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A First Course in Digital Communications
Communication technology has become pervasive in the modern world, and ever more complex. Focusing on the most basic ideas, this carefully paced, logically structured textbook is packed with insights and illustrative examples, making this an ideal introduction to modern digital communication. Examples with step-by-step solutions help with the assimilation of theoretical ideas, and MATLAB exerci…
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Fundamentals of Sustainable Neighbourhoods
This timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world. Drawing on successful projects from London, New Mexico, Austria, and the Netherlands, "Innovative Sustainable Communities" presents planning concepts that minimize developments' carbon footp…
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- 978-3-319-10747-9
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Fundamentals of Structural Engineering
The book fosters an intuitive understanding of structural behavior based on problem solving experience for students of civil engineering and architecture who have been exposed to the basic concepts of engineering mechanics and mechanics of materials. Distinct from other undergraduate textbooks, the authors of Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, 2/e embrace the notion that engineers reason a…
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- 978-3-319-24331-3
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Fundamentals of Spherical Array Processing
The third chapter covers the theory of spatial sampling, employed when selecting the positions of microphones to sample sound pressure functions in space. Subsequent chapters present various spherical array configurations, including the popular rigid-sphere-based configuration. Beamforming (spatial filtering) in the spherical harmonics domain, including axis-symmetric beamforming, and the perfo…
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- 978-3-662-45664-4
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Fundamentals of Software Engineering
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th IPM International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2015, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2015. The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially th…
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The Econometricians
This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its underlying assumptions created the underpinning of much of modern financial theory. The author shows tha…
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- 978-1-137-34137-2
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- XXI, 261, 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
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- Great Minds in Finance
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Fundamentals of Service Systems
This textbook addresses the conceptual and practical aspects of the various phases of the lifecycle of service systems, ranging from service ideation, design, implementation, analysis, improvement and trading associated with service systems engineering. Written by leading experts in the field, this indispensable textbook will enable a new wave of future professionals to think in a service-focus…
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The Ecology of Large Herbivores in South and Southeast Asia
Large terrestrial mammalian herbivores play critical roles in ecosystems by acting as regulators of energy and nutrient cycles, modulators of plant community composition and grassland-woodland transitions, agents of seed dispersal, and as prey for large carnivores. Though large herbivores represent a prominent component of mammalian assemblages throughout South and Southeast Asia, little is kno…
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- VIII, 257, 26 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
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- Ecological Studies
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Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers
This book explains physics under the operating principles of semiconductor lasers in detail based on the experience of the author, dealing with the first manufacturing of phase-shifted DFB-LDs and recent research on transverse modes. The book also bridges a wide gap between journal papers and textbooks, requiring only an undergraduate-level knowledge of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics…
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- 978-4-431-55148-5
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The Ecology of Home
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examini…
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- XVI, 106
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- Researching Environmental Learning
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