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Presents a wide swath of biomedical image reconstruction algorithms under a single framework. The book offers a brief survey of six decades of research. The underpinning theory of the techniques are described and practical considerations for designing reconstruction algorithms for use in biomedical systems form the central theme of each chapter.

Provides a comprehensive survey of intelligent tools for analysis and design that take fundamental steps towards achieving resilient operation in Cyber-Physical Systems. The authors investigate the challenges of achieving reliable control and estimation over networks, particularly in the face of uncertainty and resource constraints.

Reviews several recent compressed sensing advancements in wireless networks with the aim of improving the quality of signal reconstruction or detection while reducing the use of energy, radio, and computation resources.

Explores the operations management (OM) literature in national culture and organisational culture and points the way for increasing the breadth of the OM field by incorporating this perspective. In addition to being a guide for research, this monograph provides substantive examples for teaching the importance of culture in OM.

Presents and integrates various cutting-edge theoretical frameworks and methodologies from the operations management and organisational research literatures to use diverse methodologies in order to help organisations excel in reliability, performance, and innovation.

Presents an introduction to the framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs) that provides a principled method for jointly learning deep latent-variable models and corresponding inference models using stochastic gradient descent.

Provides an introductory history of the rise of sovereign wealth, from its early precursors in the United States to the large and more recently created funds of natural resource-rich countries. The book also provides a discussion of how sovereign wealth funds have been defined by both observers and the funds themselves.

Reviews research on investment funding to extract and classify the factors that have traditionally impacted investment decisions, and to identify emerging investment issues. The result is a set of six factors, each of which has multiple dimensions and characteristics that are described.

Evaluates the net social benefits of advanced encryption standards. This is one of many areas where the National Institute for Standards and Technology has promoted innovation and industrial competitiveness to ensure that public and private computer systems can protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of digital information.

Provides an introduction to the field of higher-order Fourier analysis with an emphasis on its applications to theoretical computer science. Higher-order Fourier analysis is an extension of the classical Fourier analysis.

Covers the timeline and research literature concerning proof development for program verification, including theories, languages, and tools. The book emphasizes challenges and breakthroughs at each stage in history and highlights challenges that are currently present due to the increasing scale of proof developments.

Technology has played a crucial part in supporting and enriching food-related practices, beginning from how we grow, to how we cook, eat and dispose of food. This book provides an overview of the existing research in this space and a guide to further its exploration.

Provides a detailed guide to the mathematical theory and computer algorithms for line drawing of 3D objects. The book focuses on the curves known as contours as they are the most important curves for line drawing of 3D surfaces. The authors describe the different algorithms required to compute and render these curves.

In this concise history of the early years of information retrieval, Donna Harman, one of the pioneers of the field, provides the reader with a plethora of insights into the important work that led us to where we are today. Written in a chronological order, this book lays out how each contribution built on what went before.

Explores the continuing contribution of MIT alumni to innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States and worldwide. This update is particularly salient given the burgeoning interest in the role of universities in economic growth and the fact that students who graduated between 2004 and 2014 faced a more difficult economic climate.

Presents an overview of the main theoretical insights that support the practical effectiveness of OT before explaining how to turn these insights into fast computational schemes. This book will be a valuable reference for researchers and students wishing to get a thorough understanding of computational optimal transport.

Reviews the literature on value creation in buyout investments and proposes an overall framework for mapping the heterogeneous opportunities to create value. Based on this literature review, the authors identify seven distinct value creation drivers: financial, operational, strategic, governance, cultural, commercial, and institutional.

Provides an overview of bandit algorithms inspired by various aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), such as click models, online ranker evaluation, personalization or the cold-start problem. Using a survey style, each chapter focuses on a specific IR problem and explains how it was addressed with various bandit approaches.

Provides a structured overview of costing system research to explain the co-existence of different costing practices. This body of research has come to prescriptive conclusions, which will of be valuable and insightful to practitioners designing costing systems and managers using reported cost data.

A guide to help readers find their way through existing Consumer Culture Theory literature, the most current conceptual and methodological developments, managerial implications, and potential avenues of future importance.

Explores how consumers think about and respond to risk through their consumption behaviours. The authors extend prior reviews through an explicit discussion of the philosophical foundations of risk communication and management and the implications of specific foundations for communication and policy decisions.

Offers a comprehensive understanding of the construct'entrepreneurial team' by focusing on its definition and characteristics. The book depicts team evolution phases, from inception to maturity, linking these to firm performance by using a process approach (i.e., Input-Process-Outcome).

Describes the economic rationales, policy elements, implementation mechanisms, and expected economic impacts of 'technology-based economic development' (TBED) strategies that are being pursued in almost all 50 states within the U.S. economy.

Reviews the two promises of Gender Balance Law - the promise of greater gender equality in leadership positions in private companies and the promise of improved firm performance. This review is based on the academic literature together with long-term descriptive statistics before and after the regulation.

Presents the state-of-the-art in research thought leadership in supply chain finance and risk management, and contains great expository pieces on how advanced technologies are shaping supply chains and risk management within them. How supply chain finance and risk management can be best taught in classrooms is also covered.

Offers the first survey of neural approaches to conversational AI that targets Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval audiences. The book provides a csurvey of the neural approaches to conversational AI that have been developed, covering QA, task-oriented and social bots with a unified view of optimal decision making.