Critically acclaimed author Shanthi Sekaran makes her middle grade debut with this timely and stunning novel in which a young boy and his friends must rescue his grandmother from a relocation camp after their country’s descent into xenophobia. Perfect for fans of The Night Diary and Front Desk.Before his grandmother moved from India to the island of Mariposa, Muki Krishnan’s life was good. But now? He has to share his bedroom with Paati, his grandmother, who snores like a bulldozer and wakes him up at dawn to do yoga.Paati’s arrival coincides with even bigger changes in Mariposa. The president divides citizens into Butterflies—families who have lived in Mariposa for three generations—and Moths, who, like Muki’s family, are more recent immigrants. The changes are small at first. But then Muki and his friends find a camp being built to imprison Moths before sending them away. Soon after, his Paati is captured and taken there.While devising Paati’s escape, Muki discovers that a secret rebellion is underway, and as he digs deeper, he realizes that rescuing Paati will be the fight of his life.* Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year *
Critically acclaimed author Shanthi Sekaran makes her middle grade debut with this timely and stunning novel in which a young boy and his friends must rescue his grandmother from a relocation camp after their country’s descent into xenophobia. Perfect for fans of The Night Diary and Front Desk.Before his grandmother moved from India to the island of Mariposa, Muki Krishnan’s life was good. But now? He has to share his bedroom with Paati, his grandmother, who snores like a bulldozer and wakes him up at dawn to do yoga.Paati’s arrival coincides with even bigger changes in Mariposa. The president divides citizens into Butterflies—families who have lived in Mariposa for three generations—and Moths, who, like Muki’s family, are more recent immigrants. The changes are small at first. But then Muki and his friends find a camp being built to imprison Moths before sending them away. Soon after, his Paati is captured and taken there.While devising Paati’s escape, Muki discovers that a secret rebellion is underway, and as he digs deeper, he realizes that rescuing Paati will be the fight of his life.* Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year *
To help the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia develop its private sector and generate quality employment for Saudi citizens, the authors of this report assess the potential for Saudi Arabia to develop a specific industry -- food manufacturing -- as a means of increasing the demand for Saudi labor.
This analysis modeled the Army's ability to increase ("regenerate") its active component (AC) end strength over a five-year period in two scenarios--starting from a Total Army of 980,000 (450,000 AC) and starting from a Total Army of 920,000 (420,000 AC)--so that the Army could provide the number of deployable troops available at the end of the last conflict in 2010.
Get savvy with R language and actualize projects aimed at analysis, visualization and machine learning About This Book * Proficiently analyze data and apply machine learning techniques * Generate visualizations, develop interactive visualizations and applications to understand various data exploratory functions in R * Construct a predictive model by using a variety of machine learning packages Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is ideal for those who have been exposed to R, but have not used it extensively yet. It covers the basics of using R and is written for new and intermediate R users interested in learning. This Learning Path also provides in-depth insights into professional techniques for analysis, visualization, and machine learning with R - it will help you increase your R expertise, regardless of your level of experience. What You Will Learn * Get data into your R environment and prepare it for analysis * Perform exploratory data analyses and generate meaningful visualizations of the data * Generate various plots in R using the basic R plotting techniques * Create presentations and learn the basics of creating apps in R for your audience * Create and inspect the transaction dataset, performing association analysis with the Apriori algorithm * Visualize associations in various graph formats and find frequent itemset using the ECLAT algorithm * Build, tune, and evaluate predictive models with different machine learning packages * Incorporate R and Hadoop to solve machine learning problems on big data In Detail The R language is a powerful, open source, functional programming language. At its core, R is a statistical programming language that provides impressive tools to analyze data and create high-level graphics. This Learning Path is chock-full of recipes. Literally! It aims to excite you with awesome projects focused on analysis, visualization, and machine learning. We'll start off with data analysis - this will show you ways to use R to generate professional analysis reports. We'll then move on to visualizing our data - this provides you with all the guidance needed to get comfortable with data visualization with R. Finally, we'll move into the world of machine learning - this introduces you to data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: * R Data Analysis Cookbook by Viswa Viswanathan and Shanthi Viswanathan * R Data Visualization Cookbook by Atmajitsinh Gohil * Machine Learning with R Cookbook by Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Style and approach This course creates a smooth learning path that will teach you how to analyze data and create stunning visualizations. The step-by-step instructions provided for each recipe in this comprehensive Learning Path will show you how to create machine learning projects with R.
This book presents research-based best practices related to Employee Relationship Management and offers content area strategies that integrate employer- employee relationship in an organization. These strategies are based on the theory of organization and theory of equilibrium, which can be applied in every organization, no matter regarding the level of employment. Various research scales to measure Employee relationship management and suggestions for improving the relationship are include in this book. Following are the Chapters included in this book.
Officer special and incentive (S&I) pays are used to create incentives for officer retention to meet manning requirements. This report describes a methodology, based on RAND's dynamic retention model, for assessing how alternative S&I pay adjustments affect the retention of mental health care officers.
As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed the views of policymakers, business leaders, and media pundits alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. In Open Networks, Closed Regimes, the authors take a comprehensive look at how a broad range of societal and political actors in eight authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries employ the Internet. Based on methodical assessment of evidence from these cases —China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt —the study contends that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes.
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have been deployed intensively in recent years, and this is expected to continue. SOF membership is highly selective, and members receive lengthy and costly training, making retention of those who qualify a high priority. This report focuses on the effectiveness of monetary incentives for SOF commissioned officer retention and the development of a models to assess how such incentives affect retention.
Nidhi Kalra; Obaid Younossi; Kristy N. Kamarck; Sarah Al-Dorani; Gary Cecchine; Aimee E. Curtright; Chaoling Feng; Aviva Litovitz; David E. Johnson; Mohammed Makki; Shanthi Nataraj; David S. Ortiz; Parisa Roshan; Constantine Samaras
The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct and collaborate on applied research in energy, environment, and water issues, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. This book recommends research priorities for the new institution and reports on a survey of relevant research institutions in the region.
Melissa L Finucane; Aaron Clark-Ginsberg; Andrew M Parker; Alejandro U Becerra-Ornelas; Noreen Clancy; Rajeev Ramchand; Tim Slack; Vanessa Parks; Lynsay Ayer; Amanda F Edelman; Elizabeth L Petrun Sayers; Shanthi Nataraj; Craig A Bond; Amy E Lesen; Regardt J Ferreira; Leah Drakeford; Jacqueline Fiore; Margaret M Weden; K Brent Venable; A Barrie Black
Język migowy jest ważną metodą komunikacji dla os b gluchoniemych. Ponieważ język migowy jest dobrze ustrukturyzowanym paradygmatem, każdemu gestowi przypisane jest określone znaczenie. Gesty lub język migowy to polączenie orientacji, ruch w rąk, ramion lub ciala oraz mimiki twarzy. Komunikacja os b gluchoniemych nie jest latwa do przewidzenia dla zwyklych ludzi. Aby pokonac barierę w komunikacji, potrzebny jest zaawansowany system. Proponowany jest system wspomagania bezpieczeństwa, skladający się z tr josiowego czujnika przyspieszenia, za pomocą kt rego rozpoznawane są gesty, a dla każdego gestu uzyskiwana jest odpowiednia wartośc progowa i konkretny sygnal glosowy. Czujnik wibracji stale wykrywa stan osoby i wysyla wiadomośc do użytkownika końcowego, gdy jest wibrowany. Opracowany system pomaga osobom gluchoniemym komunikowac się z osobami pelnosprawnymi bez konieczności korzystania z pomocy tlumacza. Pomaga osobom gluchoniemym dzialac samodzielnie w sytuacjach awaryjnych, a także zmniejsza bariery komunikacyjne.
Shmuel Abramzon; Nicholas Burger; Peter Glick; Krishna B. Kumar; Cheryl K. Montemayor; Nelly Mejia; Shanthi Nataraj; Francisco Perez-Arce; Claude Messan Setodji
This report presents estimates of the gross regional product (GRP) of the Kurdistan Region Iraq in 2012 (excluding natural resources, because of lack of available data). It also describes efforts to set up a system for continuing data collection and analysis to support the annual calculation of the GRP, a critical indicator for successful policy planning."
Il linguaggio dei segni un importante metodo di comunicazione per le persone sordomute. Poich il linguaggio dei segni un paradigma ben strutturato, ogni gesto ha un significato assegnato. I gesti o il linguaggio dei segni sono la combinazione di orientamenti, movimenti delle mani, delle braccia o del corpo ed espressioni facciali. La comunicazione delle persone sorde e mute non facilmente prevedibile dalle persone comuni. Per superare la barriera nella comunicazione necessario un sistema avanzato. Viene proposto un sistema di assistenza alla sicurezza, composto da un sensore accelerometro triassiale attraverso il quale vengono riconosciuti i gesti e, in corrispondenza di ciascun gesto, vengono ottenuti il valore di soglia e un particolare output vocale. Il sensore di vibrazione rileva continuamente lo stato di una persona e invia il messaggio all'utente finale quando viene attivato. Il sistema sviluppato aiuta le persone sorde e mute a comunicare con le persone normali senza la necessit di un interprete. Aiuta le persone sorde e mute ad agire in modo indipendente in condizioni di emergenza e riduce anche la barriera comunicativa.
