series on PBS, leading to great demand in Bearss-led battlefield history tours. For those many U.S. history adventurers who have experienced his history tours, Ed Bearss'' words and mannerisms leap from the page as we follow him walking Pickett''s Charge at the Gettysburg; track John Wilkes Booth''s escape route after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln; recount George Armstrong Custer''s battlefield defeat by Native Americans whose families he had attacked along the Little Big Horn River; and words describing the WWI American sacrifice at Belleau Wood of U.S. Marine mythology. This book will explain Ed Bearss'' unsurpassed contribution to the making of American history and the strengthening our collective culture.

This book is written for health care professionals to help update knowledge of pediatric cardiology from the Aristotelean heart era and particularly from the past several decades. The current and future shortage of pediatric cardiologists necessitates steady, rejuvenated information on the Aristotelean heart for primary care clinicians as they care for the child as well as adolescent/young adult with cardiovascular dilemmas and disorders. In view of this shortage and the rapidly increasing knowledge in pediatric cardiology as well as understanding indications for referral to pediatric cardiologists in the 21st century, au courant assiduous information aimed at primary care clinicians in these areas becomes increasingly important. Chapters in this book cover cardiologic problems in different pediatric ages from newborns to young adults. We begin with a history of medical knowledge regarding the heart starting when writing began in ancient Mesopotamia to our current understanding that is subject to further change with ongoing insight and research from current as well as future scholars.