Download or read book Cryptology and Network Security written by Feng Bao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2007, held in Singapore, in December 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on signatures, network security, secure keyword search and private information retrieval, public key encryption, intrusion detection, email security, denial of service attacks, and authentication.

Download or read book Essays on Syria in the Iron Age written by Guy Bunnens and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Age, i.e. the period between c. 1200 and 300 B.C., is a crucial period in Mediterranean and Near Eastern history. Syria especially saw one of the most flourishing moments of its history in the early first millennium B.C. New kingdoms emerged which developed an intense cultural life and took advantage of their geographical location to gain a dominant position in interregional relations. As a consequence, Syria became the main target of Assyrian expansion. It also became an intermediary between Asia and the Mediterranean world. Twenty-two essays, aiming to reflect essential aspects of on-going research, review major historical, archaeological and linguistic aspects of Syria in the Iron Age. Interaction between Neo-Hittites and Arameans, new forms of art, changes in political and social structures, linguistic conservatism and innovation, regional particularism, impact of Assyrian expansion are some op the topics dealt with in the volume.

Download or read book Modern Practical Masonry written by Edmund George Warland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a clear and simple guide to the subject, based on meticulous and beautiful drawings. Organized in three sections, it includes chapters on construction details; methods of working particular structural shapes; both basic and advanced geometry and setting-out. It also includes forms and tables omitted from later editions to be used as templates for costing and estimating work. These are as relevant today as they were in the 1920s. It includes a new introduction by Christopher Weeks.

Download or read book Tarot Diva written by Sasha Graham and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are meant to live with grace, style, wisdom, and boundless joy. With this unique book, you can set free your inner diva and let your fabulousity shine through every day! Putting a fun and fresh spin on the art of card reading, professional tarot reader Sasha Graham unveils the magic and mystery of a tarot deck. She shows that the tarot is much more than a deck of cards—it's a fantastic tool for embracing your beauty, unleashing your power, and enriching your life. For beginners and seasoned professionals alike, Tarot Diva teaches tarot basics and presents creative new ways to explore each card's particular energies: meditations, exercises, recipes, spells, charms, and even fashion tips. You'll weave enchantment through every aspect of your life...and discover the diva within. Manifest your wishes by casting powerful tarot spells Re-create delicious recipes that invoke tarot archetypes Peek into your future with divinatory spreads Create cool charms to channel your inner power Praise: "What tarot needs—right now—is Sasha Graham."—Rachel Pollack, award-winning author of 78 Degrees of Wisdom "One of our star students, Sasha Graham, has filled us with pride and admiration with this sparkling new approach to teaching tarot. Tarot Diva is packed with solid tarot knowledge infused with modern magic, power, and fun."—Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, directors of The Tarot School "A novel and fun approach that results in a greater understanding and interaction with tarot's rich imagery."—Ciro Marchetti, creator of The Gilded Tarot "Sasha Graham is intuitive, inventive, and a gifted story teller. She not only tells you how to read the tarot, but also what it feels like to read and why you would want to."—Robert M. Place, author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination

Download or read book I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii AD 79 I Survived 10 written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beast beneath the mountain is restless... No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?

Download or read book The Prince of Nowhere written by Rochelle Hassan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping middle grade fantasy debut by Rochelle Hassan follows Roda and Ignis, who embark on an adventure filled with magic and mystery—perfect for fans of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Roda isn’t afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. She’s safe in her small town, which is surrounded by a wall of freezing, enchanted mist that keeps the beasts away. So when Roda rescues an injured crow on the instruction of her secret pen pal, Anonymous—whose letters arrive without warning and correctly predict the future—she’s surprised to learn she’s brought one of the so-called monsters home. Because her crow is really a shape-shifting boy named Ignis. Ignis doesn’t remember where he was going before he crashed. But Anonymous brought him and Roda together for a reason—and the only way to find out what Anonymous wants is to follow the trail of baffling clues in Roda’s letters. Their perilous journey leads them into the mist and beyond, to a mysterious place called Nowhere. But Ignis has secrets, and the farther they get, the more Roda doubts she can trust him. As a nefarious force closes in, they’ll have to put aside their differences and work together. For they might be each other’s only defense against an enemy who threatens their past, present, and future. A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD GOLD STANDARD SELECTION!

Download or read book The Buried and the Bound written by Rochelle Hassan and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect for fans of The Darkest Part of the Forest and The Hazel Wood. As the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts—an uncommonly magical place—Aziza El-Amin has bargained with wood nymphs, rescued palm-sized fairies from house cats, banished flesh-eating shadows from the local park. But when a dark entity awakens in the forest outside of town, eroding the invisible boundary between the human world and fairyland, run-of-the-mill fae mischief turns into outright aggression, and the danger—to herself and others—becomes too great for her to handle alone. Leo Merritt is no stranger to magical catastrophes. On his sixteenth birthday, a dormant curse kicked in and ripped away all his memories of his true love. A miserable year has passed since then. He's road-tripped up and down the East Coast looking for a way to get his memories back and hit one dead end after another. He doesn't even know his true love's name, but he feels the absence in his life, and it's haunting. Desperate for answers, he makes a pact with Aziza: he’ll provide much-needed backup on her nightly patrols, and in exchange, she’ll help him break the curse. When the creature in the woods sets its sights on them, their survival depends on the aid of a mysterious young necromancer they’re not certain they can trust. But they’ll have to work together to eradicate the new threat and take back their hometown... even if it forces them to uncover deeply buried secrets and make devastating sacrifices.

Download or read book Shenzhen written by Guy Delisle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang, his book about the strange society that is North Korea, Delisle turned his attention to Shenzhen, the cold, urban city in Southern China that is sealed off with electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. The result is another brilliant graphic novel - funny, scary, utterly original and illuminating.

Download or read book Children Television and the New Media written by Paul Löhr and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text focuses on the following topics: children's television and transformation; do children need television?; the internet and multimedia; television features and formats; the violence issue; adolescents and their media worlds; and music on television.

Download or read book Sentenced to Life written by Jenni Fink and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It s the Monday morning after you ve graduated college. Where are you? Did you wake up in your childhood bed to the sound of your parents voices downstairs? So did Chelsea Carlton and many of the millions of other recent college graduates. Chelsea spent four years under the guise of security, brought on by too much California sunshine and years of unbridled encouragement but after one short walk across the stage, she is yanked from her fairytale existence and delivered a sobering dose of reality. Her life, which was once well-ordered and promising, begins to unravel. Now jobless, she is forced to move back to her hometown and her unrequited summer love, Chris. Then as quickly as their relationship ended, he s back in her life, ready to start fresh. Will she let him back into her life and risk another broken heart or take a chance on love with an old friend? Should she continue to pursue her dreams, or will she accept that her dreams will never become realities? With so many different paths to choose, she s forced to make decisions that will forever change her future. "

Download or read book White Horse written by Alex Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has ended, but her journey has just begun. Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are defined not by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.

Download or read book NewMedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Language and Subjectivation written by Liesa Rühlmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many school students in Germany are plurilingual and use German and further languages in their daily lives. This use is differently approached and valued. Not only languages spoken, but race, too, plays a role in how language use is addressed in schools. Interviews that were conducted and analyzed with a Grounded Theory approach show that subject positions assigned to students concerning plurilingualism shape how they reflect on experiences in school from a retrospective focus. By turning to a raciolinguistic perspective and drawing on subjectivation theory, the terms used to signify dominantly found re-positionings are ‘raciolinguistic norm’ and ‘raciolinguistic Other’. The results highlight the necessity of focusing in more detail on how listening positionalities shape language use in society and in schools specifically.

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Download or read book Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing written by Paul Azunre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build custom NLP models in record time by adapting pre-trained machine learning models to solve specialized problems. Summary In Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing you will learn: Fine tuning pretrained models with new domain data Picking the right model to reduce resource usage Transfer learning for neural network architectures Generating text with generative pretrained transformers Cross-lingual transfer learning with BERT Foundations for exploring NLP academic literature Training deep learning NLP models from scratch is costly, time-consuming, and requires massive amounts of data. In Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing, DARPA researcher Paul Azunre reveals cutting-edge transfer learning techniques that apply customizable pretrained models to your own NLP architectures. You’ll learn how to use transfer learning to deliver state-of-the-art results for language comprehension, even when working with limited label data. Best of all, you’ll save on training time and computational costs. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Build custom NLP models in record time, even with limited datasets! Transfer learning is a machine learning technique for adapting pretrained machine learning models to solve specialized problems. This powerful approach has revolutionized natural language processing, driving improvements in machine translation, business analytics, and natural language generation. About the book Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing teaches you to create powerful NLP solutions quickly by building on existing pretrained models. This instantly useful book provides crystal-clear explanations of the concepts you need to grok transfer learning along with hands-on examples so you can practice your new skills immediately. As you go, you’ll apply state-of-the-art transfer learning methods to create a spam email classifier, a fact checker, and more real-world applications. What's inside Fine tuning pretrained models with new domain data Picking the right model to reduce resource use Transfer learning for neural network architectures Generating text with pretrained transformers About the reader For machine learning engineers and data scientists with some experience in NLP. About the author Paul Azunre holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and has served as a Principal Investigator on several DARPA research programs. Table of Contents PART 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1 What is transfer learning? 2 Getting started with baselines: Data preprocessing 3 Getting started with baselines: Benchmarking and optimization PART 2 SHALLOW TRANSFER LEARNING AND DEEP TRANSFER LEARNING WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS (RNNS) 4 Shallow transfer learning for NLP 5 Preprocessing data for recurrent neural network deep transfer learning experiments 6 Deep transfer learning for NLP with recurrent neural networks PART 3 DEEP TRANSFER LEARNING WITH TRANSFORMERS AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES 7 Deep transfer learning for NLP with the transformer and GPT 8 Deep transfer learning for NLP with BERT and multilingual BERT 9 ULMFiT and knowledge distillation adaptation strategies 10 ALBERT, adapters, and multitask adaptation strategies 11 Conclusions

Download or read book Institutional Entrepreneurship written by Magnus Henrekson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume builds on Baumol's 1990 framework to categorize and classify the growing research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship.

Download or read book The Amarna Letters written by William L. Moran and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.