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Bridge the gulf between software and hardware with this
foundational design reference Field-programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs) are integrated circuits designed such that configuration
can take place in the field, that is, after manufacture. Circuits
of this kind play an especially integral role in processing images,
with FPGAs increasingly embedded in digital cameras and other
devices that produce visual data outputs for subsequent realization
and compression. These uses of FPGAs require specific design
processes designed to mediate smoothly between hardware and
processing algorithm. Design for Embedded Image Processing on FPGAs
provides a comprehensive overview of these processes and their
applications in embedded image processing. Beginning with an
overview of image processing and its core principles, this book
then discusses specific design and computation techniques, with a
smooth progression from the foundations of the field to its
advanced principles. The result is an essential reference for both
students and professionals. Readers of the second edition of Design
for Embedded Image Processing on FPGAs will also find: Detailed
discussion of image processing techniques including point
operations, histogram operations, linear transformations, and more
New chapters covering Deep Learning algorithms and Image and Video
Coding Example applications throughout to ground principles and
demonstrate techniques Design for Embedded Image Processing on
FPGAs is ideal for engineers and academics working in the field of
Image Processing, as well as graduate students studying Embedded
Systems Engineering, Image Processing, Digital Design, and related
fields.
Philosophers and therapists have long theorised about how psychological mechanisms for love, jealousy, anxiety, depression and many other human characteristics may have evolved over millions of years. In the dawn of the new insights on evolution, provided by Darwin's theories of natural selection, Freud, Jung and Klein sought to identify and understand human motives, emotions and information processing as functions deeply-rooted in our evolved history. Despite this promising start and major developments in modern evolutionary psychology, anthropology and sociobiology, the last fifty years has seen little in the way of therapies derived from an evolutionary understanding of human psychology. The contributors to this timely book illuminate how an evolution focused approach to psychopathology can offer new insights for different schools of therapy and provide a rationale for therapeutic integration. Genes on the Couch brings together respected clinicians who have integrated evolutionary insights into their case conceptualisations and therapeutic interventions. Various psychotherapy schools are represented, and each author provides illustrative examples of the interventions used. Specific topics addressed include the nature of evolved mental mechanisms; regulation/dysregulation of internal processes; attachment and kinship in therapy; the importance of internalising warmth as a therapeutic goal; kin selection and incest avoidance; co-operation and deception in social relations; difficulties in working with certain male clients; gender differences in therapy and the roles of shame and guilt in treatment. Providing up-to-date summaries of recent thinking in this increasing important but diverse area, Genes on the Couch will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychiatrists and a wide range of mental health professionals.
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Philosophers and therapists have long theorised about how psychological mechanisms for love, jealousy, anxiety, depression and many other human characteristics may have evolved over millions of years. In the dawn of the new insights on evolution, provided by Darwin's theories of natural selection, Freud, Jung and Klein sought to identify and understand human motives, emotions and information processing as functions deeply-rooted in our evolved history. Despite this promising start and major developments in modern evolutionary psychology, anthropology and sociobiology, the last fifty years has seen little in the way of therapies derived from an evolutionary understanding of human psychology. The contributors to this timely book illuminate how an evolution focused approach to psychopathology can offer new insights for different schools of therapy and provide a rationale for therapeutic integration. Genes on the Couch brings together respected clinicians who have integrated evolutionary insights into their case conceptualisations and therapeutic interventions. Various psychotherapy schools are represented, and each author provides illustrative examples of the interventions used. Specific topics addressed include the nature of evolved mental mechanisms; regulation/dysregulation of internal processes; attachment and kinship in therapy; the importance of internalising warmth as a therapeutic goal; kin selection and incest avoidance; co-operation and deception in social relations; difficulties in working with certain male clients; gender differences in therapy and the roles of shame and guilt in treatment. Providing up-to-date summaries of recent thinking in this increasing important but diverse area, Genes on the Couch will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychiatrists and a wide range of mental health professionals.
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This is the classic practical introduction to the broad principles
of building management. It is suitable for both students and
practising construction professionals who are concerned with
greater efficiency within the construction industry. As a general
textbook for the student, the introduction covers the entire field
in some depth providing a firm foundation for additional reading.
The text is closely geared to the chartered Institute of Building
(Member) Parts I and II examinations. The book includes examples
based upon and related to working experience. It will also be found
valuable by students reading for the examinations of other
professional bodies in the construction industry, and by HNC/D
students.
This is the classic practical introduction to the broad principles
of building management. It is suitable for both students and
practising construction professionals who are concerned with
greater efficiency within the construction industry. As a general
textbook for the student, the introduction covers the entire field
in some depth providing a firm foundation for additional reading.
The text is closely geared to the chartered Institute of Building
(Member) Parts I and II examinations. The book includes examples
based upon and related to working experience. It will also be found
valuable by students reading for the examinations of other
professional bodies in the construction industry, and by HNC/D
students.
Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World's
ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in
Bailey's Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed.
(Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the
major terrestrial and aquatic ecological zones of the Earth.
Bailey's system for classifying these zones has been adopted by
major organizations such as the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature
Conservancy and this book is a significant contribution to a long
tradition of classifying and studying the world's ecological
regions or ecoregions. It includes two color maps that show the
major ecoregions of the continents and oceans. Also included are: -
106 illustrations with 55 in full color - A new chapter on
mountains is included. - There are new sections that address
concerns about how eco regions are changing under the relentless
influence of humans and climate change - Another new feature is the
discussion of using eco regional patterns to transfer research
results and select sites for detecting climate change effects on
ecosystem distribution - Use of ecoregional patterns to design
monitoring networks and sustainable landscapes - Fire regimes in
different regional ecosystems and their management implications.
This book completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996) and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale ecological zones to encompass principles of land management, regional planning, and design. In an engaging, non-technical discussion, he shows how larger patterns and processes that characterize a region-its climate, topography, soils, vegetation, fauna, and human culture-provide essential keys to the sustainability of ecosystems. Regional Landscape Ecology and Sustainable Design will be welcomed by land and resource managers, landscape architects and urban planners, ecologists, students, and anyone interested in ecology-based design. Robert G. Bailey is a geographer with the United States Forest Service in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Quaternary Paleoenvironments examines the drowned landscapes
exposed as extensive and attractive territory for prehistoric human
settlement during the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels
dropped to 120m-135m below their current levels. This volume
provides an overview of the geological, geomorphological, climatic
and sea-level history of the European continental shelf as a whole,
as well as a series of detailed regional reviews for each of the
major sea basins. The nature and variable attractions of the
landscapes and resources available for human exploitation are
examined, as are the conditions under which archaeological sites
and landscape features are likely to have been preserved, destroyed
or buried by sediment during sea-level rise. The authors also
discuss the extent to which we can predict where to look for
drowned landscapes with the greatest chance of success, with
frequent reference to examples of preserved prehistoric sites in
different submerged environments. Quaternary Paleoenvironments will
be of interest to archaeologists, geologists, marine scientists,
palaeoanthropologists, cultural heritage managers, geographers, and
all those with an interest in the drowned landscapes of the
continental shelf.
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Her Wolves (Hardcover)
G. Bailey
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R857
R727
Discovery Miles 7 270
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The Lost Runes
G. Bailey
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R816
Discovery Miles 8 160
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This richly illustrated volume completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996) and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale ecological zones to encompass principles of land management, regional planning, and design. In an engaging, nontechnical discussion, he shows how larger patterns and processes that characterize a region--its climate, topography, soils, vegetation, fauna, and human culture--provide essential keys to the sustainability of ecosystems. Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability will be welcomed by land and resource managers, landscape architects and urban planners, ecologists, students, and anyone interested in ecology-based design. "Bob Bailey [is] the man behind the ecosystem mapping of the world." -Lingua Franca Reviews of Ecoregions: "The book provides easy access to the geographic distribution, characteristics, and processes operating behind every major ecosystem in the world." -Geoscience Canada "Ecoregions offers an invaluable source of description, interpretation and analysis of global patterns of ecosystem distribution and successfully provides the reader with a means of making sense of these patterns." -Geography Robert G. Bailey is a geographer with the United States Forest Service in Fort Collins, Colorado. Formerly the leader of the agency's Ecosystem Management Analysis Center, he is currently in charge of ecoregion studies at the Inventory and Monitoring Institute.
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Them Feltwell Boys
David G. Bailey
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R843
Discovery Miles 8 430
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"If women are so much trouble, Ray, why do you always want more
than one?" Parallel narratives of a schoolboy’s developing first
love affair and his career and marriage unravelling 25 years later
eventually converge at a school reunion. Ray Roden is a Fenland
schoolboy in trouble with teachers and friends as well as women
after his boys’ grammar merges with the girls’ high. He has
already met Tina: that girl would give me some of the best moments
of my life. And the worst. Ray Roden is an insurance executive
travelling the Caribbean in trouble with his job, his wife (one of
them Roper girls), his children – and still women: "this last ten
days I’ve been kicked out of their beds by my wife, my girlfriend
and a … another one." And then there is Hurricane Martin,
‘storm of the century’, heading straight for his home in Puerto
Rico. Alongside humorous scenes in Ray’s unenlightened
development from schoolboy clumsiness to mid-life crisis
mismanagement are grimmer adult ones including adultery, alcohol
abuse, physical and sexual assault. Will he emerge from his school
reunion with more than one, one, ‘the one’ or no woman at all?
Visit www.davidgbailey.com and author Facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B
They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even
four aces don't make a winning hand. In an unsettled household in
the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked
childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse,
physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own
children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to see if
all the siblings make it safely to shore. Angela: Whatever rumours
you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen
wasn't his. Janet: She had promised that on her sixteenth birthday
she would finally let him go all the way. Lucy: I think Jan was
away at a Guides' camp when I got run over. Karen: Don't think I'll
be rambling on like Ange ... I wouldn't want to leave you only her
version, talk about unreliable memoirs. Visit www.davidgbailey.com
and author facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B
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