The elderly caregiver [[electronic resource] ] : caring for adults with developmental disabilities / / edited by Karen A. Roberto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480860903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
• ISBN: 1-322-42018-1; 1-4833-2651-9; 1-4522-5423-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Collana: SAGE focus editions ; ; 160
• Altri autori (Persone): RobertoKaren A
• Disciplina: 362.1; 362.1/968
• Soggetti: Developmentally disabled older people - Care - United States; Developmentally disabled - Home care - United States; Caregivers - United States; Aging - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. Review of the caregiving literature -- part II. Issues and concerns of older caregivers -- part III. Interactions between older caregivers and the service community -- part IV. Practice, research, and policy directives.
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities. Issues explored include: the needs of elderly parents caring for adult offspring with learning difficulties; changes in care-giving activities; the increasing burden of care-giving; the ordeal of planning future out-of-home placement; and the needs of care-givers of ageing adults with Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. A concluding chapter

Data engineering : fuzzy mathematics in systems theory and data analysis / / Olaf Wolkenhauer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143174903321
• Autore: Wolkenhauer Olaf <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Wiley, c2001
• ISBN: 9786610264759; 9781280264757; 1280264756; 9780470356739; 0470356731; 9780471464105; 0471464104; 9780471224341; 0471224340
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.74
• Soggetti: Database management; Fuzzy systems; System analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Wiley-Interscience publication."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.1 Overview of the Remaining Chapters; 1.2 Summary of Key Concepts and Ideas; 1.3 Symbols and Notation; 1 System Analysis; 1.1 Uncertainty; 1.2 The Art of Modelling: Linkage; 1.3 Dynamic Systems; 1.4 Example: Coupled Tanks Model; 2 Uncertainty Techniques; 2.1 The Least-Squares Criterion; 2.1.1 Example: Regression Line; 2.1.2 Example: Fourier Series; 2.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimation; 2.2.1 Example: ML-Estimates; 2.2.2 The EM Algorithm; 2.3 Stochastic Processes; 2.3.1 Example: Kalman-Bucy Filtering; 3 Learning from Data: System Identification; 3.1 The Probabilistic Perspective3.2 Kernel Density Estimation; 3.3 ; Basis Function Approximation; 3.4 Example: EM Algorithm; 3.5 Discussion: Modelling and Identification; 4 Propositions as Subsets of the Data Space; 4.1 Hard-c-Means Clustering; 4.2 Least-Squares Functional: Fuzzy Clustering; 4.3 Example: Hard vs. Fuzzy Clustering; 4.4 Orthogonal Transformation; 4.5 Example: Classification; 4.6 Similarity-Based Reasoning; 4.7 The Quotient Induced by Similarity Relations; 5 Fuzzy Systems and Identification; 5.1 Fuzzy Systems Model Structures; 5.2 Identification of Antecedent Fuzzy Sets; 5.3 Parameter Identification in the Takagi-Sugeno Model5.4 Example: TS-Modelling and Identification; 5.5 Example: Prediction of a Chaotic Time-Series; 5.6 Discussion; 5.7 Regression Models and Fuzzy Clustering; 5.8 Example: pH Neutralization Process; 6 Random-Set Modelling and Identification; 6.1 Random Variables, Point-Valued Maps; 6.2 Random-Sets, Multi-Valued Maps; 6.3 A Random-Set Approach to System Identification; 6.4 Example 1: Nonlinear AR Process; 6.5 Example 2: Box- Jenkins Gas-Furnace Data; 7 Certain Uncertainty; 7.1 Uncertainty in Systems Analysis; 7.2 A Fuzzy Prepositional Calculus7.2.1 Probabilistic Logic; 7.2.2 Classical Two-Valued Logic; 7.2.3 Approximate Reasoning; 8 Fuzzy Inference Engines; 8.1 Composition-Based Inference; 8.2 Individual-Rule-Based Inference; 8.3 Fuzzy Systems as Nonlinear Mappings; 8.4 Example: Comparison of Inference Engines; 9 Fuzzy Classification; 9.1 Equivalence of Fuzzy and Statistical Classifiers; 9.2 Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifier Design; 10 Fuzzy Control; 10.1 PI-Control vs. Fuzzy PI-Control; 10.2 Example 1: First-Order System with Dead-Time; 10.3 Example 2: Coupled Tanks; 11 Fuzzy Mathematics; 11.1 The Algebra of Fuzzy Sets11.2 The Extension Principle; 11.3 Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Graphs; 11.4 Fuzzy Logic; 11.5 A Bijective Probability - Possibility Transformation; 11.6 Example: Maintenance Decision Making; 11.7 Example: Evaluating Student Performances; 12 Summary; 12.1 System Representations; 12.2 More Philosophical Ideas; 12.2.1 Data Engineering; 13 Appendices; 13.1 Sets, Relations, Mappings; 13.2 Measuring Forecast Accuracy; 13.3 (Hierarchical) Clustering; 13.4 Measure Spaces and Integrals; 13.5 Unbiasedness of Estimators; 13.6 Statistical Reasoning; 13.7 Frequency Analysis; Index; A
• Sommario/riassunto: Although data engineering is a multi-disciplinary field with applications in control, decision theory, and the emerging hot area of bioinformatics, there are no books on the market that make the subject accessible to non-experts. This book fills the gap in the field, offering a clear, user-friendly introduction to the main theoretical and practical tools for analyzing complex systems. An ftp site features the corresponding MATLAB and Mathematical tools and simulations.Market: Researchers in data management, electrical engineering, computer science, and life sciences.