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Architectural atmospheres : On the experience and politics of architecture
Addresses the growing awareness of the atmospheric dimension of architecture and provides a current, programmatic discussion of this topic. What possibilities does this approach open to architecture, what value does this knowledge have? Three essays and a conversation lead a cross-discipline discussion on the impact of architecture, and contribute to the debate first initiated by Peter Zumthor. The texts are accompanied by approximately forty color images that capture architectural moods in a variety of ways
Architect, verb : the new language of building
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf De Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. Architecture, it seems, has become too important to leave to architects. No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance, it must be measured, and certified. When architects talk about "Excellence," "Sustainability," "Well-being," "Liveability," "Placemaking," "Creativity," "Beauty" and "Innovation" what do they actually mean? In Architect, Verb, De Graff dryly skewers the doublespeak and hot air of an industry in search of an identity in the 21st century
Arakelov Geometry and Diophantine Applications
Bridging the gap between novice and expert, the aim of this book is to present in a self-contained way a number of striking examples of current diophantine problems to which Arakelov geometry has been or may be applied. Arakelov geometry can be seen as a link between algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry.The first chapters provide some background and introduction to the subject. These are followed by a presentation of different applications to arithmetic geometry. The final part describes the recent application of Arakelov geometry to Shimura varieties and the proof of an averaged version of Colmez's conjecture. This book thus blends initiation to fundamental tools of Arakelov geometry with original material corresponding to current research.
Arabic talking heads
The need for someone to talk to about what is going on inside us while ensuring privacy has become a necessary requirement, especially since some people in our Arab societies judge people who visit a psychiatrist as mentally ill. Therefore, in this project, we propose a solution to the previous problem, where an Arabic-speaking robot, through an interactive chat application can mitigate the psychological and negative effects that humans are exposed to in various cases.
Arabic Computational Morphology : Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods
The morphology of Arabic poses special challenges to computational natural language processing systems. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute to making computational approaches to Arabic very challenging. Indeed many computational linguists across the world have taken up this challenge over time, and many of the researchers with a track record in this research area have contributed to this book.
Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition ; SACH 2006 Summit College Park, MD, USA, September 27-28, 2006 Selected Papers
Cheriet provides an overview of the problems of Arabic recognition and how systems can use natural language processing techniques to correct errors in lexicon-based systems.
Arabic AI-generated adverts = إعلانات عربية مولدة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, our groundbreaking platform emerges, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize the creation of marketing campaigns. This innovative solution seamlessly combines neural networks, natural language generation, and multimedia processing capabilities to generate comprehensive and personalized marketing assets from a single product image. At its core, the platform leverages deep learning models that analyze the visual characteristics of the uploaded product image and identifies key features and attributes to define the product category, this enables the generation of compelling and persuasive marketing content tailored to the specific product. The platform's multi-faceted approach encompasses three distinct components: text generation, poster creation, and video advertisement production. Utilizing advanced natural language generation techniques, it crafts engaging marketing text that captures the essence and unique selling points of the product. Simultaneously, its image processing capabilities produce visually stunning promotional posters that blend the product image with eye-catching graphics and typography. along with creating captivating video advertisements optimized for social media and online advertising campaigns.
Aquatic medicinal plants
The use of medicinal plants in herbal and modern medicine has gained popularity over the last few decades due to consumers taking more natural approaches to medicine. Aquatic medicinal plants are rich in bioactive compounds and demonstrate various commercial, nutraceutical, and biological applications. Aquatic Medicinal Plants offers the reader a wealth of information on uses of bioactive components of these plants, along with crucial references, and explains their traditional uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacological properties.
Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean : The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene
This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil-drilling platforms. The volume offers a comprehensive overview and includes chapters on policy, science, engineering, and economic aspects to make this concept a reality. The compilation of chapters authored by internationally recognized researchers across the globe addresses the theoretical and practical aspects of multi-use, and presents case studies of research, development, and demonstration-scale installations in the US and EU
Aquaculture in the Ecosystem
This book provides a scientific forecast of the development in aquaculture with a focus on the environmental, technological, social and economic constraints that need to be resolved to ensure sustainable development of the industry and allow the industry to be able to feed healthy seafood products to the future generations. The chapters included discuss the most critical bottlenecks of the development encompassing subjects of understanding the environmental impacts, the current state-of-art in monitoring programs and in coastal zone management, the important interactions between wild and cultured organisms including release of non-native species into the wild, the current trends within the development of aquafeeds along with human health aspects as well as the political, socio-economic and economic trends within the industry including a chapter on approaches taken by Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to aquaculture. Finally the last chapter provides different future scenarios of the industry based on the identified bottlenecks.
Approximation, randomization, and combinatorial optimization algorithms and techniques ; 9th International Workshop on approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, APPROX 2006 and 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, August 28-30, 2006, Proceedings
This is the joint refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2006 and the 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006. The book presents 44 carefully reviewed and revised full papers. Among the topics covered are design and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation problems, small spaces and data streaming algorithms, embeddings and metric space methods, and more.
Approximation, randomization and combinatorial optimization. algorithms and techniques ; 8th international workshop on approximation algorithms for compinatorial optimization problems, APPROX 2005 and 9th international workshop on randomization and computation, RANDOM 2005, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 22-24, 2005, Proceedings
This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Workshopon Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems(APPROX 2005) and the 9th International Workshop on Randomization andComputation (RANDOM 2005), APPROX focuses on algorith-mic and complexity issues surrounding the development of efficient approximatesolutions to computationally hard problems, RANDOM isconcerned with applications of randomness to computational and combinatorialproblems, The volume contains 20 contributed papers selected by the APPROX Pro-gram
Approximation, randomization and combinatorial optimization. algorithms and techniques ; 11th International Workshop, APPROX 2008, and 12th International Workshop, RANDOM 2008, Boston, MA, USA, August 25-27, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2008.
Approximation, randomization and combinatorial optimization. algorithms and techniques ; 10th International Workshop, APPROX 2007, and 11th International Workshop, RANDOM 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA, August 20-22, 2007, Proceedings
It aims, in particular, at fostering cooperation among - gorithmic and complexity researchers in the field. It focuses on algorithmic and complexity aspects ar- ing in the development of eficient approximate solutions to computationally dificult problems.
Approximation of Additive Convolution-Like Operators : Real C*-Algebra Approach
Various aspects of numerical analysis for equations arising in boundary integral equation methods have been the subject of several books published in the last 15 years [95, 102, 183, 196, 198]. Prominent examples include various classes of o- dimensional singular integral equations or equations related to single and double layer potentials. Usually, a mathematically rigorous foundation and error analysis for the approximate solution of such equations is by no means an easy task. One reason is the fact that boundary integral operators generally are neither integral operatorsof the formidentity plus compact operatornor identity plus an operator with a small norm. Consequently, existing standard theories for the numerical analysis of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind are not applicable. In the last 15 years it became clear that the Banach algebra technique is a powerful tool to analyze the stability problem for relevant approximation methods [102, 103, 183, 189]. The starting point for this approach is the observation that the ? stability problem is an invertibility problem in a certain BanachorC -algebra. As a rule, this algebra is very complicated – and one has to ?nd relevant subalgebras to use such tools as local principles and representation theory.
Approximation and Online Algorithms ; Vol.3879 : 3rd International Workshop, WAOA 2005, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
The third Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2005) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications from a variety of ?elds. WAOA 2005 took place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 6–7 October 2005. The workshop was part of the ALGO 2005 event that also hosted ESA, WABI, and ATMOS. The two previous WAOA workshops were held in Budapest (2003) and Rome (2004).
Approximation and online algorithms ; Vol.3351 ; 2nd international workshop, WAOA 2004, Bergen, Norway, September 14-16, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
The 2nd Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2004) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications arising from a variety of fields. The workshop was part of the ALGO 2004 event which also hosted ESA, WABI, IWPEC, and ATMOS. Topics of interests for WAOA2004 were : applications to game theory, appr- imation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, in approximability results, mechanism design, network design, routing, packing and covering, paradigms, randomization techniques, and scheduling problems. on the reviews, This volume contains the 21 selected papers
Approximation and Online Algorithms ; 5th International Workshop, WAOA 2007, Eilat, Israel, October 11-12, 2007. Revised Papers
The Fifth Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2007) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems.
Approximation and Online Algorithms ; 4th International Workshop, WAOA 2006, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-15, 2006, Revised Papers
It focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications
Approximate and noisy realization of discrete-time dynamical systems
This monograph deals with approximation and noise cancellation of dynamical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relations. It will be of special interest to researchers, engineers and graduate students who have specialized in ?ltering theory and system theory. This monograph provides new results and their extensions which can also be applied to nonlinear dynamical systems.
