The complete guide to Blender graphics : computer modeling & animation by Blain, John M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…<P>Introduction</p><p>Download and Installation</p><p>The Author</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Preamble</p><p><b>CH01 Understanding the Interface</b></p><p><b>CH02 Editors-Workspaces-Themes</b></p><p><b>CH03 Navigate and Save</b></p><p><b>CH04 Objects in the 3D View Editor</b></p><p><b>CH05 Editing Objects</b></p><p><b>CH06 Editing Tools</b></p><p><b>CH07 Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH08 Editing with Generate Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH09 Editing with Deform Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH10 Editing Using Curves</b></p><p><b>CH11 Editing Techniques and Examples</b></p><p><b>CH12 The Outliner and Collections</b></p><p><b>CH13 3D Text</b></p><p><b>CH14 Viewport Shading</b></p><p><b>CH15 Scene Lighting and Cameras</b></p><p><b>CH16 Nodes -- Materials and Textures</b></p><p><b>CH17 Textures</b></p><p><b>CH18 Node System and Usage</b></p><p><b>CH19 Rendering</b></p><p><b>CH20 Animation</b></p><p><b>CH21 Constraints</b></p><p><b>CH22 Armature and Character Rigging</b></p><p><b>CH23 Shape Keys and Action Editors</b></p><p><b>CH24 Particle Systems</b></p><p><b>CH25 Physics and Simulation</b></p><p><b>CH26 Dynamic Paint</b></p><p><b>CH27 Installing Add-Ons</b></p><p><b>CH28 Grease Pencil -- 2D Animation</b></p><p><b>CH29 Making a Movie</b></p><p><b>CH30 Drivers</b></p><p><b>CH31 Cycles & Workbench Render</b></p><p>Appendix A</p><p>Internet Resources</p><p>Index</p>…”
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The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence by Neacsu, Dana

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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators : Making It Real

Table of Contents: “…Simulation-focused pedagogy for nursing education -- Integrating simulation-focused pedagogy into curriculum -- Enhancing communication skills through simulations -- Faculty learning communities: an innovative approach to faculty development -- Building a learning resource center -- Lights, camera, action! The process of evaluating, acquiring, and implementing an audio/visual capturing solution to enhance learning -- Tune into simulation through physical examination -- Postoperative care following appendectomy -- Medical-surgical skill-based scenarios -- Acute management of respiratory distress in an adult patient -- Small bowel obstruction -- Trauma resuscitation -- Cardiovascular resuscitation: code simulation for student nurses -- Obstetric emergency: postpartum hemorrhage -- Intrapartal obstetric emergency: shoulder dystocia -- Perinatal grief: threatened spontaneous abortion -- Care of an infant with congenital heart disease status postcardiac surgical repair -- Abusive head trauma: infant -- Bacterial meningitis in a pediatric patient -- Pediatric emergency -- Posttraumatic stress disorder/traumatic brain injury and other conditions in military combat veterans -- Assessing a patient with a mood disorder -- Wound management in home health care -- Home care patient with elevated blood sugars -- Home care community setting with limited English proficient patients: second semester -- Care of an older adult with congestive heart failure -- The older adult in an ICU with acute respiratory failure: critical care nursing: senior-year elective -- Communication with an elderly client -- QSEN carousel for first-year nursing students -- Diabetes management-nurse practitioner -- Assessment and differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with chest pain -- The prescriber's skit: a simulation designed to build confidence and competency in new psychiatric APRN prescribers -- Abdominal pain in a woman of childbearing age -- Primary care patient with gastrointestinal problems: graduate program advanced physiology and pathophysiology -- Care/ACNP: aortic emergencies -- Multiple patient medical-surgical scenario -- Improving patient safety through student nurse-resident team training: the central venous catheterization pilot project -- Prevention and management of operating room fires -- Undergraduate senior capstone scenarios: pearls, pitfalls, and politics -- Student-generated scenarios for senior simulation day -- Quality, safety, and process improvement with an interdisciplinary team -- Care of the hospitalized older with abdominal surgery for colon cancer -- Cutting-edge visions of the future of simulations -- Framework for simulation learning in nursing education -- Certification in simulation -- Publishing your simulation work -- The Connecticut league for nursing simulation teaching and learning initiative: a grant-funded project to support effective integration of simulated teaching and learning into nursing education in Connecticut -- Integrating an academic electronic health record into simulations -- Final words of wisdom on simulation.…”
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Materials, mechatronics and automation IV : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 4th International Conference on Materials, Mechatronics and Automation (ICMMA 2014), April...

Table of Contents: “…Analysis and Realization of Critical Points on Hardware Design of FPGAA Novel Surface Reconstruction Method for Noisy Cloud Points Based on Support Vector Machine; A Efficient Surface Reconstruction Method for Noisy Samples Based on Bilateral Filtering and down Sampling; Study of Organic Solar Cells Conversion Efficiency; The Design and Implementation of Testing System for Network Equipment Configuration Status and Light Power; Design Method and Parameters Matching of Electric Motors for Hybrid Construction Equipment…”
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Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering III

Table of Contents: “…Application of Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for High Voltage Grid-Connected PV System; Characteristic Study of Solar Cell under the Different Concentrating Light Intensity; Effect of a Cumulative Cold and Heat Load Ratio on Hybrid Ground-Source Heat Pump System Performance Parameters; Improving the Utilization Rate of Wind Power Based on the Thermal-Electricity Combined Operation Technology; Numerical Simulation of the Wake Effect of a H-Type Wind Turbine on Downstream Wind Turbine; One Operational Method for Offshore Wind Speeds Retrieval from SAR Image.…”
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Decline of the Sea Turtles : Causes and Prevention. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…ABIOTIC SOURCES OF MORTALITYErosion, Accretion, and Tidal Inundation; Heavy Rains; Thermal Stress; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF NATURAL MORTALITY; SUMMARY; 6 Sea Turtle Mortality Associated with Human Activities; MORTALITY OF SEA TURTLE EGGS AND HATCHLINGS; Beach Erosion and Accretion; Beach Armoring; Beach Nourishment; Artificial Lighting; Beach Cleaning; Increased Human Presence; Recreational Beach Equipment; Beach Vehicles; Exotic Dune and Beach Vegetation; MORTALITY OF SEA TURTLE JUVENILES AND ADULTS; Shrimp Fishing; Description of the Fishery; Distribution and Intensity of the Fishery.…”
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Economic and Societal Transformation in Pandemic-Trapped India Emerging Challenges and Resilient Policy Prescriptions

Table of Contents: “…Impact of COVID-19 and Responses to It: A Comparative Study of SAARC Countries in Light of Global Experiences -- Chapter 5.The COVID-19 Pandemic and Socio-spatial Inequality: A Study from the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Chapter 6. …”
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Progress in industrial and civil engineering III : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architectural and Hydraulic Engineering (ICCA...

Table of Contents: “…Estimation of Load Bearing Capacity of Eccentrically Compressed Reinforced Concrete Elements under Dynamic Loading in Fire ConditionsEvaluation of the SIF for the Multiple Crack Problems; Experimental Research on Thermal Behavior of Light Gauge Steel-Framed Composite Walls with Slotted Studs; Experimental Study and Theoretical Analysis of Ultimate Strength for Steel Tubular Joint of UHV Transmission Towers; Experimental Study on Bearing Capacity of Q690 High-Strength Steel Tubes under Axial Load; Experimental Study on Durability of Foundation Concrete of Transmission Lines in Golmud Area…”
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Advances in manufacturing systems : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering Society (MESIC 2013), June 26-28, 2013, Zarago...

Table of Contents: “…Industrial Metrology; A Survey of Surface Texture Characterization with Two and Three-Dimensional Contact Methods; Accuracy Analysis of Fringe Projection Systems Based on Blue Light Technology; A Comparative of 3D Surface Extraction Methods for Potential Metrology Applications; A Strategy for Geometric Error Characterization in Multi-Axis Machine Tool by Use of a Laser Tracker; Accuracy and Reliability Control of Machining Operations on Machining Centres.…”
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Plant engineer's handbook

Table of Contents: “…Definition and organization of the plant engineering function / Richard Dunn -- Plant engineering in Britain / Roger S Pratt -- The role of the plant engineer / R Keith Mobley -- Physical considerations in site selection / D Whittleton -- Plant location / Barry Holmes -- Industrial buildings / D Whittleton -- Planning and plant layout / Roland R Gibson -- Contracts and specifications / Ken Taylor -- Industrial flooring / JDN Shaw -- Lighting / Hugh King -- Insulation / FT Gallyer -- Paint coatings for the plant engineer / DA Bayliss -- Insurance : plant and equipment / AP Hyde -- Insurance : buildings and risks / Risk Control Unit -- Electricity generation / IG Crow and K Shippen -- Electrical distribution and installation / IG Crow and R Robinson -- Electrical instrumentation / H Barber -- Oil / Roland Gibson -- Gas / Peter F Fleming -- Liquefied petroleum gas / RH Shipman -- Coal and ash / R Keith Mobley -- Steam utilization / Albert Armer -- Industrial boilers / E Walker and RJ Blaen -- Combustion equipment / Colin French -- Economizers / Colin French -- Heat exchangers / Brian R Lamb -- Heating / GE Pritchard -- Ventilation / PD Compton -- Air conditioning / J Bevan -- Energy conservation / MG Burbage-Atter -- Water and effluents / George Solt -- Pumps and pumping / Keith Turton -- Centrifugal pump installation / John Neller -- Compressed air systems / British Compressed Air Society -- Compressors / R Keith Mobley -- Fans and blowers / R Keith Mobley -- Mixers and agitators / R Keith Mobley -- Gears and gearboxes / R Keith Mobley -- Hydraulic fundamentals / R Keith Mobley -- Pneumatic fundamentals / Roger C Webster -- Vibration fundamentals / R Keith Mobley -- Vibration monitoring and analysis / R Keith Mobley -- Air pollution / Roger C Webster -- Dust and fume control / Brian Auger -- Dust collection systems / R Keith Mobley -- Maintenance management in UK / George Pitblado -- Effective maintenance management / Ricky Smith -- Predictive maintenance / R Keith Mobley -- Planning and scheduling outages / Ricky Smith -- Lubrication / Stuart McGrory -- Corrosion / Michael J Schofield -- Shaft alignment / R Keith Mobley -- Rotor balancing / R Keith Mobley -- Packing and seals / R Keith Mobley -- Gears and gear drives / R Keith Mobley -- Flexible intermediate drives / R Keith Mobley -- Couplings and clutches / R Keith Mobley -- Bearings / R Keith Mobley -- Finance for the Plant Engineer / Leon Turrell -- Statistical approaches in machinery problem solving / Ricky Smith -- Health and safety in the UK / George Pitblado -- Regulatory compliance issues in the US / R Keith Mobley.…”
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Economic warfare : secrets of wealth creation in the age of welfare politics by Abdelnour, Ziad

Table of Contents: “…; Notes; Chapter 2: Report from the Battlefield; An Inside Job; Running the Red Lights; The Joker of Gotham City; A Crisis of Consciousness; Notes; Chapter 3: The Seeds of Our Destruction.…”
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Inspired Drama Teaching : a Practical Guide for Teachers. by West, Keith

Table of Contents: “…ScriptingCHAPTER 4 Elements of drama; Characterization; Bringing characters to life; The emotions; Thinking about voice; Characters and jobs; Rhythm; Forms; Contrasts; Conventions; Symbols (2); CHAPTER 5 Drama as a medium; Mime; Group mime; Emotions (2); Costume; Masks; Make-up; Music (2); Sound effects; Lighting; 'Mercy Beckensale -- A Victorian Girl'; Props and sets; The stage manager; Staging terms; CHAPTER 6 Working together; Improvisation; Drama games; Students working together; Reading and acting out full scripts; A play in a day; CHAPTER 7 Engaging the students; Word games.…”
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The work-family interface : spillover, complications, and challenges

Table of Contents: “…Combining Professional Activity of Women with Household Responsibilities in the Light of Empirical ResearchPatterns of Employment and Working Time Distribution of Couples with Children; Reconciling Parenthood and Professional Work as a Subject of Empirical Studies and the Task of Public Policies; Conclusion and Analysis; Note; References; Chapter 3. …”
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Advanced Methods and Technologies for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. by Edited by

Table of Contents: “…Belief Bases""; ""Multi-Agent Systems Design and Implementation""; ""Erlang as a High Performance Software Agent Platform""; ""Travel Routes Flexibility in Transport Systems""; ""On Scalable, Event-Oriented Control for Lighting Systems""; ""Emergence of Collective Escaping Strategies in Caribou Agents""…”
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Human Factors and Ergonomics Design Handbook Third Edition by Tillman, Barry, Tillman, Peggy, Rose, Rhonda Renee, Woodson, Wesley E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Systems -- Chapter 1 Systems Introduction -- Chapter 2 Architectural Systems -- Chapter 3 Transportation Systems -- Chapter 4 Military and Government Systems -- Chapter 5 Space Systems -- Chapter 6 Industrial Systems -- Chapter 7 Agricultural Systems -- Chapter 8 Communications Systems -- Chapter 9 Consumer Product Systems -- Part 2 Subsystems Design -- Chapter 10 Subsystems Introduction -- Chapter 11 Architectural Entryways -- Chapter 12 Doors, Hatches, and Equipment Closures -- Chapter 13 Windows -- Chapter 14 Parking -- Chapter 15 Walkways, Hallways, and Catwalks -- Chapter 16 Ramps, Stairs, and Ladders -- Chapter 17 Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walkways -- Chapter 18 Bathrooms, Restrooms, and Locker Rooms -- Chapter 19 Bedrooms and Berthing Subsystems -- Chapter 20 Kitchens and Galleys -- Chapter 21 Dining and Food Service -- Chapter 22 Offices -- Chapter 23 Auditoriums and Theatres -- Chapter 24 Spectator Requirements for Sports Facilities -- Chapter 25 Special Workplaces -- Chapter 26 Lighting -- Chapter 27 Guidelines for Sound Systems -- Part 3 Component and Product Design -- Chapter 28 Visual Displays -- Chapter 29 Auditory Displays -- Chapter 30 Controls -- Chapter 31 Fasteners -- Chapter 32 Tools -- Chapter 33 Furniture and Appliances -- Part 4 Human Factors Data -- Chapter 34 The Body -- Chapter 35 Human Strength -- Chapter 36 Equilibrium -- Chapter 37 Reaction Time -- Chapter 38 Control Response -- Chapter 39 Work Output and Cost -- Chapter 40 Thermal Response -- Chapter 41 Visual Response -- Chapter 42 Auditory Response -- Chapter 43 Tactile Response -- Chapter 44 Acceleration Response -- Chapter 45 Vibration Response -- Chapter 46 Atmospheric Factors -- Chapter 47 Radiation -- Chapter 48 Effect of Electrical Current on the Human Body -- Chapter 49 Skin Reaction to Chemical Substances -- Chapter 50 Information Processing -- Chapter 51 Behavioral Expectancy -- Chapter 52 Human Fatigue -- Part 5 Human Factors Engineering Methods -- Chapter 53 Human Factors Engineering Methods Overview -- Chapter 54 Planning for Human Factors Input -- Chapter 55 Concept Development -- Chapter 56 System Design -- Chapter 57 System Evaluation -- Chapter 58 Human Factors in System Operations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.…”
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Il Genocidio : Declinazioni e Risposte Di Inizio Secolo. by Flores, Marcello

Table of Contents: “…UNA PROSPETTIVA CRITICA; SIMONA PINTON REPARATION FOR GENOCIDE VICTIMS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: SHADOWS AND LIGHTS; BRUCE LEIMSIDOR THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE AND THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY; PIETRO SULLO TO REPAIR THE IRREPARABLE: POST-GENOCIDE JUSTICE, LEGAL PLURALISM AND RULE OF LAW; MAURIZIO CERMEL PORRAJMÓS: UN OLOCAUSTO DIMENTICATO?…”
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Pharma-ecology : the occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment by Jjemba, Patrick K.

Table of Contents: “…4.13 Antineoplastics and ImmunosuppressantsStudy Questions; References; Chapter 5 Personal Care Products of Environmental Concern; 5.1 Fragrances and Musks; 5.2 Ultraviolet Light Filters; 5.3 Detergents; 5.4 Disinfectants; Study Questions; References; Chapter 6 Detection and Occurrence of PPCPs in the Environment; 6.1 Detection of PPCPs in the Environment; 6.1.1 Detection Using Instrumentation; 6.1.2 Detection Using Bioassays; 6.2 Occurrence of PPCPs in Various Environments; 6.2.1 Aquatic Systems; 6.2.1.1 PPCPs in Wastewater; 6.2.1.2 PPCPs in Surface Water; 6.2.1.3 PPCPs in Groundwater.…”
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Structural approaches to address issues in patient safety

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Structural Approaches to Address Issues in Patient Safety; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Reviewers; Editorial Advisory Board; About the Contributors; Foreword; Case Study: More Patient Safety by Design -- System-based Approaches for Hospitals; Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Directly Reducing Risks; Optimizing Latent Conditions, Supporting Staff Performance Levels; Encouraging Intuitive, Safety-promoting Behavior; Creating a Health-promoting Environment; Approach; Project Results: Good Practices for Improving Patient Safety by Design; Optimizing Lighting; Noise Reduction…”
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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing 21st International Conference, ICAISC 2022, Zakopane, Poland, June 19–23, 2022, Proceedings, Part I

Table of Contents: “…Neural Networks and Their Applications -- A fast learning algorithm for the multilayer neural network -- A new computational approach to the Levenberg-Marquardt learning algorithm -- Training subjective perception biased images of vehicle ambient lights with deep belief networks using backpropagation- and enforcing-rules supervised -- An Empirical Study of Adversarial Domain Adaptation on Time Series Data -- Human-AI-Collaboration to increase the perception of VR -- Portfolio Transformer for Attention-Based Asset Allocation -- Transfer Learning with Deep Neural Embeddings for Music Classification Tasks -- Analysis and detection of DDoS Backscatter using NetFlow data, hyperband-optimised DeepLearning and explainability techniques -- BiLSTM deep learning model for heart problems detection -- Short Texts Representations for Legal Domain Classification -- Synthetic slowness shear well-logs prediction using supervised machine learning models -- ARIMA for Short-Term and LSTM for Long-Term in Daily Bitcoin Price Prediction -- Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization for Neural Architecture Search -- Multilayer Perceptrons with Banach-like Perceptrons Based on Semi-Inner Products – About Approximation Completeness -- Fuzzy Systems and Their Applications -- Similarity Fuzzy Semantic Networks and Inference. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing by Innes, Christopher, 1941-, Shevtsova, Maria

Table of Contents: “…The critic as director: Gotthold Lessing at the Hamburg NationaltheaterFurther reading; Chapter 2 The rise of the modern director; The Meiningen Players and the conditions for naturalism; The Meiningen influence; The theory of naturalism: Emile Zola; The naturalistic director: André Antoine and the Théâtre Libre; Symbolist theatre: a call for directorial vision; Richard Wagner: total theatre; Adolphe Appia: lighting and space; Gordon Craig, Adolphe Appia and the theory of directing; Stanislavsky and psychological realism; The Seagull; Acting 'with the body'; Further reading…”
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