Troy McDaniel is one of a few inmates who started and graduated from California City Correction facilities' Pawsitive Change dog program in 2016. He shares his remarkable experience of the ups and downs of his journey. Relating a lot of his experience to the dangerous yet intelligent life form of the canines he worked with during his prison term. Every human, every dog, and every situation taught Troy valuable lessons that will bring awareness and fulfillment to your life. We hear about pe...

When it comes to crime, murder is as bad as it gets. Despite civilization's advancement over the past one hundred years, murder still occurs, and it happens in places you've never heard of. People move to Greenwood, Louisiana, to escape the crime of nearby Shreveport, but in May, 2003, residents of the town could not escape the horror of a brutal murder.The body of a woman was found in the bushes beside US Highway 80 one mile east of Kelley's Truck Stop. She had been beaten and stab...

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentive them. Megacities' needs have been encouraging for the creation of smart cities in which the needs of inhabitants are collected using virtualization and digitalization systems. On the other hand, machine learning algorithms have been implemented to provide better solutions for diverse areas in smart cities, such as transportation and health. Be...

Friends and family had not heard from Julian and Alice Brandon since New Year's Day 2003. On January 5, Julian was found in a pool of blood by his front door, and Alice was in the bedroom with two gunshot wounds to the head. People from the town of Blanchard thought they were immune to the kind of carnage that occurred down the road in Shreveport, but here it was in their midst. As news spread, they asked themselves how it could have happened. Read the true story of a crime spree in a smal...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2019, which was held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2019.The 45 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on 3D mesh and depth image processing; image understanding; miscellaneous; smart multimedia for citizen-centered smart living; 3D perception and applications; video applications; multimedia in medicine; haptics and applications; ...

The book Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces is to be the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of multimedia computing (images, video, audio, speech, haptics, VR/AR, etc.) for accessible and inclusive human computer interfaces. Topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning the human senses: Vision, Hearing, Touch, as well as Multimodal applications. Each chapter is written by different multimedia researchers to provide complementary and multidiscip...

On July 25, 2010, 70 year old, Loretta Luttrell came home from Sunday School to find her husband dead on the floor, but it wasn't a heart attack or an accident; Ernest Luttrell had been murdered, and his earthly possessions taken. Murder and robbery were uncommon in the small community of Keithville, and residents cowered in fear. The field of suspects was wide open but narrowed dramatically when a tip led detectives to the witless killer. Forty eight hours later, the murderer was in jail,...

This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies. Application topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning haptic devices for sensory impairments, health and well-being, and physical impairments which are illustrated in this book. A diverse group of experts in the field were invited to contribute different chapters to provide complementary and multidisciplinar...