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Time-Domain Beamforming and Blind Source Separation: Speech Input in the Car Environment

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Report copyright infringementby Julien Bourgeois (Author), Wolfgang Minker (Author)Time-domain Beamforming and Convolutive Blind Source Separation addresses the problem of separating spontaneous multi-party speech by way of microphone arrays (beamformers) and adaptive signal processing techniques. While existing techniques requires a Double-Talk Detector (DTD) that interrupts the adaptation when the target is active, the described method addresses the separation problem using continuous, unin...

Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle

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Report copyright infringementby Bart Hendrickx (Author), Bert Vis (Author)In this book, the authors describe the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and what was planned to follow the first historic unmanned mission. This is the first comprehensive book on the Soviet Energiya/Buren project published in the West, making use of exclusive Russian source material obtained by the authors over the past decade. The text includes a review of the decisions to procee...

Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spacecraft

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Report copyright infringementby Shayler David (Author)David Shayler reveals how a crew is trained for almost all emergency eventualities on a mission into Earth orbit, to the moon during the 1960 and 1960s and the prospects of space rescue for future manned spaceflight programmes, and how hardware and systems can support and assist this - given time, opportunity and good fortune. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.54 x 6.62 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New Frontiers

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Harvey (Author)The current Russian space programme is poorly known to English-speaking readers and there is a popular perception that it has succumbed to economic pressure or even 'failed'. In fact, Russia maintains an extensive space industry, has built a significant part of the space station and is about to move on to new, exciting projects.Author BiographyAuthor of 'Race into space - the Soviet space programme' (1988), 'The new Russian space programme'...

Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Norris (Author)In Spies in the Sky Patrick Norris responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age - the launch of Sputnik 1 - with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the human race during that half century, focusing particularly on the prevention of nuclear war. The author addresses the oft quoted conclusion that the Moon landings and the 'race to the Moon' between the two...

Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy

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Report copyright infringementby Grujica S. Ivanovich (Author)This remarkable book is a unique insight into the people involved in the development of the Salyut space station and the crews assigned to operate it. It describes the rotation between the crews, analyses the decision to send the back-up crew on Soyuz 11 and recounts the intrigues and difficult relationships between all the personalities involved - politicians, CKBEM managers, designers, generals and cosmonauts. Biographies of the S...

Engineering the Guitar: Theory and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Mark French (Author)This clearly written book uniquely describes the mechanics of the guitar for engineers and craftsmen alike. Complete with informative illustrations, this popular musical volume describes the underlying mechanical concepts behind the guitar, supported by theory and test. Readers will gain an understanding of the dynamic behavior of the instrument, including structural and component dynamics, and various analytical models, such as disc...

It's ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Rogers (Author)"Space tourism" is fast becoming a reality. Ordinary people around the world are starting to wonder if they could really go to space and what it would be like - among them, many amateur astronomers. Here, the author explains the basics of what is involved in getting into space, from building the rocket and choosing where to go, to planning the mission and getting home again. The beauty of this text, written by an engineer who is also an acco...

The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods

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Report copyright infringementby Susanne Brenner (Author), Ridgway Scott (Author)This is the third and yet further updated edition of a highly regarded mathematical text. Brenner develops the basic mathematical theory of the finite element method, the most widely used technique for engineering design and analysis. Her volume formalizes basic tools that are commonly used by researchers in the field but not previously published. The book is ideal for mathematicians as well as engineers and physi...

The Verilog(r) Hardware Description Language

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Thomas (Author), Philip Moorby (Author)XV From the Old to the New xvii Acknowledgments xx Verilog A Tutorial Introduction Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits 11 Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 Procedural Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits 14 Modeling Fini...

Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Robert G. Hunsperger (Author)Integrated Optics explains the subject of optoelectronic devices and their use in integrated optics and fiber optic systems. The approach taken is to emphasize the physics of how devices work and how they can be (and have been) used in various applications as the field of optoelectronics has progressed from microphotonics to nanophotonics. Illustrations and references from technical journals have been used to demonstrate the relevan...

Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Gilster (Author)The plan to send an unmanned craft on a 40-year journey to Alpha Centauri is, some think, the essence of bold science reaching out to the unknown. Gilster shows why scientists who will barely live to see the launch, and not long enough to see the outcome, are committed to this startling goal. Number of Pages: 302 Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.52 x 6.54 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 0...

Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Marjorie Senechal (Editor)Molecules, galaxies, art galleries, sculptures, viruses, crystals, architecture, and more: Shaping Space--Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination is an exuberant survey of polyhedra and at the same time a hands-on, mind-boggling introduction to one of the oldest and most fascinating branches of mathematics. Some of the world's leading geometers present a treasury of ideas, history, and culture to make the be...

The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon

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Report copyright infringementby James Schefter (Author)"Indispensable to anyone interested in the space race."--Houston Chronicle In 1963, a young reporter for Time-Life named James Schefter was given a dream job: cover America's race to the moon. Since the astronauts were under contract to Life for their stories, Schefter was given complete access to the biggest players at NASA. But at the time, his primary role was to excite the public about the new, expensive, experimental space program, a...

Lunar Outpost: The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on the Moon

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Seedhouse (Author)Lunar Outpost provides a detailed account of the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements and training needed to return humans to the Moon within the next decade. It focuses on the means by which a lunar outpost will be constructed and also addresses major topics such as the cost of the enterprise and the roles played by private companies and individual countries. The return of humans to the surface of the Moon wi...

Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the Us Space Sciences After World War II

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Report copyright infringementby David H. DeVorkin (Author)The exploration of the upper atmosphere was given a jump start in the United States by German V-2 rockets - Hitler's "vengeance weapon" - captured at the end of World War II. The science performed with these missiles was largely determined by the missile itself, such as learning more about the medium through which a ballistic missile travels. Groups rapidly formed within the military and military-funded university laboratories to build...

Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Harland (Author), Ralph Lorenz (Author)There have been many remarkable achievements, such as the Galileo probe which parachuted into Jupiter's atmosphere, to the joy of the engineers who built it. But there have also been many humiliating failures. Sometimes the cause is a silly procedural error, such as a minus sign instead of a plus sign in a computer program, or a mix up between Imperial and Metric units. The Russian craft Phobos 1 was lost en route...

Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Evans (Author)On February 1st 2003, one most public disaster in the human space program unfolded in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia - the world's first truly reusable manned spacecraft - disintegrated during its return to Earth, with a crew of seven. This book chronicles each of Columbia's 28 missions, as described by scientists and researchers who developed and supported its many payloads, by the engineers who worked on it a...

Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center

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Report copyright infringementby Rex D. Hall (Author), Shayler David (Author), Bert Vis (Author)With unique photographs, first-hand interviews and previously untapped historical resources, an expert team of space-historians, for the very first time, how Russian citizens have been selected and trained to fly in space as well as how these procedures have changed during the past 40 years. The authors also describe the evolution of the often overlooked ground support infrastructure and how the rol...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Harvey (Author)This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. It is the first book dedicated to Soviet/Russian lunar exploration and shows how the USSR/Russia developed systems for reaching the moon and returning lunar spaceships to Earth. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well...

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Report copyright infringementby Shayler David (Author), Colin Burgess (Author)Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) led to NASA's conclusion that flying scientifically trained crewmembers would generate greater returns from each mission. In selecting the first group of scientist-astronauts, NASA had one firm requirement; any person accepted into the programme would have to qualify as a military jet pilot. This book provides unique access to the sto...

Geometric Control of Simple Mechanical Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Design for Simple Mechanical Control Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Francesco Bullo (Author), Andrew D. Lewis (Author) The primary emphasis of this book is the modeling, analysis, and control of mechanical systems. The methods and results presented can be applied to a large class of mechanical control systems, including applications in robotics, autonomous vehicle control, and multi-body systems. The book is unique in that it presents a unified, rather than an inclusive, treatment of control theory for mechanical systems. A di...

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Report copyright infringementby John Daigle (Author)Queueing Theory with Applications to Packet Telecommunication is an efficient introduction to fundamental concepts and principles underlying the behavior of queueing systems and its application to the design of packet-oriented electrical communication systems. In addition to techniques and approaches found in earlier works, the author presents a thoroughly modern computational approach based on Schur decomposition. This approach facilitates ...

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Report copyright infringementby Huseyin Abut (Editor), John Hansen (Editor), Kazuya Takeda (Editor)DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems is focused on digital signal processing strategies for improving information access, command and control, and communications for in-vehicle environments. It is expected that the next generation of human-to-vehicle interfaces will incorporate speech, video/image, and wireless communication modalities to provide more comfortable and safer driving ambiance. It ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth S. Meacham (Author)Beginning in 1995, the American Association of Radiographic Technologists will offer a Registry Exam for technologists who wish to be certified in the administration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging equipment. The MRI Study Guide for Technologists offers comprehensive review questions covering the basic areas, principles, equipment, and terminology to help provide readers with the highest level of preparation for the Registry Exam. Conta...

CPU Design: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

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Report copyright infringementby Chandra Thimmannagari (Author)This book intends to provide answers to most of the real-time design issues and "items to know" in the CPU world, while acting as a quick, easy-to-use reference. For fast access, the book is divided into simple sections such as architecture, logic, circuits, layout, verification, testing, tools, and Verilog. The coverage of CPU design is comprehensive, and basic topics and tips are included as well, such as the responsibilities of ...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Albert Vannice (Author)Including countless exercises and worked examples, this advanced reference work and textbook will be extremely useful for the work of many industrial scientists. It teaches readers to design kinetic experiments involving heterogeneous catalysts, to characterize these catalysts, to acquire rate data, to find heat and mass transfer limitations in these data, to select reaction models, to derive rate expressions based on these models, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge G. Ibanez (Author), Margarita Hernandez-Esparza (Author), Carmen Doria-Serrano (Author) Holistic approach gives students firm theoretical and experimental grounding in environmental chemistry Perfect for undergraduate environmental chemistry courses, which are becoming more widespread Provides a comprehensive and unique microscale approach to teaching Environmental Chemistry courses that is intended to be completed in one semester, unlike competing textbo...

Nanoscale Transistors: Device Physics, Modeling and Simulation

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Lundstrom (Author), Jing Guo (Author)Silicon CMOS technology continues to drive progress in electronics, but device scaling is rapidly taking the metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) to its limit. A variety of new devices are emerging as candidates to replace MOSFETs and continue the trend downward to molecular dimensions. Nanoscale MOSFET engineering, is still governed by techniques originally developed to treat microscale devices. T...

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Report copyright infringementby Terry L. Alford (Author), L. C. Feldman (Author), James W. Mayer (Author)Modern science and technology, from materials science to integrated circuit development, is directed toward the nanoscale. This book focuses on the fundamental physics underlying the techniques used to analyze the nature of surfaces and near-surfaces in the properties of materials. From thin films to field effect transistors, the emphasis is on reducing dimensions from the micro to the nan...

Lunar and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Young (Author)The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars fills the need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17. The book draws on many photographs never before published. It goes on to recount the story of the successful robotic rovers used on Mars, and concludes with a description of the new designs of rovers planned for The New Vision for Exploration now underway at NASA. The text includes extensive coverage o...

Shape Optimization by the Homogenization Method

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Report copyright infringementby Gregoire Allaire (Author)This book is about the homogenization method and its applications to optimal design in the conductivity and elasticity setting. It explains how homogenization theory may be applied to solve optimal design problems, both from a theoretical and a numerical point of view. It is intended for an audience of researchers, engineers, and advanced graduate students in applied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and structural optimization. ...