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Dissipativity in Control Engineering

Applications in Finite- and Infinite-Dimensional Systems

By: Alexander Schaum

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Dissipativity in Control Engineering

Applications in Finite- and Infinite-Dimensional Systems

By: Alexander Schaum

Dissipativity, as a natural mechanism of energy interchange is common to many physical systems that form the basis of modern automated control applications. Over the last decades it has turned out as a useful concept that can be generalized and applied in an abstracted form to very different system setups, including ordinary and partial differential equation models. In this monograph, the basic notions of stability, dissipativity and systems theory are connected in order to establish a common basis for designing system monitoring and control schemes. The approach is illustrated with a set of application examples covering finite and infinite-dimensional models, including a ship steering model, the inverted pendulum, chemical and biological reactors, relaxation oscillators, unstable heat equations and first-order hyperbolic integro-differential equations.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110677946

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9783110677942

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

By: Alexander Gutzmer

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Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

By: Alexander Gutzmer

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial – and urban – reality. It develops a novel understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that relate to corporate brands, and of its tremendous cultural effects. The author suggests that what we see today is the creation of "global mass ornaments", of a thorough ornamentalization of the entire globe. The origins of this are discussed with regard to examples of corporate brand-building from Europe and China (Autostadt Wolfsburg, BMW Welt Munich and Anting New Town). Additional cases are several simulated spaces in Berlin and the space-branding activities of companies like Apple or Prada. Theoretically, the author develops an innovative poststructuralist framework, combining ideas from Gilles Deleuze with the space philosophy of Peter Sloterdijk. He analyzes how the corporate redefinition of space makes the city enter into a mode of virtual urbanity. This idea leads to a notion of a "global urban" and, ultimately, the "global mass ornament". This concept of a global mass ornament is developed here with reference to Sloterdijk’s concept of a world of "spheres". The latter is used to understand the new mode of spatiality of mediatized spaces. The book makes the point that our world is involved in a process of mass ornamentalization that has only just begun. The concept of the global mass ornament is the first to come to grips with a culture in which branding is effectively changing the physiognomy of the earth. The global mass ornament is a banner for a cultural transformation that employs architecture, sign theory and mechanisms borrowed from traditional advertising and from social media, as well as social processes – and that we have yet to properly understand. This book is a significant step forward in this respect.

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Routledge

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1135072582

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Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

By: Andrei D. Polyanin,Alexander V. Manzhirov

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Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

By: Andrei D. Polyanin,Alexander V. Manzhirov

Covering the main fields of mathematics, this handbook focuses on the methods used for obtaining solutions of various classes of mathematical equations that underlie the mathematical modeling of numerous phenomena and processes in science and technology. The authors describe formulas, methods, equations, and solutions that are frequently used in scientific and engineering applications and present classical as well as newer solution methods for various mathematical equations. The book supplies numerous examples, graphs, figures, and diagrams and contains many results in tabular form, including finite sums and series and exact solutions of differential, integral, and functional equations.

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CRC Press

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1420010514

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9781420010510

The Babylonian Genesis

By: Alexander Heidel

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The Babylonian Genesis

By: Alexander Heidel

Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the aim and purpose of the story, etc. Also included is a translation and discussion of two Babylonian creation versions written in Greek. The final chapter presents a detailed examination of the Babylonian creation accounts in their relation to our Old Testament literature.

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177

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University of Chicago Press

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022611242X

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9780226112428

Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

By: Friedrich Schiller,Alexander Fraser Tytler

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Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

By: Friedrich Schiller,Alexander Fraser Tytler

“Die Räuber” war das erste Drama des deutschen Dichters Friedrich Schiller. Das Stück wurde 1781 veröffentlicht und am 13. Januar 1782 in Mannheim uraufgeführt. Es entstand gegen Ende der deutschen Sturm und Drang-Bewegung und wird von vielen Kritikern als sehr einflussreich für die Entwicklung des europäischen Melodrams angesehen. Die Handlung dreht sich um den Konflikt zwischen zwei adligen Brüdern, Karl und Franz Moor. Der charismatische, aber rebellische Student Karl wird von seinem Vater sehr geliebt. Der jüngere Bruder Franz, der als kalter, berechnender Bösewicht auftritt, plant, Karl das Erbe zu entreißen. Im Laufe des Stücks erweisen sich sowohl Franz’ Motive als auch die Unschuld und der Heldenmut von Karl als äußerst komplex. Diese Print-Ausgabe bietet auf gegenüberliegenden Seiten den deutschen Originaltext und die englische Übersetzung von Alexander Fraser Tytler, sodass ein Mitlesen in der jeweils anderen Sprache ohne Umblättern möglich ist. Die Räuber, which Schiller had been obliged to publish at his own expense, appeared in 1781 and made an impression on his contemporaries hardly less deep than Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, eight years before. The strength of this remarkable tragedy lay, not in its inflated tone or exaggerated characterization — the restricted horizon of Schiller's school-life had given him little opportunity of knowing men and women — but in the sure dramatic instinct with which it is constructed and the directness with which it gives voice to the most pregnant ideas of the time. In this respect, Schiller's Räuber is one of the most vital German dramas of the 18th century. In January 1782 it was performed in the Court and National Theatre of Mannheim, Schiller himself having stolen secretly away from Stuttgart in order to be present. This blilingual edition offers both languages on opposited pages.

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260

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3988689637

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9783988689634

A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)

With an Introductory Essay

By: Alexander Borg

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A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)

With an Introductory Essay

By: Alexander Borg

Cypriot Arabic, an unwritten language and mother tongue of several hundred bilingual (Arabic/Greek) Maronites from Kormakiti (N.W. Cyprus), evolved from a medieval Arabic colloquial brought to the island by Christian Arab migrants (probably from Asia Minor and Syria). It represents the outcome of a unique linguistic and cultural synthesis drawing on Arabic, Aramaic, and Greek; its Arabic component also shows a hybrid areal profile combining Greater Syrian traits with formal features typical of the contemporary S.E.Anatolian-Mesopotamian dialectal continuum. A number of rare Aramaic substratal elements in Cypriot Arabic suggest a relatively early separation of its parent dialect from mainstream Arabic. This lexicon surveys about 2000 Cypriot Arabic terms against the background of extensive comparative material from the Arabic dialects, Old Arabic, and colloquial and literary varieties of Aramaic. Many Cypriot Arabic terms are here cited with illustrative examples and ethnographic commentary where relevant. Cypriot Arabic is an endangered language; the present glossary is the most comprehensive lexical record of this scientifically intriguing variety of peripheral Arabic. It is primarily intended for orientalists and linguists specializing in comparative Semitics and Arabic dialectology.

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BRILL

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9047413970

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9789047413974

Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

By: Alexander M. Wyglinski,Robin Getz,Travis Collins,Di Pu

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Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

By: Alexander M. Wyglinski,Robin Getz,Travis Collins,Di Pu

Based on the popular Artech House classic, Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-Defined Radio, this book provides a practical approach to quickly learning the software-defined radio (SDR) concepts needed for work in the field. This up-to-date volume guides readers on how to quickly prototype wireless designs using SDR for real-world testing and experimentation. This book explores advanced wireless communication techniques such as OFDM, LTE, WLA, and hardware targeting. Readers will gain an understanding of the core concepts behind wireless hardware, such as the radio frequency front-end, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, as well as various processing technologies. Moreover, this volume includes chapters on timing estimation, matched filtering, frame synchronization message decoding, and source coding. The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is explained and details about HDL code generation and deployment are provided. The book concludes with coverage of the WLAN toolbox with OFDM beacon reception and the LTE toolbox with downlink reception. Multiple case studies are provided throughout the book. Both MATLAB and Simulink source code are included to assist readers with their projects in the field.

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375

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Artech House

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1630814598

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9781630814595

Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature

By: Alexander Weber

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Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature

By: Alexander Weber

This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass's complete works and baroque literature. Grass's employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber's argument moves from an outline of general thematic parallels in the early works to an analysis of the conscious use of baroque literature in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. He offers both a close reading of Grass and general reflections on how a past literary tradition can be adopted by a modern writer. The study focuses on the themes of vanity, carpe diem, and Senecan Stoicism in the early works; it discusses parallels between the rhetorical structure of the courtly-historical novel and Der Butt and traces the artist's melancholy and baroque allegories in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte.

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MHRA

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0901286508

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9780901286505

Simon

The Genius in My Basement

By: Alexander Masters

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Simon

The Genius in My Basement

By: Alexander Masters

Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorboards. One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century, Simon Norton stomps around Alexander’s basement in semidarkness, dodging between stalagmites of bus timetables and engorged plastic bags, eating tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay mix. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex and critical to our understanding of the universe that it is known as the Monster. It looks like a sudoku table—except a sudoku table has nine columns of numbers. The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000 columns. But that’s not the whole story. What’s inside the decaying sports bag he never lets out of his clutches? Why does he hurtle out of the house in the middle of the night? And—good God!—what is that noxious smell that creeps up the stairwell? Grumpy, poignant, comical—more intimate than either the author or his quarry intended—Simon: The Genius in My Basement is the story of a friendship and a pursuit. Part biography, part memoir, and part popular science, it is a study of the frailty of brilliance, the measures of happiness, and Britain’s most uncooperative egghead eccentric.

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Delacorte Press

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034553221X

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9780345532213

The Irishman's Daughter

By: V.S. Alexander

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The Irishman's Daughter

By: V.S. Alexander

Set in the wild, romantic, northwest coast of Ireland during the mid-19th century, The Irishman’s Daughter pits Briana, her father, and sister, against a reckless English landlord and a plague that will kill and displace millions of Irish people. Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of land. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner, who seems indifferent to everything except profit. Rory Caulfield, the hard-working young farmer Briana hopes to marry, shares the locals’ despair—and their anger. There’s talk of violent reprisals against the callous gentry and their agents. Briana’s studious older sister, Lucinda, dreams of a future far beyond Mayo. But even as hunger and disease settle over the country, killing and displacing millions, Briana knows she must find a way to guide her family through one of Ireland’s darkest hours—toward hope, love, and a new beginning.

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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1496740181

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9781496740182

Media and American Courts

A Reference Handbook

By: S. L. Alexander

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Media and American Courts

A Reference Handbook

By: S. L. Alexander

A unique reference work exploring the interaction of ever more pervasive media and the U.S. judicial system in the 20th century. At a time when two-thirds of local news is crime- or court-related, when Court TV broadcasts daily, and when one lurid case can push all other news aside, Media and American Courts: A Reference Handbook offers a much-needed examination of how the press and the judicial system interact. Despite the benefits (a better-informed public, judicial accountability), has expanded coverage of the courts in fact weakened our democracy? Media and American Courts approaches this question by exploring the cases, the personalities, and the controversies that have redefined the court/press relationship in the past century as the media expanded from print and radio to courtroom cameras, cable, and the World Wide Web. It also includes suggestions from legal and media experts for making court news more accurate, informative, and useful.

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246

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576079805

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9781576079805

Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-defined Radio

By: Alexander M. Wyglinski,Di Pu

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Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-defined Radio

By: Alexander M. Wyglinski,Di Pu

For a senior-level undergraduate course on digital communications, this unique resource provides you with a practical approach to quickly learning the software-defined radio concepts you need to know for your work in the field. --

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Artech House

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1608075265

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9781608075263

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Dissipativity in Control Engineering

Dissipativity in Control Engineering

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

The Babylonian Genesis

The Babylonian Genesis

Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)

A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)

Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature

Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature

Simon

Simon

The Irishman's Daughter

The Irishman's Daughter

Media and American Courts

Media and American Courts

Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-defined Radio

Digital Communication Systems Engineering with Software-defined Radio

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