Author: Francisco Rodrigo Porto CavalcantiSören Andersson
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, communication, wireless, optimizing
Number of Pages: 514
Published: 2009-08-05
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 144190154X
ISBN-13: 9781441901545

This book is a comprehensive collection of advanced concepts divided into two main parts: resource allocation and adaptive transceivers for link optimization. These two research areas are at the core of the recent advances in wireless communication systems. Each chapter covers a relevant, timely, topic and is developed with two focuses. First there is a tutorial and survey that reviews the state of the art in that topic. This is followed by an in depth treatment of the topic including current research topics, case studies and performance results. The material is for a research-oriented audienc

Author: Richard Porto
Publisher: Wallflower Pre
Keywords: festivals, film, dekalog
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1906660069
ISBN-13: 9781906660062

In an increasingly "event-driven" cultural environment, film festivals have become indispensable venues for exposure and promotion. Yet are Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto being sabotaged by their own success? Do these festivals truly serve the needs of cinephiles, as well as the larger public? This multifaceted collection of essays, memoirs, and impassioned polemics explores the decades-long debate over these controversial questions. Featuring a distinguished array of critics and programmers, the anthology begins with the first appearance in English of André Bazin’s 1955 essay "The Festi

Author: Heather Wright-Porto
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: blogger, google, beginning
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2010-07-27
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1430230126
ISBN-13: 9781430230120

Are you interested in starting a blog but can’t decide on which service to use? Google’s Blogger offers many advantages over other blog publishing systems, including seamless integration with Google services and web applications. Beginning Google Blogger is a complete resource on how to create and manage a blog using Blogger. The book offers step-by-step instructions and visual aids which walk you through both the basics of Blogger and the advanced features it offers—from creating a new blog and choosing fonts and colors, and installing custom blog graphics; to converting from a 2-c

Authors:Mary Bouquet, Nuno Porto,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: magic, new, directions, anthropology, museum, ritual, amp, religion, science, processes
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 157181521X
ISBN-13: 9781571815217

For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that m

Author: Carlos Brandao Cavalcanti
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: bank, country, study, world, agenda, implementing, accession, estonia
Number of Pages: 131
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0821345567
ISBN-13: 9780821345566

Authors:Ana Cavalcanti, Dennis Dams,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, notes, lecture, science, programming, engineering, software, proceedings, november, second, methods, world, congress, netherlands, eindhoven, formal
Number of Pages: 820
Published: 2009-12-15
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 3642050883
ISBN-13: 9783642050886

This book presents the refereed proceedings of FM 2009, the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods, held as the Second World Congress on Formal Methods in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November 2009 in the course of the first International Formal Methods Week, FMWeek 2009. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 3 additional papers from the Industry Day were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model checking, compositionality, verification, concurrency, refinement, static analysis, theor

Author: Dirce de Assis Cavalcanti
Publisher: Atelie Editorial
Keywords: portuguese, amavel, vida, chico, velho
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8585851570
ISBN-13: 9788585851576