Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "easy-to-use" manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offerin
Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "easy-to-use" manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offerin
This is a story about a girl who was born In Kalamazoo, Michigan and lived most of her life in the Kalamazoo area. She starts out by telling a little about her parents and where they came from. Then she shares her memories of what she was told about her being an infant. Then she continues to tell about her memories of growing up. She had to care for her sister and brothers at a very young age. There is also many other things she shares. The places she lived, the good times she had, the many travels she went on, falling in love, having children, remarrying, caring for step-children, and then becoming a grandmother. She also shares with the readers the dangerous things she does and the scary things that happened. She had to grow up too soon, experienced unwanted sexual encounters, her first husbands betrayal, and divorce.
M urder and mayhem disrupts the life of an innocent little girl that grew up in the early 1900’s. Was this little girl real or just a dream? Had she lived only to suffer through one tragedy after another in her young life? Why suddenly did this child turn up one hundred and three years later to haunt the dreams of Claire Vaughn? Did this same pitiful child also turn up in the dreams of the famous Bella Ross, Claire’s best friend? Who is the mysterious 103 year old black woman that shares a room with Mrs. Turnipseed? Does this strange little lady have secrets she desperately needs to share? And who is Mrs. Turnipseed? What sort of treasures did the strange little girl keep hidden in the woods behind Roseman’s mortuary? Can Claire and her friend Bella Ross unravel the mysteries surrounding the little girl who appears in their dreams? Does Bella really speak to the dead? Can Claire keep up the search for answers while performing her duties as mortician at the Vaughn Family Funeral home? Do the answers lay buried in the old graveyard behind Roseman’s mortuary? Grab a shovel and find out as C.A. Link weaves the strange and sometimes funny tale of murder, mayhem and rape in the town of Little Creek Missouri.
The repeal of the Human Rights Act is one of the major political questions of our day. In an engaging insight into the fantasies and myths driving the case for repeal, Conor Gearty defends the importance of the HRA and debunks the arguments that would see a UK Bill of Rights. An essential book for all readers who want to be informed on the debate.
This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases. Used appropriately, spatial analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can provide significant insights into the biological patterns and processes that underlie disease transmission. In turn, these can be used to understand and predict disease prevalence. This user-friendly text brings together the specialised and widely-dispersed literature on spatial analysis to make these methodological tools accessible to epidemiologists for the first time. With its focus is on application rather than theory, Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology includes a wide range of examples taken from both medical (human) and veterinary (animal) disciplines, and describes both infectious diseases and non-infectious conditions. Furthermore, it provides worked examples of methodologies using a single data set from the same disease example throughout, and is structured to follow the logical sequence of description of spatial data, visualisation, exploration, modelling and decision support. This accessible text is aimed at graduate students and researchers dealing with spatial data in the fields of epidemiology (both medical and veterinary), ecology, zoology and parasitology, environmental science, geography and statistics.
Three intertwined stories highlighting the many challenges the US Navy faced during strategic and material evolution Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy’s strategic and matériel evolution following the end of the Civil War through the First World War. These incidents had lasting consequences for how the navy would modernize itself throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. This reconstruction began with barely enough time for the navy’s campaigns in the Spanish-American War, and for its role in the First World War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet. Focus was on battleships and cruisers rather than destroyers and other small combat vessels needed to hunt submarines and serve as convoy escorts. The second story relates the short, tragic life of the USS Tennessee (later renamed Memphis), one of the steel-hulled ships of the new Armored Cruiser Squadron that was a centerpiece of the navy’s modernization effort. The USS Tennessee was ordered on two unusual missions in the early months of World War I, long before the United States formally entered the war. These little know missions and the sudden destruction of the ship by a storm surge in the Caribbean serves as the centerpiece of the story. Threaded through the narrative are biographical sketches of the principal players in the drama that unfolded following the ship’s demise, including two of Tennessee’s commanding officers: Vice Admiral Sims, who commanded the US Navy squadrons deployed to Europe in support of the Royal Navy; Rear Admiral William Caperton, who commanded the Caribbean squadron before the Memphis (formerly the Tennessee) was lost; Charles Pond, squadron commander during the wreck; and the American ambassador to the Ottoman court, President Wilson’s enthusiastic supporter, Henry Morgenthau. Jampoler concludes with an account of how the USS Tennessee’s destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US Navy’s operations and chains of command for the remainder of the First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the Department of the Navy immediately after the war, as civilian appointees and senior officers wrestled to reshape the department in their image.
The selection of measures to prevent alkali-silica reaction in concrete requires confidence that the selected measure will work over the life of the structure. It is crucial that the results of short-term laboratory tests be correlated to long-term performance of concrete in structures. Without this relationship being demonstrated, engineers cannot have confidence that the selected preventative measure will be effective in the long term. In an effort to provide correlation between short-term laboratory tests and long-term performance, an outdoor exposure site was established in Kingston, Ontario in 1991. This document presents the results of testing at this site and is divided into twelve substantive sections: introduction, experimental design, aggregates, construction, measurement of expansion and test samples, monitoring and measurement, results and discussion, petrographic and SEM examination, correlation between petrographic/SEM examination and field expansion, correlation between field and laboratory expansion, chloride penetration resistance, and conclusions.--Includes text from document.
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