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This book is a comprehensive introduction to stochastic control problems in both discrete and continuous time. It covers stochastic dynamic programming and the optimal stopping problem for discrete time with a finite or infinite horizon.

This book offers a detailed account of IBM's Deep Blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.

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This volume continues the theme established in Volume 1 of providing a con spectus of the current state of knowledge on topics of active nutritional re search.

The field of Digital Signal Processing has developed so fast in the last two decades that it can be found in the graduate and undergraduate programs of most universities. If accurate information of the signals to be processed is available, the designer can easily choose the most appropriate algorithm to process the signal.

This book introduces the elementary computational techniques of optimal control in aerospace engineering. Throughout, use is made of the time-optimal launch of a satellite into orbit as an important case study. Includes problems and an online solution manual.

This book covers the spectrum of pediatric pathology with particular reference to those conditions that may be identified at autopsy. It details cutting-edge methods that demonstrate great care in technique and dissection.

This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. It covers techniques developed in the petroleum industry and explains these techniques at a fundamental level.

This book illustrates the majority of diseases pathologists, clinicians and oncologists are likely to encounter in practice. It includes macroscopic images of disorders as well as tables that help readers understand and comprehend diseases that look alike.

This book presents the peridynamic theory, which provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, and paves the way for addressing multi-physics and multi-scale problems.

This book offers a systematic overview of the research on accounting-based valuation, focusing on recent theoretical developments and the resulting empirical analyses that recognize the role of accounting information in making managerial decisions.

Presented in this new, full-color edition, with the first polychrome phase diagrams to be published, this geoscientific atlas is backed by the author's unrivalled dataset, and amounts to the most complete survey yet of phase relations in Earth's chemistry.

Contents 11. Summary . . . Making Sense of the Issues . . Introduction . . . . Science and Matters of Society . Summary . Tying It All Together . . . . Introduction . . . . Critical Systems Thinking 253 11. Conclusion 254 Questions . . . 255 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A discussion of the role of modeling in the management process, with an overview of state-of-the-art modeling applications.

This book examines such elements of family structure as father-mother, father-children, mother-children relationships, and relationships between offspring of different mothers. Explores the role of Islam, and the social and economic consequences of polygamy.

This book explores in detail the "extensions" of rings and modules. It covers mathematical interdiscipllinary applications throughout and features exercises and open problems.

This book offers a manual and reference guide on such issues as excavation techniques, ethical issues in handling of human remains including NAGPRA compliance, lab and forensic techniques, field and taphonomic clues and more. Includes a range of field studies.

This book explores quantum walks, which are important in building quantum algorithms. Coverage includes Grover's algorithm; Analytical solutions of quantum walks using Fourier transforms; Quantum walks on generic graphs; Spatial search algorithms and more.

The Atlas describes and illustrates normal and pathologic conditions afflicting human bone, focusing on tumor and tumor-like conditions and their non-neoplastic mimics. Its high quality digital images are suplemented with radiographic and special study images.

Designed to help teach genetics with greater ease and less anxiety, this book includes a comprehensive, interactive learning program developed at at the University of Chicago and Purdue University, that focuses on chromosome simulation and model building.

In its expanded new edition, this book covers boundary layers, multiple scales, homogenisation, slender body theory, symbolic computing, discrete equations and more. Includes exercises derived from current research, drawn from a range of application areas.

Updated to include the latest computational methods, this second edition explains how to use the 'gss' R package and features expanded empirical studies, a reorganized content, and a further new appendix analyzing new and controversial topics in smoothing.

Focusing on the architecture and implementation of algorithms, this volume presents real-time and causal processing implementation, as well as architectures of FPGA design and parallel processing. Readers will find coverage of applications to both imaging and medical imaging.

This book provides a balanced, modern introduction to Bayesian and frequentist methods for regression analysis. The author discusses Frequentist and Bayesian Inferences; Linear Models; Binary Data Models; General Regression Models and Survival Models.

Combining original research with the findings of an interdisciplinary, defense-oriented workshop, this book explores the role of nanotechnology and emerging science on national defense and homeland security. The book seeks to inform the international debate.

The first single-source reference to all the major features of LEAP tomography, this volume includes a wealth of practical tips and covers all four core aspects of a LEAP tomography experiment from start to finish, as well as the software methods employed.

Pell and Pell-Lucas numbers, like the well-known Fibonacci and Catalan numbers, continue to intrigue the mathematical world with their beauty and applicability.

Statistical Decision Problems presents a quick and concise introduction into the theory of risk, deviation and error measures that play a key role in statistical decision problems.

This book gathers important material from floating-point arithmetic, polynomials, series, interpolation, the discrete Fourier transform, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solutions of ODEs, BVPs, DDEs, and PDEs, and optimization.

This book explores strategies on feedback, presenting theoretical analysis and practical algorithms for feedback information required at base stations in order to perform adaptive resource algorithms efficiently and mitigate interference from other cells.