E-Book Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what o…

E-Book Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithms, intent on selling us more of the same, and on a media industry too greedy to risk investing in…

E-Book Expanding Media Histories: Cultural and Material Perspectives

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first …

E-Book What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading …

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.

E-book Data Communications and Network Technologies

WANs usually cover a geographical area of tens to thousands of kilometers,and are able to connect multiple cities or countries, or span several continents andmeanwhile provide long-distance communication, thus forming an internationalremote network. For example, an enterprise has two LANs in Beijing andShanghai, and when these two LANs are connected, a WAN is created. Gener-ally, WAN requires t…

E-book 5G and Beyond

he rapid evolution of architecture, communication services, and technologies has stimulated due to the demand for new applications, research innovations, and other foremost possibilities for enhancements at various levels (Rappaport et al. 2014). These changes are driving a fundamental shift in the process of designing and delivering infrastructure and…

E-book Understanding Media and Culture : An Introduction to Mass Communication

In 1850, an epidemic swept America—but instead of leaving victims sick with fever or flu, this epidemic involved a rabid craze for the music of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. American showman P. T. Barnum (who would later go on to found the circus now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey), a shrewd marketer and self-made millionaire, is credited with spreading “Lindomania” through a s…

E-book Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic

This collection of essays represents the first of its kind in exploring the conjunction of translation and social media communication, with a focus on how these practices intersect and transform each other against the backdrop of the cascading COVID-19 crisis. The contributions in the book offer empirical case studies as well as personal reflections on the topic, illuminating a broad range of t…

Discrete time processing of speech signals

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0023283017

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xx + 899 hal; 17.5 x 24.5 cm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

621.382 DEL d

Active Noise Control Systems : Algorithms and DSP Implementations

Acoustic noise problems become more and more evident as increased numbers of large industrial equipment such as engines, blowers, fans, transformers, and compressors are in use. Acoustic noise need not be limited to air; underwater or hydroacoustic noise is a problem in certain marine settings and could also arise in laboratory instruments and ultrasonic medical scanning applications.