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"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Yet it is a region rich in natural mineral resources, set amidst readily productive farmland, and with major rivers, such as the Severn, facilitating transportation. The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. Finally, towards the close of prehistory, localised kingdoms can be seen to emerge into view. In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second volume in a series--The Making of the West Midlands--that explores the archaeology of the English West Midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards. These volumes, based on a series of West Midlands Research Framework seminars, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain"--Publisher description.

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This book presents interesting samples of theoretical and practical advances of symmetry in multidisciplinary engineering applications. It covers several applications, such as accessibility and traffic congestion management, path planning for mobile robots, analysis of shipment service networks, fault diagnosis methods in electrical circuits and electrical machines, geometrical issues in architecture, geometric modeling and virtual reconstruction, design of noise detectors, filters, and segmentation methods for image processing, and cyclic symmetric structures in turbomachinery applications, to name but a few. The contributions included in this book depict the state of the art in this field and lay the foundation for the possibilities that the study of symmetry has in multidisciplinary applications in the field of engineering.

edge preserving --- fault diagnosis --- accessibility --- urban traffic planning --- sensitivity analysis --- graphic modelling --- Coalbrookdale (Shropshire) --- mobile robot --- asymmetry --- convexity/concavity --- flying buttresses --- vibration --- time-space network --- linearization technique --- friction damping --- adaptive threshold --- ring damper --- broad learning model --- Hilbert transform --- express shipment --- symmetry --- traffic control --- railcar flow distribution --- optimization --- industrial archaeology --- high order urban hospitals (HOUHs) --- thin-walled gear --- rampant arch --- traffic congestion --- railway transportation --- robots --- virtual reconstruction --- feature selection --- geometric modeling --- path search --- industrial heritage --- weighted mean filter --- topology --- A* algorithm --- traffic forecasting --- feature interaction --- classification --- peaks distribution --- rolling bearings --- noise detector --- 3D slicer --- inclined plane --- computing applications --- environmental modeling --- extension --- service network design --- evaluation model --- anomaly detection --- random forest --- local preserving projection --- complex networks --- computer engineering --- electronic devices --- BP neural network --- mechanical structures --- segmentation --- lifting wavelet --- semi-supervised random forest --- railway network --- cathedral --- local monotonicity --- aged --- optimum --- path planning --- local data features --- local inflection --- conditional mutual information --- energy dissipation --- support vector machine --- variational mode decomposition --- Agustín de Betancourt --- optimization criteria --- tumor --- trip impedance based on public transportation --- Fisher linear discriminant analysis --- synchronization --- clustering --- geometry --- electrical circuits --- random value impulse noise