Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.6.6.1 Transmission lines tour inspection system characteristics -- 3.6.6.2 The advantages of tour inspection system -- References -- 4 Transmission lines detection technology -- 4.1 Faulty Insulator Detection -- 4.1.1 The Characteristics of Faulty Insulators -- 4.1.2 Detection Methods of Faulty Insulators -- 4.1.2.1 Electrical quantity detection methods -- 4.1.2.2 Nonelectric quantity detection method -- 4.2 Voltage Detection in Operation -- 4.2.1 Requirements for Voltage Detector -- 4.2.1.1 Functions and technical requirements of voltage detectors -- 4.2.1.2 Electrical insulation requirements for voltage detectors -- 4.2.2 Methods of Voltage Detection Working -- 4.2.2.1 Direct voltage detection and indirect voltage detection -- 4.2.2.2 Methods and devices of voltage detection -- 4.3 Detection of Grounding Devices -- 4.3.1 Requirements for Grounding Type and Grounding Resistance -- 4.3.1.1 Grounding type -- 4.3.1.2 The main defects of grounding devices -- 4.3.1.3 Requirements for power frequency ground resistance in poles and towers -- 4.3.2 Measurement Methods of Power Frequency of Tower Ground Resistance -- 4.3.2.1 Three-electrode method -- 4.3.2.2 Four-electrode method -- 4.3.2.3 Clamp meter measuring method -- 4.3.3 Notes for Measuring Grounding Resistance and the Operating Maintenance of the Grounding Device -- 4.3.3.1 Notes for measuring grounding resistance -- 4.3.3.2 Operation maintenance for grounding device -- 4.4 Detection of Conductors and Ground Wires and Splicing Fittings -- 4.4.1 Performance Requirements and Heating Reasons for Conductors and Ground Wires and Splicing Fittings -- 4.4.1.1 Performance requirements -- 4.4.1.2 Reasons for temperature increase -- 4.4.1.3 Measures taken -- 4.4.2 Detection Methods -- 4.4.2.1 Ocular estimate method -- 4.4.2.2 Infrared thermal imaging detection method…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I: Basic Science of Pulmonary Development and Pulmonary Arterial Disease -- 1 Perspective for Part I -- 2 The alveolar stem cell niche of the mammalian lung -- 3 Lung development and Notch signalling -- 4 Specialized smooth muscle cell progenitors in pulmonary hypertension -- 5 Diverse Pharmacology of Prostacyclin Mimetics: Implications for Pulmonary Hypertension -- 6 Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pulmonary hypertension -- 7 Extracellular vesicles, MicroRNAs and Pulmonary Hypertension -- 8 Roles of Tbx4 in the lung mesenchyme for airway and vascular development -- 9 A lacZ reporter transgenic mouse line revealing the development of pulmonary artery -- 10 Roles of stem cell antigen-1 in the pulmonary endothelium -- 11 Morphological characterization of pulmonary microvascular disease in bronchopulmonary dysplasia caused by hyperoxia in newborn mice -- 12 Involvement of CXCR4 and stem cells in a rat model of pulmonary arterial hypertension -- 13 Ca2+ signal through inositol trisphosphate receptors for cardiovascular development and pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension -- PART II: Abnormal pulmonary circulation in the developing lung and heart -- 14 Perspective for Part II -- 15 Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Circulation in Congenital Heart Disease -- 16 Development of Novel Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension by Clinical Application of Basic Research -- 17 Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension -- 18 Modeling pulmonary arterial hypertension using induced pluripotent stem cells -- 19 Dysfunction and restoration of endothelial cell communications in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Therapeutic implications -- 20 Inflammatory Cytokines in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension -- 21 Genotypes and Phenotypes of Chinese Pediatric Patients with Idiopathic and Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension- Experiences from A Single Center -- 22 Fundamental Insight into Pulmonary Vascular Disease : Perspectives from Pediatric PAH in Japan -- 23 Risk stratification in paediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension -- 24 The Adaptive Right Ventricle in Eisenmenger Syndrome: Potential Therapeutic Targets for Pulmonary Hypertension -- 25 Impaired right coronary vasodilator function in pulmonary hypertensive rat assessed by in vivo synchrotron microangiography -- 26 Relationship between mutations in ENG and ALK1 gene and the affected organs in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia -- 27 A genetic analysis for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension -- 28 Evaluation and visualization of right ventricle using three dimensional echocardiography -- 29 Pulmonary hypertension associated with post-operative Tetralogy of Fallot -- 30 Microscopic Lung Airway Abnormality and Pulmonary Vascular Disease Associated with Congenital Systemic to Pulmonary Shunt -- 31 Respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants with heart and lung diseases -- PART III: Ductus arteriosus: bridge over troubled vessels -- 32 Perspective for Part III -- 33 The ductus arteriosus, a vascular outsider, in relation to the pulmonary circulation -- 34 Molecular, genetic, and pharmacological modulation of the ductus arteriosus: KATP channels as novel drug targets -- 35 New mediators in the biology of the ductus arteriosus: Lessons from the chicken embryo -- 36 Constriction of the Ductus Arteriosus with KATP Channel Inhibitors -- 37 New insights on how to treat patent ductus arteriosus -- 38 Antenatal Administration of Betamethasone Contributes to Intimal thickening of the Ductus Arteriosus -- 39 Prostaglandin E-EP4-mediated fibulin-1 up-regulation plays a role in intimal thickening of the ductus arteriosus -- 40 Transcriptional profiles in the chicken ductus arteriosus during hatching -- 41 Inhibition of Cyclooxygenase Contracts Chicken Ductus Arteriosus -- 42 Prostaglandin E2 receptor EP4 inhibition constricts the rat ductus arteriosus -- 43 Dilatation of the Ductus Arteriosus by Diazoxide in Fetal and Neonatal Rats -- 44 The Effect of Long-term Administration of Plostaglandin E1 on Morphological Changes in Ductus Arteriosus -- 45 Significance of SGK1 as a protein kinase transcriptionally regulated by ALK1 signaling in vascular endothelial cells -- 46 Fabrication of Implantable Human Arterial Graft by Periodic Hydrostatic Pressure -- 47 Optimum preparation of Candida albicans cell wall extra (CAWE) for the mouse model of Kawasaki disease -- PART IV: Development and Regeneration of the Cardiovascular System -- 48 Perspective for Part IV -- 49 Advances in the second heart field -- 50 Novel cardiac progenitors for all components of the heart except for the right ventricle -- 51 Regional and TBX5-dependent gene expression in the atria: Implications for pulmonary vein development and atrial fibrillation -- 52 The Endocardium as a Master Regulator of Ventricular Trabeculation -- 53 The Role of Alternative mRNA Splicing in Heart Development -- 54 Progress in the Generation of Multiple Lineage Human-iPSC-derived 3D Engineered Cardiac Tissues for Cardiac Repair -- 55 Quantification of contractility in stem cell derived cardiomyocytes -- 56 A neurotrophic factor receptor GFRA2, a specific surface antigen for cardiac progenitor cells, regulates the process of myocardial compaction -- 57 Cardiac cell specification and differentiation by the defined factors -- 58 A Temporo-Spatial Regulation of Sema3c is Essential for Interaction of Progenitor Cells during Cardiac Outflow Tract Development -- 59 Spatiotemporally restricted developmental alterations in the anterior and secondary heart fields cause distinct conotruncal heart defects -- 60 Significance of transcription factors in the mechanisms of great artery malformations -- 61 The different c-kit expression in human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells between with feeder cells and without feeder cells -- 62 Establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells from immortalized B cell lines and their differentiation into cardiomyocytes -- 63 Establishment of an in vitro LQT3 model, using induced pluripotent stem cells from LQT3 patient-derived cardiomyocytes -- 64 Genetic Assessments for clinical courses of Left ventricle noncompaction -- 65 Elucidating the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease in the era of next-generation sequencing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data Types -- Numerics -- Serials -- Generate Series Function -- Characters and Strings -- String Functions -- Splitting Strings into Arrays, Tables, or Substrings -- Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching -- Temporals -- Time Zones: What They Are and Are Not -- Datetime Operators and Functions -- Arrays -- Array Constructors -- Referencing Elements in an Array -- Array Slicing and Splicing -- Unnesting Arrays to Rows -- Range Types -- Discrete Versus Continuous Ranges -- Built-in Range Types -- Defining Ranges -- Defining Tables with Ranges -- Range Operators -- JSON -- Inserting JSON Data -- Querying JSON -- Outputting JSON -- Binary JSON: jsonb -- XML -- Inserting XML Data -- Querying XML Data -- Custom and Composite Data Types -- All Tables Are Custom Data Types -- Building Custom Data Types -- Building Operators and Functions for Custom Types -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.5.1 Transcriptomic Profiling (Bulk and Single-Cell RNA-Seq) -- 4.5.2 Genetic Mutation and Variation Identification -- 4.5.3 De Novo Genome Assembly -- 4.5.4 Protein-DNA Interaction Analysis (ChIP-Seq) -- 4.5.5 Epigenomics and DNA Methylation Study (Methyl-Seq) -- 4.5.6 Metagenomics -- References -- 5 Early-Stage Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis: Common Steps -- 5.1 Basecalling, FASTQ File Format, and Base Quality Score -- 5.2 NGS Data Quality Control and Preprocessing -- 5.3 Read Mapping -- 5.3.1 Mapping Approaches and Algorithms -- 5.3.2 Selection of Mapping Algorithms and Reference Genome Sequences -- 5.3.3 SAM/BAM as the Standard Mapping File Format -- 5.3.4 Mapping File Examination and Operation -- 5.4 Tertiary Analysis -- References -- 6 Computing Needs for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Management and Analysis -- 6.1 NGS Data Storage, Transfer, and Sharing -- 6.2 Computing Power Required for NGS Data Analysis -- 6.3 Cloud Computing -- 6.4 Software Needs for NGS Data Analysis -- 6.4.1 Parallel Computing -- 6.5 Bioinformatics Skills Required for NGS Data Analysis -- References -- Part III Application-Specific NGS Data Analysis -- 7 Transcriptomics By Bulk RNA-Seq -- 7.1 Principle of RNA-Seq -- 7.2 Experimental Design -- 7.2.1 Factorial Design -- 7.2.2 Replication and Randomization -- 7.2.3 Sample Preparation and Sequencing Library Preparation -- 7.2.4 Sequencing Strategy -- 7.3 RNA-Seq Data Analysis -- 7.3.1 Read Mapping -- 7.3.2 Quantification of Reads -- 7.3.3 Normalization -- 7.3.4 Batch Effect Removal -- 7.3.5 Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes -- 7.3.6 Multiple Testing Correction -- 7.3.7 Gene Clustering -- 7.3.8 Functional Analysis of Identified Genes -- 7.3.9 Differential Splicing Analysis -- 7.4 Visualization of RNA-Seq Data -- 7.5 RNA-Seq as a Discovery Tool -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- How it works... -- Working with splice in Heist -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Chapter 9: Working with Snap Framework -- Introduction -- Getting started with Snap -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Routing in Snap -- How to do it... -- How it works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Welded Aircraft Structures and Repair -- Construction of Steel-Tube Assemblies by Welding -- Types of Steel Tubing -- Joint Designs -- Alignment Fixtures -- Welding Procedure -- Attachment of Welded Fittings -- Corrosion Protection -- Finishing of Welded Structures -- Inspection of Steel-Tube Structures -- Visual Inspection -- Aircraft Tubing Repair -- Procedures for Weld Repairs -- Controlling Distortion -- Devices for Holding Tubular Structures in Alignment -- Repairs to Fittings -- Repairing Bends and Dents -- Surface Patches -- Major Welded Repairs -- Rosette Welds -- Inner-Sleeve Repairs -- Splicing Using Larger-Diameter Replacement Tubes -- Outside-Sleeve Repairs -- Replacement of a Cluster at a Station -- Repair at Built-in Fuselage Fittings -- Repair of Streamline Tubing -- Repair of Engine Mounts -- Wing- and Tail-Surface Repairs -- Welded Repair of Fabric-Covered Steel Fuselage -- Special Welding Repairs -- Steel Parts That Must Not Be Welded -- Repairable Axle Assemblies -- Repair of Engine Exhaust Units -- Repair of Fuel and Oil Tanks -- Cowlings -- Soldering and Brazing -- Sweat Soldering -- Flux -- Soft Soldering -- Hard Soldering (Brazing) -- Special Soldering Applications -- Review Questions -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Centralized Splitting -- An Even More Practical Centralized Splitting Architecture -- Greenfields -- Brownfields -- CABLE COLOR CODES -- AERIAL OR UNDERGROUND: A DECISION MADE FOR YOU -- Aerial Plant -- Optical Ground Wire -- Snowshoes in the Summer -- Underground Plant -- New Developments -- Existing Developments -- To Conduit or Not to Conduit -- Trace Your Cable -- CONNECTING FIBERS -- Fusion Splicing -- Connectorization -- Preterminated Drop Cable -- INSIDE CABLING -- Bend Radius -- Fiber for Indoor Installation -- Ribbon Fibers -- OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE FTTX NETWORK -- DESIGN METHODOLOGIES -- EPON Optics -- PX20 Optics at OLT and at ONT -- PX20 OLT, PX10 ONT -- More on the Penalty -- GPON Optics -- Class B+ Optics at the OLT and ONT -- TESTING OPTICAL NETWORKS -- Visible Light Source -- Optical Level Meter -- Optical Time Domain Reflectometer -- THE DUMB, SIMPLE, STUPID STUFF -- Mixing Green and Blue -- Lesson Learned -- Fiber is Fiber is Fiber -- Lesson Learned -- What, Mark My Cable Route Accurately? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using the split function -- Accessing Array Elements -- Modifying Arrays -- Deleting Array Elements -- Programming with Array Methods -- Pushing and popping -- Shifting and unshifting -- Slicing an array -- Splicing an array -- Looping with Array Methods -- Passing callback functions to array methods -- Reducing an array -- Mapping an array -- Filtering arrays -- Destructuring Arrays -- Spreading Arrays -- Chapter 7 Making and Using Objects -- Objects: The Basics -- Creating Objects -- Making objects using literal notation -- Making objects using a constructor function -- Making objects with class -- Making objects with Object.create() -- Modifying Objects -- Using dot notation -- Using square brackets notation -- Comparing and Copying Objects -- Understanding Prototypes -- Deleting Object Properties -- Chapter 8 Writing and Running Functions -- Functions: An Introduction -- Using Top-level functions -- Using methods of built-in objects -- Passing by value -- Passing by reference -- Writing Functions -- Naming functions -- Passing arguments -- Using rest parameters -- Using the arguments object -- Passing functions as arguments -- Setting default parameters -- Writing a function body -- Returning data -- Using a return value as an argument -- Creating conditional code with return -- Function declaration scope and hoisting -- Declaring Anonymous functions -- Defining function expressions -- Writing anonymous functions as arrow functions -- Simplifying arrow functions -- Knowing the limits of arrow functions -- Arrow functions don't have this -- Arrow functions don't have the arguments object -- Writing Methods -- Understanding Context and this -- Passing an object to a function -- Setting the context of a function -- Using call() -- Using apply() -- Using bind() -- Passing a function from one object to another…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Refrigerator/Freezer -- The Basic Refrigeration Cycle -- Refrigeration Components -- Compressor -- Compressor Safety -- Trained Personnel Only -- Terminal Venting and Electrocution -- Compressor Motor Starting Relays -- Current Type Relay -- PTC Type Relay -- Condenser Coil -- Evaporator Coil -- Metering Device -- Other Components Used in the Sealed Refrigeration System -- Diagnosing Sealed Systems -- Part IV: Parts -- Chapter 10: Electric Appliance and Air Conditioner Parts -- The Switch -- Pressure Switch -- Thermostat -- Electromechanical Timer -- The Motor -- The Cam Switches -- The Escapement -- Relays -- Solenoids -- Water Valves -- Motors -- Compressors -- Capacitors -- Testing a Capacitor -- Heating Elements -- Mechanical Linkages -- Wires -- How to Strip, Splice, Solder, and Install Solderless and Terminal Connectors, and How to Use Wire Nuts on Wires -- Circuit Protection Devices -- Chapter 11: Electronic Parts -- Electronic Components in General -- How Electronic Appliances and Air Conditioners Operate -- Electrostatic Discharge -- Testing Printed Circuit Boards -- Touch Panel Membrane -- Transformer -- Integrated Circuit Chip -- Resistors -- Sensors -- Temperature Detectors -- Thermistor -- Thermocouple -- Resistance Temperature Detector -- Thermopile…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Carve‐outs -- Sub‐portfolios -- Cash sectors -- Individual security returns -- Multi‐period component returns -- Abnormal returns -- Short positions -- Contribution to Return -- Composite Returns -- 4 Benchmarks -- Benchmarks -- Benchmark attributes -- Best benchmark practice -- The Role of Benchmarks -- Types of Benchmarks -- Commercial Indexes -- Calculation methodologies -- Aggregate price index (price‐weighted index or Carli type) -- Geometric (or Jevons type) index -- Market capitalisation index -- Laspeyres index -- Paasche index -- Marshall-Edgeworth index -- Fisher index -- Equal‐weighted indexes -- Fundamental indexes -- Optimised indexes (efficient or minimum variance indexes) -- Style‐ and factor‐based indexes -- Fixed income indexes -- Index providers -- Choice of index provider -- Self‐indexing -- Benchmark regulation -- Choice of index -- Currency effects in benchmarks -- Hedged indexes -- Customised Indexes -- Capped indexes -- Peer Groups and Universes -- Percentile rank -- Random Portfolios -- Exchange‐traded Funds (ETFs) -- Target Returns -- Blended Benchmarks (or Balanced Benchmarks) -- Fixed‐weight and dynamised benchmarks -- Spliced Indexes -- Money‐weighted Benchmarks (or Public Market Equivalents) -- Normal Portfolio -- Benchmark Statistics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Skin -- Organs -- CHAPTER SUMMARY -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- Chapter 4: Energy and Cellular Metabolism -- RUNNING PROBLEM Tay‐Sachs Disease: A Deadly Inheritance -- Energy in Biological Systems -- Energy Is Used to Perform Work -- Energy Comes in Two Forms: Kinetic and Potential -- Energy Can Be Converted from One Form to Another -- Thermodynamics Is the Study of Energy Use -- Chemical Reactions -- Energy Is Transferred between Molecules during Reactions -- Activation Energy Gets Reactions Started -- Energy Is Trapped or Released during Reactions -- Net Free Energy Change Determines Reaction Reversibility -- Enzymes -- Enzymes Are Proteins -- Reaction Rates Are Variable -- Enzymes May Be Activated, Inactivated, or Modulated -- Enzymes Lower Activation Energy of Reactions -- Enzymatic Reactions Can Be Categorized -- Metabolism -- Cells Regulate Their Metabolic Pathways -- Catabolic Pathways Produce ATP -- One Glucose Molecule Can Yield 30-32 ATP -- Anaerobic Metabolism Makes Two ATP -- Proteins Are the Key to Cell Function -- DNA Guides the Synthesis of RNA -- Alternative Splicing Creates Multiple Proteins from One DNA Sequence -- mRNA Translation Links Amino Acids -- Emerging Concepts Purple Petunias and RNAi -- Protein Sorting Directs Proteins to Their Destination -- Proteins Undergo Posttranslational Modification -- CHAPTER SUMMARY -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- Chapter 5: Membrane Dynamics -- RUNNING PROBLEM Cystic Fibrosis -- Homeostasis Does Not Mean Equilibrium -- Osmosis and Tonicity -- The Body Is Mostly Water -- The Body Is in Osmotic Equilibrium -- Osmolarity Describes the Number of Particles in Solution -- Tonicity Describes the Volume Change of a Cell -- Transport Processes -- Cell Membranes Are Selectively Permeable -- Diffusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- How it works... -- Analyzing splice variants with SGSeq -- Getting ready…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.4 The MPEG-1 System Target Decoder 143 -- 7.5 The MPEG-1 System Stream 155 -- 7.5.1 Data Structure and Design Considerations 155 -- 7.5.2 Constrained System Parameter Streams 161 -- 7.5.3 Compliancy Requirements of MPEG-1 System Streams 166 -- 7.6 MPEG-1 Applications 168 -- 7.6.1 Compact Disc 168 -- 7.6.2 Computers 169 -- 7.7 Conclusions on MPEG-1 169 -- References 170 -- Part Two THE MPEG-2 SYSTEMS STANDARD 171 -- 8 The Development of MPEG-2 Systems 173 -- 8.1 Driving Forces 173 -- 8.2 Objectives and Requirements 176 -- 8.3 The Evolution of MPEG-2 Systems 178 -- References 185 -- 9 Layering in MPEG-2 Systems 187 -- 9.1 Need for Program Streams and Transport Streams 187 -- 9.2 PES Packets as a Common Layer 188 -- 9.3 Program Streams 189 -- 9.4 Transport Streams 193 -- 9.4.1 Transport Packets 193 -- 9.4.2 Conveying PES Packets in Transport Packets 195 -- 9.4.3 The Size of Transport Packets 196 -- 9.4.4 Multiple Programs, PSI, Descriptors and Sections 199 -- 9.4.5 Conveying Sections in Transport Packets 213 -- References 214 -- 10 Conditional Access and Scrambling 217 -- 10.1 Support of Conditional Access Systems 217 -- 10.2 Scrambling in Transport Streams 219 -- 10.3 Improving the Interoperability between CA Systems 224 -- 10.4 Scrambling in Program Streams 225 -- Reference 226 -- 11 Other Features of MPEG-2 Systems 227 -- 11.1 Error Resiliency 227 -- 11.2 Re-Multiplexing of Transport Streams 230 -- 11.3 Local Program Insertion in Transport Streams 234 -- 11.3.1 Usage of Local Program Insertions 234 -- 11.3.2 Associated PSI Issues 235 -- 11.3.3 Time Base Discontinuities 236 -- 11.4 Splicing in Transport Streams 239 -- 11.5 Variable Bitrate and Statistical Multiplexing 245 -- 11.6 Padding and Stuffing 245 -- 11.7 Random Access and Parsing Convenience 248 -- 11.8 Carriage of Private Data 250 -- 11.9 Copyright and Copy Control Support 254 -- 11.10 Playback Trick Modes 255 -- 11.11 Single Program and Partial Transport Streams 255 -- 11.12 Program Stream Carriage within a Transport Stream 258.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgments xv -- 1 IP Technology Disrupts Voice Telephony 1 -- 1.1 Introduction to the Public Switched Telephone Network 1 -- 1.2 The Digital PSTN 2 -- 1.3 The Packet Revolution in Telephony 8 -- 1.3.1 Summary of Packet Switching 9 -- 1.3.2 Link Capacity: TDM versus Packets 11 -- 1.3.3 VoIP and “The Cloud” 13 -- IN SHORT: Reading Network Drawings 14 -- 2 Traditional Telephones Still Set Expectations 17 -- 2.1 Availability: How the Bell System Ensured Service 18 -- 2.2 Call Completion 19 -- 2.3 Sound Quality: Encoding for Recognizable Voices 20 -- 2.4 Low Latency 23 -- 2.5 Call Setup Delays 24 -- 2.6 Impairments Controlled: Echo, Singing, Distortion, Noise 25 -- 3 From Circuits to Packets 27 -- 3.1 Data and Signaling Preceded Voice 27 -- 3.1.1 X.25 Packet Data Service 27 -- 3.1.2 SS7: PSTN Signaling on Packets 28 -- 3.1.3 ISDN 29 -- 3.2 Putting Voice into Packets 30 -- 3.2.1 Voice Encoding 31 -- 3.2.2 Dicing and Splicing Voice Streams 32 -- 3.2.3 The Latency Budget 33 -- 4 Packet Transmission and Switching 37 -- 4.1 The Physical Layer: Transmission 39 -- IN SHORT: The Endian Wars 40 -- 4.2 Data Link Protocols 41 -- 4.3 IP, the Network Protocol 43 -- 4.4 Layer 4 Transport Protocols 47 -- 4.4.1 Transmission Control Protocol 47 -- 4.4.2 User Datagram Protocol 50 -- 4.4.3 Stream Control Transmission Protocol 51 -- 4.5 Higher Layer Processes 54 -- 4.5.1 RTP 54 -- 4.5.2 RTCP 57 -- 4.5.3 Multiplexing RTP and RTCP on One UDP Port 58 -- 4.5.4 RTP Mixers and Translators 59 -- 4.5.5 Layered Encoding 60 -- 4.5.6 Profiles for Audio and Video Conferences 60 -- 4.5.7 Security via Encryption 61 -- IN SHORT: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) 62 -- 4.6 Saving Bandwidth 64 -- 4.6.1 Voice Compression 64 -- 4.6.2 Header Compression 66 -- 4.6.3 Silence Suppression, VAD 67 -- 4.6.4 Sub-Packet Multiplexing 69 -- 4.6.5 Protocol and Codec Selection 70 -- 4.7 Differences: Circuit versus Packet Switched 71 -- 4.7.1 Power to the Desktop Phone 71 -- 4.7.2 Phone as Computer and Computer as Phone 72.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 5.3 Avoiding copying using remote DMA -- 5.3.1 Avoiding copying in a cluster -- 5.3.2 Modern-day incarnations of RDMA -- Fiber channel -- Infiniband -- iSCSI via iWarp and RoCE -- 5.4 Broadening to file systems -- 5.4.1 Shared memory -- 5.4.2 IO-lite: A unified view of buffering -- 5.4.3 Avoiding file system copies via I/O splicing -- 5.5 Broadening beyond copies -- 5.6 Broadening beyond data manipulations -- 5.6.1 Using caches effectively -- Data Cache Optimization -- Code arrangement -- Locality-driven layer processing -- Software engineering considerations -- 5.6.2 Direct memory access versus programmed I/O -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 5.8 Exercises -- 6 Transferring control -- 6.1 Why control overhead? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basics of Audio in MATLAB® -- 3.1 Introduction: Digital Audio Signals -- 3.2 MATLAB Audio Functions -- 3.2.1 audioread -- 3.2.2 sound -- 3.2.3 audiowrite -- 3.2.4 audioinfo -- 3.3 Working with Audio Signals in Arrays -- 3.3.1 Indexing Arrays -- Audio Edit Signal Splice -- 3.3.2 Array Reversal -- 3.3.3 Additional Methods to Create Arrays -- 3.3.4 Array Transposition -- 3.3.5 Determining Dimensions of Arrays -- 3.4 Visualizing the Waveform of an Audio Signal -- Bibliography -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.5 Functions with Default Arguments -- 3.6 inline Functions -- 3.7 Storage Classes -- 3.7.1 auto -- 3.7.2 Keyword register -- 3.7.3 Keyword static -- 3.7.4 Keyword extern -- 3.8 Recursion -- 3.9 Scope Rules -- 3.10 Arrays -- 3.10.1 Introduction -- 3.10.2 Array as function parameter -- 3.10.3 Arrays with multiple dimension -- 3.11 Structures -- 3.11.1 Assignment of structure variables -- 3.11.2 Using structure as function parameters -- 3.11.3 Pointer to structures -- 3.12 Union -- 3.12.1 Defining an union -- 3.12.2 Working with union -- 3.12.3 Anonymous union -- 3.13 Line Splicing -- 3.14 Command Line Arguments -- 3.15 Multi File Programs -- 3.16 Difference Between C and C++ -- 3.16.1 Major differences -- 3.16.2 Minor differences -- 3.17 End of Chapter Programs -- For Advanced Readers -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Object Orientation: An Introduction -- 4.1 Programming Paradigms -- 4.1.1 Spectrum of computer applications -- 4.1.2 Bird's-eye view of programming paradigms -- 4.2 Popular Recent Paradigms -- 4.2.1 Procedural programming -- 4.2.2 Object-oriented programming -- 4.2.3 Programming language C++ -- 4.2.4 Programming language JAVA -- 4.2.5 Procedural programming vs. object-oriented programming -- 4.3 An Introduction to Object Orientation -- 4.3.1 From structures to objects -- 4.4 Features of Object-Oriented Language -- 4.5 Benefits of Object-Oriented Programming -- 4.6 Writing Large Programs -- Summary -- Multiple Choice Questions and Answers -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Classes and Objects -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data Hiding and Encapsulation -- 5.2.1 Private and public data members -- 5.3 Member Functions -- 5.3.1 Scope resolution operator -- 5.4 Accessing Class Members -- 5.5 Some Short Questions and Answers I -- 5.6 Using Pointers for Objects -- 5.7 Objects as Function Parameters -- 5.8 Some Short Questions and Answers II…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conceptual Questions and Answers -- Code Snippets -- Multiple-choice Questions -- Outputs and Explanations to Code Snippets -- Answers to Multiple-choice Questions -- Programming Exercises -- Test Yourself -- 8 The C Preprocessor -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Translators -- 8.3 Phases of Translation -- 8.3.1 Trigraph Replacement -- 8.3.2 Line Splicing -- 8.3.3 Tokenization -- 8.3.4 Preprocessor Directive Handling -- 8.4 Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Conceptual Questions and Answers -- Code Snippets -- Multiple-choice Questions -- Outputs and Explanations to Code Snippets -- Answers to Multiple-choice Questions -- Programming Exercises -- Test Yourself -- 9 Structures, Unions, Enumerations and Bit-fields -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Structures -- 9.2.1 Defining a Structure -- 9.2.2 Declaring Structure Objects -- 9.2.3 Operations on Structures -- 9.3 Pointers to Structures -- 9.3.1 Declaring Pointer to a Structure -- 9.3.2 Accessing Structure Members Via a Pointer to a Structure -- 9.4 Array of Structures -- 9.5 Structures within a Structure (Nested Structures) -- 9.6 Functions and Structures -- 9.6.1 Passing Each Member of a Structure Object as a Separate Argument -- 9.6.2 Passing a Structure Object by Value -- 9.6.3 Passing a Structure Object by Address/Reference -- 9.7 typedef and Structures -- 9.8 Unions -- 9.9 Practical Application of Unions -- 9.9.1 Calling DOS and BIOS Functions -- 9.9.2 Interrupt Programming -- 9.10 Enumerations -- 9.11 Bit-Fields -- 9.12 Summary -- Exercise Questions -- Conceptual Questions and Answers -- Code Snippets -- Multiple-choice Questions -- Outputs and Explanations to Code Snippets -- Answers to Multiple-choice Questions -- Programming Exercises -- Test Yourself -- 10 Files -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Files -- 10.3 Streams -- 10.4 I/O Using Streams -- 10.4.1 Opening a Stream -- 10.4.2 Closing Streams…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 10.1.1 IBM text-to-speech engine -- 10.1.2 IBM speech recognition engine -- 10.1.3 Languages supported -- 10.2 Language support implementation -- 10.2.1 Cisco environment -- 10.2.2 Dialogic environment -- 10.3 Installing Voice Server Language Support component -- 10.3.1 Installing process -- 10.4 Different text-to-speech versions -- 10.5 Concatenative TTS language -- 10.5.1 Installing Voice Server concatenative language component -- 10.5.2 Installing process -- 10.6 Phrase splicing -- Chapter 11. WebSphere Voice Server hardware environments -- 11.1 WebSphere Voice Server in an IBM ^ BladeCenter distribution -- 11.1.1 The IBM ^ BladeCenter -- 11.1.2 Server -- 11.1.3 Software -- 11.2 WebSphere Voice Server in a Voice over IP environment -- 11.2.1 Hardware environment -- 11.2.2 Software environment -- 11.3 WebSphere Voice Server for WebSphere Voice Response on Windows Version 3.1 -- 11.4 WebSphere Voice Server on WebSphere Voice Response on AIX 3.1 -- Chapter 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.6.2 Background 265 -- 8.6.3 Problem Formulation 266 -- 8.6.4 Routing Based on Priority Queuing 267 -- 8.6.5 Problem Solution 269 -- 8.6.6 Performance Evaluation 270 -- 8.7 Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Summary Transmission 272 -- 8.7.1 Background 272 -- 8.7.2 Problem Formulation 274 -- 8.7.3 System Model 276 -- 8.7.4 Link Adaptation for Good Content Coverage 278 -- 8.7.5 Problem Solution 280 -- 8.7.6 Performance Evaluation 283 -- 8.8 Conclusions 287 -- References 287 -- 9 Content-based Video Communications 291 -- 9.1 Network-Adaptive Video Object Encoding 291 -- 9.2 Joint Source Coding and Unequal Error Protection 294 -- 9.2.1 Problem Formulation 295 -- 9.2.2 Solution and Implementation Details 299 -- 9.2.3 Application on Energy-Efficient Wireless Network 301 -- 9.2.4 Application on Differentiated Services Networks 303 -- 9.3 Joint Source-Channel Coding with Utilization of Data Hiding 305 -- 9.3.1 Hiding Shape in Texture 308 -- 9.3.2 Joint Source-Channel Coding 309 -- 9.3.3 Joint Source-Channel Coding and Data Hiding 311 -- 9.3.4 Experimental Results 315 -- References 322 -- 10 AVC/H.264 Application / Digital TV 325 -- 10.1 Introduction 325 -- 10.1.1 Encoder Flexibility 326 -- 10.2 Random Access 326 -- 10.2.1 GOP Bazaar 327 -- 10.2.2 Buffers, Before and After 332 -- 10.3 Bitstream Splicing 335 -- 10.4 Trick Modes 337 -- 10.4.1 Fast Forward 338 -- 10.4.2 Reverse 338 -- 10.4.3 Pause 338 -- 10.5 Carriage of AVC/H.264 Over MPEG-2 Systems 338 -- 10.5.1 Packetization 339 -- 10.5.2 Audio Video Synchronization 344 -- 10.5.3 Transmitter and Receiver Clock Synchronization 344 -- 10.5.4 System Target Decoder and Timing Model 344 -- References 345 -- 11 Interactive Video Communications 347 -- 11.1 Video Conferencing and Telephony 347 -- 11.1.1 IP and Broadband Video Telephony 347 -- 11.1.2 Wireless Video Telephony 348 -- 11.1.3 3G-324M Protocol 348 -- 11.2 Region-of-Interest Video Communications 351 -- 11.2.1 ROI based Bit Allocation 351 -- 11.2.2 Content Adaptive Background Skipping 356.…”