Author: Keith Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: romance, intimacy, sex, encoding, desire, language
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-10-02
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415136911
ISBN-13: 9780415136914

This collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject’s capacity to express desire. The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies. The book examines: language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire; language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire; attitudes and assumptions about romantic and sexual desire embodied in Engl

Authors:Nancy Ide, Jean Véronis,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: context, background, initiative, encoding, text
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1995-10-31
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 0792336895
ISBN-13: 9780792336891

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange are the result of over six years’ work by dozens of scholars from all over the world. As such, they represent a pioneer effort in an area where only occasional and isolated attempts were made before. They will certainly serve as the primary basis for encoding texts in electronic form for the foreseeable future. The work of participants in the TEI not only involved consideration of problems of text encoding that are likely to be with us for decades to come, but also required the developmen

Author: Arnold L. Rosenberg
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nondeterminism, universitext, encoding, state, computation, theory, pillars
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-11-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0387096388
ISBN-13: 9780387096384

The abstract branch of theoretical computer science known as Computation Theory typically appears in undergraduate academic curricula in a form that obscures both the mathematical concepts that are central to the various components of the theory and the relevance of the theory to the typical student. This regrettable situation is due largely to the thematic tension among three main competing principles for organizing the material in the course. This book is motivated by the belief that a deep understanding of, and operational control over, the few "big" mathematical ideas that underlie Comput

Author: Richard Gillam
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: encoding, standard, guide, programmer, demystified, practical, unicode
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0201700522
ISBN-13: 9780201700527

Offers an in-depth introduction to the encoding standard and provides the tools and techniques necessary to create today’s globally interoperable software systems. Presents strategies for implementing various aspects of the standard. Softcover.

Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: subjectivity, lyrics, narratives, encoding, textual, medieval
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-12-29
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198187246
ISBN-13: 9780198187240

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Man of Law’s Tale, and Complaint Unto Pity, the works of the Pearl poet, Havelok the Dane, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and ma

Authors:Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos Katsaggelos,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: video, compression, object, boundary, encoding, frame, optimal, distortion, rate, based
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: $255.00
ISBN-10: 0792398505
ISBN-13: 9780792398509

This is the first book about the rapidly evolving field of operational rate distortion (ORD) based video compression. ORD is concerned with the allocation of available bits among the different sources of information in an established coding framework. Today’s video compression standards leave great freedom in the selection of key parameters, such as quantizers and motion vectors. The main distinction among different vendors is in the selection of these parameters, and this book presents a mathematical foundation for this selection process. The book contains a review chapter on