Based on the authors’ research, this book introduces the main processing techniques in hyperspectral imaging. In this context, SVM-based classification, distance comparison-based endmember extraction, SVM-based spectral unmixing, spatial attraction model-based sub-pixel mapping and MAP/POCS-based super-resolution reconstruction are discussed in depth. Readers will gain a comprehensive underst…
Informatika Biomedis Pediatrik, Aplikasi Komputer dalam Penelitian Pediatrik. Aplikasi untuk Pediatri: Menggunakan Informatika untuk Memfasilitasi, Mengoptimalkan, dan Mempersonalisasi Perawatan Saya lahir sebelum komputer elektronik ada. Dua alat utama dari tahun-tahun awal pendidikan saya adalah slide rule dan mesin tik. Sama seperti saya muncul dari pelatihan klinis sebagai ahli jantung ped…
This book provides a comprehensive understanding on disaster resilient housing within the Vietnam context particularly and the developing world generally. The book has identified the root causes of housing vulnerability, restrictions to safe housing development, concepts of disaster resilient housing, key issues/factors implementers and building designers need to consider, and ways of achieving…
I wish to thank all institutions and people who contributed to the work for the project and the making of this book. In the first place, I wish to acknowledge the role of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), whose funding made possible a project of this scale. I am grateful also to Springer Verlag for their professional and pleasant cooperation throughout the publication of this volume. I am parti…
Two-armed response-adaptive clinical trials are modelled as Markov decision problems to pursue two overriding objectives: Firstly, to identify the superior treatment at the end of the trial and, secondly, to keep the number of patients receiving the inferior treatment small. Such clinical trial designs are very important, especially for rare diseases. Thomas Ondra presents the main solution tec…
Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the ‘Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age’ conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos’s 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel manage…
Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems including human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and global dynamics. The book also reformulates and unifies ecological equations making them more accessible to the reader and easier to teach.
This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North …
Brazil has become one of today's major producers and net exporters of grains. This was achieved by converting barren land into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing areas. The transformation of Cerrado is one of the crucial factors that enabled …
Di Bagian 1 berikut ini, Melalui Mata yang Lain, saya mengingat masa kecil saya di dunia bebas diikuti oleh pengalaman saya yang kurang sehat di Jepang sebagai mahasiswa selama perang. Pada saat Jepang menyerang Pearl Harbor, saya telah bertemu Katsuma Dan (Katy), dan harapan baru dalam penelitian ilmiah mulai meresap dalam diri saya. Dari Bagian 2, saya menggambarkan hidup saya sebagai ilmuwan…