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The DHAMMAPADA is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the DHAMMAPADA is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. His commentary, the Dhammapada Atthakatha, presents the details of these events and is a rich source of legend for the life and times of the Buddha.
Optical Manipulation of Arthropod Pests and Beneficials
Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world. This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods. Arthropods use optical cues to find food, oviposition sites and to navigate. Light also regulates their diurnal and seasonal activities. Plants use optical cues to attract or deter various species of arthropod. In this book, an international team of experts show how light can be used successfully to attract, arrest, confuse and deter arthropods as well as to disrupt their biological clocks. The book: Presents an up-to-date and thorough summary of what is known about how arthropods of agricultural and medical importance respond to visual cues. Describes techniques that use light to manipulate pests and beneficial insects and mites. Presents a broad discussion of the potential use of optical manipulation of arthropods to improve the health of plants, domestic animals and humans.
Happy Buds
What’s the best bud when you go out to party and want to live it up? Feeling a little down and need to let go? Feeling stressed and need to slow down? Need to focus on a complicated task?Even the casual user knows the two types of marijuana, indica and sativa, and within these broad categories are literally thousands of varieties, each with its own effects. Marijuana botanists have crossbred varieties to enhance or diminish characteristics. Happy Buds is all about the effects of these varieties and the choosing which buds to select will open new doors for casual and regular users alike.Thirty million Americans openly admit to using marijuana regularly, the market for Happy Buds is already huge and growing every day. Some use it to help get their day started, some to help them focus deeply on the task at hand and some to just help them chill and end their day with a good night’s sleep.Derived from the successful Big Book of Buds series, Happy Buds gives the reader guidance with up to five choices of buds that work best for over 20 occasions. As the number of states (15 as of November 2010) that have legalized medical marijuana and the number of dispensaries grows, finding that perfect bud, seed or plant has become much easier.Ed Rosenthal is the most recognized author of marijuana books with aggregate sales over two million copies, most recently The Big Book of Buds 4 and Marijuana Grower’s Handbook.
The Big Book of Buds
This third volume of everyone's favorite marijuana resource book by the renowned Ed Rosenthal promises to follow in its predecessor's tradition and offer gardeners or connoisseurs the crucial information they want to know. Big Book of Buds brings together a tremendous amount of information on the plant and the newest varieties, with specific descriptions on appearance, ripening time and growing. Interspersed throughout are short engaging essays, interviews with the breeders and compelling images of the plants. This is a must have for all bud enthusiasts whether it be for a wish list, resource guide, or a coffee table book. Readers get an all-in-one guide offering a unique blend of useful, entertaining and practical information for the marijuana appreciator.
The Big Book of Buds
The fourth volume of the Guru of Ganja’s Big Book of Buds series is here with all new varieties from the world’s greatest seed breeders. It is both an eye-catching coffee table book and the most informative, up-to-date variety resource guide available. The Big Book of Buds Volume 4 provides information for connoisseurs and gardeners alike: descriptions of appearance, cultivation preferences, range of highs, and medicinal qualities. Spanish and California strains are included for the first time, offering more outdoor selections to gardeners in southern climates. Exciting new award-winning varieties from Dutch and Canadian seed companies provide even more choices for everyone. With valuable gardening tips and insightful reflections on the role of marijuana as a social unifier and catalyst, this is the book for marijuana lovers and cannabis converts that are coming out of the closet.
Bread Enough for All
For the 75th anniversary of The Protestant Hour and Day1 ministry, host Peter Wallace has gathered dozens of inspiring excerpts from the most powerful sermons.
Some of the most effective preachers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are featured, representing the historic mainline Protestant churches and a diverse variety of voices. Diana Butler Bass, Michael Curry, Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, Juan Carlos Huertas, and many more offer their perspectives on topics such as peace, justice, prayer, love, and community. Clergy and parishioners from across the theological spectrum will appreciate the scope and accessibility of this curated collection.
This book is a superb companion for personal meditation and devotion, or thoughtful gift-giving for weddings, birthdays, sympathy, and other life occasions. Questions for discussion and meditation are included with each topic, making this inspirational collection ideal for use by small groups or for personal study.
A World Free from Nuclear Weapons
On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even as a form of deterrence. At a Vatican conference of leaders in the field of disarmament, he made it clear that the possession of the bomb itself was immoral. A World Free from Nuclear Weapons presents the pope’s address and original testimony from Nobel Peace Prize laureates, religious leaders, diplomats, and civil society activists.These luminaries, which include the pope and a Hiroshima survivor, make the moral case against possessing, manufacturing, and deploying nuclear arms. Drew Christiansen, a member of the Holy See delegation to the 2017 United Nations conference that negotiated the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, helps readers to understand this conference in its historical context. A World Free from Nuclear Weapons is a critical companion for scholars of modern Catholicism, moral theology, and peace studies, as well as policymakers working on effective disarmament. It shows how the Church’s revised position presents an opportunity for global leaders to connect disarmament to larger movements for peace, pointing toward future action.
Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
Written by world-renowned authors, this unique compendium presents the most updated progress in pattern recognition and computer vision (PRCV), fully reflecting the strong international research interests in the artificial intelligence arena. Machine learning has been the key to current developments in PRCV. This useful comprehensive volume complements the previous five editions of the book. It places great emphasis on the use of deep learning in many aspects of PRCV applications, not readily available in other reference text. Contents: Theory, Technology and Systems: A Brief Introduction to Part 1 (C H Chen) Optimal Statistical Classification (Edward R Dougherty, Jr and Lori Dalton) Deep Discriminative Feature Learning Method for Object Recognition (Weiwei Shi and Yihong Gong) Deep Learning Based Background Subtraction: A Systematic Survey (Jhony H Giraldo, Huu Ton Le, and Thierry Bouwmans) Similarity Domains Network for Modeling Shapes and Extracting Skeletons without Large Datasets (Sedat Ozer) On Curvelet-Based Texture Features for Pattern Classification (Reprinted from Chapter 1.7 of 5th HBPRCV) (Ching-Chung Li and Wen-Chyi Lin) An Overview of Efficient Deep Learning on Embedded Systems (Xianju Wang) Random Forest for Dissimilarity-Based Multi-View Learning (Simon Bernard, Hongliu Cao, Robert Sabourin, and Laurent Heutte) A Review of Image Colourisation (Bo Li, Yu-Kun Lai, and Paul L Rosin) Recent Progress of Deep learning for Speech Recognition (Jinyu Li and Dong Yu) Applications: A Brief Introduction to Part 2 (C H Chen) Machine Learning in Remote Sensing (Ronny Hänsch) Hyperspectral and Spatially Adaptive Unmixing for Analytical Reconstruction of Fraction Surfaces from Data with Corrupt Pixels (Fadi Kizel and Jon Atli Benediktsson) Image Processing for Sea Ice Parameter Identification from Visual Images (Qin Zhang) Applications of Deep Learning to Brain Segmentation and Labeling of MRI Brain Structures (Evan Fletcher and Alexander Knaack) Automatic Segmentation of IVUS Images Based on Temporal Texture Analysis (A Gangidi and C H Chen) Deep Learning for Historical Document Analysis (Foteini Simistira Liwicki and Marcus Liwicki) Signature Verification via Graph-Based Methods (Paul Maergner, Kaspar Riesen, Rolf Ingold, and Andreas Fischer) Cellular Neural Network for Seismic Pattern Recognition (Kou-Yuan Huang and Wen-Hsuan Hsieh) Incorporating Facial Attributes in Cross-modal Face Verification and Synthesis (Hadi Kazemi, Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh, and Nasser M Nasrabadi) Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Deep Learning Era: A Case Study on Computer-Guided Steering (Rodolfo Valientea, Mahdi Zamana, Yaser P Fallaha, and Sedat Ozer) Readership: Graduate students, academics, practitioners, researchers, computer scientists, electrical and medical engineers.Deep Learning;Statistical Pattern Recognition;Random Forest Classification;Machine Learning;Image Colorization;Document Analysis;Seismic Recognition;Face Recognition;Remote Sensing;Medical Imaging00
Mini Herbal Chinese Cooking
One of the most basic premises of traditional Chinese medical therapy states, "When illness occurs, first try to cure it with food; only when food fails should one resort to herbal medicines.” Traditional Chinese medicine has been utilized for over 2500 years and is used regularly by millions of people around the world. Herbal Chinese Cooking contains everything you need to make over 30 easy, healthy, and authentic herbal Chinese recipes. Boost your vitality while enjoying a delicious meal. Each recipe has a description of benefits and the ailments treated. Recipes include: Black chicken tonic with red datesWhite turnip herbal soupChicken stewed with Job’s tearsCurried cinnamon riceFour herb tonic soupTian Qi chicken soupMiso fish soup with daikonBraised sesame beef with fennelAnd many more! Also included in this book are unit conversion tables, dual unit measurements, a photo overview of the most essential herbal ingredients, and over 30 large clear photos. Each recipe includes cook time, prep time, and serving sizes. Enjoy!
Mini Filipino Snacks and Sweets
Good food can make or break a party and this cookbook is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Filipino Snacks and Sweets features over 50 irresistible recipes to make some of the most mouth watering treats. This cookbook contains easy step–by–step instructions to make sweet and savory snacks, rolls, fritters, patties, rice, puddings, sweets, and cakes. Recipes include:Banana spring rollsCrispy wontonsShrimp frittersSweet potato chipsBarbecued chicken skewersChicken empanadasDeep-fried squid ringsPeanut brittleAnd many more! Also included in this book are unit conversion tables, dual unit measurements, an overview of essential ingredients, and over 30 large photos. Each recipe includes cook time, prep time, and serving sizes. Enjoy!