Authors:Ineke Stoop, Jaak Billiet, Achim Koch, Rory Fitzgeral
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: survey, wiley, series, methodology, social, learned, response, lessons, improving, european
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2010-05-10
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470516690
ISBN-13: 9780470516690

High response rates have traditionally been considered as one of the main indicators of survey quality. Obtaining high response rates is sometimes difficult and expensive, but clearly plays a beneficial role in terms of improving data quality. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that simply boosting response to achieve a higher response rate will not in itself eradicate nonresponse bias. In this book the authors argue that high response rates should not be seen as a goal in themselves, but rather as part of an overall survey quality strategy based on random probability sampling and aim

Author: Achim RettbergAchim Rettberg; Mauro Zanella; Rain
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: information, ifip, processing, system, advances, communication, technology, federation, international, topics, techniques, trends, embedded, design
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0387722572
ISBN-13: 9780387722573

Over recent years, embedded systems have gained an enormous amount of processing power and functionality. Many of the formerly external components can now be integrated into a single System-on-Chip. This tendency has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the size and cost of embedded systems. As a unique technology, the design of embedded systems is an essential element of many innovations. Embedded System Design: Topics, Techniques and Trends presents the technical program of the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS) 2007 held in Irvine, California. IESS is a unique forum to present

Author: Achim Klenke
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: universitext, course, comprehensive, theory, probability
Number of Pages: 621
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1848000472
ISBN-13: 9781848000476

Probabilistic concepts play an increasingly important role in mathematics, physics, biology, financial engineering and computer science. They help us to understand magnetism, amorphous media, genetic diversity and the perils of random developments on the financial markets, and they guide us in constructing more efficient algorithms. This text is a comprehensive course in modern probability theory and its measure-theoretical foundations. Aimed primarily at graduate students and researchers, the book covers a wide variety of topics, many of which are not usually found in introductory textbooks,

Author: Achim Nowak
Publisher: Allworth Pre
Keywords: public, speaker, exceptional, art, speaking, power
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581153619
ISBN-13: 9781581153613

Integrating key concepts and ideas about public speaking into a clear, step-by-step, transformational method, Power Speaking teaches emerging speakers how to grow the necessary skills and unleash their inner power. Divided into proficiency levels-mastering the basics, making the connection, and polishing the core-this guide allows speakers to conquer public speaking systematically. Readers start with the use of voice and body movements, then move on to learn the use of personal stories, intent listening, and positioning or reframing a topic.

Author: Achim Hein
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: processing, signals, communication, technology, interferometry, signal, sar, data, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2003-12-05
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540050434
ISBN-13: 9783540050438

Written for students, remote sensing specialists, researchers and SAR system designers, this practical reference shows how to produce quality SAR images. In particular, it presents new methods and algorithms concerning the interferometric processing of SAR data with emphasis on system and signal theory, namely how SAR imagery is formed, how interferometry SAR images are created, and a detailed mathematical description of different focussing algorithms. Starting with the processing basics and progessing to the final geo-coded SAR data product, the book describes the complete processing steps in

Author: Achim G. Hoffmann
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, analysis, methodological, intelligence, artificial, paradigms
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 9813083972
ISBN-13: 9789813083974

This book presents a new methodological analysis of the two competing research paradigms of artificial intelligence and cognitive science: the symbolic versus the connectionist paradigm. It argues that much of the discussion put forward for either paradigm misses the point: Most of the arguments in the debates on the two paradigms concentrate on the question whether the nature of intelligence or cognition is properly accommodated by one or the other paradigm. Opposed to that is the analysis in this book, which concentrates on the question which of the paradigms accommodates the "user" of a dev

Author: Achim Förster
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K
Keywords: fair
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2008
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3161496787
ISBN-13: 9783161496783