Crc Press imprint: 4124 books
Statistical Process Control
A Pragmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
People with minimal math skills, and even those with advanced math skills, have difficulty grasping the intuitive concepts behind Statistical Process Control (SPC). Many practitioners do not understand the concepts behind Control Charts, the differences of out of control and out of specification,...
by Gerald Matthews, P.A. Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fatigue is a recognized problem in many facets of the human enterprise. It is not confined to any one area of activity but enters all situations in which humans have to perform for extended intervals of time. Most problematic are the circumstances in which obligatory action is continuous and the results...
Building Materials
Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The construction industry is bombarded with ever-changing building materials—components of which are more and more difficult, if not impossible, to identify. Building material emissions have been implicated as a major source of indoor air pollution, and toxic gases, often unidentified, are generated...
Cognitive Systems Engineering
An Integrative Living Laboratory Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological purview of multiple perspectives surrounding the human factors/human actors within living ecosystems. This book will provide useful theoretical...
Cognitive Systems Engineering
The Future for a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This volume provides an exceptional perspective on the nature, evolution, contributions and future of the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE). It is a resource to support both the teaching and practice of CSE. It accomplishes this through its organization into two complementary approaches...
by Paula Stamps Duston
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System tells the story of the U.S. health care system by using a narrative approach identifying function rather than the more common data-driven focus on structure. It presents policy decisions we have made about our health care system...
Prevention is Better than Cure
Learning from Adverse Events in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Adverse events occur in healthcare with worrying and surprising frequency and, of these, a substantial portion are preventable. This highly-readable book, translated and update from the original Dutch edition, presents 15 model case studies which have been carefully designed to explore common themes...
One World Health
An Overview of Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This brand new textbook presents a new approach to the teaching and understanding of global health. It describes the shared opportunities but also the problems that we all face, wherever we live, and the particular needs of the poorest people in every society. Covering subjects from epidemics and...
by Tamalika Chaira, Ajoy Kumar Ray
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
In contrast to classical image analysis methods that employ "crisp" mathematics, fuzzy set techniques provide an elegant foundation and a set of rich methodologies for diverse image-processing tasks. However, a solid understanding of fuzzy processing requires a firm grasp of essential principles...
Intelligent Systems
Modeling, Optimization, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Providing a thorough introduction to the field of soft computing techniques, Intelligent Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Control covers every major technique in artificial intelligence in a clear and practical style. This book highlights current research and applications, addresses issues encountered...
Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition
Feature Extraction and Computational Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
There are many books on neural networks, some of which cover computational intelligence, but none that incorporate both feature extraction and computational intelligence, as Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition does. This volume describes the application of a novel, unsupervised pattern...
by Lucian Busoniu, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From household appliances to applications in robotics, engineered systems involving complex dynamics can only be as effective as the algorithms that control them. While Dynamic Programming (DP) has provided researchers with a way to optimally solve decision and control problems involving complex dynamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Statistical Techniques for Neuroscientists introduces new and useful methods for data analysis involving simultaneous recording of neuron or large cluster (brain region) neuron activity. The statistical estimation and tests of hypotheses are based on the likelihood principle derived from stationary...
Learning Algorithms
Theory and Applications in Signal Processing, Control and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Over the past decade, interest in computational or non-symbolic artificial intelligence has grown. The algorithms involved have the ability to learn from past experience, and therefore have significant potential in the adaptive control of signals and systems. This book focuses on the theory and applications...