Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class.

Learn to program with Flex 3, the powerful tool for building multimedia-rich, interactive Flash applications for the Web. Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide is an easy-to-follow, fast-paced tutorial that allows you to fully grasp the fundamentals, including MXML, ActionScript, Flex Builder, states, transitions, and behaviors. You'll learn how to customize your applications with styles, skins, and themes; access remote data using the XML HTTP Service Request; profile and debug your applications; and manage media assets.

Master this massive programming language upgrade that raises Visual Basic functionality to the level of the .NET platform. Coverage includes all core topics--plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET.

This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology.

A woman goes in search for her daughter, within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Based on the video game.

Wireless Communication Using Dual Antenna Arrays is based on award-winning research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley. The information in this book will be vital to practicing engineers, industrial researchers, scientists, graduate and postgraduate researchers, and others working in the wireless communications field-in short, all of those who want to learn about the exciting new paradigm of dual-antenna arrays. Wireless Communication Using Dual Antenna Arrays takes the reader beyond the wide deployment of smart antennas to explore the use of antenna arrays at both ends of the wireless link. Dual-antenna arrays will become a key technology for future wireless systems, providing enormous capacity increases that will enable high-speed mobile Internet access, enhanced-capacity wireless local loops, wireless high-definition video transport, and other exciting applications.

When hiring, paying and terminating employees in Alberta, you must follow employment rules set by provincial and federal departments and agencies. An Employer’s Guide to Employment Rules provides an overview of the employment legislation you, your managers and your accounting staff need to know—including regulations on employment standards, human rights, workplace health and safety, and information and privacy.

The use of RSS feeds is a growing trend, and they can be found within many new websites. In ActionScript 3.0: Working with XML, instructor Todd Perkins places strong emphasis on using RSS data for blogs, podcasts, and images. He also demonstrates how to perform common tasks with XML, such as using E4X syntax, loading external data from local and remote locations, saving data, and integrating with popular services like Flickr. Exercise files accompany the course.

Given that chemicals in over 1,400 (mainly household) products can be intentionally inhaled for their psychoactive and mind-altering effects, it's not surprising that inhalants are the most commonly abused drug in the United States today, especially among young people. In spite of their popularity, however, very little is known about how these chemicals act on the brain and body. This book provides valuable information on the history of inhalant abuse, the major classes of the most commonly abused inhalants, what scientists currently know about the effects of inhalants on the brain and body, trends in inhalant abuse, and treatment and prevention measures.

Voice communications remains the most important facet of mobile radio services, which may be delivered over conventional fixed links, the Internet or wireless channels. This all-encompassing volume reports on the entire 50-year history of voice compression, on recent audio compression techniques and the protection as well as transmission of these signals in hostile wireless propagation environments.

VLSI circuits are ubiquitous in the modern world, and designing them efficiently is becoming increasingly challenging with the development of ever smaller chips. This practically oriented textbook covers the important aspects of VLSI design using a top-down approach, reflecting the way digital circuits are actually designed. Using practical hints and tips, case studies and checklists, this comprehensive guide to how and when to design VLSI circuits, covers the advances, challenges and past mistakes in design, acting as an introduction to graduate students and a reference for practising electronic engineers.

Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English 2 contains four complete practice tests for the revised Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) examination from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) which is to be introduced in December 2002. These model papers have been specially prepared for publication by UCLES and provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the revised examination and to practise useful examination techniques. Attractive colour visual material for Paper 5 is included with each test, enabling students to prepare thoroughly for the paired interview. This Student's Book 'with answers' edition also contains a comprehensive section of keys and transcripts, making it suitable for self study.

Analysis and design of circular microstrip elements. Microstrip patch antennas. Circular polarisation and bandwidth. Electromagnetically coupled dipoles. Multilayer configurations. Large bandwidth hybrid flat dipoles and arrays. Numerical analysis of microstrip patch antennas. Segmentation and desegmentation methods for microstrip antenna design. Transmission line model of microstrip antennas. Design and technology of low cost printed antennas. Analysis and design considerations of printed array antennas. Circularly polarised array antennas. Microstrip antenna feeds. Advances in substrate technology. Special measurement techniques for printed antennas. CAD of microstrip and triplate systems. Resonant microstrip antenna elements and arrays. Applications of microstrip antennas. Monolithic conical conformal microstrip tracking antenna. Extensions and variations of the microstrip antenna concept.