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Better living through economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / John J Siegfried -- Overview: Highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R Plott -- Comment / Daniel S Hamermesh -- Comment / Daniel Newlon -- 1: Evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H Tietenberg -- Comment / Wallace E Oates -- 2: Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J Boskin -- Comment / Jerry Hausman -- 3: Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A Moffitt -- Comment / V Joseph Hotz -- 4: Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O Krueger -- Comment / Douglas A Irwin -- 5: Role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M Blank -- Comment / Nancy Folbre -- 6: Better living through monetary economics / John B Taylor -- Comment Laurence H Meyer -- 7: Greatest auction in history / R Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie -- Comment / Jeremy Bulow -- 8: Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E Bailey -- Comment / Nancy L Rose -- 9: Deferred-acceptance algorithms: history, theory, practice / Alvin E Roth -- Comment / Peter Cramton -- 9: Economics, economists, and antitrust: a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J White -- Comment / Kenneth G Elzinga -- 11: Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J Asch, James C Miller III, John T Warner -- Comment / Walter Y Oi -- 12: Public policy and saving for retirement: the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears [and others] -- Comment / Robert J Shiller -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Wireless sensor systems for extreme environments : space, underwater, underground and industrial

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 On Improving Connectivity-based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Connectivity-based Localization in One-hop Networks; 4.2.1 The Centroid Algorithm; 4.2.2 Improved Centroid Algorithms; 4.3 Connectivity-based Localization in Multi-hop Networks; 4.3.1 The DV-hop Algorithm; 4.3.2 Mathematics of Hop-count-based Localization; 4.4 On Improving Connectivity-based Localization; 4.4.1 Improvements by Adjusting Correction Factor; 4.4.2 Improvements by Exploiting Neighborhood Information; 4.5 Summary; References.…”
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Robotics : science and systems IV

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Organizing Committee; Program Committee; Sponsors; Multi-Sensor Lane Finding in Urban Road Networks; Laser and Vision Based Outdoor Object Mapping; Fast Probabilistic Labeling of City Maps; Clustering Sensor Data for Terrain Identification using a Windowless Algorithm; Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles; Controlling Shapes of Ensembles of Robots of Finite Size with Nonholonomic Constraints; Stochastic Recruitment; Prior Data and Kernel Conditional Random Fields for Obstacle Detection; SARSOP…”
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Design studies and intelligence engineering

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- PSIC3839: Predicting the Overall Emotion and Depth of Entire Songs -- Research on Noise Control of Product Symbol Communication Channel-Take a Small Rice Mill for Example -- Towards Better Data Pre-Processing for Building Recipe Recommendation Systems from Industrial Fabric Dyeing Manufacturing Records: Categorization of Coloration Properties for a Dye Combination on Different Fabrics -- A Multi-Robot Planning Algorithm with Quad Tree Map Division for Obstacles of Irregular Shape…”
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Biomedical image understanding : methods and applications

Table of Contents: “…Venkatesh -- Benchmarking lymph node metastasis classification for gastric cancer staging / Su Zhang, Chao Li, Shuheng Zhang, Lifang Pang and Huan Zhang -- The use of knowledge in biomedical image analysis / Florence Cloppet -- Active shape model for contour detection of anatomical structure / Huiqi Li and Qing Nie.…”
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How to measure anything in cybersecurity risk by Hubbard, Douglas W., 1962-, Seiersen, Richard, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…; Supporting the Decision: A Return on Mitigation; Where to Go from Here; Notes; Chapter 4 The Single Most Important Measurement in Cybersecurity; The Analysis Placebo: Why We Can't Trust Opinion Alone; How You Have More Data Than You Think; When Algorithms Beat Experts; Some Research Comparing Experts and Algorithms; Why Does This Happen?…”
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Materials science and processing, environmental engineering and information technologies : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Application of M...

Table of Contents: “…Materials Science and Processing, Environmental Engineering and Information Technologies; Preface and Organizing Committee; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Materials for Mechanical Engineering and Technologies of Materials Processing; Wear Behaviors of PCBN Tools in Interrupted Turning Hardened Steel with Tool's Chamfer Angle and Edge Preparation Considered; Sintering of Frustum Shaped Polycrystalline Diamond Compact at Non-Hydrostatic Pressure; Experimental Research on Fabrication Process of Metal Powder for SLS; Hot Sizing Experiment Study of TC4 Titanium Alloy Bending Plate…”
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Power system dynamics by Guruprasada, Rau V.

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Advanced Research in Materials and Engineering Applications

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Statistical analysis techniques in particle physics : fits, density estimation and supervised learning by Narsky, Ilya, Porter, Frank Clifford

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Limits, Limits Everywhere : the Tools of Mathematical Analysis by Applebaum, David, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Continued Fractions; 9.1 Euclid's Algorithm; 9.2 Rational and Irrational Numbers as Continued Fractions; 10. …”
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Multiple Sclerosis : Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. by Birnbaum, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Long-Term Disease-Modifying Therapies; Issues with Long-Term Immune-Modulating Therapies; Choosing a Disease-Modifying Therapy; Ensuring Treatment Adherence and Compliance; When Do I Initiate Treatment With Disease-Modifying Therapies?…”
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Robust statistics : theory and methods (with R) by Maronna, Ricardo A.

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Microbiological sensors for the drinking water industry

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Decision Intelligence for Dummies by Baker, Pamela

Table of Contents: “…Any road will take you there -- The great rethink when it comes to making decisions at scale -- Applying the Upside-Down V: The Path to the Output and Back Again -- Evaluating Your Inverted V Revelations -- Having Your Inverted V Lightbulb Moment -- Recognizing Why Things Go Wrong -- Aiming for too broad an outcome -- Mimicking data outcomes -- Failing to consider other decision sciences -- Mistaking gut instincts for decision science -- Failing to change the culture -- Part 2 Reaching the Best Possible Decision -- Chapter 5 Shaping a Decision into a Query -- Defining Smart versus Intelligent -- Discovering That Business Intelligence Is Not Decision Intelligence -- Discovering the Value of Context and Nuance -- Defining the Action You Seek -- Setting Up the Decision -- Chapter 6 Mapping a Path Forward -- Putting Data Last -- Recognizing when you can (and should) skip the data entirely -- Leaning on CRISP-DM -- Using the result you seek to identify the data you need -- Digital decisioning and decision intelligence -- Don't store all your data - know when to throw it out -- Adding More Humans to the Equation -- The shift in thinking at the business line level -- How decision intelligence puts executives and ordinary humans back in charge -- Limiting Actions to What Your Company Will Actually Do -- Looking at budgets versus the company will -- Setting company culture against company resources -- Using long-term decisioning to craft short-term returns -- Chapter 7 Your DI Toolbox -- Decision Intelligence Is a Rethink, Not a Data Science Redo -- Taking Stock of What You Already Have -- The tool overview -- Working with BI apps -- Accessing cloud tools -- Taking inventory and finding the gaps -- Adding Other Tools to the Mix -- Decision modeling software -- Business rule management systems -- Machine learning and model stores -- Data platforms.…”
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A Statistical approach to genetic epidemiology : concepts and applications, with an e-Learning Platform. by Ziegler, Andreas, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…; 4.3 HOW SHOULD GENOTYPING ERRORS BE CHECKED IN POPULATION-BASED STUDIES USING THE HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM?; Algorithm 4.1.; Algorithm 4.2.; Algorithm 4.3.; 4.4 HOW CAN GENOTYPING ERRORS BE DETECTED IN HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENOTYPING STUDIES?…”
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Drones and other unmanned weapons systems under international law by Casey-Maslen, Stuart, Homayounnejad, Maziar, Stauffer, Hilary, Weizmann, Nathalie

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The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry by Taylor, David, 1963-, Paton, Carol, Kapur, Shitij

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Creating wicked students : designing courses for a complex world by Hanstedt, Paul, 1965-

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Applied mechanics and industrial technologies : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Manufacturing Technology (AMMT 2012),...

Table of Contents: “…An Assessment of Wet Compression Process in Gas Turbine Systems with an Analytical ModelingAssessment of Hole Quality and Thrust Force when Drilling CFRP/Al Stack Using Carbide Tools; Multi-Objective Optimization of Filament Wound Composite Pressure Vessels Based on Weight and Matrix Cracking/ Burst Pressure Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm; In Situ Laser Build-Up Welding of Shipboard Crankshafts; Stress and Deformation Analysis for Caster Segment Based on ANSYS; Instable Crack Propagation Analysis with PDS-FEM; Reducing the Manufacturing Cost by Using Combination Die.…”
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