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After presenting a new mathematical proof, this study describes how system identification--a powerful technique for constructing accurate models of complex systems--can be used to evaluate noisy measurements. The discussion goes on to show how noisy data can be manipulated by researchers working on projects in physical interpretation, simulation, prediction, estimation, and control.

This reference on dental and facial procedures describes a clever digital combination of two successive images that may provide much more information than the naked eye can obtain from both images separately. Using mutual information (MI) alignment/registration criteria, the discussion covers a wide variety of clinical applications for which this technology is helpful.

By focusing on the lived experiences of criminology researchers and giving voice to their difficulties, struggles, frustrations, and the challenges they meet during their research, this book places the researcher in the centre of the attention, providing a unique perspective to the classical handbook in research methods. These tales of the field witnesses relate the hidden difficulties and pitfalls of doing research and discuss often-neglected...

A collection of scientific and sector-oriented contributions by experts in the field of inland navigation, this reference covers topics on the ramifications of possible strategic and economic advancements through the year 2030. The future challenges for inland navigation presented in this book take into account market functioning, technologies, and investments in inland navigation from a viewpoint of sustainability in its three facets: economi...

This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.The BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org) digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Samuel Beckett¿s wor...

The potential membership of Turkey to the European Union (EU) carries significant challenges for EU policymaking and integration, and this volume brings together academics from several disciplines, including international relations, economics, sociology, and public administration, to present a holistic picture of the economic dimension of the accession process.

In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty became effective within the European Union, substantially changing the existing institution through its amendments, and this book investigates how the rotating presidency is affected by the Lisbon Treaty and how the Belgian presidency—the first under the new rule book—has implemented changes for the 21st century.

As the geopolitical point of gravity moves to the east, the European Union (EU) faces the challenge of ongoing global power shifts, and this study addresses the options, opportunities, and obstacles that lie ahead as the EU becomes a security actor in Asia and Africa. Contributors address a number of key issues, including the EU's soft power, overall strategic planning, European interests in Asia, and the role of Russia in Asia's security clim...

A collection of peer-reviewed articles and contributions to books, this overview of the finance of health insurance concentrates on developing countries. The material covers various financing strategies and explains how each can - or cannot - help improve the transition toward universal coverage. The model plans shown here are particularly useful for policy-makers and technical advisers who have to decide upon health financing policies.

Introducing a new approach to multiagent reinforcement learning and distributed artificial intelligence, this guide shows how classical game theory can be used to compose basic learning units. This approach to creating agents has the advantage of leading to powerful, yet intuitively simple, algorithms that can be analyzed. The setup is demonstrated here in a number of different settings, with a detailed analysis of agent learning behaviors pro...

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An unexpectedly fresh look at the world of the Enlightenment and the science of the 18th century, this fascinating book introduces Jan IngenHousz, the little-known discoverer of photosynthesis. Written for a general audience, the story provides a view into everyday life in the decades before and after the French revolution--even as it pursues the mysteries surrounding this important scientist's life and work. The result is a multidimensional a...

Examines two-years-worth of workshops and seminars and presents border-crossing perspectives on water technologies, challenges, and governance from Brussels and beyond. Featuring contributions by the World Health Organization and the World Toilet Organization as well as by scientists, architects, and artists, this book's goal is to offer a holistic, future-oriented vision on sustainable policy in general and water policy in particular.

Examines the wide range of security threats confronting Europe, both new and traditional. It provides theory and empirical case detail on several primary issues while offering up-to-date research on the development of European border control. Considering also the correlation between migration and economic, health, and military conditions, it discusses the insecurity of certain destination countries—which can lead to the exploitation of migrants.

In poor countries, access to affordable health care goes beyond the provision of cheap medicines and vaccines, it impinges on available health practitioners, the needed infrastructure, a forward-looking research strategy, and the understanding that no one should be deprived of medical attention. This considers such provisions and how policies and rules can be adapted at the national, regional, and international levels to meet the needs of pati...

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A comprehensive analysis of the European Union's foreign policy over 40 years, this study describes how multilateralism has been used in the fields of peace, security, and military crisis management. Relying on detailed case studies, this new research looks at interventions in Macedonia, the Balkans, the Congo, and Chad—and assesses the EU's cooperation with NATO and the UN during these emergencies.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to aspects of human rights and integration within the European Union as well as crucial insights as to the current state of affairs in Europe as policy makers reflect on the current direction of initiatives to combat Romani exclusion.

Situational crime prevention is probably the most widespread model of crime prevention across late modern Europe, but it is also a highly debated one. How about alternative models of crime prevention? During the 1990s social crime prevention—aiming at addressing the root causes of crime—was an important concept in crime prevention discourse, policy and professional practice in many Western European countries. Does this hold true for the first ...

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