Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: surveys, linguistics, research, intonation, tone, phonology
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2004-08-23
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521012007
ISBN-13: 9780521012003

Using examples from a wide variety of languages, this book reveals why speakers vary their pitch, what these variations mean, and how they are integrated into our grammars. All languages use modulations in pitch to form utterances. Pitch modulation encodes lexical "tone" to signal boundaries between morphemes or words, and encodes "intonation" to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isn’t part of their original sense.

Authors:Carlos Gussenhoven, Haike Jacobs,
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Keywords: understanding, language, phonology
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0340807350
ISBN-13: 9780340807354

This text provides a broad yet up-to-date introduction to phonology. Assuming no previous knowledge of phonology or linguistic theory, the authors introduce the basic concepts and build on these progressively, discussing the main theories and illustrating key points with carefully chosen examples. The book covers a wide range of phenomena, including speech production, segmental contrasts, tone, quantity, prosodic structure, metrical relations, and intonation, as well as such key theories as feature geometry and Optimality Theory. In this new edition the authors have revised and updated the tex

Authors:Carlos Borrego, Carlos Borrego;Ann-Lise Norman,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: xvii, application, modeling, pollution, air
Number of Pages: 766
Published: 2006-12-28
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0387282556
ISBN-13: 9780387282558

This volume seeks to cover the latest scientific developments in the field of air pollution modelling. It contains papers and posters presented at the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, November 2004.

Authors:Carlos Fuentes, Steven Boldy, Carlos Fuentes,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: texts, spanish, hispanic, narrativo, quemada, cuarteto, agua
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 1996-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0719044227
ISBN-13: 9780719044229

This is a collection of four long novellas, originally published in 1981, about characters from the lowest to the highest echelons of society in Mexico City. They offer an insight into the development of Mexican society since the 1910 Revolution, tracking the rise of the new bourgeoisie and the political/social tensions and violence of the late 1960s and early ’70s. In one story a youth is torn between his drug-baron father and his grandfather who was a hero in the 1910 Revolution; in another, a young man is recruited from his shanty town to become a fascist para-military thug. The intro

Authors:Juan Carlos Augusto, Juan Carlos Augusto, Daniel Sha
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: intelligence, artificial, applications, frontiers, volume, ambient, advances
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1586038001
ISBN-13: 9781586038007

Ambient Intelligence lies at the confluence of several trends: the continued decrease in cost and size of computing technology; the increasing availability of networking and communication infrastructure; the growing public familiarity/comfort with computing artifacts; and practical advances in artificial intelligence. These developments make it possible to contemplate the ubiquitous deployment of intelligent systems prototypically in smart homes, but more broadly in public spaces, private automobiles and on individual appliances and hand-held devices - in applications ranging from entertainmen

Authors:Carlos A. Primo Braga, Carlos A. Primo Braga, Gallin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: time, different, crisis, financial, debt, sovereign
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2010-11-16
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 082138483X
ISBN-13: 9780821384831

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, governments worldwide undertook massive fiscal interventions to stave off what otherwise would have likely been a system-wide financial and economic meltdown. The policy responses engendered significant shifts in growth trajectories and debt sustainability outlooks of both mature and developing economies. For Low Income Countries, post-crisis debt sustainability analyses show an average deterioration of 5-7 percentage points in the present value of public debt-to-GDP ratio in 2009-10 compared with pre-crisis projections, and stay in the area

Author: Carlos A. Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: control, process, continuous, automated
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $111.50
ISBN-10: 0471215783
ISBN-13: 9780471215783

Automated Continuous Process Control pulls together–in one compact and practical volume–the essentials for understanding, designing, and operating process control systems. This comprehensive guide covers the major elements of process control in a well-defined and ordered framework. Concepts are clearly presented, with minimal reliance on mathematical equations and strong emphasis on practical, real-life examples. Beginning with the very basics of process control, Automated Continuous Process Control builds upon each chapter to help the reader understand and efficiently pract