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In a society hostile to diversity, can mermaid princess Mio be true
to herself? In the classic fairy tale, a mermaid princess gives up
her special abilities for love. What happens if she doesn’t?
Princess Mio is betrothed to Prince Chika. They’ve never met,
however, and he doesn’t know her secret—she’s a mermaid! When
her tutor Yuri takes her out of the castle to meet her subjects,
Mio begins to accept her true self. But Yuri has a secret too...
And when Mio tells her father the king she wants to live life
openly as a mermaid, he punishes her. How can she live her truth?
Plus, a bonus story about a royal subject with wings!
Crocheted sisters Amelie and Mako and are ready for anything--a day
at the beach, a birthday bash, a visit to the library--and their
outfits are, too! In this book, popular Japanese amigurumi designer
Miya takes you step-by-step through the doll-making process,
showing you how to create two charming doll companions, their teddy
bear pal Marron, and 63 miniature wardrobe additions--ranging from
warm winter coats to delicate ballet slippers. Clear instructions
provide a pattern for each clothing item and accessory. A basic
guide to the crochet stitches used in the book is included as a
refresher to the symbols and stitch execution. Projects are given
in both graphs and charts, as well as pictorial instructions.
Mix-and-match doll clothing and accessories, including: Cozy,
cold-weather wear for looking great on chilly days Chic pants,
tops, berets, or straw hats for a market-day-in-Paris vibe Charming
little tops, like a colorful ruffled tunic--great for a day at the
beach Clothes for ballet, cheerleading, and dress-up (be a flight
attendant--or dance a hula!) Tote bags, evening bags, and shoulder
bags--you can never have too many! And much more! But you don't
have to stop here! Handmade toys open up a whole new world for
creativity. With this book as a guide, you can create crochet dolls
whose colors and features celebrate diversity or design wardrobes
based on specific interests. With the inspiration provided in this
book, you can do it all. Let it be your springboard to fostering
many hours of gentle, creative--and fashion-forward--playtime.
HE'S GOT TIME TO CHILL! With his friend Ghozal in danger, Flio
calls upon the forbidden time-manipulation magic he once used to
save Rys. Even as a voice of warning calls out to him from the
Celestial Plane, Flio makes the perhaps fatal decision to protect
the peace he's built for his friends. But it's not all gloom and
doom for Flio and Rys! At last, their mercantile dreams come true
as the store opens for business—offering service with a smile to
all, even as the conflict between humanity and demonkind grows ever
more bitter. Could Flio's new store be the starting grounds for
reconciliation? Will his extraordinary powers finally bring him the
ordinary life he craves?
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This book presents a guideline for EWMA filter design for
industrial wireless networked control system, both theoretically
and practically. The filter's key advantages are simple, effective,
low computational overhead. This book also provides a guideline for
practical implementation of EWMA filter for improving networked
control performance of various process plants. It further discusses
not only the advantages of the filter, but also the limitations and
how to avoid them when implementing the filter from practical point
of view.
Turn the page on six years of insights and secrets So many things
have happened since Urano began a new life as Myne. At first she
was a simple commoner, then became an apprentice shrine maiden, and
was ultimately thrown into the world of nobility as Rozemyne, the
adopted daughter of an archduke! But... what about everyone else?
This short story collection is packed with previously unpublished
chapters from a plethora of unique perspectives taking place during
Parts 1 through 4. Explore the lower city, the orphanage, the
temple, the Royal Academy, and many other locations further afield
than ever before. What do those in Myne’s (or Rozemyne’s)
circle think about her actions? And what’s happening in the
places that she can’t see? Find out in this collection of
twenty-one tales, including behind-the-scenes notes from author
Miya Kazuki and even more four-panel manga by You Shiina!
The conclusion of Part 4 comes with an emotional farewell... On the
surface, Rozemyne seems busy studying for her next year at the
Royal Academy and working toward the installation of the new High
Priest... but beneath all that is a heart swirling in turmoil. A
decree from the king himself requires Ferdinand to leave Ehrenfest,
and as their final days together draw near, Rozemyne must face
losing her greatest pillar of support since she first entered the
temple. She treats him and their retainers to a meal as a parting
gift. However, dark clouds loom overhead, and an unexpected
incident threatens to separate the pair even sooner than
expected... Can Rozemyne fight back the tears as she utters a
prayer for Ferdinand, blessing him one last time? Here concludes
Part 4, along with a collection of short stories, a prelude to Part
5, and You Shiina’s classic four-panel manga!
As an extension of the beloved New York Times column Modern Love,
Tiny Love Stories - Modern Love in miniature, featuring
reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words - was launched
in 2018. Every week, five stories are published online, and one
story is included in the print edition of the Sunday Styles section
of the New York Times. Tiny Love Stories, the book, will feature a
curated collection of 175 of these moving, inspirational,
uplifting, heartwarming, and heartbreaking love stories, handpicked
by the editors of the column from the thousands of submissions they
receive. From the loss of a parent and the end of a marriage to
hopeful first dates and self-love, stories of all kinds of
relationships fill the pages of this beautifully illustrated book.
A frigid winter melts away to reveal spring celebrations Rozemyne
is given a harsh choice to make upon her return to Ehrenfest. The
Leisegangs are now the dominant power after the winter purge, and
their plans are sowing the seeds of distrust within the archducal
family. Even so, Rozemyne forges ahead, and her unique way of life
gradually inspires change around her. As spring approaches, so does
the celebratory feast. The preparations include a long-overdue
meeting with lower-city merchants, divine protections rituals,
furthering the education of the next High Bishop, and a magnificent
tale told at the closed country gate. Can the archducal family
break tradition and heal the divide between factions? Watch
Ehrenfest’s ambitious younger generation unite in this volume of
this biblio-fantasy! Also includes two short stories and four-panel
manga by You Shiina.
This book presents a guideline for EWMA filter design for
industrial wireless networked control system, both theoretically
and practically. The filter's key advantages are simple, effective,
low computational overhead. This book also provides a guideline for
practical implementation of EWMA filter for improving networked
control performance of various process plants. It further discusses
not only the advantages of the filter, but also the limitations and
how to avoid them when implementing the filter from practical point
of view.
Amazon - one of the world's most valuable companies - is worth more
than Walmart, Netflix, Target, Nike and Costco combined. What are
the secrets to its success? How can these insights be applied to
other businesses in the e-commerce sector? The retail industry is
facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets,
retailers are shifting their business models and customer
engagement strategies to ensure they survive. Amazon offers unique
insight into the company's persistent dissatisfaction with the
status quo and innovation and how it has fundamentally changed the
ways in which we shop. This fully updated second edition explores
Amazon's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the convergence of
physical and digital retail, e-commerce economics and
sustainability, as well as future policy implications. Written by
industry-leading retail analysts and with the first edition now
translated into more than a dozen languages, Amazon is an
invaluable resource for discovering the lessons that can be learned
from the company's unprecedented rise to dominance.
Faint hopes of peace and quiet...but not for long! After
fainting at a tea party for bookworms, Rozemyne is forced to return
to Ehrenfest. She reunites with her lower-city associates and
settles in for some long-awaited reading time in the temple... but
as peaceful as these cold winter days may seem, a revelation in the
bible means they might be numbered! Rozemyne’s second year at the
Royal Academy draws to a close with interrogations, investigations,
and a resolute apprentice. She also attends the Interduchy
Tournament for the first time, but a grave development causes more
trouble than anyone could have expected! Can she and Ferdinand
survive the chaos that emerges so soon before the graduation
ceremony? Tensions between duchies are high in the newest volume of
this megahit biblio-fantasy! Also includes two romance tales from
graduated students and a four-panel manga by You Shiina!
Amazon - one of the world's most valuable companies - is worth more
than Walmart, Netflix, Target, Nike and Costco combined. What are
the secrets to its success? How can these insights be applied to
other businesses in the e-commerce sector? The retail industry is
facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets,
retailers are shifting their business models and customer
engagement strategies to ensure they survive. Amazon offers unique
insight into the company's persistent dissatisfaction with the
status quo and innovation and how it has fundamentally changed the
ways in which we shop. This fully updated second edition explores
Amazon's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the convergence of
physical and digital retail, e-commerce economics and
sustainability, as well as future policy implications. Written by
industry-leading retail analysts and with the first edition now
translated into more than a dozen languages, Amazon is an
invaluable resource for discovering the lessons that can be learned
from the company's unprecedented rise to dominance.
As the library falls quiet once again after the graduation
ceremony, Solange reflects on the eventful term that just ended and
the many special memories she made along the way. This new side
series includes tales from Rozemyne’s time at the Royal Academy
through different sets of eyes! Read events from the perspectives
of the first-year archduke candidates Wilfried, Hannelore, and
Ortwin, as well as Rozemyne’s retainers, other Ehrenfest
students, and even some of the dormitory’s supervisors. Delve
back into Rozemyne’s first year with this collection of eighteen
short stories of previously untold events, as well as a four-panel
manga by You Shiina!
In the midst of an approaching winter, Rozemyne the High Bishop is
traveling between the temple and castle more than ever,
participating in noble society, the baptism ceremony, and the
Dedication Ritual. With her hands full teaching kids too young for
the Royal Academy and even tutoring guard knights with bad grades,
she's incomparably busier than last year.Her influence in both
noble society and the temple is increasing steadily, and her squad
of Gutenbergs work on improving the printing press while she sells
picture books in the castle. Her love for books keeps growing, and
the mana within her is likewise becoming progressively stronger!
She must hunt the Lord of Winter with the Knight's Order, then
gather ingredients for her jureve potion during Spring Prayer. This
is another action-packed volume of this biblio-fantasy, where the
Saint of Ehrenfest overcomes a winter of mysticism and battle!
Including two lengthy short stories and a four-panel manga drawn by
You Shiina!
Recent advances in wireless technology have led to the emergence of
industry standards such as WirelessHART. These strategies minimise
the need for cumbersome cabling, thereby reducing costs. However,
applying them involves the challenge of handling stochastic network
delays, which can degrade control performance. To address this
problem, commonly used simple PID could be employed. However, PID
suffers from gain range limitations when used in a delayed
environment. Furthermore, model-based controllers are complex and
require exact models of the process and systematic system
identification for implementation. Therefore, to address these
issues, the book proposes control strategies that retain the
simplicity of PID in terms of ease of tuning and structure, while
improving on the performance of the closed-loop system with regard
to stochastic network delays and mismatches. Concretely, it
proposes and discusses three strategies, namely: Setpoint Weighting
(SW), Filtered Predictive PI (FPPI) and Optimal Fuzzy PID. In order
to optimise some of these controllers, two novel hybrid
optimisation algorithms combining the dynamism of the Bacterial
Foraging Algorithm (BFA) and advantages of both the Spiral Dynamic
Algorithm (SDA) and the Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimisation
(APSO) have been used. The strategies proposed here can also be
applied in stochastic control scenarios (not necessarily wireless)
characterised by uncertainties. This book will be useful to
engineers and researchers in both industry and academia. In
industry, it will be particularly useful to research and
development efforts where PID controllers and wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) involving both short and long term stochastic
network delay are employed. Thus, it can be used for real-time
control design in these areas. In the academic setting, the book
will be useful for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students
of instrumentation and control. It can also be used as reference
material for teaching courses on predictive and adaptive controls
and their application.
This book presents a detailed study on fractional-order, set-point,
weighted PID control strategies and the development of
curve-fitting-based approximation techniques for fractional-order
parameters. Furthermore, in all the cases, it includes the
Scilab-based commands and functions for easy implementation and
better understanding, and to appeal to a wide range of readers
working with the software. The presented Scilab-based toolbox is
the first toolbox for fractional-order systems developed in
open-source software. The toolboxes allow time and frequency
domains as well as stability analysis of the fractional-order
systems and controllers. The book also provides real-time examples
of the control of process plants using the developed
fractional-order based PID control strategies and the approximation
techniques. The book is of interest to readers in the areas of
fractional-order controllers, approximation techniques, process
modeling, control, and optimization, both in industry and academia.
In industry, the book is particularly valuable in the areas of
research and development (R&D) as well as areas where PID
controllers suffice - and it should be noted that around 80% of
low-level controllers in industry are PID based. The book is also
useful where conventional PIDs are constrained, such as in
industries where long-term delay and non-linearity are present.
Here it can be used for the design of controllers for real-time
processes. The book is also a valuable teaching and learning
resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Recent advances in wireless technology have led to the emergence of
industry standards such as WirelessHART. These strategies minimise
the need for cumbersome cabling, thereby reducing costs. However,
applying them involves the challenge of handling stochastic network
delays, which can degrade control performance. To address this
problem, commonly used simple PID could be employed. However, PID
suffers from gain range limitations when used in a delayed
environment. Furthermore, model-based controllers are complex and
require exact models of the process and systematic system
identification for implementation. Therefore, to address these
issues, the book proposes control strategies that retain the
simplicity of PID in terms of ease of tuning and structure, while
improving on the performance of the closed-loop system with regard
to stochastic network delays and mismatches. Concretely, it
proposes and discusses three strategies, namely: Setpoint Weighting
(SW), Filtered Predictive PI (FPPI) and Optimal Fuzzy PID. In order
to optimise some of these controllers, two novel hybrid
optimisation algorithms combining the dynamism of the Bacterial
Foraging Algorithm (BFA) and advantages of both the Spiral Dynamic
Algorithm (SDA) and the Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimisation
(APSO) have been used. The strategies proposed here can also be
applied in stochastic control scenarios (not necessarily wireless)
characterised by uncertainties. This book will be useful to
engineers and researchers in both industry and academia. In
industry, it will be particularly useful to research and
development efforts where PID controllers and wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) involving both short and long term stochastic
network delay are employed. Thus, it can be used for real-time
control design in these areas. In the academic setting, the book
will be useful for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students
of instrumentation and control. It can also be used as reference
material for teaching courses on predictive and adaptive controls
and their application.
This book presents a detailed study on fractional-order, set-point,
weighted PID control strategies and the development of
curve-fitting-based approximation techniques for fractional-order
parameters. Furthermore, in all the cases, it includes the
Scilab-based commands and functions for easy implementation and
better understanding, and to appeal to a wide range of readers
working with the software. The presented Scilab-based toolbox is
the first toolbox for fractional-order systems developed in
open-source software. The toolboxes allow time and frequency
domains as well as stability analysis of the fractional-order
systems and controllers. The book also provides real-time examples
of the control of process plants using the developed
fractional-order based PID control strategies and the approximation
techniques. The book is of interest to readers in the areas of
fractional-order controllers, approximation techniques, process
modeling, control, and optimization, both in industry and academia.
In industry, the book is particularly valuable in the areas of
research and development (R&D) as well as areas where PID
controllers suffice - and it should be noted that around 80% of
low-level controllers in industry are PID based. The book is also
useful where conventional PIDs are constrained, such as in
industries where long-term delay and non-linearity are present.
Here it can be used for the design of controllers for real-time
processes. The book is also a valuable teaching and learning
resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Set in a world inspired by pre-Shogun era Japan, this is a stunning
debut fantasy in the vein of Grace Lin about how a young pearl
diver goes to the ends of the earth to rescue her twin sister, who
has been stolen by a ghost whale. Kai and Kishi share the same
futon, the same face, and the same talent for pearl diving. But
Kishi is the obedient daughter, while Kai tries to push the rules,
and sometimes they fight. Still, when Kishi is stolen and killed by
the legendary Ghost Whale, nothing will stop Kai from searching for
her, deep in the ocean, hoping for a way to bring her back to life.
But such a rescue is beyond the power of an ordinary mortal. Kai
strikes a deal with the gods: she'll steal a magic pearl in
exchange for her sister's soul. As she journeys across treacherous
land scape, Kai must navigate encounters with scheming bandits, a
power-hungry war lord, and a legion of conniving fox spirits. And
when a new friendship becomes something almost as powerful as her
love for her sister, Kai must make impossible choices and risk
everything just to get home again. Woven through with Japanese
culture and legends, this many-layered story will grip readers of
all ages.
Divine rituals and a ditter rematch! As snow falls around
Ahrensbach’s castle, Ferdinand, soon to be married to the
duchy’s next archduchess, receives a concerning letter. Not only
has Rozemyne been summoned by the royal family once again, but she
is also being taken to the underground archive hidden beneath the
Royal Academy’s library. Even in her third year at the school,
she’s proving to be a constant source of headaches—and she
doesn’t help matters when she pulls an unexpected figure into her
joint research! The stakes are then raised again when Lestilaut
makes a surprising suggestion, leading her to participate in a
bride-taking ditter match with Leidenschaft’s spear at her side.
Can Rozemyne defend her own hand in marriage in this installment of
this biblio-fantasy? Also includes two new short stories and
four-panel manga by You Shiina!
Myne is determined to protect those she cares about most, so she
abandons the life she knows to become Rozemyne, the archduke’s
mana-rich adopted daughter. She charges forward into this strange
new world, not letting her new persona change her passion for
books! Watch as the setting of this biblio-fantasy by book lovers,
for book lovers continues to expand... along with the book-making
industry!
Buried secrets come to light as we near the end of Part 4 of this
biblio-fantasy! Rozemyne returns to Ehrenfest once more after her
second term at the Royal Academy. Her days unfold peacefully as she
meets her new little brother, searches for a younger retainer,
tries her hand at cooking fish, and delves into her grandfather’s
past... yet she can’t help but notice that Ferdinand is acting
strangely. The mention of Adalgisa deepens the mystery, and as
Rozemyne ponders what it might mean, Ferdinand reveals a shocking
truth to her. The secrets surrounding his birth, his final promise
to his father, and a bitter choice... How will Ferdinand respond
when the very future of Ehrenfest rests on his shoulders? Find out
in this volume, along with two new short stories and four-panel
manga by You Shiina!
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