Composing for Silent Film

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Composing for Silent Film

Composing for Silent Film
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032184213 | 137 pages | True PDF | 21.92 MB

Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film.
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IP Multicast Routing Protocols: Concepts and Designs

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IP Multicast Routing Protocols: Concepts and Designs

IP Multicast Routing Protocols: Concepts and Designs
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032701927 | 483 pages | True PDF | 6.57 MB

This book discusses the fundamental concepts that are essential to understanding IP multicast communication. The material covers the well‑known IP multicast routing protocols, along with the rationale behind each protocol. The book starts with the basic building blocks of multicast communications and networks, then progresses into the common multicast group management methods used, and finally into the various, well‑known multicast routing protocols used in today’s networks.

A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI

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A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI

A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032686774 | 251 pages | True PDF | 1.67 MB

A Teacher’s Guide to Conversational AI explores the practical role that language-based artificial intelligence tools play in classroom teaching, learning experiences, and student assessment. Today’s educators are well aware that conversational and generative AI—chatbots, intelligent tutoring systems, large language models, and more—represent a complex new factor in teaching and learning. This introductory primer offers comprehensive, novice-friendly guidance into the challenges and opportunities of incorporating AI into K-12 schools and college classes in ways that are appropriate, nourishing to students, and outcomes-driven.

Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption

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Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption

Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032115408 | 577 pages | True PDF | 5.76 MB

The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption showcases the most innovative and exciting research being conducted in this important area of study, providing a comprehensive go-to reference for all who are interested in the topic.

The Philosophy of Pleasure: An Introduction

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The Philosophy of Pleasure: An Introduction

The Philosophy of Pleasure: An Introduction
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1138093114 | 160 pages | True PDF | 8.16 MB

The experience of pleasure, alongside pain, is a primary element of human life. It rules our instincts and desires for food, sex and avoiding various forms of harm. Crucial to psychological and social well-being, it has preoccupied philosophers from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill and plays a fundamental role in moral and ethical theory, especially utilitarianism. More recently, it has become a central subject for psychologists, biologists and neuroscientists.

Smart Systems in Biotechnology

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Smart Systems in Biotechnology

Smart Systems in Biotechnology
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032358084 | 267 pages | True PDF | 12.68 MB

This compact volume is focused on an eclectic mix of biotechnological and biomedical applications of stimuli-sensitive polymeric materials. It starts with their chemical synthesis and design strategies. This is followed by discussions of their applications in microfluidics, biosensors, wound healing and anticancer therapy.

Innovating From Within: Intrapreneurship and Innovation Within the Organization

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Innovating From Within: Intrapreneurship and Innovation Within the Organization

Innovating From Within: Intrapreneurship and Innovation Within the Organization
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103239207X | 194 pages | True PDF | 15.22 MB

In the post-pandemic era, innovation from within the organization is essential for business competitiveness and survival. As organizations consider growth and sustainable development, the choice is no longer between entrepreneurship on the one hand and intrapreneurship on the other. The question now is: why not both? As job creators and not job seekers anymore, students and young entrepreneurs need guidance and frameworks to develop their entrepreneurial spirit and skills.

How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios

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How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios

How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032739274 | 285 pages | True PDF | 46.91 MB

From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas of both are upended. Chloe Watfern, a writer, transdisciplinary researcher, and maker, joined two world-leading supported studios to learn about the work of their vibrant collectives of neurodiverse artists.

Hofstede Matters (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

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Hofstede Matters (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Hofstede Matters (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032518448 | 274 pages | True PDF | 6.85 MB

Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede’s research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture’s Consequences in 1980. The authors reflect on their changing beliefs about the concept of cultural dimensions that led to a radical change in the way cultures were dealt with in business schools across Europe and beyond.

Domain-Specific Computer Architectures for Emerging Applications: Machine Learning and Neural Networks

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Domain-Specific Computer Architectures for Emerging Applications: Machine Learning and Neural Networks

Domain-Specific Computer Architectures for Emerging Applications: Machine Learning and Neural Networks
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367374536 | 417 pages | True PDF | 37.9 MB

With the end of Moore’s Law, domain-specific architecture (DSA) has become a crucial mode of implementing future computing architectures. This book discusses the system-level design methodology of DSAs and their applications, providing a unified design process that guarantees functionality, performance, energy efficiency, and real-time responsiveness for the target application.

Crisis in the Caribbean

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Crisis in the Caribbean

Crisis in the Caribbean
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103270344X | 286 pages | True PDF | 139.06 MB

Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region, including the Jonestown massacre, the failures of the Burnham regime in Guyana, the tumultuous elections in Jamaica in 1980, the army officers’ coup d’état in Suriname, the revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and the revolutionary upheaval in El Salvador. It also shows how the regional crisis affected such prosperous countries as Trinidad and Tobago and such politically stable regimes in St. Vincent and the French colonies of Martinique and Guadelope. It also discusses the development of the first Socialist regime in the region, Cuba

Case Study Methodology for Nursing

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Case Study Methodology for Nursing

Case Study Methodology for Nursing
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032564075 | 72 pages | True PDF | 0.94 MB

This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be used to uncover the varied and complex life experiences of persons with chronic illness and post-traumatic stress conditions.

Biodiversity Hotspot of the Himalaya

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Biodiversity Hotspot of the Himalaya

Biodiversity Hotspot of the Himalaya
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774914581 | 539 pages | True PDF | 29.06 MB

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the second volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that have been designated as reaping maximum benefit from preservation efforts. This series is our humble attempt to document these hotspots as a conservation and preservation measure.

Applied Exercise Psychology: The Challenging Journey from Motivation to Adherence

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Applied Exercise Psychology: The Challenging Journey from Motivation to Adherence

Applied Exercise Psychology: The Challenging Journey from Motivation to Adherence
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032231416 | 542 pages | True PDF | 8.77 MB

Applied Exercise Psychology emphasizes the application of evidence-based knowledge drawn from the fields of exercise psychology, health psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, and exercise physiology for physical activity behavior change. The book provides readers with

Project Teams: A Structured Development

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Project Teams: A Structured Development

Project Teams: A Structured Development
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1637425961 | 218 pages | EPUB,MOBI | 7.37 MB

A project team is critical to project success which in turn leads to success of an organization. Projects are routinely conceived and executed to operationalize strategic objectives of organizations. Managing a project is challenging, as project managers and project team deal with both internal and external challenges. Complicating it further, developing, managing, and leading teams for traditional and agile projects are quite different. Furthermore, virtual teams present additional challenges for managing global projects.