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 Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport: An Ethnography of Elite Visually Impaired Athletes English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367322706 | 197 Pages | PDF | 7 MB This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an international-level visually impaired cricket team. Alongside issues of empowerment, classification and valorisation, it conceptualises the sensuous dimension of being in disability sport and challenges the idealised notion of the sporting body.  Electronics for Sensors by Giuseppe Ferri English | PDF | 2021 | 274 Pages | ISBN : 3036512403 | 45.9 MB The aim of this Special Issue is to explore new advanced solutions in electronic systems and interfaces to be employed in sensors, describing best practices, implementations, and applications. The selected papers in particular concern photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) interfaces and applications, techniques for monitoring radiation levels, electronics for biomedical applications, design and applications of time-to-digital converters, interfaces for image sensors, and general-purpose theory and topologies for electronic interfaces.  Economic Resilience in Regions and Organisations English | 2021 | ISBN: 3658330783 | 464 Pages | PDF EPUB | 18 MB Leading researchers on economic resilience from economic geography, economic history and organizational studies discuss recent approaches to better understand the impact of structures, processes, agency, governance and multilevel settings on economic resilience.  Eco-Cognitive Computationalism: Cognitive Domestication of Ignorant Entities English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030814467 | 116 Pages | PDF | 3 MB This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computational machines as mediators of cognition. An entirely new eco-cognitive approach to computation is offered, to underline the question of the overwhelming cognitive domestication of ignorant entities, which is persistently at work in our current societies. Eco-cognitive computationalism does not aim at furnishing an ultimate and static definition of the concepts of information, cognition, and computation, instead, it intends, by respecting their historical and dynamical character, to propose an intellectual framework that depicts how we can understand their forms of "emergence" and the modification of their meanings, also dealing with impressive unconventional non-digital cases. The new proposed perspective also leads to a clear description of the divergence between weak and strong levels of creative "abductive" hypothetical cognition: weak accomplishments are related to "locked abductive strategies", typical of computational machines, and deep creativity is instead related to "unlocked abductive strategies", which characterize human cognizers, who benefit from the so-called "eco-cognitive openness".  Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable by Gaetano Chiurazzi English | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 192 Pages | ISBN : 3030690040 | 2.3 MB This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology, whose roots can be traced back to the mathematical debate about incommensurable magnitudes, which forms the implicit background for Plato's later dialogues and culminates in the definition of being as dynamis in the Sophist. Incommensurable magnitudes - also called dynameis by Theaetetus - are presented as the solution to the problem of non-being and serve as the cornerstone for a philosophy of difference and becoming.  Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030808106 | 192 Pages | PDF | 2 MB Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts―in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms of higher education, in accessibility service offices, on the street, and at home. Taking the form of a play written in five acts, the narrative dramatizes how the main character's blindness is conceived of in the world and in the self. Each act includes an analysis where blind studies is explored in relation to disability studies. This work reveals the performative enactment of blindness that is lived in the public as well as in the private corners of the self, demonstrating how blindness is a form of perception. Devon Healey's work orients to blindness as a necessary and creative feature of the sensorium and shows how blindness is a form of perception.  Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2021: 16th International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5-10, 2021, Proceedings, Part II by Josep Lladós English | PDF | 2021 | 878 Pages | ISBN : 3030863301 | 116.1 MB This four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.  Direct Selling: A Global and Social Business Model English | 2022 | ASIN: B097J5PNTD | 225 Pages | EPUB | 1.27 MB Direct selling is not an industry per se nor is it merely a go-to-market business model and channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of this - direct selling is people. The ability for people with entrepreneurial spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company's product, is at the heart of direct selling and it is people who made (and continue to make) direct selling the successful marketplace that it is today. The direct selling marketplace is comprised of mission-driven and socially responsible companies offering a wide variety of product and services, and the list of direct selling companies is abundant with entrepreneurs who built their businesses by utilizing an independent salesforce channel to market and sell their products or services directly to consumers.  Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences: A Comprehensive Approach to Remote Sensing, Climate Science and Geosciences English | 2021 | ISBN: 1119646146 | 414 Pages | True EPUB | 67 MB  Data Processing with Optimus: Supercharge big data preparation tasks for analytics and machine learning with Optimus using Dask and PySpark English | 2021 | ISBN: 1801079560 | 300 Pages | EPUB | 4 MB |
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