Straight Walk

Straight Walk
Author: Patricia Velasquez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1618689355

"This is the riveting story of actress and supermodel Patricia Velasquez, and her rise from a poor neighborhood in Venezuela to the world's fashion runways and the Hollywood big screen. Patricia Velasquez worked tirelessly to help life her family out of poverty, but she spend years living a lie. In this intimate and empowering memoir, she finally reveals the naked truth about her life."--Dust jacket, page [4].

Taylor's Master Guide to Landscaping

Taylor's Master Guide to Landscaping
Author: Rita Buchanan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780618055906

Reveals the vital components of landscape design, offering advice on choosing a site, selecting plants, creating garden accessories, and maintaining a landscape.

Bridges of Venice, Walking Tours

Bridges of Venice, Walking Tours
Author: James Broos
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2008-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0615219586

This book provides a way to explore Venice, Italy in a manner never before available. The book divides the bridges of Venice into 27 tours. Each tour provides detailed, step-by-step instructions of how to walk from one bridge to the next. A map of Venice shows the location of each tour. The book includes over 390 photographs of Venetian bridges. Tours take you to locations connected with Marco Polo, Vivaldi, Ernest Hemingway, and other famous people. This is a must have book for anyone who is serious about understanding and exploring Venice. A first-time visitor to Venice will discover this book to be very helpful in finding locations away from the hordes of tourists.

Neuro-Robotics

Neuro-Robotics
Author: Panagiotis Artemiadis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9401789320

Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to better understand the brain as well as design robotic devices and algorithms for interfacing humans and robots. The first part of the book introduces the idea of neuro-robotics, by presenting state-of-the-art bio-inspired devices. The second part of the book focuses on human-machine interfaces for performance augmentation, which can seen as augmentation of abilities of healthy subjects or assistance in case of the mobility impaired. The third part of the book focuses on the inverse problem, i.e. how we can use robotic devices that physically interact with the human body, in order (a) to understand human motor control and (b) to provide therapy to neurologically impaired people or people with disabilities.

Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
Author: Hepu Deng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2011-09-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642238963

This three-volume proceedings contains revised selected papers from the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2011, held in Taiyuan, China, in September 2011. The total of 265 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1073 submissions. The topics of Part III covered are: machine vision; natural language processing; nature computation; neural computation; neural networks; particle swarm optimization; pattern recognition; rough set theory; and support vector machine.

Geographic Information Science

Geographic Information Science
Author: Sara Irina Fabrikant
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-09-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642152996

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2010, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. While traditional research topics such as spatio-temporal representations, spatial relations, interoperability, geographic databases, cartographic generalization, geographic visualization, navigation, spatial cognition, are alive and well in GIScience, research on how to handle massive and rapidly growing databases of dynamic space-time phenomena at fine-grained resolution for example, generated through sensor networks, has clearly emerged as a new and popular research frontier in the field.

Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management

Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
Author: Jack Snoeyink
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2012-04-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642297005

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop, FAW 2012, and the 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2012, jointly held in Beijing, China, in May 2012. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms and data structures, algorithmic game theory and incentive analysis, biomedical imaging algorithms, communication networks and optimization, computational learning theory, knowledge discovery, and data mining, experimental algorithmic methodologies, optimization algorithms in economic and operations research, pattern recognition algorithms and trustworthy algorithms and trustworthy software.