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Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Advancements in the technology and availability of data sources have led to the `Big Data' era. Working with large data offers the potential to uncover more fine-grained patterns and take timely and accurate decisions but it also creates a lot of challenges such as slow training and scalability of machine learning models. One of the major challenges in machine learning is to develop efficient and scalable learning algorithms i. e. optimization techniques to solve large scale learning problems. Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning identifies different areas of improvement and recent research directions to tackle the challenge. Developed optimisation techniques are also explored to improve machine learning algorithms based on data access and on first and second order optimisation methods. Key Features: Bridges machine learning and Optimisation. Bridges theory and practice in machine learning. Identifies key research areas and recent research directions to solve large-scale machine learning problems. Develops optimisation techniques to improve machine learning algorithms for big data problems. The book will be a valuable reference to practitioners and researchers as well as students in the field of machine learning.

GBP 150.00
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Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

This reference book provides updated information on the production and industrial significance of bacterial cellulose. Bacterial cellulose is a natural fiber produced by certain microbes mainly bacteria which belong to the Acetobacter genera. The book discusses its applications in different industrial sectors such as food pharmaceutical energy and wastewater treatment. It covers the production of cellulose from conventional and renewable feedstock and includes topics such as downstream processing characterization and chemical modification of bacterial cellulose. FEATURES: Addresses the challenges of the production technologies of bacterial cellulose up to pilot scale Discusses cost-effective green processes using agri-processing residues and medium formulation Includes efficient preparation of nanocomposites using in vitro and in vivo methods Provides the latest applications of bacterial cellulose in the food and pharmaceuticals fields Reviews the production of bacterial cellulose from conventional feedstock such as sugars and starches This book is designed for industry experts and researchers of applied microbiology bioprocesses and industrial microbiology. | Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

GBP 140.00
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Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism ” observing writers of the American nineteenth century and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race gender and national identity. Ranging from the religious acuities of the first American Puritans to the more secularized literary awakening of the American Renaissance and into late-century texts that deliberately resist the limits of received religious and political opinion this volume seeks to uncover a history of human thought within classic American Literature. This volume critically observes these survivable works of literature presenting insight into the “difference” made by conversation dispute and dramatized self-doubt within novels and poems of the historical past. | Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

GBP 135.00
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Human Rights Human Wrongs In the Scale of Human Conscience

Human Rights Human Wrongs In the Scale of Human Conscience

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the best gift of the United Nations and its main human rights organ the Human Rights Commission to “We the Peoples of the World”. But that powerful instrument is often rendered powerless by the behaviour of individuals running the institutions and the states arguably the most powerful institution conceptualised by human mind so far. In the process the UN comes under serious criticism and its most important organ which helped give the UDHR was dissolved for “failing to live up to its ideals”. Ironically the same states and their representatives most instrumental in creating the UN institutions including the Human Rights Commission first but later vilifying it and leading the campaign for its replacement by the Human Rights Council are now once again attacking it as “hypocritical and self-serving organisation that makes a mockery of human rights” and the most powerful member state feels compelled to walk out of the Council. Where does the world the UN and “we the peoples” stand in the search for greater freedom from want and fear better enjoyment of dignity and rights?Travelling through an extraordinary journey of life academic pursuits and expeditions of professional and diplomatic mountain climbing including the Chairmanship of the 56th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights and its 5th Special Session on the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestine Territories Shambhu Ram Simkhada presents a scholarly diplomatic advocate and defender perspectives on the contemporary state of human rights and human wrongs in the scale of his own human conscience. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Human Rights Human Wrongs In the Scale of Human Conscience

GBP 130.00
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Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity. Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries two considered developed (Imperial UK and Post-colonial Imperial USA) and two considered underdeveloped (Imperial Russia and Colonial India) it is shown how this yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan) | Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

GBP 130.00
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Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect from exploitations of the agro-sector and the food industry to the Public Health management the novel therapeutic/treatment approaches the new age of space deep-sea and subterranean explorations and the interface with the cyber world and the massive or small-scale projection of violence. It has been present since ancient times tacitly and discreetly but only recently took its present guise the different aspects of which are explored in this book. | Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

GBP 105.00
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Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

This comprehensive reference text discusses simulation with case studies and realworld applications related to energy system models the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The text covers analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. It further discusses economic aspects useful for policy makers and industrial professionals. It covers important topics including smart grids architectures wide-area situational awareness (WASA) energy management systems (EMS) demand response (DR) smart grid standardization exertions virtual power plants battery degradation modeling optimization approaches in modeling and smart metering infrastructure. The book: Discusses the analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems Covers issues and challenges encountered in the large-scale integration of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems into future smart grid design Provides simulation with case studies and real-world applications related to energy system models electric vehicles and energy storage systems Discusses the integration of large renewable energy systems with the presence of a large number of electric vehicles and storage devices/systems Discussing concepts of smart grids together with the deployment of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems this text will be useful as a reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering electronics and communication engineering renewable energy and clean technologies. It further discusses topics including electric grid infrastructure architecture interfacing standardization protocols security reliability communication and optimal control. | Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

GBP 110.00
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Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece the Vatican Pietà by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years during which time its cultural theological and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after described here as artistic progeny: large-scale unique sculpted variants smaller-scale statuettes plaster and bronze casts and engraved prints. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history Renaissance studies early modern studies religion Christianity and theology. | Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

GBP 120.00
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Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how unlike in other sugar-producing colonies Taiwan was able to sustain its indigenous family farms and small-scale rice millers who not only survived but thrived in competition with Japanese sugar capi | Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

GBP 130.00
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Nanomaterials for Sustainable Tribology

Nanomaterials for Sustainable Tribology

With the advent of nanotechnology the properties offered by nano-sized particles in various engineering applications have revolutionized the area of material science. Furthermore due to the use of nanomaterials in various engineering components particularly in moving parts it is imperative to understand the behavior of these nanomaterials under sliding conditions. Therefore an augmented approach of nanotechnology and tribology has been addressed in this book. It presents recent advancements on the topics related to: Mechanical and tribological behaviour of nanocomposites Nanomaterials in lubricating oils Synergetic effects of nanomaterials Surface texturing at nano-scale Nanocoatings for various applications Biotribological applications of nanomaterials Nanomaterials for Sustainable Tribology covers major aspects of tribology of nanomaterials and its current status and future directions. This book will provide the readers an insight on several aspects of tribology of nanomaterials. It will act as a strong stimulant for readers to appreciate and initiate further advancements in the field of tribology particularly at nano-scale.

GBP 120.00
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A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume I

A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume I

This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography this first volume covers the United Kingdom. | A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume I

GBP 130.00
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A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume II

A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume II

This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography the second volume spans the British Empire. | A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume II

GBP 130.00
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A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume IV

A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume IV

This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography volume 4 considers the Americas | A World History of Railway Cultures 1830-1930 Volume IV

GBP 130.00
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Java Made Simple

Java Made Simple

Java is a programming language designed for use on networks in particular the Internet and can also be used to write full-scale applications. It is based upon C++ and is very similar in its style and structure. Java Made Simple 2nd edition concentrates on getting the reader started and assumes no prior programming knowledge. Once the essentials have been mastered it provides the confidence to go deeper into the language and broaden and develop invaluable programming skills.

GBP 105.00
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Socioeconomic Impact Management Design And Implementation

Socioeconomic Impact Management Design And Implementation

The authors of this book present a comprehensive analysis of impact management for such large-scale resource and industrial development projects as power plants mines and nuclear waste disposal facilities. An overall framework for designing an impact management program is presented and specific recommendations for implementing management measures are provided. This book is unique in that it provides a conceptual framework for choosing among alternative approaches in designing a management system as well as offering practical guidance for implementing such systems. | Socioeconomic Impact Management Design And Implementation

GBP 145.00
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Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume III: Domestic Interior Spaces

Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume III: Domestic Interior Spaces

This volume of primary source materials documents the spatial layouts of the nineteenth century home as they often became more precisely planned with rooms for specific purposes being developed. The styles began to truly reflect the owner’s taste and position. The range is of course vast from single room dwellings to large-scale mansions and numerous variations in-between. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history. | Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume III: Domestic Interior Spaces

GBP 110.00
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India's Historical Demography Studies in Famine Disease and Society

India's Historical Demography Studies in Famine Disease and Society

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic historians of India; and lastly the Indian context provides an excellent laboratory in which to investigate certain large-scale demographic phenomena – among others the experience of bubonic plague influenza cholera and famine. | India's Historical Demography Studies in Famine Disease and Society

GBP 115.00
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A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills. In addition to photographs of rocks in the field there are numerous line diagrams and examples of metamorphic features shown in thin section. The thin section photos are all at a scale and in a context that can be related to views seen in the field through a hand lens. | A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

GBP 175.00
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Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture

Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music. Through analysing how existing audience members experience live contemporary classical music this book seeks to make data-informed contributions to future discussions on audience diversity and accessibility. The author takes a multidimensional view of audience experience looking at how sociodemographic factors and the frames of social context and concert format shape aesthetic responses and experiences in the concert hall. The book presents quantitative and qualitative audience data collected at twelve concerts in ten different European countries analysing general trends alongside case studies. It also offers the first large-scale comparisons between the concert experiences and tastes of contemporary classical and classical music audiences. Contemporary classical music is critically discussed as a ‘high art subculture’ rife with contradictions and conflicts around its cultural value. This book sheds light on how audiences negotiate the tensions between experimentalism and accessibility that currently define this genre. It provides insights relevant to academics from audience research in the performing arts and from musicology as well as to institutions practitioners and artists. | Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture

GBP 120.00
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Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Pakistan�s nuclear arsenal � the fastest growing in the world � raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the scale of the Cold War South Asia is experiencing a strategic arms race. And the more weapons there are the more potential for theft sabotage and nuclear terrorism. Worries that Pakistan�s nuclear-weapons technology might again be transferred to nuclear aspirants have not been expunged. Being outside the nuclear club makes it harder to ensure nuclear safety. Of gravest concern is the potential for a nuclear war triggered by another large-scale terrorist attack in India with Pakistani state fingerprints as in the 2008 Mumbai atrocity this time followed by an Indian Army reprisal. Lowering the nuclear threshold Pakistan has vowed to deter this with newly introduced battlefield nuclear weapons. Mark Fitzpatrick evaluates each of the potential nuclear dangers giving credit where credit is due. Understanding the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear accidents Pakistani authorities have taken appropriate steps. Pakistan and India give less attention however to engaging each other on the issues that could spark a nuclear clash. The author argues that to reduce the nuclear dangers Pakistan should be offered a formula for nuclear legitimacy tied to its adopting policies associated with global nuclear norms. | Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

GBP 160.00
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Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises

Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) are extensive but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn’s approach to the city the embodiment of that thinking in his designs and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life with unignorable implications for emergent urban architecture and its address of sociological and ecological crises. Wary of large-scale planning proposals or the erasure of existing urban patterns Fehn offered an uncommon and profoundly vibrant approach to urbanism at the scale of the single architectural project. His writings constructed buildings competition entries and lectures suggest opportunities for reinvigorating architecture’s engagement with the city and provoke a rethinking of concepts foundational to its theorization. What is the nature of urbanity? What is the relationship of urbanity to the natural world? What is the role of architecture in the provision and sustenance of urban life? While exploring this territory will expand our knowledge of an architect central to key developments of late modernism the range of the book and the arguments developed therein delineate far broader aims: a fuller understanding of architecture’s urban promise. | Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises

GBP 120.00
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Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Small Groundworks Landscaping and Gardening

Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Small Groundworks Landscaping and Gardening

Specifically written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works this second edition of Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Small Groundworks Landscaping Work and Gardening contains accurate information on thousands of rates each broken down to labour material overheads and profit. This is the first book to focus on this range of external work including garden maintenance work on blocks of flats and individual houses schools and sports fields garden makeovers laying patios and paths small land drainage schemes on farmland and small-scale local authority maintenance work. | Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Small Groundworks Landscaping and Gardening

GBP 175.00
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Cavitation and Associated Phenomena

Cavitation and Associated Phenomena

Cavitation is a dangerous process which destroys objects in a fluid. Scientific description of this multifaceted phenomenon is based on almost every area of physics and many interesting effects are connected with cavitation. The most intriguing of them is sonoluminescence – the light emitted from a cavitating fluid. This book presents a full-scale description of cavitation: from the basic thermodynamic principles to special phenomena associated with this complex process from the dynamics of a single gas cavity to the catastrophic macroscopic manifestations from the domestic observations to the nuances of X-ray spectroscopic research. | Cavitation and Associated Phenomena

GBP 170.00
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Biosimilars and Interchangeable Biologics Strategic Elements

Biosimilars and Interchangeable Biologics Strategic Elements

What’s the Deal with Biosimilars? Biosimilars are gaining momentum as new protein therapeutic candidates that can help fill a vital need in the healthcare industry. The biological drugs are produced by recombinant DNA technology that allows for large-scale production and an overall reduction time in costs and development. Part of a two-volume set that covers varying aspects of biosimilars Biosimilars and Interchangeable Biologics: Strategic Elements explores the strategic planning side of biosimilar drugs and targets issues surrounding biosimilars that are linked to legal matters. This includes principal patents and intellectual property regulatory pathways and concerns about affordability on a global scale. It addresses the complexity of biosimilar products and it discusses the utilization of biosimilars and related biological drugs in expanding world markets. Of specific interest to practitioners researchers and scientists in the biopharmaceutical industry this volume examines the science technology finance legality ethics and politics of biosimilar drugs. It considers strategic planning elements that include an overall understanding of the history and the current status of the art and science of biosimilars and it provides detailed descriptions of the legal regulatory and commercial characteristics. The book also presents a global strategy on how to build take to market and manage the next generation of biosimilars throughout their life cycle. | Biosimilars and Interchangeable Biologics Strategic Elements

GBP 94.99
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