Vertebrate Development: Maternal to Zygotic Control by Francisco Pelegri, Michael Danilchik, Ann Sutherland English | PDF | 2017 | 553 Pages | ISBN : 3319460935 | 19 MB This book provides a comprehensive overview of topics describing the earliest steps of fertilization, from egg activation and fertilization to the activation of the zygotic genome, in various studied vertebrate model systems. The contribution of maternal and paternal factors and their role in the early embryo as parental DNA becomes modified and embryonic genes become activated is fundamental to the initiation of embryogenesis in all animal systems. Versatile Video Coding (VVC): Machine Learning and Heuristics English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031116399 | 200 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB This book discusses the Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the ISO and ITU state-of-the-art video coding standard. VVC reaches a compression efficiency significantly higher than its predecessor standard (HEVC) and it has a high versatility for efficient use in a broad range of applications and different types of video content, including Ultra-High Definition (UHD), High-Dynamic Range (HDR), screen content, 360º videos, and resolution adaptivity. The authors introduce the novel VVC tools for block partitioning, intra-frame and inter-frames predictions, transforms, quantization, entropy coding, and in-loop filtering. The authors also present some solutions exploring VVC encoding behavior at different levels to accelerate the intra-frame prediction, applying statistical-based heuristics and machine learning (ML) techniques. Vegan Africa: Plant-Based Recipes from Ethiopia to Senegal by Marie Kacouchia English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1615199004 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 46.35 MB An authentically African and naturally vegan culinary journey across the continent Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis By Greg L. Bahnsen 1998 | 800 Pages | ISBN: 0875520987 | PDF | 5 MB In this volume, Bahnsen has gathered the primary passages on apologetics from the vast body of works by Cornelius Van Til, arranged them topically, and added incisive commentary and analysis. The result is a carefully organized digest of all that Van Til taught about apologetics with running exposition by Bahnsen.
Unknown Secrets of the Past Centuries (Extended edition): The great mystical ways of the ancients by Gina T. Gibbons English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09MNLDHWT | 273 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb This is an extended edition, revised and updated. It contains articles on ancient mechanisms and optics, the mysteries of the submerged continents and options for the appearance of the first people on Earth. Also here you will find an interesting article about Viking treasures. Universe: Journey to the past by Gabriel Grayson English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BGJG4TPN | 522 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb The universe is defined as everything that space contains, and it includes living organisms, the Earth, the moon, other planets and their satellites, in addition to asteroids, comets, the sun, huge numbers of stars, estimated to number hundreds of billions, and galaxies. Unity of Good By Mary Baker Eddy 2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1406774170 | EPUB | 1 MB UNITY OF GOOD CONTENTS PAGE CAUTION IN THE TRUTH i Does God know or behold sin y sickness and death I SEEDTIME AND HARVEST 8 Is anything real of which the physical senses are cognisant 8 THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD 13 WAYS HIGHER THAN OUR WAYS 17 RECTIFICATIONS 20 A COLLOQUY 21 THE EGO 27 SOUL 28 THEI E is NO MATTER 31 S gb 33 Touch 34 Taste . . 35 Force 35 Is THERE NO DEATH 37 PERSONAL STATEMENTS 44 vi CONTENTS PAGE CREDO 48 Do you believe in God ........ 48 Do you believe in man r 3 ........ 49 Do you believe in matt erf ....... 50 What say you of woman f ....... 51 What say you of evil 52 SUFFERING FROM OTHERS THOUGHTS .... 55 THE SAVIOURS MISSION ......... 59 SUMMARY ........, . 64 UNITY OF GOOD CAUTION IN THE TRUTH T ERHAPS no doctrine of Christian Science rouses so r -much natural doubt and questioning as this, that God knows no such thing as sin. Indeed, this may be set 3 down as one of the things hard to be understood such as the apostle Peter declared were taught by his fellow apostle Paul, which they that are unlearned and unstable 6 wrest . . . unto their own destruction. 2 Peter iii. 16. Let us then reason together on this important subject, whose statement in Christian Science may justly be char-9 acterized as wonderful. Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and death The nature and character of God is so little appre-12 hended and demonstrated by mortals, that I counsel my students to defer this infinite inquiry, in their discussions of Christian Science. In fact, they had better leave the 15 subject untouched, until they draw nearer to the divine character, and are practically able to testify, by their lives, that as they come closer to the true understanding of God 18 they lose all sense of error. 2 UNITY OP GOOD i The Scriptures declare that God is too pure to behold iniquity Habakkuk i. 13 but they also declare that 3 God pitieth them who fear Him that there is no place where His voice is not heard that He is a very present help in trouble. 6 The sinner has no refuge from sin, except in God, who is his salvation. We must, however, realize Gods pres ence, power, and love, in order to be saved from sin. This 9 realization takes away mans fondness for sin and his pleasure in it and, lastly, it removes the pain which accrues to him from it. Then follows this, as the finale in 12 Science The sinner loses his sense of sin, and gains a higher sense of God, in whom there is no sin. The true man, really saved, is ready to testify of God 15 in the infinite penetration of Truth, and can affirm that the Mind which is good, or God, has no knowledge of sin. In the same manner the sick lose their sense of sickness, 18 and gain that spiritual sense of harmony which contains neither discord nor disease. According to this same rule, in divine Science, the 21 dying if they die in the Lord awake from a sense of death to a sense of Life in Christ, with a knowledge of Truth and Love beyond what they possessed before be-24 cause their lives have grown so far toward the stature of manhood in Christ Jesus, that they are ready for a spirit ual transfiguration, through their affections and under-27 standing. Those who reach this transition, called death, without CAUTION IN THE TRUTH 3 having rightly improved the lessons of this primary school i of mortal existence, and still believe in matters reality, pleasure, and pain, are not ready to understand im-3 mortality. Hence they awake only to another sphere of experience, and must pass through another probationary state before it can be truly said of them Blessed are the 6 dead which die in the Lord. They upon whom the second death, of which we read in the Apocalypse Revelation xx. 6, hath no power, are 9 those who have obeyed Gods commands, and have washed their robes white through the sufferings of the flesh and the triumphs of Spirit. Thus they have reached 12 the goal in divine Science, by knowing Him in whom they have believed.. Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture By Richard English (editor), Graham S. Walker (editor) 1996 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 031215979X | PDF | 16 MB Looks at the movement to retain, or reclaim, Ireland as a possession of the United Kingdom. Most of the 12 essays are by scholars from Belfast, where Unionist intransigence has contributed to the political and military strife since Northern Ireland was carved out of independent Ireland in the 1920s. Among the topics are leaders of the movement during various periods, the protestant experience of revolution in Ireland itself, building Stormont 1921-32, direct British rule and the Unionist middle classes, and modern scholarship on the issue. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Nathan Lean, "Understanding Islam and the West: Critical Skills for Students" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1786602091 | PDF | pages: 233 | 1.8 mb As the world's second-largest faith and by some accounts the fastest-growing, Islam is often at the forefront of intense public conversation and debates about politics, international relations, globalization, modern society and culture.
Unbelievable Desserts with Splenda: Sweet Treats Low in Sugar, Fat, and Calories By Marlene Koch 2001 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 0871319640 | PDF | 2 MB The first cookbook to showcase a revolutionary new no-cal sweetener that tastes like sugar. Over 75 recipes include cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, muffins and more guiltless treats. Illustrations. |