Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking: International Competitions and Final Workshop, EvAAL 2013, July and September 2013. Proceedings By Nevrez Imamoglu, Zhixuan Wei, Huangjun Shi, Yuki Yoshida, Myagmarbayar Nergui (auth.), Juan A. BotГ­a, Juan Antonio ГЃlvarez-GarcГ­a, Kaori Fujinami, Paolo Barsocchi, Till Riedel (eds.)
2013 | 141 Pages | ISBN: 3642410421 | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living, EvAAL 2013, which was organized in three major events: the International Competition on Indoor Localization and Tracking for Ambient Assisted Living, which took place in Madrid, Spain, in July 2013; the International Competition on Activity Recognition for Ambient Assisted Living, which took place in Valencia, Spain, in July 2013; and the Final Workshop, which was held in Norrköping, Sweden, in September 2013. The papers included in this book describe the organization and technical aspects of the competitions and provide a complete technical description of the competing artefacts and report on the experience lessons learned by the teams during the competition.

Comer Plummer III, "Empire of Clay: The Reign of Moulay Ismail, Sultan of Morocco "
English | ISBN: 1684712602 | 2019 | 336 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Hero or Monster? Empire of Clay: The Reign of Moulay Ismail, Sultan of Morocco (1672-1727) assesses contrasting views of Morocco's longest-serving monarch. On the surface, Moulay Ismail's 55-year reign was momentous: he consolidated a new dynasty, the Alaouites; he developed a professional army of soldier-slaves, the Abid al-Bukhari, which he used to crush domestic opposition; he created a sprawling new capital at Meknes; and he returned to Moroccan control several cities held by England and Spain. On the international scene, he raised Morocco's profile in courting Louis XIV of France and James II of England. However, his legacy is an equivocal one. The cost of these successes was enormous: hundreds of thousands enslaved, as many or more killed through war and repression, including scores murdered by Ismail himself; and a state driven toward ruin by the ruler's obsessions. In the Age of Absolutism, no ruler was more powerful or more feared.

Electrospun Nanofibers: Principles, Technology and Novel Applications by Ashok Vaseashta
English | PDF | 2022 | 769 Pages | ISBN : 3030999572 | 20.9 MB
This book presents the development of electrospun materials, fundamental principles of electrospinning process, controlling parameters, electrospinning strategies, and electrospun nanofibrous structures with specific properties for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, textile, water treatment, sensor, and energy fields.

Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032137258 | 299 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD, graduate and Under Graduate level students in universities and colleges analysing the legal framework, strategies in waste management, circular economy adoption, use of mathematical and statistical modelling in setting waste management strategies, sanitation and Hygiene in waste management. While huge wastes are wasted by dumping, there is potential of resource circulation by enforcing legislative framework to effective resource utilisation and creating business opportunities. Circularity of resources in waste streams can contribute to a more secure, sustainable, and economically sound future through the followings:

Economics for Environmental Studies: A Strategic Guide to Micro- and Macroeconomics By Alfred Endres, Volker Radke (auth.)
2012 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 364231192X | PDF | 2 MB
An understanding of fundamental economic concepts is essential for students in environmental studies programs around the world. The present textbook addresses their needs, providing a concise introduction to micro- and macroeconomics and demonstrating how these economic tools and approaches can be used to analyze environmental issues. Written in an accessible style without compromising depth of the analysis, central issues in the public policy debate on environmental problems and environmental policy are discussed and analyzed from an economics perspective.The book is meant both as an introductory text for undergraduate students in environmental sciences without a background in economics, and as a companion for economists interested in a presentation of the micro and macro foundations of environmental economics, in a nutshell.

Easy Yet Effective Yoga Poses To Treat Ovarian Cyst|PCOS and Period Stress Hormone Balancing Yoga by Minimalistic Workout
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B2Q2QVND | 80 pages | EPUB | 6.57 Mb
Easy Yet Effective Yoga Poses To Treat Ovarian CystPCOS and Period Stress Hormone Balancing Yoga

East Asian Architecture in Globalization: Values, Inheritance and Dissemination by Subin Xu
English | EPUB | 2021 | 634 Pages | ISBN : 3030759369 | 227.3 MB
This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region.

Dream Big!: How to Reach for Your Stars by Abigail Harrison
English | January 19, 2021 | ISBN: 0593116755 | 215 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
From Astronaut Abby, the dynamic founder of The Mars Generation, comes a book about dreaming big, reaching for the stars, and making a plan for success!

Peter Applebome, "Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0156005506 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 3.4 mb
In "one of the best portrayals of the South in years" (Washington Post), the Atlanta bureau chief of the New York Times travels from catfish farms and neo-Confederate gatherings to casinos and country music festivals and examines the reasons behind the region's growing influence. Index.

Ban van Heur, "Disclosing Elite Ecologies: Methodologies For "Doing" Urban Elite Research"
English | ISBN: 0367696754 | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for "Doing" Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites. Whereas most research has focused on the global super-rich, this book pays specific attention to the multidimensional urban geographies of elite reproduction and transformation, as elites depend on urban contexts for capital accumulation, consumption and leisure, and housing.

Randi Solhjell, "Dimensions of African Statehood: Everyday Governance and Provision of Public Goods "
English | ISBN: 113861579X | 2019 | 138 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "state" in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state-society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation.

Dickens Companions (3-volume Set)
by Andrew Sanders, Susan Shatto
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032052759 | 774 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Dhirendra Kumar Tyagi, "Design, Installation, and Operation of Solar PV Plants"
English | 2019 | ASIN: B07M7KVMPN | EPUB | pages: 188 | 3.9 mb
The book is a detailed account of design and installation of solar power plants. The book covers all the relevant topics including the design and installation of the plant. It is a must read for all the professionals who are in Solar Power and who intend to be part of it in near future.

Robert Pike, "Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0750985526 | 320 pages | EPUB | 8.7 MB
July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger. From railway workers and couriers to guerrilla fighters and foreign agents, each played their part in destabilizing Marshal PГ©tain's poisonous regime. This book casts new light on the Resistance, using unique first-person accounts and newly translated archival records to highlight how ordinary people refused, protested, fought, and ultimately became heroes of the Resistance.

Stephen Shapiro, "Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media"
English | ISBN: 1350271128 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 1505 KB
Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, and Iraq, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts; resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America; symbiosis of cultural, historical traditions with Western popular culture; the undead as feminist figures; as an allegory for migrant workers; as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature; and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones.

De Caelo (The New Hackett Aristotle) by Aristotle, translated by C. D. C. Reeve
English | May 22, 2020 | ISBN: 162466881X, 1624668569 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 2.2/2.6 MB
This new translation of De Caelo (On the Heavens) fits seamlessly with other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle series, enabling Anglophone readers to study Aristotle's work in a way previously not possible.

Data Warehouse Systems: Design and Implementation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3662651661 | 713 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
With this textbook, Vaisman and ZimГЎnyi deliver excellent coverage of data warehousing and business intelligence technologies ranging from the most basic principles to recent findings and applications. To this end, their work is structured into three parts. Part I describes "Fundamental Concepts" including conceptual and logical data warehouse design, as well as querying using MDX, DAX and SQL/OLAP. This part also covers data analytics using Power BI and Analysis Services. Part II details "Implementation and Deployment," including physical design, ETL and data warehouse design methodologies. Part III covers "Advanced Topics" and it is almost completely new in this second edition. This part includes chapters with an in-depth coverage of temporal, spatial, and mobility data warehousing. Graph data warehouses are also covered in detail using Neo4j. The last chapter extensively studies big data management and the usage of Hadoop, Spark, distributed, in-memory, columnar, NoSQL and NewSQL database systems, and data lakes in the context of analytical data processing.

Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified:
A comprehensive guide to becoming a world-class modern cybersecurity leader and global CISO
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801819289 | 274 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB

Tamir Sorek, "Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel "
English | ISBN: 1032146370 | 2021 | 174 pages | EPUB | 1478 KB
While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; the nightclub scene as a field of encounter, appropriation, and exclusion; an analysis of the institutional and political conditions of Palestinian cinema; the implications of the intersectional relationship between gender, ethnicity and national identity in the field of popular culture, and the concrete relations between particular aesthetic forms and symbolic power.

Creative CBT with Youth: Clinical Applications Using Humor, Play, Superheroes, and Improvisation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030996689 | 459 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 28 MB
This book combines empirical support, clinical acumen, and practical recommendations in a comprehensive manner to examine creative augmentations to the robust cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) model. It discusses augmentations that are supported by research and practice and are also clinical-friendly tools. Each chapter briefly summarizes research findings, offers parsimonious explanations of theoretical concepts and principles, presents vivid descriptions of therapeutic procedures, and describes rich case illustrations. The book addresses the use of humor in CBT with youth, playful applications of CBT, applications of improvisational theatre in CBT and integrating superheroes into CBT.

Corregidor: Siege and Liberation, 1941-1945 by John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll
English | April 28th, 2021 | ISBN: 1526799758 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 81.22 MB

Complex Analysis with Applications in Science and Engineering by Harold Cohen
English | PDF | 2007 | 487 Pages | ISBN : 0387730575 | 40.9 MB
Complex Analysis with Applications in Science and Engineering weaves together theory and extensive applications in mathematics, physics and engineering. In this edition there are many new problems, revised sections, and an entirely new chapter on analytic continuation. This work will serve as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in the areas noted above.

Robbyn R. Wacker, "Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 1506383963 | 2018 | 616 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Community Resources for Older Adults provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on programs, services, and policies pertaining to older adults. Authors Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto build reader awareness of programs and discuss how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as explain ways to take advantage of the resources available to older adults. The substantially revised Fifth Edition includes new topics and updated research, tables, and figures to help answer key questions about the evolution and utilization of programs for older adults and the challenges that service providers face.

Colonialism: A Global History
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367506386 | 229 Pages | PDF (True) | 44 MB
Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.

Cold Case: The Tombstone Mysteries: Investigating History's Mysteries by W.C. Jameson
English | April 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1493045865 | 193 pages | PDF | 2.89 Mb
From the late 1870s to mid-1880s, Tombstone, Arizona, enjoyed impressive growth and prosperity as a result of the discovery of major silver deposits nearby. As in many boomtowns in the American West, its sudden prosperity attracted businessmen, outlaws, grifters, gamblers, prostitutes, and preachers. It wasn't long before there was a desperate need for lawmen and law enforcement. Outlaws like Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Buckskin Frank Leslie, Burt Alvord, and a handful of other lesser known criminals, all faced off with the legendary lawmen, including the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and Warren-who to one degree or another represented law enforcement in this wild, no-holds-barred town. In addition to Tombstone's reputation as a setting for colorful outlaw-lawman confrontations, it is also associated with a number of compelling and baffling mysteries. Ghosts are reported to roam the old taverns, hotels, opera houses, and other buildings. Eerie and unexplainable sounds and sights have been associated with Boot Hill, the famous cemetery, as well as the New City Cemetery.

Steven C.Y. Kuo, "Chinese Peace in Africa: From Peacekeeper to Peacemaker "
English | ISBN: 0367024438 | 2019 | 150 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
China's emergence in Africa is the most significant development for the continent since at least the end of the Cold War. Of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, China is also the largest contributor in terms of troop numbers to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO). While China's potential to be a force for change in Africa is undeniable, there are wildly varied and sometimes unrealistic expectations in both the West and Africa of China's role in Africa. A more detailed and nuanced understanding of Chinese motivations in its African engagement is necessary, in order to work effectively with China for African peace, security and development.

Sigfrido Burgos CГЎceres, "China's Strategic Interests in the South China Sea: Power and Resources"
English | ISBN: 1857437098 | 2013 | 178 pages | EPUB | 1460 KB
This title will explore China's strategic interests in the South China Sea, with a specific emphasis on power projection and resource security. China's regional actions and reactions are reshaping the power dynamics in East and South-East Asia, while economic and geopolitical futures depend on the variegated outcomes of these complex relationships with neighbours and the West. An introductory section will be complemented by four case studies (Japan, Vietnam, the USA and the Philippines) and the concluding chapter will discuss the importance of the South China Sea to China as its new leadership deals with growing economic and military might.

Off the Hook Mamma, Amy-May Ogilvie, "Chibigurumis Crochet Amigurumi Pattern: Customizable Chibi style Amigurumi Character Patterns"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09ZTH86DG | EPUB | pages: 120 | 0.7 mb
This pattern has been Tried and Tested and was designed by myself and is an Off the Hook Mamma Original pattern for a Chibi style Amigurumi Crochet Pattern that is customizable and included lots of bonus content!

Chaotic Dynamics : Fractals, Tilings, and Substitutions
by Geoffrey R. Goodson
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1107112672 | 416 Pages | True PDF | 11.5 MB

Maya Angelou, "Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1400066107, 1844086151 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.6 mb
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou has served as our common voice.