English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367555352 , 0367555336 | 199 pages | True PDF | 2.1 MB
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the key topics, best practices, future opportunities and challenges in the Digital Marketing discourse. With contributions from world-renowned experts, the book covers:

English | 2019 | ISBN: 1292269243 , 978-1292318103 | 509 pages | True PDF | 23.98 MB
This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 0170416046 | 558 pages | True PDF | 31.57 MB
Building and Construction Management, 1e is a competency-based text, addressing the Certificate IV in Building and Construction. The text has practice activities and worksheets, and addresses structural principles, Codes, Standards and legal requirements. A technical glossary is included, as well as appendices containing additional learning material.

English | 20218 | ISBN: 1352001896| 398 pages | True PDF | 34.77 MB
Gain the knowledge, hands-on skills, and industry insights you need to succeed with this proven guide to the latest and best practices in residential electrical wiring. Completely up to date with the 2017 National Electrical Code and key Home Builders Institute (HBI) National Skill Standards, this vividly illustrated, full-color text will give you a thorough grounding in basic residential wiring concepts. In addition, you'll learn about ""green"" topics such as sustainable building practices and alternative energy systems, as well as practical applications, real-world scenarios, and safety practices you're likely to encounter on the job. With special features to reinforce learning in every chapter, plus helpful print and digital support materials, RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY: HOUSE WIRING, Fifth Edition, is your ideal resource for career success.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 1527256405 | 121 pages | PDF | 102.49 MB
Presented here is a detailed step-by-step guide to building a house model from scratch and transforming it into finished construction documents. Our book contains tips and tricks about how to go from a sketch to fully finished Plans, Sections, Elevations and Details. Each page is painstakingly designed to make it extremely clear how every step works. This course was formulated from years of experience not only using SketchUp in practise but teaching professionals and students from many different backgrounds. Written by an experienced architect who has used SketchUp to design and project-many types of jobs from a house extension to commercial office buildings, it has been shaped by extensive practise of design and building. Some of the best professional workflows you'll find anywhere are contained within the course material. Learning the tools is fundamentally important, but more than that we need to understand how tools and settings work together in the most effective way. Structured around a building project which was designed and project managed by the author, the course details all the steps required to construct walls, windows, doors, roof in a professional manner using correct naming procedures. Elements are organised according to best practise. Groups and Components must be correctly located to be truly effective, and a proper method for structuring elements is clearly outlined in a unique, comprehensive graphic. Each concept is clearly documented including Groups, Section Cuts, Styles, Scenes (or Views), Perspectives vs Orthogonal Views.Tools are each used in a challenging context so that the reader gets an in-depth understanding of how each works in practise. Pages are set out using ultra-clear graphics which link each step with a visual reference. Our model is built up in a way that follows the real-life construction process: Walls are laid out at the same time that floor slabs are formed; Windows are put in place inside the wall structure; Internal Walls are constructed and doors are inserted; Finally the roof is created complete with rooflights. The procedure for creating and locating Component Libraries is demonstrated.The model then undergoes a process of Section Cut placement. Scenes (Views) are set up using the Section Cuts; These constitute our Plans, Sections and Elevations. Textures are added to elements. Materials selection and creation is explained in detail. Following on from this is the creation of a construction detail based on the main model. Using a bespoke SketchUp model environment, the formation of a comprehensive 3D detail is illustrated complete with Scenes.Once the model and its views have been prepared, it is then ready to be placed into LayOut, SketchUp Pro's graphics interface. Each Scene is inserted into LayOut, sized and scaled. Notes and graphics are applied using text, callouts, lines. There is a unique section on creating a scaled 2D drawing in LayOut, using the program's vector graphics in a way that is as clear as any 2D CAD program. The Scrapbook Menu is a means of swiftly importing graphics that are both pre-loaded but can also be quickly added to. Procedures for creating our own graphics library is explained. Recommended sizes for text, line weights and dimensions are illustrated. Each menu in LayOut is explained in detail.There are five "Killer Keystrokes" included in the book. These are shortcuts that have a massive impact on modelling time and convenience. Creation of shortcut keys is also explained.In the introduction section there are explanations of SketchUp's BIM capabilities. Further details are linked on SketchUp.Expert website, and links to BIM use-cases are provided. There is also a critique of 2D CAD and why SketchUp Pro is better to use for traditional CAD work.SketchUp has become the new "de-facto norm" for architecture and design professionals. There is simply no better way to illustrate design while translating into documentation.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367710064 | 457 pages | pdf | 3.48 MB
This book provides comprehensive, rigorous and up-to-date coverage of key issues that have emerged in the first quarter of the 21st Century in transnational construction arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198850247 | 316 pages | True PDF | 101.51 MB
The global loss of biodiversity is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Despite the considerable effort devoted to conservation science and management, we still lack even the most basic data on the distribution and density of the majority of plant and animal species, which in turn hampers our efforts to study changes over time. In addition, we often lack behavioural data from the very animals most influenced by environmental changes; this is largely due to the

English | 2021 | ISBN: 153619378X , 978-1536193787 | 162 pages | True PDF | 6.05 MB
Ethics is an important basis for controlling and regulating human behaviour in all areas of life, including but not limited to dealing with other people at work. This book covers ethical issues related to the field of information technology and computing, and discusses some of the ethical issues from the perspective of the Arabic and Islamic cultures. The book concentrates on understanding the legal, ethical, and societal issues related to the field of information technology and computing without indulging into the implications of these issues on other fields, such as music or painting copyrights. The book is well suited for undergraduate and graduate students in colleges and universities in the Middle East and Islamic world. The book also provides an excellent foundation in ethical, legal and cultural decision-making for current and future professionals, practitioners and managers in the field of computer science and information technology. The book covers many fundamental and contemporary topics, including: Ethical theories, philosophy, responsibility and code of ethics; History of computing ethics and ethics for the computing professions; Professional ethics in Islam; Negative uses of computers and the Internet; Privacy, anonymity and position of Islam on privacy; Ethical issues related to software piracy and intellectual property; Supporting and opposing Islamic views on intellectual copyright; Ethical Issues related to globalisation; Ethicality of threats and violation to information security; Hackers, vandals, spyware and network security risks.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1636392431 , 978-1636392431 | 138 pages | True PDF | 2.93 MB
Human visual perception is limited to the visual-optical spectrum. Machine vision is not. Cameras sensitive to the different infrared spectra can enhance the abilities of autonomous systems and visually perceive the environment in a holistic way. Relevant scene content can be made visible especially in situations, where sensors of other modalities face issues like a visual-optical camera that needs a source of illumination. As a consequence, not only human mistakes can be avoided by increasing the level of automation, but also machine-induced errors can be reduced that, for example, could make a self-driving car crash into a pedestrian under difficult illumination conditions. Furthermore, multi-spectral sensor systems with infrared imagery as one modality are a rich source of information and can provably increase the robustness of many autonomous systems. Applications that can benefit from utilizing infrared imagery range from robotics to automotive and from biometrics to surveillance. In this book, we provide a brief yet concise introduction to the current state-of-the-art of computer vision and machine learning in the infrared spectrum. Based on various popular computer vision tasks such as image enhancement, object detection, or object tracking, we first motivate each task starting from established literature in the visual-optical spectrum. Then, we discuss the differences between processing images and videos in the visual-optical spectrum and the various infrared spectra. An overview of the current literature is provided together with an outlook for each task. Furthermore, available and annotated public datasets and common evaluation methods and metrics are presented. In a separate chapter, popular applications that can greatly benefit from the use of infrared imagery as a data source are presented and discussed. Among them are automatic target recognition, video surveillance, or biometrics including face recognition. Finally, we conclude with recommendations for well-fitting sensor setups and data processing algorithms for certain computer vision tasks. We address this book to prospective researchers and engineers new to the field but also to anyone who wants to get introduced to the challenges and the approaches of computer vision using infrared images or videos. Readers will be able to start their work directly after reading the book supported by a highly comprehensive backlog of recent and relevant literature as well as related infrared datasets including existing evaluation frameworks. Together with consistently decreasing costs for infrared cameras, new fields of application appear and make computer vision in the infrared spectrum a great opportunity to face nowadays scientific and engineering challenges.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1292405465 | 797 pages | True PDF | 58.94 MB
A top-down,layered approach to computer networking.