Find out everything you need to know to build powerful robots with the most up-to-date ROSKey FeaturesSuccessfully design and simulate your 3D robot model and use powerful robotics algorithms and tools to program and set up your robots with an unparalleled experience by using the exciting new features from Robot KineticUse the latest version of gazebo simulator, OpenCV 3.0, and C++11 standard for your own algorithmsBook DescriptionBui...

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration and mobility with images of youth. Led by dream master Brian Wilson, their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos and compelled an audience across the nation and be...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book sheds light on the newest stretching methodologies discovered, keeping a strong bond with the traditional and ancient methods of stretching that have been used for decades.The problem with all the other stretching books is that they propose just a few techniques to stretch and then hundreds of different stretches you could never remember in a lifetime. This book’s approach is exactly the reverse: it fi...

Become your best version by changing your habits!Are you living your best life possible? Are you struggling to let go of any bad habits? Are those habits holding you back? Does it feel like something is holding you back? What if there was a way to improve to become your best version? What if the key to doing all this lies in your hands? Are you curious to discover the answers to these questions? If so, then read on!We all have immense potential within us. Whether we have di...

Since the 1980s, the pace of Latin American economic growth has been erratic and notably lower than the world average. As a result, the region has been losing relative importance in the global context, as evidenced by abundant statistical information. Latin America's lag is multifaceted; it includes the economic, scientific, technological, social, and institutional fields. The productive structure of Latin American countries continues to be characterized by comparative advantages concentra...

How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy evaluates and analyzes how Chinese and Russian public diplomacy strategies differ from the existing academic literature and debates, specifically in the context of the new disinformation era.In the context of mediatized public diplomacy, disinformation, and deglobalization, this book asks: do China, Russia, and new emerging powers take advantage by employing values and techniques attributed to public diplomacy? What if goals (dialo...

Enhancing your existing robotic skills by learning how to design and build multifunctional robots using Robots Operating System libraries and toolsAbout This BookSuccessfully design and simulate your 3D robot model and use powerful algorithms and tools to program and set up your robotsWork through concrete examples that will help you build your own robotic systems of varying complexity levelsDiscover the best practices and troubl...

Anna Maria’s Dream is an adventure story of an eight-year old girl during the time of her Mayan village’s patronal fiesta. Told in a culturally sensitive manner, this story is rich in the sights, sounds and smells encountered throughout this lively occasion. During the celebration, Anna Maria dreams nightly about local animals and their relationship to their environment and to her. In the end, she discovers the meaning of the dreams and her life is forever changed for the better. The book ...

The book reviews the fundamentals of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) technologies to degrade hazardous organics via photocatalysis of 1-dimensional zinc-oxide (ZnO). One-dimensional ZnO nanorods (ZnO-NRs) have been of utmost interest due to their high surface area, efficient charge transport, and superior photosensitivity. These features make ZnO-based nanorods exciting candidates for applications in photocatalysis. Even though photocatalysis using bare ZnO nanorods is useful in pollut...

Entrepreneurship has significant impacts on a nation’s economic infrastructure. Discovering new ways to promote entrepreneurial growth within undervalued communities can help ensure financial growth, as well as provide a boost to the current economy. Evolving Entrepreneurial Strategies for Self-Sustainability in Vulnerable American Communities is an essential scholarly resource that identifies initiatives for entrepreneurs in underdeveloped areas to utilize. Featuring pertinent topics that...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2022, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in May 2022.The 54 papers accepted for these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They deal with document analysis; medical image processing; biometrics; pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision; and other applications.

Information technology in the workplace is vital to the management of workflow in the company; therefore, IT security is no longer considered a technical issue but a necessity of an entire corporation. The practice of IT security has rapidly expanded to an aspect of Corporate Governance so that the understanding of the risks and prospects of IT security are being properly managed at an executive level. IT Security Governance Innovations: Theory and Research provides extraordinary research ...