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Technology and the Dream : Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941â€â€¦
Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. This book grew out of the Blacks at MIT History Project, whose mission is to document the black presence at MIT. The main body of the text consists of transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews, in which the i…
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- 9780262232128
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- 1056 halaman
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- 600 WIL t
Hearing and Hormones
This book reviews the growing literature that is consistent with the hypothesis that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and perception across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans. Understanding how hormones modulate auditory function has far reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in understanding the evolution of acoustic communic…
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- 978-3-319-26595-7
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- XIV, 209
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- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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- 616 HEA
Ship English
This book presents evidence that Ship English of the early Atlantic colonial period was a distinct variety with characteristic features. It is motivated by the recognition that late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century sailors’ speech was potentially an influential variety in nascent creoles and English varieties of the Caribbean, yet few academic studies have attempted to define the char…
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- 9783961101511
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services. Along with a review of recent literature, a unified framework of the HetVNET is presented. The brief focuses on introducing efficien…
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- 978-3-319-25620-7
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- XI, 82
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- SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- 671 ZHE e
Signal Processing
This book explains how mathematical tools can be used to solve problems in signal processing. Assuming an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level understanding of mathematics, this second edition contains new chapters on convolution and the vector DFT, plane-wave propagation, and the BLUE and Kalman filters. It expands the material on Fourier analysis to three new chapters to provide addition…
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- 9781482241846
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Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World
Attitudes towards diversity; International large-scale assessment; International Civic and Citizenship Study; ICCS; Comparative and international education; School segregation; Intergenerational transmission of inequality; Open classroom for discussion; Measurement invariance; Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling; Tolerance
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- 9783319786926
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Helium The Disappearing Element
The subject of the book is helium, the element, and its use in myriad applications including MRI machines, particle accelerators, space telescopes, and of course balloons and blimps. It was at the birth of our Universe, or the Big Bang, where the majority of cosmic helium was created; and stellar helium production continues. Although helium is the second most abundant element in the Universe, i…
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- 978-3-319-15122-9
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- XIII, 138
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
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- 641 WHE h
Transition and Opportunity
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China works to transit to a high-quality growth model that is more sustainable and innovation-driven. With global experience and front-line involvement in some of the most pressing…
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- 9789811686030
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The Impacts of Skiing and Related Winter Recreational Activities on Mountain …
This e-book reviews environmental impacts of ski tourism in mountain environments. Specifically, the book addresses skiing impacts on soils, vegetation, vertebrate and invertebrate animals living in such habitats. Additional chapters also explain the methods for the restoration of disturbed sites at high altitude and snow cover in a changing climate. The e-book is therefore a compilation on the…
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- 9781608054886
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Media Policy for the Digital Age
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector of media, namely public broadcasting via radio and television. The narrow approach results in a lot of paper, speeches and theories, but little in the way of definitive policy m…
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- 9789053568262
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