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This book presents an analysis of Yemen's progress towards economic
self-sufficiency. The study reveals that minimal investment
opportunities and migration-induced labor shortages has driven
wages up so much that labor-intensive agriculture is no longer
viable and it is cheaper to import grain.
Signal Processing for Intelligent Sensors with MATLAB (R), Second
Edition once again presents the key topics and salient information
required for sensor design and application. Organized to make it
accessible to engineers in school as well as those practicing in
the field, this reference explores a broad array of subjects and is
divided into sections: Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing,
Frequency Domain Processing, Adaptive System Identification and
Filtering, Wavenumber Sensor Systems, and Signal Processing
Applications. Taking an informal, application-based approach and
using a tone that is more engineer-to-engineer than
professor-to-student, this revamped second edition enhances many of
the features that made the original so popular. This includes
retention of key algorithms and development methodologies and
applications, which are creatively grouped in a way that differs
from most comparable texts, to optimize their use. New for the
Second Edition: Inclusion of more solved problems Web access to a
large collection of MATLAB (R) scripts used to support data graphs
presented throughout the book Additional coverage of more audio
engineering, transducers, and sensor networking technology A new
chapter on Digital Audio processing reflects a growing interest in
digital surround sound (5.1 audio) techniques for entertainment,
home theaters, and virtual reality systems New sections on sensor
networking, use of meta-data architectures using XML, and
agent-based automated data mining and control Serving dual roles as
both a learning resource and a field reference on sensor system
networks, this book progressively reveals digestible nuggets of
critical information to help readers quickly master presented
algorithms and adapt them to meet their requirements. It
illustrates the current trend toward agile development of web
services for wide area sensor networking and intelligent processing
in the sensor system networks that are employed in homeland
security, business, and environmental and demographic information
systems.
Although social scientists tend to agree that emigration improves
the standard of living of migrants and their families, research
suggests that more generally it has a neutral or even negative
effect on economic development in the home country. The Yemen Arab
Republic is a case in point: while living standards there have
improved with emigration, t
Signal Processing for Intelligent Sensors with MATLAB (R), Second
Edition once again presents the key topics and salient information
required for sensor design and application. Organized to make it
accessible to engineers in school as well as those practicing in
the field, this reference explores a broad array of subjects and is
divided into sections: Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing,
Frequency Domain Processing, Adaptive System Identification and
Filtering, Wavenumber Sensor Systems, and Signal Processing
Applications. Taking an informal, application-based approach and
using a tone that is more engineer-to-engineer than
professor-to-student, this revamped second edition enhances many of
the features that made the original so popular. This includes
retention of key algorithms and development methodologies and
applications, which are creatively grouped in a way that differs
from most comparable texts, to optimize their use. New for the
Second Edition: Inclusion of more solved problems Web access to a
large collection of MATLAB (R) scripts used to support data graphs
presented throughout the book Additional coverage of more audio
engineering, transducers, and sensor networking technology A new
chapter on Digital Audio processing reflects a growing interest in
digital surround sound (5.1 audio) techniques for entertainment,
home theaters, and virtual reality systems New sections on sensor
networking, use of meta-data architectures using XML, and
agent-based automated data mining and control Serving dual roles as
both a learning resource and a field reference on sensor system
networks, this book progressively reveals digestible nuggets of
critical information to help readers quickly master presented
algorithms and adapt them to meet their requirements. It
illustrates the current trend toward agile development of web
services for wide area sensor networking and intelligent processing
in the sensor system networks that are employed in homeland
security, business, and environmental and demographic information
systems.
It's time to revive your heart, release your purpose, and have an authentic
relationship with God!
Women want to live boldly and bravely in their faith, but many feel weighed down
by... something. They pretend to live a full life, but wonder why life as a Christian
lacks luster. To fill the aches, they feast unknowingly upon consumerism, self-worship,
food obsession, seeking love in all the wrong places, and grasping for anything but
Jesus.
Rachel shows women that in order to renew passion, purpose, and unwavering faith,
they must intentionally choose to refine and restore their mind, body, and soul,
acknowledging their subtle sins before Jesus.
In REFINE AND RESTORE, Rachel shares the process of refining sins out of her life,
which separated her from deeper intimacy with God, and restoring her heart back to
the truth of who God really is. Through personal stories of confession and conviction
(refining moments), readers will discover how Rachel found an authentic, vibrant
relationship with God (restored wholeness)-inspiring readers to do the same.
"Lent For Non-Lent People" is a daily guide to prayer, fasting,
rest, and following Jesus for people who want training wheels for
Lent. In ordinary language, this book explores prayer, fasting, and
Sabbath. There are eight chapters. You can read them as chapters.
But if you look closer, you will find seven sections in each
chapter, a reading for every day of Lent and a bonus chapter for
the week after Easter. So this can be a daily reader. In each
reading, we explore what Lent is, what giving up and committing to
can mean. Lent is an old word that means spring. But if you had to
pick a phrase that best captures what people think of Lent, it's
this: giving up. Not as in quitting a competition, but as in giving
up something. People observing Lent give up something that matters
to them. Often it's food, like meat on Friday or sugar for the
forty weekdays. Sundays often are free days, exempt from the giving
up. As best as I can tell, it started with the idea of helping
people appreciate the festivities of Easter. If we spend the time
before Easter preparing our hearts and our bodies, the celebration
has more significance. The forty days are designed to resonate with
the forty-day seasons that show up in the Bible. Jesus fasted for
forty days. Moses was on the mountain for forty days. Noah and his
family watched it rain for forty days and forty nights. Older than
the name Lent is the term "fasting." It is also about giving up.
Fasting most simply is giving up that for this. That is something
good in itself. This is something great. That is nourishing to a
point. This is life itself. That's why Lent isn't about giving up
sin. Think about it. "I'll give up my affair for forty days. But
every Sunday, just for the day, I go back to my mistress."
Ludicrous. It's easy to get legalistic about forty days of fasting.
When humans are presented with a boundary, we focus on the
boundary. What counts as fasting? How much can you eat without
breaking the fast? How long? What health matters? Focus may be a
better word than Lent, fasting, or giving up. Often, the best way
to give something up is to choose what to focus on instead. In the
case of Lent, the intended focus is God. We'll talk about God a
lot. This isn't a book of how to survive a fast. It's not about the
health implications, good and bad, of fasting or praying or
resting. We're going to give up some time, give some attention, and
spend a few minutes, or a few weeks understanding ourselves and
God.
Nehemiah is a brief book in the Bible. Nehemiah is also a man
steeped in religious tradition and working for a foreign
government. When bad news arrives, he finds an impossible purpose
for his life: rebuild Jerusalem. This book is a series of
conversations with Nehemiah exploring how he followed God and led
people.In these conversations, Jon Swanson explores prayer,
opposition, distraction, injustice, and staying faithful to the end
of life. The conversational style reaches beyond the book of
Nehemiah and teaches us a way to explore the Bible. A Great Work is
not a typical commentary on the Bible, it's a conversation with the
Bible.
This book was written to provide a tool for organizations to use
when justifying the need for e-mail capture technology for the
purpose of capturing and managing knowledge. E-mail capture is just
one facet of capturing knowledge within an organization. This book
mentions other methods, but the primary focus is on e-mail capture.
The book is a direct derivative of peer-reviewed research during my
doctoral studies. Over 500 references were used when researching
the background for this book. Over 100 of these references are
listed in the back of the book to use in your own justifications
for an e-mail capture system to be used for knowledge management.
Return on Investment (ROI) is a difficult monster to calculate at
times. This book shows a simple method that executives understand.
Time equals money. The research identifies the time spent
performing many different tasks using e-mail. The time is used for
calculating potential cost savings and ROI for different size
organizations.
Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical
understanding of the processes related to marital stability and
dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage
interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage provides the foundation
for a scientific theory of marital relations. The book does not
rely on metaphors, but develops and applies a mathematical model
using difference equations. The work is the fulfillment of the goal
to build a mathematical framework for the general system theory of
families first suggested by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in the 1960s.The
book also presents a complete introduction to the mathematics
involved in theory building and testing, and details the
development of experiments and models. In one "marriage
experiment," for example, the authors explored the effects of
lowering or raising a couple's heart rates. Armed with their
mathematical model, they were able to do real experiments to
determine which processes were affected by their
interventions.Applying ideas such as phase space, null clines,
influence functions, inertia, and uninfluenced and influenced
stable steady states (attractors), the authors show how other
researchers can use the methods to weigh their own data with
positive and negative weights. While the focus is on modeling
marriage, the techniques can be applied to other types of
psychological phenomena as well.
Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and
ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late
nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous
period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried
to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate
(and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German
speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating
their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John
C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible
belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of
rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of "minority
making" in twentieth-century Europe. The chapters reveal the
experiences of Hungarian Germans through the First World War and
the subsequent dissolution of Austria-Hungary; the treatment of the
German minority in the newly independent Hungarian Kingdom; the
rise of the racial Volksdeutsche movement and Nazi influence before
and during the Second World War; the immediate aftermath of the war
and the expulsions; the suppression of German identity in Hungary
during the Cold War; and the fall of Communism and reinstatement of
minority rights in 1993. Throughout, Swanson offers colorful oral
histories from residents of the rural Swabian villages to
supplement his extensive archival research. As he shows, the
definition of being a German in Hungary varies over time and
according to individual interpretation, and does not delineate a
single national identity. What it meant to be German was
continually in flux. In Swanson's broader perspective, defining
German identity is ultimately a complex act of cognition reinforced
by the tangible environment of objects, activities, and beings. As
such, it endures in individual and collective mentalities despite
the vicissitudes of time, history, language, and politics.
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