Introduction & Overview

Introduction and Overview 1.1 Introduction

Conventional microstrip antennas in general have a conducting patch printed on a grounded microwave substrate, and have the attractive features of low profile, light weight, easy fabrication, and conformability to mounting hosts [1]. However, mi-crostrip antennas inherently have a narrow bandwidth, and bandwidth enhancement is usually demanded for practical applications. In addition, applicatio...

Introduction and Overview

Although automatically defined functions (ADFcts) with genetic programming (GP) appear to have great utility in a wide variety of domains, their application to the automatic discovery of 2-dimensional features has been only moderately successful [Koza 1993]. Boolean functions of pixel inputs, although very general, may not be the best representation for 2-dimensional features. This chapter desc...

Introduction and overview.

The series of papers contained in this issue of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES was presented at a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at their facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on October 27-28, 1981. The objective of the conference was to review the science base for evaluating health effects from human exposure to improperly dispo...

Ontologies - Introduction and Overview

1. Introduction and overview

The touchstone for this volume is the work of Edward Safarian, widely recognized as the ‘Dean’ of Canada’s scholars who study foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises (MNEs). A professor at the University of Toronto since 1966, Safarian has been President of the Canadian Economics Association (1977–78) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1973. From his pioneer...