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Into Sound
On the practical analysis and processing of sound
Paperback || Ton Wempe || Brave New Books
Often, books about signal analysis and processing are either highly theoretical with high-level mathematics or contain oversimplified explanations which cannot answer the questions of how and why adequately. In this book, the writer attempts to explain the theory from a practical viewpoint, using a common-sense way of thinking. The theoretical principles described are mainly applied to speech sounds but the complex nature of these sounds makes this approach suitable to audio signals in general.
The book contains mathematical formulas, but sparsely used, serving as conclusions of the preceding explanations in ‘normal’ language. The more extended mathematical manipulations can be found in the appendice...
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Safety by Design
Engineering Products and Systems
Paperback || Mohammad Rajabali Nejad || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The human, the technical system, and the environment are the three elements for safety or three axes for the safety coordinate system. They have three mutual interactions. These form the six fundamental aspects for safety assessment system, represented by the Safety Cube. The Safety Cube is a theory, a method, and a game-changer for engineering safer products and systems.
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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
15 June 2023
2023 || Paperback || Dimitar Shterionov || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL 2023), hosted by the 24th Annual Con- ference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). This workshop is a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages.
The Global Casino
An Introduction to Environmental Issues
2018 || Paperback || Nick Middleton || Taylor & Francis
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues, and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment i...
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Fighting Sargas in Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya I
A translation of Sargas XV-XVII under the guidance of Mallinātha’s Ghaṇṭāpatha by JAN MARCUS ZWAAN
2022 || Paperback || Jan Marcus Zwaan || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Indian poetry of the classical style, kāvya, has been long ignored by western Indologists. Nowadays opinion slowly tends to change in favour of this rather extreme poetry. Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya, the poem treated in this volume is part of the tradition of epic poems or mahākāvyas. Six are recognized. The Kirātārjunīya marks the beginning of a new style of Indian poetry and represents one of the best written in this tradition. The plot is taken from the Mahābhārata.
The authors of...
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Cognitive Communication - its theory introduced
Part 3 Relationship between Energy, Entropy, and Information Level
2023 || Paperback || Werner Rupprecht || Bookmundo || met inkijkexemplaar
The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.
This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...
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ENGAGING THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Forbidden History of ET Events, Programmes and Agendas
Paperback || NOEL HUNTLEY || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
The popular theme of the book deals with the underlying causes of mysteries and unresolved questions of great interest to both layman and serious scholar that have become commonplace on this planet, ranging from scientific enigmas, such as the Moon, the origins of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, to religious contradictions on the life of Jesus Christ, the nature of the soul, heaven and hell, and the popular puzzles, such as the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, etc., with a thorough review of the n...
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Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences
2022 || Paperback || Frances Fahy e.a. || SAGE
Sustainability is a key word in the environmental vocabulary informing how research projects in the social sciences are framed. This book provides a systematic and critical review of the key research methods used when studying sustainable strategies and outcomes.
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For Space
Paperback || Doreen B Massey || SAGE
Presenting an impassioned argument for revitalising our imagination of space, Doreen Massey takes on some well-established assumptions from philosophy, and some familiar ways of characterising the twenty-first century world, and shows how they restrain our understanding of both the challenge and the potential of space.
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Key Thinkers on Space and Place
2021 || Paperback || Phil Hubbard e.a. || SAGE
Critically acclaimed and widely used across the social sciences, this new edition adds 14 new thinkers to an already impressive list.