Interface Circuits for Microsensor Integrated Systems. Ebook
Interface Circuits for Microsensor Integrated Systems. by Giuseppe Ferri , Vincenzo Stornelli (Eds.) ed.MDPI, 2018.
Content:
Recent advances in sensing technologies, especially those for Microsensor Integrated Systems, have led to several new commercial applications. Among these, low voltage and low power circuit architectures have gained growing attention, being suitable for portable long battery life devices. The aim is to improve the performances of actual interface circuits and systems, both in terms of voltage mode and current mode, in order to overcome the potential problems due to technology scaling and different technology integrations. Related problems, especially those concerning parasitics, lead to a severe interface design attention, especially concerning the analog front-end and novel and smart architecture must be explored and tested, both at simulation and prototype level. Moreover, the growing demand for autonomous systems gets even harder the interface design due to the need of energy-aware cost-effective circuit interfaces integrating, where possible, energy harvesting solutions. The objective of this Special Issue is to explore the potential solutions to overcome actual limitations in sensor interface circuits and systems, especially those for low voltage and low power Microsensor Integrated Systems. The present Special Issue aims to present and highlight the advances and the latest novel and emergent results on this topic, showing best practices, implementations and applications.
The Guest Editors invite to submit original research contributions dealing with sensor interfacing related to this specific topic. Additionally, application oriented and review papers are encouraged.
Bridging Gender Gaps?
by Leonardo Gasparini, MAriana Marchionni (Eds.)
Ed.Universidad Nacional de la Plata, 2015 Number of pages: 353
Content: In the 1960s two out of ten adult women in Brazil were in the labor force, either employed or actively seeking for a job; half a century later this figure has changed dramatically, climbing to seven out of ten. This pattern has been typical of all Latin American countries, although with different intensities.
Compared to the situation some decades ago, women in the region now allocate a larger share of their time to market activities rather than working at home.
The gap with men in labor market participation remains far from being closed, and it is still larger than in several regions of the world, but its width has been substantially reduced.
Arguably, the strong increase in female labor force participation (LFP) is among the most salient socioeconomic changes in Latin America in the last half-century.
This fact not only implies a profound transformation in the daily life of millions of Latin American women and families, but also has substantial economy-wide labor and social consequences. Poverty, inequality, unemployment and education –just to mention a few social issues– are all affected by a more intense entry of women into the workforce.
Although remarkable, the long-run pattern of female gains has been insufficient to close the gap with males in most labor variables, such as wages, employment and labor force participation. Gender equality in the labor market remains a difficult challenge in the region. While gender gaps in education attainment have been substantially reduced or even eliminated, the region stills performs poorly in guaranteeing equality in the economic and labor dimensions. For instance, while Latin America ranks among the regions with relatively small gender gaps based on the Global Index of the World Economic Forum,1 the performance becomes more mediocre in the Economic Participation and Opport
The official Raspberry Pi Projects Book ed.MagiPi 2015
Content:
Just over seven million Raspberry Pis have been sold around the world. That makes this credit card-sized PC one of the most successful computers the UK has ever made. It’s quite amazing really, that a tiny UK charity, dedicated to making computing and computer science affordable and available to people from all walks of life, should end up with such an incredible success story on their hands.
You can learn more about the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s charitable and educational aims at raspberrypi.org, but regardless of what you want to do with your Raspberry Pi – be it for fun, for education, or as a proof of concept for a multimillion-dollar invention – The Official Raspberry Pi Project Book has something to inspire, help, and guide you on your journey.
Whatever you decide to do with your Pi, I hope you have fun doing it.
The official Raspberry Pi Projects Book Vol3
ed.MAgiPi 2017.
Content:
The Raspberry Pi is becoming a household name. It’s ubiquitous in the maker community, helped revolutionised computing the world over, and is now the third best-selling computer of all time. Get to know everyone’s favourite credit-card sized computer in our latest 200 page projects book!
Get started with Python and learn to program on Raspberry Pi Be inspired by projects created by community members Find out new and amazing uses for your Pi with expert tutorials Get the low down on the best Raspberry Pi add-ons and tech
Andbook! Android programming.
by Nicolas Gramlich Andbook, 2009
Content:
This document was written for developers who have previously worked with Java ™ and want to start developing for Android.
I tried to make this book as "practical" as possible, with example codes everywhere and of all kinds. I have also tried to insert as many images as possible, as they encourage the learning process and are very attractive to the reader.
However, coding is not everything and one has to learn the basics of this platform before fully understanding it. That is what the first part of this work describes. It is not necessary to read all the pages they describe, but it is recommended.
All the rest of the Android universe starts with its first lines of code and, how could it be otherwise, the best possible greeting is to make your first 'Hello World' !!
Modern Chess Strategy
by Ludek Pachman Chess ebook
Year: 1963
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
Number of pages: 329
Content:
This book does not pretend to be a complete textbook of the conduct of a chess game; neither does it claim to present a new approach to chess strategy: my aim has merely been to produce a practical guide to the study of the middle-game. Everyone who desires to take up chess seriously is interested in the question: How can I recognize the characteristic features of a position and then lay my plans accordingly? To help answer this question is the task of this book.
We begin with an examination of the peculiarities of the individual pieces and pawns. Then the problem of the centre, material and space advantage on a particular section of the board, pawn formations, and some general problems of the chess struggle are discussed.
As a foundation for the book I have used a large number of games spanning many periods of chess, though naturally examples from recent tournaments predominate. It may be noticed that my own games appear with comparative frequency. This is not because I consider them to be the best examples of correct strategical play, but because every chess player understands his own games better than those of others and can therefore best explain the thought processes he experienced during the game.
Steal this film II 2007.
English with spanih subtittles.
These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?
Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.
It has been an exciting and demanding year for us and we really hope you'll enjoy the work we've done. It would not have been possible without the thousands of donations you have given us. We have a plan for the future and if you would like to continue to support us, go here. Thank you.
Chess strategy Various authors Ed. Anders Thulin, 2007
Content:
The history of Chess Problems—a delightful subject, by the way—has yet to be written, and we are uninformed of the extent to which this beautiful off-shoot of the parent game was cultivated in former times.
At no period, however, in all probability has the attention of so many Chess Amateurs been devoted either to the production or to the solution of these ingenious puzzles, as in the present day. Chess Problems are now, indeed, a distinct branch of Chess study. This is undoubtedly due in a great measure to the immense impulse given to Chess a few years since, but it is partly owing, also, to the more attractive character of the compositions themselves. The earlier collections of Chess Problems consist largely of positions of the nature of what are called ‘End-games,’ positions in which, so long as the resemblance to a real game was preserved, little pains were taken to limit the number of moves required to effect the mate. Many of them, again, are of the ‘suicidal’ kind, and others are clogged by special and perplexing stipulations.
(...)
A volume of Chess Problems so meritorious as these of Mr. Brown carries its own recommendation, and can hardly fail of a welcome wherever the game which it serves so beautifully to illustrate is known.
This posthumous collection, has, however, another claim to consideration, and one which will be irresistible to Chess players of generous sympathies. It is published solely for the benefit of the widow and orphans of its estimable Author.
In explanation of the fact that three or four of the diagrams in this volume are repetitions of preceding diagrams, it is proper to mention that many of Mr Brown’s Problems were printed in several periodicals, and have been collected bv different hands.
Android notes for professionals.
by GoalKicker.com ,2018
Number of pages: 1329
Content:
This Android Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow.
Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA, see credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified.
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
by Dan Boneh , Victor Shoup
Selfedition, 2017 818 pages.
Content: Cryptography is an indispensable tool used to protect information in computing systems. It is used everywhere and by billions of people worldwide on a daily basis. It is used to protect data at rest and data in motion. Cryptographic systems are an integral part of standard protocols, most notably the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, making it relatively easy to incorporate strong encryption into a wide range of applications.
While extremely useful, cryptography is also highly brittle. The most secure cryptographic system can be rendered completely insecure by a single specification or programming error. No amount of unit testing will uncover a security vulnerability in a cryptosystem. Instead, to argue that a cryptosystem is secure, we rely on mathematical modeling and proofs to show that a particular system satisfies the security properties attributed to it. We often need to introduce certain plausible assumptions to push our security arguments through.
This book is about exactly that: constructing practical cryptosystems for which we can argue security under plausible assumptions. The book covers many constructions for di↵erent tasks in cryptography. For each task we define a precise security goal that we aim to achieve and then present constructions that achieve the required goal. To analyze the constructions, we develop a unified framework for doing cryptographic proofs. A reader who masters this framework will be capable of applying it to new constructions that may not be covered in the book.
Throughout the book we present many case studies to survey how deployed systems operate. We describe common mistakes to avoid as well as attacks on real-world systems that illustrate the importance of rigor in cryptography. We end every chapter with a fun application that applies the ideas in the chapter in some unexpected way.