Sam, an unworldly boy, unexpectedly finds himself on an adventure rollercoaster when he meets a mysterious woman. With this bodyguard armed to the teeth as his guide, he explores an enchanted magical forest full of mythical creatures and hidden villages. Meanwhile, Loris, the crown prince of an Empire, faces imminent conflict with neighbouring countries. The mysterious king of the United Islands is playing a dark game and enlists the help of the deranged water witch. Together they try to get Prince Owen, the crown prince's nephew, on their side. But the emperor has other plans. He marries Loris off to the crown princess of a hostile neighbouring country, which curses magic. Loris realises he is one of the last practitioners of magic and faces a heartbreaking choice: protect his magical legacy or save the kingdom. Owen sides with the darkness and goes to war with the desiccating water witch as an unreliable confederate. As the magical pond dries up and the source of all magic is endangered, the remaining mages must join forces to save a world on the verge of falling apart.
Natural Eyesight Improvement based on the Method, Treatments of Ophthalmologist William H. Bates. (Color Version) Paperback contains popular EFT book and Dr. Bates books, Magazines in the E-Book. Amazon 'look inside' will soon have the color preview.Includes 20 Color Printable PDF E-Books with this Paperback book, Eyecharts, Audio, Video Lessons, 600+ color pictures, all the Author's and Ophthalmologist Bates 50 books. Contact the Author for the download link; Address is on the 'Thank-You Page' inside the book. E-Book contains 'Word Search''- type in any word, Example; Myopia to see 50-100 Treatments for unclear distant vision. Adobe Translates to Italian, Spanish, German... Activities; Shifting-Natural Eye Movement, Central Fixation, Relaxation, Memory & Imagination, Switching Close, Middle, Far for perfect equally clear vision, convergence, accommodation, divergence, un-accommodation in the left and right eyes at all distances, Left and Right Brain Hemisphere Activation & Integration, Color Treatment, Visualization, Alpha, Theta, Delta Brain Wave Deep Relaxation, Palming, Positive Thinking, Posture, Body Movement, Physical Therapy, Abdominal Breathing, Chi Energy Circulation, Strengthening, Sunning, Saccadic Sunning, Seeing, Reading Fine Print and Eyecharts Clear, EFT, Acupressure, and other Activities for clear Close and Distant, Day and Night Vision, Healthy Eyes. E-mail, phone support. 20 E-BOOKS CONTAIN; +This Paperback Natural Eyesight Improvement Book in Color, with 100 pictures. Less reading, Easy to learn steps; Read the directions printed on the pictures for Fast Vision Improvement. +Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates (Unedited, full set: 132 Magazines -July, 1919 to June, 1930.) Illustrated with 500 pictures and additional, up to date Modern Training. +Original Antique Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates. Photo copy of all his Original Magazine Pages. (Unedited, full set: 132 Magazines - July, 1919 to June, 1930.) Learn the Method, Treatments directly from the Original Eye Doctor that discovered Natural Eyesight Improvement! +The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by Dr. Bates (photo copy of all the original book pages) with pictures. +Medical Articles by Dr. Bates - with pictures. +Stories From The Clinic by Emily C. Lierman/Bates. +Use Your Own Eyes by Dr. William B. MacCracken. +Normal Sight Without Glasses by Dr. William B. MacCracken. +Strengthening The eyes-A New Course In Scientific Eye Training In 28 Lessons by Bernarr MacFadden - with pictures & modern training. +EFT Training Book. +Clear Close Vision - Seeing Fine Print Clear. +Ten Steps For Clear Eyesight without Glasses. +Astigmatism Removal Treatments. +New additional books.+Eyecharts - 15 Large, Small and Fine Print Charts for Clear Close and Distant Vision, White and Black Letter Charts, Astigmatism Test and Removal Charts. +Audio and Video lessons in training chapters. Dr. Bates discovered the natural principles, true function of the eyes and applied relaxation, natural methods to return the eyes, eye muscles, mind/brain, body (entire visual system) to normal function with healthy eyes and clear vision. Dr. Bates Better Eyesight Magazine stories, articles describe how Dr. Bates, Emily Lierman Bates, other Doctors, School Teachers, Bates Method Students/Teachers, Children and Parents used Natural Treatments to remove, correct, prevent many different eye problems without use of eyeglasses, surgery, drugs. The natural treatments they applied removed/prevented; unclear close and distant vision, astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma, conical cornea, cornea scars, retinitis pigmentosa, detached retina, wandering/crossed eyes (strabismus) and other conditions. See 'William H. Bates Author's Page' for entire Biography, Videos of internal book pages, description of the Paperback, 20 E-books. http://www.amazon.com/William-H.-Bates/e/B004H9DOBC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_
It is a truism that we can no longer freely pick areas with the most suitable ground conditions for building purposes. Soils must often be improved in order to take the loads from buildings, roads and other objects. This volume contains papers covering a range of relevant topics and issues.
Information hiding is an area of great interest due to its applications in copyright protection of images, data, passport control, CDs, DVDs, videos and so on. This book presents a sample of recent research results from key researchers. The contributions include: - Copyright protection system; - Video watermarking; - Restoring objects for digital inpainting; - Data embedding scheme; - Robust image watermarking; - Perceptual shaping in digital watermarking; - Image authentication method under JPEG; - Fingerprinting for copyright protection; - Data hiding for halftone images; - Information hiding for digital watermarking. This book is directed to the application engineers, researchers, graduate students, professors and to those who are interested to investigate the information hiding techniques and use them in various applications such as copyright protection of images, data, passport control, CDs, DVDs, videos and so on.
This book covers unsupervised learning, supervised learning, clustering approaches, feature engineering, explainable AI and multioutput regression models for subsurface engineering problems. Processing voluminous and complex data sets are the primary focus of the field of machine learning (ML). ML aims to develop data-driven methods and computational algorithms that can learn to identify complex and non-linear patterns to understand and predict the relationships between variables by analysing extensive data. Although ML models provide the final output for predictions, several steps need to be performed to achieve accurate predictions. These steps, data pre-processing, feature selection, feature engineering and outlier removal, are all contained in this book. New models are also developed using existing ML architecture and learning theories to improve the performance of traditional ML models and handle small and big data without manual adjustments. This research-oriented book will help subsurface engineers, geophysicists, and geoscientists become familiar with data science and ML advances relevant to subsurface engineering. Additionally, it demonstrates the use of data-driven approaches for salt identification, seismic interpretation, estimating enhanced oil recovery factor, predicting pore fluid types, petrophysical property prediction, estimating pressure drop in pipelines, bubble point pressure prediction, enhancing drilling mud loss, smart well completion and synthetic well log predictions.
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering (ADME 2012), August 16-18, 2012, Taiyuan, China
