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Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits

C# and Game Programming A Beginner's Guide

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

This book is an in-depth study of the category stranger as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory the plurality of experiences of estrangement disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s investigation of stranger fetishism in her title Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (2000) and in so doing contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of stranger. In particular the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West strange(r)ness is a situated embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies. | Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

GBP 130.00
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Telecommunications Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering

Since the publication of the second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook telecommunications has progressed at a rapid rate. Major advances continue to occur in mobile communications and broadband digital networks and services sophisticated signal processing techniques are prevalent at increasingly higher bit rates and digital systems are widespread. These developments need to be addressed in a textbook that bridges the gap in the current knowledge and teachings of telecommunications engineering. Telecommunications Engineering 3rd Edition offers an introduction to the major telecommunications topics by combining an analytical approach to important concepts with a descriptive account of systems design. Completely updated and expanded this third edition includes substantial material on integrated services digital networks mobile communications systems metropolitan area networks and more. What's New in the 3rd Edition • New chapter on mobile communications covering first generation analog and second generation digital systems • Expanded chapter on non-linear coding of voice waveforms for PCM • New section on NICAM • Updated chapter on the transient performance of the phase locked loop • Revised chapter on recent major developments in satellite television • New introduction to coding techniques for burst errors • Extended chapter on ISDN and broadband digital communications Supplemented with worked problems numerous illustrations and extensive references to more advanced material this textbook provides a solid foundation for undergraduate students of electrical electronic and telecommunications engineering.

GBP 175.00
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Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice

Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice

Often described as a public policy “bible ” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies. Updates to this edition include: A chapter dedicated to distinguishing between policy analysis policy research stakeholder analysis and research about the policy process An extensively updated chapter on policy problems as market and governmental failure that explores the popularity of Uber and its consequences The presentation of a property rights perspective in the chapter on government supply to help show the goal tensions that arise from mixed ownership An entirely new chapter on performing analysis from the perspective of a public agency and a particular program within the agency’s portfolio: public agency strategic analysis (PASA) A substantially rewritten chapter on cost–benefit analysis to better prepare students to become producers and consumers of the types of cost–benefit analyses they will encounter in regulatory analysis and social policy careers A new introductory case with a debriefing that provides advice to help students immediately begin work on their own projects Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices remains a comprehensive serious and rich introduction to policy analysis for students in public policy public administration and business programs. | Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice

GBP 99.99
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Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

The programming language Fortran dates back to 1957 when a team of IBM engineers released the first Fortran Compiler. During the past 60 years the language had been revised and updated several times to incorporate more features to enable writing clean and structured computer programs. The present version is Fortran 2018. Since the dawn of the computer era there had been a constant demand for a “larger” and “faster” machine. To increase the speed there are three hurdles. The density of the active components on a VLSI chip cannot be increased indefinitely and with the increase of the density heat dissipation becomes a major problem. Finally the speed of any signal cannot exceed the velocity of the light. However by using several inexpensive processors in parallel coupled with specialized software and hardware programmers can achieve computing speed similar to a supercomputer. This book can be used to learn the modern Fortran from the beginning and the technique of developing parallel programs using Fortran. It is for anyone who wants to learn Fortran. Knowledge beyond high school mathematics is not required. There is not another book on the market yet which deals with Fortran 2018 as well as parallel programming. FEATURES Descriptions of majority of Fortran 2018 instructions Numerical Model String with Variable Length IEEE Arithmetic and Exceptions Dynamic Memory Management Pointers Bit handling C-Fortran Interoperability Object Oriented Programming Parallel Programming using Coarray Parallel Programming using OpenMP Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI) THE AUTHOR Dr Subrata Ray is a retired Professor Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata. | Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

GBP 140.00
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Versatile Video Coding

Versatile Video Coding

Video is the main driver of bandwidth use accounting for over 80 per cent of consumer Internet traffic. Video compression is a critical component of many of the available multimedia applications it is necessary for storage or transmission of digital video over today's band-limited networks. The majority of this video is coded using international standards developed in collaboration with ITU-T Study Group and MPEG. The MPEG family of video coding standards begun on the early 1990s with MPEG-1 developed for video and audio storage on CD-ROMs with support for progressive video. MPEG-2 was standardized in 1995 for applications of video on DVD standard and high definition television with support for interlaced and progressive video. MPEG-4 part 2 also known as MPEG-2 video was standardized in 1999 for applications of low- bit rate multimedia on mobile platforms and the Internet with the support of object-based or content based coding by modeling the scene as background and foreground. Since MPEG-1 the main video coding standards were based on the so-called macroblocks. However research groups continued the work beyond the traditional video coding architectures and found that macroblocks could limit the performance of the compression when using high-resolution video. Therefore in 2013 the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) also known and H. 265 was released with a structure similar to H. 264/AVC but using coding units with more flexible partitions than the traditional macroblocks. HEVC has greater flexibility in prediction modes and transform block sizes also it has a more sophisticated interpolation and de blocking filters. In 2006 the VC-1 was released. VC-1 is a video codec implemented by Microsoft and the Microsoft Windows Media Video (VMW) 9 and standardized by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In 2017 the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) released a call for proposals for a new video coding standard initially called Beyond the HEVC Future Video Coding (FVC) or known as Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is being built on top of HEVC for application on Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 360° Video. The VVC is planned to be finalized by 2020. This book presents the new VVC and updates on the HEVC. The book discusses the advances in lossless coding and covers the topic of screen content coding. Technical topics discussed include: Beyond the High Efficiency Video CodingHigh Efficiency Video Coding encoderScreen contentLossless and visually lossless coding algorithmsFast coding algorithmsVisual quality assessmentOther screen content coding algorithmsOverview of JPEG Series

GBP 89.99
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