“…Embodied intelligence is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy and neuropsychology, and Claxton shows how the privilege given to cerebral thinking has taken a toll on modern society, resulting in too much screen time, the diminishment of skilled craftsmanship, and an overvaluing of white-collar over blue-collar labor. Discussing techniques that will help us reconnect with our bodies, Claxton shows how an appreciation of the body's intelligence will enrich all our lives…”

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“…Enemies of the State offers an informative and highly readable introduction to some of the key developments and events of recent American history including: the fear of the Communist subversion of American society in the aftermath of the Second World War; the rise of the civil rights movement and the "white backlash" this elicited; the apparent decline of liberalism and the ascendancy of conservatism during the economic malaise of the 1970s; Ronald Reagan's triumphant presidential victory in 1980; and the Great Recession of 2007-08 and subsequent election of President Obama."…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2.1 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Simulator 339 -- 6.2.2 Filtered Noise Method 339 -- 6.2.3 Sum of Sinusoids Method (Jakes Method) 341 -- 6.2.4 Frequency Domain Method 343 -- 6.2.5 Reverberation Chambers (or Mode-Stirred Chambers) 344 -- 6.3 Wideband Stochastic Channel Simulator 346 -- 6.3.1 Time Domain Channel Simulators 346 -- 6.3.2 Frequency Domain Simulators 348 -- 6.4 Frequency Domain Implementation Using Fast Convolution 349 -- 6.5 Channel Block Realization from Measured Data 351 -- 6.6 Theoretical Prediction of System Performance in Additive White Gaussian Noise 353 -- 6.6.1 Matched Filter and Correlation Detector 354 -- 6.6.2 Bit Error Rate of the Matched Filter Detector in AWGN 356 -- 6.6.3 Bit Error Rate with Noncoherent Detectors 357 -- 6.6.4 Comparison of BER of Coherent and Noncoherent Detectors 358 -- 6.6.5 Higher Order Modulation 358 -- 6.7 Prediction of System Performance in Fading Channels 361 -- 6.7.1 Narrowband Signals 361 -- 6.7.2 Wideband Signals 363 -- 6.8 Bit Error Rate Prediction for Wireless Standards 364 -- 6.8.1 IEEE 802.16-d Standard 365 -- 6.8.2 IEEE 802.11-a Standard 371 -- 6.8.3 Third Generation WCDMA Standard 372 -- 6.9 Enhancement of Performance Using Diversity Gain 376 -- 6.9.1 Diversity Combining Methods 377 -- 6.9.2 Diversity Gain Prediction of Rayleigh Fading Channels from Measurements in a Reverberation Chamber 382 -- References 383 -- Appendix 1 385 -- A.1 Probability Distribution Functions 385 -- A.2 The Gaussian (Normal) Distribution 385 -- A.3 The Rayleigh Distribution 387 -- A.4 The Rician Distribution 388 -- A.5 The Nakagami m-Distribution 389 -- A.6 The Weibull Distribution 390 -- A.7 The Log-Normal Distribution 390 -- A.8 The Suzuki Distribution 391 -- A.9 The Chi-Square Distribution 391 -- References 391 -- Appendix 2 393 -- Index 395.…”

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