Angermann, "Taxonomy Matching Using Background Knowledge"
English | 2017 | pages: 108 | ISBN: 3319722085 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This important text/reference presents a comprehensive review of techniques for taxonomy matching, discussing matching algorithms, analyzing matching systems, and comparing matching evaluation approaches. Different methods are investigated in accordance with the criteria of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI). The text also highlights promising developments and innovative guidelines, to further motivate researchers and practitioners in the field.

[b]Tax Accounting:
A Guide for Small Business Owners Wanting to Understand Tax Deductions, and Taxes Related to Payroll,
LLCs, Self-Employment, S Corps, and C Corporations

Gail Simmons, "Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater"
English | 2012 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1401324509 | EPUB | 26,4 mb
When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable advice-make a list of what you love to do, and let that be your guide. Gail wrote down four words: Eat. Write. Travel. Cook. Little did she know, those four words would become the basis for a career as a professional eater, cook, food critic, magazine editor, and television star. Today, she's the host of Top Chef: Just Desserts, permanent judge on Top Chef, and Special Projects Director at Food & Wine magazine. She travels all over the world, eats extraordinary food, and meets fascinating people. She's living the dream that so many of us who love to cook and eat can only imagine. But how did she get there?Talking with My Mouth Full follows her unusual and inspiring path to success, step-by-step and bite-by-bite. It takes the reader from her early years, growing up in a household where her mother ran a small cooking school, her father made his own wine, and family vacation destinations included Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East; through her adventures at culinary school in New York City and training as an apprentice in two of New York's most acclaimed kitchens; and on to her time spent assisting Vogue's legendary food critic Jeffrey Steingarten, working for renowned chef Daniel Boulud, and ultimately landing her current jobs at Food & Wine and on Top Chef. The book is a tribute to the incredible meals and mentors she's had along the way, examining the somewhat unconventional but always satisfying journey she has taken in order to create a career that didn't even exist when she first started working toward it. With memorable stories about the greatest (and worst) dishes she's eaten, childhood and behind-the-scenes photos, and recipes from Gail's family and her own kitchen, Talking with My Mouth Full is a true treat.

Tales of Forgotten Chicago
by Richard C. Lindberg
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0809337819 | 279 Pages | PDF | 3.9 MB

Take your teaching online by The Open University
English | March 1, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07K31TT5X | 339 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 4.37 Mb
Online learning has rapidly emerged and is now found in every area of education, from schools to skills training. More people than ever learn through online courses. Even where teaching is primarily 'face to face', online tools and interactions have become a key part of the learning experience.

Samuel K. K. Blankson, "TIME IN SCIENCE AND LIFE The greatest legacy of Albert Einstein"
English | ISBN: 1409268098 | 2009 | 274 pages | PDF | 1141 KB
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Synchronization of Mechanical Systems By Henk Nijmeije, Alejandro Rodriguez-Angeles
2003 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 981238605X | PDF | 8 MB
Synchronization is everywhere! This is the feeling one may get once alerted for it. Everyone is familiar with all kinds of biological rhythms ('biological clocks') that create some kind of conformity in time and in nature. This includes for instance neural activity and brain activity, but also the cardiac vascular system. Clearly, there are numerous other examples to be mentioned, sometimes much more controversial like the claimed synchronicity of the monthly period of nuns in a cloister, and so on. Synchronous motion was probably first reported by Huygens (1673), where he describes an experiment of two (marine) pendulum clocks hanging on a light weighted beam, and which exhibit (anti-)frequency synchronization after a short period of time. Synchronized sound in nearby organ tubes was reported by Rayleigh in 1877, who observed similar effects for two electrically or mechanically connected tuning forks. In the last century synchronization received a lot of attention in the Russian scientific community since it was observed in balanced and rotors and vibro-exciters. Perhaps an enlightening potential new application for coordinated motion is in the use of hundreds of piezo-actuators in order to obtain a desired motion of a large/heavy mechanical set-up like for instance an airplane or Mm-scanner, or the coordination of microactuators for manipulation at very small scales. In astronomy synchronization theory is used to explain the motion of celestial bodies, such as orbits and planetary resonances, In biology, biochemistry and medicine many systems can be modelled as oscillatory or vibratory systems and those systems show a tendency towards synchronous behavior. Among evidences of synchronous behavior in the natural world, one can consider the chorusing of crickets, synchronous flash light in a group of fire-flies, and the metabolic synchronicity in yeast cell suspension. The subject of synchronization has received huge attention in the last decades, in particular by biologists and physicists. This attention probably centers around one of the fundamental issues in science, namely curiosity: how come we find synchronous motion in a large ensemble of identical systems? Also, new avenues of potential use of synchronicity are now being explored. Synchronization has much in common - and is in sense equivalent to-coordination and cooperation. In ancient times it was already understood that joint activity may enable to carry out tasks that are undoable for an individual. The authors' interest in the subject of synchronization is strongly influenced by a desire to understand what the basic ingredients are when coordinated motion is required in an engineering system. We therefore have concentrated in this book on synchronization or coordination of mechanical systems, like in robotic systems. This allows to delve, on the one hand, in the theoretic foundations of synchronous motion, but, on the other hand, made it possible to combine the theoretical findings with experimental verification in our research laboratorium. This book concentrates therefore on controlled synchronization of mechanical systems that are used in industry. In particular the book deals with robotic systems, which nowadays are common and important systems in production processes. However, the general ideas developed here can be extended to more general mechanical systems, such as mobile robots, ships, motors, microactuators, balanced and unbalanced rotors, vibro-exciters. The book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 gives a general introduction about synchronization, its definition and the different types of synchronization. Chapter 2 presents some basic material and results on which the book is based. In Section 2.1 some mathematical tools and stability concepts used throughout the book are presented. The dynamic models of rigid and flexible joint robots are introduced in Section 2.2, including their most important properties. The experimental set-up that will be used in later chapters is introduced in Section 2.3, where a brief description of the robots and their dynamic models is presented. Chapter 3 addresses the problem of external synchronization of rigid joint robots. The synchronization scheme formed by a feedback controller and model based observers is presented and a stability proof is developed. Simulation and experimental results on one degree of freedom systems are included to show the applicability and performance of the proposed controller. The main contribution of this chapter is a gain tuning procedure that ensures synchronization of the interconnected robot systems. The case of external synchronization for flexible joint robots is addressed in Chapter 4. The chapter starts by explaining the differences between rigid and flexible joint robots and the effects on the design of the synchronization scheme. The synchronization scheme for flexible joint robots and stability analysis is presented. The chapter includes a gain tuning procedure that guarantees synchronization of the interconnected robot systems. Simulation results on one degree of freedom systems are included to show the viability of the controller. The problem of internal (mutual) synchronization of rigid robots is treated in Chapter 5. This chapter presents a general synchronization scheme for the case of mutual synchronization of rigid robots. The chapter includes a general procedure to choose the interconnections between the robots to guarantee synchronization of the multi-composed robot system. Simulation and experimental results on one degree of freedom systems are included to show the properties of the controller. Chapter 6 presents a simulation and experimental study using two rigid robot manipulators and shows the applicability and performance of the synchronization schemes for rigid joint robots. Particular attention is given to practical problems that can be encountered at the moment of implementing the proposed synchronization schemes. The robots in the experimental setup have four degrees of freedom, such that the complexity in the implementation is higher than in the simulations and experiments included in Chapters 3 and 5. Further extensions of the synchronization schemes designed here are discussed in Chapter 7. Some conclusions related to synchronization in general and robot synchronization in particular are presented in Chapter 8.

Masaatsu Takehara, "Sustainable Management of Japanese Entrepreneurs in Pre-War Period from the Perspective of SDGs and ESG"
English | ISBN: 9811565066 | 2020 | 274 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 6 MB
This book features 13 Japanese entrepreneurs who made a significant contribution to the development of society from 1868, when modernization in Japan began, to the 1950s, after World War II. They worked on solving social issues at the time through their businesses and succeeded in creating social value by solving social issues and economic value through the development of their businesses.

Debra Lee Baldwin, "Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties"
English | ISBN: 1604693932 | 2013 | 272 pages | MOBI | 15 MB
"Demystifies these popular low-water beauties." -Country Gardens Magazine

Leon Kempner Jr. (Editor), "Substation Structure Design Guide: Asce Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 113 "
English | ISBN: 0784409358 | 2008 | 164 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Substation Structure Design Guide (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 113), provides a comprehensive resource for the structural design of outdoor electrical substation structures. Prepared by the ASCE Subcommittee on the Design of Substation Structures, this new manual offers current recommendations developed by substation structure designers Utility engineers, structural and electrical engineers, and anyone that works in the field of transmission line substation design will benefit from this manual. Topics include: Electrical Equipment and Structure Types Loading Criteria for Substation Structures Deflection Criteria Methods of Analysis Design Connections to Foundations and Quality Control and Quality Assurance.