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The Debriefer
In 1987, DEA Special Agent Alberto Fernández was assigned to the Intelligence Office in Miami that organized anti-narcotic infiltration operations in the city. Unexpectedly, he was ordered to a place known as the "Submarine," an obscure office used by federal prosecutors for interrogations. Agent Fernández, an expert interrogator with decades of experience, was all of a sudden involved in a plot of intrigues linked to a couple of powerful characters; the Colombian drug-trafficker Pablo Escobar and the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. After the arrival of a mysterious key witness, which had been working as a pilot for both Escobar and Noriega, Agent Fernández embarked onto a series of i...
Mastering OpenCV 4 with Python
Create advanced applications with Python and OpenCV, exploring the potential of facial recognition, machine learning, deep learning, web computing and augmented reality. Key FeaturesDevelop your computer vision skills by mastering algorithms in Open Source Computer Vision 4 (OpenCV 4) and PythonApply machine learning and deep learning techniques with TensorFlow and KerasDiscover the modern design patterns you should avoid when developing efficient computer vision applicationsBook Description OpenCV is considered to be one of the best open source computer vision and machine learning software libraries. It helps developers build complete projects in relation to image processing, motion detecti...
Chasing Dictators
In 1981, DEA Special Agent Alberto Fernández, confronted the biggest challenge of his career: to stop cocaine traffic coming into the United States by way of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Panamá, under the protection of the upper echelons in those three countries. These are the real stories of two of the most dangerous assignments in Agent Fernández's life. The first one, a high-risk infiltration operation at the heart of Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier's dictatorship, one of the Caribbean's bloodiest regimes, secretly allied through the dictator's brother-in-law with Colombian capo Pablo Escobar, honcho of the Medellín Cartel. The second one; an exhaustive investigation of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega's drug traffic links, in which his personal pilot was the bait. The outcome of both stories, told for the first time in this book, will surprise the reader and add elements heretofore unknown about the convoluted saga of the U.S. relations with Latin America in the 80s.
Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing
Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing offers a new critical approach to E. M. Forster's legacy. It examines key themes in Forster's work (homosexuality, humanism, modernism, liberalism) and their relevance to post-imperial and postcolonial novels by important contemporary writers.
Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.
Fluids, Colloids and Soft Materials
This book presents a compilation of self-contained chapters covering a wide range of topics within the broad field of soft condensed matter. Each chapter starts with basic definitions to bring the reader up-to-date on the topic at hand, describing how to use fluid flows to generate soft materials of high value either for applications or for basic research. Coverage includes topics related to colloidal suspensions and soft materials and how they differ in behavior, along with a roadmap for researchers on how to use soft materials to study relevant physics questions related to geometrical frustration.
Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets
This book provides a general and comprehensible overview of imbalanced learning. It contains a formal description of a problem, and focuses on its main features, and the most relevant proposed solutions. Additionally, it considers the different scenarios in Data Science for which the imbalanced classification can create a real challenge. This book stresses the gap with standard classification tasks by reviewing the case studies and ad-hoc performance metrics that are applied in this area. It also covers the different approaches that have been traditionally applied to address the binary skewed class distribution. Specifically, it reviews cost-sensitive learning, data-level preprocessing metho...
Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Foreign Language Education
"This book offers an updated and comprehensive view of the possibilities of didactic audiovisual translation (didactic AVT or DAT) in language education, by presenting the methodological bases that support its pedagogical use at all levels of linguistic proficiency, as well as in different educational stages and contexts. The volume defines the main didactic AVT modes, accompanied by general recommendations, specific guidelines, complete sample lesson plans and sequences, and models for assessment. Didactic AVT is described in this book as an effective pedagogical resource that can improve students' language competence and trigger core factors in education, such as learners' motivation and e...
Microgel Suspensions
Providing a vital link between chemistry and physics on the nanoscale, this book offers concise coverage of the entire topic in five major sections, beginning with synthesis of microgel particles and continuing with their physical properties. The phase behavior and dynamics of resulting microgel suspensions feature in the third section, followed by their mechanical properties. It concludes with detailed accounts of numerous industrial, commercial and medical applications. Edited by David Weitz, Professor at Harvard and one of the world's pre-eminent experts in the field.
iURBAN: Intelligent Urban Energy Tool
iURBAN: Intelligent Urban Energy Tool introduces an urban energy tool integrating different ICT energy management systems (both hardware and software) in two European cities, providing useful data to a novel decision support system that makes available the necessary parameters for the generation and further operation of associated business models. The business models contribute at a global level to efficiently manage and distribute the energy produced and consumed at a local level (city or neighbourhood), incorporating behavioural aspects of the users into the software platform and in general prosumers. iURBAN integrates a smart Decision Support System (smartDSS) that collects real-time or n...
