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Perceptual Learning

How Experience Shapes Visual Perception

by Barbara Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu ...

A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning (in contrast to learning in the cognitive or motor domains), and it has become an active area of research ... Read more

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A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning (in contrast to learning in the cognitive or motor domains), and it has become an active area of research
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Toward Energy-Efficient Buildings

Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems

by Vivien Lin Lu, Xi Chen, Jianheng Chen, Kai Jiao ...

Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future. This book begins by outlining the major energy challenges for buildings and the fundamentals and opportunities in envelope technology for their increasing ... Read more

$166.49 USD

Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future. This book begins by outlining the major energy challenges for buildings and the fundamentals and opportunities in envelope technology for their increasing
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Video Object Tracking

Tasks, Datasets, and Methods

by Ning Xu, Weiyao Lin, Xiankai Lu, Yunchao Wei ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book provides a thorough overview of recent progress in video object tracking, allowing researchers and industrial practitioners to gain a better understanding of the most important problems and developed technologies in the area. Video tracking is a key research area in computer vision and aims to track unique objects in a given video, which are useful for various applications such as video ... Read more

$40.49 USD

This book provides a thorough overview of recent progress in video object tracking, allowing researchers and industrial practitioners to gain a better understanding of the most important problems and developed technologies in the area. Video tracking is a key research area in computer vision and aims to track unique objects in a given video, which are useful for various applications such as video
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Early Rain Chinese House Church

And the Imprisonment of Pastor Wang Yi

by Lin Lu ...

Early Rain Chinese House Church and the Imprisonment of Pastor Wang Yi offers reveals the untold story of Pastor Wang Yi and the early members of Early Rain Church, offering a powerful collective testimony of faith and resistance within China's underground church movement.Lin Lu, a founding member, shares a deeply personal account of their courageous stand for religious freedom-and the heavy price ... Read more

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Early Rain Chinese House Church and the Imprisonment of Pastor Wang Yi offers reveals the untold story of Pastor Wang Yi and the early members of Early Rain Church, offering a powerful collective testimony of faith and resistance within China's underground church movement.Lin Lu, a founding member, shares a deeply personal account of their courageous stand for religious freedom-and the heavy price
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Video Object Segmentation

Tasks, Datasets, and Methods

by Ning Xu, Weiyao Lin, Xiankai Lu, Yunchao Wei ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book provides a thorough overview of recent progress in video object segmentation, providing researchers and industrial practitioners with thorough information on the most important problems and developed technologies in the area. Video segmentation is a fundamental topic for video understanding in computer vision. Segmenting unique objects in a given video is useful for a variety of ... Read more

$40.49 USD

This book provides a thorough overview of recent progress in video object segmentation, providing researchers and industrial practitioners with thorough information on the most important problems and developed technologies in the area. Video segmentation is a fundamental topic for video understanding in computer vision. Segmenting unique objects in a given video is useful for a variety of
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Radio Wave Propagation of Satellite Systems

by Zhenwei Zhao, Leke Lin, Changsheng Lu, Rui Zhang, Kun Liu, Xin Zhang ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book highlights the fundamental theories and prediction methods of radiowave propagation for the design, building, and operation of contemporary satellite systems. The primary objective of this book is to inquire into whether and how it is possible in a democracy to effectively decrease short-sighted policies. Although the commonplace expression “responsibility to future generations” has ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book highlights the fundamental theories and prediction methods of radiowave propagation for the design, building, and operation of contemporary satellite systems. The primary objective of this book is to inquire into whether and how it is possible in a democracy to effectively decrease short-sighted policies. Although the commonplace expression “responsibility to future generations” has
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Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security and Privacy

by Xiaodong Lin, Rongxing Lu ...

Series series IEEE Press Series on Information and Communication Networks Security
This book is a complete, single information source of techniques for complex security and privacy issues in vehicular ad hoc networksTake a cooperative approach towards addressing the technology’s challenges of security and privacy issuesExplores interdisciplinary methods by combining social science, cryptography, and privacy enhancing techniqueRichly illustrated with detailed designs and results ... Read more

$115.00 USD

This book is a complete, single information source of techniques for complex security and privacy issues in vehicular ad hoc networksTake a cooperative approach towards addressing the technology’s challenges of security and privacy issuesExplores interdisciplinary methods by combining social science, cryptography, and privacy enhancing techniqueRichly illustrated with detailed designs and results
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Algal Biotechnology

by Yahui Bo, Gao Chen, Lei Chen, Zhenfan Chen, Zixi Chen, Pengfei Cheng, Feng Ge, Jiameng Guo, Sanjay Gupta, Xiahui Hao, Qingfang He, Fan Hu, Hanhua Hu, Krishna Kumar Jaiswal, Hu Jin, Vinod Kumar, Anping Lei, Anna I. Kurbatova, Chao Li, Yanhua Li, Hanzhi Lin, Lu-Ning Liu, Qiong Liu, Yandu Lu, Anastasios Melis, Yufang Pan, Vishal Rajput, Roger Ruan, Shengzhou Shan, Kaitlin Simmons, Xiaotong Song, Xinyu Song, Adamu Yunusa Ugya, Mikhail S. Vlaskin, Chun Wang, Jiangxin Wang, Jin Wang, Xiaojun Yan, Wenxiu Yin, Weiwen Zhang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Xu Zhang, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Long-Sheng Zhao, Quanyu Zhao, Chengxu Zhou, Yali Zhu, Zhu Zhen, Tian Jing, CAO Xupeng ...

Series series CABI Biotechnology Series
Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater ... Read more

$117.19 USD

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater
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Computational Fluid Dynamics and the Theory of Fluidization

Applications of the Kinetic Theory of Granular Flow

by Huilin Lu, Dimitri Gidaspow, Shuyan Wang ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book is for engineers and students to solve issues concerning the fluidized bed systems. It presents an analysis that focuses directly on the problem of predicting the fluid dynamic behavior which empirical data is limited or unavailable. The second objective is to provide a treatment of computational fluidization dynamics that is readily accessible to the non-specialist. The approach adopted ... Read more

$170.09 USD

This book is for engineers and students to solve issues concerning the fluidized bed systems. It presents an analysis that focuses directly on the problem of predicting the fluid dynamic behavior which empirical data is limited or unavailable. The second objective is to provide a treatment of computational fluidization dynamics that is readily accessible to the non-specialist. The approach adopted
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Computational Transport Phenomena of Multiphase Systems and Fluidization

Formulation and Application of Kinetic Theory of Granular Flow

by Huilin Lu, Guodong Liu, Qinghong Zhang, Xiaoxue Jiang, Boxue Pang, Wenjian Cai ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on the modeling of gas-solid, liquid-solid, non-Newtonian fluid-solid, and supercritical fluid-solid fluidized beds and multiphase flows. Simulation techniques are categorized into Euler–Euler with kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) and Euler–Lagrange with discrete element method (DEM) approaches. Both the governing equations and numerical implementations are presented. A new ... Read more

$197.09 USD

This book focuses on the modeling of gas-solid, liquid-solid, non-Newtonian fluid-solid, and supercritical fluid-solid fluidized beds and multiphase flows. Simulation techniques are categorized into Euler–Euler with kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) and Euler–Lagrange with discrete element method (DEM) approaches. Both the governing equations and numerical implementations are presented. A new
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Advances In Chinese Document And Text Processing

by Cheng-lin Liu, Yue Lu ...

Series Book 2 - Series On Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, And Intelligent Systems
The book is a collection of invited chapters by experts in Chinese document and text processing, and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems. The chapters introduce the latest advances and state-of-the-art methods for Chinese document image analysis and recognition, font design, text analysis and speaker recognition. Handwritten Chinese character ... Read more

$91.79 USD

The book is a collection of invited chapters by experts in Chinese document and text processing, and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems. The chapters introduce the latest advances and state-of-the-art methods for Chinese document image analysis and recognition, font design, text analysis and speaker recognition. Handwritten Chinese character
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Sarong Party Girls

A Novel

by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan ...

Narrated by Angela Lin ...

Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh
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