... The words and expressions used in an email can make it formal or informal Some examples are: formal - to receive / to inform / to assist / to contact informal - to get / to tell / to help / to ... Focus on the Message not the Words Sometimes trying to understand the words in an email may not actually provide you with the true meaning of the message How you “unlock” the secrets to understanding ... When you just don’t understand a message, it’s best to write an email back tothe writer to check for understanding Never say “I don’t understand your message” rather take a couple of the keywords...
... stack smoother, it is possible to find the equivalent smoother in the integer domain by replacing the binary AND and OR Boolean functions acting on the xi ’s with max and operations acting on the multilevel ... next tothe image detail features The distinct response of the CWM smoother in different regions of the image is due tothe fact that images are nonstationary in nature Abrupt changes in the image’s ... vertical zoom factors are different The simplest way to accomplish zooming of arbitrary scale is to double the size of the original as many times as needed to obtain an image larger than the target...
... restoration algorithms Let g be the observed noisy and blurred image, D the operator describing the degradation system, f the input tothe system, and v the noise added tothe output image The ... energy of the restored image, therefore requiring that the restored image is smooth On the other hand, by enforcing inequality (15.36) the fidelity tothe data is preserved Following the Lagrangian ... assumed to be equal tothe mean value of the image, yielding dominant horizontal oscillation patterns due tothe restoration of the horizontal motion blur Two solutions tothe boundary value problem...
... to be beyond the scope and level of this chapter It is the hope and the expectation of the authors that the presented material will form a good introduction tothe topic for the engineer or the ... of the regularization parameter, while the variance of the estimate is a monotonically decreasing function of the estimate This implies that the MSE of the estimate, the sum of the bias and the ... operators on f and d, respectively, imposing constraints on the unknowns These operators, as was the case in Section 15.4.3, are generally used to constrain the high-frequency energy of the restored...
... variables The reason for the monotonic relation between the square of the structure term of the SSIM index applied in the subband filtered domain and the IFC index is due tothe assumption that the ... derived from the 29 images to yield a total of 779 distorted images, which, together with the undistorted images, were then evaluated by human subjects The raw scores were processed to yield difference ... ■ Authentication and tamper-proofing In this case, the role of the watermark is to verify the authenticity and integrity of a digital item for the benefit of either the owner/distributor or the...
... scaling in the spatial domain are mapped to translation in the LPM domain Invariance to these translations is achieved by taking again the amplitude of the Fourier of the LPM Taking the Fourier ... texture masking factor The edge proximity factor refers tothe fact that the higher the luminance difference of an edge is, the less the visual sensitivity is at the vicinity of the edge However, ... to a nonwhite watermark spectrum matched with the MTF, which was not the case for the spatial domain-based version of the NVF The second reason to use wavelet domain embedding is the desire to...
... attached tothe front of the camera as illustrated in Fig 26.2(a) The collimated camera is only sensitive to gamma rays traveling in a direction parallel tothe holes in the collimator The total ... perpendicular to a The source point a is assumed never to lie on the scanner axis e The u-axis lies in the detector plane in the direction e ϫ a The v-direction is perpendicular to u and points in the ... pixel in the camera will be approximately proportional tothe total activity (or line integral) along the line that passes through the patient and is parallel tothe holes in the collimator Thus...
... we have the sound playing, we are going to give the user 303 THEESSENTIAL GUIDE TO FLASH CS4 the ability to control whether they want to hear it by toggling the button that we placed on the banner ... 10-18 Naming your button symbol The button should open immediately on the stage, ready for you to edit If it doesn’t, double-click the sound_btn button in the Library The button symbol will open ... attach your sound to 11 Click Scene at the top-left corner of the stage to exit the button editing screen 12 Drag the sound_btn symbol from the Library tothe right side of the stage, as shown...
... ad to give the user a clear call to action to click the banner ad to be taken tothe advertised site We have premade the button for you to apply the code to; you will find this button in the ... Figure 11-12 Positioning the button on the stage 333 THEESSENTIAL GUIDE TO FLASH CS4 You can choose to apply the same motion presets tothe button as we have thetothe rest of the text; simply revisit ... website is to alter the rest of the code to call tothe stage the other SWF files that comprise our site Code to run the other buttons can now be copied and pasted from the Home button ActionScript...
... parameters in the Code block area, the label on the OK button changes to Next, but first you need to tell Dreamweaver where you want the code to appear in the page It needs to be applied tothe value ... and click the plus button to register it Then click OK After defining the access levels, hold down the Shift key, and select them all in the Select level(s) field Then, either browse to login.php, ... forget to add the closing curly brace after the code that redirects tothe next page That deals with the changes tothe validation script in Code view, but the update form doesn’t have the password...
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... prioritize the skeletons accordingly Your goal is to identify a subset of skeletons to develop into personas Step Develop selected skeletons into personas—Enrich the selected skeletons to create ... workshop is to allow the stakeholders to prove to themselves that they have some work toto get to clarity within their own ranks Because one of the major benefits of personas is to create and maintain ... the product team to embrace the personas and the information they contain, and now it is time to help everyone use the personas to inform the design and development of the product The effective...
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... use the keywords in the meta tags to provide context tothe search engines Link anchor text to another page: don’t use it when linking to another page on your site The anchor text describes the ... address DomainKeys An email authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an email sender and the message integrity Double opt-in The act of getting subscribers to confirm their initial ... choose the time of day or day of the week when their adverts are shown Advertisers can specify when their campaign should putting it all together air, down tothe minute This usually depends on the...
... version of It’s Time to Clean Your Windows was the first edition of this book, TheEssential Guide to User Interface Design The impetus for these newer editions of TheEssential Guide to User Interface ... without the aid of design guidelines or standards (or with them as well)? A well-designed interface and screen are terribly important to users They are their window to view the capabilities of the ... system, the bridge tothe capabilities of the software To many users it is the system, because it is one of the few visible components of the product its developers create It is also the vehicle...
... amount of light coming into the camera Dialling tothe left means that less light will hit the digital sensor Moving it tothe right allows more light to hit the sensor See the illustration below ... reader The best way to learn photography is hands-on So have your camera beside you as you read this guide I hope TheEssential Guide to Digital Photography will reveal that the craft of photography ... cameras are the most widely used of the three types of cameras Most people treat these cameras as they are named in the industry They pick up the camera, compose a shot and shoot They’re not too concerned...
... however, the underlying structure may not be logical View the source of a document, and look at the order of the content A screen reader reads from the top tothe bottom of the code and doesn’t ... include the following: rel: Defines the relation from the parent document tothe target href: The location of the target file type: The MIME type of the target document media: The target ... only the largest brands dipped their toes into these new waters, but soon thousands of companies were on the Web, enabling customers all over the globe to access information and, later, to shop...
... (CMD on the MAC) and o and then browse tothe file and click OK to open it You should see something like my examples Click on the hyperlinks to get tothe other sites Reload the page using the reload ... alley—really like the game of craps We need to give the player a way to throw the dice, so we ll implement a button on the screen to click for that Then we need to provide information back tothe player ... for the green in the frog head picture and used that for the border as well The text-align directives are just what they sound like: they indicate whether to center the material or align it to the...