Variations in C

Variations in C
Author: Steve Schustack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1989
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

A valuable guide for experienced programmers who want to develop professional level expertise in C. The book also gives readers detailed programming information on developing serious business applications for commercial use.

Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations

Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations
Author: Thomas Baldwin
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-09-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789624088

This book concerns the ‘variations’ operated by Barthes on À la recherche du temps perdu over a period of three decades. It reads the Proustian oeuvre through the prism of Barthes, providing new readings of Proust’s novel and of Barthes’s own writings, and revealing an intricate – and inconsistent – web of references and circulations between the two.

Introduction to Geometry and Topology

Introduction to Geometry and Topology
Author: Werner Ballmann
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-07-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034809832

This book provides an introduction to topology, differential topology, and differential geometry. It is based on manuscripts refined through use in a variety of lecture courses. The first chapter covers elementary results and concepts from point-set topology. An exception is the Jordan Curve Theorem, which is proved for polygonal paths and is intended to give students a first glimpse into the nature of deeper topological problems. The second chapter of the book introduces manifolds and Lie groups, and examines a wide assortment of examples. Further discussion explores tangent bundles, vector bundles, differentials, vector fields, and Lie brackets of vector fields. This discussion is deepened and expanded in the third chapter, which introduces the de Rham cohomology and the oriented integral and gives proofs of the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem, the Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem, and Stokes's integral formula. The fourth and final chapter is devoted to the fundamentals of differential geometry and traces the development of ideas from curves to submanifolds of Euclidean spaces. Along the way, the book discusses connections and curvature--the central concepts of differential geometry. The discussion culminates with the Gauß equations and the version of Gauß's theorema egregium for submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension. This book is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates in mathematics and physics and is intended as the template for a one- or two-semester bachelor's course.

Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT’98

Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT’98
Author: Kazuo Ohta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2003-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540496491

ASIACRYPT’98, the international conference covering all aspects of theory and application of cryptology and information security, is being held at Beijing Friendship Hotel from October 18 to 22. This is the fourth of the Asiacrypt conferences. ASIACRYPT’98 is sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Asiacrypt Steering Committee (ASC), in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptology Research (IACR). The 16-member Program Committee organized the scientific program and considered 118 submissions. Of these, 32 were accepted for presentation. The authors’ affiliations of the 118 submissions and the 32 accepted papers range over 18 and 13 countries or regions, respectively. The submitted version of each paper was sent to all members of the Program Committee and was extensively examined by at least three committee members and/or outside experts. The review process was rigorously blinded and the anonymity of each submission are maintained until the selection was completed. We followed the traditional policy that each member of the Program Committee could be an author of at most one accepted paper. These proceedings contain the revised versions of the 32 contributed talks as well as a short note written by one invited speaker. Comments from the Program Committee were taken into account in the revisions. However, the authors (not the committee) bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

Process Variations and Probabilistic Integrated Circuit Design

Process Variations and Probabilistic Integrated Circuit Design
Author: Manfred Dietrich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-11-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1441966218

Uncertainty in key parameters within a chip and between different chips in the deep sub micron area plays a more and more important role. As a result, manufacturing process spreads need to be considered during the design process. Quantitative methodology is needed to ensure faultless functionality, despite existing process variations within given bounds, during product development. This book presents the technological, physical, and mathematical fundamentals for a design paradigm shift, from a deterministic process to a probability-orientated design process for microelectronic circuits. Readers will learn to evaluate the different sources of variations in the design flow in order to establish different design variants, while applying appropriate methods and tools to evaluate and optimize their design.

The Art of Mbira

The Art of Mbira
Author: Paul F. Berliner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 022662868X

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner’s The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music’s magnificent creativity. In this book, Berliner provides insight into the communities of study, performance, and worship that surround mbira. He chronicles how master player Cosmas Magaya and his associates have developed their repertory and practices over more than four decades, shaped by musical interaction, social and political dynamics in Zimbabwe, and the global economy of the music industry. At once a detailed exposition of the music’s forms and practices, it is also an indispensable historical and cultural guide to mbira in a changing world. Together with Berliner and Magaya's compendium of mbira compositions, Mbira’s Restless Dance, The Art of Mbira breaks new ground in the depth and specificity of its exploration of an African musical tradition, and in the entwining of the authors’ collaborative voices. It is a testament to the powerful relationship between music and social life—and the rewards of lifelong musical study, performance, and friendship.

Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine

Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: Ali, Shawkat
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466618310

"This book explores the complex world of computational intelligence, which utilizes computational methodologies such as fuzzy logic systems, neural networks, and evolutionary computation for the purpose of managing and using data effectively to address complicated real-world problems"--