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When sixteen-year-old Guy Dimchek comes out in 1970s San Francisco,
his best friend dumps him, his mom splits, and he's left largely on
his own just in time for his first ever sexual experience. Things
don't get any easier when Guy's father becomes a candidate for
state office. Having a gay son doesn't do his candidacy any favors,
especially under the antigay "family values" fervor sweeping the
nation. Compounding the situation is Guy's new stepmother, who
opposes openness on the gay issue and especially the revelation
that Guy has a boyfriend-one he might be falling in love with.
Around Guy, self-help charlatans, radical cults, and extreme
politics forecast 1978's perfect tsunami: the Jonestown massacre in
Guyana, Anita Bryant's homophobic campaign, and gay city supervisor
Harvey Milk's assassination at city hall. In the midst of a perfect
storm of antigay sentiment, Guy faces the supreme test when his
father's political opponent launches a smear campaign that employs
both dirty tricks and physical violence against Guy. Following the
attack, an injured Guy must confront his own flaws and reunite with
his fractured family-all while staying true to himself and
connected to the boy he loves.
The phrase 'waveform design and diversity' refers to an area of
radar research that focuses on novel transmission strategies as a
way to improve performance in a variety of civil, defense and
homeland security applications. Three basic principles are at the
core of waveform diversity. First is the principle that any and all
knowledge of the operational environment should be exploited in
system design and operation. Second is the principle of the fully
adaptive system, that is, that the system should respond to dynamic
environmental conditions. Third is the principle of measurement
diversity as a way to increase system robustness and expand the
design trade space. Waveform design and diversity concepts can be
found dating back to the mid-twentieth century. However, it has
only been in the past decade or so, as academics and practitioners
have rushed to exploit recent advances in radar hardware component
technology, such as arbitrary waveform generation and linear power
amplification, that waveform diversity has become a distinct area
of research. The purpose of this book is to survey this burgeoning
field in a way that brings together the diverse yet complementary
topics that comprise it. The topics covered range from the purely
theoretical to the applied, and the treatment of these topics
ranges from tutorial explanation to forward-looking research
discussions. The topics treated in this book include: classical
waveform design and its extensions through information theory,
multiple-input multiple-output systems, and the bio-inspired
sensing perspective; the exploration of measurement diversity
through distributed radar systems, in both cooperative and
non-cooperative configurations; the optimal adaptation of the
transmit waveform for target detection, tracking, and
identification; and more. This representative cross-section of
topics provides the reader with a chance to see the three
principles of waveform diversity at work, and will hopefully point
the way to further advances in this exciting area of research.
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