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.

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.

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.

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.

Computations in Algebraic Geometry with Macaulay 2

Computations in Algebraic Geometry with Macaulay 2
Author: David Eisenbud
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662048515

This book presents algorithmic tools for algebraic geometry, with experimental applications. It also introduces Macaulay 2, a computer algebra system supporting research in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and their applications. The algorithmic tools presented here are designed to serve readers wishing to bring such tools to bear on their own problems. The first part of the book covers Macaulay 2 using concrete applications; the second emphasizes details of the mathematics.

Legal and Contractual Procedures for Architects

Legal and Contractual Procedures for Architects
Author: Bob Greenstreet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0750654082

A practical guide which provides a route map through the legal and contractual maze of everyday architectural practice. Clear flow-charts, checklists, guides to action and sample documents enable the reader to find essential information at a glance. Highly selective bibliographies list precise references for more detailed study. This fifth edition has been comprehensively revised to deal with the recent changes in legislation and protocol and includes a new section on adjudication. * Gives you all the basic knowledge needed to cope with legal and professional issues * Includes clear flow-charts, checklists, guides to action and sample documents that enable the reader to find essential information at a glance * Comprehensive, concise, simplified source of practical information

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020
Author: Anne L. Martel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 819
Release: 2020-10-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030597253

The seven-volume set LNCS 12261, 12262, 12263, 12264, 12265, 12266, and 12267 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 542 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1809 submissions in a double-blind review process. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: machine learning methodologies Part II: image reconstruction; prediction and diagnosis; cross-domain methods and reconstruction; domain adaptation; machine learning applications; generative adversarial networks Part III: CAI applications; image registration; instrumentation and surgical phase detection; navigation and visualization; ultrasound imaging; video image analysis Part IV: segmentation; shape models and landmark detection Part V: biological, optical, microscopic imaging; cell segmentation and stain normalization; histopathology image analysis; opthalmology Part VI: angiography and vessel analysis; breast imaging; colonoscopy; dermatology; fetal imaging; heart and lung imaging; musculoskeletal imaging Part VI: brain development and atlases; DWI and tractography; functional brain networks; neuroimaging; positron emission tomography