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Digital Video Quality presents a comprehensive introduction to vision modeling and video quality assessment. The rapid spread of digital imaging systems poses an important new challenge: optimizing their performance with respect to the capture, display, storage...

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Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated synthesis of controllers, circuits, antennas, genetic networks, and metabolic pathways. The book describes fifteen instances where GP has created an entity that either...

The Handbook of Patient Safety Compliance is a guide for all health care organizations and their leaders on how to take needed critical steps in improving the quality of care by reducing the risk of harm within their institutions. The book is filled with the most current information on the laws and regulations, initiatives, effective analysis,...