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161. |  Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition By: Tuomas Virtanen; Rita Singh; Bhiksha Raj Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result in degraded speech recordings and adversely affect the performance of speech recognition systems. As the use of ASR systems increases, knowledge of the state-of-the-art in techniques to deal with such problems becomes critical to system and application engineers and researchers who work with or on ASR technologies. This book...
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162. |  Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensors By: Zujie Fang; Ken Chin; Ronghui Qu; Haiwen Cai Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensors
This book describes the latest development in optical fiber devices, and their applications to sensor technology. Optical fiber sensors, an important application of the optical fiber, have experienced fast development, and attracted wide attentions in basic science as well as in practical applications. Sensing is often likened to human sense organs. Optical fiber can not only transport information acquired by sensors at high speed and large volume, but also can play the roles of sensing element itself. Compared with electric and other types of sensors, fiber sensor technology has unique...
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163. |  Photonic Sensing: Principles and Applications for Safety and Security Monitoring By: Gaozhi (George) Xiao; Wojtek J. Bock Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Photonic Sensing: Principles and Applications for Safety and Security Monitoring
A cutting-edge look at safety and security applications of photonic sensors
With its many superior qualities, photonic sensing technology is increasingly used in early-detection and early-warning systems for biological hazards, structural flaws, and security threats. Photonic Sensing provides for the first time a comprehensive review of this exciting and rapidly evolving field, focusing on the development of cutting-edge applications in diverse areas of safety and security, from biodetection to biometrics.
The book brings together contributions from leading experts in the field,...
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164. |  By: Dev G. Raheja; Louis J. Gullo Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Design for Reliability
A unique, design-based approach to reliability engineering
Design for Reliability provides engineers and managers with a range of tools and techniques for incorporating reliability into the design process for complex systems. It clearly explains how to design for zero failure of critical system functions, leading to enormous savings in product life-cycle costs and a dramatic improvement in the ability to compete in global markets.
Readers will find a wealth of design practices not covered in typical engineering books, allowing them to think outside the box when developing reliability...
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165. |  Introduction to Adaptive Lenses Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 24-APR-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Adaptive Lenses
Presents readers with the basic science, technology, and applications for every type of adaptive lens
An adaptive lens is a lens whose shape has been changed to a different focal length by an external stimulus such as pressure, electric field, magnetic field, or temperature. Introduction to Adaptive Lenses is the first book ever to address all of the fundamental operation principles, device characteristics, and potential applications of various types of adaptive lenses.
This comprehensive book covers basic material properties, device structures and performance, image processing and...
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166. |  Guide to Mitigating Spacecraft Charging Effects By: Henry B. Garrett; Albert C. Whittlesey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 22-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Guide to Mitigating Spacecraft Charging Effects
The definitive guide to the modern body of spacecraft charging knowledge—from first principles for the beginner to intermediate and advanced concepts
The only book to blend the theoretical and practical aspects of spacecraft charging, Guide to Mitigating Spacecraft Charging Effects defines the environment that not only creates the aurora, but which also can have significant effects on spacecraft, such as disruption of science measurements and solar arrays from electrostatic discharge (ESD). It describes in detail the physics of the interaction phenomenon as well as how to construct...
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167. |  Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets: Applications to Signal and Image Processing By: S. Allen Broughton; Kurt M. Bryan Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 10-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets: Applications to Signal and Image Processing
A thorough guide to the classical and contemporary mathematical methods of modern signal and image processing
Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets presents a thorough introduction to the mathematical foundations of signal and image processing. Key concepts and applications are addressed in a thought-provoking manner and are implemented using vector, matrix, and linear algebra methods. With a balanced focus on mathematical theory and computational techniques, this self-contained book equips readers with the essential knowledge needed to transition smoothly from mathematical models to...
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168. |  Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the TMS320C6713 and TMS320C6416 DSK, 2nd Edition By: Rulph Chassaing; Donald Reay Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 25-APR-2008 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the TMS320C6713 and TMS320C6416 DSK, 2nd Edition
Now in a new edition—the most comprehensive, hands-on introduction to digital signal processing
The first edition of Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the TMS320C6713 and TMS320C6416 DSK is widely accepted as the most extensive text available on the hands-on teaching of Digital Signal Processing (DSP). Now, it has been fully updated in this valuable Second Edition to be compatible with the latest version (3.1) of Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio (CCS) development environment. Maintaining the original's comprehensive, hands-on approach that has made it an instructor's...
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169. |  Microwave Bandpass Filters for Wideband Communications By: Lei Zhu; Sheng Sun; Rui Li Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microwave Bandpass Filters for Wideband Communications
This book will appeal to scientists and engineers who are concerned with the design of microwave wideband devices and systems. For advanced (ultra)-wideband wireless systems, the necessity and design methodology of wideband filters will be discussed with reference to the inherent limitation in fractional bandwidth of classical bandpass filters. Besides the detailed working principles, a large number of design examples are demonstrated, which can be easily followed and modified by the readers to achieve their own desired specifications. Therefore, this book is of interest not only to...
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170. |  Body Area Communications: Channel Modeling, Communication Systems, and EMC Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Body Area Communications: Channel Modeling, Communication Systems, and EMC
Providing an introduction to the fundamentals of body area communications, this book covers the key topics of channel modeling, modulation and demodulation, and performance evaluation
A systematic introduction to body area networks (BAN), this book focuses on three major parts: channel modeling, modulation/demodulation communications performance, and electromagnetic compatibility considerations. The content is logically structured to lead readers from an introductory level through to in-depth and more advanced topics.
Provides a concise introduction to this emerging topic based on...
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171. |  Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless MIMO-OFDM Communications, 2nd Edition By: Tzi-Dar Chiueh; Pei-Yun Tsai; I-Wei Lai Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless MIMO-OFDM Communications, 2nd Edition
The Second Edition of OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wirless Communications, this book expands on the earlier edition with enhanced coverage of MIMO techniques, additional baseband algorithms, and more IC design examples. The authors cover the full range of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits.
The book gives a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communication fundamentals before explaining signal processing algorithms in receivers. The authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues - from architecture to IC implementation.
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172. |  Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 11-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering
Provides readers an understanding of the basic physics underlying meta-materials, providing a powerful tool for analyzing their electromagnetic properties
Periodic Structures: Mode-Matching Approach and Applications in Electromagnetic Engineering presents the scattering and guiding characteristics of periodic structures using the mode-matching approach and their applications in electromagnetic engineering. The book is structured so that the first three chapters provide an introduction and prepare the reader for chapters 4 to 6, which expand the formulations to electromagnetic and optical...
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173. |  OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications
This book covers all of the aspects necessary to the design and manufacturing of OLED displays. Topics include emission mechanism, material selection, device processing, manufacturing issues and countermeasures and display design basics. In addition, the book defines elements of OLED such as Thin Film Transistor (TFT) backplane design and processing details, including Low Temperature Poly Silicon (LTPS) process and circuit integration, and high yield method to manufacturer. Researchers and developers are aiming at making large OLED televisions and companies such as Samsung and Apple are...
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174. |  Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners By: Clayton R. Paul Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 22-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners
This is a brief but comprehensive book covering the set of EMC skills that EMC practitioners today require in order to be successful in high-speed, digital electronics. The basic skills in the book are new and weren't studied in most curricula some ten years ago. The rapidly changing digital technology has created this demand for a discussion of new analysis skills particularly for the analysis of transmission lines where the conductors that interconnect the electronic modules have become "electrically large," longer than a tenth of a wavelength, which are increasingly becoming important....
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175. |  Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies By: K. Daniel Wong Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies
A broad introduction to the fundamentals of wireless communication engineering technologies
Covering both theory and practical topics, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies offers a sound survey of the major industry-relevant aspects of wireless communication engineering technologies. Divided into four main sections, the book examines RF, antennas, and propagation; wireless access technologies; network and service architectures; and other topics, such as network management and security, policies and regulations, and facilities infrastructure. Helpful...
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176. |  By: Robert C. Hansen; Robert E. Collin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Small Antenna Handbook
Uniquely explains in detail how small antennas work and ways to improve their performance
This book addresses the recent significant theoretical and practical developments in the electrically small antenna (ESA) area.??Examining antenna designs that work as well as those that have limitations, it offers the latest information on electromagnetically coupled structures and improving bandwidth using spherical helix dipoles, the exact derivation of Q for electrically small antennas for both TE and TM modes,??a new simplified Q formula developed by the authors, and discussions of...
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177. |  By: Gernot Hueber; Robert Bogdan Staszewski Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 22-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Summarizes cutting-edge physical layer technologies for multi-mode wireless RF transceivers.
Includes original contributions from distinguished researchers and professionals.
Covers cutting-edge physical layer technologies for multi-mode wireless RF transceivers.
Contributors are all leading researchers and professionals in this field.
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178. |  Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology By: S. Sitharama Iyengar; Nandan Parameshwaran; Vir V. Phoha; N. Balakrishnan; Chuka D. Okoye Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 14-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology
This book provides the basics needed to develop sensor network software and supplements it with many case studies covering network applications. It also examines how to develop onboard applications on individual sensors, how to interconnect these sensors, and how to form networks of sensors, although the major aim of this book is to provide foundational principles of developing sensor networking software and critically examine sensor network applications.
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179. |  Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition By: W. Alan Davis Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 28-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radio Frequency Circuit Design, 2nd Edition
This book focuses on components such as filters, transformers, amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Even the phase lock loop chapter (the last in the book) is oriented toward practical circuit design, in contrast to the more systems orientation of most communication texts.
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180. |  Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks
The Only Resource to Cover Wireless, Wireline, and Optical Networks in One Volume
Mobile and stationary next-generation networks that access the photonic core are destined to become as ubiquitous as traditional telephone networks. These networks must efficiently provide adequate network quality to multimedia applications with high bandwidth and strict quality-of-service requirements, as well as seamlessly integrate mobile and fixed architectures. Today's engineering students must be properly prepared to meet the challenges of next-generation network development and...
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