Understanding 3D Animation Using Maya
Many animators and designers would like to supplement their Maya learning with a less-technical, more helpful book. This ...
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Understanding Acoustics An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration
This textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than ...
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Understanding Planning Tasks : Domain Complexity and Heuristic Decomposition
Action planning has always played a central role in Artificial Intelligence. Given a description of the current situation, ...
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Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
This book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and ...
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In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...
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Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...
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Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision
The field of computer vision has developed significantly over the last several years and the application areas span a broad ...
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Univariate Stable Distributions
This textbook highlights the many practical uses of stable distributions, exploring the theory, numerical algorithms, and ...
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Updates in Diagnostic Pathology
From surgical pathology, chapters cover select topics in endocrine, gynecologic, GU, and GI pathology with contributions ...
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Updates on Myopia A Clinical Perspective
This book discusses basic clinical concepts of myopia, prevention of progression and surgical treatments for myopia and ...
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Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery forms part of the Springer Specialist Surgery Series designed to be a valuable resource for ...
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Urban Environmental Management and Technology
This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...
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Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
Surveys the prevalence, the pathophysiology, the diagnosis, the current therapy, both conservative and operative, and the ...
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Urologic Robotic Surgery
Laparoscopy has allowed surgeons to perform major surgical procedures through small incisions. The introduction of laparoscopy ...
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Urological Oncology
Urological Oncology provides a comprehensive overview of the multi-disciplinary management of adult genito-urinary (GU) cancers. ...
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Usability of Speech Dialog Systems : Listening to the Target Audience
this book is based on the fact that it is the usersâ judgments that is the final measure regarding usability and acceptance ...
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Use of Force Training in Law Enforcement
This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. ...
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V-Invex Functions and Vector Optimization
the book focuses on V-invex functions in vector optimization that have grown out of the work of Jeyakumar and Mond in the ...
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VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy
This volume of proceedings is a collection of refereed papers resulting from the VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical ...
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VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-Directed Search
This monograph presents a complete computational system for visual attention and object detection: VOCUS (Visual Object detection ...
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