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Smart toy = اللعبة الذكية
For the longest time, multiple forms of children's toys have been invented which introduces new features and capabilities. This project focuses on creating an innovative, interactive toy for children, powered by advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies. The toy is designed to be a playtime companion, offering personalized responses and activities. It ensures safety by maintaining age-appropriate and privacy-compliant interactions. Specifically tailored for Arabic-speaking children, the toy promotes language development in their native tongue. The development involves a progressive prototype utilizing various AI technologies: Whisper for Speech-to-Text, Jais13B as a Language Model, and Coqui’s xTTS for Text-to-Speech. These components are integrated into a cloud-based application powered by Rust, with user interaction facilitated through a voice-enabled edge application on a Raspberry Pi. Additionally, a smartphone application provides parental monitoring features, ensuring a safe and engaging experience for children.
Smart home
Smart home technology refers to a group of devices, or systems that take advantage of a common network. and can control it independently, through a remote control, or voice control device. For example, a thermostats at home, speakers, televisions, lights, security systems, locks, and household appliances, can all be controlled through a connection to the home network. These devices can be controlled from a smartphone connected to the internet, using touch screen device, and due to recent advances in speech recognition technology, using voice. Technology for sound-controlled home automation is at every one disposal more than ever before.
Science and technology of semiconductor-on-insulator structures and devices operating in a harsh environment ; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on science and technology of semiconductor-on-insulator structures and devices operating in a harsh environment, Kiev, Ukraine, 26-30 April 2004
This proceedings volume archives the contributions of the speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment” held at the Sanatorium Puscha Ozerna, th th Kyiv, Ukraine, from 25 to 29 April 2004. The semiconductor industry has maintained a very rapid growth during the last three decades through impressive technological achievements which have resulted in products with higher performance and lower cost per function.
Remote laboratory measurements and control for visually impaired students
Our project aims to design and implement a computer-controlled remote laboratory that can be accessed and controlled via the internet. The implemented system will monitor & control the HAMEG HMP2030 programmable power supply to enable remote users to control the power supply (determine the voltage, current limit) and read the status of the power supply channels (on/off channel, voltage value, channel current,…) The user may issue voice command to control the instrument, and the mobile application will read the measured values through the speakers.
Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures and Applications ; 2nd International Workshop, ARC 2006, Delft, The Netherlands, March 1-3, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
gurable computing has become a we- known and established research area producing interesting as well as important results in both general and embedded computing systems. It is also getting more and more interest from industry which is attracted by the (design and development) ?exibility as well as the performance improvements that can be expected from this technology. As recon?gurablecomputing has blurred the gap between software and hardware, some even speak of a radical new programming paradigm opening a new realm of unseen applications and opportunities. The logo of the ARC workshop is the Nonius, a measurement instrument used in the Portuguese period of discoveries that was invented by Pedro Nunes, a Portuguesemathematician.
Recollections of "Tucson Operations" : The Millimeter-Wave Observatory of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It begins with the construction of the hugely successful, but flawed, 36 ft radio telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and continues through the funding of its ultimate successor, the Atacama Large Millimeter-wave Array (ALMA), being constructed on a 5.000 m (16.500 ft) site in northern Chile. The book describes the behind-the-scene activities of the NRAO Tucson staff. These include the identification and solution of technical problems, the scheduling and support of visiting astronomers, and the preparations and the politics of the proposal to replace the 36 ft telescope with a 25 m telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The book also describes the installation of a new 12 m surface and the involvement of the Tucson staff in the ALMA project. Finally, it describes events leading to the closing of the 36 ft telescope and, eventually, of the NRAO offices in Tucson.
Recent advances in industrial and applied mathematics
Contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). The scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and environmental mathematics, mathematical biology and medicine, reduced-order modeling and cryptography.
Random Curves : Journeys of a Mathematician
These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere, political activism, and academic controversies relating to math education, the C. P. Snow two-culture problem, and mistreatment of women in academia. The stories speak for themselves and reflect the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.
Radiological English
This book is an introduction to radiological English. It is intended to help all those who need professional English but do not speak it on a day-to-day basis. This volume should help radiologists, radiology residents, nurses and students worldwide to improve their English in this special field.
Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications
This book about The "NATO Advanced Research Workshop on radiation detectors for medical imaging" The talks of 14 keynote speakers to the NATO workshop are published in the present volume. The presentations by A. Gektin and W. Moses were combined in one common paper, so that the present book only has 13 chapters.
Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times
This book broaches what has become a ‘noisy silence’ whereby conversations about race and ethnic relationships are understood as unbalanced, irrelevant or as too dangerous to speak about. It is concerned with the ways that race and ethnic relationships are spoken about in contemporary western societies such as Australia and the changed and confused debates that underpin those discussions. Parents and teachers at one State secondary school in Melbourne, Australia speak about race and ethnic relationships as their school community is increasingly altered by globalising, technological and population change. Newspapers and public policy debates avoid discussions about race relationships even as discussions about national identity and direction are crucial themes. This book argues that race and ethnic relationships must be understood in new ways; that the analytical frameworks provided by constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources to examine these relationships.
Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts
The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. Comparatively speaking, there are only a few studies that have been conducted in different Chinese contexts. Also, there are fewer QOL studies based on children and adolescents, or studies that examine the relationship between QOL and economic disadvantage. In addition, more research is needed to address the methodological issues related to the assessment of quality of life. It is the first book to cover research in Chinese, Western and global contexts in a single volume.
Public relations for dummies
Effective public relations (PR) can help level the playing field between you and your competitors. You don't necessarily need a big budget to establish brand awareness and a positive reputation. With enough practice, anyone can learn to think like a PR specialist. Public Relations For Dummies helps you understand the mechanics of PR and gives you all the tools you need to succeed. This friendly guide gives you practical insights on using the many components of PR to create successful campaigns. You'll learn how to assemble a PR plan, create a budget, develop winning ideas, cultivate media contacts, create pitches, leverage social media and podcasts, secure public speaking engagements, and beyond. Plus, this new edition covers the latest technology for reaching more people and analyzing your results.
Primary Care English
This book is for those family doctors and any other health care professionals involved in Primary Care around the world who really want to make useful progress in their medical English, in order to be able to read and write articles, participate in international courses and meetings, read textbooks in their original English language and visit or work in an English speaking country to enrich their professional experience. If you are one of them, then this is the book you have been looking forward to. Here, theory and practice are carefully linked for optimal learning.
Practice Makes Perfect : Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This accessible workbook leads you through English grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language designed to keep you focused on achieving your goal of total fluency.
Powder Diffraction : The Rietveld Method and the Two Stage Method to Determine and Refine Crystal Structures from Powder Diffraction Data
Crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data has attracted considerable and ever growing interest in the last decades. X-ray powder diffraction is best known for phase analysis (Hanawalt files) dating back to the 30s. In the late 60s the inherent potential of powder diffraction for crystallographic problems was realized and scientists developed methods for using powder diffraction data at first only for the refinement of crystal structures. With the development of ever growing computer power profile fitting and pattern decomposition allowed to extract individual intensities from overlapping diffraction peaks opening the way to many other applications, especially to ab initio structure determination.
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and water quality of the catchment areas are not affected. There are techniques that can attenuate peak flow during rain events and reduce the amount of metals, nutrients, and bacteria that enter the urban water cycle. This brief gives a short introduction on bioretention systems and documents the effectiveness of some 36 plant species in removing water pollutants. A summary on the maintenance requirements is also presented.
Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
Explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health surveys, heart disease and the development of vaccination policy and practice, the book establishes that ‘the public’ was not one thing but many. It considers how public health policy makers and practitioners imagined the public or publics. These publics were not mere constructions; they had agency and the ability to ‘speak back’ to public health. The nature of publicness changed during the latter half of the twentieth century, and this book argues that the relationship between the public and public health offers a powerful lens through which to examine such shifts.
Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun ; 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis
These Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis are a record of the most recent advances and emerging themes in research on light energy conversion in biological systems. This volume contains 348 edited and peer-reviewed chapters from the 824 registered participants at the meeting in Glasgow, UK, in July 2007. These contributions range from summary overview presentations of plenary speakers, through invited lectures and selected topical presentations, to expanded contents of posters from research students and their supervisors. All chapters feature novel and on-going achievements in understanding photosynthesis.These volumes thus provide a glimpse of the future, from the molecule to the biosphere, as seen by the some of the most active scientists in the world.
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II
Photochemistry (a term that broadly speaking includes photophysics) is abranchofmodern science that deal swith the interaction of lightwithmatter and lies at the crossroadsof chemistry, physics, and biology. However, before being a branch of modern science, photochemistry was (and still is today), an extremely important natural phenomenon. When God said: “Let there be light”, photochemistry began to operate, helping God to create the world as wenowknowit.
