Advanced Composites

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Classification and Application of Advanced Composite Materials -- Chapter 2: Advanced Composites of Nanomaterials and their Applications -- Chapter 3: Advances in Composites for Solid-phase (Micro) extraction -- Chapter 4: Composite Materials for Ballistic Applications -- Chapter 5: Additive manufacturing for complex geometries in polymer composites -- Chapter 6: Eco/Friendly polymer-based composites for nuclear shielding applications -- Chapter 7:Mechanical and Tribological Behaviour of Hybrid Polymer and Hybrid Sandwich Composites -- Chapter 8: Nanocomposites Based on Conducting Polymers and Nanomaterials Derived from Natural Polymers -- Chapter 9: Mechanical and sliding wear performance of ZA27-Gr alloy composites for bearing applications: Analysis using Preference Selection Index Method -- Chapter 10: Mechanical and Tribological aspects of Aluminium alloy composites for Gear application - A Review -- Chapter 11: Microcavity Mediated Light Emissions from Plasmonic and Dielectric Composites -- Chapter 12: Fabrication and Application of Graphene Composite Materials -- Chapter 13: Sustainable grinding performances of Nano SiC reinforced Al matrix composites under Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) -- Chapter 14: Waste-based zeolites and their advanced composites for wastewater and environmental remediation applications -- Chapter 15: Advanced composites for drug adsorption -- Chapter 16: Advances in manufacturing and processing of discontinuous particle reinforced titanium matrix composites (TMCs) -- Chapter 17: Metal based Electrical Contact Materials -- Chapter 18: Organosulfur polymer composites by free radical polymerization of sulfur with vegetable oils -- Index.…”
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Optical Switching in Next Generation Data Centers

Table of Contents: “…Torus-Topology Data Center Networks with Hybrid Opto-electronic Routers -- Chapter 8.LIGHTNESS: All-Optical SDN-enabled Intra-DCN with Optical Circuit and Packet Switching -- Chapter 9.Hybrid OPS/EPS Photonic Ethernet Switch and Pure Photonic Packet Switch -- Chapter 10. …”
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Green carbon dioxide : advances in CO2 utilization

Table of Contents: “…Kumaravel -- Synthetic fuel production from the catalytic thermochemical conversion of carbon dioxide / Navadol Laosiripojana, Kajornsak Faungnawakij, and Suttichai Assabumrungrat -- Fuel production from photocatalytic reduction of CO2 with water using TiO2-based nanocomposites / Ying Li -- Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons using carbon-based AgBr nanocomposites under visible light / Mudar Abou Asi, Chun He, Qiong Zhang, Zuocheng Xu, Jingling Yang, Linfei Zhu, Yanling Huang, Ya Xiong, and Dong Shu -- Use of carbon dioxide in enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture and sequestration / Suguru Uemura, Shohji Tsushima, and Shuichiro Hirai.…”
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Witnessing the American Century : Via Berlin, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and the Straits of Florida. by Brady, Capt. Allen Colby

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part 1; Chapter 1: A Flash of Orange Light; Chapter 2: Heartbreak Hotel; Chapter 3: The Code; Chapter 4: Little Vegas; Chapter 5: My Friend Fred and Our Pet Spider; Part 2; Chapter 6: To China in the Springtime; Chapter 7: An Exotic World; Chapter 8: War; Chapter 9: Academy Man; Part 3; Chapter 10: Boring Holes in the Sky; Chapter 11: Operation Hardtack; Chapter 12: Old, Bold Pilots; Chapter 13: Bahia de Cochinos; Chapter 14: Greek Games; Chapter 15: Brinkmanship…”
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Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Table of Contents: “…A Color Image Segmentation Scheme for Extracting Foreground from Images with Unconstrained Lighting Conditions -- Automatic Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Thermographic Color Analysis and SVM Classifier -- Enhancement of Dental Digital X-Ray Images Based on the Image Quality -- MRI/CT Image Fusion Using Gabor Texture Features -- Face Recognition in Videos Using Gabor Filters -- Convolutional Neural Networks Based Method for Improving Facial Expression Recognition -- Composition of DCT-SVD Image Watermarking and Advanced Encryption Standard Technique for Still Image -- Performance Analysis of Human Detection and Tracking System in Changing Illumination -- Comparative Analysis of Segmentation Algorithms Using Threshold and K-Mean Clustering -- Semi-Supervised FCM and SVM in Co-Training Framework for the Classification of Hyperspectral Images -- Segmentation of Thermal Images Using Thresholding-Based Methods for Detection of Malignant Tumours -- Recognition of Handwritten Benzene Structure with Support Vector Machine and -- Logistic Regression a Comparative Study -- Image and Pixel Based Scheme for Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images -- Leaf Recognition Algorithm for Retrieving Medicinal Information -- Camouflaged Target Detection and Tracking Using Thermal Infrared and Visible Spectrum Imaging -- Heuristic Approach for Face Recognition Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization -- ILTDS: Intelligent Lung Tumor Detection System on CT Images -- Blink Analysis Using Eye Gaze Tracker -- A Survey of Brain MRI Image Segmentation Methods and the Issues Involved -- Scene Understanding in Images.…”
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Electronic Processes in Organic Electronics Bridging Nanostructure, Electronic States and Device Properties

Table of Contents: “…PART I Bridging electronic states and electrical conductivity: Fundamental aspects on organic semiconductors and their interfaces: Experimental electronic structure of organic-device related systems -- Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) I: Band dispersion measurements of “Insulating” organic single crystals -- Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) II: Electron-phonon coupling and hopping mobility -- Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) III: Direct study of “invisible” band gap states by ultrahigh-sensitivity UPS -- Pentacene becomes Mott-Hubbard insulator by potassium doping -- Vertical Bonding Distances Impact Organic-Metal Interface Energetics -- Structure matters: Controlling organic thin film structure and its impact on the energy level alignment at organic interfaces -- Photoelectron yield spectroscopy (PYS) and low energy photoelectron spectroscopy (LE-PES) for organic Materials and interfaces -- PART II Organic devices and their properties: Fabrications and characterization of organic devices -- Carrier transport band in practical polycrystalline organic thin films -- Materials for organic light emitting diode (OLED) -- DNA electronics and photonics -- PART III Theoretical study: Theory of photoelectron spectroscopy -- Theoretical aspect of atomic impurity in organic systems -- Numerical approach to charge transport problems on molecular systems -- PART IV Bridging different fields - Challenges for the future: Function and Molecular Tiling of Conjugated -Electronic Carbon Walled Nanospaces -- Unique phase behaviors of room-temperature ionic liquids induced by hierarchical ion dynamics -- Single molecular spintronics -- Application of vortex lasers to material processing. .…”
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The Jewish self-portrait in European and American literature

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Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world

Table of Contents: “…The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts; Chapter 5 The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature.…”
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Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era

Table of Contents: “…Alter -- Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929) / Margaret McCarthy -- The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930) / Lutz Koepnick -- National Cinemas / International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions / Patrice Petro -- Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) / Richard W. …”


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What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England by Pool, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Houses with Names. Furniture. Lighting. How the English Kept Clean. "Please, Sir, I Want Some More." …”


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In defence of theatre : aesthetic practices and social interventions by Gallagher, Kathleen, 1965-, Freeman, Barry, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Using theatre to promote positive interdisciplinary intercourse / James McKinnon -- Thinking beyond the boundaries of theatre, math and reality / John Mighton in conversation with Kathleen Gallagher -- From Epidaurus to the BackSpace at Passe Muraille: hard seats, real theatre / Judith Thompson -- Sequencing the shattered narratives of the now / Ann-Marie MacDonald in conversation with Kathleen Gallagher -- A small essay on the largeness of light / Daniel David Moses.…”
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Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America by Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light -- Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A new exoticist perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru -- Part Four Performance -- Chapter 10. …”
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3D Imaging—Multidimensional Signal Processing and Deep Learning 3D Images, Graphics and Information Technologies, Volume 1

Table of Contents: “…Color Restoration of RGB-NIR Images in Low-light Environment Using CycleGAN -- A Novel Space Division Rough Set Model for Feature Selection -- Development of Mobile Food Recognition System Based on Deep Convolutional Network -- Image-Based Physics Rendering for 3D Surface Reconstruction: A Survey -- Network Intrusion Detection Based on Apriori-Kmeans Algorithm -- Global Analysis of Discrete S-I-R Models and S-I-S Systems -- Overview of SAR Image Change Detection Based on Segmentation -- Water Environmental Quality Assessment and Effect Prediction Based on Artificial Neural Network -- Full-Focus Imaging Detection of Ship Ultrasonic Phased Array Based on Directivity Function -- Longitudinal Structure Analysis and Segmentation Algorithm of Dongba Document -- Image Recognition Methods Based on Deep Learning -- Insulator Detection Study Based on Improved Faster-RCNN -- Comparative Analysis of Automatic Poetry Generation Systems Based on Different Recurrent Neural Networks -- Grid False Data Intrusion Detection Method Based on Edge Computing and Federated Learning -- Research on the Simulation of Informationized Psychological Sand Table Based on 3D Scene -- Innovative Design of Traditional Arts and Crafts Based on 3D Digital Technology -- Citrus Positioning Method Based On Camera And Lidar Data Fusion -- Research on Graphic Design of Digital Media Art based on Computer Aided Algorithm -- Ore Detection Method Based on YOLOv4.…”
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In broken Latin : poems by Spaulding-Convy, Annette, 1963-

Table of Contents: “….; After Reciting 333 Titles for The Virgin Mary, I Remember Only 4; In the Convent We Become Clouds; from Uterine Dogma; Saint Valentine's Dinner with Nuns; Midnight Snack with Saint Agatha; There Were No Rules about Underwear; Confessions from an Apiary; Madonna after Vespers (Remix); Lighting Candles to Patsy Cline; Wearing a Scarf of Recycled Sari Yarn, I Want Other Gods; Against the Rules, I've Added Honey to the Altar Bread; II.; The Girl with the Tiny Pocketknife; Feeding Stations of the Cross; Three Classes of Relics; Bonsai Nun.…”
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Novel dairy processing technologies : techniques, management, and energy conservation

Table of Contents: “…Gupta -- Dairy foods : allergy and intolerance / Mohammed Nayeem, Gurdeep Rattu, Rohant Dhaka, Ajay Kumar Kashyap, Nishant Kumar, and Pramod Kumar -- Day lighting in dairy farms / Bhavesh B. Chavhan, A.K. …”
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Crafting textiles in the digital age

Table of Contents: “…Campbell; 1 Introduction Faith Kane, Nithikul Nimkulrat, and Kerry Walton; Part One Digital Technologies Informing Craft; 2 Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age: Printed Textiles Cathy Treadaway; 3 Digital Embroidery Practice Tina Downes, Tessa Acti, and Donna Rumble-Smith; 4 Textile Illusions-Patterns of Light and the Woven White Screen Anne Louise Bang, Helle Trolle, and Anne Mette Larsen ; 5 The Intelligence of the Hand Monika Auch.…”
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Polymers and polymeric composites : properties, optimization, and applications

Table of Contents: “…A study on absorption and reflection of infrared light by the uncoated and Al coated surfaces of polymer films techniques / Esen Arkiş and Devrim Balköse -- 2. …”
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Writing centers and the new racism : a call for sustainable dialogue and change

Table of Contents: “…Breaking the Silence on Racism through Agency within a Conflicted FieldPart 4: Stories of Lived Experience; 12. "The Quality of Light": Using Narrative in a Peer Tutoring Class; 13. …”
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Hitchcock at the source : the auteur as adaptor

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Morbid psychologies and so forth: The fine art of rope / David Sterritt -- Under a distemperate star: Under Capricorn (1949) / Constantine Verevis -- Bruno's game or the case of the sardonic psychopath / Douglas McFarland -- Alfred Hitchcock presents Dial m for murder: the submerged televisuality of a stage to big screen adaptation / Ina Rae Hark -- The author of this claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock and Rear window / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- To catch a thief: light reading on a dark topic / Hilary Radner -- Woman-as-death: Vertigo as source / Barbara Creed -- Psycho: trust the tale / Brian McFarlane -- Thirteen ways of looking at The birds / Murray Pomerance -- A brief anatomy of Family plot / Lesley Brill.…”
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The grit beneath the glitter : tales from the real Las Vegas

Table of Contents: “…Klein -- Las Vegas of the mind : shooting movies in and about Nevada / Francisco Menendez -- Discordant infrastructure / Peter Goin -- Growth, services, and the political economy of gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 / Eugene Moehring -- Lighting Las Vegas : electricity and the city of glitz / Jay Brigham -- Build it and the water will come / Jon Christensen -- The social costs of rapid urbanization in Southern Nevada / Robert E. …”
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