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Representations of Musical Signals describes a new generation of digital audio and computer music systems made possible by recent advances in digital signal processing theory, hardware design, and programming techniques.

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This bestselling author is as polished as they come."PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFury van der Rhys is the daughter of Sirena, the beautiful Sea Siren, who rode the high seas as commander of a frigate, plundering the ships of the Dutch East India Company. Brandishing her mother's sword, Fury sets sail for the coast of Africa to challenge Amalie, the gorgeous black-hearted pretender to her mother's legacy, and to fight for the tall, dark-eyed Spaniard they...

A study of manufacturer-retailer marketing strategies: A differential game approach.- The feedback Stackelberg equilibrium in the cartel-versus-fringe model.- A Stackelberg-Nash model for the design of deregulated transit system.- A game theoretical approach to public investment versus private investment.- Entry with new multiproduct technologies.- Distributed hierarchical team resource allocation.- Incentive strategies in an inter-firm coordi...

Modelling air combat as differential game recent approaches and future requirements.- Air combat aiming with a game in the lag of the radar data.- Control strategies in a planar pursuit evasion game with energy constraints.- A construction of the value function in some differential games of approach with two pursuers and one evader.- Barrier trajectories of a realistic missile/traget pursuit-evasion game.- Nonlinear effects in a variable speed...

High resolution passive array processing : An overview of principles.- Extension of high-resolution methods to realistic cases.- Localisation of broadband sources with an array of unknown geometry.- High resolution processing techniques for temporal and spatial signals.- Performance limits of high-resolution systems.- Rapidly adaptive nulling of interference.

Contrasting industrial development in late-industrializing third world countries with industrial change in advanced industrial societies, Bowie (politics, Catholic U.) shows how the structural characteristics of third world societies affect state policy choices in the industrial realm, and explores

This book presents essays reflecting the current state and near-term prospects of sociological theory.

Virtual distortions are incompatible deIormations imposed on structures (e. g. , by nonhomogeneous heating or by local imperIections) causing a compatible state OI deIormation (initial deformations) and a selI-equilibrated state OI stress (initial stresses). The theory OI virtual distortions provides an eIIicient tool which can be used to treat many problems that diIIer Irom the physical point OI view. Thermal stresses, material deIects, resid...

Der Medizin des ausklingenden 20. Jahrhunderts - insbesondere im Bereich der Nervenheilkunde - stellen sich verstärkt Fragen nach dem Selbstbestimmungsrecht und der Würde des Patienten, nach den wachsenden Konflikten im Umgang mit Not, Schmerz und Krise, nach der Autorität des Therapeuten, aber auch nach den Grenzen des wissenschaftlichen FortschritÄs. Nirgendwo sind die diagnostischen Kriterien subjektiver, die Ermessungsspielräume weiter, di...

1. 1 Historical Background Thin plates and shells are widely used structural elements in numerous civil, mechanical, aeronautical and marine engineering design applications. Floor slabs, bridge decks, concrete pavements, sheet pile retaining walls are all, under normal lateral loading circumstances, instances of plate bending in civil engineering. The problem of elastic instability of plates occurs when load is applied in a direction parallel ...

In this lucid and incisive account of Hinduism, A. L. Herman introduces the reader to one of the great belief systems of our time. Professor Herman identifies three distinct Hindu traditions and treat

A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on ParadeA Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author's experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award, The National Health was commissioned by Kenneth Tynan for the National theatre and follows the story of a Labour MP who goes into a state hospital suffering from a nervous collapse. It won the Evening Stand...

A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday to France, Privates on Parade is a hit play inspired by the author's experience in Singapore after the war working for the Combined Services Entertain...

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This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind and the knowledge of which it is capable. Professor Highet explores the meaning of our culture from the intellectual and moral monuments of the Greeks, Romans, and Judeo-Christians, and our contemporary thinkers. Out of this book comes a clear definition of knowledge and insights into the strength and limit...

Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that

This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From "Speech and Phenomena" to the highly influential "Signature Event Context, " each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.

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