Face: A uniquely oriential belief concerning honor, respect and responsibility. Many will give everything, including their lives, for this concept.
Destiny is a young woman of two clans. She has willingly joined the ranks of the Firm to protect a younger brother who has a great destiny. But it is her role that is the question. Was she simply born to protect her younger brother or is her role in the universe a greater one?
When the unimaginable...
Someone once said: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" As Christians we tend to simply do what we've always done. In general we don't like "change". The values and doctrines that we've been taught by our religious, and often denominational upbringing are rooted deep in our subconscious selves and therefore often determine the way we live our lives. Paradigms that we have been indoctrinated with duri...
Adaptive filters play an important role in the fields related to digital signal processing and communication, such as system identification, noise cancellation, channel equalization, and beamforming. In practical applications, the computational complexity of an adaptive filter is an important consideration. The Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm is widely used because of its low computational complexity ($O(N)$) and simplicity in implementation...
The dramatic progress of smartphone technologies has ushered in a new era of mobile sensing, where traditional wearable on-body sensors are being rapidly superseded by various embedded sensors in our smartphones. For example, a typical smartphone today, has at the very least a GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, triaxial accelerometer, and gyroscope. Alongside, new accessories are emerging such as proximity, magnetometer, barometer, temperature, and pressur...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Theodore Roosevelt... this book is the first part of a trilogy, the part covering the early life, until 1921. The end of this part is at the turning point of the onset of partial paralysis. This was the most major life-changing event. This book is more about the culture and formation of his mind, it is personal, more so than political. World War I "the great war" is covered in...
Note: The second edition is available with substantial updates to the original. Please make sure you're ordering the second edition when purchasing "used" copies on Amazon. All new copies ordered are the second edition. Buying used copies doesn't monetarily benefit the author. Living Peace details a unique methodology of nine teachings and practices that help individuals cultivate inner peace. Used in therapy, education, and your everyday insp...
This novel lays bare the customs and conditions most young girls face in traditional African society south of the Sahara, while in transition from adolescence to womanhood. The priority of parents is for marriage, which produces pressure on both mother and daughter. In this story, Amina, the mother of Sadia, faces the odds of traditional settings to meet the expected standard in marriage. Dankantata is the rebellious suitor to Sadia, and again...
This book examines what happens when, as organizations become more complex, leaders lose focus and find themselves managing Organizational ADD (O-ADD) and adversarial behaviors among colleagues. The research upon which this book is based suggests a strong link between O-ADD and accidental adversaries dynamics, wherein people who should collaborate instead compete and engage in conflict. While O-ADD creates fertile conditions for the dynamic to...
La toxoplasmose est une zoonose cosmopolite dont l'agent pathogène est un protozoaire, Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii). Sa gravité est liée à sa survenue au cours de la grossesse, entrainant une mort in utero ou des malformations graves . Peu d'informations sont disponibles sur la situation épidémiologique de cette infection en Algérie où la connaissance du taux d'incidence chez les femmes en âge de procréer reste très peu documentée. À ce stade...