Tabla de Contenidos: “…Joel Schneider -- Case 2. Alicia, age 13: Looking Under the Hood / Jill Hartmann and John Willis -- Case 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Biased Rendering -- An Introduction to Render Passes / AOVs -- Sidebar: Lighting Render Passes -- Chapter 6: Reproducing Locations and Lighting Characters -- Lighting Locations and Characters -- Reproducing Lighting at Specific Locations -- Location #1: Elevator Landing -- Location #2: Bus Interior -- Location #3: Outer Space -- Designing Character Lighting -- Sidebar: Character Lighting Pitfalls -- Sidebar: Measuring Light in Stops -- Chapter 7 : Designing Stylistic Lighting -- Stylistic Planning -- Generating a Mood -- Creating a Tribute to Other Art Forms -- Creating a Visually Unconventional Look -- Establishing a Parallel World or Timeline -- Stylized 3D Examples -- Sidebar: Motion Blur and Other Post-Process Effects -- Case Study 1: Copying a Renaissance Still Life -- Using Autodesk Maya with the V-Ray Renderer -- Sidebar: Reloading Missing Texture Bitmaps -- Sidebar: Gamma-Corrected Views -- Switching to the Arnold Renderer -- Creating a Window Reflection -- Adjusting the Render Quality -- Sidebar: Determining Values -- Case Study 2: Lighting a Complex Night Interior…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Strategies Are Everywhere -- Strategy Is a Road Map to Success -- Resource Allocation: Decide Where to Focus Your Organizational Resources -- "Strategy" Is Nothing without Execution -- The Correct Way to Create a Strategy -- Business Strategy Is a Blueprint for Your Business Success -- 2 The Many Pitfalls of a Business Strategy -- Building Strategy the Right Way Is Tough -- Framework and Concepts: Make or Break the Strategy -- Can Looking at the Task at Hand from the Opposite Angle Constitute a "Strategy"? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A brief introduction to the (obsolete) Turing test, chatbots, and generative AI -- The art and science of simulation -- An emotion state machine -- Playing the emotion game -- Creating a model of human behavior -- Integrating an artificial personality into our robot -- Constructing a personality -- Adding context -- Under construction -- Developing the robot emotion engine -- Creating a human emotion model -- Creating human information storage -- Context memory -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Conclusions and Reflections -- Learning when to stop -- Careers in robotics -- Exploring the current state of AI -- Looking ahead in AI and robotics -- Is AI phobia reasonable? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Research -- Administration -- Teaching -- Look to the Future -- In Conclusion -- References -- 7 The Visual Expeditions and Related Adventures of a Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator -- Uncertain Beginnings: Transitioning From Student to Professor -- The Emergence of "Professional Communication": Developing a Doctoral Program -- Visual Communication: Blending Past and Present in New Scholarly Directions -- Journal of Business and Technical Communication: Mentoring Other Scholars -- Administration: Practicing Business Communication in the Academic Workplace -- Takeaways for New(er) Teacher-Scholars: Connecting Past and Future -- References -- 8 Persisting in the Field of Business Communication: "There's Really Something to It" -- Texts-in-Use-What Do Business Communication Academics Do?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Materials for Engineering -- 1.1 The Material World -- 1.2 Materials Science and Engineering -- 1.3 Six Materials That Changed Your World -- Steel Bridges-Introducing Metals -- Transparent Oxides-Introducing Ceramics -- Smartphones And Tablets-Introducing Glasses -- Nylon Parachutes-Introducing Polymers -- Kevlar®-Reinforced Tires-Introducing Composites -- Silicon Chips-Introducing Semiconductors -- 1.4 Processing and Selecting Materials -- 1.5 Looking at Materials by Powers of Ten -- Part I: The Fundamentals -- Chapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Traditional Approach: Considering the Preponderance of the Evidence -- An Alternative Approach: Looking at the Patterns of Evidence -- Rationale -- Ruling In Plausibility -- The Panel's Synthesis -- U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global Education and Integration: A Look into South African Higher Education Nicolle Manjeya (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) 15.Towards an Ethical Global Citizenship Education Curriculum Framework in the Modern University Emiliano Bosio (Yokohama City University, Japan) 16.From Global to Planetary Citizenship in Brazilian Universities Silvia Moraes (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) and Ludmilla Freire (University the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil) 17.How do Higher Education Students Negotiate Global Responsibility in Education? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Working with the auction house sample material -- Installing the auction house sample -- Looking at the code -- Scenario -- Appendix C. Sample auction scenario -- The scenario -- Preparation -- Entrance -- Auction -- Appendix D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Legacy of Data Warehousing -- Looking Back at the Impact of Big Data Technology -- The Impact of Cloud Technology -- Conclusion -- Foreword by Ian Gorton -- Preface -- Introduction -- Why a New Book on Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Customizing the Online Meeting Center -- 11.1 Typical reasons for branding the Meeting Center -- 11.2 Branding the Meeting Center -- 11.2.1 Changing the page header -- 11.2.2 Changing the look -- 11.2.3 Using a Java Server Page (JSP) front-end -- 11.3 Meeting summary e-mail -- 11.3.1 Overview -- 11.3.2 Behind the scenes -- 11.3.3 Implementing the e-mail notification feature -- 11.3.4 Design changes -- 11.3.5 Validating the changes -- 11.4 Summary -- Chapter 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1.1 Current Account Transactions -- 5.1.2 Capital Account Transactions -- 5.1.3 Official Reserves Account -- 5.2 Equilibrium, Disequilibriumand Adjustment -- 5.2.1 Accounting Equilibrium -- 5.2.2 Disequilibrium and the Focus of Adjustment -- 5.3 Different Approaches to Adjustment -- 5.3.1 the Classical View -- 5.3.2 Elasticity Approach -- 5.3.3 Keynesian Approach -- 5.3.4 Monetary Approach -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Objective Type Questions -- Study Topic -- References -- Select Further Readings -- Part II : International Business Environment -- Chapter 6: National Regulation of International Business -- 6.1 Free Trade Versus Protection -- 6.1.1 Case for Free Trade -- 6.1.2 Arguments for Protection -- 6.1.3 Move from Inward-Looking to Outward-Looking Trade Policy Regimes -- 6.2 Forms of Trade Regulation at the National Level -- 6.3 Instruments of Trade Regulation -- 6.3.1 Tariff -- 6.3.2 Quota -- 6.3.3 Subsidies -- 6.3.4 Dumping -- 6.3.5 Some Other Forms of Non-Tariff Barriers -- 6.4 Regulation of FDI -- 6.4.1 Rationale Behind Regulation -- 6.4.2 Modalities of Regulation in Host Country -- 6.4.3 Modalities of Regulation in Home Country -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Objective Type Questions -- Case Study -- Study Topic -- References -- Select Further Readings -- Chapter 7: Multilateral Regulation of Trade and Investment -- 7.1 Basic Principles of Multilateral Trade Negotiations -- 7.2 Gatt and Its Early Rounds -- 7.3 Uruguay Round -- 7.3.1 Main Features -- 7.3.2 Agreements At the Uruguay Round -- 7.4 World Trade Organisation -- 7.4.1 Basic Difference between GATT and WTO -- 7.4.2 Organisational Structure -- 7.4.3 Functions of the WTO -- 7.4.4 Settlement of Disputes -- 7.4.5 Challenges Before WTO -- 7.5 WTO and India -- 7.6 United Nations Conference on Tradeand Development (UNCTAD) -- 7.6.1 Origin of Unctad…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2 Adding Positive and Negative Numbers -- 3 Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers -- Self‐Test 6.1 -- 4 Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers -- Self‐Test 6.2 -- 5 Division with Positive and Negative Numbers -- Self‐Test 6.3 -- Answers to Self‐Test 6.1 -- Answers to Self‐Test 6.2 -- Answers to Self‐Test 6.3 -- Chapter 7 Fractions -- 1 Changing the Look of Fractions -- Making a Whole Number Look Like a Fraction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…References -- Chapter 4 Optical Systems in Machine Vision -- 4.1 A Look at the Foundations of Geometrical Optics -- 4.1.1 From Electrodynamics to Light Rays -- 4.1.2 Basic Laws of Geometrical Optics -- 4.2 Gaussian Optics -- 4.2.1 Reflection and Refraction at the Boundary between two Media -- 4.2.2 Linearizing the Law of Refraction - The Paraxial Approximation -- 4.2.3 Basic Optical Conventions -- 4.2.4 Cardinal Elements of a Lens in Gaussian Optics -- 4.2.5 Thin Lens Approximation -- 4.2.6 Beam-Converging and Beam-Diverging Lenses -- 4.2.7 Graphical Image Constructions -- 4.2.8 Imaging Equations and Their Related Coordinate Systems -- 4.2.9 Overlapping of Object and Image Space -- 4.2.10 Focal Length, Lateral Magnification, and the Field of View -- 4.2.11 Systems of Lenses -- 4.2.12 Consequences of the Finite Extension of Ray Pencils -- 4.2.13 Geometrical Depth of Field and Depth of Focus -- 4.2.14 Laws of Central Projection-Telecentric System -- 4.3 Wave Nature of Light -- 4.3.1 Introduction -- 4.3.2 Rayleigh-Sommerfeld Diffraction Integral -- 4.3.3 Further Approximations to the Huygens-Fresnel Principle -- 4.3.4 Impulse Response of an Aberration-Free Optical System -- 4.3.5 Intensity Distribution in the Neighborhood of the Geometrical Focus -- 4.3.6 Extension of the Point Spread Function in a Defocused Image Plane -- 4.3.7 Consequences for the Depth of Field Considerations -- 4.4 Information Theoretical Treatment of Image Transfer and Storage -- 4.4.1 Physical Systems as Linear Invariant Filters -- 4.4.2 Optical Transfer Function (OTF) and the Meaning of Spatial Frequency -- 4.4.3 Extension to the Two-Dimensional Case -- 4.4.4 Impulse Response and MTF for Semiconductor Imaging Devices -- 4.4.5 Transmission Chain -- 4.4.6 Aliasing Effect and the Space-Variant Nature of Aliasing -- 4.5 Criteria for Image Quality -- 4.5.1 Gaussian Data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.3.2 Your first Rust program -- 1.4 Downloading the book's source code -- 1.5 What does Rust look and feel like? -- 1.6 What is Rust? -- 1.6.1 Goal of Rust: Safety -- 1.6.2 Goal of Rust: Productivity -- 1.6.3 Goal of Rust: Control -- 1.7 Rust's big features -- 1.7.1 Performance -- 1.7.2 Concurrency -- 1.7.3 Memory efficiency -- 1.8 Downsides of Rust -- 1.8.1 Cyclic data structures -- 1.8.2 Compile times -- 1.8.3 Strictness -- 1.8.4 Size of the language -- 1.8.5 Hype -- 1.9 TLS security case studies -- 1.9.1 Heartbleed -- 1.9.2 Goto fail -- -- 1.10 Where does Rust fit best? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Art of Abstraction -- Getting Concrete at an Abstract Level -- Abstract Models Should Look Nice -- 5.7.2. Static and Dynamic Models -- Skeleton=Static -- Processes=Dynamic -- 5.7.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…16.2 Context, Stories, and Designers as Interpreters -- 16.3 Context Through Narratives-The CTN Method -- 16.4 Case Illustration of the CTN Method -- 16.5 Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- About the Authors -- Chapter 17: Optimal Design for Radically New Products -- Introduction -- 17.1 Communicate the Challenge Goal toward Radically New Products -- 17.2 Shift Time Frames to Future and Past -- 17.3 Promote an Emerging Technology Focus across the Consumption Chain -- 17.4 Promote the Use of Analogical Thinking -- 17.5 Look for Novel Ways to Solve Simple Problems -- 17.6 Leverage More Ideators via Crowdsourcing -- 17.7 Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors -- Chapter 18: Business Model Design -- Introduction -- 18.1 What Is a Business Model? …”

“…The easy-to-follow explanations and examples give you a clear view of what containers are, how they work, and how to manage them using Podman's powerful features. You'll get a deep look at the Linux components Podman uses and even learn more about Docker along the way. …”

“…This book containing 33 chapters provides an insightful look at creative approaches toward the accelerated development of computing and multidisciplinary IT solutions for society. …”

“…This redbook contains a large number of usage and output examples for each of the tools, pointing out the relevant statistics to look for when analyzing an AIX system's performance from a practical point of view. …”