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Memory and forgetting are fundamental to human existence and
experiences of the world. Within archaeology, there has been
increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date,
however, there has been little specific discussion of how such
long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why
this was the case. The sixteen papers in this volume use detailed
contextual evidence to address these questions. In many instances,
contributors discuss less visible examples where 'memory work' can
be identified from non-monumental, 'everyday' landscapes. The case
studies focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the
early medieval period, but other contributions deal with Neolithic
Central Europe, ancient Etruscan and Egyptian landscapes, and
historic Native American practices. The volume interweaves
theoretical considerations of memory, materiality and landscape
with exciting evidence emerging from research and developer-funded
commercial archaeology, challenging existing methodologies and
proposing new research questions for future fieldwork and
post-excavation practice.
With 26 entirely new and 5 extensively revised chapters out of the
total of 39, the Mobile Communications Handbook, Third Edition
presents an in-depth and up-to-date overview of the full range of
wireless and mobile technologies that we rely on every day. This
includes, but is not limited to, everything from digital cellular
mobile radio and evolving personal communication systems to
wireless data and wireless networks Illustrating the extraordinary
evolution of wireless communications and networks in the last 15
years, this book is divided into five sections: Basic Principles
provides the essential underpinnings for the wide-ranging mobile
communication technologies currently in use throughout the world.
Wireless Standards contains technical details of the standards we
use every day, as well as insights into their development. Source
Compression and Quality Assessment covers the compression
techniques used to represent voice and video for transmission over
mobile communications systems as well as how the delivered voice
and video quality are assessed. Wireless Networks examines the wide
range of current and developing wireless networks and wireless
methodologies. Emerging Applications explores newly developed areas
of vehicular communications and 60 GHz wireless communications.
Written by experts from industry and academia, this book provides a
succinct overview of each topic, quickly bringing the reader up to
date, but with sufficient detail and references to enable deeper
investigations. Providing much more than a "just the facts"
presentation, contributors use their experience in the field to
provide insights into how each topic has emerged and to point
toward forthcoming developments in mobile communications.
In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical
Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the
multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge
continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition,
it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a
specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise
yet definitive collection of key concepts, models, and equations in
its respective domain, thoughtfully gathered for convenient access.
Circuits, Signals, and Speech and Image Processing presents all of
the basic information related to electric circuits and components,
analysis of circuits, the use of the Laplace transform, as well as
signal, speech, and image processing using filters and algorithms.
It also examines emerging areas such as text-to-speech synthesis,
real-time processing, and embedded signal processing. Each article
includes defining terms, references, and sources of further
information. Encompassing the work of the world's foremost experts
in their respective specialties, Circuits, Signals, and Speech and
Image Processing features the latest developments, the broadest
scope of coverage, and new material on biometrics.
Windows security concepts and technologies for IT beginners
IT security can be a complex topic, especially for those new to
the field of IT. This full-color book, with a focus on the
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) program, offers a clear and
easy-to-understand approach to Windows security risks and attacks
for newcomers to the world of IT. By paring down to just the
essentials, beginners gain a solid foundation of security concepts
upon which more advanced topics and technologies can be built.
This straightforward guide begins each chapter by laying out a
list of topics to be discussed, followed by a concise discussion of
the core networking skills you need to have to gain a strong handle
on the subject matter. Chapters conclude with review questions and
suggested labs so you can measure your level of understanding of
the chapter's content.Serves as an ideal resource for gaining a
solid understanding of fundamental security concepts and
skillsOffers a straightforward and direct approach to security
basics and covers anti-malware software products, firewalls,
network topologies and devices, network ports, and moreReviews all
the topics you need to know for taking the MTA 98-367 examProvides
an overview of security components, looks at securing access with
permissions, addresses audit policies and network auditing, and
examines protecting clients and servers
If you're new to IT and interested in entering the IT workforce,
then "Microsoft Windows Security Essentials" is essential
reading.
With 26 entirely new and 5 extensively revised chapters out of the
total of 39, the Mobile Communications Handbook, Third Edition
presents an in-depth and up-to-date overview of the full range of
wireless and mobile technologies that we rely on every day. This
includes, but is not limited to, everything from digital cellular
mobile radio and evolving personal communication systems to
wireless data and wireless networks Illustrating the extraordinary
evolution of wireless communications and networks in the last 15
years, this book is divided into five sections: Basic Principles
provides the essential underpinnings for the wide-ranging mobile
communication technologies currently in use throughout the world.
Wireless Standards contains technical details of the standards we
use every day, as well as insights into their development. Source
Compression and Quality Assessment covers the compression
techniques used to represent voice and video for transmission over
mobile communications systems as well as how the delivered voice
and video quality are assessed. Wireless Networks examines the wide
range of current and developing wireless networks and wireless
methodologies. Emerging Applications explores newly developed areas
of vehicular communications and 60 GHz wireless communications.
Written by experts from industry and academia, this book provides a
succinct overview of each topic, quickly bringing the reader up to
date, but with sufficient detail and references to enable deeper
investigations. Providing much more than a "just the facts"
presentation, contributors use their experience in the field to
provide insights into how each topic has emerged and to point
toward forthcoming developments in mobile communications.
This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the
political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the
history of the United States, offering an extensive and in-depth
critique of laissez-faire doctrine and a novel reformulation of the
work of American System writers, Gibson traces America's rise to
global supremacy.
This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the
political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the
history of the United States from its founding to the present day.
Offering an extensive and in-depth critique of laissez-faire
doctrine and a novel reformulation of the work of American System
writers such as Daniel Raymond, Henry Carey, and Thorstein Veblen,
author Donald Gibson traces America's rise to global supremacy. He
examines how free-market ideology and the "establishment" networks
exemplified by Wall Street and the Council for Foreign Relations
combined to lead us to the political and economic crises that
America faces at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
This book develops the basic concepts in understanding Analog
Communications. Beginning with coverage of amplitude modulation,
including the time and frequency domain representations of double
sideband, single sideband, and vestigial sideband modulation, and
introduces the student to the fundamental ideas of quadrature
amplitude modulation, frequency division multiplexing, and digital
communications using on-off keying. The author continues with
additional discussion and coverage of the time and frequency domain
representations of frequency and phase modulation, including
bandwidth calculations, and the use of frequency shift keying,
phase shift keying, and differential phase shift keying for the
transmission of digital information. Contents include applications
and further analyses of the effects of channel noise on amplitude,
phase, and frequency modulation performance based on input versus
output signal to noise ratios and some system comparisons are
discussed.
Contains a statement of the balance-of-payments accounting, and a
critical appraisal of balance-of-payments adjustment theory. The
book also features chapters on the capital account of the
balance-of-payments and on the new theory of exchange rate
determination (with discussion of the EMS). There is extensive and
extended coverage of the UK's balance of payments position with
chapters on the structural and non-price determinants of trade and
the balance-of-payments as well as the link between
de-industrialization and the balance-of-payments.
Contains a statement of the balance-of-payments accounting, and a
critical appraisal of balance-of-payments adjustment theory. The
book also features chapters on the capital account of the
balance-of-payments and on the new theory of exchange rate
determination (with discussion of the EMS). There is extensive and
extended coverage of the UK's balance of payments position with
chapters on the structural and non-price determinants of trade and
the balance-of-payments as well as the link between
de-industrialization and the balance-of-payments.
The core concepts and technologies of Windows networking
Networking can be a complex topic, especially for those new to
the field of IT. This focused, full-color book takes a unique
approach to teaching Windows networking to beginners by stripping
down a network to its bare basics, thereby making each topic clear
and easy to understand. Focusing on the new Microsoft Technology
Associate (MTA) program, this book pares down to just the
essentials, showing beginners how to gain a solid foundation for
understanding networking concepts upon which more advanced topics
and technologies can be built.
This straightforward guide begins each chapter by laying out a
list of topics to be discussed, followed by a concise discussion of
the core networking skills you need to have to gain a strong handle
on the subject matter. Chapters conclude with review questions and
suggested labs so you can measure your level of understanding of
the chapter's content.Serves as an ideal resource for gaining a
solid understanding of fundamental networking concepts and
skillsOffers a straightforward and direct approach to networking
basics and covers network management tools, TCP/IP, the name
resolution process, and network protocols and topologiesReviews all
the topics you need to know for taking the MTA 98-366 examProvides
an overview of networking components, discusses connecting
computers to a network, and looks at connecting networks with
routers
If you're new to IT and interested in entering the IT workforce,
then "Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials" is essential
reading.
Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the
archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts
of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance
exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques,
isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with
phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modelling
and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the
movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater
precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the
past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of
artefacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final
destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’
journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches
to artefacts include the recognition that culture contact and
hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore,
discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological
inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and
settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored
middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday
movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how
these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals,
objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing
cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could
create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.
The explosion of computer use and internet communication has placed
new emphasis on the ability to store, retrieve and search for all
types of images, both still photo and video images. The success and
the future of visual information retrieval depends on the cutting
edge research and applications explored in this book. It combines
the expertise from both computer vision and database research.
Unlike text retrieval and text/numeric databases the challenges of
image databases are enormous. How do you use "data mining" to
search for an image if you do not have "key words" to search?
Exploratory Image Databases introduces the idea that it is possible
to solve this problem by merging database systems into a single
search and browse activity called "exploration."
Exploratory Image Databases is one of the first single-author books
that unifies the critical emerging topic of image databases. A new
approach to image databases, the work is divided into four central
parts: introduction to the problems that image database research
must solve; computer vision and information retrieval techniques;
image database issues; and interface and engines for visual
searches.
Example: Imagine the difficulty of building and using a database
for "face recognition," where an image of a face is used. In order
to effectively use the image a huge number of characteristics would
need to be entered in the database. The goal of future image
databases is to use hardware and software to recognize and
categorize images without typing in characteristics.
* Comprehensive coverage of the image analysis as well as the
database/theoretical aspects of image databases.
* Extensive coverage of interfaces and interaction models, with a
theoretical framework for the development of new interaction
schemes.
* Identifies three interaction models between users and image
databases, two of which have no counterpart in traditional
databases.
* Coverage of the relation between image and text, including mixed
search models and the automatic determination of the relation
between images and text on large corpuses like the web.
* Analysis of the process of signification in images and its
influence on the interaction models and technological problems of
image databases.
Melanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple
college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also
had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and
rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who
needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically. In
early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie
turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial
art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered
her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster
operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort
Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a
white belt. In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start
in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known
before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive
outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class
quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and
frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Marital Arts
is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled,
lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.
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Penturian (Paperback)
Tim Gibson, Stephen D Gibson
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