Databases Theory and Applications 34th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2023, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 1-3, 2023, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Mining Complex Types of Data -- kNN Join for Dynamic High-dimensional Data: A Parallel Approach -- Take a Close Look at the Optimization of Deep Kernels for Non-parametric Two-sample Tests -- Probabilistic Reverse Top-k Query on Probabilistic Data -- Optimizing Taxi Route Planning Based on Taxi Trajectory Data Analysis -- Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis -- Learning Implicit Sentiment for Explainable Review-Based Recommendation -- Balanced and Explainable Social Media Analysis for Public Health with Large Language Models -- Prompt-based Effective Input Reformulation for Legal Case Retrieval -- Surveying the Landscape: Compound Methods for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis -- Machine Learning and Computer Vision -- Towards Reliable and Efficient Vegetation Segmentation for Australian Wheat Data Analysis -- SMST: A Saliency Map to Scanpath Transformer -- Multi-level Storage Optimization for Intermediate Data in AI Model Training -- Enhancing Night-to-Day Image Translation with Semantic Prior and Reference Image Guidance -- Batch Level Distributed Training of LSTM with Infinity Norm Gradient Flow -- Database Systems and Data Storage -- Health Status Assessment for HDDs based on Bi-LSTM and N-dimensional Similarity Metric -- Why Query Plans are Different: An Automatic Detection and Inference System -- An Empirical Analysis of Just-in-Time Compilation in Modern Databases -- Relational Expressions for Data Transformation and Computation -- Data Quality and Fairness for Graphs -- Discovering Graph Differential Dependencies -- Maximum Fairness-aware (k, r)-Core Identification in Large Graphs -- IFGNN: An Individual Fairness Awareness Model for Missing Sensitive Information Graphs -- Efficient Maximum Relative Fair Clique Computation in Attributed Graphs -- Graph Mining and Graph Algorithms -- Balanced Hop-Constrained Path Enumeration in Signed Directed Graphs -- An Experimental Evaluation of Two Methods on Shortest Distance Queries over Small-world Graphs -- Discovering Densest Subgraph over Heterogeneous Information Networks -- Influence Maximization Revisited -- On Directed Densest Subgraph Detection.…”
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Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science : an astronomer among the American romantics by Bergland, Renée L., 1963-

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Resources for teaching creative writing by Young, Johnnie

Table of Contents: “…Spooky Starters. Bleak Night Mini Stage Play. Section F -- Creating Tension. …”
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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians. by Grigg, Gordon

Table of Contents: “…Operational aspects, binocularity, vision underwaterAnatomy of the eye; Retinal cells, pigments, colour vision; Night vision, the tapetum lucidum; Hearing, movement and balance; Functional anatomy of the ears and associated sense organs; Hearing sensitivity in air and water in the human audible range; Sub-audible vibrations, infrasound: possible role of the sacculus; Magnetoreception? …”
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Birds of Seychelles. by Skerrett, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; Some Notes on the Digital Edition; Introduction; Acknowledgements; How to Use This Book; Glossary; Topography; Geography; Climate; Organisations and Websites; Important Bird Areas; Species Accounts; PLATE 1: GREBE, DARTER AND CORMORANTS; PLATE 2: PETRELS I; PLATE 3: PETRELS II; PLATE 4: SHEARWATERS; PLATE 5: STORM-PETRELS; PLATE 6: TROPICBIRDS; PLATE 7: BOOBIES; PLATE 8: FRIGATEBIRDS; PLATE 9: BITTERNS AND NIGHT HERON; PLATE 10: STRIATED HERON AND POND HERONS; PLATE 11: EGRETS; PLATE 12: LARGE HERONS, CATTLE EGRET AND FLAMINGO; PLATE 13: IBISES AND STORK.…”
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Regular haunts : new and previous poems by Costanzo, Gerald

Table of Contents: “…Living the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault; Living the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault; The Problems, the Models; The Riot of Nickel Beer Night; Manhattan As a Latin American Capital.…”
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Agent Storm : My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA. by Storm, Morten

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Conscious women, conscious relationships : true stories of wisdom & awareness on the path of relationships

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One: THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL -- -- Where Eagles Fly / Toko-pa Turner -- The Unknown Heart of Things / Jennifer Anderson -- The Quest for Vision / Monique Rider -- The Magic of Love / Helen Steiner Rice -- On Success / Oprah Winfrey -- The Alchemy of Love / Rumi -- Self-Esteem as a Work in Progress / Joan Olinger -- Three Golden Coins / Heidi Skarie -- -- Chapter Two: THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE -- -- Very Married / Karen Brungardt -- She walks in beauty, like the night / Lord Byron -- The Man of My Dream / Dalia Gesser -- Your Happiness / Ruth Edget -- Mozart in the Morning / Bonnie Dale -- Conscious Love / Lissa Bole -- In the Name of Love / Linda DeBelser -- -- Chapter Three: ON LOSING A LOVED ONE -- -- Crash Course to Love / Jill Douglas -- Love Heals a Hurting Heart / Betty Jane Rapin -- If I Could / Sybil Barbour -- Sisters of the Heart / Patricia D'Ascoli -- A Colorful Life / Georgina Cannon -- -- Chapter Four: HEALING TO MOVE AHEAD -- -- Death Isn't Forever / Ellie Braun-Haley -- Three Simple Words / Deanne Kelleher -- The Courage to Forgive / Darlene Montgomery -- Living Life as a Masterpiece / Shari Tallon -- Meet Me in Sat Nam / Ruth Edgett -- Paid in Full / Jo Leonard -- A Simple Twist of Fate / Cindy Stone -- Is It Luck? …”
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Sustainable urban logistics : concepts, methods and information systems

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Le petit Nicolas = Little Nicholas

Le petit Nicolas = 小淘氣尼古拉 /

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Ray Bradbury, Author of "Fahrenheit 451" And "The Martian Chronicles," Is Dead At 91

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Residential, commercial and industrial electrical systems - Volume 2 network & installation by Joshi, Hemant

Table of Contents: “…Outdoor high-voltage switchyard -- Switchyard equipment -- Busbar schemes -- Types of circuits -- Clearances -- Conductors -- Protection -- Interlocks -- Structures -- Trenches -- Roads -- Tracks -- Fence -- Lighting -- Other services within switchyard -- Control -- Earthing -- Lightning protection -- Substation building -- Auxiliary supplies.…”
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Residential, commercial and industrial electrical systems : network & installation, Volume 2 by Joshi, Hemant

Table of Contents: “…Outdoor high-voltage switchyard -- Switchyard equipment -- Busbar schemes -- Types of circuits -- Clearances -- Conductors -- Protection -- Interlocks -- Structures -- Trenches -- Roads -- Tracks -- Fence -- Lighting -- Other services within switchyard -- Control -- Earthing -- Lightning protection -- Substation building -- Auxiliary supplies.…”
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Along the seashore by Buck, Margaret Waring

Table of Contents: “…Red-necked grebe- Horned grebe -- Pied-billed grebe -- Common (American) merganser -- Red-breasted merganser -- Hooded merganser -- Mallard duck -- Black duck -- Baldpate (American widgeon) -- Blue-winged teal -- Green-winged teal -- Common scoter (sea scoot) -- Surf scoter -- White-winged scoter -- Greater scaup duck -- Lesser scaup -- Canvasback duck -- Redhead duck -- Wild (whistling) swan -- Domestic (mute) swan -- Canada goose -- American brant -- Black brant -- Herring gull -- California gull -- Ring-billed gull -- Laughing gull -- Black-backed gull -- Caspian tern -- Royal tern -- Common tern -- Least tern -- Arctic tern -- Black-crowned night heron -- Green heron -- Great blue heron -- Common (American) egret -- Snowy egret -- American bittern -- Least bittern -- Virginia rail -- Sora rail -- Clapper rail -- Black-bellied plover -- Ringer (semi-palmated) plover -- Killdeer -- Ruddy turnstone -- Black-headed turnstone -- Oystercatcher -- Black oystercatcher -- Least sandpiper -- Semi-palmated sandpiper -- Western sandpiper -- Spotted sandpiper -- Purple sandpiper -- Dunlin -- (Red-backed sandpiper) -- Pectoral sandpiper -- Sanderling -- Knot -- Dowitchers -- Greater yellowlegs -- Lesser yellowlegs -- Willet -- Long-billed curlew -- Hudsonian curlew (whimbrel) -- Hudsonian godwit -- Marbled godwit -- Index -- More to read.…”


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Basics of CNC programming by Negi, Pawan Kumar

Table of Contents: “…What are the Benefits of the Right Cutting Insert? 377 10.2 When We Select an Insert/Bit for Machining. …”
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ELECTRIC UTILITY RESOURCE PLANNING; ECONOMICS, RELIABILITY, AND DECISION-MAKING by Sim, Steven

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Magnesium Technology 2017

Table of Contents: “…%Ca alloy -- Mechanical properties and fatigue strength of extruded cobalt-containing magnetic magnesium alloys -- Neutron diffraction and acoustic emission measurement during loading and unloading of magnesium aluminium binary alloys -- Texture weakening and grain refinement by high speed rolling and annealing of an AZ31 magnesium alloy -- The Relative Contributions of Deformation Modes to AZ31 Rolling Textures in Different Temperature Regimes -- Effects of Texture and Triaxiality on the Plasticity of Magnesium Alloys -- Part 11: Magnesium Technology 2017: Poster Session -- Microstructures and Tensile Properties of As-cast Magnesium AM60-Based Composite Containing Alumina Fibres and Nano Particles -- Part 12: In-situ Methods for Unraveling Structure-Property Relationships in Light Metals: Imaging and Acoustic Emission -- Overview of In-Situ X-ray Studies of Light Alloy Solidification in Microgravity -- Morphological transition of a-Mg dendrites during near-isothermal solidification of a Mg-Nd-Gd-Zn-Zr casting alloy -- Real-time observation of AZ91 solidification by synchrotron radiography -- 3D microstructural evolution on solidifying Mg-5Nd-5Zn alloy observed via in situ synchrotron tomography -- Acoustic emission study of deformation behavior of wrought Mg alloys -- Effect of Thermo-mechanical Treatment of Extruded Z1 Mg Alloy on Resulting Mechanical Properties -- In-situ investigation of deformation mechanisms in Mg-Zn-Y magnesium alloy with LPSO phase by diffraction methods and acoustic emission -- Part 13: In-situ Methods for Unraveling Structure-Property Relationships in Light Metals: Diffraction and Other Novel Methods -- Structural evolution of metals at high temperature: Complementary investigations with neutron and synchrotron quantum beams -- Advanced Aluminum Alloys Development and In-Situ Fitness-for-Service Testing in Automotive Lightweighting -- In-situ X-ray Synchrotron Profile Analysis during High Pressure Torsion of Ti -- The Effect of Grain Refinement on Hot Tearing in AZ91D Magnesium Alloys -- Formability of Magnesium Alloy AZ31B from Room Temperature to 125C under Biaxial Tension -- In-situ real-time monitoring of aging processes in an aluminum alloy by high-precision dilatometry -- Effect of the Zn content on the compression behaviour of Mg5Nd(Zn): an in situ synchrotron radiation diffraction study.…”
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Semiconductor basics : a qualitative, non-mathematical explanation of how semiconductors work and how they are used by Domingo, George, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; Chapter 1 -- The Bohr Atom ; Objective of this chapter ; 1.1- Sinusoidal waves ; 1.2- The case of the missing lines ; 1.3- The spectra from gasses and metals ; 1.4- The elements ; 1.5- The hydrogen spectrum ; 1.6- Light is a particle ; 1.7- The atom's structure ; 1.8- The Bohr atom ; 1.9- Summary/Review ; Appendix 1.1 -- Some details of the Bohr model ; Appendix 1.2 -- Semiconductor materials ; Chapter 2 -- Energy Bands ; Objective of this chapter ; 2.1 -- Bringing atoms together ; 2.2 -- The insulator ; 2.3 -- The Conductor ; 2.4 -- The semiconductor ; 2.5 -- Digression -- A water analogy ; 2.6 -- The mobility of charges ; Summary and conclusions ; Appendix 2.1 -- Energy gap in Semiconductors ; Appendix 2.2 -- Number of electrons and the Fermi function ; Chapter 3 -- Types of Semiconductor ; Objectives of this chapter ; 3.1 -- Semiconductor Materials ; 3.2 -- Short summary of semiconductor materials ; 3.2.1 -- Silicon ; 3.2.2 -- Germanium ; 3.2.3 -- Gallium Arsenide ; 3.3 -- Intrinsic Semiconductors ; 3.4 -- Doped Semiconductors -- n-type ; 3.5 -- Doped Semiconductors -- p-type ; 3.6 -- Additional considerations ; Conclusion and summary ; Appendix 3.1 -- The Fermi levels in doped semiconductors ; Appendix 3.2 -- Why all donor electrons go to the conduction band ; Chapter 4 -- Infrared detectors ; Objectives of this chapter ; 4.1 -- What is infrared radiation ; 4.2 -- What our eyes can see ; 4.3 -- infrared Applications ; 4.4- Types of infrared radiation ; 4.5 -- Extrinsic silicon infrared detectors ; 4.6 -- Intrinsic infrared detectors. ; Summary and conclusions ; Appendix 4.1 -- Light Diffraction ; Appendix 4.2 -- Black Body Radiation ; Chapter 5 -- The pn-junction ; Objectives of this chapter ; 5.1 -- The pn-junction ; 5.2 -- The Semiconductor Diode ; 5.3 -- The Schottky Diode ; 5.4 -- The Zener or Tunnel Diode ; Conclusions and Summary ; Appendix 5.1 -- Fermi levels of a pn junction ; Appendix 5.2 -- Diffusion and drift currents ; Appendix 5.3 -- The thickness of the transition region ; Appendix 5.4 -- Work Function and the Shockley diode ; Chapter 6 -- Other Electrical Components ; Objective of this chapter ; 6.1 -- Voltage and Current ; 6.2 -- The Resistance ; 6.3 -- The Capacitor ; 6.4 -- The Inductor ; 6.5 -- Sinusoidal Voltages ; 6.6 -- Inductor application ; Conclusions and summary ; Appendix 6.1 -- Impedance and phase changes ; Chapter 7 -- Diode Applications ; 7.1 -- Solar Cells ; 7.2 -- Rectifiers ; 7.3 -- Current Protection ; 7.4 -- Clamping Circuit ; 7.5 -- Voltage Clipper ; 7.6 -- Half-Wave Voltage Doubler ; 7.7 -- Solar Cells Bypass diodes ; 7.8 -- Applications of Shockley Diodes ; 7.9 -- Application of Zener Diodes ; Conclusion and summary ; Appendix 7.1 -- Details on the voltage doubler ; Chapter 8 -- The Transistors ; OBCETIVE OF THIS CHAPTER ; 8.1 -- The concept of the transistor ; 8.2 -- The Bipolar Junction Transistor, BJT ; 8.3 -- The Junction Field Effect Transistor, JFET ; 8.4 -- The MOSFET ; Conclusions and summary ; Chapter 9 -- Transistor Biasing Circuits ; Objective of this chapter ; 9.1 -- Introduction ; 9.2 -- Emitter Feedback Bias ; 9.3 -- A simple transistor amplifier ; 9.4 -- A fixed bias circuit ; 9.5 -- The Collector bias circuit ; 9.6 -- Power considerations ; 9.7 -- Multi-stage transistor amplifiers ; 9.8 -- Operational amplifier, OpAmp ; 9.9 -- The ideal OpAmp ; Summary and Conclusions ; Appendix 9.1 -- Derivation of the stability of Collector feedback ; Chapter 10 -- Integrated circuit (IC) fabrication ; Objective of this chapter ; 10.1 -- The basic material ; 10.2 -- The Boule ; 10.2.1 -- The Czochralski method ; 10.2.2 -- The Flow-Zone method ; 10.3 -- The wafers and epitaxial growth ; 10.4 -- Photolithography ; 10.5 -- The fabrication of a pnp transistor on a silicon waver ; 10.6 -- A digression on doping ; 10.6.1 -- Thermal diffusion ; 10.6.2 -- Implantation ; 10.7 -- Resume our transistor processing ; 10.7.1 -- The contacts ; 10.7.2 -- Metallization ; 10.7.3 -- Multiple interconnects ; 10.8 -- Fabrication of other components ; 10.8.1 The integrated resistor ; 10.8.2 The integrated capacitor ; 10.8.3 Integrated inductor ; 10.9 -- Testing and Packaging ; 10.10 -- Clean rooms ; 10.11 -- Additional thoughts about processing ; Appendix 10.1 -- Miller indices in the diamond structure ; Chapter 11 -- Logic circuits ; Objectives of this chapter ; 11.1 -- Boolean algebra ; 11.2 -- The logic symbols ; 11.3 -- The electronic inside the symbols ; 11.3.1 -- Diode implementation ; 11.3.2 -- CMOS implementation ; 11.4- The inverter of NOT circuit ; 11.5 -- The NOR circuit ; 11.6 -- The NAND circuit ; 11.7 -- The XNOR or the exclusive NOR ; 11.8 -- The half adder ; 11.9 -- The full adder ; 11.10 -- Adding more than two digital numbers ; 11.11 -- The subtractor ; 11.12 -- Digression; flip-flops, latches and shifters ; 11.13 -- Multiplication and division of binary numbers ; 11.14 -- Additional comments, speed and power ; Conclusion and summary ; Appendix 11.1 -- Algebraic formulation of logic modules ; Appendix 11.2 -- Detailed analysis of the full adder ; Appendix 11.3 -- Complementary numbers ; Appendix 11.4 -- Dividing digital numbers ; Chapter 12 -- VLSI components ; Objectives of this chapter ; 12.1 -- Multiplexers, MUX ; 12.2 -- De-multiplexer, DEMUX ; 12.3 -- Registers ; 12.4 -- Timing and Waveforms ; 12.5 -- Memories ; 12.5.1 -- The Static Random-Access Memory, SRAM ; 12.5.2 -- The Dynamic Random-Access memory, DRAM ; 12.5.3 -- Read Only Memory, ROM ; 12.5.4 -- Programable Read only Memory, PROM ; 12.6 -- Gate arrays ; Conclusions and summary ; Appendix 12.1 -- A NAND implementation of a 2 to 1 MUX ; Chapter 13 -- Opto-Electronics ; Objective of this chapter ; 13.1 -- Photoconductors ; 13.2- PIN diodes ; 13.3 -- Lasers ; 13.3.1 -- The laser action ; 13.3.2 -- Solid State lasers ; 13.3.3 -- Semiconductor Lasers ; 13.3.4 -- Laser applications ; 13.4 -- Light Emitting Diodes, LEDs ; Summary and Conclusions ; Appendix 13.1 -- The detector readout ; Chapter 14 -- Microprocessors and computers ; 14.1 -- The computer ; 14.1.1 -- The computer architecture ; 14.1.2 -- The Memories ; 14.1.3 -- Input and output units ; 14.1.4 -- The central processing unit, CPU ; 14.2 -- Microcontrollers ; 14.3 -- Liquid Crystal Displays, LCDs ; 14.3.1 -- Liquid Crystal materials ; 14.3.2 -- The contacts ; 14.3.3 -- The color Filters ; 14.…”
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Properties of Polymers : Their Correlation with Chemical Structure ; their Numerical Estimation and Prediction from Additive Group Contributions. by Van Krevelen, D. W.

Table of Contents: “…Optical Properties in General -- 10.2. Light Refraction -- 10.3. Reflection and Transmission -- 10.4. …”
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Archaeological paleography : a proposal for tracing the role of interaction in Mayan script innovation via material remains by Englehardt, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…The bold black lines separate the Oaxacan, Southeastern, and Mayan script traditions. The light dashed lines indicate.…”
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