1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782339603321

Autore

Tanaka Lidia

Titolo

Gender, Language and Culture [[electronic resource] ] : A Study of Japanese Television Interview Discourse / / Lidia Tanaka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN

1-282-16059-1

9786612160592

90-272-9570-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; 69.

Disciplina

95.6/014

Soggetti

Japanese language - Discourse analysis

Conversation analysis - Social aspects - Japan

Interviewing in mass media - Japan

Communication - Sex differences

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY

Japanese

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790382903321

Autore

Hiitola Bethany

Titolo

Inkscape [[electronic resource] ] : beginner's guide : create attractive layout designs, logos, brochures, icons, and more using the Inkscape vector graphics editor / / Bethany Hiitola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Olton, Birmingham [England], : Packt Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-280-67664-7

9786613653574

1-84951-721-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Learn by doing : less theory, more results

Disciplina

006.6/8

006.686

Soggetti

Computer graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Vector Graphics; What are vector graphics?; Programs that use vector graphics; Vector formats; Scalable Vector Graphics; Advantages of an open-standard vector format; Additional advantages of SVG vector images over proprietary formats; Disadvantages of vector graphics over non-vector formats; Determining when to use vector or rasterized graphics; Time for action - basic design; Time for action - vector versus rasterized images

Time for action - building brochure filesSummary; Chapter 2: Installing and Opening Inkscape; Inkscape's features; Installing Inkscape; Time for action - downloading Inkscape; Troubleshooting installation; The basics of the software; Time for action - getting started with Inkscape; Understanding a new document; Time for action - learning more about the main screen; Summary; Chapter 3: How to Manage Files; Creating new files; Using predefined-sized document dimensions; Time for action - creating a new CD cover; Custom document dimensions

Time for action - creating a new custom file size for a postcardSaving Inkscape files; Saving in Inkscape SVG; Time for action - saving an Inkscape SVG; Exporting files; Time for action - exporting to PNG;



Creating a customized default document; Time for action - creating a new default document; How to structure project files; Managing multiple file projects; Time for action - exporting a batch of images; Renaming object IDs; Importing non-native Inkscape files; Time for action - importing a PDF into Inkscape; Embedding and linking image files; Embedding files in Inkscape

Time for action - embedding a logo into your designLinking external files in Inkscape; Time for action - linking a photograph into a brochure design; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating your First Graphics; Paths; Creating your first vector graphic; Creating a polygon; Time for action - opening a new document; Time for action - creating a star; Time for action - saving your graphic; Creating ellipses and arcs; Time for action - creating the Ellipse; Time for action - making an arc; Complex Shapes; Time for action - combining shapes; Freehand objects (Paths)

Time for action - creating a freehand objectUsing grids and guidelines; Time for action - viewing the Grid; Time for action - making guides; Summary; Chapter 5: How to Work with Layers; Defining layers and how to create them; Time for action - creating a layer; Using Layers in an example drawing; Time for action - using Layers in web design; Locking layers; Time for action - locking a layer; Hiding layers; Time for action - hiding layers; Duplicating layers; Time for action - duplicating layers; Arranging layers; Time for action - moving layers; Time for action - nesting layers

Renaming layers

Sommario/riassunto

Create attractive layout designs, logos, brochures, icons, and more using the Inkscape vector graphics editor with this book and ebook.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300551103321

Titolo

2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics / / edited by Piero Nicolini, Matthias Kaminski, Jonas Mureika, Marcus Bleicher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-94256-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Physics, , 1867-4941 ; ; 208

Disciplina

531.14

Soggetti

Gravitation

Astronomy

Nuclear physics

Superconductivity

Superconductors

Physics - Philosophy

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences

Nuclear and Particle Physics

Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Singularities, Horizons, Firewalls, and Local Conformal Symmetry: Gerard ’t Hooft -- Panel Discussion, “The Duel”: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Gravity and Information: Gerard ’t Hooft, Steven B. Giddings, Carlo Rovelli, Piero Nicolini, Jonas Mureika, Matthias Kaminski and Marcus Bleicher -- Part I Black Holes in Classical General Relativity, Numerical Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Alternative Theories of Gravity -- A Menagerie of Hairy Black Holes: Elizabeth Winstanley -- Black Holes Sourced by a Massless Scalar: Mariano Cadoni and Edgardo Franzin -- Rotating Black Hole Solutions in f (R)-Gravity: Mariafelicia De Laurentis and Ruben Farinelli -- Symplectic structure of extremal black holes: Kamal Hajian, Ali Seraj -- The Causal Nature of Trapping Horizons: Ilia Musco, Alexis Helou and John C. Miller -- Einstein-Charged Scalar Field Theory: Black Hole



Solutions and Their Stability: Supakchai Ponglertsakul, Sam Dolan and Elizabeth Winstanley -- Thegood properties of Schwarzschild’s singularity: Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica -- Part II Black Holes in Quantum Gravity and String Theory -- Quantum Black Holes as the Link Between Microphysics and Macrophysics: B. J. Carr -- Free Energy of Topologically Massive Gravity and Flat Space Holography: Daniel Grumiller and Wout Merbis -- Super-Entropic Black Holes: Robert B. Mann -- Aspects of Quantum Chaos Inside Black Holes: Andrea Addazi -- Black Hole Entropy in the Presence of Chern-Simons Term and Holography: Tatsuo Azeyanagi -- A Quantum Cosmic Conjecture: Roberto Casadio and Octavian Micu -- Phase transitions of regular Schwarzschild-Anti-deSitter black holes: Antonia Micol Frassino -- Thermal Corpuscular Black Holes: Andrea Giugno -- Generalized uncertainty principle and extra dimensions: Sven Köppel, Marco Knipfer, Maximilano Isi, Jonas Mureika, Piero Nicolini -- Perihelion Precession and Generalized Uncertainty Principle: Fabio Scardigli and Roberto Casadio -- Quantum-gravity phenomenology with primordial black holes: F. Vidotto, A. Barrau, B. Bolliet, M. Schutten and C. Weimer -- Part III Other Topics in Contemporary Gravitation -- Self Sustained Traversable Phantom Wormholes and Gravity’s Rainbow: Remo Garattini -- Cosmology via Metric-Independent Volume-Form Dynamics: Eduardo Guendelman, Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva -- Testing General Relativity on Accelerators: Tigran Kalaydzhyan -- Size Scaling of Self Gravitating Polymers and Strings: Shoichi Kawamoto and Toshihiro Matsuo -- The Hot and Dense QCD Equation of State in Heavy Ion Collisions and Neutron Star Mergers: Jan Steinheimer, Ayon Mukherjee, Natascha Wechselberger, Matthias Hanauske, Stefan Schramm and Horst Stöcker.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, focused on the general theme of black holes, gravity and information. Specialists in the field of black hole physics and rising young researchers present the latest findings on the broad topic of black holes, gravity, and information, highlighting its applications to astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and strongly correlated systems.