Download or read book Grayspace written by Carmen Vera and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s the black, and there’s the white in our lives. Black and white represents routine. It represents a definitive answer. It represents predictability. It’s what people are most comfortable with. More times than not life is a not lived in the black and white. Most of the time it’s a combination of both—the gray. People are uncomfortable with gray. That represents the unknown. It can bring fear. It prevents us from taking that leap thinking they will fall and fail. They don’t like it. The gray can be scary. Through trial and error, thirteen bullet points have been created to be able to overcome any doubt. Easy. Simple. Fun. This is a personal guide to be able to live your own life of happiness—in the gray.

Download or read book A Light in the Gray Space written by Sharae Myers Morrison and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is no one waiting for you at the end of your day or no one to turn to when you are troubled, if you have committed sins against God or crimes against society and feel you are unforgivable or unlovable, you should know that you can be forgiven, you are loved, and you are not alone! You have the most faithful and enduring friend in this world. His name is Jesus Christ. He has known you since before you were born and has never lost sight of you. He accepts you just as you are, and he will give you new hope.

Download or read book The Fortunate Fall written by Cameron Reed and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. On its first publication in 1996, The Fortunate Fall was hailed as an SF novel of a wired future on par with the debuts of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Now it returns to print, as one of the great underground classics of the last several decades in SF. Maya Andreyeva is a "camera," a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world...and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal - of your lover, your ideals, and yourself. This new Tor Essentials edition of The Fortunate Fall includes a new introduction by Jo Walton, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Lancer TTRPG Core Rulebook written by Tom Bloom and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mud-and-Lasers Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Modular Mechs and the Pilots that crew them. Created in partnership with Massif Press, Dark Horse Books presents LANCER. 15,000 years into the future, humanity has survived near collapse and since expanded ever wider into the frontiers of space, organized by UNION, the central hegemon of the populated galaxy. At Union’s heart, the dream of human utopia has been realized; but Lancer is set at the trembling edges of the expansion where resistance to the ideals of the utopia grow. As a lancer, you pilot a mech as unique as yourself. You are, by training, luck, circumstance, or work, one of the best. In this era near the golden age, you have one question to answer above all: who do you fight for? Lancer features a deep, story-rich setting for players to engage with. Every choice they make, every ordnance they mount, every weapon they wield — all of it has lore attached, just waiting for a story to develop.

Download or read book Cybersecurity Policies and Strategies for Cyberwarfare Prevention written by Richet, Jean-Loup and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybersecurity has become a topic of concern over the past decade as private industry, public administration, commerce, and communication have gained a greater online presence. As many individual and organizational activities continue to evolve in the digital sphere, new vulnerabilities arise. Cybersecurity Policies and Strategies for Cyberwarfare Prevention serves as an integral publication on the latest legal and defensive measures being implemented to protect individuals, as well as organizations, from cyber threats. Examining online criminal networks and threats in both the public and private spheres, this book is a necessary addition to the reference collections of IT specialists, administrators, business managers, researchers, and students interested in uncovering new ways to thwart cyber breaches and protect sensitive digital information.

Download or read book The Practitioner s Guide to POLCA written by Rajan Suri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream, while at the same time preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly. POLCA is particularly suited to companies manufacturing high-mix, low-volume and customized products. Such companies struggle with long lead times, late deliveries, and daily expediting to meet delivery dates. ERP systems are not designed to deal with this highly variable environment, and add-on software such as Finite Capacity Scheduling systems can require complex installation. Also, the Kanban system does not work well with low-volume or custom production. POLCA has delivered impressive results in such environments. It does not require any complex software implementation: it can be used without an ERP system or it can seamlessly complement an existing ERP system. This book: Provides a step-by-step roadmap on how to implement POLCA; invaluable for both companies that wish to implement POLCA as well as consultants and academics advising such companies. Explains the concepts in practical and easy-to-understand terms by showing detailed shop-floor examples. Includes more than 100 illustrations for understanding how POLCA works as well as for elaborating on details of the implementation steps. Contains case studies written by company owners and executives documenting their POLCA implementation process and the results achieved in various industries in six countries.

Download or read book AI Methods and Applications in 3D Technologies written by Roumen Kountchev (Deceased) and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Designing and Developing Robust Instructional Apps written by Kenneth J. Luterbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing and Developing Robust Instructional Apps advances the state of instructional app development using three learning paradigms for building knowledge foundations, problem-solving, and experimentation. Drawing on research and development lessons gleaned from noted educational technologists, time-tested systematic instructional design processes, and results from user experience design, the book considers the planning and specification of instructional apps that blend media (text, images, sound, and moving pictures) and instructional method. Further, for readers with little to no programming experience, introductory treatments of JavaScript and Python, along with data fundamentals and machine learning techniques, offer a guided journey that produces robust instructional apps and concludes with next steps for advancing the state of instructional app development.

Download or read book Engineering Words written by Sharon Burton and published by XML Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill. Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and teachers of a popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world. This book covers everything from the basics of clear writing to résumés to cover letters to requirements documents to presentations and much more. Engineering Words can be used as a textbook for classes that train engineers to be effective communicators. It can also serve as a self-study text that even experienced engineers will find useful for improving their communication skills.

Download or read book iOS Core Animation written by Nick Lockwood and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Core Animation is the technology underlying Apple’s iOS user interface. By unleashing the full power of Core Animation, you can enhance your app with impressive 2D and 3D visual effects and create exciting and unique new interfaces. ¿ In this in-depth guide, iOS developer Nick Lockwood takes you step-by-step through the Core Animation framework, building up your understanding through sample code and diagrams together with comprehensive explanations and helpful tips. Lockwood demystifies the Core Animation APIs, and teaches you how to make use of Layers and views, software drawing and hardware compositing Layer geometry, hit testing and clipping Layer effects, transforms and 3D interfaces Video playback, text, tiled images, OpenGL, particles and reflections Implicit and explicit animations Property animations, keyframes and transitions Easing, frame-by-frame animation and physics Performance tuning and much, much more! Approximately 356 pages. www.informit.com/aw

Download or read book Machina Obscura written by Carol E. Meacham and published by Mushroom Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machina Obscura follows Xyl, a twenty-year-old NetRunner, as she is released from prison by a Federal agent who has apparently set her free to carry out a simple run on a biotechnology company. As the caper unfolds, Xyl finds more questions than answers, and along the way picks up an enigmatic partner named Gracie. The two find themselves working together without truly trusting each other, following the trail of clues to the destroyed netspace of a misguided programmer, another NetRunner who had been hired by the same Federal agent that sprung Xyl out of prison. Only Xyl's NetRunning expertise and sacrifice can stop the programmer's Artificial Intelligences from carrying out a misguided plan to monitor and track all criminal activities in NetSpace.

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Download or read book Java 2D Graphics written by Jonathan Knudsen and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource describes every aspect of 2D API, from setting line styles and pattern fills to creating and manipulating three types of graphic objects--shapes, texts, and images, and covers such topics as image data storage, color management, and more. Original. (Intermediate).

Download or read book The Monetary Value of Time written by Joyce I. Warnacut and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power of time. This book addresses this need. The Monetary Value of Time: Why Traditional Accounting Systems Make Customers Wait presents a framework for assessing the value of time in terms of organizational strategy and competitive advantage. The framework presented will enable organizations to develop consistent measures and ensure that their cost accounting system isn’t motivating behaviors that add to lead time and make customers wait. The framework outlined in this book is relevant to the managerial and cost accounting practices in today’s manufacturing environment, which is increasingly moving away from mass production to custom manufacturing. The framework is supported by high-level metrics, which are reinforced by operational metrics. This is supported by accounting data that recognize the value of time. Pricing models that incorporate the concept of time are presented. The book provides many examples of how the use of standard costing and traditional accounting practices in a high-mix/low-volume production environment can produce contradictory or even inaccurate results that form the basis for poor decisions that may actually move your organization farther from its objectives. The book arms readers with options for overcoming traditional barriers by applying direct costs at an item level, while applying overheads at a macro or value stream level. For example, while GAAP requires overhead application for inventory valuation, a common misconception is that overhead must be applied at an item level. In fact, overhead can be absorbed by one journal entry. Demonstrating the linkages between time-based accounting data and meaningful business metrics that drive bottom line results, the book presents methods and metrics that have been successfully applied by the author in manufacturing environments.

Download or read book White Space Communication written by Amit Kumar Mishra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio platforms, geo-location spectrum databases and current white space spectrum usage in India and South Africa.

Download or read book Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods written by Ana Fred and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions and describe up-to-date applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods.

Download or read book When Rambo Meets the Red Cross written by Stanislava P. Mladenova and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-governmental organizations and militaries are notorious for their difficult relationship. The military is mostly understood through the prism of its lethality, and NGOs are perceived as idealistic do-gooders, ready to save the world. Stanislava P. Mladenova traces the changing character of interaction between both of these entities. She argues that the boundaries which once separated their functions are fading. Fragile, ungoverned, and insecure spaces need both of what these actors can provide. As a result, they have drawn closer together, and have everything at their disposal for a collaborative, efficient, and productive civil-military partnership, which is contrary to what many observers and leaders in the conflict and development space have long believed. Mladenova makes a convincing case that it is high time both sets of actors put aside their differences, bringing to light a fast-changing landscape of vicious poverty, insecurity, and climate change, where the conventional way of doing business will become the exception, not the rule.