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10 Free Computers & Technology eBooks no comments
10 Free Computers & Technology eBooks
by IntechOpen.com
These ebooks include:-
- Applications of Digital Signal Processing by Christian Cuadrado-Laborde
- Recent Advances in Nanofabrication Techniques and Applications by Bo Cui
- Augmented Reality – Some Emerging Application Areas by Andrew Yeh Ching Nee
- Recent Developments in Mobile Communications – A Multidisciplinary Approach by Juan P. Maícas
- Face Analysis, Modeling and Recognition Systems by Tudor Barbu
- MATLAB for Engineers – Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics by Karel Perutka
- MATLAB – A Ubiquitous Tool for the Practical Engineer by Clara M. Ionescu
- Recent Advances in Document Recognition and Understanding by Minoru Mori
- Biometric Systems, Design and Applications by Zahid Riaz
- Advances in Treating Textile Effluent by Peter J. Hauser
Applications of Digital Signal Processing
by Christian Cuadrado-Laborde
In this book the reader will find a collection of chapters authored/co-authored by a large number of experts around the world, covering the broad field of digital signal processing. This book intends to provide highlights of the current research in the digital signal processing area, showing the recent advances in this field. This work is mainly destined to researchers in the digital signal processing and related areas but it is also accessible to anyone with a scientific background desiring to have an up-to-date overview of this domain. Each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently of the others. These nineteenth chapters present methodological advances and recent applications of digital signal processing in various domains as communications, filtering, medicine, astronomy, and image processing.
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Applications of Digital Signal Processing – 400 pages, 13.69 MB (PDF)
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Recent Advances in Nanofabrication Techniques and Applications
by Bo Cui
Nanotechnology has experienced a rapid growth in the past decade, largely owing to the rapid advances in nanofabrication techniques employed to fabricate nano-devices. Nanofabrication can be divided into two categories: ‘bottom up’ approach using chemical synthesis or self assembly, and ‘top down’ approach using nanolithography, thin film deposition and etching techniques. Both topics are covered, though with a focus on the second category. This book contains twenty nine chapters and aims to provide the fundamentals and recent advances of nanofabrication techniques, as well as its device applications. Most chapters focus on in-depth studies of a particular research field, and are thus targeted for researchers, though some chapters focus on the basics of lithographic techniques accessible for upper year undergraduate students. Divided into five parts, this book covers electron beam, focused ion beam, nanoimprint, deep and extreme UV, X-ray, scanning probe, interference, two-photon, and nanosphere lithography.
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Recent Advances in Nanofabrication Techniques and Applications – 614 pages, 59.77 MB (PDF)
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Augmented Reality – Some Emerging Application Areas
by Andrew Yeh Ching Nee
Augmented Reality (AR) is a natural development from virtual reality (VR), which was developed several decades earlier. AR complements VR in many ways. Due to the advantages of the user being able to see both the real and virtual objects simultaneously, AR is far more intuitive, but it’s not completely detached from human factors and other restrictions. AR doesn’t consume as much time and effort in the applications because it’s not required to construct the entire virtual scene and the environment. In this book, several new and emerging application areas of AR are presented and divided into three sections. The first section contains applications in outdoor and mobile AR, such as construction, restoration, security and surveillance. The second section deals with AR in medical, biological, and human bodies. The third and final section contains a number of new and useful applications in daily living and learning.
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Augmented Reality – Some Emerging Application Areas – 266 pages, 19.97 MB (PDF)
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Recent Developments in Mobile Communications – A Multidisciplinary Approach
by Juan P. Maícas
Recent Developments in Mobile Communications – A Multidisciplinary Approach offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the mobile telecommunications industry. The aim of the chapters is to offer both comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of recent developments and the state-of-the-art of various economical and technical aspects of mobile telecommunications markets. The economy-oriented section offers a variety of chapters dealing with different topics within the field. An overview is given on the effects of privatization on mobile service providers’ performance; application of the LAM model to market segmentation; the details of WAC; the current state of the telecommunication market; a potential framework for the analysis of the composition of both ecosystems and value networks using tussles and control points; the return of quality investments applied to the mobile telecommunications industry; the current state in the networks effects literature. The other section of the book approaches the field from the technical side. Some of the topics dealt with are antenna parameters for mobile communication systems; emerging wireless technologies that can be employed in RVC communication; ad hoc networks in mobile communications; DoA-based Switching (DoAS); Coordinated MultiPoint transmission and reception (CoMP); conventional and unconventional CACs; and water quality dynamic monitoring systems based on web-server-embedded technology.
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Recent Developments in Mobile Communications – A Multidisciplinary Approach – 272 pages, 10.43 MB (PDF)
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Face Analysis, Modeling and Recognition Systems
by Tudor Barbu
The purpose of this book, entitled Face Analysis, Modeling and Recognition Systems is to provide a concise and comprehensive coverage of artificial face recognition domain across four major areas of interest: biometrics, robotics, image databases and cognitive models. Our book aims to provide the reader with current state-of-the-art in these domains. The book is composed of 12 chapters which are grouped in four sections. The chapters in this book describe numerous novel face analysis techniques and approach many unsolved issues. The authors who contributed to this book work as professors and researchers at important institutions across the globe, and are recognized experts in the scientific fields approached here. The topics in this book cover a wide range of issues related to face analysis and here are offered many solutions to open issues. We anticipate that this book will be of special interest to researchers and academics interested in computer vision, biometrics, image processing, pattern recognition and medical diagnosis.
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Face Analysis, Modeling and Recognition Systems – 212 pages, 6.62 MB (PDF)
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MATLAB for Engineers – Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics
by Karel Perutka
The book presents several approaches in the key areas of practice for which the MATLAB software package was used. Topics covered include applications for: -Motors -Power systems -Robots -Vehicles The rapid development of technology impacts all areas. Authors of the book chapters, who are experts in their field, present interesting solutions of their work. The book will familiarize the readers with the solutions and enable the readers to enlarge them by their own research. It will be of great interest to control and electrical engineers and students in the fields of research the book covers.
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MATLAB for Engineers – Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics – 512 pages, 20.06 MB (PDF)
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MATLAB – A Ubiquitous Tool for the Practical Engineer
by Clara M. Ionescu
A well-known statement says that the PID controller is the ‘bread and butter’ of the control engineer. This is indeed true, from a scientific standpoint. However, nowadays, in the era of computer science, when the paper and pencil have been replaced by the keyboard and the display of computers, one may equally say that MATLAB is the ‘bread’ in the above statement. MATLAB has became a de facto tool for the modern system engineer. This book is written for both engineering students, as well as for practicing engineers. The wide range of applications in which MATLAB is the working framework, shows that it is a powerful, comprehensive and easy-to-use environment for performing technical computations. The book includes various excellent applications in which MATLAB is employed: from pure algebraic computations to data acquisition in real-life experiments, from control strategies to image processing algorithms, from graphical user interface design for educational purposes to Simulink embedded systems.
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MATLAB – A Ubiquitous Tool for the Practical Engineer – 564 pages, 18.27 MB (PDF)
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Recent Advances in Document Recognition and Understanding
by Minoru Mori
In the field of document recognition and understanding, whereas scanned paper documents were previously the only recognition target, various new media such as camera-captured documents, videos, and natural scene images have recently started to attract attention because of the growth of the Internet/WWW and the rapid adoption of low-priced digital cameras/videos. The keys to the breakthrough include character detection from complex backgrounds, discrimination of characters from non-characters, modern or ancient unique font recognition, fast retrieval technique from large-scaled scanned documents, multi-lingual OCR, and unconstrained handwriting recognition. This book aims to present recent advances, applications, and new ideas that are relevant to document recognition and understanding, from technical topics such as image processing, feature extraction or classification, to new applications like camera-based recognition or character-based natural scene analysis. The goal of this book is to provide a new trend and a reference source for academic research and for professionals working in the document recognition and understanding field
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Recent Advances in Document Recognition and Understanding – 94 pages, 3.38 MB (PDF)
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Biometric Systems, Design and Applications
by Zahid Riaz
Biometric authentication has been widely used for access control and security systems over the past few years. The purpose of this book is to provide the readers with life cycle of different biometric authentication systems from their design and development to qualification and final application. The major systems discussed in this book include fingerprint identification, face recognition, iris segmentation and classification, signature verification and other miscellaneous systems which describe management policies of biometrics, reliability measures, pressure based typing and signature verification, bio-chemical systems and behavioral characteristics. In summary, this book provides the students and the researchers with different approaches to develop biometric authentication systems and at the same time includes state-of-the-art approaches in their design and development. The approaches have been thoroughly tested on standard databases and in real world applications.
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Biometric Systems, Design and Applications – 262 pages, 8.85 MB (PDF)
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Advances in Treating Textile Effluent
by Peter J. Hauser
The treatment of textile wet processing effluent to meet stringent governmental regulations is a complex and continually evolving process. Treatment methods that were perfectly acceptable in the past may not be suitable today or in the future. This book provides new ideas and processes to assist the textile industry in meeting the challenging requirements of treating textile effluent.
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Advances in Treating Textile Effluent – 154 pages, 3.23 MB (PDF)
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Image Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography no comments
Image Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography
by Robert Koprowski and Zygmunt Wrobel
The book you have in your hands is a summary of research carried out at the Department of Computer Biomedical Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia in Katowice in cooperation with the team of Prof. Edward Wylegala, D.Sc., M.D. This cooperation resulted in the creation of methods for ophthalmologists support in OCT images automated analysis. These methods, like the application developed on their basis, are used during routine examinations carried out in hospital.
The monograph comprises proposals of new and also of known algorithms, modified by authors, for image analysis and processing, presented on the basis of example of Matlab environment with Image Processing tools. The results are not only obtained fully automatically, but also repeatable, providing doctors with quantitative information on the degree of pathology occurring in the patient. In this case the anterior and posterior eye segment is analysed, e.g. the measurement of the filtration angle or individual layers thickness.
To introduce the Readers to subtleties related to the implementation of selected fragments of algorithms, the notation of some of them in the Matlab environment has been given. The presented source code is shown only in the form of example of implementable selected algorithm. In no way we impose here the method of resolution on the Reader and we only provide the confirmation of a possibility of its practical implementation.
The book is addressed both to ophthalmologists willing to expand their knowledge in the field of automated eye measurements and also primarily to IT specialists, Ph.D. students and students involved in the development of applications designed for automation of measurements for the needs of medicine.
This book is available free of charge in an electronic version. The authors agree to disseminate, duplicate and use in any way free of charge this book. A commercial use of algorithms and images presented is protected by law.
The authors thank cordially Prof. Edward Wylegala, D.Sc., M.D. and his team for the provided images and valuable guidance and consultations.
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Image Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography – 175 pages (PDF)
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Construction Terms no comments
Construction Terms
by Sanjay Sharma
It is hoped that the book will be quite useful for the student of civil engineering. Suggestion for the improvement of this book are most welcome and would be incorporated in the next edition with a view to make the book more useful.
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Construction Terms – 89 pages, 582kb (PDF)
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4 Free Fantasy (War / Military) Ebooks no comments
4 Free Fantasy (War / Military) Ebooks
by Trevor Hopkins
These ebooks include:-
- New Bridge to Lyndesfarne by Trevor Hopkins
- Bridge at War by Trevor Hopkins
- Death on the New Bridge by Trevor Hopkins
- Bridge of Stone and Magic by Trevor Hopkins
New Bridge to Lyndesfarne
by Trevor Hopkins
The story is set in the early twenty-first century, with the action split between our own world and the mysterious world of Lyndesfarne. In Lyndesfarne, everyday technology from our own world simply fails to work, but a society every bit as sophisticated as our own is supported by pervasive magic.
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New Bridge to Lyndesfarne – 39 Chapters (PDF or eSerial / Webnovel – HTML)
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Bridge at War
by Trevor Hopkins
The story is set just after the end of the Second World War, with the action split between our own world and the mysterious world of Lyndesfarne. In Lyndesfarne, everyday technology from our own world simply fails to work, but a society every bit as sophisticated as our own is supported by pervasive magic.
The story is set in 1946/7 and at various points in the past, and follows three young men, Tom, Alistair and Bram, all recently demobilised from the Army.
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Bridge at War – 40 Chapters (PDF or eSerial / Webnovel – HTML)
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Death on the New Bridge
by Trevor Hopkins
A sequel to New Bridge to Lyndesfarne, the novel once again follows Kevin and Tanji as they investigate the mysterious death of a microbial epidemiologist, who was found in the exact centre of the New Bridge shortly after its official opening.
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Death on the New Bridge – 37 Chapters (PDF or eSerial / Webnovel – HTML)
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Bridge of Stone and Magic
by Trevor Hopkins
A sequel to New Bridge to Lyndesfarne, the novel once again follows Kevin and Tanji investigating a suspected new crossing between the worlds, a crossing which was supposed to have been closed permanently several centuries ago.
Currently incomplete – a work in progress.
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Bridge of Stone and Magic – 37 Chapters (PDF or eSerial / Webnovel – HTML)
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I’ve self-published my work, now what? no comments
Without a good marketing plan, all your writing will be for nothing.
This is a guest post by Jessica Wiener of Print360.com
You’ve climbed the self-publishing mountain and now you can kick back and take it easy, right? If only it were that easy. Now, the hard work begins: marketing your work. Chances are you took advantage of a good commercial printing outfit and you have a pile of books to move. Without a good marketing plan, all your writing will be for nothing.
Here are five marketing steps to help you along:
1. Social Media – Establishing a social media presence is one of the fastest ways to build momentum for marketing. Social media such as Twitter and Facebook allow you to start building a loyal fan base. Setting up accounts is free and takes very little time. Managed correctly, they are powerful additions to a successful marketing campaign.
2. Author Platform – A good author platform will serve as the basis for a good deal of your marketing efforts. An author platform is a website that will feature your self-published work. It can be as simple or as elaborate as you desire. The good news is that there are lots of ways to establish your platform and many of these are free. Consider using a WordPress.com site. They are free and you have control over every aspect of the site including layout, design elements and content.
3. Go Local – The local aspect of marketing is often overlooked by self-published folks. Most communities have independent bookstores who love to promote local talent. Contact them about setting up a display or maybe even a book signing. If your book applies to a specific trade or business, contact professional organizations and request a speaking engagement at one of their luncheons or conferences.
4. Interview – The key to selling your work is to get the word out. One of the best ways to do this is through a series of interviews in a variety of venues. Local talk radio stations often have these kinds of segments. Contact them and find out what needs to be done in each particular case. There are also a number of venues on the web including sites like Blog Talk Radio. The advantage here is that it is easy to mesh these interviews with what you have going on at your author platform and they are easy to promote through your social media circles.
5. Leverage Every Opportunity – The most successful self-publishing types seize every opportunity to get their name and their work out where folks can see them. Change your email signature to include a link to your author platform. Join forums that pertain to your work and again, include links to your work in your standard forum signature.
Marketing your self-published work may be challenging but it can be very rewarding. It is normal to have reservations about self promotion. In time you will feel better about doing it and you may find it to be one of the most gratifying experiences of your life.
Jessica Wiener is a commercial printing specialist. When she is not writing for Print360.com, you can find her cooking up a storm in her kitchen or walking her dog outside.
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Animal Rescue Club no comments
Animal Rescue Club
by Stephanie Dagg
Emma has started at a new school and wants to make friends. So when the twins announce that they have started an animal rescue club, she’s determined to become a member. She begins to hunt for an animal to rescue, but that proves to be much harder than she ever imagined. Will she ever become a member of the Animal Rescue Club? Ideal for young readers, aged 5 to 10.
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Stanley and the Football Sock no comments
Stanley and the Football Sock
by Stephanie Dagg
Stanley Thomas Ian Nigel Kevin Smith, otherwise known as STINKS, is in trouble. Big trouble. He’s lost his football sock. And if he doesn’t get it back, Mum won’t let him go to football practice. So he goes on a hunt which involves friends, conkers, bullies, head masters, cows, rats and dinosaurs. And does he get his sock back? You’ll have to read the story and find out for yourself! A fun story for 6-12 year olds or so.
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Stanley and the Football Sock – 3641 words, 49.5 KB (PDF, HTML, Javascript, Kindle, MOBI, EPUB, RTF, LRF, PDB, TXT)
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A Decade of the DMCA no comments
A Decade of the DMCA
by Marcia K. Wilbur
In 1998, the DMCA was passed into law. Since that time, many cases emerged. Background information relevant to copyright law and some cases are included. Over the past decade, some DMCA related protests were held. This book chronicles some of these events. In many cases in the past decade fair use was little or no consideration.
In some of the more recent cases, fair use has been a consideration, which is somewhat of a relief to those who wish to create parodies and conduct research. However, there is no guarantee that any future cases that clearly fall under fair use will be seen as such by the courts. The examples in the book are not my DMCA story, but the story of Americans (and others) impacted by the DMCA. These are their stories, their experiences and some of their suggestions.
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A Decade of the DMCA – 215 pages, 2.34 MB (PDF)
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The Running Girl no comments
The Running Girl
by August Renfelt
When the Running Girl comes to the shantytown, men vanish. Good or bad it doesn’t matter, those that run after the Girl are never seen again. But a young man named Garai intent to break that circle…
Warning: This is an erotic femdom story with controversial content that may offend the casual reader.
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The Running Girl – 4 pages, 90 KB (PDF, HTML, Javascript, Kindle, MOBI, EPUB, RTF, LRF, PDB, TXT)
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Into Her Own no comments
Into Her Own
by Amanda Winters
Rated PG (for violence).
This is a light-hearted fantasy about a regular 21-year-old woman from Earth who learns that she is going to be the Queen on a distant planet called Raz. Hathor is sent to bring her to her new home, but first she must survive attacks from the Palers who seek to kill her before she can assume the crown. She must also choose who will be her king: William or Hathor.
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Into Her Own – 231 pages, 1.09 MB (PDF)
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