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Download PDF Improve Your Handwriting by Rosemary Sassoon and G SE Briem
Sinopsis
Some people seem to think that handwriting is redundant and not worth teaching any more. This is not true. It is still an important, if not vital, skill worldwide.
Even in countries where computers are in constant use, both in schools and the home, they cannot do everything. It will be many years before they will be generally approved for use in examinations. Then, what about note-taking? Today most of us need a fl exible way of writing – fast, almost a scribble for ourselves alone to read, and progressively slower and more legible for other purposes. The less attention given to teaching handwriting, the worse the situation will become.
What about you? How do you feel when you look at your own script, and perhaps compare it to other people ’ s? If anyone is criticizing your handwriting, there is no way of hiding it. It is not a happy situation to be made to feel inadequate. You may only imagine that something is wrong or think that others see your script as immature. It has the same effect. You get all tensed up, and that only makes matters worse.
Then there are times when a typed letter is inappropriate and you want something more personal. You want something special. We all know the feeling when an envelope arrives and you recognize the hand of a much-loved friend or relative. There are so many reasons for keeping up handwriting and acquiring a satisfactory personal script. What is more, unfair though it is, we are often judged by the appearance of our handwriting by the outside world. Just addressing that envelope may be revealing.
Writing by hand can make a difference to what you write as well. It is interesting to learn that the more creative writers and poets are, the more likely they are to prefer writing by hand. It is that feeling of straight from the mind to the paper via the hand.
Content
- Handwriting problems
- Self-diagnosis
- More about self-diagnosis
- Practical matters
- Help for left-handers
- More serious problems
- How to put things right
- Regaining control
- Rhythm and texture
- A training model
- Joining up
- Personal modifi cations
- Capital letters
- Before and after
- Finishing touches
- Layout
- A more formal model
Download PDF Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
Sinopsis
THE BIG THREE SMILED
AT the world from the grounds of the Livadia Palace in the Crimean
resort town of Yalta. It was February 1945. The chill blowing off the Black Sea
pressed the leaders into greatcoats and fur hats: Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Marshal Josef Stalin were meeting
here to carve up the old Continent devastated by war and decide the outline of
the post-war world.
Content
- CHAPTER 1 WINTER 1945
- CHAPTER 2 TWO CITIES
- CHAPTER 3 FEUERSTURM
- CHAPTER 4 PRESIDENT
- CHAPTER 5 ATOM
- CHAPTER 6 THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
- CHAPTER 7 SPRING 1945
- CHAPTER 8 THE TARGET COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER 9 JAPAN DEFEATED
- CHAPTER 10 UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
- CHAPTER 11 TRINITY
- CHAPTER 12 POTSDAM
- CHAPTER 13 MOKUSATSU
- CHAPTER 14 SUMMER 1945
- CHAPTER 15 TINIAN ISLAND
- CHAPTER 16 AUGUSTA
- CHAPTER 17 HIROSHIMA, 6 August 1945
- CHAPTER 18 INVASION
- CHAPTER 19 NAGASAKI, 9 August 1945
- CHAPTER 20 SURRENDER
- CHAPTER 21 RECKONING
- CHAPTER 22 HIBAKUSHA
- CHAPTER 23 WHY
Download PDF Information Security Fundamentals Second Edition by Peltier Thomas R
Sinopsis
The purpose of information security is to protect an organization’s valuable resources, such as information, computer hardware, and software. Through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards, security helps an organization’s mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets. To many, security is sometimes viewed as thwarting the business objectives of an organization by imposing poorly selected, bothersome rules and procedures on users, managers, and systems. Well-chosen security rules and procedures do not exist for their own sake—they are put in place to protect important assets and thereby support the overall business objectives.
Developing an information security program that adheres to the principle of security as a business enabler is the first step in an enterprise’s effort to build an effective security program. Organizations must continually (1) explore and assess information security risks to business operations; (2) determine what policies, standards, and controls are worth implementing to reduce these risks; (3) promote awareness and understanding among the staff; and (4) assess compliance and control effectiveness. As with other types of internal controls, this is a cycle of activity, not an exercise with a defined beginning and end.
This book has been designed to give the information security professional a solid understanding of the fundamentals of security and the entire range of issues the practitioner must address. We hope that you will be able to take the key elements that comprise a successful information security program and implement the concepts into your own successful program. Each chapter has been written by a different author
Content
- Developing Policies
- Organization of Information
- Cryptology
- Risk Management: The Facilitated Risk Analysis and Assessment Process
- Building and Maintaining an Effective Security Awareness Program
- Physical Security
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
- Continuity of Operations Planning
- Access Controls
- Information System Development, Acquisition, and Maintenance
- Information Security Incident Management
- Asset Classification
- Threats to Information Security.
- Information Security Policies: A Practitioner’s View
Download PDF In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik
Sinopis
One spring day I went in pursuit of silence in downtown Brooklyn. I live not far away from the place where I began my search, on a leafy street that is, relatively speaking, a haven of quiet in a relentless city. I have a small garden, and the rooms where I sleep, work, and spend time with loved ones are surrounded by old, thick walls. Even so, I’m woken by traô€‰½c helicopters; I’m aggravated by sirens and construction (often these days by music played on the sites rather than by sounds of actual building). And then there are screeching bus brakes, rumbling trucks unsettling manhole lids, and the
unpredictable eruptions of my neighbors’ sound systems. I’m scared of becoming a noise crank, but I’ve just always loved quiet.
Content
- Listening for the Unknown
- Why We Hear
- Why We Are Noisy
- Retail: The Soundtrack
- Sounds Like Noise
- Silent Interlude
- Soundkill
- Freeway to Noise
- Home Front
- This Is War!
- The Dragon Trap
- Silent Finale
Download PDF Intelligent Robots and Systems by Volker Graefe
Sinopsis
A new type of actively sensing multisonar system has been developed for obstacle detection, localization and map updating in indoor environments. It comprises 24 individual intelligent transmitter and receiver elements arranged in a horizontal plane around a high-speed motion platform. The physical sensors are electronically configured to form various types of virtual sensor arrays for specific tasks and situations. A method for high-frequency firing compensates for the low speed of sound in air. Various schemes for intelligent evaluation of the array outputs provide highly accurate localization estimates. Experiments with the developed multisonar system in structured and cluttered environments demonstrate improved perception capabilities compared to state-of-the-art approaches
Content
- SENSING AND PERCEPTION
- A new High-performance Multisonar System for Fast Mobile Robot Applications
- Proper Selection of Sonar and Visual Sensors in Vehicle Detection and Avoidance
- Selective Refinement of 3-D Scene Description by Attentive Observation for Mobile Robot
- Active Vision Inspired by Mammalian Fixation Mechanism
- Realtime Range Imaging Using An Adjustment-free Photo VLSI
- A Pedestrian Discrimination Method Based on Rhythm
- Visual Recognition of Obstacles on Roads
- Visual Collision Avoidance by Segmentation
- LEARNING AND PLANNING
- Using Perceptions to Plan Incremental Adaptions
- Robot Task Programming by Human Demonstration: Mapping Human Grasps to Manipulator Grasps
- Robot Learning By Nonparametric Regression
- Behavioral Control in Mobile-Robot Navigation Using a Fuzzy Decision Making Approach
- Learning Emergent Tasks for an Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Navigation Strategies in an Autonomous Robot
- A Lifelong Learning Perspective for Mobile Robot Control
- A Multilevel Learning Approach to Mobile Robot Path Planning
- A Self-Organizing Representation of Sensor Space for Mobile Robot Navigation
- Path Planning and Guidance Techniques for an Autonomous Mobile Cleaning Robot
- MANIPULATION
- Grasp Strategies for a Dextrous Robotic Hand
- Motion Scheme for Dextrous Manipulation in the Intelligent Cooperative Manipulation System - ICMS
- Designing a Behavior of a Mobile Robot Equipped with a Manipulator to Open and Pass through a Door
- The Development of Re-usable Software Systems for Intelligent Autonomous Robots in Industrial and Space Applications
- TELEROBOTICS AND SPACE ROBOTICS
- Toward Integrated Operator Interface for Advanced Teleoperation under Time-Delay
- Active Understanding of Human Intention by a Robot through Monitoring of Human Behavior
- Human/machine Sharing Control for Telerobotic Systems
- Task-Directed Programming of Sensor-Based Robots
- Telerobotics with Large Time Delays - the ROTEX Experience
- Feature-Based Visual Servoing and its Application to Telerobo
- Practical Coordination Control Between Satellite Attitude and Manipulator Reaction Dynamics Based on Computed Momentum Concept
- A 5-Axis Mini Direct Drive Robot for Teleoperation and Biotechnology
- A Laboratory Test Bed for Space Robotics: The VES II
- MULTIPLE ROBOTS
- Hierarchical Prediction Model for Intelligent Communication in Multiple Robotic Systems
- Proposal for Cooperative Robot "Gunryu" Composed of Autonomous Segments
- Unified Control for Dynamic Cooperative Manipulation
- MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS
- Comparative Study of Adaptive Controllers for a Pneumatic Driven Leg
- An Efficient Forward Gait Control for a Quadruped Walking Robot
- The Six-Legged TUM Walking Robot
- Vision-Based Adaptive and Interactive Behaviors in Mechanical Animals Using the Remote-Brained Approach
- ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE
- Planning, Calibration and Collision-Avoidance for Image-Guided Radiosurgery
Download PDF Introduction to the Theory of Computation Second Edition by Michael Sipser
Sinopsis
Judging from the email communications that I've received from so many of you, the biggest deficiency of the first edition is that it provides no sample solutions to any of the problems. So here they are. Every chapter now contains a new Selected Solutions section that gives answers to a representative cross-section of that chapter's exercises and problems. To make up for the loss of the solved problems as interesting homework challenges, I've also added a variety of new problems. Instructors may request an Instructor's Manual that contains additional solutions by contacting the sales representative for their region designated at www. course. comn.
A number of readers would have liked more coverage of certain "standard" topics, particularly the Myhill-Nerode Theorem and Rice's Theorem. I've partially accommodated these readers by developing these topics in the solved problems. I did not include the Myhill-Nerode Theorem in the main body of the text because I believe that this course should provide only an introduction to finite automata and not a deep investigation.
Content
- Introduction
- Automata and Languages
- Regular Languages
- Context-Free Languages
- Computability Theory
- The Church-Turing Thesis
- Decidability
- Reducibility
- Advanced Topics in Computability Theory
- Complexity Theory
- Time Complexity
- Space Complexity
- Intractability
- Advanced topics in complexity theory
Download PDF INVESTING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY Making Money on Green Chip Stocks by JEFF SIEGEL
Sinopsis
Certainly we can look to the solar bull market of 2007 to counter the last sentence of that e - mail. Whether it was the 900 percent gain that First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) delivered or the 1,700 percent gain that World Water & Solar Technologies (OTCBB:WWAT) delivered, green chip investors who were properly positioned last year made an absolute fortune.
Still, even with all the money we ’ ve made in the past by investing in renewable energy, the question “ Why would you invest in renewable energy? ” is still quite valid, especially when you consider the fact that there really is a lack of easily accessible and credible information regarding the current state of the overall energy marketplace.
For instance, while the local news has made a habit of reporting on high gas prices every time the summer driving season kicks into high gear, rarely do we hear how these so - called high gas prices are actually quite cheap. The true cost of gasoline is probably closer to about $11.00 a gallon. You may not be paying that price at the pump, but you are paying it. You ’ ll see how in Chapter 1 .
We also hear a lot about how the United States is the “ Saudi Arabia of coal,” boasting a 250 - year supply. However, rarely do we hear how these coal - supply numbers are highly infl ated, or how the United States most likely passed its peak of coal production nearly 10 years ago. You ’ ll read more about this in Chapter 1 , as well.
Content
- TRANSITIONING TO THE NEW ENERGY ECONOMY
- THE GLOBAL ENERGY MELTDOWN
- THE SOLAR SOLUTION
- GLOBAL WINDS
- THE HEAT BELOW
- WHAT MAY WASH UP IN THE TIDE
- WHAT’S THAT SMELL?
- THE EFFICIENCY ADVANTAGE
- THE END OF OIL
- FOREIGN OIL: THE PATH TO SUICIDE
- BIOFUELS: MORE THAN JUST CORN
- PLUGGED-IN PROFITS
- THE SCIENCE AND PROFITABILITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
- GLOBAL WARMING: THE NOT-SO-GREAT DEBATE
- PROFITING FROM POLLUTION
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Download PDF Is It Just Me by Miranda Hart
Sinopsis
My Dear
Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to
have you perusing my written word. It is nothing short of tremendous to have you
to chat to and, I hope, now that we’re on sentence three, you are sitting
comfortably. Or maybe you’re lying. Lying, perhaps, on a beach, or snuggled in
your bed; perhaps you’ve constructed a small fort out of cushions, in which case
I applaud you. Or maybe you’ve thrown caution to the wind, and you’re lying on
the bookshop floor having a little breather (if that’s the case, I’m not being
rude, but you’re a bit weird). Maybe you’re standing on a commuter train, using
this book as a filter between you and a repellent armpit. If so, I’m terribly
sorry. That’s no way to start the day, is it? Face in a pit. Commuter trains are
the only place you’d not question standing what in any other social scenario
would be freakishly and embarrassingly close to a friend, let alone a stranger.
But, I welcome all readers standing. Maybe there are others kneeling? Perhaps
you’re in church; maybe you’re at a wedding, with this book tucked
surreptitiously into the Order of Service.
Content
- Life, eh . . .?
- Music
- Hobbies
- Office Life
- Technology
- Beauty
- Bodies
- Exercise
- Diets
- Health
- Holidays
- Christmas
- Who’s Top Dog?
- Mothers and Children
- Dating
- Weddings
- Culture
- Dreams
Download PDF Irresistible Attraction Secrets of Personal Magnetism by Kevin Hogan and Mary Lee Labay
Sinopsis
The ways men and women think really do seem to differ in their short and long term goals! We'll let you determine for yourself what specifically your desires and needs in a relationship are. This book is both informative and fun. It is thoroughly researched and yet easy to read.
We draw from the fields of social psychology, evolutionary psychology, hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, and the personal experiences of many individuals who were kind enough to share their inner most thoughts with you. This book is designed to not only help you understand what is attractive to men and women, but to show you specifically how to become more attractive in the minds of those you want to influence.
Not much happens in an intimate relationship until two people first are attracted to each other. In the
majority of attraction experiences, there is a component of sexual attraction. There is also often a component of emotional, intellectual or ideological attraction as well. AU of these areas will be discussed in this book but we arc going to prima rily focus on personal magnetism, which is in large part, a synthesis of sexual energy and attraction.
One aspect of attraction that you may encounter is occasional frustration about what attracts us to each other. Don't worry! We all get frustrated when we aren't as ideal as we could be. There are no ideal peoplel There are only ideals. Read this book, enjoy. have fun and learn to radiate your charismatic energy to everyone around you!
Content
- Are You Irresistible
- Irresistible Ideals in Men and Women
- Attraction for the Relt orus
- Can You Hear Your Body Talking?
- The Eyes Have It!
- Initial Impressions
- Flirting Makes the World Go Around
- The Second Impression
- The Secrets of Charisma
- Positive Expression and Inner Magnetism
- Self Confidence and Self Esteem
- Secrets of Finding the Love and Experiencing the Intimacy You Deserve
- Dating
- Intimacy: Creating and Re-creating the Deep Bonds of Love
- Personal Magnetism in Intimate Relationships
Download PDF Material Science And Engineering Handbook Third Edition by James F. Shackelford
Content
- Structure of Materials
- Composition of Materials
- Phase Diagram Sources
- Thermodynamic and Kinetic Data
- Thermal Properties of Materials
- Mechanical Properties of Materials
- Electrical Properties of Materials
- Optical Properties of Materials
- Chemical Properties of Materials
- Selecting Structural Properties
- Selecting Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties
- Selecting Thermal Properties
- Selecting Mechanical Properties
- Selecting Electrical Properties
- Selecting Optical Properties
- Selecting Chemical Properties
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