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This comprehensive, richly illustrated review of the Characean experimental system for modeling higher plant physiology details the relevant morphology, taxonomy, and ecology, describes key processes in Characeae plants, and summarizes key research findings.

Inter-firm collaboration has become increasingly important in the globaleconomy, as firms now rely on collaborations to access new resources, new technologies, skills, the latest market information, new markets and knowledge, to accelerate innovation, to reduce costs, and to overcome government policy barriers.

This full-spectrum graduate textbook starts with a tutorial on brain learning and the key soft computing techniques. It focuses on object extraction, image segmentation and edge detection, with extensive real-life applications in multimedia data processing.

Authored by the developer of dressed photon science and technology as well as nanophotonics, this book outlines concepts of the subject using a novel theoretical framework that differs from conventional wave optics.

Dr Peng He in her book addresses various issues, drawing on Western and Chinese sources for her argument for a 'communicative' theory of law making. It is grounded in a sound theoretical reflection of both the process of legal transplantation and the process of law making, and looks both at Western and Chinese sources.

This book offers a step-by-step-introduction into Web Dynpro ABAP. It details how to design a Web Dynpro component, data binding and interface methods and view controller methods. Each chapter includes practical examples.

Set-valued optimization is a vibrant and expanding branch of mathematics that deals with optimization problems where the objective map and/or the constraints maps are set-valued maps acting between certain spaces.

This book illustrates recent bio-inspired efficient algorithms for solving NP-hard problems. Discusses theoretical bio-inspired concepts and models, in particular for agents, ants and virtual robots, variations of the Traveling Salesman Problem and more.

This book is devoted to a novel approach for dimensionality reduction based on the famous nearest neighbor method that is a powerful classification and regression approach.

Ideal as a reference both for experienced users and novices, this publication combines a thorough introduction to evolutionary computation with details of its application to real-world problems and advice on tackling a wealth of issues in its implementation.

This book presents state of the art knowledge on new techniques and materials that can improve functional and aesthetic results in wound healing while reducing invasiveness, based on the author's extensive personal experience.

This work addresses time-delay in complex nonlinear systems and its applications in complex networks as well as investigates its role in control theory and nonlinear optics. It offers fundamental insights into the interplay of delay and synchronization.

This thesis provides novel insights into protein folding by considering the problem from the point of view of statistical mechanics. It presents the first physically motivated quantitative description of the protein folding/unfolding transition.

This book reviews several emerging intelligent technologies that are boosting innovation in several industries. The contents explore modern intelligent tools, algorithms and architectures which have the potential to solve real problems in the industrial realm.

As the first book on phases and domain states in ferroelectric solid solutions, this volume goes beyond its basic treatment of the subject to offer practical applications, dealing with perovskite-type ferroelectric solid solutions for modern materials science.

Image segmentation is used in a wide range of useful applications such as remote sensing, medicine, robotics, database search, and security. The text provides an overview of level set methods for image and image sequence segmentation.

Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems presents a control-algorithm-based model that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups, or robot swarms. Readers will find an extensive look into the interdisciplinary research field of swarm robotics.

This ground-breaking analysis of the astonishing development of the former Portuguese colony of Macao into the world's leading gambling destination is based on a series of longitudinal indicators not seen in other books on Macao's gambling industry.

This book examines certain of the legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture and, in particular, where children are the targeted victims.

This book explains the most important concepts, standards, implementations, and applications of public key infrastructures (PKIs). All chapters contain exercises, with solutions provided in an appendix.

This work forms part of the EU funded HAPTEX project, which is aimed at developing a VR system for the visual and haptic presentation of textiles. Written by experts in the field, the book presents the state-of-the-art of VR based tactile perception.

Dealing with visual perception in robots and its applications to manipulation and imitation, this monograph focuses on stereo-based methods and systems for object recognition and 6 DoF pose estimation as well as for marker-less human motion capture.