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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: Third International Conference, AVR 2016, Lecce, Italy, June 15-18, 2016. Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9769)

The 2-volume set LNCS 9768 and 9769 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, AVR 2016, held in Lecce, Italy, in June 2016.The 40 full papers and 29 short papers presented werde carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The SALENTO AVR 2016 conference intended to bring together researchers, scientists, and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends on virtual and augmented reality, 3D visualization and computer graphics in the areas of medicine, cultural heritage, arts, education, entertainment, industrial andmilitary sectors.

The Augmented Spherical Wave Method: A Comprehensive Treatment (Lecture Notes in Physics #849)

The Augmented Spherical Wave (ASW) method is one of the most powerful approaches to handle the requirements of finite basis sets in DFT calculations. It is particularly suited for the calculation of the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of solid-state materials. Recent developments allow application, in addition, to the elastic properties and phonon spectra. Due to the localized nature of the ASW basis set these properties can be easily interpreted in terms of atomic-like orbitals. The book addresses all those who want to learn about methods for electronic structure calculations and the ASW method in particular. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and extended. In particular, a chapter on the new, both very efficient and accurate spherical-wave based full potential ASW method has been added.

Augmented Vision Perception in Infrared: Algorithms and Applied Systems (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)

Throughout much of machine vision’s early years the infrared imagery has suffered from return on investment despite its advantages over visual counterparts. Recently, the ?scal momentum has switched in favor of both manufacturers and practitioners of infrared technology as a result of today’s rising security and safety challenges and advances in thermographic sensors and their continuous drop in costs. This yielded a great impetus in achieving ever better performance in remote surveillance, object recognition, guidance, noncontact medical measurements, and more. The purpose of this book is to draw attention to recent successful efforts made on merging computer vision applications (nonmilitary only) and nonvisual imagery, as well as to ?ll in the need in the literature for an up-to-date convenient reference on machine vision and infrared technologies. Augmented Perception in Infrared provides a comprehensive review of recent deployment of infrared sensors in modern applications of computer vision, along with in-depth description of the world’s best machine vision algorithms and intel- gent analytics. Its topics encompass many disciplines of machine vision, including remote sensing, automatic target detection and recognition, background modeling and image segmentation, object tracking, face and facial expression recognition, - variant shape characterization, disparate sensors fusion, noncontact physiological measurements, night vision, and target classi?cation. Its application scope includes homeland security, public transportation, surveillance, medical, and military. Mo- over, this book emphasizes the merging of the aforementioned machine perception applications and nonvisual imaging in intensi?ed, near infrared, thermal infrared, laser, polarimetric, and hyperspectral bands.

Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all. This warrants to identify various stress conditions prevalent globally and tailor crop adaptability and productivity to the maximum accordingly, employing physio-molecular modern tools and techniques with judicious amalgamation with conventional crop husbandry. As a result, the book chapters encompass diverse environmental factors, internal physio-molecular processes and their modulations with a final goal of expanding area under cultivation by utilization of constraint terrains of poor site quality and augmenting sustainable crop productivity and quality on the face of rapidly changing climate. The book includes role of plant hormones, nano-sensors, nanomaterials etc. in stress tolerance responses, capturing recent advancement in the field of stress tolerance, enlarging scope of coverage by gleaning modern literature and providing glimpses of futuristic scenario of agriculture practices that can render ‘balance staple food rich in nutrition, vitamins and minerals’ to teeming billions of global human populations. Thus, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of stress environment and understanding stress physiology for developing stress tolerant crops. The book covers current knowledge and future prospects to achieve enhanced food security under stress environment of crops. The renowned contributors elegantly crafted each chapter, suited alike to both classroom texts for graduate students and reference material for researchers. The language and style are simple and lucid with liberal use of illustrations. This book should be on the shelf of university/ personal libraries for inquisitive students and enlightened researchers.

Augmenting Human Manipulation Abilities with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (Biosystems & Biorobotics #26)

This book offers a timely report on an emerging topic in the field of wearable assistive technology: the design and development of robotic extra fingers. After a concise review of the state of the art and a description of earlier prototypes, it discusses the authors’ efforts to address issues such as portability and wearability of the devices, including strategies to reduce fatigue and to integrate the motion of the extra fingers with that of the human hand. The book also explores optimized control algorithms and the design of wearable sensorimotor interfaces, and presents a set of tests carried out on healthy subjects and chronic stroke patients. Merging concepts from robotics, biomechanics, human factors and control theory and offering an overview of supernumerary robotic fingers, including the challenges, this book will inspire researchers involved in the development of wearable robotic devices and interfaces based on the principles of wearability, safety, ergonomics and user comfort.

Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work In the Age of AI

Essential reading for anyone who wants to be relevant in the workforce of tomorrow.Drawing on more than a decade of research on artificial intelligence and human systems, David L. Shrier, a globally recognised futurist and innovation specialist, delivers fascinating insights and tips on how to win at work in the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. Automation was once associated with mass layoffs in heavy industry like auto and steel, but computers are getting smarter and are beginning to replace traditionally 'white collar' roles like law, consulting, banking and finance.Yet some curious findings are emerging from the world's leading research labs. The combined intellect of people and machines working in harmony is able to achieve outcomes that are better than either can accomplish alone. Properly tuned AI systems can even help harness the power of the collective intelligence of an entire organisation or community to predict future events. This isn't science fiction; this is science fact the author personally helped discover.What are these new hybrid AI+people systems? What can specialised AI systems do to help you succeed in your career? How can you work most effectively with these machines?Written by a practitioner who has worked with some of the largest companies in the world as well as some of the most innovative startups, Augmenting Your Career provides a rare window into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you work and what your job will look like. Read this book and fast track your evolution to the knowledge worker of the future.

August Weismann: Development, Heredity, And Evolution

August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.

August Weismann: Development, Heredity, And Evolution

August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.

The AUN/SEED-Net Joint Regional Conference in Transportation, Energy, and Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering: Proceeding of RCTEMME2021, Hanoi, Vietnam (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

This book (The AUN/SEED-Net Joint Regional Conference in Transportation, Energy, and Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering) gathers selected papers submitted to the 14th Regional Conference in Energy Engineering and the 13th Regional Conference in Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering in the fields related to intelligent equipment, automotive engineering, mechanical systems and sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, heat and mass transfer. Under the theme of “Integration and Innovation for Sustainable Development,” This book consists of papers in the aforementioned fields presented by researchers and scientists from universities, research institutes, and industry showcasing their latest findings and discussions with an emphasis on innovations and developments in embracing the new norm, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Auralization: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Modelling, Simulation, Algorithms and Acoustic Virtual Reality (RWTHedition)

Auralization is the technique of creation and reproduction of sound on the basis of computer data. With this tool it is possible to predict the character of sound signals which are generated at the source and modified by reinforcement, propagation and transmission in systems such as rooms, buildings, vehicles or other technical devices. This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of the basics of sound and vibration, acoustic modelling, simulation, signal processing and audio reproduction. With some mathematical prerequisites, the readers will be able to follow the main strategy of auralization easily and work out their own implementations of auralization in various fields of application in architectural acoustics, acoustic engineering, sound design and virtual reality. For readers interested in basic research, the technique of auralization may be useful to create sound stimuli for specific investigations in linguistic, medical, neurological and psychological research, and in the field of human-machine interaction.

Auralization: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Modelling, Simulation, Algorithms and Acoustic Virtual Reality (RWTHedition)

This is the first focused and detailed textbook on acoustic virtual reality. Auralization is the creation of audible acoustic sceneries from computer-generated data. The term "auralization" is to be understood as being analogue to the well-known technique of "visualization". In visual illustration of scenes, data or any other meaningful information, in movie animation and in computer graphics, we describe the process of "making visible" as visualization. In acoustics, auralization is taking place when acoustic effects, primary sound signals or means of sound reinforcement or sound transmission, are processed to be presented by using electro-acoustic equipment. This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of basics, methodology and strategies of acoustic simulation and auralization.

Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter (Springer Praxis Books)

TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the very real possibility that an American astronaut and his spacecraft may have been lost at sea.In fact, it had been a very close call. Completely out of fuel and forced to manually guide Aurora 7 through the frightening inferno of re-entry, Carpenter brought the Mercury spacecraft down to a safe splashdown in the ocean. In doing so, he controversially overshot the intended landing zone. Despite his efforts, Carpenter’s performance on the MA-7 mission was later derided by powerful figures within NASA. He would never fly into space again. Taking temporary leave of NASA, Carpenter participated in the U.S. Navy’s pioneering Sealab program. For a record 30 days he lived and worked aboard a pressurized habitat resting on the floor of the ocean, becoming the nation’s first astronaut/aquanaut explorer.Following extensive research conducted by noted spaceflight historian Colin Burgess, the drama-filled flight of Aurora 7 is faithfully recounted in this engrossing book, along with the personal recollections of Scott Carpenter and those closest to the actual events.

Aus dem akademischen Leben der Technischen Universität Wien (Schriftenreihe der Technischen Universität Wien #15)

Aus dem Auen-Mittelwalde: Wirthschaftliche und taxatorische Bemerkungen

Aus der amerikanischen Werkstattpraxis: Bericht über eine Studienreise in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

Aus der Geschichte der Nachrichtentechnik: 24. Jahresfeier am 22. Mai 1974 (Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften #244)

Aus forstlicher Theorie und Praxis: Forstwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen

Aus Untersuchungen mit Leichtfahrbahndecken zu Straßenbrücken (Berichte des Deutschen Ausschusses für Stahlbau)

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Ausbeulen: Theorie und Berechnung von Blechen

Ausbreitung elektromagnetischer Wellen: Eine Einführung in die Theorie (Hochschultext)

Ausführung von Stahlbauten: Kommentare zu DIN EN 1090-1 und DIN EN 1090-2

Two new standards are superseding DIN 18800-7; they are of five times the extent and demand a different way of working. This commentary follows the structure of the standards, includes background information, important excerpts from the quoted standards and examples.

Ausführung von Stahlbauten: Kommentare zu DIN EN 1090-2 und DIN EN 1090-4

Nachdem sich die Vorgängerauflage des Kommentars von 2012 zur unverzichtbaren Arbeitshilfe für alle mit dem Stahlbau befassten Fachleute entwickelt hat, wird nun eine überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage vorgelegt, die die zwischenzeitlichen Änderungen an den kommentierten Normen berücksichtigt. Dieser Kommentar enthält Erläuterungen zu den technischen Regeln für die Ausführung von Stahlbauten in DIN EN 1090-2 "Ausführung von Stahltragwerken und Aluminiumtragwerken - Teil 2: Technische Regeln für die Ausführung von Stahltragwerken" und DIN EN 1090-4 "Ausführung von Stahltragwerken und Aluminiumtragwerken - Teil 4: Technische Anforderungen an kaltgeformte, tragende Bauelemente aus Stahl und kaltgeformte, tragende Bauteile für Dach-, Decken-, Boden- und Wandanwendungen". Er liefert wichtige Zusatz- und Hintergrundinformationen und stellt darüber hinaus Verknüpfungen zu angrenzenden Disziplinen dar. Auszüge aus zitierten Regelwerken werden wiedergegeben und die Umsetzung der Normregelungen anhand von Musterbeispielen illustriert. Eine der wesentlichen Überarbeitungen der DIN EN 1090-2 betraf die technischen Anforderungen an tragende dünnwandige kaltgeformte Bauelemente und Bauteile aus Stahl. Sie waren nicht umfassend genug behandelt. Dieses Teilgebiet des Stahlbaus wurde deshalb aus der bisherigen DIN EN 1090-2 herausgelöst und in die neue Teilnorm DIN EN 1090-4 überführt um mit der notwendigen Ausführlichkeit dargestellt zu werden. DIN EN 1090-4 wurde 2018 veröffentlicht und ist im vorliegenden Buch erstmalig kommentiert. Die aktuellen Fassungen beider Normteile im Volltext sind auf der dem Buch beigefügten CD-ROM enthalten. Die in der Vorauflage von "Ausführung von Stahlbauten" ebenfalls kommentierte DIN EN 1090-1 ist in der Neuauflage nicht enthalten, da sie keine technischen Regeln für das Bauen, sondern ausschließlich Regeln für den formalen Konformitätsnachweis und die CE-Kennzeichnung des Bauproduktes "Tragende Stahlbauteile" enthält. Die Überarbeitung ist noch nicht abgeschlossen und der Abdruck der Fassung von 2012-02 ist nicht sinnvoll. Der vorliegende Kommentar ist eine Hilfestellung bei der täglichen Arbeit für alle Fachleute, die sich planend, bauend, prüfend oder überwachend mit der Ausführung von Stahlbauten in Deutschland oder im europäischen Ausland befassen: Ingenieure, Techniker, Meister, technische Kaufleute usw. Der Kommentar folgt streng der Gliederung der beiden kommentierten Normteile, ohne jedoch deren Texte zu wiederholen. Er gibt Zusatz- und Hintergrundinformationen, stellt Verknüpfungen zu angrenzenden Bereichen dar, gibt wichtige Auszüge aus zitierten Regelwerken wieder und illustriert anhand von Musterbeispielen die Umsetzung der Normregelungen. Die Autoren sind selbst an der Erarbeitung der Normen beteiligt, die Kommentierungen und Hintergrundinformationen stammen also aus "erster Hand".

Ausgeführte Eisenbetonkonstruktionen: Neunundzwanzig Beispiele aus der Praxis

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Funktionenlehre: Vorlesung, gehalten in Berlin 1886 Mit der akademischen Antrittsrede, Berlin 1857, und drei weiteren Originalarbeiten von K. Weierstrass aus den Jahren 1870 bis 1880/86

Als Schüler von KARL WEIERSTRASS zu Beginn unseres Jahrhunderts an der Ausgabe der Werke ihres Lehrers arbeiteten, ging es ihnen vor allem darum, den nachfolgenden Generationen den Schatz der unveröffentlichten Weierstraßschen Vorlesungen über elliptische und Abelsche Funktionen sowie über Variationsrechnung zu überliefern. Daß die Vorlesungen über allgemeine Funktionentheorie nicht in den Editionsplan auf­ genommen wurden, dürfte nicht zuletzt auch damit im Zusammenhang gestanden haben, daß deren Wirkung bereits allenthalben erkennbar und unwiderruflich war. Was den Zeitgenossen von WEIERSTRASS nicht erforderlich schien, will uns heute UD­ verzichtbar scheinen, wenn wir uns als Historiker und als Mathematiker der großen Gestalt von KARL WEIERSTRASS nähern wollen. Was aber den Zeitgenossen noch recht leicht gefallen wäre - eine möglichst exakte historische Dokumentation des Weierstraß­ schen Beitrages zur strengen Begründung der Analysis -, erfordert heute einen erhöhten Aufwand an geistiger Arbeit, bedingt einen kritischen Vergleich der nur bruchstückhaft auf uns gekommenen und zumeist nicht autorisierten Nachschriften, ein Einfühlen in die persönlichen und wissenschaftlichen Umstände des Weierstraßschen Wirkens. Die allgemein anerkannte prägende Bedeutung des Weierstraßschen Grundlagen­ beitrages für die moderne Mathematik widerspiegelt sich bisher in der internationalen mathematikhistorischen Literatur nur unzureichend. Es ist deshalb sehr zu begrüßen, daß es der Herausgeber mit der Edition der von WEIERSTRASS nur einmal gehaltenen Vorlesung "Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Funktionenlehre" (1886) unternommen hat, jene Lücke schließen zu helfen.

Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Funktionentheorie (vieweg studium; Aufbaukurs Mathematik #48)

Das Buch wendet sich an Studenten, die mit den Grundlagen der Funktionentheorie, wie sie etwa in ,,Fischer/Lieb - Funktionentheorie" dargestellt werden, vertraut sind, und führt in wichtige Kapitel, vor allem der geometrischen Funktionentheorie, ein. Im Vordergrund stehen Resultate und Methoden der komplexen Analysis einer Veränderlichen, die in jüngster Zeit Vorbild für Entwicklungen in der mehrdimensionalen komplexen Analysis geworden sind. Dazu gehör en invariante Metriken, Hardy-Räume, Corona-Theorem, Randverhalte n konformer Abbildungen (Sätze von Carathéodory, Warschawski und H. A. Schwarz), Bergmansche und Szegösche Kernfunktion, potential theoretische Methoden. Diese Hilfsmittel und Ergebnisse erschließ en gleichzeitig den Zugang zu klassischen Theorien der komplexen Analysis, denen ein beträchtlicher Teil des Buches gewidmet is t: Uniformisierungstheorie (mittels Konstruktion Greenscher Funkt ionen), Schwarz-Christoffel-Formeln, Schwarzsche Dreiecksfunktion en, die hypergeometrische Differentialgleichung, elliptische Modu lfunktionen und Parametrisierung ebener Kubiken, Sätze von Picard , Bloch und Landau.