This authoritative text (the second part of a complete MSc course) provides mathematical methods required to describe images, image formation and different imaging systems, coupled with the principle techniques used for processing digital images. It is based on a course for postgraduates reading physics, electronic engineering, telecommunications engineering, information technology and computer science. This book relates the methods of processing and interpreting digital images to the 'phy...

Would you like to live the life of your dreams?Do you watch others performing amazing feats and think “ I would love to be able to do that”?Well, in Fearless by design the author Tom Blackledge, world renowned coach and former UFC fighter guides you through ways to allow yourself to be free and how to go after all that you know is yours.Inside this book he will coach you through ways to stop your anxiety, empower you to change the way you think, and alter your self ...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities. Developed as a descriptive term to account for the increasingly stratified processes and effects of migration in Western Europe, ‘superdiversity’ has the potential to contribute to an enhanced understanding of mobility, complexity, and change, with theoretical, practical, global, and methodological reach...

This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning. It expands current debates on multilingualism, asking which signs are in use and in action, and what are their social, political, and historical implications. The volume’s starting-point is Bakhtin’s ‘heteroglossia’, a key concept in understanding the tensions, conflicts, and multiple voices wit...

What are the distinctive theoretical and practical features of acceptance and commitment therapy?Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a modern behaviour therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness interventions alongside commitment and behaviour change strategies to enhance psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility refers to the ability to contact the present moment and change or persist in behaviour that serves one’s personally chosen values.Divided into ...

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, new media technologies invent communicative genres, foster hybrid semiotic practices, and sprea...

This book forms the first part of a complete MSc course in an area that is fundamental to the continuing revolution in information technology and communication systems. Massively exhaustive, authoritative, comprehensive and reinforced with software, this is an introduction to modern methods in the developing field of Digital Signal Processing (DSP). The focus is on the design of algorithms and the processing of digital signals in areas of communications and control, providing the reader wi...

Relive the historic 1982 Penn State football season and their journey to the national championship!When the Lions Roared details that special season and the experience of playing for legendary coach Joe Paterno. Bill Contz, one of the squad's offensive linemen, shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the epic contests of that season. Dozens of interviews with former players provide unique insights into the team's dynamics and challenges.Discover wh...

This is a must-have book for anyone who practices, or is interested in, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).Most people in the psychological community are familiar with the concept of cognitive defusion. This important practice rests on the premise that many of our thoughts, particularly self-evaluative thoughts (I’m not good enough, There’s something wrong with me, etc.), do not capture the full reality of a situation. Defusion techniques are used to undermine the aut...

Written and illustrated by Shanthi Thiruppathi, The Tales of Tiggy & Tobias is a book series inspired by brother cats who live by the sea. Each book highlights a moral value from the fruit of the spirit. BOOK 3: Each morning wave that rolls onto shore, sprinkles the sandy coast with tiny treasures. As avid sea glass and shell collectors, Tiggy and Tobias are quick to spot the frosty, smooth gems shaped by the sea. But what they find one particular morning, are tracks left behind by a shell...

Written and illustrated by Shanthi Thiruppathi, The Tales of Tiggy & Tobias is a book series inspired by brother cats who live by the sea. Each book highlights a moral value from the fruit of the spirit. BOOK 2: Every seacat knows that after a hurricane has passed, the sea lays still in tranquility and beckons to explorers. Beneath the stirred up sands and exhausted waves, treasures are waiting to be found. Tiggy and Tobias gear up for a day of snorkeling. Feeling anxious for the many sea ...

Written and illustrated by Shanthi Thiruppathi, The Tales of Tiggy & Tobias is a book series inspired by brother cats who live by the sea. Each book highlights a moral value from the fruit of the spirit. BOOK 1: Tiggy and Tobias are brother seacats. They share a lighthouse and a backyard of sand but no common thread in personality. Tiggy is a brave hunter, while Tobias would rather hunt for seashells along the shore. Hard feelings are exchanged when Tiggy accuses Tobias of lacking seacat b...