Authors:Hermann Simon, Frank F. Bilstein, Frank Luby,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: profits, highly, contested, markets, greater, guide, profit, market, share, manage
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1591395267
ISBN-13: 9781591395263

A Contrarian Approach to Earning Profits in Mature Markets How do companies in mature markets—where savings from cost-cutting have been exhausted and breakthrough innovations are hard to come by—achieve sustainable increases in profits? For decades, managers have been told the answer lies in pursuing high market share. But Hermann Simon, Frank F. Bilstein, and Frank Luby argue that this misguided advice has destroyed, rather than created, an additional profit potential. In Manage for Profit, Not for Share, the authors contend that companies can extract a profit potential of 1%-3 % of revenue

Author: Michael Luby
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: science, notes, computer, princeton, cryptographic, applications, pseudorandomness
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-01-08
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 0691025460
ISBN-13: 9780691025469

A pseudorandom generator is an easy-to-compute function that stretches a short random string into a much longer string that "looks" just like a random string to any efficient adversary. One immediate application of a pseudorandom generator is the construction of a private key cryptosystem that is secure against chosen plaintext attack. There do not seem to be natural examples of functions that are pseudorandom generators. On the other hand, there do seem to be a variety of natural examples of another basic primitive: the one-way function. A function is one-way if it is easy to compute but har

Author: Joan L. Luby MD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: disorders, treatment, development, health, preschool, mental, handbook
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2009-06-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1606233505
ISBN-13: 9781606233504

This important volume comprehensively explores the development of psychiatric disorders in 2- to 6-year-olds, detailing how the growing empirical knowledge base may lead to improved interventions for young children and their families. Leading contributors examine advances in the conceptualization and diagnosis of early-onset disruptive disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, eating and sleeping disorders, autism, and other clinical problems. Promising treatment strategies are described, including developmentally specific behavioral and play therapies, and available evidence for their effectiven

Authors:Ukraine) Lpar 1994 (Kiev, Frank Pfenning, Frank Pfen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, july, lecture, notes, science, computer, ukraine, kiev, automated, programming, reasoning, international, lpar, conference, logic
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1994-06
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387582169
ISBN-13: 9780387582160

This volume presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning, held aboard the ship "Marshal Koshevoi" on the Dnieper near Kiev, Ukraine in July 1994. The LPAR conferences are held annually in the former Soviet Union and aimed at bringing together researchers interested in LP and AR. This proceedings contains the full versions of the 24 accepted papers evaluated by at least three referees ensuring a program of highest quality. The papers cover all relevant aspects of LP and AR ranging from theory to implementation and application.

Authors:Robin Forman, Frank Jones, Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Frank
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, library, student, variation, themes, six
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821837206
ISBN-13: 9780821837207

The calculus of variations is a beautiful subject with a rich history and with origins in the minimization problems of calculus. Although it is now at the core of many modern mathematical fields, it does not have a well-defined place in most undergraduate mathematics curricula. This volume should nevertheless give the undergraduate reader a sense of its great character and importance. Interesting functionals, such as area or energy, often give rise to problems whose most natural solution occurs by differentiating a one-parameter family of variations of some function. The c

Authors:Frank Höppner, Rudolf Kruse, Frank Klawonn, Thomas Ru
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: analysis, image, recognition, data, methods, cluster, fuzzy, classification
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-07-16
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0471988642
ISBN-13: 9780471988649

Provides a timely and important introduction to fuzzy cluster analysis, its methods and areas of application, systematically describing different fuzzy clustering techniques so the user may choose methods appropriate for his problem. It provides a very thorough overview of the subject and covers classification, image recognition, data analysis and rule generation. The application examples are highly relevant and illustrative, and the use of the techniques are justified and well thought-out. Features include: * Sections on inducing fuzzy if-then rules by fuzzy clustering and non-a

Authors:Frank Minirth, Frank Wichern, Paul Meier,
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: perspectives, applications, christian, counseling, psychology, introduction
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-08-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0801062756
ISBN-13: 9780801062759

This explanation of classic theory features many relevant essays on persons, ideas, and applications. Not only is the text organized according to introductory counseling courses, but it is also a reference tool of enduring value.