Aided by historical examples, this book shows how a qualified defence of science is possible that occupies middle ground between ideological glorifications and radical denials or rejections of it. The book then gives a clarification of the limitations of science.

Science And Its Fabrication

Politics & Social Sciences

Chalmers, Alan

Philosophy

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging

This book explores the methods needed for creating and manipulating HDR content. HDR is a step change from traditional imaging; more closely matching what we see with our eyes. In the years since the first edition of this book appeared, HDR has become much more widespread, moving from a research concept to a standard imaging method. This new edition incorporates all the many developments in HDR since the first edition and once again emphasizes practical tips, including the authors' popular HDR Toolbox (available on the authors' website) for MATLAB and gives readers the tools they need to develop and experiment with new techniques for creating compelling HDR content. 
Key Features: Contains the HDR Toolbox for readers' experimentation on authors' website Offers an up-to-date, detailed guide to the theory and practice of high dynamic range imaging Covers all aspects of the field, from capture to display Provides benchmarks for evaluating HDR imagery

Computers & Technology

Banterle, Francesco

Artusi, Alessandro

Debattista, Kurt

Computer Science

A K Peters/CRC Press

This book explores the methods needed for creating and manipulating HDR content. HDR is a step change from traditional imaging; more closely matching what we see with our eyes. In the years since the first edition of this book appeared, HDR has become much more widespread, moving from a research concept to a standard imaging method. This new edition incorporates all the many developments in HDR since the first edition and once again emphasizes practical tips, including the authors' popular HDR Toolbox (available on the authors' website) for MATLAB and gives readers the tools they need to develop and experiment with new techniques for creating compelling HDR content.
Key Features: <ul>
<li>Contains the HDR Toolbox for readers' experimentation on authors' website</li> <li>Offers an up-to-date, detailed guide to the theory and practice of high dynamic range imaging</li> <li>Covers all aspects of the field, from capture to display</li> <li>Provides benchmarks for evaluating HDR imagery</li>
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Imaging techniques seek to simulate the array of light that reaches our eyes to provide the illusion of sensing scenes directly. Both photography and computer graphics deal with the generation of images. Both disciplines have to cope with the high dynamic range in the energy of visible light that human eyes can sense. Traditionally photography and computer graphics took different approaches to the high dynamic range problem. Work over the last ten years though has unified these disciplines and created powerful new tools for the creation of complex, compelling and realistic images. This book provides a practical introduction to the emerging new discipline of high dynamic range imaging that combines photography and computer graphics. By providing detailed equations and code, the book gives the reader the tools needed to experiment with new techniques for creating compelling images. A supplemental website contains downloads and additional information.

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging: Theory and Practice

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

This practical introduction shows how to solve complex problems on multiprocessor systems. It examines the techniques involved, presents a methodology for applying them, and demonstrates how their correct usage should improve system performance. Case studies of real problems are also included. The text begins by covering the background to parallel processing, and then goes on to introduce the concepts of parallel problem implementation, providing guidelines for exploiting parallelism within a given problem. Techniques are presented for assisting in the implementation of one's own problem on a multiprocessor system, using case studies for illustration. The text concludes by unifying the ideas developed, and providing a methodology for complex problems.

Practical Parallel Processing: An Introduction to Problem Solving in Parallel

Tidmus, John

Itp - Media

Acute CT is an exciting and challenging area of radiology which has largely replaced the more traditional forms of imaging in terms of emergency practice. Acute CT: A Primer of Emergency Imaging is a precise, up to date volume of a size and format that aims to provide a concise source of reference for all clinical groups involved in acute or trauma CT. It will serve as an ideal bench book or pocket companion for junior radiologists involved with on-call practice, while also being of value to trainee and practicing radiographers and those studying for Royal College and Board exams.Scanning protocols and the use of contrast agents in the emergency and trauma setting are discussed, and the common emergency conditions and their differential diagnoses are presented in an easily read and understand format, covering the following:- A suggested imaging protocol for the clinical problem or body part under investigation- An outline of the imagining features expected for that condition and the differential diagnosis to consider- Images that illustrate the classical presentation along with examples of less common findings and potential pitfalls with interpretation - Advice on formulating an acute report that emphasizes the key points required to determine patient management.  

Acute CT: A Primer of Emergency Imaging

Engineering & Transportation

Mankad, Kshitij

Mirsadraee, Saeed

Engineering

CRC-Press

The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 279)

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake. By critically reflecting on the various versions of atomic theories of the past the author is able to grapple with the question of what sets scientific knowledge apart from other kinds of knowledge, philosophical knowledge in particular. He thereby engages historically with issues concerning the nature and status of scientific knowledge that were dealt with in a more abstract way in his What Is This Thing Called Science?, a book that has been a standard text in philosophy of science for three decades and which is available in nineteen languages. Speculations about the fundamental structure of matter from Democritus to the seventeenth-century mechanical philosophers and beyond are construed as categorically distinct from atomic theories amenable to experimental investigation and support and as contributing little to the latter from a historical point of view. The thesis will provoke historians and philosophers of science alike and will require a revision of a range of standard views in the history of science and philosophy. The book is key reading for students and scholars in History and Philosophy of Science and will be instructive for and provide a challenge to philosophers, historians and scientists more generally.

Springer

The author of this book offers a uniquely comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. He has drawn on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others to produce a challenging work.

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Science And Its Fabrication

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging: Theory and Practice

Practical Parallel Processing: An Introduction to Problem Solving in Parallel

Acute CT: A Primer of Emergency Imaging

The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 279)

The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 279)