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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book introduces a new approach in designing E-Librarian Services. Such a system is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a digital library in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index, or by using a simple keyword search. It combines recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces. The user can enter his question in natural language. The premise is that more pertinent results would be retrieved if the search engine understood the sense of the user's query. The returned results are then logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matchings. An E-Librarian Service simulates a human librarian. Hence, it does not return the answer to the user's question, but it retrieves the most pertinent document(s), in which the user finds the answer to his question. Also, an E-Librarian Service always proposes a solution to the user, even if the system concludes that there is no exhaustive answer. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book introduces a new approach in designing E-Librarian Services. Such a system is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a digital library in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index, or by using a simple keyword search. It combines recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces. The user can enter his question in natural language. The premise is that more pertinent results would be retrieved if the search engine understood the sense of the user's query. The returned results are then logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matchings. An E-Librarian Service simulates a human librarian. Hence, it does not return the answer to the user's question, but it retrieves the most pertinent document(s), in which the user finds the answer to his question. Also, an E-Librarian Service always proposes a solution to the user, even if the system concludes that there is no exhaustive answer. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces a new approach in designing E-Librarian Services. Such a system is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a digital library in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index, or by using a simple keyword search. It combines recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces. The user can enter his question in natural language. The premise is that more pertinent results would be retrieved if the search engine understood the sense of the user's query. The returned results are then logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matchings. An E-Librarian Service simulates a human librarian. Hence, it does not return the answer to the user's question, but it retrieves the most pertinent document(s), in which the user finds the answer to his question. Also, an E-Librarian Service always proposes a solution to the user, even if the system concludes that there is no exhaustive answer.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2011, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2011.The 13 revised full papers and 7 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are focused on both theoretical and practical, application-oriented issues and present current research with a special focus on the integration and hybridization of the approaches of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research technologies for solving large scale and complex real life combinatorial optimization problems.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This second edition graduate textbook and reference guide for nurses presents a practice-focused intervention from the notable Artinian Intersystem Model. While the first edition focused largely on theory, this second editions seeks to integrate both theory and practice to ultimately help enhance the nurse-patient relationship as well as nursing practice at large.The authors offer practical care plans at various levels of expertise across the continuum of care, from acute care to long term care to resolve concerns through joint decision making and to document interventions. The text establishes exclusive care plans and scales for the Artinian Intersystem Model to document changes in health status. The book also employs evidence-based, Glaserian Grounded Theory research methods and serves as a companion to Springer's recent Glaserian Grounded Theory in Nursing Research. Key features:Uses evidence-based Grounded Theories to guide clinical nursing practice Establishes a care plan that accounts for the interaction of the biological, psychosocial, and spiritual subsystems Discusses the application of the Artinian Intersystem Model in various practice settings, including community health, cosmetic procedures, case management, and assisted living Includes a digital adjunct containing forms for applying the model at the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as conceptual maps of research used for sample care plans'.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book describes how the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is related to health and disease. It is suggested that many diseases are initiated and their progress is influenced by inflammatory molecules and a decrease in the production and/or action of anti-inflammatory molecules and this imbalance between pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules seems to have been initiated in the perinatal period. This implies that strategies to prevent and manage various adult diseases should start in the perinatal period. An alteration in the metaolism of essential fatty acids and their anti-inflammatory molecules such as lipoxins, resolvins, protecitns, maresins and nitrolipids seems to play a major role in the pathobiology of several adult diseases. Based on these concepts, novel therapeutic approaches in the management of insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, cancer, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and other auto-immune diseases are presented. Based on all these evidences, a unified concept that several adult diseases are due to an alteration in the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is discussed and novel methods of their management are presented.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - High resolution analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog conversion is often realized with the use of a Sigma-Delta Modulator (SDM). The sigma-delta modulation process, although very non-linear when a 1-bit quantizer is used, is nowadays well understood and can be made to deliver a very high signal conversion quality. An example system that pushes the traditional sigma-delta modulation algorithm to its performance limit is the Super Audio CD (SA-CD) standard, in which a 64 times oversampled 1-bit signal is used to represent audio content with an SNR of up to 120~dB over 20~kHz bandwidth.Look-Ahead Based Sigma-Delta Modulation presents a number of alternative digital sigma-delta modulation techniques that make use of look-ahead, a process that takes into account the effect of decisions on the future, to realize an even higher conversion quality than possible with traditional sigma-delta modulation.This book provides the reader with a clear overview of various encoding techniques and demonstrates the improvements in signal conversion quality that can be obtained from their use. Starting from the basic full look-ahead approach that requires several orders of magnitude more computational power than a normal SDM, more efficient structures are derived that are able to realize a far higher signal conversion performance at a fraction of the computational cost. In addition to this, a modulator is derived that is able to generate bitstreams that are optimized for SA-CD usage, i.e. a high signal conversion quality combined with minimal signal entropy.All the look-ahead algorithms presented in this book are described in pseudocode and ample simulation results are provided to judge the effects on the signal conversion performance.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese science and technology. Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang (1833&endash;1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868&endash;1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Basiswissen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie erscheint nun schon in der 7. Auflage. In gewohnt komprimierter Form gibt es Antworten auf Fragen wie 'Was unterscheidet Psychoanalyse von Verhaltenstherapie' oder Was kann ein Psychiater bei Schlafwandeln tun Die menschliche Psyche ist hochkomplex und ihre Störungsbilder sind spannend. Verständlich für Studierende geschrieben und am Gegenstandskatalog orientiert, hilft das Buch bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und beim Lernen für das Examen.Damit der Berufseinstieg kein eiskalter Praxisschock wird, geben die zahlreichen Fallbeispiele einen Einblick in den Klinikalltag und zeigen den Studierenden, worauf es beim Lernen ankommt. Nicht nur die Psychiatrie ist wichtig - auch der psychotherapeutische Aspekt spielt eine große Rolle. Dieser Teil wurde deutlich ausgebaut und zeigt die verschiedenen Verfahren und ihre Anwendungen auf. Das erweiterte Glossar zum Nachschlagen hilft bei Fragen weiter.Ein ideales Buch für alle, die mit der Versorgung psychisch Kranker konfrontiert sind. Optimal für den Studenten, der ein solides Grundwissen in der Psychatrie erwerben möchte. 516 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Basiswissen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie erscheint nun schon in der 7. Auflage. In gewohnt komprimierter Form gibt es Antworten auf Fragen wie 'Was unterscheidet Psychoanalyse von Verhaltenstherapie' oder Was kann ein Psychiater bei Schlafwandeln tun Die menschliche Psyche ist hochkomplex und ihre Störungsbilder sind spannend. Verständlich für Studierende geschrieben und am Gegenstandskatalog orientiert, hilft das Buch bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und beim Lernen für das Examen.Damit der Berufseinstieg kein eiskalter Praxisschock wird, geben die zahlreichen Fallbeispiele einen Einblick in den Klinikalltag und zeigen den Studierenden, worauf es beim Lernen ankommt. Nicht nur die Psychiatrie ist wichtig - auch der psychotherapeutische Aspekt spielt eine große Rolle. Dieser Teil wurde deutlich ausgebaut und zeigt die verschiedenen Verfahren und ihre Anwendungen auf. Das erweiterte Glossar zum Nachschlagen hilft bei Fragen weiter.Ein ideales Buch für alle, die mit der Versorgung psychisch Kranker konfrontiert sind. Optimal für den Studenten, der ein solides Grundwissen in der Psychatrie erwerben möchte. 516 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der erste Band der Reihe Chemie-Basiswissen vermittelt in seiner neuen Auflage die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Chemie für Bachelor-Studiengänge mit Chemie als Haupt- oder Nebenfach sowie für Studierende des höheren Lehramtes. Als Grundlagen-Repetitorium ist er auch für den Master-Studiengang Chemie geeignet. Die Autoren präsentieren den Stoff in kurzer und übersichtlicher Form und mit einem lernfreundlichen Layout. Das didaktische Konzept und die am Curriculum orientierte Stoffauswahl haben die Vorauflagen so erfolgreich gemacht. Mit der 10. Auflage dieses Bandes sind die Inhalte noch besser auf die Bedürfnisse der angesprochenen Studierenden zugeschnitten. Die für das Hauptfach Chemie darüber hinaus erforderliche Chemie der Elemente ist nun Inhalt eines eigenen, vierten Bandes.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Anschauliche Geometrie - wohl selten ist ein Mathematikbuch seinem Titel so gerecht geworden wie dieses außergewöhnliche Werk von Hilbert und Cohn-Vossen. Zuerst 1932 erschienen, hat das Buch nichts von seiner Frische und Kraft verloren. Hilbert hat sein erklärtes Ziel, die Faszination der Geometrie zu vermitteln, bei Generationen von Mathematikern erreicht.Aus Hilberts Vorwort: 'Das Buch soll dazu dienen, die Freude an der Mathematik zu mehren, indem es dem Leser erleichtert, in das Wesen der Mathematik einzudringen, ohne sich einem beschwerlichen Studium zu unterziehen'. 388 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Anschauliche Geometrie - wohl selten ist ein Mathematikbuch seinem Titel so gerecht geworden wie dieses außergewöhnliche Werk von Hilbert und Cohn-Vossen. Zuerst 1932 erschienen, hat das Buch nichts von seiner Frische und Kraft verloren. Hilbert hat sein erklärtes Ziel, die Faszination der Geometrie zu vermitteln, bei Generationen von Mathematikern erreicht.Aus Hilberts Vorwort: 'Das Buch soll dazu dienen, die Freude an der Mathematik zu mehren, indem es dem Leser erleichtert, in das Wesen der Mathematik einzudringen, ohne sich einem beschwerlichen Studium zu unterziehen'. 388 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie - machen Sie sich nicht verrückt!Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 516 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Basiswissen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie erscheint nun schon in der 7. Auflage. In gewohnt komprimierter Form gibt es Antworten auf Fragen wie 'Was unterscheidet Psychoanalyse von Verhaltenstherapie' oder Was kann ein Psychiater bei Schlafwandeln tun Die menschliche Psyche ist hochkomplex und ihre Störungsbilder sind spannend. Verständlich für Studierende geschrieben und am Gegenstandskatalog orientiert, hilft das Buch bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und beim Lernen für das Examen.Damit der Berufseinstieg kein eiskalter Praxisschock wird, geben die zahlreichen Fallbeispiele einen Einblick in den Klinikalltag und zeigen den Studierenden, worauf es beim Lernen ankommt. Nicht nur die Psychiatrie ist wichtig - auch der psychotherapeutische Aspekt spielt eine große Rolle. Dieser Teil wurde deutlich ausgebaut und zeigt die verschiedenen Verfahren und ihre Anwendungen auf. Das erweiterte Glossar zum Nachschlagen hilft bei Fragen weiter.Ein ideales Buch für alle, die mit der Versorgung psychisch Kranker konfrontiert sind. Optimal für den Studenten, der ein solides Grundwissen in der Psychatrie erwerben möchte.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der erste Band der Reihe Chemie-Basiswissen vermittelt in seiner neuen Auflage die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Chemie für Bachelor-Studiengänge mit Chemie als Haupt- oder Nebenfach sowie für Studierende des höheren Lehramtes. Als Grundlagen-Repetitorium ist er auch für den Master-Studiengang Chemie geeignet. Die Autoren präsentieren den Stoff in kurzer und übersichtlicher Form und mit einem lernfreundlichen Layout. Das didaktische Konzept und die am Curriculum orientierte Stoffauswahl haben die Vorauflagen so erfolgreich gemacht. Mit der 10. Auflage dieses Bandes sind die Inhalte noch besser auf die Bedürfnisse der angesprochenen Studierenden zugeschnitten. Die für das Hauptfach Chemie darüber hinaus erforderliche Chemie der Elemente ist nun Inhalt eines eigenen, vierten Bandes.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 320 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der erste Band der Reihe Chemie-Basiswissen vermittelt in seiner neuen Auflage die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Chemie für Bachelor-Studiengänge mit Chemie als Haupt- oder Nebenfach sowie für Studierende des höheren Lehramtes. Als Grundlagen-Repetitorium ist er auch für den Master-Studiengang Chemie geeignet. Die Autoren präsentieren den Stoff in kurzer und übersichtlicher Form und mit einem lernfreundlichen Layout. Das didaktische Konzept und die am Curriculum orientierte Stoffauswahl haben die Vorauflagen so erfolgreich gemacht. Mit der 10. Auflage dieses Bandes sind die Inhalte noch besser auf die Bedürfnisse der angesprochenen Studierenden zugeschnitten. Die für das Hauptfach Chemie darüber hinaus erforderliche Chemie der Elemente ist nun Inhalt eines eigenen, vierten Bandes.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Anschauliche Geometrie - wohl selten ist ein Mathematikbuch seinem Titel so gerecht geworden wie dieses außergewöhnliche Werk von Hilbert und Cohn-Vossen. Zuerst 1932 erschienen, hat das Buch nichts von seiner Frische und Kraft verloren. Hilbert hat sein erklärtes Ziel, die Faszination der Geometrie zu vermitteln, bei Generationen von Mathematikern erreicht.Aus Hilberts Vorwort: 'Das Buch soll dazu dienen, die Freude an der Mathematik zu mehren, indem es dem Leser erleichtert, in das Wesen der Mathematik einzudringen, ohne sich einem beschwerlichen Studium zu unterziehen'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 388 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Anschauliche Geometrie - wohl selten ist ein Mathematikbuch seinem Titel so gerecht geworden wie dieses außergewöhnliche Werk von Hilbert und Cohn-Vossen. Zuerst 1932 erschienen, hat das Buch nichts von seiner Frische und Kraft verloren. Hilbert hat sein erklärtes Ziel, die Faszination der Geometrie zu vermitteln, bei Generationen von Mathematikern erreicht.Aus Hilberts Vorwort: 'Das Buch soll dazu dienen, die Freude an der Mathematik zu mehren, indem es dem Leser erleichtert, in das Wesen der Mathematik einzudringen, ohne sich einem beschwerlichen Studium zu unterziehen'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our future but develop new technologies and products What if we could use stories, movies and comics as a kind of tool to explore the real world implications and uses of future technologies today Science Fiction Prototyping is a practical guide to using fiction as a way to imagine our future in a whole new way. Filled with history, real world examples and conversations with experts like best selling science fiction author Cory Doctorow, senior editor at Dark Horse Comics Chris Warner and Hollywood science expert Sidney Perkowitz, Science Fiction Prototyping will give you the tools you need tobegin designing the future with science fiction.The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2021. His work is called 'future casting'-using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to create a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and reinventing TV. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love and Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.Table of Contents: Preface / Foreword / Epilogue / Dedication / Acknowledgments / 1. The Future Is in Your Hands / 2. Religious Robots and Runaway Were-Tigers: A Brief Overview ofthe Science and the Fiction that Went Into Two SF Prototypes / 3. How to Build Your Own SF Prototype in Five Steps or Less / 4. I, Robot: From Asimov to Doctorow: Exploring Short Fiction as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Cory Doctorow / 5. The Men in the Moon: Exploring Movies as an SF Prototype and a Conversation with Sidney Perkowitz / 6. Science in the Gutters: Exploring Comics as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Chris Warner / 7. Making the Future: Now that You Have Developed Your SF Prototype, What's Next / 8. Einstein's Thought Experiments and Asimov's Second Dream / Appendix A: The SF Prototypes / Notes / Author Biography 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the history of modern computation, large mechanical calculators preceded computers. A person would sit there punching keys according to a procedure and a number would eventually appear. Once calculators became fast enough, it became obvious that the critical path was the punching rather than the calculation itself. That is what made the stored program concept vital to further progress. Once the instructions were stored in the machine, the entire computation could run at the speed of the machine. This book shows how to do the same thing for DNA computing. Rather than asking a robot or a person to pour in specific strands at different times in order to cause a DNA computation to occur (by analogy to a person punching numbers and operations into a mechanical calculator), the DNA instructions are stored within the solution and guide the entire computation. We show how to store straight line programs, conditionals, loops, and a rudimentary form of subroutines.To achieve this goal, the book proposes a complete language for describing the intrinsic topology of DNA complexes and nanomachines, along with the dynamics of such a system. We then describe dynamic behavior using a set of basic transitions, which operate on a small neighborhood within a complex in a well-defined way. These transitions can be formalized as purely syntactical functions of the string representations.Building on that foundation, the book proposes a novel machine motif which constitutes an instruction stack, allowing for the clocked release of an arbitrary sequence of DNA instruction or data strands. The clock mechanism is built of special strands of DNA called ''tick'' and ''tock.'' Each time a ''tick'' and ''tock'' enter a DNA solution, a strand is released from an instruction stack (by analogy to the way in which as a clock cycle in an electronic computer causes a new instruction to enter a processing unit). As long as there remain strands on the stack, the next cycle will release a new instruction strand. Regardless of the actual strand or component to be released at any particular clock step, the ''tick'' and ''tock'' fuel strands remain the same, thus shifting the burden of work away from the end user of a machine and easing operation. Pre-loaded stacks enable the concept of a stored program to be realized as a physical DNA mechanism.A conceptual example is given of such a stack operating a walker device. The stack allows for a user to operate such a clocked walker by means of simple repetition of adding two fuel types, in contrast to the previous mechanism of adding a unique fuel -- at least 12 different types of strands -- for each step of the mechanism.We demonstrate by a series of experiments conducted in Ned Seeman's lab that it is possible to ''initialize'' a clocked stored program DNA machine. We end the book with a discussion of the design features of a programming language for clocked DNA programming. There is a lot left to do.Table of Contents: Introduction / Notation / A Topological Description of DNA Computing / Machines and Motifs / Experiment: Storing Clocked Programs in DNA / A Clocked DNA Programming Language 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how! Android Apps for Absolute Beginners takes you through the process of getting your first Android applications up and running using plain English and practical examples. It cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android application development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started. Teaches Android application development in language anyone can understand, giving you the best possible start in Android development Provides simple, step-by-step examples that make learning easy, allowing you to pick up the concepts without fuss Offers clear code descriptions and layout so that you can get your apps running as soon as possible 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Beginning Android Games offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress towards creating your own basic game engine and playable games. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games. The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes Android an attractive target for aspiring game developers. Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title Beginning Android Games will help you kick-start your project. The book will guide you through the process of making several example games for the Android platform, and involves a wide range of topics: The fundamentals of game development The Android platform basics to apply those fundamentals in the context of making a game The design of 2D and 3D games and their successful implementation on the Android platform For those looking to learn about Android tablet game app development or want Android 4 SDK specific coverage, check out Beginning Android 4 Games Development, now available from Apress. 688 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides an overview of systems engineering, its important elements, and aspects of management that will lead in the direction of building systems with a greater likelihood of success. Emphasis is placed upon the following elements:- How the systems approach is defined, and how it guides the systems engineering processes- How systems thinking helps in combination with the systems approach and systems engineering- Time lines that define the life cycle dimensions of a system- System properties, attributes, features, measures and parameters- Approaches to architecting systems- Dealing with requirements, synthesis, analysis and cost effectiveness considerations- Life cycle costing of systems- Modeling, simulation and other analysis methods- Technology and its interplay with risk and its management- Systems acquisition and integration- Systems of systems- Thinking outside the box- Success and failure factors- Software engineering- Standards- Systems engineering managementTogether, these top-level aspects of systems engineering need to be understood and mastered in order to improve the way we build systems, as they typically become larger and more complex.Table of Contents: Definitions and Background / The Systems Approach / Systems Thinking / Key Elements of Systems Engineering / The Life Cycle Dimension / System Properties, Attributes and Features (PAFs) / Measures and Parameters / Architecting / Functional Decomposition / Requirements Engineering / Synthesis / Analysis / Cost-Effectiveness / Life Cycle Costing / Modeling and Simulation / Other Analysis Relationships / The Role of Technology / Risk Management / Testing, Verification, and Validation / Integration / Systems Engineering Management / Project Management / Software Engineering / Systems Acquisition / Systems of Systems / Thinking Outside the Box / Ten Failure Factors / A Success Audit / Standards 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The visual recognition problem is central to computer vision research. From robotics to information retrieval, many desired applications demand the ability to identify and localize categories, places, and objects. This tutorial overviews computer vision algorithms for visual object recognition and image classification. We introduce primary representations and learning approaches, with an emphasis on recent advances in the field. The target audience consists of researchers or students working in AI, robotics, or vision who would like to understand what methods and representations are available for these problems. This lecture summarizes what is and isn't possible to do reliably today, and overviews key concepts that could be employed in systems requiring visual categorization. Table of Contents: Introduction / Overview: Recognition of Specific Objects / Local Features: Detection and Description / Matching Local Features / Geometric Verification of Matched Features / Example Systems: Specific-Object Recognition / Overview: Recognition of Generic Object Categories / Representations for Object Categories / Generic Object Detection: Finding and Scoring Candidates / Learning Generic Object Category Models / Example Systems: Generic Object Recognition / Other Considerations and Current Challenges / Conclusions 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pragmatic Electrical Engineering: Fundamentals introduces the fundamentals of the energy-delivery part of electrical systems. It begins with a study of basic electrical circuits and then focuses on electrical power. Three-phase power systems, transformers, induction motors, and magnetics are the major topics.All of the material in the text is illustrated with completely-worked examples to guide the student to a better understanding of the topics. This short lecture book will be of use at any level of engineering, not just electrical. Its goal is to provide the practicing engineer with a practical, applied look at the energy side of electrical systems. The author's ''pragmatic'' and applied style gives a unique and helpful ''non-idealistic, practical, opinionated'' introduction to the topic.Table of Contents: Basic Stuff / Power of the Sine / Three-Phase Power Systems / Transformers / Machines / Electromagnetics 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac OS X is a powerful application, but many of its most impressive features can be difficult to find. Learn Excel 2011 for Mac by Guy Hart-Davis is a practical, hands-on approach to learning all of the details of Excel 2011 in order to get work done efficiently on Mac OS X. From using formulas and functions to creating databases, from analyzing data to automating tasks, you'll learn everything you need to know to put this powerful application to use for a variety of tasks. 488 pp. Englisch.