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South Asian Languages
A Syntactic Typology
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic...
by K. Ganesh, Sanjay Mohapatra, R. A. Malairajan
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Resource Allocation (RA) involves the distribution and utilization of available resources in the system. Because resource availability is usually scarce and expensive, it becomes important to find optimal solutions to such problems. Thus RA problems represent an important class of problems faced by...
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with...
by Do Nyeon Kim, Jae Jeong Hwang, K.R. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This book presents an introduction to the principles of the fast Fourier transform. This book covers FFTs, frequency domain filtering, and applications to video and audio signal processing.
As fields like communications, speech and image processing, and related areas are rapidly developing,...
College Student Mental Health
New Directions for Student Services, Number 156
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
In recent years, there has been heightened attention paid to the mental health needs of college students, the range and scope of these issues, and the challenges related to providing mental health services. Counseling center data, changing legal mandates and anecdotal reports from senior practitioners...
Arab Women in Management and Leadership
Stories from Israel
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
An exploration of the life-stories of 22 pioneer Arab women who have forged their path to management and leadership in education and welfare, overcoming challenges imposed by a patriarchal society that sees female leadership as a threat.
by J.A. Butters, D.W. Hollomon, S.J. Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past 30 years one alarming trend is the emergence of plant species resistant to agrochemicals (e.g. insecticides, herbicides, fungicides). Considering the fact that these pesticides are crucial to human health and to food, feed and fiber production, impressive research was carried out during...
Africans and the Exiled Life
Migration, Culture, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and...
Cosine-/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks
General Properties, Fast Algorithms and Integer Approximations
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book covers various algorithmic developments in the perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated filter banks (TDAC-MDCT/MDST or MLT, MCLT, low delay MDCT, complex exponential/cosine/sine-modulated QMF filter banks), and near-perfect reconstruction QMF banks (pseudo-QMF banks) in detail, including...
by T.D. Lekkas, J.B. Jahnel, C.J. Nokes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades. Disinfection of drinking water improves its microbiological quality and prevents disease outbreaks. However, continuously increasing scientific research concerns the presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in water. Many...
by P.K. Swamee, B.R. Chahar
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The book presents firsthand material from the authors on design of hydraulic canals. The book discusses elements of design based on principles of hydraulic flow through canals. It covers optimization of design based on usage requirements and economic constraints. The book includes explicit design...
Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting
Event Geography Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gathering accurate data probably constitutes one of the most important aspects of crime investigation and prevention. How do we put the data to use? How can we improve our methods of handling the information we collect? By describing a project for the development and implementation of a computerized...
Current Conveyors
Variants, Applications and Hardware Implementations
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This book serves as a single-source reference to Current Conveyors and their use in modern Analog Circuit Design. The authors describe the various types of current conveyors discovered over the past 45 years, details of all currently available, off-the-shelf integrated circuit current conveyors, and...
A Policy Approach to Political Representation
Lessons from the Four Corners States
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with development and the extent to which state senators respond to voters' concerns. Originally published in 1980