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Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

Morgan Kaufmann, 2013

The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her family.

With one in seven people worldwide currently living with a disability, the term...

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance

Springer, 2009

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance offers the state of the art from leading researchers and experts in the field. This broad ranging volume discusses the topic from various technical points of view and also examines surveillance from a societal perspective.

A comprehensive introduction carefully guides the reader through the...

Watermarking Systems Engineering

CRC Press, 2004

The growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications presents the principles of watermarking system design and...

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security

Gale, 2003

In composing The Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security (EEIS), our goal was to shape a modern encyclopedia offering immediate value to our intended readers by emphasizing matters of espionage, intelligence, and security most frequently in the news.

EEIS is not intended as a classical “spy book,” filled with...

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´11) (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies)

Springer, 2012

Welcome to the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB’11, held in Marseilles in France, organised by the Laboratoire des Sciences del'Information et des Systèmes (LSIS) in Marseille, France in partnership with KES International.

SEB'11 formed a welcome...

Efficiency and Innovation in Logistics: Proceedings of the International Logistics Science Conference (ILSC) 2013 (Lecture Notes in Logistics)

Springer, 2013

The importance of logistics in all its variations is still increasing. New technologies emerge, new planning methods and algorithms are developed, only to face a market with a growing complexity and the need of weighting monetary costs against ecological impact. Mastering these challenges requires a scientific viewpoint on logistics, but...

Adaptive Filtering: Algorithms and Practical Implementation

Springer, 2012

In the fourth edition of Adaptive Filtering: Algorithms and Practical Implementation, author Paulo S.R. Diniz presents the basic concepts of adaptive signal processing and adaptive filtering in a concise and straightforward manner. The main classes of adaptive filtering algorithms are presented in a unified framework, using...

Wideband Beamforming: Concepts and Techniques (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

This book provides an excellent reference for all professionals working in the area of array signal processing and its applications in wireless communications.

Wideband beamforming has advanced with the increasing bandwidth in wireless communications and the development of ultra wideband (UWB) technology.

In this...

Challenges in Social Network Research: Methods and Applications (Lecture Notes in Social Networks)

Springer, 2019

The book includes both invited and contributed chapters dealing with advanced methods and theoretical development for the analysis of social networks and applications in numerous disciplines. Some authors explore new trends related to network measures, multilevel networks and clustering on networks, while other contributions deepen...

Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism

Cambridge University Press, 2005

"Dan Byman has written what will likely become the standard text on state-sponsored terrorism. Deadly Connections is an important book that not only fills a long-standing gap in the field of terrorism studies, but significantly advances our understanding of this particularly opaque and complex phenomenon." --Bruce Hoffman, author of...

Eliminating Waste in Business: Run Lean, Boost Profitability

Apress, 2014

Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgeting exercises that result in "more of the same, plus...

The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances

Moody Publishers, 2019

Are we hapless victims of life's whims? Are we driven along by some blind and impersonal force? Are we battered by circumstances beyond all control?

A thousand times, "No!" says pastor and author Alistair Begg. Instead, Begg says we are the objects of God's providential care. We reside under...

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