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Download PDF Improve Your Handwriting by Rosemary Sassoon and G SE Briem

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

  1. Handwriting problems
  2. Self-diagnosis
  3. More about self-diagnosis
  4. Practical matters
  5. Help for left-handers
  6. More serious problems
  7. How to put things right
  8. Regaining control
  9. Rhythm and texture
  10. A training model
  11. Joining up
  12. Personal modifi cations
  13. Capital letters
  14. Before and after
  15. Finishing touches
  16. Layout
  17. A more formal model




Download PDF Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham

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

  1. CHAPTER 1 WINTER 1945
  2. CHAPTER 2 TWO CITIES
  3. CHAPTER 3 FEUERSTURM
  4. CHAPTER 4 PRESIDENT
  5. CHAPTER 5 ATOM
  6. CHAPTER 6 THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
  7. CHAPTER 7 SPRING 1945
  8. CHAPTER 8 THE TARGET COMMITTEE
  9. CHAPTER 9 JAPAN DEFEATED
  10. CHAPTER 10 UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
  11. CHAPTER 11 TRINITY
  12. CHAPTER 12 POTSDAM
  13. CHAPTER 13 MOKUSATSU
  14. CHAPTER 14 SUMMER 1945
  15. CHAPTER 15 TINIAN ISLAND
  16. CHAPTER 16 AUGUSTA
  17. CHAPTER 17 HIROSHIMA, 6 August 1945
  18. CHAPTER 18 INVASION
  19. CHAPTER 19 NAGASAKI, 9 August 1945
  20. CHAPTER 20 SURRENDER
  21. CHAPTER 21 RECKONING
  22. CHAPTER 22 HIBAKUSHA
  23. CHAPTER 23 WHY








Download PDF Information Security Fundamentals Second Edition by Peltier Thomas R

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

  1. Developing Policies
  2. Organization of Information
  3. Cryptology
  4. Risk Management: The Facilitated Risk Analysis and Assessment Process
  5. Building and Maintaining an Effective Security Awareness Program
  6. Physical Security
  7. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
  8. Continuity of Operations Planning
  9. Access Controls
  10. Information System Development, Acquisition, and Maintenance
  11. Information Security Incident Management
  12. Asset Classification
  13. Threats to Information Security.
  14. Information Security Policies: A Practitioner’s View









Download PDF In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik

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 tra􀉽c 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

  1. Listening for the Unknown
  2. Why We Hear
  3. Why We Are Noisy
  4. Retail: The Soundtrack
  5. Sounds Like Noise
  6. Silent Interlude
  7. Soundkill
  8. Freeway to Noise
  9. Home Front
  10. This Is War!
  11. The Dragon Trap
  12. Silent Finale











Download PDF Intelligent Robots and Systems by Volker Graefe

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

  1. SENSING AND PERCEPTION
  2. A new High-performance Multisonar System for Fast Mobile Robot Applications
  3. Proper Selection of Sonar and Visual Sensors in Vehicle Detection and Avoidance
  4. Selective Refinement of 3-D Scene Description by Attentive Observation for Mobile Robot
  5. Active Vision Inspired by Mammalian Fixation Mechanism
  6. Realtime Range Imaging Using An Adjustment-free Photo VLSI
  7. A Pedestrian Discrimination Method Based on Rhythm
  8. Visual Recognition of Obstacles on Roads
  9. Visual Collision Avoidance by Segmentation
  10. LEARNING AND PLANNING
  11. Using Perceptions to Plan Incremental Adaptions
  12. Robot Task Programming by Human Demonstration: Mapping Human Grasps to Manipulator Grasps
  13. Robot Learning By Nonparametric Regression
  14. Behavioral Control in Mobile-Robot Navigation Using a Fuzzy Decision Making Approach
  15. Learning Emergent Tasks for an Autonomous Mobile Robot
  16. Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Navigation Strategies in an Autonomous Robot
  17. A Lifelong Learning Perspective for Mobile Robot Control
  18. A Multilevel Learning Approach to Mobile Robot Path Planning
  19. A Self-Organizing Representation of Sensor Space for Mobile Robot Navigation
  20. Path Planning and Guidance Techniques for an Autonomous Mobile Cleaning Robot
  21. MANIPULATION
  22. Grasp Strategies for a Dextrous Robotic Hand
  23. Motion Scheme for Dextrous Manipulation in the Intelligent Cooperative Manipulation System - ICMS
  24. Designing a Behavior of a Mobile Robot Equipped with a Manipulator to Open and Pass through a Door
  25. The Development of Re-usable Software Systems for Intelligent Autonomous Robots in Industrial and Space Applications
  26. TELEROBOTICS AND SPACE ROBOTICS
  27. Toward Integrated Operator Interface for Advanced Teleoperation under Time-Delay
  28. Active Understanding of Human Intention by a Robot through Monitoring of Human Behavior
  29. Human/machine Sharing Control for Telerobotic Systems
  30. Task-Directed Programming of Sensor-Based Robots
  31. Telerobotics with Large Time Delays - the ROTEX Experience
  32. Feature-Based Visual Servoing and its Application to Telerobo
  33. Practical Coordination Control Between Satellite Attitude and Manipulator Reaction Dynamics Based on Computed Momentum Concept
  34. A 5-Axis Mini Direct Drive Robot for Teleoperation and Biotechnology
  35. A Laboratory Test Bed for Space Robotics: The VES II
  36. MULTIPLE ROBOTS
  37. Hierarchical Prediction Model for Intelligent Communication in Multiple Robotic Systems
  38. Proposal for Cooperative Robot "Gunryu" Composed of Autonomous Segments
  39. Unified Control for Dynamic Cooperative Manipulation
  40. MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS
  41. Comparative Study of Adaptive Controllers for a Pneumatic Driven Leg
  42. An Efficient Forward Gait Control for a Quadruped Walking Robot
  43. The Six-Legged TUM Walking Robot
  44. Vision-Based Adaptive and Interactive Behaviors in Mechanical Animals Using the Remote-Brained Approach
  45. ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE
  46. Planning, Calibration and Collision-Avoidance for Image-Guided Radiosurgery







Download PDF Introduction to the Theory of Computation Second Edition by Michael Sipser

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

  1. Introduction
  2. Automata and Languages
  3. Regular Languages
  4. Context-Free Languages
  5. Computability Theory
  6. The Church-Turing Thesis
  7. Decidability
  8. Reducibility
  9. Advanced Topics in Computability Theory
  10. Complexity Theory
  11. Time Complexity
  12. Space Complexity
  13. Intractability
  14. Advanced topics in complexity theory