Amy Kind, "Imagination and Creative Thinking "
English | ISBN: 1108977227 | 2022 | 72 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind? What is creativity? Is imagination required for creativity? Is creativity required for imagination? Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated? And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems?

Image and Video Technology: PSIVT 2017 International Workshops, Wuhan, China, November 20-24, 2017, Revised Selected Papers by Shin'ichi Satoh
English | PDF | 2018 | 482 Pages | ISBN : 3319927523 | 116.78 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of five international workshops held in the framework of the 8th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2017, in Wuhan, China, in November 2017: Workshop on Human Behavior Analysis; Workshop on Educational Cloud and Image/Video Enriched Cloud Services, ECIVECS; Workshop: Vision Meets Graphics, VG; Workshop on Active Electro-Optical Sensors for Aerial and Space Imaging, EO4AS; and Workshop on Computer Vision and Modern Vehicles, CVMV.

Image Pattern Recognition: Fundamentals and Applications
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367642166 | 203 Pages | EPUB | 36 MB
This book describes various types of image patterns for image retrieval. All these patterns are texture dependent. Few image patterns such as Improved directional local extrema patterns, Local Quantized Extrema Patterns, Local Color Oppugnant Quantized Extrema Patterns and Local Mesh quantized extrema patterns are presented. Inter-relationships among the pixels of an image are used for feature extraction. In contrast to the existing patterns these patterns focus on local neighborhood of pixels to creates the feature vector. Evaluation metrics such as precision and recall are calculated after testing with standard databases i.e., Corel-1k, Corel-5k and MIT VisTex database. This book serves as a practical guide for students and researchers.

Image Analysis and Recognition: 15th International Conference, ICIAR 2018, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 27-29, 2018, Proceedings by Aurélio Campilho
English | PDF | 2018 | 951 Pages | ISBN : 3319929992 | 135.12 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2018, held in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, in June 2018.

Lucy Werner, "Hype Yourself: A no-nonsense PR toolkit for small businesses"
English | ISBN: 1788601238 | 2020 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1012 KB
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Hybrid Advanced Techniques for Forecasting in Energy Sector by Wei-Chiang Hong
English | PDF | 2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN : 3038972908 | 104.83 MB
Accurate forecasting performance in the energy sector is a primary factor in the modern restructured power market, accomplished by any novel advanced hybrid techniques. Particularly in the Big Data era, forecasting models are always based on a complex function combination, and energy data are always complicated by factors such as seasonality, cyclicity, fluctuation, dynamic nonlinearity, and so on.

Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work By Andrew Tarvin
2019 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1989025838 | EPUB | 2 MB
If you want to increase team productivity, relieve stress, and be happier at work, you could hire a bunch of workplace consultants, invest in scream therapy, and put Pharrell Williams on repeat-or you could just read Humor That Works.Written by Andrew Tarvin, the world's first Humor Engineer, this a business book on humor. No, that's not an oxymoron. It really is a business book and it really is about getting better results by having more fun. Because people who use humor in the workplace are more productive, less stressed, and happier. No joke; sources included.The goal is not to make you funnier-though that may be a side effect-but to make you effective-er. You'll learn to develop a personal humor habit that's not about spitting wisecracks or telling the funniest stories, but a way of seeing work in an energizing new way. You'll build on some of the most important business skills for today's work environment, develop techniques for leveraging humor, and take action to improve your work immediately. And you'll have fun doing it.There will be stories about grandmas who text, multiple mentions of milkshakes, and exactly seven references to zombies. Oh, and there will be puns. (You've been warned.) Looking for success and happiness at work? Discover the missing skill of Humor That Works.

Humanoid Encounters 1995-1999: The Others amongst Us By Albert S. Rosales
2015 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1519446276 | EPUB | 1 MB
The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Cryptoterrestrials, Robots & more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Werewolves, Chupacabras and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.

Humanoid Encounters 1900-1929: The Others amongst Us By Albert S Rosales
2016 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1541101448 | EPUB | 1 MB
The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Intraterrestrials, Robots and more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lightbeings, Skinwalkers and even stranger exotic humanoids. Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases

Reductress, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, "How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All―And Then Some!"
English | 2016 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0062439804 | EPUB | 11,5 mb
Feminism is all about demanding equality and learning to love yourself. But not too much - men hate that! From the writers of Reductress, the subversive, satirical women's magazine read by over 2.5 million visitors a month, comes HOW TO WIN AT FEMINISM: The Definitive Guide to Having It All-And Then Some!