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Un chef-d’?uvre de suspens et de mystere ! L'auteur a fait un travail exceptionnel pour developper les personnages, avec un cote psychologique si bien utilise que nous avons l'impression d'etre dans leurs tetes, vivant leurs peurs et se rejouissant pour leurs succes. L'intrigue est menee avec intelligence et vous divertira jusqu'a la fin. Remplis de rebondissements, ce livre vous tiendra en haleine jusqu'a la derniere page. Critique litteraire et cinematographique, Roberto Mattos (a propos de Sans Laisser de Traces) . SOUS SURVEILLANCE ( Les Origines de Riley Paige – Tome 1) est le livre N°1 de la nouvelle serie de thriller psychologiques de l'auteur a succes N°1 Blake Pierce, dont le best-seller gratuit Sans Laisser de Traces (Tome 1) a recu plus de 1 000 critiques cinq etoiles. 22 ans et major de sa promo en psychologie – et aspirant a etre agent au FBI – Riley Paige se retrouve obligee de lutter pour sa vie alors que ses amis les plus proches du campus sont kidnappes et tues par un tueur en serie. Elle sait qu'elle est, elle aussi, une cible – et que si elle veut survivre, elle doit utiliser son esprit brillant pour arreter le tueur elle-meme. Lorsque le FBI fait face a une impasse, ils sont assez impressionnes par la capacite de Riley a comprendre le fonctionnement du tueur pour accepter son aide. Pourtant, l'esprit du tueur est un endroit sombre et derange, bien trop diabolique pour etre sense, et qui menace de detruire la psyche fragile de Riley. Dans ce jeu mortel du chat et de la souris, Riley pourra-t-elle s'en sortir indemne ?Un thriller rempli d'action avec un suspens palpitant, SOUS SURVEILLANCE est le 1er Tome d'une nouvelle serie captivante qui vous donnera envie de tourner les pages jusqu'au bout de la nuit. Il ramene les lecteurs 20 ans en arriere – au commencement de la carriere de Riley – et il vient completer parfaitement la serie SANS LAISSER DE TRACES (Une Enquete de Riley Paige), qui comprend 13 livres. Le Tome 2 de la serie LES ORIGINES DE RILEY PAGE sera bientot disponible.

Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world. Many of these diseases strike tropical regions or developing countries with particular virulence, others are found in temperate or developed areas, and still other microbes and infections are more indiscriminate. This volume includes information on the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them, and the strategies available to contain them. The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. The book contains up-to-date selections from infectious disease journals as well as information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, MedLine Plus, and the American Society for Microbiology. Perfect for students or those new to the field, the book contains Summary Overviews (thumbnail sketches of the basic information about the microbe and the associated disease under examination), Review Questions (testing students' knowledge of the material), and Topics for Further Discussion (encouraging a wider conversation on the implications of the disease and challenging students to think creatively to develop new solutions). This important volume provides broad coverage of a variety of emerging infectious diseases, of which most are directly important to health practitioners in the United States.

The advent of increasingly large consumer collections of audio (e.g., iTunes), imagery (e.g., Flickr), and video (e.g., YouTube) is driving a need not only for multimedia retrieval but also information extraction from and across media. Furthermore, industrial and government collections fuel requirements for stock media access, media preservation, broadcast news retrieval, identity management, and video surveillance. While significant advances have been made in language processing for information extraction from unstructured multilingual text and extraction of objects from imagery and video, these advances have been explored in largely independent research communities who have addressed extracting information from single media (e.g., text, imagery, audio). And yet users need to search for concepts across individual media, author multimedia artifacts, and perform multimedia analysis in many domains. This collection is intended to serve several purposes, including reporting the current state of the art, stimulating novel research, and encouraging cross-fertilization of distinct research disciplines. The collection and integration of a common base of intellectual material will provide an invaluable service from which to teach a future generation of cross disciplinary media scientists and engineers.

Belonging to the wider academic field of computer vision, video analytics has aroused a phenomenal surge of interest since the current millennium. Video analytics is intended to solve the problem of the incapability of exploiting video streams in real time for the purpose of detection or anticipation. It involves analyzing the videos using algorithms that detect and track objects of interest over time and that indicate the presence of events or suspect behavior involving these objects. The aims of this book are to highlight the operational attempts of video analytics, to identify possible driving forces behind potential evolutions in years to come, and above all to present the state of the art and the technological hurdles which have yet to be overcome. The need for video surveillance is introduced through two major applications (the security of rail transportation systems and a posteriori investigation). The characteristics of the videos considered are presented through the cameras which enable capture and the compression methods which allow us to transport and store them. Technical topics are then discussed – the analysis of objects of interest (detection, tracking and recognition), “high-level” video analysis, which aims to give a semantic interpretation of the observed scene (events, behaviors, types of content). The book concludes with the problem of performance evaluation.

‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public places. Air travel now commonly involves devices such as body-scanners and biometric checks that have proliferated in the wake of 9/11. And every day Google and credit-card issuers note the details of our habits, concerns and preferences, quietly prompting customized marketing strategies with our active, all too often zealous cooperation. In today’s liquid modern world, the paths of daily life are mobile and flexible. Crossing national borders is a commonplace activity and immersion in social media increasingly ubiquitous. Today’s citizens, workers, consumers and travellers are always on the move but often lacking certainty and lasting bonds. But in this world where spaces may not be fixed and time is boundless, our perpetual motion does not go unnoticed. Surveillance spreads in hitherto unimaginable ways, responding to and reproducing the slippery nature of modern life, seeping into areas where it once had only marginal sway. In this book the surveillance analysis of David Lyon meets the liquid modern world so insightfully dissected by Zygmunt Bauman. Is a dismal future of moment-by-moment monitoring closing in, or are there still spaces of freedom and hope? How do we realize our responsibility for the human beings before us, often lost in discussions of data and categorization? Dealing with questions of power, technology and morality, this book is a brilliant analysis of what it means to be watched – and watching – today.

This is the first book-length treatment of statistical surveillance methods used in financial analysis. It contains carefully selected chapters written by specialists from both fields and strikes a balance between the financial and statistical worlds, enhancing future collaborations between the two areas, and enabling more successful prediction of financial market trends. The book discusses, in detail, schemes for different control charts and different linear and nonlinear time series models and applies methods to real data from worldwide markets, as well as including simulation studies.