ROBOTICS AT HOME WITH RASPBERRY PI PICO build autonomous robots with the versatile low cost Raspberry Pi Pico controller and Python. by Staple, Danny

Table of Contents: “…Test fitting a Raspberry Pi Pico robot -- Creating your first test-fit part -- Motors -- Power systems -- Creating a rough chassis -- Arranging the test-fit parts -- A recommended shopping list for robot basics -- Robot parts and where to find them -- The robot workshop and makerspaces -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Preparing Raspberry Pi Pico -- Technical requirements -- Getting CircuitPython onto Raspberry Pi Pico -- Preparing the CircuitPython library for Pico -- Coding on Pico -- first steps -- Downloading the Mu editor -- Lighting the Pico LED with CircuitPython…”
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Highways : construction, management, and maintenance

Table of Contents: “…Lane Departure Warning System""; ""2.3.9. Intelligent Lighting System""; ""2.3.10. E-Call""; ""2.3.11. Autonomous Driving""; ""2.3.12. …”
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Optimization of Wastewater Lift Stations for Reduction of Energy Usage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. by Wilcoxson, David

Table of Contents: “…4.8.1 Lift Station Design for Energy Efficiency4.8.2 Pumping Strategies for Energy Efficiency; 4.8.3 Selection of Energy Efficient Devices and Control Systems; 4.8.4 Selection of Non-Process Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Lighting; 4.8.5 Continuously Monitoring Effect of Energy Minimization; 4.9 Evaluting Environmental and Economic Benefits; 4.9.1 Environmental Evaluation; 4.9.2 Economic Evaluation; 4.10 Step-by-Step Procedure for Lift Station Optimization; Appendix A: System Design and Optimization; References.…”
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IOS Application Development with OpenCV 3. by Howse, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Building and running the applicationDistributing to testers and customers; Finding documentation and support; Understanding the camera and setting up photographic accessories; Lights; Tripods and other stabilization; Lens attachments; Summary; Chapter 2: Capturing, Storing, and Sharing Photos; Planning a photo sharing application; Configuring the project; Adding frameworks; Specifying the camera requirement; Defining and laying out the view controller; Controlling the camera; Subclassing CvVideoCamera; Using the CvVideoCamera subclass in the view controller; Working with various color formats.…”
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Encyclopedia of global industries.

Table of Contents: “…Agricultural production : crops -- Agricultural production : livestock -- Aquaculture -- Fishing, commercial -- Forestry -- Adhesives and sealants -- Biotechnology -- Chemicals, agricultural -- Chemicals, industrial inorganic -- Chemicals, industrial organic -- Medicinal and botanical products -- Paints and coatings -- Pharmaceuticals -- Soaps and detergents -- Toiletries and cosmetics -- Computers -- Data processing services -- Information technology services -- Asphalt paving and roofing materials -- Bridge, tunnel, and elevated highway construction -- Cement, hydraulic -- Concrete, gypsum, and plaster products -- Construction, nonresidential building -- Construction, residential building -- Logging -- Appliances, household -- Audio and video equipment, household -- Electric lighting and wiring equipment -- Electronic components -- Motors and generators -- Photographic equipment and supplies -- Semiconductors -- Watches and Clocks -- Amusement parks -- Gaming and gambling establishments -- Hotels and other lodging places -- Motion picture and video production and distribution -- Sports clubs and promoters -- Toys and sporting goods -- Video tape rental and retail -- Banking and insurance -- Commodity and futures trading -- Credit and debit card issuers -- Real estate -- Alcoholic beverages -- Cereal products -- Coffee, roasted -- Fats and oils -- Flour and other grain mill products -- Soft drinks and bottled water -- Tobacco products -- Furniture, household -- Furniture, office -- Glass containers and glassware -- Plastics materials and resins -- Rubber products, fabricated -- Tires and inner tubes -- Elevators and moving stairways -- Engines and turbines -- Machinery and equipment, agricultural -- Machinery and equipment, general industrial -- Machinery, refrigeration and service industry -- Office machines -- Book publishing -- Cable and other pay-television services -- Greeting cards -- Information retrieval services -- Internet services -- Newspaper publishing -- Periodical publishing -- Prepackaged software -- Printing, commercial -- Radio broadcasting -- Telecommunications equipment -- Telecommunications services -- Television broadcasting stations -- Hospitals -- Ophthalmic goods -- Surgical and medical equipment -- Hand tools and hardware -- Irons and steel foundries -- Jewelry, silverware, and plated ware -- Metal cans -- Metal, fabricated structural -- Metals, primary nonferrous -- Steel mills -- Mining, coal -- Mining, gemstone -- Mining, metal -- Paper mills -- Paperboard containers and boxes -- Paperboard mills -- Pulp mills -- Lubricating oils and greases -- Petroleum and natural gas, crude -- Petroleum refining -- Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services -- Advertising agencies -- Engineering services -- Legal services -- Management consulting services -- Personnel services -- Automobile dealers -- Catalog and mail-order services -- Grocery stores -- Passenger car rental -- Restaurants -- Retail department stores, variety stores, and general merchandise stores -- Wholesalers -- Apparel -- Leather goods and accessories -- Textile mills -- Aircraft -- Defense and armaments -- Motor vehicle parts and accessories -- Motor vehicles -- Shipbuilding and repair -- Train equipment -- Air transportation -- Postal services -- Rail transportation -- Trucking and courier services -- Water transportation -- Elementary and secondary schools -- Energy.…”
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Fruit and vegetables : harvesting, handling and storage by Thompson, A. K. (A. Keith)

Table of Contents: “…Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; Volume 1; Chapter 1: Preharvest factors on postharvest life; Nutrients; Soil acidity; Organic production; Light; Day length; Temperature; Water relations; Production system; Harvest maturity; Preharvest infection; Growth regulation; Chapter 2: Assessment of crop maturity; Field methods; Postharvest methods; Chapter 3: Harvesting and handling methods; Crop damage; Harvesting; Field transport; Chapter 4: Precooling; Heat removal; Precooling methods; Chapter 5: Packaging; Types of packaging; Package recycling.…”
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Re(Teaching) Trayvon : education for racial justice and human freedom

Table of Contents: “…OPEN YOUR EYESTURN THE LIGHTS ON!; CLEARER VISION; REFERENCES; PART II:TRAYVON'S DEMISE AS A FUNCTION OF ENDEMIC RACISM; A STATEMENT CONCERNING CONCERN; 6. …”
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Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide

Table of Contents: “…Adhesives -- Advertising -- Affluenza -- Air travel -- Apparel -- Audio equipment -- Automobiles -- Baby products -- Beverages -- Biodegradability -- Books -- Bottled beverages (water) -- Carbon credits -- Carbon emissions -- Carbon offsets -- Car washing -- Certification process -- Certified products (fair trade or organic) -- Cleaning products -- Coffee -- Commodity fetishism -- Commuting -- Composting -- Computers and printers confections -- Conspicuous consumption -- Consumer activism -- Consumer behavior -- Consumer boycotts -- Consumer culture -- Consumer ethics -- Consumerism -- Consumer society -- Cosmetics -- Dairy products -- Demographics -- Diderot effect -- Disparities in consumption -- Disposable plates and plastic implements -- Downshifting -- Dumpster diving -- Durability -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological footprint -- Ecotourism -- Electricity usage -- Energy efficiency of products and appliances -- Environmentalism -- Environmentally friendly -- Ethically produced products -- E-waste -- Fair trade -- Fashion -- Final consumption -- Finance and economics -- Fish -- Floor and wall coverings -- Food additives -- Food miles -- Frugality -- Fuel -- Funerals -- Furniture -- Gardening/growing -- Garden tools and appliances -- Genetically modified products -- Gifting (green gifts) -- Government policy and practice (local and national) -- Grains -- Green communities -- Green consumer -- Green consumerism organizations -- Green design -- Green discourse -- Green food -- Green gross domestic product -- Green homes -- Green marketing -- Green politics -- Greenwashing -- Healthcare -- Heating and cooling -- Home appliances -- Home shopping and catalogs -- Homewares -- Insulation -- International regulatory frameworks -- Internet purchasing -- Kyoto Protocol -- Lawns and landscaping -- Leisure and recreation -- Lifestyle, rural -- Lifestyle, suburban -- Lifestyle, sustainable -- Lifestyle, urban -- Lighting -- Linen and bedding -- Local exchange trading schemes -- Locally made -- Magazines -- Malls -- Markets (organic/farmers) -- Materialism -- Meat -- Mobile phones -- Morality (consumer ethics) -- Needs and wants -- Organic -- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) -- Overconsumption -- Packaging and product containers -- Paper products -- Personal products -- Pesticides and fertilizers -- Pets -- Pharmaceuticals -- Plants -- Positional goods -- Poultry and eggs -- Poverty -- Pricing -- Production and commodity chains -- Product sharing -- Psychographics -- Public transportation -- Quality of life -- Recyclable products -- Recycling -- Regulation -- Resource consumption and usage -- Seasonal products -- Secondhand consumption -- Services -- Shopping -- Shopping bags -- Simple living -- Slow food -- Social identity -- Solid and human waste sports -- Supermarkets -- Super rich -- Sustainable consumption -- Swimming pools and spas -- Symbolic consumption -- Taxation -- Tea -- Television and DVD Equipment -- Tools -- Toys -- United Nations Human Development Report 1998 -- Vege-box schemes -- Vegetables and fruits -- Waste disposal -- Water -- Websites and blogs -- Windows.…”
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Accident prevention on board ship at sea and in port.

Table of Contents: “…Watertight doors -- 9.4. Lighting -- 9.5. Protection around cargo hatches and other deck openings -- 9.6. …”
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Teaching nursing : developing a student-centered learning environment

Table of Contents: “…Pratt -- From filling a bucket to lighting a fire: aligning nursing education and nursing practice / Helen Brown and Gweneth Hartrick Doane -- Theories and concepts to guide distance education using student-centered approaches / Victoria S. …”


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Asterisk 1.4 - the Professional's Guide : the Professional's Guide. by Carpenter, Colman

Table of Contents: “…Outgoing trunk selection; Calling extensions; Setting lights; Boosting outgoing call capacity; Using multiple broadband lines; Configuration overview; Setting up the routing in Linux; Configuring Asterisk; Explanation of the macro; Downsides; System() application; Summary; 2. …”
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American Film History : Selected Readings, Origins To 1960. by Lucia, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Early Background: Vaudeville, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Film -- Story Films, Melodrama, and Uplift -- White-Owned Race Film Companies: Competition and Collaboration -- The Minors: Lesser-Known Race Film Companies -- The End: The Coming of Sound -- Notes -- References -- 5 Chaplin and Silent Film Comedy -- The Tramp and Chaplin's Rise to Stardom -- From Willie Work to the Glasses Character: Harold Lloyd -- A Calm Demeanor Beneath a Porkpie Hat: Buster Keaton -- City Lights: A Farewell to Silent Film Comedy -- References…”
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Internet of Things with Python. by Hillar, Gaston C.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6: Working with Analog Inputs and Local Storage Understanding the analog inputs; Wiring an analog input pin with a voltage source; Measuring voltage with analog inputs and the mraa library; Wiring a photoresistor to an analog input pin; Determining the darkness level with analog inputs and the mraa library; Firing actions when the environment light changes; Controlling analog inputs with the wiring-x86 library; Logging to files in the local storage; Working with USB attached storage; Test your knowledge; Summary; Chapter 7: Retrieving Data from the Real World with Sensors.…”
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Cocos2d cross-platform game development cookbook : develop games for iOS and Android using Cocos2d with the aid of over 70 step-by-step recipes by Shekar, Siddharth

Table of Contents: “…Adding audio effectsAdding a mute button; Adding a volume slider; Adding a pause and resume button; Introduction; Patrol enemy behavior; Projectile shooting enemy; Chasing enemy behavior; A* pathfinding; Introduction; Loading the XML file data; Saving to the XML file data; Loading the JSON file data; Loading the PLIST file data; Saving the PLIST file data; Using NSUserDefaults; Introduction; CCEffects; Adding the glass effect; Adding the motion streak effect; Adding the particle effect; Adding 2D lighting; Introduction; Glyph Designer; Particle system; TexturePacker; PhysicsEditor.…”
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Borelli's on the movement of animals : on the natural motions resulting from gravity by Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: There Is No Positive Lightness in the Nature of ThingsProposition XXXVIII; Proposition XXXIX; Proposition XL; Proposition XLI; Proposition XLII; Proposition XLIII; Proposition XLIV; Proposition XLV; Proposition XLVI; Proposition XLVII; Proposition XLVIII; Proposition XLIX; Proposition L; Proposition LI; Proposition LII; Proposition LIII; Proposition LIV; Supposition V; Supposition VI; Proposition LV; Proposition LVI; Proposition LVII; Proposition LVIII; Proposition LIX; Proposition LX; Proposition LXI; Proposition LXII; Proposition LXIII; Proposition LXIV; Proposition LXV.…”
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Smart Multimedia Third International Conference, ICSM 2022, Marseille, France, August 25–27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Machine Learning for Multimedia -- Normalizing Flow Based Surface Defect Detection -- FUNet: Flow Based Conference Video Background Subtraction -- IARG: Improved Actor Relation Graph-based Group Activity Recognition -- SPGNet: Spatial Projection Guided 3D Human Pose Estimation in Low Dimensional Space -- Image Processing -- Unsupervised Face Frontalization GAN Driven by 3D Rotation and Symmetric Filling -- Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Multi-Scale Gaussian Rolling Guidance Filter Decomposition -- Multi-Directional Edge Detection Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Logic Judgment -- Multimedia Applications -- Security Concerns and Citizens' Privacy Implications in Smart Multimedia Applications -- Metric Learning on Complex Projective Spaces -- Gamified Smart Grid Implementation through Pico, Nano, and Microgrids in a Sustainable Campus -- Product Re-Identification System in Fully Automated Defect Detection -- Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care -- A Real-Time Fall Classification Model Based on Frame Series Motion Deformation -- GradXcepUNet: Explainable AI Based Medical Image Segmentation -- Non-Invasive Anemia Detection from Conjunctival Images -- 3D Segmentation and Visualization of Human Brain CT Images for Surgical Training - a VTK Approach -- Smart Homes -- The Energy 4.0 Concept and Its Relationship with the S3 Framework -- A Real-Time Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model for Sustainable Energy in Interactive Smart Homes: Part I -- A Real-Time Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model for Sustainable Energy in Interactive Smart Homes: Part II -- Multimedia Environments and Metaverse -- Including Grip Strength Activities into Tabletop Training Environments -- Matrix World – A Programmable 3D Multichain Metaverse -- Matrix Syncer - A Multi-Chain Data Aggregator for Supporting Blockchain-Based Metaverses -- Construction and Design of Food Traceability Based on Blockchain Technology Applying in the Metaverse -- Deep Learning on Video and Music -- Motion Segmentation Based on Pixel Distribution Learning on Unseen Videos -- Estimation of Music Recording Quality to Predict Automatic Music Transcription Performance -- Unleashing the Potential of Data Analytics through Music -- Haptic -- Impact of PGM Training on Reaction Time and Sense of Agency -- Epidural Motor Skills Measurements for Haptic Training -- Sensorless Force Approximation Control of 3-DOF Passive Haptic Devices -- Passive Haptic Learning as a Reinforcement Modality for Information -- Industrial -- Lighting Enhancement Using Self-Attention Guided HDR Reconstruction -- MoCap Trajectory-Based Animation Synthesis and Perplexity Driven Compression -- Hyperspectral Image Denoising Based on Dual Low-Rank Structure Preservation -- SimFormer: Real-To-Sim Transfer with Recurrent Restoration -- Spatio-Frequency Analysis for High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar Ship Target Detection.…”
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Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+ : new perspectives in literature, film and the arts

Table of Contents: “…Escaping the matrix : illusions and disillusions of identity in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) / Michael Mitchell ; 'East is east and west is west' : a reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006) / Ellen Dengel-Janic ; 'Stop thinking like and Englishman' or Writing against a fixed lexicon or terrorism in Patrick Neate's City of tiny lights (2005) / Yvonne Rosenberg ; 'A deconstructed shrine' : locating absence and relocating identity in Rodinsky's Room (2000) / Stephan Laqué ; 'Societies within' : council estates as cultural enclaves in recent urban fictions / Susanne Cuevas -- Interviews. …”
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LEARNING GDSCRIPT BY DEVELOPING A GAME WITH GODOT 4 a fun introduction to programming in GDScript 2.0 and game development using the Godot Engine by Vanhove, Sander

Table of Contents: “…-- Getting and preparing Godot -- Downloading the engine -- Creating a new project -- Light mode -- Creating the main scene -- A brief UI overview -- Writing our first script -- The Godot Engine Documentation -- Join our community! …”
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Learning and Intelligent Optimization 17th International Conference, LION 17, Nice, France, June 4–8, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Anomaly Classification to Enable Self-Healing in Cyber Physical Systems using Process Mining -- Hyper-box Classification Model using Mathematical Programming -- A leak localization algorithm in water distribution networks using probabilistic leak representation and optimal transport distance -- Fast and Robust Constrained Optimization via Evolutionary and Quadratic Programming -- Bayesian Optimization for Function Compositions with Applications to Dynamic Pricing -- A Bayesian optimization algorithm for constrained simulation optimization problems with heteroscedastic noise -- Hierarchical Machine Unlearning -- Explaining the Behavior of Reinforcement Learning Agents using Explaining the Behavior of Reinforcement Learning Agents using -- Deep Randomized Networks for Fast Learning -- Generative models via Optimal Transport and Gaussian Processes -- Real-world streaming process discovery from low-level event data -- Robust Neural Network Approach to System Identification in the High-Noise Regime -- GPU for Monte Carlo Search -- Learning the Bias Weights for Generalized Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation -- Heuristics selection with ML in CP Optimizer -- Model-based feature selection for neural networks: A mixed-integer programming approach -- An Error-Based Measure for Concept Drift Detection and Characterization -- Predict, Tune and Optimize for Data-Driven Shift Scheduling with Uncertain Demands -- On Learning When to Decompose Graphical Models -- Inverse Lighting with Differentiable Physically-Based Model -- Repositioning Fleet Vehicles: a Learning Pipeline -- Bayesian Decision Trees Inspired from Evolutionary Algorithms -- Towards Tackling MaxSAT by Combining Nested Monte Carlo with Local Search -- Relational Graph Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Application to Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Sequence-dependent Setup Times -- Experimental Digital Twin for Job Shops with Transportation Agents -- Learning to Prune Electric Vehicle Routing Problems -- A matheuristic approach for electric bus fleet scheduling -- Class GP: Gaussian Process Modeling for Heterogeneous Functions -- Surrogate Membership for Inferred Metrics in Fairness Evaluation -- The BeMi Stardust: a Structured Ensemble of Binarized Neural Network -- Discovering explicit scale-up criteria in crisis response with decision mining -- Job Shop Scheduling via Deep Reinforcement Learning: a Sequence to Sequence approach -- Generating a Graph Colouring Heuristic with Deep Q-Learning and Graph Neural Networks -- Multi-Task Predict-then-Optimize -- Integrating Hyperparameter Search into Model-Free AutoML with Context-Free Grammars -- Improving subtour elimination constraint generation in Branch-and-Cut algorithms for the TSP with Machine Learning -- Learn, Compare, Search: One Sawmill’s Search for the Best Cutting Patterns Across And/or Trees -- Dynamic Police Patrol Scheduling with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning -- Analysis of Heuristics for Vector Scheduling and Vector Bin Packing -- Unleashing the potential of restart by detecting the search stagnation.…”
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Gerontechnology : research, practice, and principles in the field of technology and aging

Table of Contents: “…Lim, A. Newell -- Quality lighting for health and independence in aging / E. …”
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