Everything around us is in motion, even if we cannot see the movement. This foundational volume in the How Does It Move? series illuminates the science of movement. With vibrant images, fun activities, and relatable analogies, this book explains the concepts of mass, weight, acceleration, gravity, and friction for an audience of young learners.

Let’s talk about the mechanics of how objects move, otherwise referred to as the Laws of Motions in action. This book will introduce the basic ideas of motion and the effects of force on the motion of objects. Are you excited to learn? Then grab a copy and start reading today!

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A baseball player slides on the ground to tag a base. A toy car's wheels rub against the floor and slow the toy car down. Friction is at work all around you. But what exactly is friction? And how does it affect different objects? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Our minds are severely limited in how much information they can extensively process, in spite of being massively parallel at the visual end. When people attempt to track moving objects, only a limited number can be tracked, which varies with display parameters. Associated experiments indicate that spatial selection and updating has higher capacity than selection and updating of features such as color and shape, and is mediated by processes specific to each cerebral hemisphere, such that each hemifield has its own spatial tracking limit. These spatial selection processes act as a bottleneck that gate subsequent processing. To improve our understanding of this bottleneck, future work should strive to avoid contamination of tracking tasks by high-level cognition. While we are far from fully understanding how attention keeps up with multiple moving objects, what we already know illuminates the architecture of visual processing and offers promising directions for new discoveries.

Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology. The book specifically describes the topics of moving objects modeling and location tracking, indexing and querying, clustering, location uncertainty, traffic-aware navigation and privacy issues, as well as the application to intelligent transportation systems. Through the book, the readers will be made familiar with the cutting-edge technologies in moving object management that can be effectively applied in LBS and transportation contexts. The second edition of this book significantly expands the coverage of the latest research on location privacy, traffic-aware navigation and uncertainty. The book has also been reorganized, with nearly all chapters rewritten, and several new chapters have been added to address the latest topics on moving objects management. Xiaofeng Meng is a professor at the School of Information, Renmin University of China; Zhiming Ding is a professor at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS); Jiajie Xu is an assistant professor at the ISCAS.

First uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the technology that supports GPS and RFID data analysis.

Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make. Damon Taylor's original study considers these emotionally laden, highly authored works, often produced in limited editions and sold like art – objects such as a chair made from cuddly toys, a leather sofa that resembles a cow, and a jewellery box fashioned from human hair. Tracing the phenomenon back to the 'Dutch inflection' that began with Droog designers like Jurgen Bey and Hella Jongerius, Taylor conducts an analysis of the development of Design Art and looks for its origins in the uncanny explorations of surrealism. Offering a critique of Speculative Design, and an examination of the work of designers such as Mathias Bengtsson, whose work involves 'growing' furniture inside computers, Taylor asks what happens when the tangible melts into the datascape and design becomes a question of mobilities. In this way, Moving Objects examines contemporary issues of how we live with artefacts and what design can do.

Spatial and temporal properties are key aspects of many data analysis problems in business, government, and science. GPS technology is quickly enabling a number of new applications, including tracking fleets of vehicles, navigating boats and ships, pedestrian's tracking and tracking of wildlife. Another popular application of this technology is in cellular phones with embedded GPS sensors for vehicle and pedestrian's tracking. Through the availability of cheap sensor devices, we have witnessed an exponential growth of geo-tagged data in the last few years resulting in the availability of fine-grained spatial data at small temporal sampling intervals. Therefore, the actual challenge in spatio-temporal analysis is moving from acquiring the right data towards large-scale analysis of the available data. As this multidimensional data add more complexities in storing, indexing and querying, efficient methodologies have to be derived to manage these data using existing data base technology.

Object tracking could be a terribly difficult task within the presence of variability illumination condition, background motion, complicated object form, partial and full object occlusions. The main intention of an object trailer is to make the path of an object over time by characteristic its position in all frames of the video. This book is intended to educate the researchers in the field of tracking of moving object(s) in a video sequence. This book provides a path for the researchers to identify the works done by others in the same field and thereby to figure out the gap in the current knowledge. This book is organized into three Modules. Module 1 talks about the introduction of object detection and tracking. Module 2 discusses about the various studies of object tracking and motion detection. The views of the various authors about this hot research topic are discussed in this Module and Module 3 gives the conclusion of the entire research review.Object tracking could be a terribly difficult task within the presence of variability illumination condition, background motion, complicated object form, partial and full object occlusions. The main intention of an object trailer is to make the path of an object over time by characteristic its position in all frames of the video. This book is intended to educate the researchers in the field of tracking of moving object(s) in a video sequence. This book provides a path for the researchers to identify the works done by others in the same field and thereby to figure out the gap in the current knowledge. This book is organized into three Modules. Module 1 talks about the introduction of object detection and tracking. Module 2 discusses about the various studies of object tracking and motion detection. The views of the various authors about this hot research topic are discussed in this Module and Module 3 gives the conclusion of the entire research review.

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities.