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The dancer''s consciousness is an integral component of choreography and performance, but has been afforded little significant attention within dance theory or practice. This book, therefore, aims to investigate the development of the dancer''s consciousness and presents ¿The Dance Consciousness Model'', a model which allows dancers to access particular conscious states. Through the application of consciousness theory, the book considers the significance of the dance consciousness and investigates its nature. Methods for examining and accessing consciousness are discussed and relevant theories and practices introduced: phenomenological reduction, explicitation session, somatics, sport psychology, visual and verbal processing, attention studies, Buddhist Introspection, Bodyweather. An innovative consciousness training programme comprising practical workshops is presented, alongside instructions for applying the model within choreography and performance. The Dance Consciousness Model is the first of its kind and is intended for application by dancers, choreographers and physical performers in the improvisation, choreography, rehearsal and performance of contemporary dance.

Quantum leadership is very new and introductory approach to business leadership styles and due to its introductory to maturity phase rare business organization aware about it and implement it for business execution. The big fact about quantum leadership its based on the scientific principles and analogies of quantum physics, which is the field to know some uncertain situation of very dynamic behavior of quanta system, Which behaves non- linearly (logarithmically). If we compare our current business scenario its also posses same behavior. Today''s business is very dynamic and each day demands new changes for execution and those changes after prediction of nature and problems of business which itself has high degree of dynamisms. Thus instead of classical theories one should have to select quantum theories to design strategic business leadership call quantum leadership. This book will gives you some basic ideas and guidelines for its further development, design and implementation.

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques are the fundamental technology in several standardizations, including long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advanced. For instance, MIMO spatial multiplexing (MIMO-SM) is used to increase the system capacity without requiring additional time/frequency resources. However, the performance of the MIMO-SM depends on the employed detection algorithm. Also, multi-user MIMO precoding at the transmitter part is used to support the simultaneous transmission to several users. In this book, we review the basics of MIMO detection. Then, we introduce two detection algorithms, namely, adaptive parallel QRDM algorithm (APQRDM) that increases the detection throughput and adaptive iterative QRD-M algorithm (AIQRDM) that reduces the hardware requirements. Besides, these two algorithms adaptively reduce the computational complexity, while achieving the optimum diversity. Furthermore, in addition to introducing the state of the art of the precoding techniques, we propose a fixed complexity sphere encoder (FSE) that requires a fraction of the computations performed by the QRDM encoder, while achieving a tremendous increase in the precoding throughput.

Brushless dc motors with Hall sensors are widely used in various industrial and electromechanical applications. These machines have often been considered in the literature, under one common assumption ¿ ideal placement of the sensors, which is often not the case, especially for low-precision motors. This thesis is composed of three manuscripts which investigate the unbalance of Hall sensors and propose methods to eliminate its adverse effects. The studies presented here show that misalignment of Hall sensors leads to unbalanced operation of the inverter and motor phases, which in turn results in increased low-frequency harmonics in torque ripple, possible acoustic noise, and degradation of the overall drive performance. The presented research considers a typical industrial brushless dc motor and includes measurements, detailed models and hardware experiments to validate the analysis. The proposed averaging approach is shown to achieve performance characteristics very close to those of a motor with perfectly balanced Hall sensors.

Turnitin plagiarism-detection software was operating as a pilot program conducted by the Center for Teaching and Learning in Winter 2007 on the Brigham Young University (BYU) campus. A sample of 6 instructors and 79 student users participated in this evaluation. The evaluation findings show that Turnitin is compatible with the academic honesty environment created by BYU¿s Honor Code. Turnitin has been effective at detecting intentional and inadvertent plagiarism at BYU. It has also addressed the problem of multiple submissions of the same material. Recommendations are made for promoting Turnitin at the campus and department level. Training tools are proposed for instructors: a FAQ page, an online tutorial, and a set of guidelines for introducing Turnitin to a class.

Thanks to increasingly powerful storage media, multimedia resources have become nowadays essential resources and the challenge is how to quickly find relevant information. To accomplish this task, the text within images and videos can be a relevant key. In this work we focus on recognizing the content of the text and we assume that the text box has been detected and located correctly. We focused on a particular machine learning algorithm called convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These are networks of neurons whose topology is similar to the mammalian visual cortex. CNNs were initially used for recognition of handwritten digits. They were then applied successfully on many problems of pattern recognition. We propose in this work a new method of binarization of text images, a new method for segmentation of text images, the study of a convolutional neural network for character recognition in images, a discussion on the relevance of the binarization step in the recognition of text in images based on machine learning methods, and a new method of text recognition in images based on graph theory.

Conducting polymers are still at a research level. Commercial applications are not expected before several years.Here, we use electropolymerization using cyclic voltammetry technique to prepare some conducting polymers. By studding the kinetics of electropolymerization process we obtained the optimum conditions for preparation. The obtained polymers had characterized using several tools. Finally, we use the obtained polymers as a corrosion inhibitors to mils steel in HCl solutions at different temperatures with good corrosion inhibitor efficiency.

The neocortex is the most computationally advanced portion of the brain. It is currently assumed to be composed of a large number of "cortical columns" ¿ intricate arrangements of cortical neurons approximately 300-500µm in diameter and 2-5 mm in height in humans ¿ that might serve as the elementary computational unit of the neocortex. Understanding the computation performed by this microcircuit is one of the keys to our comprehension of the brain. The so-called cortical column is not a static entity as it evolves throughout a lifetime and continually adapts to the information from its cortical environment. Despite the differences between cortical columns across the cortex, a number of common features have been identified such as a laminar structure, the dynamics of connections between identified neurons or the mechanisms for these connections to be modified. This book presents the description of the differential connectivity and synaptic dynamics across two cell populations and the long term neuronal rewiring in a particular neuronal population within the cortical column. These results were obtained during a PhD work done at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

Knowing In Our Bones examines the personal experiences, understandings, and values of somatic educators in relation to their work and to the field of somatic education. The professional knowledge of teachers of somatic approaches ¿ such as Alexander Technique, Body Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, and Laban Movement Analysis ¿ is primarily acquired through the teacher''s own experiential learning and is embodied, rather than explicit. Teachers of somatics draw on this implicit knowing to engage with students in the context of a learning relationship. Through a process of dialogue and interaction, this book explores how the person of the somatic educator, and their own embodied knowledge, is manifested and communicated in the context of teaching and learning.

Beethoven''s apparent disregard for the technical challenges he presented musicians is well known. Yet he also developed close relationships with a number of musicians and may have been influenced by their advice when writing for their instruments. This work examines Beethoven''s relationship with the clarinet. The book begins by studying the history of the clarinet to place in context the stage of development reached during the time Beethoven was writing his symphonies. It also traces the role the clarinet had played up to that point within the orchestra. It then focuses on the clarinettists known to have associated with Beethoven, before moving to an indepth study of the clarinet parts in the symphonies themselves. This examination highlights the changing role of the clarinet through the nine symphonies and refers to their suitability for the type of instrument existing at the time.

A "convex space" has been taken as the basic unit of urban space and with a sampling of convex spaces spread all over the study area constitute a representation of the whole public urban spaces in the built form, in this case the central Business District of Nairobi. Empirical investigation has employed several data collection methods and techniques. By aid of statistical package for social scientists computer program, this data has been subjected to a scientific analysis and synthesis. The research has adopted the multiple regression models that significantly explain the variation of each environmental problem have been developed and documented. These models are significant at 95 degrees significant level. This proves that urban environment has a relationship with urban design, hence the research has accepted the alternative hypothesis that a relationship exist between design and urban environmental management. Through -synthesis, independent variables explaining the dependent variables have been sorted out into urban patterns. These urban patterns have a further been discussed in the light of developing sustainable city environments.

Feed shortage is an acute problem for livestock production in developing countries. Presently ruminant animals are reared by feeding only rice straw which is very poor in quality. Feeding value of rice straw can be improved by supplementation of aquatic plants of which water hyacinth (WH- Eichhornia crassipes) ranks first. WH contains as much as protein and minerals than many conventional forages. This plant has high resistivity with a high production rate and requires no production cost. But WH is very high in water content, which makes the plant low in nutrient density. This problem can be over come by removing some moisture by partial sun drying (wilted form) and can be used as cattle feed. This book, therefore, provides a new technology for improving the low quality roughage based diet and mitigate the chronic livestock feed shortage for poor farmer who cannot rear large ruminant only for feed cost. Use of WH in cattle diet with rice straw would help to solve feed crisis, improve animal health and gradually increase the farmer''s income. By this process the animal protein (meat and milk) will increase and alleviate the deficit protein demand for human being.

A very important contribution to the field of Performance Management and Measurement in Hotels.... This book is a must for the discerning hotel manager. This book investigates the phenomenon of performance management and measurement in the hotel industry. The book examines the extent to which hotel operators are utilising performance management and measurement techniques and provides an understanding of approaches to performance measurement in the management hotels. A comprehensive investigation of existing performance management and measurement activity is provided. A number of key performance measurement issues are discussed. The book also provides a unique insight into the phenomenon of Performance Management, Measurement, Critical Success Factors and Hotel Management. The book provides a comprehensive set of Models of Performance Management and Measurement and makes the case for a more structured formal approach to performance management and measurement in hotels. This book is the most wide-ranging book on this subject available.