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| Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
| Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2005-03-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416505512 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (55 downloads) |
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
| Author | : David C. Foyle |
| Publsiher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2007-12-07 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9781420062984 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (2 downloads) |
Based on the six-year NASA Aviation Safety and Security Program Human Performance Modeling project, a collaboration of five teams from industry and academia, Human Performance Modeling in Aviation chronicles the results of modeling NASA-supplied data on two aviation flight deck problems: pilot surface operations taxi errors, and approach and landing with synthetic vision systems. The book provides a deep understanding of the aviation problems and “what-if” system redesigns of flight deck technologies and procedures. Five modeling teams describe how they applied their models to these two problems and discuss the results in terms of the specific problems addressed, the modeling challenges faced, and the modeling solutions developed to address complex, real-world situations. The book then compares the five modeling tools used, shedding light on the unique approach that each brings to bear on two qualitatively different problems. It includes a “virtual roundtable discussion” that poses questions to each of the five teams and offers take-home lessons and insights into the modeling process and its complexities. The modeling teams also explore the issue of model validation and the approach that they adopted. Concluding with a summary of how modeling fits into the system design and evaluation process, the text covers state-of-the-art advances in human performance modeling for complex systems. Critical for modeling aviation-domain tasks, these modeling capabilities can also be applied to other complex-system domains such as process control, medical applications, surface transportation, and military command and control, which share similar human-system interaction issues.
| Author | : Don Harris |
| Publsiher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2020-03-26 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0429649819 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (498 downloads) |
This book is the third in the series and describes some of the most recent advances and examines emerging problems in engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics. It bridges the gap between the academic theoreticians, who are developing models of human performance, and practitioners in the industrial sector, responsible for the design, development and testing of new equipment and working practices.
| Author | : Lawrence J. Hettinger |
| Publsiher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 597 |
| Release | : 2003-06-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1410608883 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (88 downloads) |
With contributions from a collection of authors consisting of many recognizable experts in the field of virtual and adaptive environments, as well as many up and coming young researchers, this book illustrates the many ways in which psychological science contributes to and benefits from the increased development and application of these nascent systems. Discussing issues from both a user- and technology-based standpoint, the volume examins the use of human perception, cognition, and behavior. The book builds a foundation on the assumption that these systems are first and foremost human-centered technologies, in that their purpose is to complement and extend human capabilities across a wide variety of domains.
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| ISBN | : 9780812439564 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (124 downloads) |
| Author | : Robert Anson Heinlein |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Interplanetary voyages |
| ISBN | : 9781897350232 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (973 downloads) |
| Author | : Louis J. Glaab |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Computer vision |
| ISBN | : |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( downloads) |
| Author | : Daniel M. Williams |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Airplanes |
| ISBN | : |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( downloads) |
A concept of operations (CONOPS) for the Commercial and Business (CaB) aircraft synthetic vision systems (SVS) is described. The CaB SVS is expected to provide increased safety and operational benefits in normal and low visibility conditions. Providing operational benefits will promote SVS implementation in the fleet, improve aviation safety, and assist in meeting the national aviation safety goal. SVS will enhance safety and enable consistent gate-to-gate aircraft operations in normal and low visibility conditions. The goal for developing SVS is to support operational minima as low as Category IIIb in a variety of environments. For departure and ground operations, the SVS goal is to enable operations with a runway visual range of 300 feet. The system is an integrated display concept that provides a virtual visual environment. The SVS virtual visual environment is composed of three components: an enhanced intuitive view of the flight environment, hazard and obstacle detection and display.
| Author | : Ye LiangShenLing |
| Publsiher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-11-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1647574129 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (741 downloads) |
He was the most powerful Divine General of his generation, yet he was condemned as a God. The God of Slaughter, Samsara, the man who died with grievances, annihilated the three kingdoms, won ten thousand academies, trespassed into the Demon Area, conquered the human world, conquered the Spirit Realm, fought the Beast World, and entered the Six Daos. How could the mighty God of Slaughter fear the heavens?
| Author | : Thomas Aiello |
| Publsiher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2001-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595206654 |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (66 downloads) |
In the late sixties, a rogue psychiatrist created a gated community of mental patients called Yesterday, utilizing some revolutionary mental health techniques. When Orson Littlefield is sent to the Yesterday mental facility, he is introduced to a new medication that makes his delusions come to life. His next door neighbor, who is actually just another part of his delusion, becomes enraged when Orson kicks yet another figment of his imagination into her yard. She then promptly murders him with a nuclear warhead. Meanwhile, the antichrist, a Louisiana bunny rabbit, rises to power and seduces the world. One testament later, a high school football star takes on the persona of savior for a sports starved small town. His life is naturally replete with miracles, disciples, a donkey, and plenty of sex. Interspersed throughout are the author’s own attempts to come to terms with the fact that all the characters in his story are just figments of his imagination. Newspapers come to life, girlfriends evaporate, and various characters throughout are stricken with stigmata. A social commentary, religious satire, and absurdist comedy that examines the fine line between imagination and reality: come look inside the womb of monsters.
| Author | : J. L. Bourne |
| Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2012-12-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1451628811 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (288 downloads) |
A Navy commander leads Task Force Hourglass in mission to take back the continental United States, where the undead dominate what's left of the human population.
| Author | : R Richard |
| Publsiher | : Club Lighthouse Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-07-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1926839323 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (393 downloads) |
Justin Imperiale returns from Ifrequeh, after winning battles against Warlords there. He's managed to acquire a third scroll and he begins to try to acquire the knowledge contained in the scroll.Once again, He finds drug smugglers operating in his territory. Justin figures out a way to defeat them and also a way to obtain the high tech mini submarines that the drug smugglers were using. In addition, he raids the ship that's smuggling in the drugs and obtains a valuable cargo.The real source of the drug smuggling leads to the nation of Dunvar and also to the Dunvar based Union Mining operation. Trouble brews.With the drug smuggling problem solved, Justin then must travel back to the South Continent, where some of the eastern nations are enslaving the jungle people. Justin, a few Commandos, Tapu, the men of Glyon and a few politicians then travel to the plantations where the jungle people are held as slaves. Justin and the warriors then free at least most of the jungle people. Justin also tells the jungle people how they can remain free. There's a major problem, when one plantation tries to hold jungle people as hostages. Justin and the warriors then solve the problem and build the legend of the King of The Sky.Helgryn, one of Justin's Kingdoms then seizes a shipload of illegal drugs. The drugs were apparently owned by Union Mining and trouble with Dunvar looms.Colod, the country just to the North of the Empire decides to start a war. Colod has a powerful army and an air force. Colod was able to remain free of the ancient Empire, via force or arms, and war with Colod would appear to be a major problem for the Empire.Justin notes that the problems that the ancient Empire had with Colod were due to the use of conventional tactics by the ancient Empire. Justin decides to use unconventional tactics and launches a pre-emptive strike. The pre-emptive strike works, to a degree. However, there are many problems remaining.The situation in Colod is still being resolved when it's reported that Dunvar has forced the nation of Ariby to allow only Dunvar to sell the oil of Ariby to the world.Justin then begins to seize tanker ships containing the oil that Dunvar is attempting to sell. The process that Justin uses is legal, but Dunvar wants a full hearing before the Association of Nations. The request for a hearing is an obvious attempt to tie up Justin's time.Justin figures that the Dunvar request for a hearing is to keep him from Ariby. Justin flies to Ariby and finds major problems there. The solution to the problems is simple, all Justin has to do is to fight and win a duel against a demi-god.
| Author | : Farah Mendlesohn |
| Publsiher | : Unbound Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2019-03-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1783526807 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (268 downloads) |
Robert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre's 'big three' alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His short stories were instrumental in developing its structure and rhetoric, while novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers demonstrated that such writing could be a vehicle for political argument. Heinlein’s influence remains strong, but his legacy is fiercely contested. His vision of the future was sometimes radical, sometimes deeply conservative, and arguments have flared up recently about which faction has the most significant claim on his ideas. In this major critical study, Hugo Award-winner Farah Mendlesohn carries out a close reading of Heinlein’s work, including unpublished stories, essays, and speeches. It sets out not to interpret a single book, but to think through the arguments Heinlein made over a lifetime about the nature of science fiction, about American politics, and about himself.
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| Publsiher | : Club Lighthouse Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
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| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1927337321 |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (373 downloads) |
| Author | : Russell Blackford |
| Publsiher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2017-09-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319616854 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (168 downloads) |
In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine futures greatly different from the present. Science fiction was born out of the realization that future technoscientific advances could dramatically change the world. Along with the developments described in modern science fiction - space societies, conscious machines, and upgraded human bodies, to name but a few - come a new set of ethical challenges and new forms of ethics. Blackford identifies these issues and their reflection in science fiction. His fascinating book will appeal to anyone with an interest in philosophy or science fiction, or in how they interact. “This is a seasoned, balanced analysis of a major issue in our thinking about the future, seen through the lens of science fiction, a central art of our time. Everyone from humanists to technologists should study these ideas and examples. Blackford’s book is wise and savvy, and a delight to read as well.” Greg Benford, author of Timescape.
| Author | : Qing Lian |
| Publsiher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-08-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1636314333 |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (143 downloads) |
In the past, the hedonistic young master had returned to the First Prefecture of Qingzhou eight hundred years ago and was determined to forge a legend for the clan; to obtain the inheritance to help him rise in power, to break the conspiracy, to trample on the weak, to single-handedly fend off millions of enemies, and finally to turn the tide and advance with the momentum of the wind and clouds!
| Author | : Judy Lynde Romero |
| Publsiher | : Lulu Press, Inc |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-04-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1667172581 |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (725 downloads) |
A beautiful clearing in the woods. An ugly pit of darkness. What mysteries do they hold. Young Eva Carson faces these questions in a long summer in May visiting her Grandparents cabin on a majestic Grand Mesa in Colorado. Her reality is questioned when she is confronted by numerous unexplained phenomena embarking on her stable life. Soon she is engulfed in a torrent of mysteries and struggling for a sanity she believed she already possessed. All is chaos when she discovers life is a massive question mark of fear, but all questions are answered at one time or another.
