Using field-tested methods and practical instruction in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, this book reveals eye-opening techniques, terrific workflow ideas, and timesaving ways to apply a broad array of Photoshop tools to optimize digital images of nature. You’ll encounter spectacular photographs from exotic places around the world...
Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.
Since the first part of the twentieth century, cybernetics and systems research have been developed as
scientific disciplines. Investigations, launched in the area of cybernetics, previously dealt with control
and information processing. In a more narrow sense, they consisted in the consideration of analogies
of the control and the...
This text is an introduction to object-oriented (OO) design for second-year or higher
undergraduate computer science students. It discusses software design and implementation
in terms of “elegance,” which is defined in Chapter 1. It reviews the concepts
of object-oriented programming and then covers fundamental software...
Cells respond to environmental cues through a complex and dynamic network of signaling pathways that normally maintain a critical balance between cellular proliferation, differentiation, senescence, and death. One current research challenge is to identify those aberrations in signal transd- tion that directly contribute to a loss of this...
The instant New York Times bestseller and laugh-out-loud lookat pop culture and social media stardom from one of the most popular funemployed millennials today, perfect for fans of Give Them Lala and The Betches.
As the creator of the breakout Instagram account @GirlWithNoJob, Claudia Oshry has...
This book provides a critical examination of all of the major new functionality in SQL Server 2005, covering such diverse topics as CLR integration, the new management tools, SQL Server Integration Services, Service Broker, Transact-SQL (T-SQL) programming, and database mirroring.
This two-volume book covers the recent applications of computational intelligence techniques in reliability engineering. Research in the area of computational intelligence is growing rapidly due to the many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. “Computational Intelligence” covers many fields such as...
Catalysis underpins most modern industrial organic processes. It has become an essential tool in creating a 'greener' chemical industry by replacing more traditional stoichiometric reactions, which have high energy consumption and high waste production, with mild processes which increasingly resemble Nature's enzymes.
Albert Einstein was one of the principal founders of the quantum and relativity theories. Until 1925, when the Bose-Einstein statistics was discovered, he made great contributions to the foundations of quantum theory. However, after the discovery of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg and wave mechanics by Schrodinger, with the consequent...
Ad hoc and sensor networks continue to have a growing impact
on communication. These cost-effective wireless networks provide
location independent computing in environments ranging from
military battlefields to in-home patient monitoring systems. However,
having real-time connectivity to critical information over an open...
While most other titles on Sun Tzu emphasize the strategic or philosophical nature of Sun Tzu's writings, this guide will show readers how to implement The Art of War tactically and operationally. It promotes savvy strategic principles from Sun Tzu such as: share rewards, coordinate resources, and choose your timing. "Sun Tzu for...
