Robotic welding systems have been used in different types of manufacturing. They can
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This innovative, easy-to-access, pocket guide of essential assessment and treatment information is the ideal patient-side tool for students and rehabilitation clinicians. It s chocked full of critical information that you are unlikely to memorize, but always need close at hand when treating patients.
Having first decided to organize and edit a book on heart failure in 1992 (with a 1994 publication date), we have been astounded at the changes in the field over a relatively brief 14-year period. It is with some amusement that we now look back at our first edition and note a combined chapter of beta agonists and...
Being a parent is fantastic – but that doesn’t mean to say it’s easy. Caring
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Visual Indexing and Retrieval is a wide-scope research domain which unites researchers
from image analysis and computer vision, to information management.
For nearly twenty years, this research has been extremely active world-wide. With
the advent of social networks conveying huge amount of visual information to the...
On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed nonstop race from New York to L.A. that was nothing at all like the one portrayed in the Burt Reynolds movie.
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The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet
have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of
multimedia information. As a result, the problem of copyright protection has attracted
the interest of the worldwide scientific and business communities. The most...
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Crimmins (2000) marveled at the greatness of the “three pound-blob” that is our
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Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Peter Carter’s Pro SQL Server Administration to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requiring consistent and continuous uptime.
Mirror neurons may hold the brain's key to social interaction - each coding not only a particular action or emotion but also the recognition of that action or emotion in others. The Mirror System Hypothesis adds an evolutionary arrow to the story - from the mirror system for hand actions, shared with monkeys and chimpanzees, to the...
