Category: Communication

By Riad I. Hammoud, Besma R. Abidi, Mongi A. Abidi

ISBN-10: 3540493441

ISBN-13: 9783540493440

ISBN-10: 3540493468

ISBN-13: 9783540493464

This ebook presents an plentiful insurance of theoretical and experimental cutting-edge paintings in addition to new tendencies and instructions within the biometrics box. It bargains scholars and software program engineers a radical realizing of the way a few middle low-level construction blocks of a multi-biometric method are carried out. whereas this ebook covers a number of biometric qualities together with facial geometry, 3D ear shape, fingerprints, vein constitution, voice, and gait, its major emphasis is put on multi-sensory and multi-modal face biometrics algorithms and structures. "Multi-sensory" refers to combining information from or extra biometric sensors, equivalent to synchronized reflectance-based and temperature-based face photos. "Multi-modal" biometrics skill fusing or extra biometric modalities, like face photos and voice bushes. This useful reference comprises 4 targeted components and a short advent bankruptcy. the 1st half addresses new and rising face biometrics. Emphasis is put on biometric platforms the place unmarried sensor and unmarried modality are hired in not easy imaging stipulations. the second one half on multi-sensory face biometrics offers with the private identity job in difficult variable illuminations and outdoors working situations via making use of noticeable and thermal sensors. The 3rd a part of the ebook specializes in multi-modal face biometrics via integrating voice, ear, and gait modalities with facial facts. The final half offers established chapters on multi-biometrics fusion methodologies and function prediction recommendations.

By Robert S. H. Istepanian, Milica Stojanovic (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1441948821

ISBN-13: 9781441948823

ISBN-10: 1475736177

ISBN-13: 9781475736175

Underwater acoustic electronic sign processing and communications is a space of utilized study that has witnessed significant advances during the last decade. speedy advancements during this region have been made attainable by means of strong electronic sign processors (DSPs) whose pace, computational strength and portability allowed effective implementation of advanced sign processing algorithms and experimental demonstration in their functionality in various underwater environments. The early effects served as a motivation for the improvement of latest and better sign processing equipment for underwater purposes, which this day diversity from classical of self reliant underwater automobiles and sonar sign processing, to handheld remote control underwater instant communications. This ebook provides the varied parts of underwater acoustic sign processing and communique structures via a suite of contributions from in demand researchers in those parts. Their effects, either new and people released during the last few years, were assembled to supply what we are hoping is a finished review of the hot advancements within the box. The ebook is meant for a basic viewers of researchers, engineers and scholars operating within the parts of underwater acoustic sign processing. It calls for the reader to have a easy realizing of the electronic sign processing recommendations. every one subject is handled from a theoretical standpoint, by means of sensible implementation info. we are hoping that the ebook can serve either as a research textual content and an instructional reference.

By Jennifer Martin Linette Hawkins

ISBN-10: 1605667358

ISBN-13: 9781605667355

Info verbal exchange applied sciences in human prone are of accelerating curiosity and predicament to well-being and welfare educators, managers, and practitioners as a result of their valuable info administration and instructing features. details communique applied sciences for Human prone schooling and supply: thoughts and circumstances considerably contributes to the becoming zone of ICT software in schooling and human carrier supply. Containing professional foreign contributions, this optimal Reference resource showcases leading edge practices, addresses moral and logistic issues, and gives correct theoretical frameworks and the most recent empirical learn findings.

By Richard Ling

ISBN-10: 0262122979

ISBN-13: 9780262122979

ISBN-10: 1435628020

ISBN-13: 9781435628021

How mobile phones and cellular communique might in lots of instances improve social solidarity.

By Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom

ISBN-10: 0262083574

ISBN-13: 9780262083577

ISBN-10: 0262256347

ISBN-13: 9780262256346

ISBN-10: 1282096397

ISBN-13: 9781282096394

Knowledge in electronic shape bargains extraordinary entry to info during the net yet while is topic to ever-greater regulations via highbrow estate laws, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and absence of upkeep. wisdom as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to appreciate either its unlimited percentages and what threatens it. In realizing wisdom as a Commons, specialists from quite a number disciplines speak about the information commons within the electronic era--how to conceptualize it, defend it, and construct it.Contributors think of the idea that of the commons traditionally and provide an analytical framework for knowing wisdom as a shared social-ecological method. they give the impression of being at how you can defend opposed to enclosure of the wisdom commons, contemplating, between different themes, the function of study libraries, the benefits of making scholarly fabric on hand outdoor the academy, and the challenge of disappearing websites. They speak about the function of highbrow estate in a brand new wisdom commons, the open entry circulate (including attainable investment versions for scholarly publications), the improvement of associational commons, the program of a free/open resource framework to medical wisdom, and the influence on scholarly conversation of collaborative groups inside of academia, and supply a case learn of EconPort, an open entry, open resource electronic library for college students and researchers in microeconomics. The essays make clear serious concerns that come up inside those new kinds of commons--and provide guideposts for destiny concept and practice.Contributors:David Bollier, James Boyle, James C. Cox, Shubha Ghosh, Charlotte Hess, Nancy Kranich, Peter Levine, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Schweik, Peter Suber, J. Todd Swarthout, Donald Waters

By Thierry Libaert

ISBN-10: 2100519468

ISBN-13: 9782100519460

By Patrick Lencioni

ISBN-10: 0787976377

ISBN-13: 9780787976378

Within the years following the booklet of Patrick Lencioni’s best-seller The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, enthusiasts were clamoring for additional info on find out how to enforce the information defined within the book. In Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni bargains extra particular, useful counsel for overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions—using instruments, routines, tests, and real-world examples. He examines questions that each one groups needs to ask themselves: Are we actually a workforce? How are we at present acting? Are we ready to take a position the time and effort required to be a good team? Written concisely and to the purpose, this consultant supplies leaders, line managers, and experts alike the instruments they should get their groups up and working speedy and successfully.

By Mohammad Ghavami, Lachlan Michael, Ryuji Kohno

ISBN-10: 0470027630

ISBN-13: 9780470027639

By Philip Seib

ISBN-10: 0275953742

ISBN-13: 9780275953744

Seib explores the numerous ways that information insurance shapes the layout and implementation of overseas coverage. via influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the general public at huge, the scoop media can profoundly impact the behavior of international coverage. Seib's textual content analyzes vital examples of press impression on overseas affairs: the scoop media's definition of good fortune and failure, as in reporting the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam; how public impatience, fueled through information stories, can strain presidents, as occurred in the course of the Iran hostage concern of 1979-81; how presidents can count on and regulate information media insurance, as used to be performed via the Bush management through the 1991 Gulf struggle; how press revelation or suppression of mystery details impacts coverage, as within the situations of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile difficulty, and diverse intelligence operations; how insurance of humanitarian crises impacts public opinion; the demanding situations of stay television insurance; and the altering effect of stories within the post-Cold warfare global. by way of protecting quite a lot of matters and examples, this significant textual content will stimulate considerate appraisal of the relationships among the scoop media and those that make coverage. it will likely be of curiosity to scholars and students in journalism, political communique, and foreign relations.

By Yvonne Klose

ISBN-10: 3631622961

ISBN-13: 9783631622964

ISBN-10: 3653013208

ISBN-13: 9783653013207

«How had it ever occurred here?», Thomas Pynchon’s protagonist Oedipa Maas asks in the direction of the tip of his moment novel The Crying of Lot 49. this query is taken up during this ebook to discover Pynchon’s novels within the mild of constructivist concept. It starts with an in depth studying of The Crying of Lot 49, that is carried into readings of Pynchon’s different novels (V., Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, opposed to The Day, and Inherent Vice). All are proven to significantly take care of the social building of fact as a critical subject matter, and a improvement of this subject matter is traced all through Pynchon’s novels