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The Domain of UX in Information Studies: Bridging Theories, Research, and Professional Practice (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services)

This book bridges the gap between academic and applied User Experience (UX) research, offering a fresh perspective on uniting these two communities. Drawing from their extensive professional experience in both realms, the authors delve into the varying definitions, models, and methods that distinguish academic and applied UX practices. Through a thoughtful analysis of communication styles and research dissemination, the book highlights how the disconnect and differences hinder the progress in the UX field. More importantly, the authors emphasize the urgent need for greater integration between the academic and applied UX communities. To address this, the authors present a comprehensive framework for converging these perspectives, fostering collaboration and innovation. By bridging this divide, the book seeks to strengthen, advance, and empower the UX discipline, making it an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and anyone invested in the future of UX. In addition, this book: Examines the concept of UX as defined in both academic and applied research settings, highlighting the gaps between the two Explains how inconsistent definitions, methods, and communication strategies hinder UX research progress Proposes actionable steps to bridge the gap between academic and applied UX, benefiting both communities

Domain Oriented Systems Development: Practices and Perspectives

Domain Oriented Systems Development is the sixth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series of the Information Processing Society of Japan. It draws together a collection of research papers on domain analysis and modeling written by a group of software engineers and researchers from Japan, Korea, Canada and Austria. The

Domain Specific High-Level Synthesis for Cryptographic Workloads (Computer Architecture and Design Methodologies)

This book offers an in-depth study of the design and challenges addressed by a high-level synthesis tool targeting a specific class of cryptographic kernels, i.e. symmetric key cryptography. With the aid of detailed case studies, it also discusses optimization strategies that cannot be automatically undertaken by CRYKET (Cryptographic kernels toolkit. The dynamic nature of cryptography, where newer cryptographic functions and attacks frequently surface, means that such a tool can help cryptographers expedite the very large scale integration (VLSI) design cycle by rapidly exploring various design alternatives before reaching an optimal design option. Features include flexibility in cryptographic processors to support emerging cryptanalytic schemes; area-efficient multinational designs supporting various cryptographic functions; and design scalability on modern graphics processing units (GPUs). These case studies serve as a guide to cryptographers exploring the design of efficient cryptographic implementations.

Domain-Specific Processors: Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (Signal Processing and Communications #Vol. 20)

Ranging from low-level application and architecture optimizations to high-level modeling and exploration concerns, this authoritative reference compiles essential research on various levels of abstraction appearing in embedded systems and software design. It promotes platform-based design for improved system implementation and modeling and enhanced performance and cost analyses. Domain-Specific Processors relies upon notions of concurrency and parallelism to satisfy performance and cost constraints resulting from increasingly complex applications and architectures and addresses concepts in specification, simulation, and verification in embedded systems and software design.

The Domain Theory: Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

Is this book about patterns? Yes and no. It is about software reuse and representation of knowledge that can be reapplied in similar situations; however, it does not follow the classic Alexandine conventions of the patterns community--i.e. Problem- solution- forces- context- example, etc. Chapter 6 on claims comes close to classic patterns, and the whole book can be viewed as a patterns language of abstract models for software engineering and HCI. So what sort of patterns does it contain? Specifications, conceptual models, design advice, but sorry not code. Plenty of other C++ code pattern books (see PLOP series). Nearest relative in published patterns books are Fowler's (1995) Analysis Patterns: Reusable object models and Coad, North and Mayfield. What do you mean by a Domain Theory? Not domains in the abstract mathematical sense, but domains in the knowledge--natural language sense, close to the everyday meaning when we talk about the application domain of a computer system, such as car rental, satellite tracking, whatever. The book is an attempt to answer the question ' what are the abstractions behind car rental, satellite tracking' so good design solutions for those problems can be reused. I work in industry, so what's in it for me? A new way of looking at software reuse, ideas for organizing a software and knowledge reuse program, new processes for reusing knowledge in requirements analysis, conceptual modeling and software specification. I am an academic, should I be interested? Yes if your research involves software engineering, reuse, requirements engineering, human computer interaction, knowledge engineering, ontologies and knowledge management. For teaching it may be useful for Master courses on reuse, requirements and knowledge engineering. More generally if you are interested in exploring what the concept of abstraction is when you extend it beyond programming languages, formal specificati

Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films

At present, the marketplace for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics and materials science lacks a book that presents a comprehensive discussion of ferroelectrics and related materials in a form that is suitable for experimentalists and engineers. This book proposes to present a wide coverage of domain-related issues concerning these materials. This coverage includes selected theoretical topics (which are covered in the existing literature) in addition to a plethora of experimental data which occupies over half of the book. The book presents experimental findings and theoretical understanding of ferroic (non-magnetic) domains developed during the past 60 years. It addresses the situation by looking specifically at bulk crystals and thin films, with a particular focus on recently-developed microelectronic applications and methods for observations of domains with techniques such as scanning force microscopy, polarized light microscopy, scanning optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and surface decorating techniques. "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" covers a large area of material properties and effects connected with static and dynamic properties of domains, which are extremely relevant to materials referred to as ferroics. In other textbooks on solid state physics, one large group of ferroics is customarily covered: those in which magnetic properties play a dominant role. Numerous books are specifically devoted to magnetic ferroics and cover a wide spectrum of magnetic domain phenomena. In contrast, "Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films" concentrates on domain-related phenomena in nonmagnetic ferroics. These materials are still inadequately represented in solid state physics textbooks and monographs.

Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists (4th edition)

This revised and updated new edition of Domestic Animal Behavior addresses advances in communication, perception, cognition and clinical behavior. Of particular importance are advances in the use of psychotropic drugs and the role of underlying disease in some behavior problems.

Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 4th edition

Behaviour is a significant indicator of health in animals and understanding behaviour is the key to good management. Animal behaviour and animal welfare science are fast becoming core topics in the curriclua of agriculture and veterinary students. The eagerly awaited fourth edition of Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare builds on the coverage of the previous edition, fully updating it to take into account developments over the last 10 years. This new edition covers companion animals as well as farm animal species including farmed fish. It is an indispensible textbook covering the major and growing areas in agricultural and veterinary science and practice.

Domestic Animals and Leisure: Rights, Welfare, And Wellbeing (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)

This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the contributions to the collection are underpinned by ongoing debates about human-animal relationships and the rights and welfare of the latter.

Domestic Building Surveys

This is a practical guide showing how to undertake a domestic building survey. The text describes the practical aspects of surveying with a full description of the author's own experience, at the same time drawing out the important principles involved.

Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls (2nd Edition)

This unique A-Z guide to central heating wiring systems provides a comprehensive reference manual for hundreds of items of heating and control equipment, making it an indispensable handbook for electricians and installers across the country. The book provides comprehensive coverage of wiring and technical specifications, and now includes increased coverage of combination boilers, recently developed control features and SEDBUK (Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers in the UK) boilers ratings, where known.In addition to providing concise details of nearly 500 different boilers fuelled by electric, gas, oil and solid fuel, and over 400 programmers and time switches, this invaluable resource also features numerous easy-to-understand wiring diagrams with notes on all definitive systems. Brief component descriptions are provided, along with updated contact and website details for most major manufacturers.Ray Ward has spent over 20 years as a specialist in the field of wiring domestic central heating systems and the knowledge he has gained from hands-on experience and staff training is now brought together in this comprehensive handbook.

Domestic Energy and Affordable Warmth (The\watt Committee On Energy Ser. #Vol. 30)

This report arises out of the Working Group set up by The Watt Committee on Energy to examine the issues relating to domestic use and affordable warmth. With contributions from both academia and industry, and also calling on the expertise of others deeply involved in the subject, this book provides the reader with an authoritative coverage of providing affordable warmth to those living on low means or in inadequate premises.

Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean

With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing concerns about the state of food security in the region, as declining domestic production and increased dependence on imported food create vulnerability. This study examines some of the contemporary issues impacting food production and food and nutrition security in the CARICOM region of the Caribbean. The authors focus on enhancing domestic food production as the most appropriate way to improve food security and discuss strategies for building capacity in local food production systems. The book is the product of over ten years of research by the authors. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean geography, cultural geography, food and agricultural geography, and food security.

Domestic Microgeneration: Renewable and Distributed Energy Technologies, Policies and Economics

Microgeneration – producing energy for the home, in the home – is a substantial improvement over the current centralised and detached energy model employed the world over. Domestic Microgeneration is the first in-depth reference work for this exciting and emerging field of energy generation. It provides detailed reviews of ten state-of-the-art technologies: including solar PV and thermal, micro-CHP and heat pumps; and considers them within the wider context of the home in which they are installed and the way that they are operated. Alongside the many successes, this book highlights the common pitfalls that beset the industry. It offers best-practice guidance on how they can be avoided by considering the complex linkages between technology, user, installer and government. This interdisciplinary work draws together the social, economic, political and environmental aspects of this very diverse energy ‘genre’ into a single must-have reference for academics and students of sustainability and energy related subjects, industry professionals, policy makers and the growing number of energy-literate householders who are looking for ways to minimise their environmental footprint and their energy bills with microgeneration.

Domesticating Drones: The Technology, Law, and Economics of Unmanned Aircraft

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying. Variously called "unmanned aircraft systems", "unmanned aerial vehicles", "remotely piloted aircraft", or simply "drones", they are available for purchase by anyone for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. They have strikingly useful capabilities. They can carry high-definition video cameras, infrared imaging equipment, sensors for aerial surveying and mapping. They can stream their video in real time. They have GPS, inertial guidance, magnetic compasses, altimeters, and sonic ground sensors that permit them to fly a preprogrammed flightplan, take off and land autonomously, hover and orbit autonomously with the flick of a switch on the DRone Operator’s ("DROPs") console. The benefits they can confer on law enforcement, journalism, land-use planning, real estate sales, critical infrastructure protection and environmental preservation activities are obvious. However, their proliferation in response to these demands will present substantial risks to aviation safety. How to ensure the safety of drone operations perplexes aviation regulators around the world. They are inexpensive consumer products, unsuited for traditional requirements for manned aircraft costing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and flown only by licensed pilots who have dedicated significant parts of their lives and their wealth to obtaining licenses. Regulatory agencies in Europe and Asia are ahead of US regulators in creating spaces for commercial use. Over the next several years, legal requirements must be crystallized, existing operators of helicopter and airplanes must refine their policy positions and their business plans to take the new technologies into account, and all businesses from the smallest entrepreneur to large conglomerates must decide whether and how to use them. Domesticating Drones offers rigorous engineering, economics, legal and policy theory and doctrine on this important and far-reaching development within aviation.

Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives And America's Civilizing Mission

Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U. S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an integral part of America's national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and Caribbean, and to promote unilateral-at times military-interventionism throughout Asia. In our age of "smart bombs" and mobile warfare, technological aptitude remains preeminent in validating America's global mission. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign societies in our image has endured from the early decades of colonization to our current crusade to implant American-style democracy in the Muslim Middle East. Dominance by Design explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded the U. S. 's policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that sustain the civilizing mission, Adas gives us an essential guide to America's past and present role in the world as well as cautionary lessons for the future.

Dominando Drones: O Guia Básico para Começar a Ganhar Dinheiro com Drones

Estas informações são a razão pela qual escrevi este livro. De acordo com minhas pesquisas, o ano de 2015 será marcante para os drones. Agora é a hora de empreender para ganhar dinheiro com estes dispositivos. Drones comerciais e seus serviços devem se tornar uma indústria multibilionária na próxima década, de acordo com um novo relatório da empresa de inteligência de mercado Tractica. O relatório diz que, em 2017, a receita de drones deve totalizar US$ 792 milhões - principalmente com vendas de hardware. Até 2025, a Tractica prevê que o mercado aumentará para US$ 12,6 bilhões, com dois terços da receita proveniente de serviços baseados em drones e não de hardware. "Várias indústrias importantes estão vendo futuro na utilização de drones para uso comercial", diz Manoj Sahi, analista de pesquisa da Tractica. Ele citou a mídia, o setor imobiliário e a assistência a desastres como apenas alguns dos setores que poderiam usar serviços habilitados para drones. O relatório afirma que os avanços tecnológicos, as economias de escala, os aplicativos baseados em nuvem e o desejo de romper com o mercado contribuirão para o sucesso comercial dos drones nos próximos anos.

Dominando Litecoin: Um guia para iniciantes começarem a ganhar dinheiro com Litecoin

Litecoin foi criado como uma alternativa ao Bitcoin para compensar as suas falhas notáveis, e foi desenvolvido para ser “leve” e mais abundante que o Bitcoin. Litecoin também possui quase zero custo de pagamento e facilita as transações, realizadas aproximadamente quatro vezes mais rápido que o Bitcoin. Sumário Introdução ao Litecoin 1. Carteiras de criptomoedas 2. Como comprar Litecoin 3. Minerando Litecoin e outras altcoins 4. O melhor investimento: Bitcoin ou Litecoin 5. Carteiras Litecoin 6. Bitcoin x Litecoin 7. Invista em Litecoin 8. A influência do SegWit 9. Usuários da Coinbase 10. A segunda maior moeda 11. Trabalhando com bitcoins 12. O objetivo da blockchain 13.Feathercoin 14. ICO 15. Entendendo a criptoeconomia 16. Criptomoeda: O guia definitivo Referências

Dominando Litecon. La Moneda ligera.

Nuestro autor es un empresario que siempre ha buscado resalatar la importancia de la criptomoneda a nivel global, tomando en consideración las necesidades de las personas que de igual manera se interesan en nuevos recursos intercambiarios. Con esta guía nos daremos cuenta de la importancia de conocer a las nuevas monedasm, en especial, las criptomonedas.

A Dominant Character: The Science and Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

J.B.S. Haldane, scientist extraordinaire—born in Britain yet spiritually bound to India—remains one of the most enigmatic geniuses of the modern era. Here is a man who saw action in two world wars, engaged in the most radical politics of his day, conducted groundbreaking scientific research, and wrote with flair and conviction—yet Haldane&’s universe remains shrouded in mystery. <P><P>Award-winning author Samanth Subramanian’s latest offering undoes this travesty. Besides shedding light on Haldane’s contributions to genetics and evolutionary biology—he was the first to calculate the rate at which mutations occur and accumulate in genes—the book illuminates Haldane&’s inner world—his towering intellect, his radical vision of society, his provocative philosophy, and his attempts a wrestling with the essential moral questions that scientific progress must raise. <P><P>Equally, the book dwells on Haldane’s years in India—his journey to the nation; his affiliation with the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta; his attachment to the Genetics and Biometry Laboratory in Bhubaneshwar (where he died). Dronamraju’s description of Haldane as ‘the last man who knew everything’ was, at its simplest, an acknowledgement of his command over multiple subjects. But it was also an astute observation that Haldane’s era was the last time when the realms of scientific knowledge were limited enough for a single person to apprehend in near-entirety. To know everything was to see the forces of the world unified and to conceive of life in its full complexity. A Dominant Character will give readers a taste of that heady sensation.

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science And Restless Politics Of J. B. S. Haldane

A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote his first scientific paper; to his numerous experiments on himself, including inhaling dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and drinking hydrochloric acid; to his clandestine research for the British Admiralty during the Second World War. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers hailed him as a polymath. One student called him “the last man who might know all there was to be known.” He foresaw in vitro fertilization, peak oil, and the hydrogen fuel cell, and his contributions ranged over physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematics, and biostatistics. He was also a staunch Communist, which led him to Spain during the Civil War and sparked suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio—all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. It is the duty of scientists to think politically, Haldane believed, and he sought not simply to tell his readers what to think but to show them how to think. Beautifully written and richly detailed, Samanth Subramanian’s A Dominant Character recounts Haldane’s boisterous life and examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics—questions that resonate even more urgently today.

Dominar Apple TV 4K: Guía de usuario definitiva para Apple TV con Siri

Cuando usted escucha hablar de Apple TV inmediatamente piensa que lo que usted está comprando es una TV Real. Pero no es el caso. La Apple TV es un dispositivo que usted utilizará realmente para que le transmita algo y que es parecido al Fire de Amazon o al Roku. Es una pequeña caja negra de alrededor de una pulgada y media de alto, y sólo un poco menos que cuatro pulgadas, que funciona en una plataforma muy similar al iPad y los populares iPhones. Usted puede descargar una lista de apps y además juegos más allá de la transmisión standard de video que usted podría obtener desde Hulu, Netflix y Amazon por solamente nombrar algunos. La Apple TV ha sido centrada en varias apps, y todavía es capaz de transmitir múltiples shows de TV, y películas directamente en su HDTV, pero esto es solamente la punta del iceberg de las características con las que esta caja ha sido fabricada. La caja le permite a usted ver y transmitir podcasts, jugar a su juego favorito, transmitir su lista de ejercicios, y mucho más. Pero lo que es importante notar, para disfrutar de todos estos beneficios con los que esta caja está lista para proveerle es que todo dependerá de las apps que usted haya instalado. Algunas de las apps que usted utilizará son gratis, y algunas le costarán. Piénselo de esta manera; la Apple TV es capaz de transformar a su TV en una Smart TV. Incluso puede rentar sus películas favoritas o solamente transmitir su colección desde su cuenta de iTunes. Además puede transmitir shows de películas desde apps como Hulu Plus o Netflix; transmitir su música desde las apps de Pandora o Apple Music. Quiero decir que la lista es interminable en aquello que la Apple TV puede hacer por usted. La Apple TV 4K ha sido diseñada con algunos de los procesadores más rápidos que usted pueda encontrar, los mismos que alimentan al iPad Pro. La caja de Apple TV ha sido hecho para ser tan poderosa como la mayoría de las laptops que utilizamos. Además posee un procesador g

Domine Los Drones, Guía Básica para Comenzar a Ganar Dinero con los Drones

Se espera que los drones comerciales y sus servicios se conviertan en una industria multibillonaria en la próxima década, de acuerdo con un nuevo informe de la firma de inteligencia de mercados Tractica. El informe indica que en 2017 los ingresos generados por los drones deben llegar a aproximadamente US$792 millones, principalmente por ventas de equipos. Para 2025, Tractica predice que este mercado crecerá hasta alcanzar US$12.600 millones, donde las dos terceras partes de estos ingresos vendrán más de servicios prestados por drones que de ventas de equipos. “Hay varias industrias importantes que están viendo fuertes propuestas de valor en la utilización de drones para uso comercial” dice Manoj Sahi, analista de investigación de Tractica. El nombra a los medios, los bienes raíces y la asistencia a casos de desastres, como solo algunas de las industrias que podrían usar servicios prestados por drones. El informe dice que los avances en la tecnología, las economías de escala, las aplicaciones basadas en la nube y el deseo de trastornar el mercado contribuirán al éxito comercial de los drones en los próximos años.

The Dominion of the Air

The Donkey Companion: Selecting, Training, Breeding, Enjoying & Caring for Donkeys

Strong, intelligent, dependable, friendly, and extremely versatile, donkeys are the perfect farm companion. Whether you use your animal to pull carts, till fields, or protect livestock, you’ll benefit from this practical and inspirational guide to working with and caring for your donkey. Providing expert advice on selecting the right breed for your needs, daily maintenance, training, and first aid, Sue Weaver also includes plenty of fun facts and charming donkey anecdotes. Raise a happy and healthy donkey!