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Non-Newtonian Sequence Spaces with Applications presents an alternative to the usual calculus based on multiplication instead of addition. The book…
is intended for graduate students and researchers with a special interest in non-Newtonian calculus, its applications and related topics.Features· Valuable material for postgraduate researchers studying non-Newtonian calculus· Suitable as supplementary reading to a Computational Physics course
This book explores the groundbreaking integration of generative artificial intelligence into filmmaking and visual storytelling. From democratizing video production to…
reshaping aesthetics, this book highlights the creative revolution AI offers. Through case studies, interviews with innovative artists, and historical perspectives, it examines how intelligent systems enhance creativity while challenging traditional notions of authorship and originality. With practical guides and forward-looking insights, this volume is essential for anyone curious about the intersection of technology and visual culture, offering a vivid portrait of the future of storytelling in an AI-driven world.
Paper piece perfection with Carol Doak's 12 Block of the Month stars! Paper piece stars like never before with Carol…
Doak’s 12 star Block of the Month! This booklet offers a curated introduction to paper piecing, featuring Carol’s expert instructions and a delightful selection of stars for each month. Mix and match the stars to suit your style, perfect for creating beautiful table runners and sampler quilts. Learn from best-selling author, inspiring teacher, and the Queen of Paper Piecing, Carol Doak This booklet is great for beginners, offering a quick introduction to paper piecing with Carol's stunning star blocks, just what you need to get started Use the 12 stars as a block-of-the-month challenge for yourself, your quilting circle, or your guild!
Explore the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show through stunning visuals and compelling stories! Renowned as the world’s largest outdoor quilt show,…
the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Oregon, attracts more than 10,000 visitors annually to celebrate quilting artistry and craftsmanship. Explore the vibrant quilting community that gathers in this picturesque town, guided by the vision of quilters Jean and Valori Wells. Relive your experience or imagine your visit with this engaging overview of the show’s history, unique community ties, and stunning photos capturing memorable moments and quilt displays. Immerse yourself in hundreds of vibrant, full-color photos celebrating the rich history of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show The perfect souvenir for anyone who has attended this bucket-list event or dreams of going Explore the deep connections between the show’s founder, the town, the quilters, and the beautiful art of quilting
The Winter Solstice Grand Tournament is fast approaching, and Bea Black is ready to shine! Determined to prove herself, she's…
spending more time practicing magic and less time with her best friend, Ash. He&’s not happy about it and suspects something is up. Will she be able to continue to keep her magic a secret from him?Bea Black is all settled into her new life in Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. She&’s made a bunch of friends at witch school, and she&’s even learned how to levitate a frog (well, almost). And with the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament coming up, she&’s ready to shine! Determined to prove herself, Bea has been spending more time practicing magic and less time with her best friend, Ash. He&’s not happy about it and suspects something is up. Will she be able to continue to keep her magic a secret from him? With black-and-white illustrations throughout.Told through Bea's diary entries, the Diary of an Accidental Witch series invites readers to follow Bea on a humorous journey of self-discovery as she learns where she truly belongs.
The No.1 bestseller and three-time Crime Writers' Award Winner returns with a nail-biting new book. If you loved When You…
Are Mine or you're hunting for thrillers that make you think and feel, you won't want to miss this.As the daughter of a London crime boss, PC Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two sides of her complicated life apart.On patrol one night she discovers a child in pyjamas, wandering alone. Taking Daisy home, Phil uncovers the aftermath of a deadly home invasion, as three miles away a prominent jeweller is found strapped to an explosive in his ransacked store.The crimes are linked, and all the evidence points to Phil's father as the mastermind.Phil's two worlds are colliding, trapping her in the middle of a vicious gang war that will threaten her career and everyone she loves.Who can she trust - the badge or her own blood?'Another tour de force from Michael Robotham. He is so good at humanising his characters - even the nasty ones' LINWOOD BARCLAY'Everyone is so beautifully drawn - you tear through the pages hoping they can be trusted' LAINIE ANDERSON'Grips like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. Impossibly clever. Impossible to put down!' ***** READER REVIEW*STORM CHILD was a No.1 print bestseller in Australia 04.07.24
The No.1 bestseller returns with a nail-biting new PC Phil McCarthy book. If you loved When You Are Mine or…
are hunting for thrillers that make you think and feel, you won't want to miss this.As the daughter of a London crime boss, PC Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two sides of her complicated life apart.On patrol one night she discovers a child in pyjamas, wandering alone. Taking Daisy home, Phil uncovers the aftermath of a deadly home invasion, as three miles away a prominent jeweller is found strapped to an explosive in his ransacked store. The crimes are linked, and all the evidence points to Phil's father as the mastermind. Phil's two worlds are colliding, trapping her in the middle of a vicious gang war that will threaten her career and everyone she loves.Who can she trust - the badge or her own blood?
The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good. Modern life is an exercise in discomfort.…
In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thrive at home? How does one strive for the greater good while guarding one's personal interests? The Price of Our Values argues that the answers to these questions are economic: by weighing our sense of the personal costs associated with the outer limits of our moral beliefs. These tradeoffs—the want to be good, the personal costs of being good, and the points at which people abandon goodness due to its costs—are somewhat unsettling. But as economists Augustin Landier and David Thesmar show, they are highly predictable, even justified. Our values guide us, but we are also forced to consider economic costs to settle decisions. The Price of Our Values is an economic reckoning with the universal unease of contemporary moral life. Wielding insights from the philosophical founders of the field, Landier and Thesmar provide frameworks for thinking about the place of values—justice, freedom, beauty— in the decisions of modern life. They do so in terms that seek to be consistent with both our good intentions and their limits.
A definitive, international guide to the thought of the most important twentieth-century Jewish philosopher. In his 1923 essay, I…
and Thou, the philosopher, theologian, and activist Martin Buber introduced a philosophy of dialogue that achieved a global, interdisciplinary resonance. For Buber, dialogue was more than a conversation; dialogue discloses something essential about our orientation and our lives with one another. This companion assembles twenty-six scholars from a dozen countries to explore Buber’s international reputation and legacy in education, interfaith relations, Judaism, philosophy, politics, and psychology. The result is an essential guide to one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.
Community service is a common court-ordered sanction in many countries. Individuals sentenced to community service must work a specified number…
of uncompensated hours at an approved community agency, typically as a condition of probation. A core expectation of court-ordered community service is that the community agencies benefit from this labor. However, very little research examines the organizational and interpersonal dynamics involved when community organizations work with court-ordered community service workers. What are local public and nonprofit organizations' experiences with court-ordered community service workers? How do the workers, themselves, experience court-ordered community service within community agencies? We address these questions through interviews with 31 volunteer managers and 34 court-ordered community service workers in two court jurisdictions in Northeast Georgia. We frame our findings within the volunteer management literature and suggest practices that could improve experiences for both the court-ordered community service worker and the community organization.
Noch nie sind Menschen und Waren so weit und so häufig gereist wie heute. Trotzdem spielte die Wanderung in der…
gesamten Geschichte der Menschheit eine große Rolle. So brachten die Bandkeramiker nicht nur die wichtigen Kulturpflanzen Weizen, Gerste, Linsen, Erbsen, Lein aus der Levante und Anatolien nach Mitteleuropa, sondern auch die Getreideroste Mehltau, Kornkäfer und Hausmaus. Ein paar Jahrtausende später kamen aus dem Osten Hirse und Hanf, Roggen und Hafer und um die Zeitenwende brachten die Römer zahlreiche neue Kulturpflanzen und Vorratsschädlinge nach Deutschland und England. Kolumbus und seine Nachfolger importierten Mais, Tomaten, Kürbis, Bohnen aus Mexiko und Kartoffeln von den Anden nach Europa und die dazu gehörigen Schädlinge kamen früher oder später nach. Der Kolonialismus wirbelte vor allem tropische Pflanzen durcheinander und heute baut Südamerika Kaffee, der ursprünglich aus Äthiopien kam, für die ganze Welt an. Seit der modernen Globalisierung cruisen ständig riesige Containerschiffe und Flugzeuge um die ganze Welt und bringen Passagiere und Fracht, aber auch Pathogene und Parasiten in die entlegensten Winkel dieser Erde. Dieses Buch zeigt die Auswirkungen weltweiter Migration von Pflanzen und die Krankheitsprobleme, die damit verbunden sind. Durch DNS-Untersuchungen können wir heute eindeutig die Herkunft von Schadpilzen und Schädlingen feststellen und erstmals ihre globale Dynamik verstehen. Gerade merken wir, dass Kulturpflanzen, Klimawandel und Krankheiten mehr miteinander zu tun haben als uns lieb ist und die Verbreitung von Krankheiten immer weiter geht. Dies bedroht auch unsere Ernten und lässt Lebensmittel teurer werden.
The aim of this text is to provide an account of the fundamentals of thermodynamics which is accessible at graduate…
level to physicists, mathematicians and philosophers of physics. The bulk of the book (Chapters 2-9) is based on the algebraic approach of Lieb and Yngvason, but extended to encompass both positive and negative temperatures and systems in which entropy increases and decreases in adiabatic processes. We show that these four possibilities are already present in Carathéodory's version of the Second Law which arises as a theorem from the axioms. We develop generalized versions of the Kelvin-Planck and Clausius formulations valid for the same range of systems. The parallel development in Chapter 10 takes a geometric approach. We discuss the limitations associated with the local nature of Carathéodory's Principle and present the resolution of this problem due to Boyling. Part of the aim here is to substantiate the claim of Arnold that the mathematical structure of thermodynamics is contact geometry. The last two chapters of the book extend the scope of the discussion to, respectively, critical phenomena and non-equilibrium systems. Chapter 11 is a presentation of phase transitions and critical phenomena in which we discuss universality and use scaling theory to derive scaling laws. Chapter 12 contains a generalization to non-equilibrium. We present the extension of Lieb and Yngvason's work to non-equilibrium and also give a brief account of classical irreversible thermodynamics (CIT). The latter enables a possible understanding of the way that the lack of a unique entropy function in the Lieb and Yngvason non-equilibrium approach can be resolved. The book is completed by a set of appendices which provide mathematical and physical support to the work in the main text.
This book highlights the background and fundamentals of nonlinear optical materials in relation to all-optical switching applications. It explains major…
aspects of nonlinear refractive index and the nonlinear absorption phenomena which are essential to decide the figure-of-merit of various materials for the all-optical switching. Autocorrelation technique, frequency-resolved optical gating, spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, grating-eliminated no-nonsense observation of ultrafast incident laser light e-fields are discussed to measure the temporal and spectral profiles of the ultrafast pulsed lasers. Advanced nonlinear optical characterization methods such as single- and dual-arm Z-scan, pump-probe and beam deflection techniques are also discussed at length. The transmission signal obtained in the majority of the nonlinear optical effects is found to be weak which creates hiccups to obtain faster switching speeds. Various solutions are discussed to overcome these existing limitations of the all-optical switching-based devices. Optical nonlinearities in semiconductors, organic molecules and challenges in all-optical switching devices are also addressed in the book.
This book provides a detailed analysis of Qatar’s participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). With a particular focus…
on its economic, social, and geopolitical impacts, it examines how Qatar has used its position within the BRI framework to diversify its economy, strengthen global integration, and increase international trade. By critically exploring the potential risks of the BRI, the dangers of economic dependency, geopolitical tensions, and sustainability are explored in relation to Qatar’s long-term development. This book offers new insights into the ways that small states can leverage international initiatives for economic diversification and development. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in economic development, the political economy, and global trade.
This handbook addresses evidence-based training practices for individuals providing applied behavior analysis (ABA) interventions for individuals on the autism spectrum.…
It provides specific examples of interventions across various contexts and skills and addresses the importance of effective and efficient training as it relates to ABA-based interventions for individuals on the autism spectrum. Additional areas of coverage include, but are not limited to, staffing, clinical judgment, shaping, mealtime interventions, qualities of effective trainers and developing effective training systems. Key areas of coverage include: • Training versus mentorship. • Developing systems and contingencies related to training within an organization. • Ensuring a common vocabulary with trainers and trainees. • Development of clinical judgment. • Cultural considerations within training. The Clinical Handbook of Autism Intervention Training is a must-have resource for clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners and professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, public health, rehabilitation medicine/physical and occupational therapy, special education, pediatrics, and neurology.
This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications (AITA…
2024), held during 9–10 August 2024 in Bengaluru, India. The book is divided into two volumes and presents original research and review papers related to artificial intelligence and its applications in various domains including health care, finance, transportation, education, and many more.
The book presents the select proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention. It covers the latest research in multidisciplinary areas within…
structural engineering. Various topics covered include structural dynamics, structural mechanics, finite element methods, structural vibration control, advanced cementitious and composite materials, bridge engineering, soil-structure interaction, blast, impact, fire, material and many more. The book will be a useful reference material for structural engineering researchers and practicing engineers.
This book aims to capture the interest of researchers and professionals in information technology, computer science, and mathematics. It presents…
fundamental and advanced concepts in intelligent computing paradigms, data science, graph theory, and mathematical modeling. As high-performance computing evolves, the emphasis on intelligent, adaptive computing mechanisms and the integration of mathematical modeling into computational algorithms is becoming increasingly vital. Serving as a valuable resource for professionals and newcomers alike, this book provides insights into enhanced computing paradigms and mathematical approaches, ranging from foundational to advanced levels. Our objective is to create a platform where researchers, engineers, academicians, and industry experts worldwide can exchange findings on emerging trends. Beyond introducing innovative concepts, the authors believe this book will spark meaningful discussions and inspire new ideas.
This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of…
cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's literature, including how contemporary authors challenge traditional gender roles found in fairy tales through modern increasingly prevalent retellings. Chapters also consider the psychological impact of storytelling on children and how narratives can provide children with frameworks for understanding their emotions and experiences.
The sixteen-volume set, CCIS 2282-2297, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2024,…
held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2024. The 472 regular papers presented in this proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1301 submissions. These papers primarily focus on the following areas: Theory and algorithms; Cognitive neurosciences; Human-centered computing; and Applications.