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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Complex-Valued Adaptive Signal Processing -- 1.1 Introduction -- -- 1.2 Preliminaries -- 1.3 Optimization in the Complex Domain -- 1.4 Widely Linear Adaptive Filtering -- 1.5 Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering with Multilayer Perceptrons -- 1.6 Complex Independent Component Analysis -- 1.7 Summary -- 1.8 Acknowledgment -- 1.9 Problems -- References -- Chapter 2 Robust Estimation Techniques for Complex-Valued Random Vectors -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Statistical Characterization of Complex Random Vectors -- 2.3 Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) Distributions -- 2.4 Tools to Compare Estimators -- 2.5 Scatter and Pseudo-Scatter Matrices -- 2.6 Array Processing Examples -- 2.7 MVDR Beamformers Based on M-Estimators -- 2.8 Robust ICA -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 2.10 Problems -- References -- Chapter 3 Turbo Equalization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Context -- 3.3 Communication Chain -- 3.4 Turbo Decoder: Overview -- 3.5 Forward-Backward Algorithm -- 3.6 Simplified Algorithm: Interference Canceler -- 3.7 Capacity Analysis -- 3.8 Blind Turbo Equalization -- 3.9 Convergence -- 3.10 Multichannel and Multiuser Settings -- 3.11 Concluding Remarks -- 3.12 Problems -- References -- Chapter 4 Subspace Tracking for Signal Processing -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Linear Algebra Review -- 4.3 Observation Model and Problem Statement -- 4.4 Preliminary Example: Oja's Neuron -- 4.5 Subspace Tracking -- 4.6 Eigenvectors Tracking -- 4.7 Convergence and Performance Analysis Issues -- 4.8 Illustrative Examples -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- 4.10 Problems -- References -- Chapter 5 Particle Filtering -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Motivation for Use of Particle Filtering -- 5.3 The Basic Idea -- 5.4 The Choice of Proposal Distribution and Resampling -- 5.5 Some Particle Filtering Methods -- 5.6 Handling Constant Parameters -- 5.7 Rao-Blackwellization -- 5.8 Prediction -- 5.9 Smoothing -- 5.10 Convergence Issues -- 5.11 Computational Issues and Hardware Implementation -- 5.12 Acknowledgments…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Measures of Central Tendency -- Concept of Statistics -- Meaning and Definition of Statistics -- Need and Importance of Statistics -- The Frequency Distribution -- The Array -- Discrete Frequency Distribution -- Continuous Frequency Distribution -- Number of Classes -- Class Interval -- Class Frequency -- Tally Sheet -- Measures of Central Tendency -- Characteristics of an Ideal Measure of Central Value -- Summary -- Key Words -- References -- Additional Readings -- Chapter 2: Measure of Variability -- Measures of Dispersion Percentile -- Measures of Dispersion -- The Range -- The Quartile Deviation -- The Quartiles -- Merits and Demerits of Quartile Deviation -- Mean Deviation -- Computation of Mean Deviation from Ungrouped Data -- Mean Deviation from Grouped Data -- Merits and Demerits of Mean Deviation -- Variance and Standard Deviation -- Computation of Variance and Standard Deviation for Ungrouped Data -- Computation of Variance and Standard Deviation for Grouped Data -- Combined Variance and Standard Deviation -- Merits and Demerits of Standard Deviation -- Graphical Representation of Data -- The Histogram -- Frequency Polygon -- Smoothing the Frequency Polygon -- Cumulative Frequency Curve or Ogive -- Coefficient of Variation -- The Percentile -- Computation of Percentile -- Percentile Ranks -- Computation of Percentile Ranks -- Summary -- Key Words -- References -- Additional Readings -- Chapter 3: The Correlation Method -- Meaning and Concept of Correlation -- Methods of Correlation -- Scatter Diagram Method -- The Correlation Coefficient -- Pearson's Coefficient of Correlation -- Direct Method -- Short-Cut Method -- Rank Difference Correlation Methods -- Spearman's Coefficient of Rank Correlation -- Spearman's Coefficient of Rank Difference Correlation q -- Spearman's q with Tied Ranks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 4: Working with the Autodesk Revit Tools -- The Basic Edit Commands -- The Array Command -- The Mirror Command -- The Align Tool -- The Split Element Command -- The Trim Command -- The Offset Command -- Copy/Paste -- Creating the Plans -- Are You Experienced? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Diversity of African textiles -- West Africa -- Stripweaves -- The Tripod loom stripweaves of Sierra Leone and Liberia -- Ashanti stripweaves -- Ewe stripweaves -- Djerma weaving of Niger and Burkina-Faso -- Woolen stripweaves of the Niger bend -- Nigerian horizontal-loom weaving -- Yoruba lace weave -- Nigerian women's vertical looms -- The Supplementary weft cloths of Ijebu-Ode and Akwete -- Tie and dye -- Nigerian tie and dye -- Tie and dye of the Dida, Ivory Coast -- Stitched resist -- Yoruba stitched resist -- Machine-stitched resist -- Yoruba and Bauleʹ warp ikat -- Nigerian starch-resist by hand -- Stencilled starch-resist -- Wax resist -- Mali mud cloths -- Adinkra stamped cloths of Ghana -- Stamped, stencilled and dyed clothing from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali -- Fante flags from Ghana -- Painted calligraphy cloths and amulets -- Embroidered robes of the Hausa and the Nupe -- Yoruba beadwork -- North Africa -- Berber vertical looms -- Ground weaves -- Henna-dyed Anti-atlas woollens -- Algerian Berber weaves -- Berber wool and cotton weaves of Tunisia -- Horizontal loom urban weaves -- Pit-looms of Egypt -- Tapestry weaves of Egypt and Morocco -- The Lampas weaves of Fez and Tetouan -- Moroccan tie and dye -- South Tunisian tie and dye -- Mediterranean-influenced urban embroidery -- Ottoman-influenced urban embroidery -- Tunisian-influenced urban embroidery -- Tunisian metal-thread embroidery -- The Embroidery of Siwa Oasis, Egypt -- Egyptian appliqueʹ -- Assyut silvered work on net, Egypt -- East Africa -- The Cotton shawls of Ethiopia -- Ethiopian embroidery -- Leather, shell and beadwork -- Bark cloth of Uganda -- Kangas and kikois -- Central Africa -- Cameroon raphia weaving -- Ndop resist-dyed cloth of grasslands Cameroon -- Kuba raphia weaving in the Congo -- Kuba appliqueʹd and embroidered skirts -- Shoowa cut-pile embroidery, the Congo -- Tied and stitched-resist textiles of the Kuba, the Congo -- Pygmy and Kuba bark cloth, the Congo -- Bead and shell work of the Congo and Cameroon -- Crocheted hats from Cameroon -- Feathered hats of Cameroon -- Southern Africa -- Zulu beadwork -- Ndebele beadwork -- Xhosa beadwork -- Madagascan raphia -- Madagascan silk --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A recursive approach -- Runtime analysis -- Asymptotic analysis -- Big O notation -- Composing complexity classes -- Omega notation (Ω) -- Theta notation (Θ) -- Amortized analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Lists and Pointer Structures -- Arrays -- Pointer structures -- Nodes -- Finding endpoints -- Node -- Other node types -- Singly linked lists -- Singly linked list class -- Append operation -- A faster append operation -- Getting the size of the list…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Collection and container objects -- 9.1. Arrays and hashes in comparison -- 9.2. Collection handling with arrays -- 9.3. …”