Research in corporate and Shari'ah governance in the Muslim world : theory and practice

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Medicine and politics in colonial Peru : population growth and the Bourbon reforms by Warren, Adam, Ph.D

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease : Diagnosis and Therapeutics. by Cohen, Russell D.

Table of Contents: “…Resolution: Standard White-Light Versus High-Definition Versus Ultra-High-Definition High Magnification: Optical Versus Digital; SD Versus HD and High Magnification in IBD; Endoscope-Based Contrast Image Enhancement Modalities: NBI, I-Scan, FICE; Wide-Field Colonoscopy; Fuse; Through-the-Scope Tools; Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography; Over-the-Scope Attachments; Small Bowel Enteroscopy; Overtube-Assisted Enteroscopy; Single-Balloon Enteroscopy (SBE); NaviAid AB; Rotational Enteroscopy; DBE Versus RE; Endoscopic Ultrasound; Capsule Endoscopy.…”
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Molecular Beam Epitaxy : From Research to Mass Production. by Henini, Mohamed

Table of Contents: “…6.3 SCATTERING MECHANISMS IN 2D ELECTRON SYSTEM6.4 DESIGN OF HIGH-MOBILITY 2DEG STRUCTURES; 6.5 MBE PROCESS FOR HIGH-MOBILITY 2DEG; 6.6 MOBILITY AND DISORDER IN 2D ELECTRON SYSTEMS; 6.7 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 -- Bismuth-containing III-V semiconductors: Epitaxial growth and physical properties; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 GROWTH OF GAASBI; 7.3 SURFACE STUDIES OF BI-TERMINATED GAAS; 7.4 PHOTOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISATION; 7.5 CLUSTERING EFFECTS AND LUMINESCENCE DYNAMICS; 7.6 CARRIER TRAPPING IN GAAS1-XBIX/GAAS LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; 7.7 INFLUENCE OF BAND STRUCTURE ON DEVICE PERFORMANCE.…”
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Aquinas and the Supreme Court : Biblical Narratives of Jews, Gentiles and Gender. by Rogers, Eugene F., Jr

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Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 18th International Conference, ICFHR 2022, Hyderabad, India, December 4–7, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Historical Document Processing -- A Few Shot Multi-Representation Approach for N-gram Spotting in Historical Manuscripts -- Text Edges Guided Network for Historical Document Super Resolution -- CurT: End-to-End Text Line Detection in Historical Documents with Transformers -- Date Recognition in Historical Parish Records -- Improving Isolated Glyph Classification Task for Palm leaf Manuscripts -- Signature Verification and Writer Identification -- Impact of Type of Convolution Operation on Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks for Online Signature Verification -- COMPOSV++: Light Weight Online Signature Verification Framework through Compound Feature Extraction and Few-shot Learning -- Finger-Touch Direction Feature Using a Frequency Distribution in the Writer Verification Base on Finger-Writing of a Simple Symbol -- Self-Supervised Vision Transformers with Data Augmentation Strategies using Morphological Operations for Writer Retrieval -- EAU-Net: A New Edge-Attention based U-Net for Nationality Identification -- Progressive Multitask Learning Network for Online Chinese Signature Segmentation and Recognition -- Symbol and Graphics Recognition -- Musigraph: Optical Music Recognition through Object Detection and Graph Neural Network -- Combining CNN and Transformer as Encoder to Improve End-to-end Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Accuracy -- A Vision Transformer based Scene Text Recognizer with Multi-Grained Encoding and Decoding -- Spatial Attention and Syntax Rule Enhanced Tree Decoder for Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition -- Handwriting Recognition and Understanding -- FPRNet: End-to-end Full-page Recognition Model for Handwritten Chinese Essay -- Active Transfer Learning for Handwriting Recognition -- Recognition-free Question Answering on Handwritten Document Collections -- Handwriting recognition and automatic scoring for descriptive answers in Japanese language tests -- A Weighted Combination of Semantic and Syntactic Word Image Representations -- Combining Self-Training and Minimal Annotations for Handwritten Word Recognition -- Script-Level Word Sample Augmentation for Few-shot Handwritten Text Recognition -- Towards understanding and improving handwriting with AI -- ChaCo: Character Contrastive Learning for Handwritten Text Recognition -- Enhancing Indic Handwritten Text Recognition using Global Semantic Information -- Yi Characters Online Handwriting Recognition Models Based on Recurrent Neural Network: RnnNet-Yi and ParallelRnnNet-Yi -- Self-Attention Networks for Non-Recurrent Handwritten Text Recognition -- An Efficient Prototype-based Model for Handwritten Text Recognition with Multi-Loss Fusion -- Handwriting Datasets and Synthetic Handwriting Generation -- Urdu Handwritten Ligature Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) -- SCUT-CAB: A New Benchmark Dataset of Ancient Chinese Books with Complex Layouts for Document Layout Analysis -- A Benchmark Gurmukhi Handwritten Character Dataset: Acquisition, Compilation, and Recognition -- Synthetic Data Generation for Semantic Segmentation of Lecture Videos -- Generating synthetic styled Chu Nom characters -- UOHTD: Urdu Offline Handwritten Text Dataset -- Document Analysis and Processing -- DAZeTD: Deep Analysis of Zones in Torn Documents -- CNN-based Ruled Line Removal in Handwritten Documents -- Complex Table Structure Recognition in the Wild using Transformer and Identity Matrix-based Augmentation.…”
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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre by Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-

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Theories of Change Change Leadership Tools, Models and Applications for Investing in Sustainable Development

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Over ten million served : gendered service in language and literature workplaces

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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency

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The world is my classroom : international learning and Canadian higher education

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Pattern Recognition 45th DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2023, Heidelberg, Germany, September 19–22, 2023, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Segmentation and action recognition -- Score-Based Generative Models for Medical Image Segmentation using Signed Distance Functions -- A Trimodal Dataset: RGB, Thermal, and Depth for Human Segmentation and Temporal Action Detection -- Airborne-Shadow: Towards Fine-Grained Shadow Detection in Aerial Imagery -- UGainS: Uncertainty Guided Anomaly Instance Segmentation -- Local Spherical Harmonics Improve Skeleton-Based Hand Action Recognition -- 3D reconstruction and neural rendering -- LMD: Light-weight Prediction Quality Estimation for Object Detection in Lidar Point Clouds -- A Network Analysis for Correspondence Learning via Linearly-Embedded Functions -- HiFiHR: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction from a Single Image via High-Fidelity Texture -- Point2Vec for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Point Clouds -- FullFormer: Generating Shapes Inside Shapes -- GenLayNeRF: Generalizable Layered Representations with 3D ModelAlignment for Human View Synthesis -- RC-BEVFusion: A Plug-In Module for Radar-Camera Bird's Eye View Feature Fusion -- Parallax-aware Image Stitching based on Homographic Decomposition -- Photogrammetry and remote sensing -- DustNet: Attention to Dust -- Leveraging Bioclimatic Context for Supervised and Self-Supervised Land Cover Classification -- Automatic Reverse Engineering: Creating computer-aided design (CAD) models from multi-view images -- Characterization of out-of-distribution samples from uncertainty maps using supervised machine learning -- Underwater multiview stereo using axial camera models -- Pattern recognition in the life sciences -- 3D Retinal Vessel Segmentation in OCTA Volumes: Annotated Dataset MORE3D and Hybrid U-Net with Flattening Transformation -- M(otion)-mode Based Prediction of Ejection Fraction using Echocardiograms -- Improving Data Efficiency for Plant Cover Prediction with Label Interpolation and Monte-Carlo Cropping -- Learning Channel Importance for High Content Imaging with Interpretable Deep Input Channel Mixing -- Self-Supervised Learning in Histopathology: New Perspectives for Prostate Cancer Grading -- Interpretable machine learning -- DeViL: Decoding Vision features into Language -- Zero-shot Translation of Attention Patterns in VQA Models to Natural Language -- Beyond Debiasing: Actively Steering Feature Selection via Loss Regularization -- Simplified Concrete Dropout - Improving the Generation of Attribution Masks for Fine-grained Classification -- Weak supervision and online learning -- Best Practices in Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation -- COOLer: Class-Incremental Learning for Appearance-Based Multiple Object Tracking -- Label Smarter, Not Harder: CleverLabel for Faster Annotation of Ambiguous Image Classification with Higher Quality -- Speeding Up Online Self-Supervised Learning by Exploiting Its Limitations -- Text-to-feature diffusion for audio-visual few-shot learning -- Correlation Clustering of Bird Sounds -- MargCTGAN: A ``Marginally'' Better CTGAN for the Low Sample Regime -- Robust models -- Detecting Model Misspecification in Amortized Bayesian Inference with Neural Networks Adversarial Perturbations Straight on JPEG Coefficients -- Certified Robust Models with Slack Control and Large Lipschitz Constants -- Multiclass Alignment of Confidence and Certainty for Network Calibration -- Drawing the Same Bounding Box Twice? …”
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Lignin and lignans as renewable raw materials : chemistry, technology and applications by Calvo-Flores, Francisco G.

Table of Contents: “…5.3.2 Sulfite Lignin (Lignosulfonate Process)5.3.3 Soda Lignin (Alkali Lignin); 5.3.4 Organosolv Pulping; 5.3.5 Other Methods of Separation of Lignin from Biomass; References; Chapter 6 Functional and Spectroscopic Characterization of Lignins; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Elemental Analysis and Empirical Formula; 6.3 Determination of Molecular Weight; 6.3.1 Gel-Permeation Chromatography (GPC); 6.3.2 Light Scattering; 6.3.3 Vapor-Pressure Osmometry (VPO); 6.3.4 Ultrafiltration (UF); 6.4 Functional Group Analyses; 6.4.1 Methoxyl Group (MeO); 6.4.2 Phenolic Hydroxyl Group (OH ph)…”
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Introduction to metal-nanoparticle plasmonics by Pelton, Matthew, 1975-, Bryant, Garnett W.

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Getting started with Lumion 3D by Cardoso, Ciro

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6: Preparing the RenderThe key aspects of composition; The importance of framing; The rule of thirds; Exporting an image with the Photo mode; Creating a video with the Movie mode; Summary; Chapter 7: Post Production; Post production; Working with an image; Working with layers; Using different blending modes; Adding the specular map; Accurate selection with material ID; Adding contrast using a lighting map; The sky alpha map; The importance of adjustment layers; Working with Curves; Applying lens effects; Chromatic aberration with Photoshop; A little bit of sharpness; Depth of field.…”
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Smart Polymers and their Applications. by Aguilar, María Rosa

Table of Contents: “…4.2 Chromophores and their light-induced molecular response4.3 Key types and properties of photo-responsive polymers; 4.4 Applications; 4.5 Conclusions and future trends; 4.6 References; 5Magnetically responsive polymer gels and elastomers: properties, synthesis and applications; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Preparation of magnetically responsive polymer gels and elastomeric materials; 5.3 Magnetic properties of filler-loaded polymers; 5.4 Elastic behaviour of magnetic gels and elastomers; 5.5 Kinetics of shape change; 5.6 The swelling equilibrium under a uniform magnetic field.…”
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The impact of melting ice on the ecosystems in Greenland Sea : correlations on ice cover, phytoplankton biomass, AOD and PAR by Qu, Bo

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Overview Greenland Sea; Abstract ; 1.1 Current; 1.2 The MI Effect; 1.3 The Arctic Amplification and NAO; 1.4 Sea-Ice Ecosystem; References; 2 Chlorophyll a, Ice Cover, and North Atlantic Oscillation; Abstract ; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Sea Ice and the Phytoplankton Biomass; 2.1.2 The Light Effect on Phytoplankton Biomass; 2.2 Data and Methods; 2.3 Results; 2.3.1 CHL Distributions; 2.3.2 The Reason of the High CHL Peaks in Northern Region; 2.3.3 Ice Cover Distributions; 2.3.4 SST, PAR, ICE, and Wind in the 75°N-80°N Region.…”
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Nanotechnology horizons in food process engineering

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Dermatology Diaries An Illustrated Guide to Common Skin Diseases by Jeong, Jong Yeong

Table of Contents: “…Multiple sebaceous cysts, Multiple sebaceous follicular cysts -- 13. Polymorphous light eruption, Sun allergy -- 14. Polymorphous erythema -- 15. …”
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The Euromaidan's Effect on Civil Society : Why and How Ukrainian Social Capital Increased after the Revolution of Dignity. by Falsini, Sophie

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