Tag: Reproduction

January 5, 2025

Quilting Legacy 12 Reproduction Designs from a Cherished Collection of Antique Quilts

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Free Download Quilting Legacy: 12 Reproduction Designs from a Cherished Collection of Antique Quilts (Landauer) Vintage Civil War-Era Quilts to Make in Today’s Fabrics, with Backstories and Step-by-Step by Jim Shore, Jan Shore
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1639810196 | 104 pages | MOBI | 42 Mb
Explore a meaningful tribute to the quilts of America’s past!12 historical projects of quilts made during the Civil War, the most transformative era in American historyStep-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, complete patterns, and beautiful photography accompany each projectFascinating backstories for each design about the scraps, uniforms, and supplies used, as well as the influence of the time on the craft and evolution of quiltingAuthor Jan Shore is an avid quilter, fabric designer, and entrepreneur who creates unique designs and accessories for craft enthusiasts and quilters and comes from a long line of quilters within her family, instilling a love of handwork and design for successive generationsFrom renowned quilter Jan Shore comes this commemorative and skill-building project guide for quilters to recreate vintage quilts from American history using today’s traditional fabrics!

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January 3, 2025

Reproduction of Tactual Textures Transducers, Mechanics and Signal Encoding

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Free Download Reproduction of Tactual Textures: Transducers, Mechanics and Signal Encoding By Michaël Wiertlewski (auth.)
2013 | 133 Pages | ISBN: 1447148401 | PDF | 3 MB
Texture accounts for an important part of the realism of simulated experiences, and it is most certainly true during tactile interaction. We usually experience roughness by running our fingers onto the explored surface. The perception of this fine texture is mediated by the vibrations generated by the encounters of the skin and the asperities of the surfaces.Reproduction of Tactual Textures presents factors that contribute to the mechanics of the interaction between a bare finger and a surface with a view to their artificial reproduction. It discusses the recording and reproduction of tactual textures, and analyses a case study of the development of a device able to record the vibratory signal from a fingertip sliding over a textured surface. The same device is then used in a reverse way to render those previously measured signals to the user’s fingertip. These developments open new questions about the biomechanical properties of the skin and their relation to perception. The second half of Reproduction of Tactual Textures focuses on the implication of the dynamic parameters of the skin onto rendering performance, and it concludes with a study on the important features that are present in the vibratory signal and their relation to texture perception.This state-of-the-art volume highlights the importance of the mechanics and biomechanics during the haptic exploration of surfaces and their possible contribution to perception. Collectively, the findings reported are pertinent to many applications, including robotic perception and the design of effective virtual reality systems.

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September 16, 2024

Quality Management in the Assisted Reproduction Laboratory

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Free Download Quality Management in the Assisted Reproduction Laboratory by Da Li, Yingzhuo Gao
English | January 10, 2024 | ISBN: 9819966582 | 193 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
This book provides readers up-to-date information on various aspects affecting assisted reproduction laboratories and corresponding management approaches, based on latest literatures, clinical practice, and international consensus. Key points of laboratory environment, laboratory operations and quality control measures are presented in details. Last but not least, ethical issues and countermeasures of assisted reproductive technology are discussed. It will be a practical and reader-friendly resource to help reproductive medicine practitioners establish a disciplined risk and control system for assisted reproduction laboratories and techniques.

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September 13, 2024

Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power Empires Individuals

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Free Download Daniel F. Silva, "Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empires Individuals "
English | ISBN: 0367873354 | 2019 | 244 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically eclectic approach – drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, and Marxism – with the aim of forwarding current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new questions related to the signification of otherness in European expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and space. This book’s diversity in terms of approach, historical scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and Globalization.

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April 26, 2024

The Law of Assisted Reproduction Ed 2

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Free Download Seamus Burns, "The Law of Assisted Reproduction Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1526508192 | 2020 | 864 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Law of Assisted Reproduction, Second Edition examines the impact of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (HFEA 2008) and the ongoing controversial issues that surround it from legal, ethical, moral, social and medical points of view. It also examines the contribution of Parliament in fashioning the legal provisions in the amended legislation.

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