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Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks (HONNs) significantly change the research methodology that is used in economics and business areas for nonlinear data simulation and prediction. With the important advances in HONNs, it becomes imperative to remain knowledgeable about its benefits and improvements.

Welcometotheproceedingsofthe2004EuropeanConferenceonWebServices(ECOWS 2004).ECOWSisoneoftheleadinginternationalconferencesfocusingonWebservices. ECOWS2004wasaforumforresearchersandpractitionersfromacademiaandindustry to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and de?ne the future directions of Web services computing. ECOWS 2004 had a special interest in pa...

The 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Engineering (ICMAE2016) have been successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd - 24th.The conference received well over more than 200 submissions, however, only 64 articles were selected and recommended to be included in this proceedings, which organized into 4 main areas, namely, Industrial Automation and Control System, Intelligent Mechatronics and Robotics, Mechanical Eng...

Presents researchers, scholars, and practitioners in a variety of settings the research in Web services. This work addresses issues such as: communication applications using Web services, Semantic services computing, discovery, modeling, performance, and enhancements of Web services, and Web services architecture, frameworks, and security.

Pattern Recognition, IEEE Hong Kong Section, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the National Natural S- ence Foundation in China, and Springer-Verlag for sponsoring this conference.

A sequel to Zhang's "Chinese Modernism, "it discusses crucial issues in China in the 1990s including nationalism, neo-liberalism, postmodernism, nostalgia, revisionism and the intellectual formulations and cultural politics.

In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s, " the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping's market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong Kong. Considering developments including the stat...

Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested and urbanised society. Not only the visible queues in traffic jams, airport check in desks and supermarkets, but the more common invisible queues caused by voice calls and data packets in optical and wireless channels. Queues cost us time, money and resources, so what is the solution to our greater demand for servic...

After some time of early experience Web Services are moving themselves from a new highly fragmented technology to a piece of nowadays infrastructures which promise to address various current challenges. These include especially classical issues of integration and data in a heterogeneous environment. The Web Service technology provides an open and technology-agnostic interface, and furthermore propels new usage paradigms in distributed computin...

There are not many books available that present multiple solutions for each problem, as Zhang elegantly does here. I discovered new points, examples, and mathematical treatments not found in the low-temperature geochemistry literature or related textbooks. It was a real pleasure to read this book."--Martial Taillefert, Georgia Institute of Technology"The contents of "Geochemical Kinetics" are well-balanced among various topics important to a b...

In wireless sensor network, nodes are powered by battery with limited energy, it becomes critically important to improve the energy efficiency in routing in order to prolong the system lifetime. We propose a new model for energy utilization in wireless sensor networks by considering the tradeoff between increasing transmission radius and retransmission to maintain a high level of successful packet reception rate and let the system have shorter...

This edited volume focuses on the adoption of run-time models for the design and management of autonomic systems. Traditionally, performance models have a central role in the design of computer systems. Models are used at design-time to support the capacity planning of the physical infrastructure and to analyze the effects and trade-offs of different architectural choices. Models may also be used at run-time to assess the compliance of the run...

Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) or field activated sintering technique (FAST) is an unconventional and novel powder consolidation process via simultaneous application of special pulsed current and mechanical pressure. SPS or FAST has demonstrated its benefits as a rapid processing avenue, with application to the largest variety of materials - ceramics, metals, polymers, semiconductors - and which results in enhanced final properties. This work co...

Sufficient clean water supply is a prerequisite for sustainable development. However, water shortage is the most worrying problem under modern development pressure. The watershed is the natural water resource unit, and scientific watershed management is needed to protect and improve water resources. A watershed is an integration of all kinds of biophysical and social economical factors. Its management requires systematic tools to assist decisi...

Server scalability can be greatly enhanced with hybrid data dissemination that combines multicast and unicast techniques. Multicast is ideal for popular data. It aggregates multiple unicast data transfers into a single transmission and is thus more scalable than unicast. On the other hand, multicast is inappropriate for unpopular data since it would force unwanted contents on most clients. As a result, hybrid data dissemination would ideally a...

In this study, an immortalized dopaminergic cell line was used to characterize the cell death signaling cascade activated by cyanide. Cyanide activated the HIF-1a-mediated pathway of BNIP3 induction through a redox-sensitive process. Increased BNIP3 expression then served as an initiator of mitochondria-mediated death. In mice, repeated exposure to a sublethal dose of cyanide resulted in an increase of BNIP3 expression in midbrain, which was a...

A Child Psychiatrist's personal view of the human psyche and of the world at large. Cases range from simple childhood toilet and sleep problems to anorexia nervosa, abuse and psychosis and are seen through this specialist's eyes. There are also cases of "entrepreneurs" in the making, cases of family tragedy and cases that turn out not to be psychiatric at all. The material should be of interest to health care practitioners and the general publ...

In recent years there has been a significant increase of interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models, or contract theory, and their applications. Continuous-time models provide a powerful and elegant framework for solving stochastic optimization problems of finding the optimal contracts between two parties, under various assumptions on the information they have access to, and the effect they have on the underlying "profit/loss" values. ...

Environmental changes require a paradigm shift at manufacturing priority and management mindset. Flexible and agile manufacturing have emerged as the new paradigm for the 21st century. Thus, value chain flexibility becomes critically important for a firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantages. This book clarifies the concept of flexibility and its dimensions. Flexibility is the ability to meet a variety of customer needs without excessi...

Here is a thorough introduction to the history of FRBR and its possible benefits, a detailed description of the FRBR model and its components, and a discussion of its practical influence in transforming description standards, cataloging, and metadata practices. The book includes examples of how professionals are successfully applying FRBR in real-life library settings and explores various methods for effectively inplementing the FRBR model. Ea...