Home security system based on face recognition techniques by Yuan, Wanheng

“…In another approach, I constructed the convolutional neural network using Pytorch and use my own dataset to train it. Then I can use this to do recognition and test the accuracy of the system using the testing dataset.…”
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Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown <br> Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. …”

Hand in hand : designing active learning for children. by Lio, Joanne Shi Qi.

“…The project celebrates the benefits of art making for both parent and child through a range of collaborative art activities in an activity book, and also promotional items. They are designed to encourage hands-on experiences between parent and child.…”
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A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…A novel engineering approach building upon a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) codec was developed [1] to turn whispers to voice. The intention was to help post-laryngectomized patients regain the ability to speak. …”
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Digital media and the quest for the spiritual in art by Conradi, Ina

“…Each man, therefore, in a very real sense, makes his own heaven, and the beauty of his surroundings is indefinitely increased, according to the wealth and energy of his mind' (Besant) (Ringbom, 1986).…”
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Monstrans de droit, petition of right, and liability for Crown debt by Getzler, J

“…The sovereign person could not formally be impleaded in his own courts nor subjected to coercive judicial order; yet from early time the Crown would permit a petition of right allowing debt claims to be heard and remedied as if the Crown were submitting to an ordinary action between private persons. …”

Duterte: Delivering the Promised Peace to Mindanao by Singh, Bilveer

“…After years of starts-stops and derailment of peace agreements, the Philippines is today poised to make a peace breakthrough in strife-torn Muslim-dominated Mindanao in southern Philippines. …”
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought by Wong, Lionel Catherine

“…We talk about what we see, believe, and imagine, posing questions and communicating our plans. Language, in turn, stocks our mental inventories with new concepts and theories, communicating ideas that we might not otherwise have discovered by thinking on our own even over the course of a lifetime. …”
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Handbook Of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics And Motion Control / by Fossen, Thor I., author 571020, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…References and examples are included to enable engineers to analyze existing projects before making their own designs, as well as MATLAB scripts for hands-on software development and testing. …”
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Introduction. Post-Soviet censorship and regulation in Russia by Raspopina, Aleksandra

“…In the brief post-Soviet history of Russia, journalists have always struggled to work freely, pressured on one hand by the state and business interests, and on the other by their own commercial – and physical – survival. The political and media history of twenty-first century Russia has been characterized by ever-tightening restrictions and increasing state control over the media, marked by widespread self-censorship and assassinations of journalists often occurring without thorough police investigations. …”
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我们 = wo men. by Zhou, Jessli Hui Fen.

“…Women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore” by Nirmala PuraShotam, which made me realize this middle class way of life that the majority of the women in Singapore pursued could turn out to be merely a beautiful illusion of modernity. …”
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Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances

“…Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. …”

The social atlas of Europe by Ballas, D, Dorling, D, Hennig, B

“…Many of us think of European countries as discreet entities—their own languages, cultures, food, and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries. …”

What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…This chapter argues that the imperial critique of Dicey is correct, but that the remedy can be found in Dicey’s own work, in his discussion of sovereignty and in the hints he dropped about the social basis of the rule of law. …”

‘Urge, urge, urge, dogs gnawing’: pain, play and the material text in Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella by Williams, A

“…This chapter explores how Swift uses his text to record the physical ailments of the public figures who dominate his working life, linking these very public bodies to Swift’s own physical experiences. It also considers the letters as a text not only materially shaped by the corporeal but serving as a substitute for the body. …”

Regimental agents as Language Intermediaries in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Realms by Pataki, K

“…Isenflamm was part of a network of Hallean Pietists and his efforts to communicate with his business partners in their own languages could also be inspired by Hallean missions and translation projects.…”

Science Communication by Ho, Shirley S., Yu, Peihan

“…Science communication encompasses communication about science, as well as communication of science, each with their own aims. The communication about science aims to involve the public in defining the boundaries of science, thus enabling them to shape and conduct science. …”
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Development of applications for mobile devices I by Panganiban, Nicole Dale

“…In the previous years, it was necessary for the patients that want to book a medical appointment to personally head down to the clinic or hospital. …”
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Thematic Analysis : A Practical Guide / by Braun, Virginia, author 541348, Clarke, Victoria (Associate Professor in Sexuality Studies), author 643784

“…"Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences. …”
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PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…The creation of the Puerto Rican Commonwealth in 1952 involved using a number of institutions to create the notion of cultural nationalism that was detached from the island's colonial status, included Puerto Ricans in the diaspora and was not contingent on obtaining national sovereignty. The last part of the book focuses on more recent developments from the neoliberal turn in the 1990s to current (and likely future) socio-economic and environmental crises"--…”
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