This handbook oers a fresh approach to computer vision. The whole vision process from image formation to measuring, recognition, or reacting is regarded as an integral process. Computer vision is understood as the host of techniques to acquire, process, analyze, and understand complex higher-dimensional data from our environment for scienti...

“If you ever met Dr. Otazo, you certainly would read her new Truth book. She is as she writes—engaging, pithy, memorable. Take ‘Truth 33: Questions Unite; Answers Divide.’ Now ain’t that the truth....

The present work is the first comprehensive study of mineralogy of the world's second largest mercury mine Idria. In the first chapter the readers are acquainted with the history of mining and its relation to mineralogy. Mineralogy is explained in terms of geological processes that were active during the formation of the ore deposit....

• Install and set up a Laravel application and then deploy and integrate third parties in your application
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• Build your applications using Parse iOS which serves as a complete cloud-based backend service
• Understand and write your code on cloud to minimize the load on the client side
• Learn how to create...

• Build high performance NoSQL .NET based applications with step-by-step practical examples
• Master advanced RavenDB indexes and queries
• Create objects in .NET and map them to RavenDB
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The world of virtualization continues to expand, and the reach of Microsoft's  Hyper-V hypervisor continues to expand with it. This book seeks to reach beyond  simple, single-host hypervisor deployment, and provide guidance on clustering hosts  together for redundancy, performance, and more thorough utilization of...

Beginning from centuries of anecdotal descriptions of cell death, such as those on the development of the midwife toad in 1842 by Carl Vogt, to modern-day investigations of cell death as a biological discipline, it has become accepted that cell death in multicellular organisms is a normal part of life. This book provides a comprehensive...

Oracle Exadata Recipes takes an example-based, problem/solution approach in showing how to size, install, configure, manage, monitor, optimize, and migrate Oracle database workloads on and to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Whether you’re an Oracle Database administrator, Unix/Linux administrator, storage administrator,...