"Provides previously unavailable material in sound quality crucial for a more effective design process. Presents all aspects of product sound quality, such as ""rules of thumb"" and design formulas and charts. Covers sound radiation and targeting, resolving, and testing design features."

Providing previously unavailable material in sound quality crucial for a more effective design process, this compact reference presents all aspects of product sound quality, such as "rules of thumb" and design formulas and charts. Prevent customer dissatisfaction and design more successful products. Redefining and expanding sound concerns beyond the limits of "noise control," Designing for Product Sound Quality progresses from introductions and definitions on product sound quality and sound radiation to targeting, resolving, and testing design features. Features illustrations on every page Emphasizing that anticipating product operations that produce sound can be an asset in design planning, this monograph defines the terminology and characteristics most relevant to design demonstrates how to conduct and interpret jury tests/listening panels discusses structural responses to noise energy and resonant modes applies concepts to the mechanisms of cams, gears, chains, and sprockets highlights the importance of the single DOF system supplies numerous examples from actual design cases prescribes production line diagnostics for detecting faults and much more Supplemented with over 220 drawings, photographs, equations, and tables, Designing for Product Sound Quality is an essential tool for mechanical, design, manufacturing, industrial, and acoustical engineers; acoustical physicists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Amazon.com's Top-Selling DSP Book for Seven Straight Years--Now Fully Updated " ""Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition, "is quite simply the best resource for engineers and other technical professionals who want to master and apply today's latest DSP techniques. Richard G. Lyons has updated and expanded his best-selling second edition to reflect the newest technologies, building on the exceptionally readable coverage that made it the favorite of DSP professionals worldwide. He has also added hands-on problems to every chapter, giving students even more of the practical experience they need to succeed. Comprehensive in scope and clear in approach, this book achieves the perfect balance between theory and practice, keeps math at a tolerable level, and makes DSP exceptionally accessible to beginners without ever oversimplifying it. Readers can thoroughly grasp the basics and quickly move on to more sophisticated techniques. This edition adds extensive new coverage of FIR and IIR filter analysis techniques, digital differentiators, integrators, and matched filters. Lyons has significantly updated and expanded his discussions of multirate processing techniques, which are crucial to modern wireless and satellite communications. He also presents nearly twice as many DSP Tricks as in the second edition--including techniques even seasoned DSP professionals may have overlooked. Coverage includesNew homework problems that deepen your understanding and help you apply what you've learnedPractical, day-to-day DSP implementations and problem-solving throughoutUseful new guidance on generalized digital networks, including discrete differentiators, integrators, and matched filtersClear descriptions of statistical measures of signals, variance reduction by averaging, and real-world signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) computationA significantly expanded chapter on sample rate conversion (multirate systems) and associated filtering techniquesNew guidance on implementing fast convolution, IIR filter scaling, and moreEnhanced coverage of analyzing digital filter behavior and performance for diverse communications and biomedical applicationsDiscrete sequences/systems, periodic sampling, DFT, FFT, finite/infinite impulse response filters, quadrature (I/Q) processing, discrete Hilbert transforms, binary number formats, and much more

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an "X," signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity). In "X-Marks," Scott Richard Lyons explores the complexity of contemporary Indian identity and current debates among Indians about traditionalism, nationalism, and tribalism. Employing the x-mark as a metaphor for what he calls the "Indian assent to the new," Lyons offers a valuable alternative to both imperialist concepts of assimilation and nativist notions of resistance, calling into question the binary oppositions produced during the age of imperialism and maintaining that indigeneity is something that people do, not what they are. Drawing on his personal experiences and family history on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota, discourses embedded in "Ojibwemowin" (the Ojibwe language), and disagreements about Indian identity within Native American studies, Lyons contends that Indians should be able to choose nontraditional ways of living, thinking, and being without fear of being condemned as inauthentic. Arguing for a greater recognition of the diversity of Native America, "X-Marks" analyzes ongoing controversies about Indian identity, addresses the issue of culture and its use and misuse by essentialists, and considers the implications of the idea of an Indian nation. At once intellectually rigorous and deeply personal, "X-Marks" holds that indigenous peoples can operate in modern times while simultaneously honoring and defending their communities, practices, and values.