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Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between
distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies,
but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped
by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what
kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around
borders? This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers
in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting
the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history
of social development in the borderlands of two continents.
Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions,
drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the
place-making projects of nation states. Through the lenses of
different scales and time frames, the contributors examine the
social processes of frontier life, and how the frontiers have been
created through the exertions of nation-states to control marginal
or borderland peoples. The most significant cases of
industrialization, resource extraction and colonization projects in
Asia and Latin America are examined in this book reveal the
incompleteness of frontiers as modernist spatial projects, but also
their creativity - as sources of new social patterns, new human
adaptations, and new cultural outlooks and ways of confronting
power and privilege. The incompleteness of frontiers does not
detract from their power to move ideas, peoples and practices
across borders both territorial and conceptual. In bringing
together Asian and Latin American cases of frontier-making, this
book points toward a comparativist and cosmopolitan approach in the
study of statecraft and modernity. For scholars of Latin America
and/or Asia, it brings together historical themes and geographic
foci, providing studies accessible to researchers in anthropology,
geography, history, politics, cultural studies and other fields of
the human sciences.
Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between
distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies,
but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped
by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what
kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around
borders? This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers
in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting
the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history
of social development in the borderlands of two continents.
Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions,
drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the
place-making projects of nation states. Through the lenses of
different scales and time frames, the contributors examine the
social processes of frontier life, and how the frontiers have been
created through the exertions of nation-states to control marginal
or borderland peoples. The most significant cases of
industrialization, resource extraction and colonization projects in
Asia and Latin America are examined in this book reveal the
incompleteness of frontiers as modernist spatial projects, but also
their creativity - as sources of new social patterns, new human
adaptations, and new cultural outlooks and ways of confronting
power and privilege. The incompleteness of frontiers does not
detract from their power to move ideas, peoples and practices
across borders both territorial and conceptual. In bringing
together Asian and Latin American cases of frontier-making, this
book points toward a comparativist and cosmopolitan approach in the
study of statecraft and modernity. For scholars of Latin America
and/or Asia, it brings together historical themes and geographic
foci, providing studies accessible to researchers in anthropology,
geography, history, politics, cultural studies and other fields of
the human sciences.
Matrix Computations on Systolic-Type Arrays provides a framework
which permits a good understanding of the features and limitations
of processor arrays for matrix algorithms. It describes the
tradeoffs among the characteristics of these systems, such as
internal storage and communication bandwidth, and the impact on
overall performance and cost. A system which allows for the
analysis of methods for the design/mapping of matrix algorithms is
also presented. This method identifies stages in the design/mapping
process and the capabilities required at each stage. Matrix
Computations on Systolic-Type Arrays provides a much needed
description of the area of processor arrays for matrix algorithms
and of the methods used to derive those arrays. The ideas developed
here reduce the space of solutions in the design/mapping process by
establishing clear criteria to select among possible options as
well as by a-priori rejection of alternatives which are not
adequate (but which are considered in other approaches). The end
result is a method which is more specific than other techniques
previously available (suitable for a class of matrix algorithms)
but which is more systematic, better defined and more effective in
reaching the desired objectives. Matrix Computations on
Systolic-Type Arrays will interest researchers and professionals
who are looking for systematic mechanisms to implement matrix
algorithms either as algorithm-specific structures or using
specialized architectures. It provides tools that simplify the
design/mapping process without introducing degradation, and that
permit tradeoffs between performance/cost measures selected by the
designer.
This book deals with complex fluid characterization of oil and gas
reservoirs, emphasizing the importance of PVT parameters for
practical application in reservoir simulation and management. It
covers modeling of PVT parameters, QA/QC of PVT data from lab
studies, EOS modeling, PVT simulation and compositional grading and
variation. It describes generation of data for reservoir
engineering calculations in view of limited and unreliable data and
techniques like downhole fluid analysis and photophysics of
reservoir fluids. It discusses behavior of unconventional
reservoirs, particularly for difficult resources like shale gas,
shale oil, coalbed methane, reservoirs, heavy and extra heavy oils.
Matrix Computations on Systolic-Type Arrays provides a framework
which permits a good understanding of the features and limitations
of processor arrays for matrix algorithms. It describes the
tradeoffs among the characteristics of these systems, such as
internal storage and communication bandwidth, and the impact on
overall performance and cost. A system which allows for the
analysis of methods for the design/mapping of matrix algorithms is
also presented. This method identifies stages in the design/mapping
process and the capabilities required at each stage. Matrix
Computations on Systolic-Type Arrays provides a much needed
description of the area of processor arrays for matrix algorithms
and of the methods used to derive those arrays. The ideas developed
here reduce the space of solutions in the design/mapping process by
establishing clear criteria to select among possible options as
well as by a-priori rejection of alternatives which are not
adequate (but which are considered in other approaches). The end
result is a method which is more specific than other techniques
previously available (suitable for a class of matrix algorithms)
but which is more systematic, better defined and more effective in
reaching the desired objectives. Matrix Computations on
Systolic-Type Arrays will interest researchers and professionals
who are looking for systematic mechanisms to implement matrix
algorithms either as algorithm-specific structures or using
specialized architectures. It provides tools that simplify the
design/mapping process without introducing degradation, and that
permit tradeoffs between performance/cost measures selected by the
designer.
Nowadays, digital images are used in many areas in everyday life,
but they tend to be big. This increment of the amount of
information leads us to the problem of image data storage. An
important feature of image compression is that it can be lossy or
lossless. A compressed image is acceptable provided these losses of
image information are not perceived by the eye. It is possible to
assume that a portion of this information is redundant. In lossy
compression, current image compression schemes remove information
considered irrelevant by using mathematical criteria. One of the
problems of these schemes is that although the numerical quality of
the compressed image is low, it shows a high visual image quality,
e.g. it does not show a lot of visible artifacts. It is because
these mathematical criteria, used to remove information, do not
take into account if the viewed information is perceived by the
Human Visual System. Therefore, the aim of the PHi-SET image
compression scheme is for obtaining images that do not show
artifacts although their numerical quality is low, eliminating
information that is not vosible by the Human Visual System.
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