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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media,
culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South.
Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it
traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology
strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural
renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new
conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging
approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora
entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then
explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in
broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and
business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of
village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political
opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial
propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore
engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate,
produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa
and the Caribbean.
This monograph presents a broad treatment of developments in an
area of constructive approximation involving the so-called
"max-product" type operators. The exposition highlights the
max-product operators as those which allow one to obtain, in many
cases, more valuable estimates than those obtained by classical
approaches. The text considers a wide variety of operators which
are studied for a number of interesting problems such as
quantitative estimates, convergence, saturation results,
localization, to name several. Additionally, the book discusses the
perfect analogies between the probabilistic approaches of the
classical Bernstein type operators and of the classical convolution
operators (non-periodic and periodic cases), and the possibilistic
approaches of the max-product variants of these operators. These
approaches allow for two natural interpretations of the max-product
Bernstein type operators and convolution type operators: firstly,
as possibilistic expectations of some fuzzy variables, and
secondly, as bases for the Feller type scheme in terms of the
possibilistic integral. These approaches also offer new proofs for
the uniform convergence based on a Chebyshev type inequality in the
theory of possibility. Researchers in the fields of approximation
of functions, signal theory, approximation of fuzzy numbers, image
processing, and numerical analysis will find this book most
beneficial. This book is also a good reference for graduates and
postgraduates taking courses in approximation theory.
Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170
ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry
for the book known as De Practica Geometrie. This translation
offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author
judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby correcting inaccuracies found in
numerous modern histories. It is a high quality translation with
supplemental text to explain text that has been more freely
translated. A bibliography of primary and secondary resources
follows the translation, completed by an index of names and special
words.
This book presents a mathematically-based introduction into the
fascinating topic of Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic and might be used
as textbook at both undergraduate and graduate levels and also as
reference guide for mathematician, scientists or engineers who
would like to get an insight into Fuzzy Logic.
Fuzzy Sets have been introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in 1965 and since
then, they have been used in many applications. As a consequence,
there is a vast literature on the practical applications of fuzzy
sets, while theory has a more modest coverage. The main purpose of
the present book is to reduce this gap by providing a theoretical
introduction into Fuzzy Sets based on Mathematical Analysis and
Approximation Theory. Well-known applications, as for example fuzzy
control, are also discussed in this book and placed on new ground,
a theoretical foundation. Moreover, a few advanced chapters and
several new results are included. These comprise, among others, a
new systematic and constructive approach for fuzzy inference
systems of Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno types, that investigates their
approximation capability by providing new error estimates.
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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. As the
world's energy hunger grows ever larger, fossil fuel reserves are
diminishing-and concerns about climate change remind us that our
love affair with fossil fuels cannot continue much longer. This has
inspired intense research into sustainable energy sources. Biofuels
seemed initially promising, but the world soon realized that
food-based biofuel has its own dangers. Second-generation biofuels,
however, use biomass from crops' inedible parts-such as the stalks
and leaves of sugarcane-offering a far more practical, sustainable,
and commercially viable solution. In this book, researchers from
around the world review some of the most important and timely
topics related to using sugarcane feedstock for biofuel. After a
basic overview, topics such as these are included: Pretreatment
methods The use of various microbial technologies, including
bacteria and yeast, to enhance biofuel production Environmental
impacts Economic feasibility The viability of electricity being
produced side by side with biofuel Essential reading for graduate
students and research scientists investigating second-generation
biofuels, this book is also recommended for environmentalists,
environmental engineers, and microbiologists.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The practice
of converting corn to ethanol is controversial, with debates
currently being raged in both public policy and science. While
biofuels from corn have important implications in alleviating some
of the global energy crisis, critics argue that it takes away from
vital agricultural products needed to feed the world's growing
population. The current volume maintains there is a third way, a
method of producing biofuel that only uses biomass that is left
behind after all agricultural and nutritional products have been
harvested from corn. This biomass is referred to as corn stover.
The book serves as an important introduction to this method of
producing biofuels from agricultural waste. Edited by a professor
from the State University of New York, Geneseo, this reference is
important not only for research scientists, but for students and
public policy makers who wish to learn more about this alternative
method of producing ethanol from corn. The sections found in Fuel
Production from Non-Food Biomass: Corn Stover describe the
following topics: An overview of why corn stover is a good
alternative use of power The technology that makes this process
possible on various scales Considerations for policy formation,
including economic, land-use, and environmental arguments for and
against using corn stover as a biofuel Although controversy still
exists about the use of corn stover-with some critics saying that
it will cause food shortages, particularly for developing
nations-the research in this book focuses on using corn's already
existing, non-food biomass and argues that food and biofuel could
potentially be produced from the same fields.
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