Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide

Table of Contents: “…Adhesives -- Advertising -- Affluenza -- Air travel -- Apparel -- Audio equipment -- Automobiles -- Baby products -- Beverages -- Biodegradability -- Books -- Bottled beverages (water) -- Carbon credits -- Carbon emissions -- Carbon offsets -- Car washing -- Certification process -- Certified products (fair trade or organic) -- Cleaning products -- Coffee -- Commodity fetishism -- Commuting -- Composting -- Computers and printers confections -- Conspicuous consumption -- Consumer activism -- Consumer behavior -- Consumer boycotts -- Consumer culture -- Consumer ethics -- Consumerism -- Consumer society -- Cosmetics -- Dairy products -- Demographics -- Diderot effect -- Disparities in consumption -- Disposable plates and plastic implements -- Downshifting -- Dumpster diving -- Durability -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological footprint -- Ecotourism -- Electricity usage -- Energy efficiency of products and appliances -- Environmentalism -- Environmentally friendly -- Ethically produced products -- E-waste -- Fair trade -- Fashion -- Final consumption -- Finance and economics -- Fish -- Floor and wall coverings -- Food additives -- Food miles -- Frugality -- Fuel -- Funerals -- Furniture -- Gardening/growing -- Garden tools and appliances -- Genetically modified products -- Gifting (green gifts) -- Government policy and practice (local and national) -- Grains -- Green communities -- Green consumer -- Green consumerism organizations -- Green design -- Green discourse -- Green food -- Green gross domestic product -- Green homes -- Green marketing -- Green politics -- Greenwashing -- Healthcare -- Heating and cooling -- Home appliances -- Home shopping and catalogs -- Homewares -- Insulation -- International regulatory frameworks -- Internet purchasing -- Kyoto Protocol -- Lawns and landscaping -- Leisure and recreation -- Lifestyle, rural -- Lifestyle, suburban -- Lifestyle, sustainable -- Lifestyle, urban -- Lighting -- Linen and bedding -- Local exchange trading schemes -- Locally made -- Magazines -- Malls -- Markets (organic/farmers) -- Materialism -- Meat -- Mobile phones -- Morality (consumer ethics) -- Needs and wants -- Organic -- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) -- Overconsumption -- Packaging and product containers -- Paper products -- Personal products -- Pesticides and fertilizers -- Pets -- Pharmaceuticals -- Plants -- Positional goods -- Poultry and eggs -- Poverty -- Pricing -- Production and commodity chains -- Product sharing -- Psychographics -- Public transportation -- Quality of life -- Recyclable products -- Recycling -- Regulation -- Resource consumption and usage -- Seasonal products -- Secondhand consumption -- Services -- Shopping -- Shopping bags -- Simple living -- Slow food -- Social identity -- Solid and human waste sports -- Supermarkets -- Super rich -- Sustainable consumption -- Swimming pools and spas -- Symbolic consumption -- Taxation -- Tea -- Television and DVD Equipment -- Tools -- Toys -- United Nations Human Development Report 1998 -- Vege-box schemes -- Vegetables and fruits -- Waste disposal -- Water -- Websites and blogs -- Windows.…”
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Teaching nursing : developing a student-centered learning environment

Table of Contents: “…Pratt -- From filling a bucket to lighting a fire: aligning nursing education and nursing practice / Helen Brown and Gweneth Hartrick Doane -- Theories and concepts to guide distance education using student-centered approaches / Victoria S. …”


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Asterisk 1.4 - the Professional's Guide : the Professional's Guide. by Carpenter, Colman

Table of Contents: “…Outgoing trunk selection; Calling extensions; Setting lights; Boosting outgoing call capacity; Using multiple broadband lines; Configuration overview; Setting up the routing in Linux; Configuring Asterisk; Explanation of the macro; Downsides; System() application; Summary; 2. …”
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A Companion to Fritz Lang. by McElhaney, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; Title page; Copyright page; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part One: Looking, Power, Interpretation; Part Two: Myths, Legends, and Tragic Visions; Part Three: Matters of Form; Part Four: Rediscoveries and Returns; Works Cited; Part One: Looking, Power, Interpretation; 2 Why Lang Could Become Preferable to Hitchcock; Works Cited; 3 While Not Looking; Other Critics, Other Senses; Lang and Popular Cinema in Weimar Germany; Lighting and Mise-en-Scène; Parallel Editing and the Blindness to Events Unfolding Simultaneously.…”
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American Film History : Selected Readings, Origins To 1960. by Lucia, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Early Background: Vaudeville, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Film -- Story Films, Melodrama, and Uplift -- White-Owned Race Film Companies: Competition and Collaboration -- The Minors: Lesser-Known Race Film Companies -- The End: The Coming of Sound -- Notes -- References -- 5 Chaplin and Silent Film Comedy -- The Tramp and Chaplin's Rise to Stardom -- From Willie Work to the Glasses Character: Harold Lloyd -- A Calm Demeanor Beneath a Porkpie Hat: Buster Keaton -- City Lights: A Farewell to Silent Film Comedy -- References…”
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Internet of Things with Python. by Hillar, Gaston C.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6: Working with Analog Inputs and Local Storage Understanding the analog inputs; Wiring an analog input pin with a voltage source; Measuring voltage with analog inputs and the mraa library; Wiring a photoresistor to an analog input pin; Determining the darkness level with analog inputs and the mraa library; Firing actions when the environment light changes; Controlling analog inputs with the wiring-x86 library; Logging to files in the local storage; Working with USB attached storage; Test your knowledge; Summary; Chapter 7: Retrieving Data from the Real World with Sensors.…”
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Cocos2d cross-platform game development cookbook : develop games for iOS and Android using Cocos2d with the aid of over 70 step-by-step recipes by Shekar, Siddharth

Table of Contents: “…Adding audio effectsAdding a mute button; Adding a volume slider; Adding a pause and resume button; Introduction; Patrol enemy behavior; Projectile shooting enemy; Chasing enemy behavior; A* pathfinding; Introduction; Loading the XML file data; Saving to the XML file data; Loading the JSON file data; Loading the PLIST file data; Saving the PLIST file data; Using NSUserDefaults; Introduction; CCEffects; Adding the glass effect; Adding the motion streak effect; Adding the particle effect; Adding 2D lighting; Introduction; Glyph Designer; Particle system; TexturePacker; PhysicsEditor.…”
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Smart Multimedia Third International Conference, ICSM 2022, Marseille, France, August 25–27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Machine Learning for Multimedia -- Normalizing Flow Based Surface Defect Detection -- FUNet: Flow Based Conference Video Background Subtraction -- IARG: Improved Actor Relation Graph-based Group Activity Recognition -- SPGNet: Spatial Projection Guided 3D Human Pose Estimation in Low Dimensional Space -- Image Processing -- Unsupervised Face Frontalization GAN Driven by 3D Rotation and Symmetric Filling -- Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Multi-Scale Gaussian Rolling Guidance Filter Decomposition -- Multi-Directional Edge Detection Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Logic Judgment -- Multimedia Applications -- Security Concerns and Citizens' Privacy Implications in Smart Multimedia Applications -- Metric Learning on Complex Projective Spaces -- Gamified Smart Grid Implementation through Pico, Nano, and Microgrids in a Sustainable Campus -- Product Re-Identification System in Fully Automated Defect Detection -- Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care -- A Real-Time Fall Classification Model Based on Frame Series Motion Deformation -- GradXcepUNet: Explainable AI Based Medical Image Segmentation -- Non-Invasive Anemia Detection from Conjunctival Images -- 3D Segmentation and Visualization of Human Brain CT Images for Surgical Training - a VTK Approach -- Smart Homes -- The Energy 4.0 Concept and Its Relationship with the S3 Framework -- A Real-Time Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model for Sustainable Energy in Interactive Smart Homes: Part I -- A Real-Time Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model for Sustainable Energy in Interactive Smart Homes: Part II -- Multimedia Environments and Metaverse -- Including Grip Strength Activities into Tabletop Training Environments -- Matrix World – A Programmable 3D Multichain Metaverse -- Matrix Syncer - A Multi-Chain Data Aggregator for Supporting Blockchain-Based Metaverses -- Construction and Design of Food Traceability Based on Blockchain Technology Applying in the Metaverse -- Deep Learning on Video and Music -- Motion Segmentation Based on Pixel Distribution Learning on Unseen Videos -- Estimation of Music Recording Quality to Predict Automatic Music Transcription Performance -- Unleashing the Potential of Data Analytics through Music -- Haptic -- Impact of PGM Training on Reaction Time and Sense of Agency -- Epidural Motor Skills Measurements for Haptic Training -- Sensorless Force Approximation Control of 3-DOF Passive Haptic Devices -- Passive Haptic Learning as a Reinforcement Modality for Information -- Industrial -- Lighting Enhancement Using Self-Attention Guided HDR Reconstruction -- MoCap Trajectory-Based Animation Synthesis and Perplexity Driven Compression -- Hyperspectral Image Denoising Based on Dual Low-Rank Structure Preservation -- SimFormer: Real-To-Sim Transfer with Recurrent Restoration -- Spatio-Frequency Analysis for High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar Ship Target Detection.…”
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Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+ : new perspectives in literature, film and the arts

Table of Contents: “…Escaping the matrix : illusions and disillusions of identity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) / Michael Mitchell ; 'East is east and west is west' : a reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006) / Ellen Dengel-Janic ; 'Stop thinking like and Englishman' or Writing against a fixed lexicon or terrorism in Patrick Neate's City of tiny lights (2005) / Yvonne Rosenberg ; 'A deconstructed shrine' : locating absence and relocating identity in Rodinsky's Room (2000) / Stephan Laqué ; 'Societies within' : council estates as cultural enclaves in recent urban fictions / Susanne Cuevas -- Interviews. …”
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Gerontechnology : research, practice, and principles in the field of technology and aging

Table of Contents: “…Lim, A. Newell -- Quality lighting for health and independence in aging / E. …”
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Beginning Windows 8 application development by Novák, István, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…s Point of ViewWindows 8 Development Architecture -- Understanding Windows Runtime -- .NET Framework 4.5 -- Picking the Appropriate Technology for Your Project -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Getting to Know Your Development Environment -- Introducing the Toolset -- A Short Tour of the Visual Studio IDE -- Lighting Up Your Applications with Expression Blend -- Summary -- Part II: Creating Windows 8 Applications -- Chapter 5: Principles of Modern Windows Application Development -- Windows 8 Style Applications…”
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EMF Effects from Power Sources and Electrosmog by Rea, William J. (Physician)

Table of Contents: “…ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FILTERSPOWER LINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: Electrosmog from Communication Equipment; INTRODUCTION; SOURCES OF ELECTROSMOG FROM COMMUNICATION AND MOBILE GENERATORS; TRANSIENT ELECTRICAL GENERATORS OF DIRTY ELECTRICITY; ATTACHMENT TO WHOLE COUNTRY; Skin Effect; Electromagnetic Field Behavior of Radio Frequency Smog; Compact Fluorescent Lights and Radio Frequency; BASE STATION ANTENNAS FOR GENERATING SIGNALS VS. …”
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Negotiating at work : turn small wins into big gains by Kolb, Deborah M.

Table of Contents: “…Don't Let Expectations Limit Your OptionsPositioning to Negotiate; "Constructing" n-Negotiations; Positioning: Your Role as Negotiator; Positioning: The Other Person's Role; Taking Stock of Your Value; Set Your Value in a Currency That the Other Party Values; Challenge 1: Figure Out What Your Value Proposition Is; Challenge 2: Plan to Make Your Value Visible; BATNA: Positioning Yourself in Light of Alternatives to Agreement; BATNA in the Context of n-Negotiations; What Charlotte's Case Teaches Us; Second-Generation Issues and Small Wins.…”
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Shooting women : behind the camera, around the world by Margolis, Harriet Elaine, Krasilovsky, Alexis, Stein, Julia

Table of Contents: “…""Chapter 4: Hollywood, Bollywood, Independents, and Short Forms""""Hollywood""; ""Indian Cinema""; ""The Freedom of Independent Films""; ""Music Videos""; ""Commercials and Such""; ""Experimental/Avant-Garde Films and Videos""; ""Art Films and Videos""; ""Shooting Special Material: Birth""; ""Chapter 5: Special Skills and Creativity""; ""Handheld Camerawork""; ""Cranes""; ""Underwater""; ""Helicopters""; ""Special Effects""; ""Lighting as a Cinematographerâ#x80;#x99;s Dream Job""; ""Digital Technology""; ""Style""; ""Chapter 6: Shooting Around the World""; ""Erika Addis on Beginning her Career""…”
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Fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Energy Efficiency: 35. Lighting/appliances; 36. Increasing building energy efficiency through advances in materials; 37. …”
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International directory of company histories. Volume 129

Table of Contents: “…. -- Jazz Basketball Investors, Incorporated -- Jenoptik Aktiengesellschaft -- Koss Corporation -- Language Line Services, Incorporated -- Lighting Science Group Corporation -- Limelight Networks, Incorporated -- Linfox Logistics Proprietary Limited -- Los Angeles Dodgers, Incorporated -- Los Angeles Lakers, Incorporated -- Luna Innovations, Incorporated -- Measurement Incorporated -- Meetic S.A. -- Metcash Limited -- Millbrook Proving Ground Limited -- Nam Tai Electronics, Incorporated -- New York Knickerbockers -- New Zealand Post Group --…”
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From me to we : why commercial collaboration will future-proof business, leaders and personal success by Garner, Janine

Table of Contents: “…Then make the decisions big; Take calculated risks; Lights, camera, action; The discomfort zone; Be alert and alarmed; There is no I in ... ; chapter 12 ReConnect Principle 7 -- Sponsor others; Sponsors vs mentors; Sponsorship as part of the We economy; A laser-sharp focus on sponsorship; Conclusion; Index; Advert; EULA.…”
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Carbon quantum dots for sustainable energy and optoelectronics

Table of Contents: “…5.2.1.3 Amino-functionalized carbon quantum dots -- 5.2.1.4 Spiropyran-functionalized carbon quantum dots -- 5.2.2 Microwave-assisted pyrolysis -- 5.2.2.1 Hyperbranched polyethylenimine and isobutyric amide functionalized C-dots -- 5.2.2.2 Organosilane functionalized carbon quantum dots -- 5.2.2.3 Organic dye-functionalized carbon quantum dot -- 5.2.3 Sol-gel reaction -- 5.2.4 Condensation reaction -- 5.2.4.1 Europium-adjusted carbon dots -- 5.2.5 Oxidation-polymerization reaction -- 5.3 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Photodetector applications of carbon and graphene quantum dots -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Synthesis of carbon quantum dots and graphene quantum dots -- 6.2.1 Top-down synthesis process -- 6.2.2 Bottom-up synthesis process -- 6.3 Optical absorption, emission, and electrical properties -- 6.4 Optoelectronics applications of carbon quantum dots and graphene quantum dots -- 6.5 Photodetector applications of carbon quantum dots and graphene quantum dots -- 6.5.1 FET-based photodetectors using carbon quantum dots and graphene quantum dots -- 6.5.2 Carbon quantum dots or graphene quantum dots-sensitized nanomaterial-based photodetectors -- 6.5.3 Polymer nanocomposite-based photodetectors -- 6.6 Conclusions -- References -- 7 Photovoltaic application of carbon quantum dots -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Carbon quantum dots in dye-sensitized solar cells -- 7.2.1 Carbon quantum dots as sensitizer -- 7.2.2 Carbon quantum dots as counter electrode -- 7.3 Carbon quantum dots in organic solar cells -- 7.4 Carbon quantum dots in solid-state solar cells -- 7.5 Carbon quantum dots in perovskite solar cells -- 7.6 Carbon quantum dots in all-weather solar cells -- 7.7 Summary and perspective -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Light-emitting diode application of carbon quantum dots -- 8.1 Introduction.…”
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Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries. by Eckhoff, Rolf K.

Table of Contents: “…2.2.3 Ignition by Open Flames and Hot Gases -- 2.2.4 Ignition by Hot Surfaces -- 2.2.4.1 Overview -- 2.2.4.2 Minimum Ignition Temperatures of Multicomponent Fuels in Air -- 2.2.4.3 Solution for the Future: Dynamic Computer Simulation Models of Hot Surface Ignition -- 2.2.4.4 Standard Test Methods for Tmin -- 2.2.5 Ignition by Burning Metal Particles, "Thermite" Reactions, and Transient "Hot-Spots" -- 2.2.5.1 Introductory Overview -- 2.2.5.2 Ignition by Small Burning Metal Particles from Single Impacts -- 2.2.5.3 Ignition by Thermite Flashes -- 2.2.5.4 Ignition by Transient Hot-Spots -- 2.2.6 Ignition by Electric Sparks, Arcs, and Electrostatic Discharges -- 2.2.6.1 Electric Sparks Between Two Conducting Electrodes -- 2.2.6.2 Various Forms of One-Electrode Electrostatic Discharges from Charged Nonconductors: Concept of "Equivalent Energy" -- 2.2.7 Ignition by a Jet of Hot Combustion Products -- 2.2.7.1 The Basic Process -- 2.2.7.2 Grouping of Ignition Sensitivity of Premixed Gas/Air According to MESG -- 2.2.8 Ignition by Rapid Adiabatic Compression -- 2.2.9 Ignition by Light Radiation -- 2.2.10 Concluding Remark -- 2.3 CASE HISTORIES OF ACCIDENTAL GAS/VAPOR CLOUD EXPLOSIONS -- 2.3.1 Motivation -- 2.3.2 Historical Perspective: Methane Explosions in Coal Mines -- 2.3.3 Some Older Published Reviews of Major Accidental Gas/Vapor Cloud Explosions -- 2.3.4 The Flixborough Disaster, United Kingdom (1974) -- 2.3.4.1 Summary -- 2.3.4.2 The Process and the Plant -- 2.3.4.3 Events Prior to the Explosion -- 2.3.4.4 The Explosion -- 2.3.4.5 The Investigation -- 2.3.5 The Beek Explosion, The Netherlands (1975) -- 2.3.5.1 Summary -- 2.3.5.2 Process and Plant -- 2.3.5.3 Events Prior to the Explosion -- 2.3.5.4 The Explosion -- 2.3.5.5 Computer Simulation -- 2.3.6 The Arendal Explosion, Gothenburg, Sweden (1981) -- 2.3.6.1 Summary -- 2.3.6.2 The Site of the Event.…”
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Additive manufacturing technology : design, optimization and modeling

Table of Contents: “…2.3.2.2 Effects of Living Cells on Printing Dynamics and Jetting Behaviors -- 2.3.3 Freeform Drop-on-Demand Laser Printing of 3D Alginate and Cellular Constructs -- 2.3.3.1 Overhang Construct Fabrication -- 2.3.3.2 Bifurcated Alginate/Cellular Constructs -- 2.4 Support Bath-Enabled Printing-then-Solidification Extrusion -- 2.4.1 Introduction to Support Bath-Enabled 3D Printing -- 2.4.2 Printing-then-Solidification Extrusion of Alginate and Cellular Structures -- 2.4.2.1 Carbopol-Enabled Two-Step Gelation Approach -- 2.4.2.2 3D Bioprinting of Y-Shaped Tubular Structures -- 2.4.3 Printing-then-Solidification of Liquid Materials in Nanoclay Suspension -- 2.4.3.1 Laponite Utilized as the Support Bath Material for Extrusion Printing -- 2.4.3.2 Gelatin-Based Cellular Construct Fabrication -- 2.5 Continuous Precuring Digital Light Processing (DLP) Printing -- 2.5.1 Introduction to DLP Printing -- 2.5.2 Theoretical Prediction of DLP Working Curve for Photocurable Materials -- 2.5.2.1 Analytical Model of Jacobs Working Curve -- 2.5.2.2 Influence of UV Absorber Concentration -- 2.5.3 Pre-curing Digital Light Processing (DLP) Printing -- 2.5.3.1 The Tunable Pre-curing DLP Printing Approach -- 2.5.3.2 Improving DLP Printing Efficiency by Pre-curing DLP Printing -- 2.5.3.3 Validation of Pre-curing DLP Printing -- 2.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 Alloy Design for Metal Additive Manufacturing -- 3.1 Additive Manufacturing -- 3.1.1 Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing -- 3.1.2 Alloy Development -- 3.1.3 Available Alloys -- 3.1.3.1 Ti-6Al-4V -- 3.1.3.2 Superalloys -- 3.1.3.3 316L Stainless Steel -- 3.1.3.4 AlSi10Mg -- 3.2 Melting and Cooling Processes and Associated Defects -- 3.2.1 The Process -- 3.2.2 Defects -- 3.2.2.1 Solidification Cracks -- 3.2.2.2 Liquation Cracks -- 3.2.2.3 Solid-State Cracking and Residual Stress -- 3.2.2.4 Lack-of-Fusion Porosity.…”
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