The Search for Fundamentals

The Search for Fundamentals
Author: Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1995-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780792335429

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative examples in The Search for Fundamentals are used to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. The book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties they experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity. Audience: A broad readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities.

Fundamentals of Search and Rescue

Fundamentals of Search and Rescue
Author: Donald C. Cooper
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780763748074

This book provids an overview of all aspects of search and rescue procedures and equipment, It teaches the absolutely essential techniques employed by nearly all search and rescue personnel. This book offers an in-depth and practical approach to search and rescue and is recommended for all emergency responders. For both paid and unpaid professionals, this resource combines dynamic features with the latest comprehensive content.

Fundamentals of the Theory of Planning the Search for Space Objects

Fundamentals of the Theory of Planning the Search for Space Objects
Author: Stanislav S. Veniaminov
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 152754754X

This book develops an original theory of the search for space objects, on which only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct a plan for searching for such objects through optical or radar sensors. This principle maximally eliminates the loss of the sought-for object and provides an economical use of the resources used in the search. This book will be of great interest for astronomers-observers, space control services, space researchers, and students at technical universities.

The Fundamentals of Search Algorithms

The Fundamentals of Search Algorithms
Author: Robert A. Bohm (Computer scientist)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Algorithms
ISBN: 9781536190076

"Heuristic local search algorithms are used to find "good" solutions to the NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems that cannot be solved using analytical methods. Chapter one discusses the characterization and computation of heuristic local search algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) from the perspective of dynamical systems. The purpose of chapter 2 is to show the practical application of CBIR technology in the security and protection of personal data, access to classified documents and objects, identification of illegal attacks that are part of the social life of the present and future of mankind. Continuous search space problems are difficult problems to solve because the number of solutions is infinite. Moreover, the search space gets more complex as we add constraints to the problem. In this context, chapter 3 aims to show the usage of the differential evolution algorithm for solving continuous search space problems using unconstrained functions and a constrained real-world problem"--

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780387985862

This classic reference, now updated with the newest applications and results, addresses the fundamentals of such trials based on sound scientific methodology, statistical principles, and years of accumulated experience by the three authors.

The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

The Fundamentals of Political Science Research
Author: Paul M. Kellstedt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 052187517X

This textbook introduces the scientific study of politics, supplying students with the basic tools to be critical consumers and producers of scholarly research.

Evolutionary Deep Neural Architecture Search: Fundamentals, Methods, and Recent Advances

Evolutionary Deep Neural Architecture Search: Fundamentals, Methods, and Recent Advances
Author: Yanan Sun
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031168682

This book systematically narrates the fundamentals, methods, and recent advances of evolutionary deep neural architecture search chapter by chapter. This will provide the target readers with sufficient details learning from scratch. In particular, the method parts are devoted to the architecture search of unsupervised and supervised deep neural networks. The people, who would like to use deep neural networks but have no/limited expertise in manually designing the optimal deep architectures, will be the main audience. This may include the researchers who focus on developing novel evolutionary deep architecture search methods for general tasks, the students who would like to study the knowledge related to evolutionary deep neural architecture search and perform related research in the future, and the practitioners from the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and others where the deep neural networks have been successfully and largely used in their respective fields.

Fundamentals of Optimization Techniques with Algorithms

Fundamentals of Optimization Techniques with Algorithms
Author: Sukanta Nayak
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128224924

Optimization is a key concept in mathematics, computer science, and operations research, and is essential to the modeling of any system, playing an integral role in computer-aided design. Fundamentals of Optimization Techniques with Algorithms presents a complete package of various traditional and advanced optimization techniques along with a variety of example problems, algorithms and MATLAB© code optimization techniques, for linear and nonlinear single variable and multivariable models, as well as multi-objective and advanced optimization techniques. It presents both theoretical and numerical perspectives in a clear and approachable way. In order to help the reader apply optimization techniques in practice, the book details program codes and computer-aided designs in relation to real-world problems. Ten chapters cover, an introduction to optimization; linear programming; single variable nonlinear optimization; multivariable unconstrained nonlinear optimization; multivariable constrained nonlinear optimization; geometric programming; dynamic programming; integer programming; multi-objective optimization; and nature-inspired optimization. This book provides accessible coverage of optimization techniques, and helps the reader to apply them in practice. - Presents optimization techniques clearly, including worked-out examples, from traditional to advanced - Maps out the relations between optimization and other mathematical topics and disciplines - Provides systematic coverage of algorithms to facilitate computer coding - Gives MATLAB© codes in relation to optimization techniques and their use in computer-aided design - Presents nature-inspired optimization techniques including genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks

Globalization

Globalization
Author: Roland Robertson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1992-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473914086

A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why culture has become a globally contested issue - why, for example, competing conceptions of ′world order′ have political and economic consequences.