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Book Practical Guide to Affinity Designer

Download or read book Practical Guide to Affinity Designer written by Dawid Tuminski and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever wanted to learn a piece of design software, but at the end of the learning process you were left with a thought in your head, like "Ok, so what do I do now?", you might have just found a solution to that problem. Because this book will help you in learning Affinity Designer and having something to show for it at the end of the learning process.It was designed to be as practical as possible. Inside you will find●10 flat icon projects designed and created using solely Affinity Designer●The most important tools and options to get you started with the software as fast as possible●Tens of useful tricks and tips to speed up your design workflowAt the end of the book you will hopefully be able to use Affinity Designer absolutely independently. We won't be focusing on each and every little aspect about each and every tool in Designer. Instead, you will learn how to look at the tools, how they think and how to benefit from what they offer.

Book Up and Running with Affinity Designer

Download or read book Up and Running with Affinity Designer written by Kevin House and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add Affinity Designer to your creative skillset while creating innovative designs and illustrations, building a solid foundation for your future Key Features Understand Affinity Designer's interface and setup, discover its capabilities, and develop an efficient workflow Harness the power of an easy and flexible vector and pixel workflow in one application Learn practical skills and gain the confidence to power your own creative projects Book DescriptionAffinity Designer is a widely adopted creative application, and in a reasonably short space of time, it has become a leading design and illustration application. Affinity Designer, along with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, is part of a suite of award-winning creative software applications developed by Serif Europe. Built on the latest technologies, which make it fast and smooth, Affinity Designer is quickly becoming the go-to professional creative application for vector drawing and pixel-based painting. Up and Running with Affinity Designer is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Affinity Designer software. Whether you're new to the creative industry, a seasoned professional looking for a proven alternative, or an enthusiastic hobbyist, this book will help you get up to speed in no time. You’ll learn how to create documents and explore workflow best practices while working through practical exercises using the knowledge and skills developed in each chapter to solidify your understanding of the fundamentals. Finally, you’ll bring it all together with real-world practical applications by building a fun logo and professional illustration, forming a base for in-depth exploration in your own projects. By the end of this Affinity Designer book, you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence to use Affinity Designer as part of your creative toolset.What you will learn Explore the interface and unique UX characteristics of Affinity Designer Discover features that allow you to manipulate and transform objects Apply color, shading, and effects to create unique compositions Employ layers to organize and simplify complex projects Use grids, guides, and snapping features as design aids Adapt to Affinity Designer s custom workspaces and keyboard shortcuts Explore the workflow and design best practices for more predictable and successful outcomes Identify potential stumbling blocks in your design process and learn how to avoid them Who this book is forThis Affinity Designer book is for graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and hobbyists. Anyone curious about Affinity Designer's unique toolset and vector and pixel workflows or looking for cost-effective alternatives to the Adobe suite will find this book useful. Experience in working with other similar tools will be helpful, but not necessary.

Book Affinity Designer Handbook  First 10 Skills

Download or read book Affinity Designer Handbook First 10 Skills written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are pleased to bring this Black & White Edition to you. The purpose of this edition is very simple. By not using color images, the production cost and sales cost are significantly lower. All images are of top quality.All lessons have been done in simple to follow steps with high quality screenshots to visually guide you on your path of self-learning. The Affinity Designer for desktop / mac is an amazing vector graphics editor software. This workbook will guide you in a step-by-step manner teaching you the first 10 skills all new users need to know how to use. We hope you enjoy this practical guide to getting a great start with Affinity Designer.Overview*Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. It is part of the "Affinity trinity" alongside Affinity Photo and the yet-to-be-released Affinity Publisher.Affinity Designer has been described as an Adobe Illustrator alternative. It is compatible with common file formats, including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Portable Document Format (PDF) and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) formats. The application can also import data from some Adobe FreeHand files.Affinity Designer's core functions include vector pen and shape-drawing tools, support for custom vector and raster brushes (including the ability to import Adobe Photoshop (ABR) brushes) dynamic symbols, stroke stabilization, text style management, and vector / pixel export options.Affinity Designer provides non-destructive editing features across unlimited layers, with pan and zoom at 60 fps, and real-time views for effects and transformations. It supports RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK, and Grayscale color models, along with Pantone color swatches and an end-to-end CMYK workflow with ICC color management, and 16-bit per channel editing.Please check out our other titles: Affinity Photo Beginners Guide (for Desktop): First 10 SkillsAffinity Photo Singles for Desktop: Paint Splatter EffectAffinity Photo for iPad: First 10 SkillsAffinity Designer Singles for Desktop: How to Create MandalasAffinity Designer Singles for Desktop: How to Create a Beautiful Floral DesignSoon to be in print:The Affinity Photo Book of Skills: 10 Techniques towards MasteryGIMP: First 10 SkillsAdobe Photoshop - First 10 Skills& many more Affinity Photo Singles every weekCopyright information:All images and content have been approved for us to use.Logos and depictions of the Serif Affinity Photo UI are copyright of Serif (Europe) Ltd., but are not endorsed or support by Serif Ltd. Secondly, we have been given permission to use data and images from Affinity Revolution.Noteable competitors:Adobe Photoshop Adobe Creative Suite Adobe InDesign Pixelmator Paint.net Adobe Lightroom Aviary Photo Editor PixlrAutodesk Paintshop Pro Photoshop Elements, Acorn 4, Gimp Aperture Photoshop Touch Snapseed BeFunky Fotor Fotoflexer, Ppicasa ACDSeee Pro 8 PicMonkey Pic Monkey SumoPaint Ribbet adobe photoshop elements 2018 adobe illustrator adobe acrobat *Source: Wikipedia.org

Book The Affinity Photo Manual

Download or read book The Affinity Photo Manual written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for beginner users of Affinity Photo software, presents newly revised and updated first 10 Affinity Photo skills beginners want to learn and 20 new step-by-step lessons on photograph editing techniques using the Affinity Photo software.

Book Affinity Designer Workbook

Download or read book Affinity Designer Workbook written by Affinity Team and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book User Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Marsh
  • Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
  • Release : 2018-03-03
  • ISBN : 0749481056
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book User Research written by Stephanie Marsh and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many businesses are based on creating desirable experiences, products and services for users. However in spite of this, companies often fail to consider the end user - the customer - in their planning and development processes. As a result, organizations find themselves spending huge sums of money creating products and services that, quite simply, don't work. User experience research, also known as UX research, focuses on understanding user behaviours, needs and motivations through a range of observational techniques, task analysis and other methodologies. User Research is a practical guide that shows readers how to use the vast array of user research methods available. Covering all the key research methods including face-to-face user testing, card sorting, surveys, A/B testing and many more, the book gives expert insight into the nuances, advantages and disadvantages of each, while also providing guidance on how to interpret, analyze and share the data once it has been obtained. Ultimately, User Research is about putting natural powers of observation and conversation to use in a specific way. The book isn't bogged down with small, specific, technical detail - rather, it explores the fundamentals of user research, which remain true regardless of the context in which they are applied. As such, the tools and frameworks given here can be used in any sector or industry, to improve any part of the customer journey and experience; whether that means improving software, websites, customer services, products, packaging or more.

Book A Practical Guide to Rational Drug Design

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Rational Drug Design written by Sun Hongmao and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not going to be an exhaustive survey covering all aspects of rational drug design. Instead, it is going to provide critical know-how through real-world examples. Relevant case studies will be presented and analyzed to illustrate the following: how to optimize a lead compound whether one has high or low levels of structural information; how to derive hits from competitors’ active compounds or from natural ligands of the targets; how to springboard from competitors’ SAR knowledge in lead optimization; how to design a ligand to interfere with protein-protein interactions by correctly examining the PPI interface; how to circumvent IP blockage using data mining; how to construct and fully utilize a knowledge-based molecular descriptor system; how to build a reliable QSAR model by focusing on data quality and proper selection of molecular descriptors and statistical approaches. A Practical Guide to Rational Drug Design focuses on computational drug design, with only basic coverage of biology and chemistry issues, such as assay design, target validation and synthetic routes. Discusses various tactics applicable to daily drug design Readers can download the materials used in the book, including structures, scripts, raw data, protocols, and codes, making this book suitable resource for short courses or workshops Offers a unique viewpoint on drug discovery research due to the author’s cross-discipline education background Explores the author’s rich experiences in both pharmaceutical and academic settings

Book Proteomics in Practice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reiner Westermeier
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-09-08
  • ISBN : 3527622306
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Proteomics in Practice written by Reiner Westermeier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the only concise practical guide to laboratory experiments in proteomics, this new edition now also covers DIGE technology and liquid-chromatography, while the troubleshooting section has been considerably extended. Adopting a practical approach, the authors present the relevant techniques and explain the route to successful experimental design and optimal method selection. They cover such electrophoretic techniques as isoelectric focusing, SDS page, 2-D page, and DIGE, as well as liquid-chromatography techniques, such as ion exchange, affinity chromatography and reversed-phase HPLC. Mass-spectrometric techniques include MALDI, ESI, and FT ICR. Generously illustrated, partly in color, the book also features updates of protocols as well as animations illustrating crucial methodological steps on a companion website.

Book Practical Guide to Experimental Design

Download or read book Practical Guide to Experimental Design written by Normand L. Frigon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-11-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, Design of Experiments (DOE) has become established as a prime analytical and forecasting method with a vital role to play in product and process improvement. Now Practical Guide to Experimental Design lets you put this high-level statistical technique to work in your field, whether you are in the manufacturing or services sector. This accessible book equips you with all of the basic technical and managerial skills you need to develop, execute, and evaluate designed experiments effectively. You will develop a solid grounding in the statistical underpinnings of DOE, including distributions, analysis of variance, and more. You will also gain a firm grasp of full and fractional factorial techniques, the use of DOE in fault isolation and failure analysis, and the application of individual DOE methods within an integrated system. Each procedure is clearly illustrated one step at a time with the help of simplified notation and easy-to-understand spreadsheets. The book's real-world approach is reinforced throughout by case studies, examples, and exercises taken from a broad cross section of business applications. Practical Guide to Experimental Design is a valuable competitive asset for engineers, scientists, and decision-makers in many industries, as well as an important resource for researchers and advanced students. This hands-on guide offers complete, down-to-earth coverage of Design of Experiments (DOE) basics, providing you with the technical and managerial tools you need to put this powerful technique into action to help you achieve your quality improvement objectives. Using a clear, step-by-step approach, Practical Guide to Experimental Design shows you how to develop, perform, and analyze designed experiments. The book features: * Accessible coverage of statistical concepts, including data acquisition, reporting of results, sampling and other distributions, and more * A complete range of analytical procedures - analysis of variance, full and fractional factorial DOE, and the role of DOE in fault isolation and failure analysis * In-depth case studies, examples, and exercises covering a range of different uses of DOE * Broad applications across manufacturing, service, administrative, and other business sectors No matter what your field, Practical Guide to Experimental Design provides you with the "on-the-ground" assistance necessary to transform DOE theory into practice - the ideal guide for engineers, scientists, researchers, and advanced students.

Book Contextual Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh Beyer
  • Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 1558604111
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Contextual Design written by Hugh Beyer and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1998 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book that describes a complete approach to customer-centered design, from customer data to system design. Readers will be able to develop the work models that represent all aspects of customer work practices.

Book Affinity Designer a Complete Guide   2019 Edition

Download or read book Affinity Designer a Complete Guide 2019 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big do you want it to be? Which portions within the publication do you find useful? How have the expectations of your customers changed over time? What are the advantages and disadvantages of your formats? Who do you want/need to communicate with your target audiences? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are you really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Affinity Designer investments work better. This Affinity Designer All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Affinity Designer Self-Assessment. Featuring 967 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Affinity Designer improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Affinity Designer projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Affinity Designer and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Affinity Designer Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Affinity Designer areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Affinity Designer self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Affinity Designer Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book The Llewellyn Practical Guide to Astral Projection

Download or read book The Llewellyn Practical Guide to Astral Projection written by Melita Denning and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Guide to Astral Projection by Denning and Phillips is simply the best step-by-step set of lessons for learning this skill ever published. Over a quarter-million people are using this book to help them learn this valuable skill. If you want to learn how to project your consciousness onto the astral plane, you should use it, too. First, as the book shows, this skill is natural. You do it all the time (in dreams, for example.) In a sense, it is more natural than walking. It is a skill you can develop with practice. Further, it allows you to have spiritual experiences on the astral plane. Plus, what you create on the astral plane creates changes on the physical plane. This is true magick! Heal someone on the astral and they will be healed on the physical. Create opportunities on the astral and you will have them on the physical. You can even experience sex on the astral plane for one of the most dynamic experiences you will ever have. And you can learn how to do all of this in The Practical Guide to Astral Projection. But it is not only the information in this book that makes it easy to understand and use. The very design of each chapter--as well as the illustrations, photos, charts, etc.--make it easy for you to learn the techniques to consciously control your astral projection experiences. The book begins by showing you what astral projection is and what it is not, what can happen and what is fantasy. As a result, you will discover that astral projection can be safe, comforting, exhilarating, and fun. Then you will learn methods of being able to let your consciousness leave your body and safely explore the astral plane. With this book in hand you can explore realms you've only dreamed of. Make your dreams a reality.

Book Parsing Techniques

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dick Grune
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-10-29
  • ISBN : 0387689540
  • Pages : 677 pages

Download or read book Parsing Techniques written by Dick Grune and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Grune and Jacobs’ brilliant work presents new developments and discoveries that have been made in the field. Parsing, also referred to as syntax analysis, has been and continues to be an essential part of computer science and linguistics. Parsing techniques have grown considerably in importance, both in computer science, ie. advanced compilers often use general CF parsers, and computational linguistics where such parsers are the only option. They are used in a variety of software products including Web browsers, interpreters in computer devices, and data compression programs; and they are used extensively in linguistics.

Book The Affinity Photo Guidebook

Download or read book The Affinity Photo Guidebook written by Frank Walters and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The (Updated) Affinity Photo Guidebook is a fun to use, step-by-step new user's manual. This DIY book will guide you through the first 10 skills new users need to know how to do plus twenty in-depth techniques to further increase your knowledge and skillset in using this market-leading photo editor. We created each tutorial to be visually impressive with 4K quality screenshots as well as our unique method of italicizing action words and bolding main objects - like the Menu bar - Toolbar items, the Studios, and the Tools. We tell you with our words and show you with our screenshots exactly how to do each step for every tutorial. Features of Affinity Photo Fine-tuned Adjustments Flawless Retouching Incredible Live Filters RAW Image Development Refined Selections Any Device, Anywhere! The 10 Most Wanted New User Skills How to Open Images The Affinity Photo User Interface (aka the Screen) How to Crop Pictures How to Remove Imperfections from a Photo How to Use the Adjustments Layer How to Use Masks How to Make Selections How to Change the Background of a Photo How to Add Text to an Image How to Save & Export Twenty Great Step-by-Step Tutorials How to Create a Double Exposure Effect How to Create a Color Splash Effect How to Create a Stylish Duotone Effect How to Create a Matte Image Effect How to do a Sky Replacement How to Create a High-Speed Effect How to Create a Dispersion Effect How to Create a Face Warp How to Create a Beautiful Pop Art Effect How to Create a 3D or Pop Out Effect How to Create a Water Flame Effect How to Create a Face Swap How to Crop Images in a Circle How to Make a Realistic Shadow How to Make a Transparent Clothing Effect How to Put a Face on the Moon How to Make Realistic Reflections How to Restore Old Photographs How to Transform Any Image into a Pencil Drawing How to Create a Jumping Over Text Effect Complete with a list of hyperlinked images created just for you. If you would like a free tutorial on how we created the John Lennon cover image, please contact us and we'll send you that tutorial free of charge. The Affinity Photo Guidebook was created for the desktop version of Affinity Photo only. We will be creating an iPad version in Fall 2021.

Book Essential Affinity Photo

Download or read book Essential Affinity Photo written by Robin Whalley and published by Robin Whalley. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quickly learn Affinity Photo image editing Affinity Photo is the hot photo editing package from Serif. It can compete head on with the latest version of Photoshop. It’s also affordable, incredibly powerful and exceptionally flexible. But all this power and flexibility brings its own challenges. Just like Photoshop, Affinity Photo can be confusing and tricky to learn. Even with a background in Photoshop image editing it’s likely you will miss a lot of its features. And unlike Photoshop you won’t have an endless choice of books to learn from. Which is where “Essential Affinity Photo” comes to the rescue. In this comprehensive yet easy to follow book, Landscape Photographer Robin Whalley explains the core features of Affinity Photo Desktop. Written in his unique, easy to understand style, Robin explains logically the essential techniques you need to know to learn Affinity Photo. Follow this book and its examples and you will soon be editing images as though you have been using the software for years. The book is arranged into a series of lessons that focus in on the essential image editing skills. Each lesson builds on the previous one, minimising repetition and saving you valuable time. You will learn about: - Different Affinity Photo Personas, what these do and how to navigate them. - The Develop Persona, using it to convert a Raw photo file into a high-quality image. - How layers form the backbone of the Photo Persona and how to use them to improve your editing. - Different Adjustment layers, filters and live filters you can apply, to fine tune and improve your photography. - How to convert your images to black and white as well as important techniques such as Dodging and Burning. - Creating and using layer masks to precisely target your adjustments to specific areas of an image. - Harnessing the power of the Export Persona. - And lots more. Throughout the book there are examples and exercises for you to follow. The author provides the images for these on his website, allowing you to follow along on your own computer. You won’t need to wade through hundreds of pages to find answers. This is a comprehensive and concise guide to help you learn Affinity Photo. It doesn’t matter if you are a complete novice or have some experience of Affinity Photo, this book could help improve your Affinity Photo editing.

Book The Digital Darkroom

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Abbott
  • Publisher : Ilex Press
  • Release : 2021-03-30
  • ISBN : 9781781578087
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Digital Darkroom written by James Abbott and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to photo editing using Photoshop and Affinity Post-production can make the difference between a good image and a great image, not to mention it's an essential process if you shoot in RAW to enjoy the most flexibility and control possible. This book will outline everything you need to know to gain a better understanding of how to apply darkroom style effects to your images using Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Through detailed background knowledge designed to make you familiar with the software and to build your confidence, you'll learn a wide range of skills and techniques through step-by-step case studies that will make learning an active experience. Not only will this be a valuable reference resource, it will also be your very own personal tutor giving you everything you need to edit your images like a pro. - Learn the essentials with a complete guide to every tool, filter and effect for both Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo - Get the most out of your RAW files with detailed instructions on processing your digital image - Master basic, intermediate, and advanced editing techniques with easy to follow step-bystep tutorials - Get the best quality images for display with a complete guide to home printing

Book HPLC

    Book Details:
  • Author : Toshihiko T Hanai
  • Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Release : 2007-10-31
  • ISBN : 1847551076
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book HPLC written by Toshihiko T Hanai and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can these compounds be separated? Why was that method used? These are the two basic questions often asked by students of chromatography. HPLC: A Practical Guide provides the answers, enabling the reader to grasp the concepts of the technique using simple, representative chromatograms. Divided into six chapters, this practical guide covers basic concepts of HPLC; instrumentation; stationary phase materials; eluents; column efficiency; and the influence of physical chemistry on separations. Focusing on the basic considerations such as selection of stationary phase and eluent, rather than specific applications, sections on troubleshooting are also included. Uniquely, the descriptions of chromatographic separations are based on solubility using molecular properties, and solubility parameters are used to analyse the selections of chromatographic mode and column. Presenting the chemistry of liquid chromatography for undergraduate students, this valuable practical guide will also be useful for laboratory staff in industry and academia.