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Environmental racism

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Building Physics - Heat, Air and Moisture : Fundamentals and Engineering Methods with Examples and Exercises. by Hens, Hugo S. L. C.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Preface; Table of Contents; 0 Introduction; 0.1 Subject of the book; 0.2 Building Physics; 0.2.1 Definition; 0.2.2 Criteria; 0.2.2.1 Comfort; 0.2.2.2 Health; 0.2.2.3 Architecture and materials; 0.2.2.4 Economy; 0.2.2.5 Sustainability; 0.3 Importance of Building Physics; 0.4 History of Building Physics; 0.4.1 Heat, air and moisture; 0.4.2 Building acoustics; 0.4.3 Lighting; 0.4.4 Thermal comfort and indoor air quality; 0.4.5 Building physics and building services; 0.4.6 Building physics and construction; 0.4.7 What about the Low Countries?…”
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Design Computing and Cognition ’10 by Gero, John S.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- List of Reviewers -- DESIGN COGNITION: A comparison of cognitive heuristics use between engineers and industrial designers, by Seda Yilmaz, Shanna Daly, Colleen Seifert and Richard Gonzalez -- Studying the unthinkable designer, by Ann Heylighen -- Cognitive heuristics in design: Instructional strategies in idea Generation, by Seda Yilmaz, Colleen Seifert and Richard Gonzalez -- An anthropo-based standpoint on mediating objects: Evolution and extension of industrial design practices, by Catherine Elsen, Françoise Darses and Pierre Leclercq -- FRAMEWORK MODELS IN DESIGN : Beyond the design perspective of Gero’s FBS framework, by Caetano Cascini, Luca Del Frate, Gualtiero Fantoni and Francesca Montagna -- Formal model of computer-aided visual design, by Ewa Grabska and Grażyna Ślusarczyk -- Design agents and the need for high-dimensional perception, by Sean Hanna -- A framework for constructive design rationale, by Udo Kannengiesser and John S Gero -- DESIGN CREATIVITY : The curse of creativity, by David Brown -- Enabling creativity through innovation challenges: The case of interactive lighting, by Stefania Bandini, Andrea Bonomi, Giuseppe Vizzari and Vito Acconci -- Facetwise study of modeling activities in the algorithm for inventive problem solving ARIZ and evolutionary algorithms, by Céline Conrardy, Roland De Guio and Bruno Zuber -- Exploring multiple solutions and multiple analogies to support innovative design, by Apeksha Gadwal and Julie Linsey -- Creative and inventive design support system: Systematic approach and evaluation using quality engineering, by Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yuki Sonoda, Mika Tsukamoto and Yusuke Sato -- LINE, PLANE, SHAPE, SPACE IN DESIGN: Line and plane to solid: Analyzing their use in design practice through shape rules -- Gareth Paterson and Chris Earl -- Interactions between brand identity and shape rules, by Rosidah Jaafar, Alison McKay, Alan de Pennington and Hau Hing Chau -- Approximate enclosed space using virtual agent, by Aswin Indraprastha and Michihiko Shinozaki -- Associative spatial networks in architectural design – Artificial cognition of space using neural networks with spectral graph theory, by John Harding and Christian Derix -- DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES IN DESIGN: Comparing stochastic design decision belief models: Pointwise versus interval probabilities, by Peter C Matthews -- The redefinition of the paradox of choice, by Michal Piasecki and Sean Hanna -- Rethinking automated layout design: Developing a creative evolutionary design method for the layout problems in architecture and urban design, by Sven Schneider, Jan-Ruben Fischer and Reinhard König -- Applying clustering techniques to retrieve housing units from a repository, by Álvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo and Mar González -- KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING IN DESIGN: Different function breakdowns for one existing product: Experimental results, by Thomas Alink, Claudia Eckert, Anne Ruckpaul and Albert Albers -- A general knowledge-based framework for conceptual design of multi-disciplinary systems -- Yong Chen, Ze-Lin Liu and You-Bai Xie -- Learning concepts and language for a baby designer -- Madan Mohan Dabbeeru and Amitabha Mukerjee -- Organizing a design space of disparate component topologies, by Mukund Kumar and Matthew I Campbell -- USING DESIGN COGNITION: Imaging the designing brain: A neurocognitive exploration of design thinking, by Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos and Sam Gilbert -- A computational design system with cognitive features based on multi-objective evolutionary search with fuzzy information processing, by Michael S Bitterman -- Narrative bridging, by Katarina Borg Gyllenback and Magnus Boman -- Generic non-technical procedures in design problem solving: Is there any benefit to the clarification of task requirements?…”
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Cable-stayed bridges : 40 years of experience worldwide by Svensson, Holger

Table of Contents: “…1.1.4.5 Double deck cross-section1.1.5 Stay cables; 1.1.5.1 Systems; 1.1.5.2 Cable anchorages; 1.2 Aesthetic guidelines for bridge design; 1.2.1 Introduction; 1.2.2 Aesthetic guidelines; 1.2.2.1 Guideline 1: Clear structural system; 1.2.2.2 Guideline 2: Good proportions; 1.2.2.3 Guideline 3: Good order; 1.2.2.4 Guideline 4: Integration into the environment; 1.2.2.5 Guideline 5: Choice of material; 1.2.2.6 Guideline 6: Coloring; 1.2.2.7 Guideline 7: Space above the bridge; 1.2.2.8 Guideline 8: Recognizable flow of forces; 1.2.2.9 Guideline 9: Lighting; 1.2.2.10 Guideline 10: Simplicity.…”
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Information Processing in Medical Imaging 27th International Conference, IPMI 2021, Virtual Event, June 28–June 30, 2021, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…-EnMcGAN: Adversarial Ensemble Learning for 3D Complete Renal Structures Segmentation -- Segmentation with Multiple Acceptable Annotations: A Case Study of Myocardial Segmentation in Contrast Echocardiography -- A New Bidirectional Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Segmentation Framework -- 3D Nucleus Instance Segmentation for Whole-Brain Microscopy Images -- Teach me to segment with mixed-supervision: confident students become masters -- Sequential modelling -- Future Frame Prediction for Robot-assisted Surgery -- Velocity-To-Pressure (V2P) - Net: Inferring Relative Pressures from Time-Varying 3D Fluid Flow Velocities -- Lighting Enhancement Aids Reconstruction of Colonoscopic Surfaces -- Mixture modeling for identifying subtypes in disease course mapping -- Learning transition times in event sequences: the temporal event-based model of disease progression -- Learning with few or low quality labels -- Knowledge Distillation with Adaptive Asymmetric Label Sharpening for Semi-supervised Fracture Detection in Chest X-rays -- Semi-Supervised Screening of COVID-19 from Positive and Unlabeled Data with Constraint Non-Negative Risk Estimator -- Deep MCEM for Weakly-Supervised Learning to Jointly Segment and Recognize Objects using Very Few Expert Segmentations -- Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Aortic Valve Finite Element Mesh Generation from 3D CT Images -- Continual Active Learning for Efficient Adaptation of Machine Learning Models to Changing Image Acquisition -- Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Analysis -- Uncertainty Quantification and Generative Modelling -- Spatially Varying Label Smoothing: Capturing Uncertainty from Expert Annotations -- Quantile Regression for Uncertainty Estimation in VAEs with Applications to Brain Lesion Detection -- A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling the Variability Across Federated Datasets of Heterogeneous Multi-View Observations -- Is segmentation uncertainty useful? …”
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Information Systems 18th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2021, Virtual Event, December 8–9, 2021, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…A Survey -- Management and Organisational Issues in Information Systems -- ICT and Creativity: How ICT Impacts Creativity in a Saudi University -- Democratizing Enterprise AI Success Factors and Challenges: A Systematic Literature Review & a Proposed Framework -- Organizational Aspects in Achieving a Successful Digital Transformation: Case of an ERP System Change -- Understanding Well-being in Virtual Teams: A Comparative Case Study -- Technology as driver, enabler and barrier of digital transformation: A review -- Towards a New Value Chain for the Audio Industry -- Knowledge management significance in agile organization in lights of COVID-19 pandemic changes -- An Agile Approach for Managing Microservices-based Software Development: Case Study in FinTech -- The Continued Innovation-Decision Process – A Case Study Research of Continued Robotic Process Automation Adoption -- The Role of Agile Pockets in Agile Transformation.…”
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EMC and functional safety of automotive electronics by Borgeest, Kai‏ ‎, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…1.3.2 FlexRay bus1.3.3 MOST bus; 1.3.4 Ethernet; 1.3.5 LIN subbus; 1.3.6 CXPI; 1.3.7 SENT; 1.3.8 PSI5; 1.3.9 Automotive safety restraint bus; 1.4 Functional domains; 1.4.1 Power train; 1.4.2 Vehicle dynamics and active safety; 1.4.3 Passive safety; 1.4.4 Theft protection; 1.4.5 Body/comfort; 1.4.6 Lighting and vision; 1.4.7 Man-machine interface; 1.4.8 Infotainment; 1.4.9 Car2X; 1.4.10 Assistance systems; 1.4.11 Drive-by-wire; 1.4.12 Autonomous driving; 2. …”
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Contemporary authors. Volume 387 : a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other...

Table of Contents: “…- -- John LeFevre -- Kim Leine, 1961- -- Louise Wareham Leonard, 1965- -- Matt Lewis, 1974- -- Miranda Liasson -- Peter Rupert Lighte, 1949(?)- -- Moira Linehan, 1945- -- Annie Liontas -- Zhenyun Liu, 1958- -- Thomas Z. …”
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The sol-gel handbook

Table of Contents: “…ia Lourdes Calzada -- Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Lighting / V?ania Teixeira Freitas, Rute Amorim S Ferreira, Luis D Carlos -- Sol-Gel TiO Materials and Coatings for Photocatalytic and Multifunctional Applications / Yolanda Castro, Alicia Dur?…”
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Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications (2021)

Table of Contents: “…-- Recognizing Arabic handwritten literal amount using Convolutional Neural Networks -- A Novel Separable Convolution Neural Networkfor Human ActivityRecogni tion -- Image processing: Image compression using compressed sensing, discrete cosine transform and wavelet transform -- On the use of the convolutional autoencoder for Arabic writer identification using handwritten text fragments -- Local Directional Strength Pattern for effective Offline Handwritten Signature Verification -- Sentiment Analysis of Algerian Dialect Using a Deep Learning Approach -- Hybrid Approach to WebRTC Videoconferencing on Mobile Devices -- The Internet of Things Security Challenges: Survey -- A CBR approach based on ontology to supplier selection -- A Comparative Study between the Two Applications of the Neural Network and Space Vector PWM for Direct Torque Control of a DSIM Fed by Multi-Level Inverters -- Control the Degree of Observability in GPS-INS Integration Based the Extended Kalman Filter For land-vehicle navigation -- Multi Agent Systems based CPPS – An Industry 4.0 Test Case -- RONI-based Medical Image Watermarking using DWT and LSB Algorithm -- A Study of Wireless Sensor Networks Based Adaptive Traffic Lights Control -- Multi-agents Communities Based Routing Algorithm: A routing protocol proposition for UAVs network -- Forwarding Strategies in NDN-based IoT Networks: A Comprehensive Study -- Multi-Robot Visual Navigation Structure based on Lukas-Kanade Algorithm -- Modeling and Simulation of Urban Mobility in a Smart City -- A Novel Methodology For Geovisualizing Epidemiological Data -- OAIDS: An Ontology-Based Framework for Building an Intelligent Urban Road Traffic Automatic Incident Detection System -- Prediction of Cancer Clinical Endpoints Using Deeplearning and RPPA data -- Clustering Educational Items from Response Data using Penalized Pearson coefficient and deep autoencoders -- A social media approach for improving decision-making systems -- A Comprehensive Study of Multicast Routing Protocols in the Internet of Things -- Dilated Convolutions based 3D U-net for Multi-Modal Brain Image Segmentation -- Artificial intelligent in upstream oil and gas industry: a review of applications, challenges and perspectives -- GA-based approaches for Optimization energy and coverage in wireless sensor net work: State of the art -- Data-Intensive Scientific Workflow Scheduling Based on Genetic Algorithm in Cloud Computing -- Machine Learning Algorithms for Big Data Mining Processing: A review -- New Approach for Multi-Valued Mathematical Morphology Computation -- Machine Learning Based Indoor Localization using WiFi and Smartphone in a Shopping Malls -- An external archive guided NSGA-II algorithm for Multi-Depot Green Vehicle Routing Problem -- A hybrid LBP-HOG model and naive Bayes classifier for knee osteoarthritis detection: data from the osteoarthritis initiative -- Rational Function Model Optimization Based On Swarm Intelligence Metaheuris-tic Algorithms -- Segmentation of the Breast Masses in Mammograms Using Active Contour for Medical Practice: AR based surgery -- Interval versus Histogram of Symbolic Representation Based One-Class Classifierfor Offline Handwritten Signature Verification -- Image restoration using proximal-splitting methods -- Deep learning for seismic data semantic segmentation -- Maximum Power Point Tracking of a Wind Turbine Based on Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Controllers -- Deep approach based on user’s profile analysis for capturing user’s interests -- A Comparative Study Of Road Traffic Forecasting Models -- Road Segments Traffic Dependencies Study Using Cross-Correlation -- Ball bearing monitoring using decision-tree and adaptative nero-fuzzy inference system -- Real-time speed control of a mobile robot using PID controller -- Ranking social media news feeds: A comparative study of Personalized and Non-Personalized prediction models -- Residual Neural Network for Predicting Super-enhancers on Genome Scale, -- A CNN approach for the identification of dorsal veins of the hand -- Security issues in self-organized ad-hoc networks (MANET, VANET, and FANET): A survey -- Auto-Scaling,Efficient and Cost Effective Architecture in Apache Hadoop -- Applying Artificial intelligence techniques for predicting amount of CO2 emissions from calcined cement raw materials -- Deep Neural networks based TensorFlow Model for IoT lightweight cipher at tack -- Feature Fusion for Kinship Verification based on Face Image Analysis -- Digital Text Authentication Using Deep Learning: Proposition for the Digital Quranic Text.…”
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The VR book : human-centered design for virtual reality by Jerald, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Content creation : High-level concepts of content creation : Experiencing the story ; The core experience ; Conceptual integrity ; Gestalt perceptual organization -- Environmental design : The scene ; Color and lighting ; Audio ; Sampling and aliasing ; Environmental wayfinding aids ; Real-world content -- Affecting behavior : Personal wayfinding aids ; Center of action ; Field of view ; Casual vs. high-end VR ; Characters, avatars, and social networking -- Transitioning to VR content creation : Paradigm shifts from traditional development to VR development ; Reusing existing content -- Content creation: design guidelines : High-level concepts of content creation ; Environmental design ; Affecting behavior ; Transitioning to VR content creation --…”


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California : a history by Rolle, Andrew F., Verge, Arthur C.

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The sound bite society : television and the American mind by Scheuer, Jeffrey, 1953-

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Rainbow's End - The European LGBTQ Movement.

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Remarkable trees of the world by Pakenham, Thomas, 1933-

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The cure for dreaming by Winters, Cat

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