Moving Difference

Moving Difference
Author: Angelo Martins Junior
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000088197

Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their ‘mobile lives’. Analysing the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilians in London, it adds an in-depth ethnographic understanding of the specific contours of difference to studies of migration by demonstrating how social differences, rooted in colonial legacies, are constantly being re-created and negotiated in the everyday making of the global world. By using ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, in addition to historical and contextual analyses, the book allows us to understand how people speak of, engage with and negotiate difference in their everyday lives and how this is shaped by the macro-political and -social contexts of immigration and emigration. Giving attention to the complex interrelations between ‘here’ and ‘there’, past and present, this book allows us to go beyond the proliferated homogenised stereotypes of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the migrant community’ often reproduced by academics as well as by the media and politicians, whether with a view to pathologising or romanticising the ‘migrant other’. This title will appeal to students, scholars, community workers and general readers interested in migration, social class, gender, ‘race’ and ethnicity, colonialism and slavery, social exclusion, globalisation and urban sociology.

Wavelets and Filter Banks

Wavelets and Filter Banks
Author: Gilbert Strang
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1996-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780961408879

A comprehensive treatment of wavelets for both engineers and mathematicians.

Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence

Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence
Author: Jianhua Qian
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9813349328

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of 1st International Conference on Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence, ICRRI 2020, held in Fushun, China, in September 2020. The 56 full and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections. In the first volume: Rehabilitation robotics and safety; machine vision application; electric drive and power system fault diagnosis; robust stability and stabilization; intelligent method application; intelligent control and perception; smart remanufacturing and industrial intelligence; and intelligent control of integrated energy system. In the second volume: smart healthcare and intelligent information processing; human-robot interaction; multi-robot systems and control; robot design and control; robotic vision and machine intelligence; optimization method in monitoring; advanced process control in petrochemical process; and rehabilitation intelligence.

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2010, Part I

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2010, Part I
Author: Guoping Qiu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642157025

The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) was held in Shanghai at Fudan University, during September 21–24, 2010. Since its inauguration in 2000, PCM has been held in various places around the Pacific Rim, namely Sydney (PCM 2000), Beijing (PCM 2001), Hsinchu (PCM 2002), Singapore (PCM 2003), Tokyo (PCM 2004), Jeju (PCM 2005), Zhejiang (PCM 2006), Hong Kong (PCM 2007), Tainan (PCM 2008), and Bangkok (PCM 2009). PCM is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2010 featured a comprehensive technical program which included 75 oral and 56 poster presentations selected from 261 submissions from Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. Three distinguished researchers, Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou from Nanjing University, Dr. Yong Rui from Microsoft, and Dr. Tie-Yan Liu from Microsoft Research Asia delivered three keynote talks to the conference. We are very grateful to the many people who helped to make this conference a s- cess. We would like to especially thank Hong Lu for local organization, Qi Zhang for handling the publication of the proceedings, and Cheng Jin for looking after the c- ference website and publicity. We thank Fei Wu for organizing the special session on large-scale multimedia search in the social network settings.

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015
Author: Yo-Sung Ho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319240781

The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9314 and 9315, constitute the proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2015, held in Gwangju, South Korea, in September 2015. The total of 138 full and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: image and audio processing; multimedia content analysis; multimedia applications and services; video coding and processing; multimedia representation learning; visual understanding and recognition on big data; coding and reconstruction of multimedia data with spatial-temporal information; 3D image/video processing and applications; video/image quality assessment and processing; social media computing; human action recognition in social robotics and video surveillance; recent advances in image/video processing; new media representation and transmission technologies for emerging UHD services.

Swing Trading For Dummies

Swing Trading For Dummies
Author: Omar Bassal, CFA
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 047044598X

Take advantage of price swings in strongly trending securities and pump up your portfolio! Want to know the strategies of successful swing trading? This friendly guide covers the ins and outs of this risky but profitable investing approach, explaining all the basics in plain English. You'll see how to use the two investment approaches - technical and fundamental analysis - to indentify promising securities in strongly trending markets. In addition, this guide covers how to calculate investment returns and, most important, how to manage your portfolio's risk. Learn from a highly experienced trader, analyst, and portfolio manager - the author shares his insider knowledge Understand often overlooked topics such as money management, journal keeping, and strategy planning - key areas that will largely determine your success Focus on the fundamentals - often overlooked by swing traders, fundamental analysis can increase your chance of success Determine your entry and exit points with technical analysis - read charts, apply indicators, and compare markets Evaluate companies with fundamental analysis - grasp the basics of financial statements and the criteria to screen for undervalued or overvalued stocks Develop and implement your trading plan - outline what you trade and how often, decide your risk tolerance, and calculate your performance Open the book and find: The differences among swing trading, day trading, and buy-and-hold investing The pros and cons of technical and fundamental analysis A step-by-step anatomy of a trade A wealth of charts and screenshots Real-world examples of swing trading successes The 10 deadly sins of swing trading - avoid at all costs! Sample trading plans Useful resources for navigating data

Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective

Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective
Author: Maarten Jansen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2022-04-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000564142

Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective offers a modern, 2nd generation look on wavelets, far beyond the rigid setting of the equispaced, dyadic wavelets in the early days. With the methods of this book, based on the lifting scheme, researchers can set up a wavelet or another multiresolution analysis adapted to their data, ranging from images to scattered data or other irregularly spaced observations. Whereas classical wavelets stand a bit apart from other nonparametric methods, this book adds a multiscale touch to your spline, kernel or local polynomial smoothing procedure, thereby extending its applicability to nonlinear, nonparametric processing for piecewise smooth data. One of the chapters of the book constructs B-spline wavelets on nonequispaced knots and multiscale local polynomial transforms. In another chapter, the link between wavelets and Fourier analysis, ubiquitous in the classical approach, is explained, but without being inevitable. In further chapters the discrete wavelet transform is contrasted with the continuous version, the nondecimated (or maximal overlap) transform taking an intermediate position. An important principle in designing a wavelet analysis through the lifting scheme is finding the right balance between bias and variance. Bias and variance also play a crucial role in the nonparametric smoothing in a wavelet framework, in finding well working thresholds or other smoothing parameters. The numerous illustrations can be reproduced with the online available, accompanying software. The software and the exercises can also be used as a starting point in the further exploration of the material.

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Author: Geun Sik Jo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2008-03-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540785817

Following from the very successful First KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May–1 June 2007, the second event in the KES-AMSTA symposium series (KES-AMSTA 2008) was held in Incheon, Korea, March 26–28, 2008. The symposium was organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, KES International and the KES Focus Group on Agent and Mul- agent Systems. The KES-AMSTA Symposium Series is a sub-series of the KES Conference Series. The aim of the symposium was to provide an international forum for scientific research into the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agent and multi-agent systems are related to the modern software which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. A key development in the field of agent and multi-agent systems has been the specification of agent communication languages and formalization of ontologies. Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain. The symposium attracted a very large number of scientists and practitioners who submitted their papers for nine main tracks concerning the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, a doctoral track and two special sessions.