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State of the Art in Ethiopian Church Forests and Restoration Options
by Thomas Schneider Demel Teketay Mengistie Kindu Alemayehu Wassie Mulugeta Lemenih Thomas KnokeThis book, with contributions from leading academics - and including reviews and case studies from Ethiopian Church forests - provides a valuable reference for advanced students and researchers interested in forest and other natural resource management, ecology and ecosystem services as well as restoration options. The book addresses various aspects including a general overview of Ethiopian church forests, the present role and future challenges of church forests. It also discusses their structure and diversity in the context of sustainability and discusses restoration options for surrounding landscapes, under consideration of the circumstances of the land and the needs of surrounding communities. The intended readership includes natural resource professionals in general as well as forestry professionals in particular (practitioners, policymakers, educators and researchers). The book will provide the reader with a good foundation for understanding Ethiopian forest resources and restoration options of degraded landscape.
The State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection
by Al-Sakib Khan PathanThe State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection analyzes the latest trends and issues surrounding intrusion detection systems in computer networks, especially in communications networks. Its broad scope of coverage includes wired, wireless, and mobile networks; next-generation converged networks; and intrusion in social networks.Presenti
State of the Computer Book Market 2011
by Mike HendricksonThis annual report examines the key trends and developments -- most notably, the demise of Borders -- that shaped the 2011 computer book market.
The State of Us: The good news and the bad news about our society
by Jon Snow'A fascinating call to arms full of insight' IndependentAfter four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad newsIt is rare in history that so many nations in the developed world are in crisis at the same time. There has been a disintegration of trust in political leaders and in the media that holds them to account. For all the progress humankind has made, for all the inventions and new technologies, our society is being undermined by inequality. To fix it, we must begin by seeking out the truth about our world.In The State of Us, Jon Snow traces how the life of the nation has changed across his five-decade career, from getting thrown out of university for protesting apartheid to interviewing every prime minister since Margaret Thatcher.In doing so, he shows how the greatest problems at home and abroad so often come down to inequality and an unwillingness to confront it. But that is not our fate. Despite the challenges, Snow has witnessed profound social progress. In this passionate rallying cry, he argues that at its best, journalism reflects not just who we are now, but who we can be.We've had enough of division; the future is for us.
State, Society and Information Technology in Asia: Alterity Between Online and Offline Politics
by Alan Chong Faizal Bin YahyaMany maintain that the arrival of computers networked across sovereign borders and physical barriers is a liberating force that will produce a global dialogue of liberal hues but this book argues that this dominant paradigm needs to be supplemented by the perspective of alterity in the impact of Information Technology in different regions. Local experts draw upon a range of Asian cases to demonstrate how alterity, defined here as a condition of privileging the hitherto marginal and subterranean aspects of a capitalist world order through the capabilities of information and communications technologies, offers an alternative to the paradigm of inevitable material advances and political liberalization. Calling attention to the unique social and political uses being made of IT in Asia in the service of offline and online causes predominantly filtered by pre-existing social milieus the contributors examine the multiple dimensions of Asian differences in the sociology and politics of IT and show how present trends suggest that advanced electronic media will not necessarily be embraced in a smooth, unilinear fashion throughout Asia. This book will appeal to any reader interested in the nexus between society and IT in Asia.
State Space Grids
by Tom HollensteinHuman development from birth through adulthood is a complex interplay of many interacting forces. Children's internal processes are manifest in behaviors that are sculpted by their experiences, most notably with primary caregivers. Because the discipline of psychology explores human behavior and cognition, the techniques employed for developmental analysis must be able to describe, depict, and quantify these complex processes. State Space Grids provides the framework, basic method, rationale, and advanced techniques for translating the behavior of children, adolescents, and parents into visible, traceable data. This seminar-between-covers takes readers step by step from conceptualization through implementation of projects, with examples from a range of current research within and outside child development. Links are included for the GridWare software program and related user resources. And although state space grids need not be used only to analyze dynamic systems, they serve as an excellent tool for honing systemic thinking. Key coverage in this volume includes: Dynamic systems and the origins of state space grids. The state of research using state space grids. Introducing GridWare and how it works. How to use state space grids, from idea through finished project. Within-grid and between-grid analysis. Conducting advanced analysis. State Space Grids is an essential reference for researchers across such disciplines as psychology, neuroscience, economics, computer science, and agricultural science.
State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Martin Echeverría, Sara García Santamaría and Daniel C. HallinThis book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicians.With an international team of expert authors, this volume meticulously scrutinises instances of State-sponsored disinformation across a diverse spectrum of 14 countries encompassing Western and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It examines how political landscapes amplify or constrain disinformation, advancing a comprehensive understanding of its dynamics in the contemporary global milieu. The book is organised in three sections that gather case studies from democratic, non-democratic, and transitional regimes.Advancing the field of misinformation and disinformation studies by specialising in State-sponsored operations and their consequences, this book will be an essential volume for scholars and upper-level students of media and communication studies, journalism, political communication, disinformation and misinformation, social media, sociology, and international politics.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
Statebuilding Missions and Media Development: A Context-Sensitive Approach (Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding)
by Kerstin TomiakThis book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South, and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development. The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has in, and on, a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews, observations and social surveys, it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries, from the population’s point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented, which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study, it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore, the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, media studies, development studies and international relations in general.
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back
by Amy Goodman David GoodmanFrom the publisher (Hyperion): In Static, the brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of the popular international TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman once again take on government liars, corporate profiteers, and the media that has acted as their megaphone. They expose how the Bush administration has manipulated and fabricated news and how the corporate media has worked hand in glove with the powerful to deceive the public. The Goodmans cut through the spin and static to offer the truth about war, torture, and government control of the media. Mixing investigative reporting and interviews, Static presents voices of dissidents, activists, and others who are too often frozen out of official debate, to shed new light on urgent issues of war and peace. Ultimately, Static is a hopeful, fighting rallying call for people to take back our government, our media,and our world.
Static Analysis
by Sandrine Blazy Thomas JensenThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2015, held in Saint-Malo, France, in September 2015. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. All fields of static analysis as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance are addressed, featuring theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area
Static Analysis: 26th International Symposium, SAS 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 8–11, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11822)
by Bor-Yuh Evan ChangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. The 20 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on pointers and dataflow; languages and decidability; numerical; trends: assuring machine learning; synthesis and security; and temporal properties and termination.
Static Analysis: 28th International Symposium, SAS 2021, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17–19, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12913)
by Cezara Drăgoi Suvam Mukherjee Kedar NamjoshiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2021, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in October 2021.The 18 regular and 4 short papers, carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions, are presented in this book together with 1-page summaries of the three invited talks. The papers cover topics such as static program analysis, abstract domain, abstract interpretation, automated deduction, debugging techniques, deductive methods, model checking, data science, program optimizations and transformations, program synthesis, program verification, and security analysis.
Static Analysis: 31st International Symposium, SAS 2024, Pasadena, CA, USA, October 20–22, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14995)
by Roberto Giacobazzi Alessandra GorlaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2024, held in Pasadena, CA, USA, in October 2024. Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The papers presented in this book deal with theoretical, practical and application advances in this area. The 18 papers included here were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.
Static Analysis: 30th International Symposium, SAS 2023, Cascais, Portugal, October 22–24, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14284)
by Manuel V. Hermenegildo José F. MoralesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2023. The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The papers deal with theoretical, practical and application advances in the area.
Static Analysis: 27th International Symposium, SAS 2020, Virtual Event, November 18–20, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12389)
by David Pichardie Mihaela SighireanuThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2020, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in November 2020.The 14 regular papers presented in this book together with 2 invited talks and 1 extended abstract, were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers cover topics such as abstract domains; abstract interpretation; automated deduction; data flow analysis; debugging; deductive methods; emerging applications; model-checking; program transformations; predicate abstraction; security analysis; tool environments and architectures; and type checking. Due to the Corona pandemic this event was held virtually.
Static Analysis: 25th International Symposium, Sas 2018, Freiburg, Germany, August 29 - August 31, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11002)
by Andreas PodelskiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2018, held in Freiburg, Germany, in August 2018.The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary topics in abstract domains: program verication, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance.
Static Analysis
by Xavier RivalThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016. The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary topics in abstract domains; abstract interpretation; abstract testing; bug detection; data flow analysis; model checking; new applications; program transformation; program verification; security analysis; theoretical frameworks; and type checking.
Static Analysis of Software: The Abstract Interpretation (Wiley-iste Ser.)
by Jean-Louis BoulangerThe existing literature currently available to students and researchers is very general, covering only the formal techniques of static analysis. This book presents real examples of the formal techniques called "abstract interpretation" currently being used in various industrial fields: railway, aeronautics, space, automotive, etc. The purpose of this book is to present students and researchers, in a single book, with the wealth of experience of people who are intrinsically involved in the realization and evaluation of software-based safety critical systems. As the authors are people currently working within the industry, the usual problems of confidentiality, which can occur with other books, is not an issue and so makes it possible to supply new useful information (photos, architectural plans, real examples).
Static and Dynamic Buckling of Thin-Walled Plate Structures
by Tomasz KubiakThis monograph deals with buckling and postbuckling behavior of thin plates and thin-walled structures with flat wall subjected to static and dynamic load. The investigations are carried out in elastic range. The basic assumption here is the thin plate theory. This method is used to determination the buckling load and postbuckling analysis of thin-walled structures subjected to static and dynamic load. The book introduces two methods for static and dynamic buckling investigation which allow for a wider understanding of the phenomenon. Two different methods also can allow uncoupling of the phenomena occurring at the same time and attempt to estimate their impact on the final result. A general mathematical model, adopted in proposed analytical-numerical method, enables the consideration of all types of stability loss i.e.local, global and interactive forms of buckling. The applied numerical-numerical method includes adjacent of walls, shear-lag phenomenon and a deplanation of cross-sections.
Statics and Dynamics of Weakly Coupled Antiferromagnetic Spin-1/2 Ladders in a Magnetic Field
by Pierre BouillotThis thesis shows how a combination of analytic and numerical techniques, such as a time dependent and finite temperature Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) technique, can be used to obtain the physical properties of low dimensional quantum magnets with an unprecedented level of accuracy. A comparison between the theory and experiment then enables these systems to be used as quantum simulators; for example, to test various generic properties of low dimensional systems such as Luttinger liquid physics, the paradigm of one dimensional interacting quantum systems. Application of these techniques to a material made of weakly coupled ladders (BPCB) allowed the first quantitative test of Luttinger liquids. In addition, other physical quantities (magnetization, specific heat etc.), and more remarkably the spins-spin correlations - directly measurable in neutron scattering experiments - were in excellent agreement with the observed quantities. We thus now have tools to quantitatiively assess the dynamics for this class of quantum systems.
Statics and Rotational Dynamics of Composite Beams
by Mehrdaad GhorashiThis book presents a comprehensive study of the nonlinear statics and dynamics of composite beams and consists of solutions with and without active elements embedded in the beams. The static solution provides the initial conditions for the dynamic analysis. The dynamic problems considered include the analyses of clamped (hingeless) and articulated (hinged) accelerating rotating beams. Two independent numerical solutions for the steady state and the transient responses are presented. The author illustrates that the transient solution of the nonlinear formulation of accelerating rotating beam converges to the steady state solution obtained by the shooting method. Other key areas considered include calculation of the effect of perturbing the steady state solution, coupled nonlinear flap-lag dynamics of a rotating articulated beam with hinge offset and aerodynamic damping, and static and dynamic responses of nonlinear composite beams with embedded anisotropic piezo-composite actuators. The book is intended as a thorough study of nonlinear elasticity of slender beams and is targeted to researchers, graduate students, and practicing engineers in the fields of structural dynamics, aerospace structures, and mechanical engineering.
The Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform and its Applications for ECG and Speech Processing (Signals and Communication Technology)
by Talbi MouradThis book first details a proposed Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform (SBWT) for use in speech processing. The author then details the proposed techniques based on SBWT. These techniques are relevant to speech enhancement, speech recognition, and ECG de-noising. The techniques are then evaluated by comparing them to a number of methods existing in literature. For evaluating the proposed techniques, results are applied to different speech and ECG signals and their performances are justified from the results obtained from using objective criterion such as SNR, SSNR, PSNR, PESQ , MAE, MSE and more.
Statistical Analysis and Data Display
by Richard M. Heiberger Burt HollandThis contemporary presentation of statistical methods features extensive use of graphical displays for exploring data and for displaying the analysis. The authors demonstrate how to analyze data--showing code, graphics, and accompanying tabular listings--for all the methods they cover. They emphasize how to construct and interpret graphs. They discuss principles of graphical design. They identify situations where visual impressions from graphs may need confirmation from traditional tabular results. All chapters have exercises. The authors provide and discuss R functions for all the new graphical display formats. All graphs and tabular output in the book were constructed using these functions. Complete R scripts for all examples and figures are provided for readers to use as models for their own analyses. This book can serve as a standalone text for statistics majors at the master's level and for other quantitatively oriented disciplines at the doctoral level, and as a reference book for researchers. In-depth discussions of regression analysis, analysis of variance, and design of experiments are followed by introductions to analysis of discrete bivariate data, nonparametrics, logistic regression, and ARIMA time series modeling. The authors illustrate classical concepts and techniques with a variety of case studies using both newer graphical tools and traditional tabular displays. The Second Edition features graphs that are completely redrawn using the more powerful graphics infrastructure provided by R's lattice package. There are new sections in several of the chapters, revised sections in all chapters and several completely new appendices. New graphical material includes: * an expanded chapter on graphics * a section on graphing Likert Scale Data to build on the importance of rating scales in fields from population studies to psychometrics * a discussion on design of graphics that will work for readers with color-deficient vision * an expanded discussion on the design of multi-panel graphics * expanded and new sections in the discrete bivariate statistics capter on the use of mosaic plots for contingency tables including the n×2×2 tables for which the Mantel-Haenszel-Cochran test is appropriate * an interactive (using the shiny package) presentation of the graphics for the normal and t-tables that is introduced early and used in many chapters The new appendices include discussions of R, the HH package designed for R (the material in the HH package was distributed as a set of standalone functions with the First Edition of this book), the R Commander package, the RExcel system, the shiny package, and a minimal discussion on writing R packages. There is a new appendix on computational precision illustrating and explaining the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about the differences between the familiar real number system and the less-familiar floating point system used in computers. The probability distributions appendix has been expanded to include more distributions (all the distributions in base R) and to include graphs of each. The editing appendix from the First Edition has been split into four expanded appendices--on working style, writing style, use of a powerful editor, and use of LaTeX for document preparation.
Statistical Analysis for High-Dimensional Data
by Arnoldo Frigessi Peter Bühlmann Ingrid K. Glad Mette Langaas Sylvia Richardson Marina VannucciThis book features research contributions fromThe Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held inNyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014. The focus of the symposium was on statisticaland machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in "bigdata" situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. Thecontributors, who are among the most prominent researchers on the theory ofstatistics for high dimensional inference, present new theories and methods, aswell as challenging applications and computational solutions. Specific themesinclude, among others, variable selection and screening, penalised regression,sparsity, thresholding, low dimensional structures, computational challenges,non-convex situations, learning graphical models, sparse covariance andprecision matrices, semi- and non-parametric formulations, multiple testing,classification, factor models, clustering, and preselection. Highlighting cutting-edge researchand casting light on future research directions, the contributions will benefitgraduate students and researchers in computational biology, statistics and themachine learning community.
Statistical Analysis of Clinical Data on a Pocket Calculator
by Aeilko H. Zwinderman Ton J. CleophasThe core principles of statistical analysis are too easily forgotten in today's world of powerful computers and time-saving algorithms. This step-by-step primer takes researchers who lack the confidence to conduct their own analyses right back to basics, allowing them to scrutinize their own data through a series of rapidly executed reckonings on a simple pocket calculator. A range of easily navigable tutorials facilitate the reader's assimilation of the techniques, while a separate chapter on next generation Flash prepares them for future developments in the field. This practical volume also contains tips on how to deny hackers access to Flash internet sites. An ideal companion to the author's co-authored works on statistical analysis for Springer such as Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials, this monograph will help researchers understand the processes involved in interpreting clinical data, as well as being a necessary prerequisite to mastering more advanced statistical techniques. The principles of statistical analysis are easily forgotten in today's world of time-saving algorithms. This step-by-step primer takes researchers back to basics, enabling them to examine their own data through a series of sums on a simple pocket calculator.