Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022 25th International Conference, Singapore, September 18–22, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

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The crunk feminist collection

Table of Contents: “…Notes on the serial murders of Black women / Aisha Durham ; What does Black masculinity look like? / Robin M. Boylorn ; Eight reasons why formenism can ruin your love life / Brittney C. …”
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Statistical and econometric methods for transportation data analysis by Washington, Simon, Karlaftis, Matthew, Mannering, Fred, Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis

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Beginning software engineering by Stephens, Rod, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Comment First -- Write Self-Documenting Code -- Keep It Small -- Stay Focused -- Avoid Side Effects -- Validate Results -- Practice Offensive Programming -- Use Exceptions -- Write Exception Handlers First -- Don't Repeat Code -- Defer Optimization -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 11 Algorithms -- Algorithm Study -- Algorithmic Approaches -- Decision Trees -- Knapsack -- The Eight Queens Problem -- Exhaustive Search -- Backtracking -- Pruning Trees -- Branch and Bound -- Heuristics -- Greedy -- Divide and Conquer -- Recursion -- Dynamic Programming -- Caching -- Randomization -- Monte Carlo Algorithms -- Las Vegas Algorithms -- Atlantic City Algorithms -- State Diagrams -- Design Patterns -- Creational Patterns -- Structural Patterns -- Behavioral Patterns -- Design Pattern Summary -- Parallel Programming -- Artificial Intelligence -- Definitions -- Learning Systems -- Natural Language Processing -- Artificial Neural Network -- Deep Learning -- Expert System -- Artificial General Intelligence -- Algorithm Characteristics -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 12 Programming Languages -- The Myth of Picking a Language -- Language Generations -- First Generation -- Second Generation -- Third Generation (3GL) -- Fourth Generation -- Fifth Generation -- Sixth Generation -- IDEs -- Language Families -- Assembly -- Imperative -- Procedural -- Declarative -- Object-Oriented -- Functional -- Specialized -- Language Family Summary -- The Best Language -- Summary -- What You Learned in This Chapter -- Chapter 13 Testing -- Testing Goals -- Reasons Bugs Never Die -- Diminishing Returns -- Deadlines -- Consequences -- It's Too Soon -- Usefulness -- Obsolescence -- It's Not a Bug -- It Never Ends -- It's Better Than Nothing -- Fixing Bugs Is Dangerous -- Which Bugs to Fix -- Levels of Testing -- Unit Testing.…”
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Wiley handbook of science and technology for homeland security

Table of Contents: “…Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Group of Eight (G8). Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). 2.5 Human Social and Behavioral Research. …”
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Wits Business School presents Business cases for managers

Table of Contents: “…Exhibit 1: Harley-Davidson Unit Sales for South Africa: 1998-2006 -- The Harley Mystique -- Exhibit 3: Amid Motorcycle Unit Sales per Category -- Exhibit 2: Harley-Davidson Price List 2007 -- References -- 12 HANSA PILSENER: FROM NICHE TO MAINSTREAM BRAND -- Company Background2 -- South African Liquor Market -- The Competition -- Background to Hansa -- 1976 -- 1979 Relaunches and Repositioning -- Early 1980s -- Improving the Masculine Image and the Germanic Heritage -- Late 1980s -- Successful Differentiation of the Brand -- 1984 -- A Turning Point -- The Saaz Hop -- Conclusion -- Exhibit 1: SAB Financial Review for 1992 to 1998 -- Hansa Finds its Niche -- Exhibit 2: Total Domestic Alcohol Market in South Africa 1995 -- Exhibit 4: Beer South Africa: Expenditure on 'New Items' and Fuel Costs -- Exhibit 5: Distribution Model -- Product Flow -- Exhibit 3: Total Domestic Alcohol Market in South Africa 2000 -- References -- SECTION D: OPERATIONS -- 13 AVIS RENT-A-CAR, SOUTH AFRICA1 -- The Company -- Car Rental at JIA -- Avis at JIA -- FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 JOHANNESBURG HOSPITAL PHARMACY OPTIMISING OPERATIONS -- Reasons for Change -- Legislation, Regulations and Policies -- The Challenges -- Current Operations6 -- A New Way of Doing Things -- Exhibit 1: The Eight Principles of Batho Pele -- Exhibit 2: Objectives of the Pharmacy -- References -- 15 KULULA.COM IN TURNAROUND MODE -- Background on kulula.com -- kulula.com's Positioning in the Market -- Turnaround -- The Turnaround Process -- Constraints -- Conclusion -- Exhibit 1: easyJet Turnaround Table -- Exhibit 2: kulula.com's Current Detailed Turnaround Process (45 minutes) -- Exhibit 3: Causes and Vulnerable Areas -- Exhibit 5: Ten Factors Driving Overall Airline Satisfaction -- SECTION E: FINANCE -- 16 THE PHONE SHOP: GROWTH AND THE ENTREPRENEUR (PART A).…”
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The 2008 Pfeiffer annual : leadership development

Table of Contents: “…-- Reality Number 1: Personal Development Is Mostly Self-Development -- Reality Number 2: Companies and Their HR Professionals Miss the Locus and Timing of Development -- Reality Number 3: Career Expectations Have Changed -- Reality Number 4: More Tools for Self-Development are Available -- What's to Be Done? -- Eight Employee-Centric Leadership Development Strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 4: DEVELOPING LEADERS OF SUBSTANCE -- Are They Really Leaders? …”
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A grammar of the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai by Jong, Rudolf Erik de

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Comprehensive Software Size Measurement : Effort Estimation and Performance Indication. by Singh, Jasveer

Table of Contents: “…10.1 Summary Charts of the FSSM Constituents 191 -- 10.2 Chapter Summary 206 -- Part Six FSSM: Strengths -- 11 Software Diagnostics Based on the Software Component's Feature Measurements and Software Performance Quality Indicators in the FSSM 209 -- 11.1 Basic Diagnostics About the Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS) and Software, Based on the Software Component's Feature Measurements (SCFMs) 209 -- 11.2 Advanced Diagnostics About the System Architecture, Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), and Software, Based on the Software Performance Quality Indicators (SPQIs) 214 -- 11.3 Chapter Summary 216 -- 12 Convertibility and ISO/IEC Standards Compliance of the FSSM 217 -- 12.1 Convertibility of the FSSM to Other Functional Size Measurement (FSM) Methodology COSMIC 217 -- 12.2 ISO/IEC Standards Compliance of the FSSM 218 -- 12.3 Chapter Summary 225 -- 13 Significant Strengths of the FSSM 226 -- 13.1 Coverage Capabilities of the FSSM in Comparison with Some Existing Software Size Measurement Methodologies 226 -- 13.2 Advantages of the FSSM Over the Currently Available Methodologies 231 -- 13.3 Examples 239 -- 13.4 Chapter Summary 241 -- Part Seven FSSM: Usage / Example -- 14 Example for Using the FSSM 247 -- 14.1 Mini-FSSM Application Software Development (ASD) Introduction 247 -- 14.2 Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS) of the Example / 'Mini-FSSM Application Software Development' 248 -- 14.3 Software Component's Feature Point (SCFP) Counting Explanation for the Example Mini-FSSM ASD 260 -- 14.4 Software Component's Feature Point (SCFP) Counting and Software Component's Feature Point Count (SCFPC) Formation Table for the Example Mini-FSSM ASD 289 -- 14.5 FSSM Results Tables for the Software Example Mini-FSSM Application Software Development 289 -- 14.6 Graphical Representation of the Final Output Results for the Example Mini-FSSM 305 -- 14.7 Chapter Summary 306 -- Part Eight Concluding Information -- 15 Effort Estimate for the Usage of the FSSM 313.…”
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Fibre Reinforced Cement and Concrete : Proceedings of the Fourth RILEM International Symposium

Table of Contents: “…chapter 37 Shear response of reinforced fibrous concrete beams using finite element analysis -- part Part Six: Structural Behaviour -- chapter 38 Ultimate flexural strength of reinforced concrete beams with large volumes of short randomly oriented steel fibres -- chapter 39 Polypropylene fibre concrete beams in flexure -- chapter 40 Fibre reinforced concrete channels as surface reinforcement for flexural members -- chapter 41 Fibre type effects on the curvature of steel fibre reinforced concrete rings -- chapter 42 Use of steel fibers as shear reinforcement in high strength concrete beams -- chapter 43 Polypropylene fibre concrete beams in flexure-shear -- chapter 44 Contribution of fibres in SFKC beams failing in shear -- chapter 45 Experimental investigation on fiber reinforced prestressed concrete beams under shear -- chapter 46 Fiber reinforced concrete columns using dolomite as coarse aggregate -- chapter 47 Mechanical behaviour of composite reinforced concrete columns with thin section GRC precast panels -- chapter 48 Behaviour of confined concrete columns with steel fibres -- chapter 49 Use of steel fibre concrete in seismic design -- chapter 50 Strength and behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete slabs subjected to impact loading -- chapter 51 Strength and behavior of vertically loaded fiber reinforced concrete walls -- part Part Seven: Applications -- chapter 52 Fastening technology in fibre reinforced concrete -- chapter 53 Thin repairs with metallic glass fibre reinforced concrete: length changes during the first 24 hours -- chapter 54 Obtaining general qualification approval in Germany for polyacrylonitrile fibre concrete -- chapter 55 Development and application of GRC lightweight prestressed slabs for networked roofs -- chapter 56 Fibre reinforced concrete containers: from concept to manufacturing -- chapter 57 Design of fibre reinforced concrete floors -- chapter 58 Application of SFRC as protective covering of structures subjected to substantial strains and dynamic loading -- part Part Eight: Ageing and Durability -- chapter 59 Effect of high temperature on the mechanical properties of fibre reinforced concrete cast using superplasticizer -- chapter 60 Behaviour of fibre reinforced concrete beams exposed to fire -- chapter 61 Mechanical properties of fibre reinforced mortar exposed to gamma radiation -- chapter 62 Durability of fibre reinforced concrete related to type of cement and admixtures -- chapter 63 Durability of glass fibre reinforced polymer mortar composites -- chapter 64 Development of fracture energy for FRC materials -- chapter 65 Freeze-thaw resistance of FRC materials -- chapter 66 Chloride resistance of SFRC -- chapter 67 Resistance of over 1-year-old SFRC exposed to long-term erosion-abrasion loading -- chapter 68 Assessment of steel fibre concrete exposed for 14 years -- chapter 69 Performance evaluation of SFRC pavements -- chapter 70 High durability GFRC using low-alkali, low shrinkage (CGC) cement -- chapter 71 Durability of medium-alkali glass-fiber reinforced super low-alkali cement -- chapter 72 Glass fiber reinforced lightweight concrete modified with polymer latex -- chapter 73 Effects of quality control practice on GFRC durability -- chapter 74 Aging and cracking of composite GFRC wall panel skins on metal stud frames in the United States -- chapter 75 Evaluation of perfomance durability of plastic fibre reinforced concrete composite manhole cover system -- part Part Nine: Synthetic Fibres and Reinforcement -- chapter 76 Mechanical characteristics of chopped fiber reinforced composites mainly using carbon fiber -- chapter 77 Experimental study of carbon fiber reinforced cement composite using super low contractile admixture -- chapter 78 Development of panels made with continuous carbon fibre reinforced cement composite -- chapter 79 Long-term loading tests on PPC beams using braided FRP rods -- chapter 80 Bending behaviour of unbonded prestressed concrete beams prestressed with CFRP rods -- part Part Ten: Special Fibres, Natural Fibres -- chapter 81 Studies on white mica flakes as reinforcement for cement paste -- chapter 82 Glass wool waste-reinforced gypsum: efficiency of compaction and composite mechanical properties -- chapter 83 Metal-reinforced cement materials.…”
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Optical and Wireless Convergence for 5G Networks by Abdalla, Abdelgader M.

Table of Contents: “…Abdalla, Jonathan Rodriguez, Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Antonio Lu -- s Teixeira, Stanislav Zv-anovec, Zabih Ghassemlooy</i></p> <p>5.1 Introduction 100</p> <p>5.2 Optical Wireless Systems 102</p> <p>5.3 Visible Light Communication (VLC) System Fundamentals 104</p> <p>5.4 VLC Current and Anticipated Future Applications 107</p> <p>5.4.1 Underwater Wireless Communications 109</p> <p>5.4.2 Airlines and Aviation 109</p> <p>5.4.3 Hospitals 110</p> <p>5.4.4 Vehicular Communication Systems 110</p> <p>5.4.5 Sensitive Areas 111</p> <p>5.4.6 Manufacturing and Industrial Applications 111</p> <p>5.4.7 Retail Stores 112</p> <p>5.4.8 Consumer Electronics 112</p> <p>5.4.9 Internet of Things 112</p> <p>5.4.10 Other Application Areas 113</p> <p>5.5 Hybrid VLC and RF Networks 113</p> <p>5.6 Challenges and Open-Ended Issues 114</p> <p>5.6.1 Flicker and Dimming 115</p> <p>5.6.2 Data Rate Improvement 115</p> <p>5.7 Conclusions 116</p> <p>Acknowledgments 116</p> <p>Bibliography 117</p> <p><b>6 5G RAN: Key Radio Technologies and Hardware Implementation Challenges 123<br /></b><i>Hassan Hamdoun, Mohamed Hamid, Shoaib Amin, Hind Dafallah</i></p> <p>6.1 Introduction 123</p> <p>6.2 5G NR-enabled Use Cases 124</p> <p>6.2.1 eMBB and uRLLC 125</p> <p>6.2.2 Migration to 5G 126</p> <p>6.3 5G RAN Radio-enabling Technologies 126</p> <p>6.3.1 Massive MIMO (M-MIMO) 127</p> <p>6.3.2 Carrier Aggregation and Licensed Assisted Access to unlicensed spectrum 130</p> <p>6.3.3 Dual Connectivity 131</p> <p>6.3.4 Device-to-Device (D2D) communication 132</p> <p>6.4 Hardware Impairments 132</p> <p>6.4.1 Hardware Impairments-Transmitters 133</p> <p>6.4.2 Hardware Impairments -- Receivers 135</p> <p>6.4.3 Hardware Impairments -- Transceivers 135</p> <p>6.5 Technology and Fabrication challenges 136</p> <p>6.6 Conclusion 137</p> <p>Bibliography 137</p> <p><b>7 Millimeter Wave Antenna Design for 5G Applications 143<br /></b><i>Issa Elfergani, Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini, Abdelgader Abdalla, Jonathan Rodriguez, Raed Abd-Alhameed</i></p> <p>7.1 Introduction 144</p> <p>7.2 Antenna Design and Procedure 146</p> <p>7.3 Antenna Optimisation and Analysis 147</p> <p>7.3.1 The inuence of ground plane length (GL) 148</p> <p>7.3.2 The effect of feeding strip position (Fp) 148</p> <p>7.3.3 The inuences of the substrate type 149</p> <p>7.4 MMwave Antenna Design with notched frequency band 150</p> <p>7.5 MMwave Antenna Design with Loaded Capacitor 153</p> <p>7.6 Conclusion 156</p> <p>Acknowledgement 156</p> <p>Bibliography 156</p> <p><b>8 Wireless Signal Encapsulation on Seamless Fiber{mmWave System 161<br /></b><i>Pham Tien Dat, Atsushi Kanno, Naokatsu Yamamoto, Testuya Kawanishi</i></p> <p>8.1 Introduction 161</p> <p>8.2 Principle of signal encapsulation 163</p> <p>8.2.1 Downlink system 163</p> <p>8.2.2 Uplink system 165</p> <p>8.3 Examples of signal encapsulation 166</p> <p>8.3.1 Downlink transmission 166</p> <p>8.3.2 Uplink transmission 170</p> <p>8.3.3 MmWave link distance 173</p> <p>8.3.4 Conclusion 175</p> <p>Bibliography 176</p> <p><b>9 5G Optical Sensing Technologies 179<br /></b><i>Seedahmed S. …”
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Photoshop elements 3 : the missing manual by Brundage, Barbara (Barbara K.)

Table of Contents: “…Smart Fix; 4.2.6. Adjusting Lighting and Contrast; 4.2.6.2. Contrast; 4.2.6.3. …”
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Arguably : essays by Christopher Hitchens by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition -- André Malraux: one man's fate -- Arthur Koestler: the zealot -- Isabel Allende: Chile Redux -- The Persian version -- Martin Amis: lightness at midnight -- Imagining Hitler -- Victor Klemperer: survivor -- A war worth fighting -- Just give peace a chance? …”


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Modern construction handbook by Watts, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…2 Daylight3 Thermal performance; 4 Wind; 5 Solar shading; 6 Double skin facades; 7 Natural ventilation; 8 Thermal mass; Low energy material system; 1 Embodied energy; 2 Straw bales and hemp; 3 Rammed earth, cob and adobe bricks; 4 Green wood and bamboo; 5 Green walls; Active design; 1 Solar power and solar heating; 2 Electrical lighting; Support services; 1 Maintenance and cleaning; 2 Lifts; 6 APPLICATIONS; 1 Working with industry; 2 Triangular panels for twisted facades; 3 Twisted panels with flat glass for curved facades; 4 Solar shading louvres; 5 Double-skin facades.…”
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Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications III Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Applicat...

Table of Contents: “…Human Vehicle Control -- Designing robo-taxis to promote ride-pooling -- How to Measure UX and Usability in Today's Connected Vehicles -- Exploring interaction qualities from teenagers’ studying behavior for learning feature in museum exhibit -- Human digital twins and cognitive mimetics -- The Influence of Lighting Settings on Museum’s Brand Image and Human Satisfaction in Exhibition Halls Using Virtual Reality -- Effects of Colors toward Pleasant Impression on Sofa Furniture through Electroencephalography (EEG) -- Exploring a Taxonomy of Interaction in Interactive Sonification Systems -- Artificial Intelligence and Computing -- Talker and Team Dependent Modeling Techniques for Intelligent Interruption Interfaces -- Dimensionality reduction and the strange case of categorical data for predicting defective water meter devices -- Speaker Verification Method Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory for Security System -- Research on Precision of Transmission Mechanism in Flight Control Deck Suite of Civil Aircraft -- A framework for selecting classification models in the intruder detection system using TOPSIS -- Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Simulation -- Physical add-ons for haptic human-surrounding interaction and sensorial augmentation -- A mixed reality interface for handheld 3D scanners -- A Comparative Study of 3 DOF Travel Techniques for Immersive Virtual Flythroughs: the Leap Motion and the Oculus Rift S Hand Controllers -- Use of virtual reality in the nursing school's toco-surgery teaching process -- Digital technologies in expanding the boundaries through immersive spaces: case studies in vessel and yacht design -- Sound perception in 3D virtual environments: Application to a Roman theatre of Hispania -- Design of an innovative system for safety and health at work applied to construction -- -- Wearable Technologies and Affective Computing -- Instagram Photo Sharing and its Relationships with Social Rewards and Social Connectedness -- Building a unique method to teach how to “design” with and for ICS Materials in the wearable domain -- Emotion detection on smartphones through memory tasks involving watching videos -- On Air: flirting with podcasts as an auxiliary educational resource -- Human–computer Interaction -- Design of Digital Mediation Tool for Self-disclosing PTSD -- Mind-reading chatbots: We are not there yet -- Approaching Instant Messaging (IM) by Connecting Usage Scenario and User Interaction for More Meaningful Notification -- A Framework for facilitating Human-Human Interactions to Mitigate Loneliness in Elderly -- -- Healthcare and Medical Applications -- Segmentation of musculotendinous structures of the hip from 3D imaging for patient-specific individualization of biomechanical simulations -- Effective Speech Features for Distinguishing Mild Dementia Patients from Healthy Person -- Blink Detection Using Image Processing to Predict Eye Fatigue -- Human-Technology and Future of Work -- New Investment of Innovative Design of The Future Workstation Advancing Sedentary Work Behavior -- Industry 4.0 in Logistics and associated Employee Competencies – A Technology Providers’ Perspective -- Digital Twin Modeling of Smart Cities -- Upper limbs motion tracking for collaborative robotic applications -- Comparison of muscular activity analysis for electrical tecnicians using exoeskeleton in the Colombia industry, Enel-Codensa study -- Prevention of occupational risks related to the Human-Robot Collaboration -- Emerging Technologies and Applications -- Voice Commerce - Studying the Acceptance of Smart Speakers -- Model to improve the efficiency in the extrusion area in a manufacturing SME of the industrial plastic sector based on SMED, autonomous maintenance and 5S -- Proposal for an early warning system against flood risks in the urban area of Cantón Milagro, Ecuador -- Process management model aligned to the Civil Service Law in public entities of Peru.…”
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Marfa flights : aerial views of Big Bend Country by Chaplo, Paul V.

Table of Contents: “…Corazones Mountains; 21. Marfa Lights, Backstage; 22. Kokernot Mesain Morning Haze; III. …”
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The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook : A Hands-on Guide to Station Design and Maintenance by Whitaker, Jerry

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- SBE Editorial Advisory Board -- Authors -- Preface -- Section 1 Regulatory Issues -- Chapter 1.1 FCC Licensing and Administrative Basics for the Technically Minded -- Chapter 1.2 Chief Operator Requirements -- Chapter 1.3 The Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program (ABIP) -- Chapter 1.4 Broadcast Accessibility Requirements -- Chapter 1.5 The Emergency Alert System -- Section 2 RF Transmission -- Chapter 2.1 AM and FM Transmitters -- Chapter 2.2 Coaxial Transmission Lines -- Chapter 2.3 FM Channel Combiners -- Chapter 2.4 Transmitting Antennas for FM and TV Broadcasting -- Chapter 2.5 Practical Aspects of Maintaining Medium-Wave Antenna Systems -- Chapter 2.6 International Shortwave Broadcasting -- Chapter 2.7 Evaluation of TV Coverage and Interference -- Chapter 2.8 DTV RF Considerations -- Chapter 2.9 ATSC DTV Transmission System -- Chapter 2.10 Television Transmitters -- Chapter 2.11 DTV Mask Filters -- Chapter 2.12 DTV Television RF Measurements -- Chapter 2.13 Hybrid Microwave IP and Cellular Data for Newsgathering -- Section 3 DTV Transport -- Chapter 3.1 MPEG-2 Transport -- Chapter 3.2 Program and System Information Protocol: PSIP -- Chapter 3.3 IP Transport for Mobile DTV -- Chapter 3.4 Mobile Emergency Alert System -- Chapter 3.5 ATSC Mobile DTV System -- Section 4 Information Technology Systems -- Chapter 4.1 Information Technology and the Broadcast Plant -- Chapter 4.2 Network Systems -- Chapter 4.3 Time and Frequency Transfer over Ethernet Using NTP and PTP -- Chapter 4.4 Standards for Video Transport over an IP Network -- Section 5 Production Systems -- Chapter 5.1 Production Facility Design -- Chapter 5.2 Audio System Interconnections -- Chapter 5.3 Audio Monitoring Systems -- Chapter 5.4 Remote Audio Broadcasting -- Chapter 5.5 Master Control and Centralized Facilities -- Chapter 5.6 Video Switchers -- Chapter 5.7 Automation Systems -- Chapter 5.8 Media Asset Management -- Chapter 5.9 Production Intercom Systems -- Chapter 5.10 Broadcast Studio Lighting -- Chapter 5.11 Cellular/IP ENG Systems -- Section 6 Facility Issues -- Chapter 6.1 Broadcast Facility Design -- Chapter 6.2 Wire Management -- Chapter 6.3 Equipment Rack Enclosures and Devices -- Chapter 6.4 Broadcast Systems Cooling and Environmental Management -- Chapter 6.5 Facility Ground System -- Chapter 6.6 AC Power Systems -- Chapter 6.7 Transmission System Maintenance -- Section 7 Broadcast Management -- Chapter 7.1 Management and Leadership -- Chapter 7.2 Project and Systems Management -- Chapter 7.3 Systems Engineering -- Chapter 7.4 Disaster Planning and Recovery for Broadcast Facilities -- Chapter 7.5 Safety Considerations -- Chapter 7.6 About the Society of Broadcast Engineers -- Chapter 7.7 Looking Toward the Future?…”
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Lockdown cultures: the arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-21.

Table of Contents: “…Hart -- 18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665 / Justin Hardy -- Part IV: Literature and writing -- 19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' / Jennifer Rushworth -- 20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen -- 21 The weight of the shrinking world / Florian Mussgnug -- 22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media' / Matthew James Holman -- 23 20,000 leagues under confinement / Patrick Bray -- 24 'Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia' / Tzu-Yu Lin -- Part V: Personal reflections -- 25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian' / Annika Lindskog -- 26 The habit of freedom / Naomi Siderfin -- 27 Pandemic dreaming / Adelais Mills -- 28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's 'In Praise of Blandness' during lockdown / Emily Furnell -- 29 'Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic' / Sarah Moore -- Part VI: Visual responses -- 30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic / SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob) -- 31 Wildfire / John Thomson and Alison Craighead -- 32 Poems from 'Gospel Oak / Sharon Morris -- 33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist / Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber -- 34 Inventory / Jayne Parker -- 35 After a long time or a short time / Elisabeth S. …”
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Computer Vision - ACCV 2012 Workshops ACCV 2012 International Workshops, Daejeon, Korea, November 5-6, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II by Park, Jong-Il

Table of Contents: “…-- Coarse-to-Fine Correspondence Search for Classifying Ancient Coins -- Archiving Mural Paintings Using an Ontology Based Approach -- Robust Image Deblurring Using Hyper Laplacian Model -- SVD Based Automatic Detection of Target Regions for Image Inpainting -- Presentation of Japanese Cultural Event Using Virtual Reality -- High-Resolution and Multi-spectral Capturing for Digital Archiving of Large 3D Woven Cultural Artifacts -- Exploring High-Level Plane Primitives for Indoor 3D Reconstruction with a Hand-held RGB-D Camera -- A Fusion Framework of Stereo Vision and Kinect for High-Quality Dense Depth Maps -- Robust Fall Detection by Combining 3D Data and Fuzzy Logic -- KinectAvatar: Fully Automatic Body Capture Using a Single Kinect -- Essential Body-Joint and Atomic Action Detection for Human Activity -- Recognition Using Longest Common Subsequence Algorithm -- Exploiting Depth and Intensity Information for Head Pose Estimation with Random Forests and Tensor Models -- Dynamic Hand Shape Manifold Embedding and Tracking from Depth Maps -- View-Invariant Object Detection by Matching 3D Contours -- Human Detection with Occlusion Handling by Over-Segmentation and Clustering on Foreground Regions -- Spin Image Revisited: Fast Candidate Selection Using Outlier Forest Search -- MRF Guided Anisotropic Depth Diffusion for Kinect Range Image Enhancement -- A Priori-Driven PCA -- The Face Speaks: Contextual and Temporal Sensitivity to Backchannel Responses -- Virtual View Generation Using Clustering Based Local View Transition Model -- 3D Facial Expression Synthesis from a Single Image Using a Model Set -- Face Hallucination on Personal Photo Albums -- Techniques for Mimicry and Identity Blending Using Morph Space PCA -- Facial and Vocal Cues in Perceptions of Trustworthiness -- Disagreement-Based Multi-system Tracking -- Monocular Pedestrian Tracking from a Moving Vehicle -- Tracking the Untrackable : How to Track When Your Object Is Featureless -- A Robust Particle Tracker via Markov Chain Monte Carlo Posterior Sampling -- A Framework for Inter-camera Association of Multi-target Trajectories by Invariant Target Models -- Colour Descriptors for Tracking in Spatial Augmented Reality -- Covariance Descriptor Multiple Object Tracking and Re-identification with Colorspace Evaluation -- Iterative Hypothesis Testing for Multi-object Tracking with Noisy/Missing Appearance Features -- Novel Adaptive Eye Detection and Tracking for Challenging Lighting Conditions -- Obstacles Extraction Using a Moving Camera -- Scene Text Detection and Tracking for a Camera-Equipped Wearable Reading Assistant for the Blind -- Object Tracking across Non-overlapping Cameras Using Adaptive Models -- Combining Fast Extracted Edge Descriptors and Feature Sharing for Rapid Object Detection -- Motion Segmentation by Velocity Clustering with Estimation of Subspace Dimension -- Beyond Spatial Pyramid Matching: Spatial Soft Voting for Image Classification -- Efficient Geometric Re-ranking for Mobile Visual Search -- Intelligent Photographing Interface with On-Device Aesthetic Quality Assessment -- Camera Pose Estimation of a Smartphone at a Field without Interest Points -- Hierarchical Scan-Line Dynamic Programming for Optical Flow Using Semi-global Matching Novel Multi-view Synthesis from a Stereo Image Pair for 3D Display on Mobile Phone -- An Accurate Method for Line Detection and Manhattan Frame Estimation -- Hierarchical Stereo Matching Based on Image Bit-Plane Slicing.…”
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Classical Recording : A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition by Haigh, Caroline, Dunkerley, John, Rogers, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- 2 Studio techniques and working on location -- 2.1 Equipment -- 2.2 Practicalities at the recording venue -- 2.3 Rigging microphones and running cables -- 2.4 The control room -- 2.5 Studio communications: talkback, telephones, and cue lights -- 2.6 Optimising recording workflow -- 2.7 Running the session -- Part II Recording -- 3 Basic two-microphone stereo techniques -- 3.1 Co-incident microphone techniques -- 3.2 Spaced omnis -- 3.3 Spaced and angled cardioids -- 4 Solo instruments -- 4.1 Classical guitar and flamenco guitar -- 4.2 Harp -- 4.3 Violin -- 4.4 Cello -- 4.5 Woodwinds -- 4.6 Harpsichord -- 5 The piano -- 5.1 The nature of the sound of a piano -- 5.2 The physical layout of a grand piano -- 5.3 The piano lid -- 5.4 Recording aims -- 5.5 Recording a solo piano: the spaced pair -- 5.6 The Decca piano technique -- 5.7 Techniques for other scenarios -- 5.8 Practical issues when recording pianos -- 6 Voice: solo and accompanied -- 6.1 The singer in a recording session -- 6.2 The classical voice and microphone placement -- 6.3 Using two microphones on the voice -- 6.4 Microphone choice -- 6.5 Use of ambient pairs -- 6.6 Concert recording layout -- 6.7 Studio recording and reverse concert positions -- 6.8 Classical voice and lute/theorbo/guitar -- 6.9 Mixing and fader riding for a singer -- 7 Solo instruments and piano -- 7.1 Violin and piano in concert -- 7.2 Violin and piano: studio layout -- 7.3 Cello and piano in concert -- 7.4 Cello and piano: studio layout -- 7.5 Woodwind and piano -- 7.6 Brass and piano -- 8 The Decca Tree -- 8.1 What is the Decca Tree? …”
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