“…The result is an analytical tour de force that will guide hunter-gatherer archaeology in Australia and elsewhere for years to come…”

“…Part 1 of the book guides you through the process of selecting an Application and Runtime pattern. Next, the platform-specific product mappings are identified based upon the selected Runtime pattern. …”

“…Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. …”

“…Through the course of the book, you’ll learn how to work with the Windows Runtime application model while building a Bing Image Search app…”

“…It provides a powerful infrastructure to enable administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior applications at runtime. DTrace can be used to observe applications written in Java, C, C++ PHP Ruby, Python, and much more."…”

“…Unlike most psychological and anthropological studies of culture and self, this text directly studies individuals, using interviews with young adults living in villages and small towns in southern Morocco…”

“…Examines the music of Iran in its historical and social contexts from the Timurid period up until the end of the Qajar period (15th to early 20th centuries)…”

“…Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day…”

“…Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day…”

“…Thorsten Fögen behandelt in dieser Studie vorrangig römische Fachtexte des ersten vor- und nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts und nähert sich der Frage nach dem Autorenbewußtsein und der Selbstdarstellung antiker Fachschriftsteller auf zwei Ebenen: Im ersten Teil liegt der Schwerpunkt auf einer synoptischen Diskussion antiker Zeugnisse zu den Charakteristika von Fachtexten und Fachsprachen. …”

“…Unlike other technology-focused books on the subject of telecommuting, this one addresses the human aspects, offering succinct and practical tips to improve relationships, processes, resources, and systems at work and at home…”

“…Unlike the `textbook' description of mental illness, discusses an earlier tradition that led psychiatrists to turn to Shakespeare's plays for such models as Ophelia and Lear, to help them understand the madness observed in their patients…”

“…This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice…”

“…Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the entire hydrological cycle in one place, rather than focusing on one bit. …”

“…Closer fiscal surveillance may help detect early such behaviour, but it is unlikely to curb the incentives to run politically-motivated fiscal policies when elections approach ..…”

“…Written by a hands-on operations executive who has successfully implemented process improvement programs at large and small businesses, this practical guidebook sets itself apart by providing a step-by-step strategy for analyzing the toughest area of a business to assess: its operations. Unlike financial and legal due diligence, there were no principles such as law and accounting to guide operations due diligence—until now. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- The background to the founding of Adelaide and South Australia in 1836 -- The development of the City and State from 1840 until 1950 and the City / State relationship during this period -- Changing attitudes to planning the City and State from 1950 until 1972 -- The establishment of the City of Adelaide Development Committee and the introduction of Interim Development Control -- Planning in Sydney and the work of George Clarke -- The City of Adelaide Planning Study -- Converting the City of Adelaide Planning Study into a City Plan -- An innovative system of city planning from 1 March 1977 -- Changes in the Adelaide City Council and the State and the first heritage study of the City -- The operation of the City's planning system from November 1982 until May 1987 -- The Condous Lord Mayoralty and the declining importance of the City of Adelaide Planning Commission -- The State Planning Review, the last City Plan and the end of the City's separate system…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.8 Optimizing the Time–Frequency Resolution of DirAC for Critical Signals 119 -- 5.9 Example Implementation 120 -- 5.9.1 Executing DirAC and Plotting Parameter History 122 -- 5.9.2 DirAC Initialization 125 -- 5.9.3 DirAC Runtime 131 -- 5.9.4 Simplistic Binaural Synthesis of Loudspeaker Listening 136 -- 5.10 Summary 137 -- References 138 -- 6 Higher-Order Directional Audio Coding 141 /Archontis Politis and Ville Pulkki -- 6.1 Introduction 141 -- 6.2 Sound Field Model 144 -- 6.3 Energetic Analysis and Estimation of Parameters 145 -- 6.3.1 Analysis of Intensity and Diffuseness in the Spherical Harmonic Domain 146 -- 6.3.2 Higher-Order Energetic Analysis 147 -- 6.3.3 Sector Profiles 149 -- 6.4 Synthesis of Target Setup Signals 151 -- 6.4.1 Loudspeaker Rendering 152 -- 6.4.2 Binaural Rendering 155 -- 6.5 Subjective Evaluation 157 -- 6.6 Conclusions 157 -- References 158 -- 7 Multi-Channel Sound Acquisition Using a Multi-Wave Sound Field Model 161 /Oliver Thiergart and Emanue¨l Habets -- 7.1 Introduction 161 -- 7.2 Parametric Sound Acquisition and Processing 163 -- 7.2.1 Problem Formulation 163 -- 7.2.2 Principal Estimation of the Target Signal 166 -- 7.3 Multi-Wave Sound Field and Signal Model 167 -- 7.3.1 Direct Sound Model 168 -- 7.3.2 Diffuse Sound Model 169 -- 7.3.3 Noise Model 169 -- 7.4 Direct and Diffuse Signal Estimation 170 -- 7.4.1 Estimation of the Direct Signal Ys(k, n) 170 -- 7.4.2 Estimation of the Diffuse Signal Yd(k, n) 176 -- 7.5 Parameter Estimation 179 -- 7.5.1 Estimation of the Number of Sources 179 -- 7.5.2 Direction of Arrival Estimation 181 -- 7.5.3 Microphone Input PSD Matrix 181 -- 7.5.4 Noise PSD Estimation 182 -- 7.5.5 Diffuse Sound PSD Estimation 182 -- 7.5.6 Signal PSD Estimation in Multi-Wave Scenarios 185 -- 7.6 Application to Spatial Sound Reproduction 186 -- 7.6.1 State of the Art 186 -- 7.6.2 Spatial Sound Reproduction Based on Informed Spatial Filtering 187 -- 7.7 Summary 194 -- References 195 -- 8 Adaptive Mixing of Excessively Directive and Robust Beamformers for Reproduction of Spatial Sound 201 /Symeon Delikaris-Manias and Juha Vilkamo…”

“…This overall trend is projected to continue until 2020 but further emission reductions will be needed to meet the target of a 20% reduction by 2020 compared to 1990.…”
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“…Old hands at Windows will learn quick and easy new ways to recover data or what to do when the administrator's password's been forgotten. Unlike many of the oversized and poorly organized books on the market, Windows 2000 Quick Fixes doesn't waste time with endless tutorials, fluff, and useless background material. …”