Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Ubiquitous Services UCAWSN & PDCAT 2015

Table of Contents: “…-I.Yoon -- Automatic Lighting Control Middleware System Controlled by User’s Emotion based on EEG; S.Y.Ahn, et al -- Hand recognition method with Kinect; D.Y.Lee, et al -- A Study on the Connectivity Patterns of Individuals within an Informal Communication Network; S.Koohborfardhaghighi, et al -- Grid Connected Photovoltaic System Using Inverter; H.J.Kim, et al -- The Cluster Algorithm for Time-varying Nonlinear System with a Model Uncertainty; J.…”
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High Frequency Techniques An Introduction to RF and Microwave Design and Computer Simulation. by White, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Parallel Circuit Quality Factors -- 3.4 Coupled Resonators -- Direct Coupled Resonators -- Lightly Coupled Resonators -- 3.5 Q Matching -- Low to High Resistance -- Broadbanding the Q Matching Method -- High to Low Resistance -- 4 Distributed Circuit Design -- 4.1 Transmission Lines -- 4.2 Wavelength in a Dielectric -- 4.3 Pulses on Transmission Lines -- 4.4 Incident and Reflected Waves -- 4.5 Reflection Coefficient -- 4.6 Return Loss -- 4.7 Mismatch Loss -- 4.8 Mismatch Error -- 4.9 The Telegrapher Equations -- 4.10 Transmission Line Wave Equations -- 4.11 Wave Propagation…”
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The Oxford handbook of indigenous American literature

Table of Contents: “…Coon -- "Our leaves of paper will be/Dancing lightly": indigenous poetics / Sophie Mayer -- The story of movement: natives and performance culture / LeAnne Howe -- Published Native American drama, 1970-2011 / Alexander Pettit -- Indigenous American cinema / Denise K. …”


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Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments 43rd IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APM...

Table of Contents: “…. -- Analysis of People’s Continental Behavior Regarding Cycling in Light of The Cyclability Index. -- Analytical and Computational Models for In-Store Shopper Journeys. -- Human-centred Manufacturing and Logistics Systems Design and Management for the Operator 5.0. -- A Meta-Heuristic Approach for Industry 5.0 Assembly Line Balancing and Scheduling with Human-Robot Collaboration. -- Game-based design of a human-machine collaboration monitoring system. -- Assessing Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence of Voice-enabled Intelligent Assistants for the Operator 5.0. -- A Bibliometric Perspective of Integrating Labor Flexibility in Workload Control. -- Integrating Ontology with Cobot Execution for Human-robot Collaborative Assembly using Heterogenous Cobots. -- A Study on Production Scheduling Methods for Ready-Made Meal Industries. -- Experimentation and evaluation of the usability of an AR-driven zero defect manufacturing solution in a real life complex assembly setting. -- Enriching scene-graph generation with prior knowledge from work instruction. -- Designing augmented reality assistance systems for Operator 5.0 solutions in assembly. -- Inclusive Work Systems Design: Applying Technology to Accommodate Individual Workers’ Needs. -- An examination of the limited adoption of personalized work instructions in assembly to accommodate individual worker’s needs. -- Skills and information needed for Operator 5.0 in emergency production. -- Augmenting the One-Work-Multiple-Machine (OWMM) System: An Industrial Softbot Approach. -- Quantitative Models for Workforce Management in a Large Service Operation. -- Evolving Workforce Skills and Competencies for Industry 5.0. -- A State-of-the-Art Review and Framework for Human-Centric Automation in Industry 5.0. -- Impact of Collaborative Robots on Human Trust, Anxiety, and Workload: Experiment Findings. -- Integrating Industry 5.0 competencies: a learning factory based framework. -- Strategies for managing the ageing workforce in manufacturing: a survey-based analysis. -- Contemporary and Future Manufacturing – Unveiling the Skills Palette for Thriving in Industry 5.0. -- Exploring the cognitive workload assessment according to human-centric principles in Industry 5.0. -- Experiential Learning in Engineering Education. -- Understanding the Drivers of Lean Learning in Industrial Environments. -- Designing an Online Workshop for Creativity and Value Co-Creation: Three Case Studies in Gastronomic Sciences on Viewpoint Setting and Sustainability.…”
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Technical Innovation in American History by Welch, Rosanne

Table of Contents: “…Kentucky Long RifleLightning Rod; Loom; Lucas, Eliza (1722-1793); Masters, Sybilla (c. 1675-1720); Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); Natural History; Onesimus (fl. 1706-1716); Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827); Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804); Rittenhouse, David (1732-1796); "Saugus Pot, "; Schooner; Silversmithing; Smallpox Inoculation; Spinning Wheel; Street Lighting; Swim Fins; Three-Wheel Clock; Turtle Submarine; Whiton, David Erskine (1825-1904); Winthrop, John (1714-1779); Section 2: The New Republic and the Market Economy (1780-1820); Overview; Amphibious Steam Vehicle; Apple Parers…”
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Artificial and cognitive computing for sustainable healthcare systems in smart cities

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Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23–27, 2022, Proceedings, Part VIII

Table of Contents: “…-- A Real World Dataset for Multi-View 3D Reconstruction -- REALY: Rethinking the Evaluation of 3D Face Reconstruction -- Capturing, Reconstructing, and Simulating: The UrbanScene3D Dataset -- 3D CoMPaT: Composition of Materials on Parts of 3D Things -- PartImageNet: A Large, High-Quality Dataset of Parts -- A-OKVQA: A Benchmark for Visual Question Answering Using World Knowledge -- OOD-CV: A Benchmark for Robustness to Out-of-Distribution Shifts of Individual Nuisances in Natural Images -- Facial Depth and Normal Estimation Using Single Dual-Pixel Camera -- The Anatomy of Video Editing: A Dataset and Benchmark Suite for AI-Assisted Video Editing -- StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning -- PANDORA: A Panoramic Detection Dataset for Object with Orientation -- FS-COCO: Towards Understanding of Freehand Sketches of Common Objects in Context -- Exploring Fine-Grained Audiovisual Categorization with the SSW60 Dataset -- The Caltech Fish Counting Dataset: A Benchmark for Multiple-Object Tracking and Counting -- A Dataset for Interactive Vision-Language Navigation with Unknown Command Feasibility -- BRACE: The Breakdancing Competition Dataset for Dance Motion Synthesis -- Dress Code: High-Resolution Multi-Category Virtual Try-On -- A Data-Centric Approach for Improving Ambiguous Labels with Combined Semi-Supervised Classification and Clustering -- ClearPose: Large-Scale Transparent Object Dataset and Benchmark -- When Deep Classifiers Agree: Analyzing Correlations between Learning Order and Image Statistics -- AnimeCeleb: Large-Scale Animation CelebHeads Dataset for Head Reenactment -- MUGEN: A Playground for Video-Audio-Text Multimodal Understanding and GENeration -- A Dense Material Segmentation Dataset for Indoor and Outdoor Scene Parsing -- MimicME: A Large Scale Diverse 4D Database for Facial Expression Analysis -- Delving into Universal Lesion Segmentation: Method, Dataset, and Benchmark -- Large Scale Real-World Multi-person Tracking -- D2-TPred: Discontinuous Dependency for Trajectory Prediction under Traffic Lights -- The Missing Link: Finding Label Relations across Datasets -- Learning Omnidirectional Flow in 360° Video via Siamese Representation -- VizWiz-FewShot: Locating Objects in Images Taken by People with Visual Impairments -- TRoVE: Transforming Road Scene Datasets into Photorealistic Virtual Environments -- Trapped in Texture Bias? …”
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Smart Technology Trends in Industrial and Business Management

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter10: Potential of Human Resources as Key Factor of Success of Innovation in Organisations -- Chapter11: Environmental Policy as a Competitive Advantage in the Global Environment -- Chapter12: Awareness of Malicious Behavior as a Part of Smart Transportation in Taxi Services -- Chapter13: Alternative lights for public transport in Smart Cities -- Chapter14: Green Markets and Their Role in the Sustainable Marketing Management -- Chapter15: Introduction to the International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2016) -- Chapter16: Smart wristband system for improving quality of life for users in traffic environment -- Chapter17: Composites manufacturing: A new approaches to simulation -- Chapter18: Study of the cutting zone of the WPC composite materials after different types of cutting -- Chapter19: Quality assurance in the automotive industry and Industry 4.0 -- Chapter20: RFID labels and its characteristics on labeled products -- Chapter21: Risk analysis causing downtimes in production process of hot rolling mill -- Chapter22: Evaluation of roughness parameters of machined surface of selected wood plastic composite -- Chapter23: Basic assumptions of information system for increasing competitiveness of production company within EU and their application at the CAPP system design -- Chapter24: Operational characteristics of experimental actuator with a drive based on the antagonistic pneumatic artificial muscles -- Chapter25: IoT challenge: older test machines modernization in an automotive plant -- Chapter26: Critical values of some probability distributions and standard numerical methods -- Chapter27: Measuring production process complexity -- Chapter28: Evaluation of the transverse roughness of the outer and inner surfaces of the thin-walled components produced by milling -- Chapter29: Smart transportation applications and vehicle data processing system for smart city buses -- Chapter30: Current Trends in Industrial and Business Management in Smart Technology -- Chapter31: Sustainable Organization of Cooperation Activities in a Company – Slovak republic research perspective -- Chapter32: Cooperation as a key element between Universities and Factories -- Chapter33: Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System – best practice of cooperation between university and research center -- Chapter34: Cooperative relations and activities in a cluster in the Slovak and Czech automotive industry -- Chapter35: Model Approach for Formation Synergy Effects in Automotive Industry with Support of Big Data Solutions – application for distribution and transport service strategy -- Chapter36: Improvement of the production system based on the Kanban principle.…”
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Doctor Faustus

Table of Contents: “…(3:18) -- Resigned to Fate (3:52) -- Faustus: Last Human Contact (4:24) -- Entreaty for Redemption (5:59) -- Victorious Hell (3:29) -- Curtain Call (0:54) -- Credits: Doctor Faustus (0:47) -- Director Elizabeth Freestone: Production Notes (6:16) -- Director Training (2:28) -- Production & Costume Designer (3:34) -- Lighting Designer (6:01) -- Characterization (4:04) -- Actor: Doctor Faustus (7:54) -- Actor: Mephistopheles (5:41) -- Actor: Wagner/Lucifer/Beelzebub (0:40) -- Actor: Devil/Pride/Duchess (0:43) -- Actor: Good Angel/Old Man (2:19) -- Actor: Evil Angel/Helen of Troy (1:06) -- Actor: Cornelius/Robin/Lechery (1:03) -- Actor: Lawman/Gluttony/Cardinal/Emperor (1:02) -- Actor: Multiple Roles (3:59) -- How to Learn What the Play is About (0:57) -- Doctor Faustus (Static Wide Shot) (2:38) -- Choosing Magic (6:39) -- Good and Bad Angels (2:06) -- Teachers of Magic (4:16) -- Is Faustus Doomed? …”
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Energy costs, international developments and new directions

Table of Contents: “…Solar dryers for peanut crops; 5.1.5. PV solar lighting systems.; 5.1.6. PV solar water pumps; 5.1.7. …”
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Learning Ext JS by Frederick, Shea

Table of Contents: “…; How does JSON work?; Time for action; Lighting the fire; The workhorse-Ext.get; Speed tip; Summary; Chapter 3: Forms; The core components of a form; Our first form; Nice form-how does it work?…”
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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency : Assessment of Projects and Policies. by Duffy, Aidan

Table of Contents: “…2.3.4 Wind power -- 2.3.5 Ocean energy -- 2.3.6 Photovoltaics -- 2.4 Heat generation -- 2.4.1 Boilers -- 2.4.2 Solar water heaters -- 2.5 Combined heat and power -- 2.5.1 Micro-CHP -- 2.5.2 CHP engines -- 2.5.3 CHP turbines -- 2.5.4 Combined heat, power and cooling -- 2.6 Energy storage -- 2.6.1 Electrical -- 2.6.2 Pumped hydroelectric storage -- 2.6.3 Compressed air energy storage -- 2.6.4 Thermal energy storage -- 2.7 Energy efficiency -- 2.7.1 Thermal insulation -- 2.7.2 High-efficiency lighting -- References -- Chapter 3 Modelling Energy Systems -- 3.1 Introduction…”
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Unsteady combustor physics by Lieuwen, Timothy C.

Table of Contents: “…Example: Forced Response of Lightly Damped, Linear Systems2.5.3.2. Example: Limit Cycling Systems; 2.5.3.3. …”
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Flexible glass : enabling thin, lightweight, and flexible electronics by Garner, Sean M.

Table of Contents: “…Part III: Flexible Glass Device ApplicationsChapter 7: Flexible Glass in Thin Film Photovoltaics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 General Substrate Requirements for Photovoltaic Applications; 7.3 Requirements for CdTe Superstrates; 7.4 Standard CdTe Device Stack and Processing; 7.5 Flexible CdTe Device Performance; 7.6 Flex and Bend Testing of CdTe; 7.7 Future Trends/Directions; References; Chapter 8: Ultra-Thin Glass for Displays, Lighting and Touch Sensors; 8.1 Introduction and Overview; 8.2 Ultra Thin Glass Substrates for Flexible Displays; 8.3 Thin film Device Processing on Ultra Thin Glass.…”
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Electromagnetic compatibility in power electronics

Table of Contents: “…Examples of observations of harmonic currents; 1.2.7. Fluorescent lighting scenario.…”
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Public Wrongs, Private Actions : Civil Lawsuits to Recover Stolen Assets by Brun, Jean-Pierre, 1962-, Helene Dubois, Pascale, Does de Willebois, Emile van der, Hauch, Jeanne, Jais, Sarah, Mekki, Yannis, Sotiropoulou, Anastasia, Rose Sylvester, Katherine, Uttamchandani, Mahesh

Table of Contents: “…2.1 Qualities of a Successful Asset Recovery Attorney2.2 Identifying a Suitable Attorney; 2.1 Selecting an Attorney-The Caution Flags; 2.2 Selecting an Attorney-The Green Lights; B. Structuring a Fee Arrangement; 2.3 Considerations in Structuring a Fee Arrangement; 2.4 Overview of Types of Fee Arrangements; C. …”
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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development. by Lavieri, Dr. Edward

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2: Planning Your Game in the LumberyardBeta software; Release notes; Beta 1.0; Beta 1.1; Beta 1.2; Beta 1.3; Beta 1.4; Overview of sample content; Starter content; getting-started-completed-level; start-section03-terrain; start-section04-lighting; start-section05-camera-playerstart; start-section06-designer-objects; start-section07-materials; start-section08-physics; start-section09-flowgraph-scripting; start-section10-audio; Sample games; Animation_Basic_Sample; Camera_Sample; Dont_Die; Movers_Sample; Trigger_Sample; UIEditor_Sample; Game design and game design documents.…”
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Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Higher Education Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities by Schultz, Christie

Table of Contents: “…Part I Introduction -- 1 Coming to Care Ethics in Higher Education -- Theme and Scope -- Coming to a Research Puzzle: A Narrative Beginning -- Foregrounding Personal Justifications -- Feminist Care Ethics as a Theoretical Framework -- My Earliest Stories Linking Care and Higher Education -- Noddings’s Language of Care -- Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Leadership Experiences and Practices -- Narrative Inquiry’s Methodological Commitments -- Research Design Summary -- Methodological Characteristics and Considerations -- Towards an Understanding of Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities -- References -- 2 Care Ethics that Matter -- Practical Justifications -- Contextualizing Change -- Higher Education in Neoliberal Times -- Higher Education Leadership -- Social Justifications -- Care in Education -- Care in Higher Education -- Tensions -- (En)Countering the First Tension: Organizations as Obstacles to Care -- (En)Countering the Second Tension: Leadership as a Barrier to Care -- (En)Countering the Third Tension: Gendered Care and Caring -- Beginning to Understand Care Ethics in Higher Education Leadership -- References -- Part II Stories of Experiences and Practices of Care-Centered Leadership -- 3 Beth -- Introducing Beth -- Beginning in the Middle -- Where Care Comes From -- Beginning Again -- Weaving Care and Self-Care -- As Care Seeks and (Sometimes) Finds Visibility -- Being Cared For: Friendship and Feeling Seen -- Caring into the Future -- References -- 4 Lynn -- Introducing Lynn -- Connecting -- Journeying Towards Leadership -- Embracing Leadership -- Care in Her Midst -- The Relational Nature of Care -- Caring for the Work, Too -- Tending to Tensions, Too -- The Whole Self-Caring -- Self-Care and Rest -- Leaning into the Future -- Postscript -- Reference -- 5 Abby -- Introducing Abby -- Learning to Show Up, to Participate, and to Listen -- Learning to “Think on My Feet” -- “There Was No Care” -- Enacting Feminist Care and Care Ethics -- Deep Listening -- Being Genuine -- Caring and Chairing in Neoliberal Times -- Enabling Care, Now and into the Future -- Being Surrounded by Care -- Lighting the Way -- References -- 6 Genevieve -- Introducing Genevieve -- Beginnings -- The Work of Care -- The Hard Work of the Work of Care -- Receiving Care -- An Arc of Care and Not Care -- Creating Care -- Research as Self-Care -- Making Care Visible -- Feeling Cared for as a Leader -- Caring and Chairing -- Seeing Care -- Coda -- Reference -- Part III Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education -- 7 Resonant Threads -- Thinking with Resonant Threads -- Situating the Writing of the Resonant Threads -- Awakening to Three Resonant Threads -- Learning to Care: Awakening to Where Care Comes From -- Experiences of Care from Mentors -- Familial Experiences of Care -- With the Threads of This Resonance -- The Challenge of Care: Caring in Challenging Moments and Times -- The Limits of Care: Tensions in Challenging Moments -- The Labor of Care: Risking the Work of Care in Challenging Times -- With the Threads of This Resonance -- Care for the Self: A Condition of Care -- Care for the Self with Movement and Music -- Care for the Self with Research and Writing -- Care for the Self with Rest and Recalibration -- With the Threads of This Resonance -- References -- 8 Conclusion: Care-Centered Leadership in Our Midst -- Emerging Visibility of Care-Centered Leadership -- Making Care in Leadership in Higher Education Visible -- Revisiting Social, Practical, and Personal Justifications: Implications and Possibilities -- Revisiting Social Justifications: Social and Theoretical Implications and Possibilities -- Revisiting Practical Justifications: Practical Implications and Possibilities -- Revisiting Personal Justifications: Implications and What I Will Remember -- References -- Epilogue: Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Times of Change.…”
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BOOK ON PUBLIC SPEAKING. by MORRISON, TOPHER

Table of Contents: “…; Make the Host's Job Easy; Look Me in the Eyes; Chapter 15: Lights, Camera, Action!; Through the Looking Glass; Show Me Some Cheese; Is There Something in Your Eye?…”
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High Frequency Techniques : An Introduction to RF and Microwave Design and Computer Simulation. by White, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Parallel Circuit Quality Factors -- 3.4 Coupled Resonators -- Direct Coupled Resonators -- Lightly Coupled Resonators -- 3.5 Q Matching -- Low to High Resistance -- Broadbanding the Q Matching Method -- High to Low Resistance -- 4 Distributed Circuit Design -- 4.1 Transmission Lines -- 4.2 Wavelength in a Dielectric -- 4.3 Pulses on Transmission Lines -- 4.4 Incident and Reflected Waves -- 4.5 Reflection Coefficient -- 4.6 Return Loss -- 4.7 Mismatch Loss -- 4.8 Mismatch Error -- 4.9 The Telegrapher Equations -- 4.10 Transmission Line Wave Equations -- 4.11 Wave Propagation…”
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