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National Geographic angry birds : 50 true stories of the fed up, feathered, and furious /
\"This hilariously eye-popping book showcases real-world angry birds and 50 fantastic stories peppered with tips to avoid them, as well as fascinating facts about angry bird behavior. In addition to the funny and light-hearted real-life angry bird stories, National Geographic Angry Birds: Fed up, Feathered, and Furious will tell, for the first time ever, the story of the Angry Birds we all know and love from the hit game. Angry Bird fans will finally get to learn the personality, name, and all the details of each of the iconic Angry Birds.\"--Provided by publisher.
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First-Arrival Differential Counting for SPAD Array Design
We present a novel architecture for the design of single-photon detecting arrays that captures relative intensity or timing information from a scene, rather than absolute. The proposed method for capturing relative information between pixels or groups of pixels requires very little circuitry, and thus allows for a significantly higher pixel packing factor than is possible with per-pixel TDC approaches. The inherently compressive nature of the differential measurements also reduces data throughput and lends itself to physical implementations of compressed sensing, such as Haar wavelets. We demonstrate this technique for HDR imaging and LiDAR, and describe possible future applications.
Journal Article
The growing trend of living small : a critical approach to shrinking domesticities
\"This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a catch-all solution to the stresses of modern life and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Shrinking living space is being repackaged in a neoliberal capitalist context as a lifestyle choice rather than the consequence of diminishing choice in the face of what has become a long-term housing 'crisis'. What does this mean for how we live in the long term, and is there a dark side to the promise of a simpler, more sustainable home life? Shrinking Domesticities brings together research from across the social sciences, planning and architecture to explore these issues. From co-living developments to the Tiny House movement, self-storage units to practices of 'de-stuffification', and drawing on examples from across Europe, North America and Australasia, the authors of this volume seek to understand both what micro-living is bringing to our societies, and what it may be eroding\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cmos Computational Camera Sensors for Imaging through Scattering Media
Computational imaging as a field has exploded in the past three decades, as new methods and techniques have been developed to overcome traditional digital imaging limitations. The focus of most of this progress has been in either the pre-sensor optics and illumination, or in the post-sensor software and data processing. Little attention has been given to the sensor itself. This work aims to fill that gap.I present two novel CMOS image sensors for use in computational cameras which are designed to detect time as a descriptive dimension of light. The first sensor exploits the wave nature of light as well as the ability to build nano-scale diffraction gratings directly into the integrated circuit. The prototype demonstrates a technique to directly capture phase shifts of a light field, which can be used for holography or optical coherence tomography applications. The second is based upon the particle nature of light, and addresses the practical challenges of data bandwidth and silicon footprint for developing megapixel arrays of single-photon sensors.This work builds towards the goal of developing full imaging systems that can, in a compact format, see through scattering media such as fog or human tissue.
Dissertation
Information seeking behaviors in a population of assistive mobility device users
The author explores the current state of information exchange and access in the procurement process for mobility assistive equipment. While the idealized model is of a linear process starting with a need and ending with the purchase, in practice the procedures for acquiring a device such as a wheelchair or electric scooter can be a timeconsuming task that involves client, family, medical care specialists, vendors, manufacturers, insurance companies and possibly alternate sources of funding. This study utilized Participatory Action Research (PAR) to collect both qualitative and quantitative data about information sources such as the Internet, the medical community, and vendors. The findings of this study suggest that in spite of the presence of the Internet, overall primary sources are similar to the traditional model and that for most there is no one source that could be easily accessed for information. A brief examination is made of the “Information landscape” utilized in the process and a brief discussion of two relatively unmentioned information sources: expos and the wheelchair sports community.
Dissertation
Beyond beads and Bourbon Street
There's no better way to learn about Louisiana's early days than at the cathedral's next-door neighbor, the Cabildo (701 Chartres St.; (504) 568-6968; lsm.crt.state.la.us), one of several units of the Louisiana State Museum. Exhibits in the 1799 building interpret regional history from American Indian tribes to post-Civil War Reconstruction. On the other side of the cathedral stands the Presbytere (751 Chartres St.; (504) 568-6968; lsm.crt.state.la.us), a 1790s building home to a frenetic, entertaining museum dedicated to Mardi Gras. Displays on music, costumes, traditions, personalities and behind-the-scenes details help you understand all the arcane stuff about krewes, kings, balls and parades. Another unit of the State Museum, the 1835 building minted coins for the federal and Confederate governments. Now it's home to a very educational exhibit on the origins of jazz and the critical role New Orleans musicians played in its birth. You'll learn about \"spasm\" bands of street kids, ragtime players and brass bands, all of which played roles in early jazz. You'll get acquainted with legends Buddy Bolden, Papa Jack Laine, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, who played cornet in a local boys home band (his first horn is displayed in a place of honor). St. Louis Cathedral towers above Jackson Square.; a leucistic American alligator with blue eyes and a white hide; A crowd gathers inside the imaginative National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.; Here, Two new streetcars cars move along Canal Street.; Bands; play Dixieland music at Preservation Hall.; Map of New Orleans locates: Old U.S. Mint, Pirates Alley, St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo, Jackson Square, Aquarium of the Americas, Louisiana Childre's Museum and D-Day Museum.; Photo: PHOTO, Associated Press photos, (5); MAP, MICHAEL GUILLEN
Newspaper Article
Man and Manatee
\"Does human interaction with the Florida manatee help or hurt these wild animals?\" (National Geographic Explorer!) Read more about manatees and how people interact with them.
Magazine Article
Natchitoches: A past scented with magnolias
It might have grown into a major city, but in the 19th century the Red River, which once flowed through town, changed its course and left Natchitoches on a cut-off oxbow, now called Cane River Lake. As a result, so many architecturally and historically significant structures were saved from probable redevelopment that central Natchitoches has been designated one of just two National Historic Landmark Districts in all of Louisiana; the other is New Orleans' French Quarter. If it's your first trip to Natchitoches, stop at the Louisiana state historic site not far from the American Cemetery. There Fort St. Jean Baptiste replicates the French-garrisoned post that stood alongside the Red River in the early 18th century, with rough-hewn cypress buildings set inside a palisade of more than 2,000 pine logs. Fort St. Jean Baptiste, exterior; The African House, on the ground of the Melrose Plantation, exterior; St. Augustine Catholic Church in Natchitoches, exterior; Map of Louisiana locates Lafayette, Scott, Breaux Bridge, St. Martinville and Baton Rouge.; Photo: PHOTO, Photos courtesy Natchitoches Convention Bureau, (3); MAP
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