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Error-correction coding and decoding : bounds, codes, decoders, analysis and …
This book discusses both the theory and practical applications of self-correcting data, commonly known as error-correcting codes. The applications included demonstrate the importance of these codes in a wide range of everyday technologies, from smartphones to secure communications and transactions. Written in a readily understandable style, the book presents the authors’ twenty-five years of …
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- 9783319511030
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- xx, 522p. : ill.
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- 005.717 ERR e
Model-driven development and operation of multi-cloud applications : the MODA…
This book summarizes work being undertaken within the collaborative MODAClouds research project, which aims to facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous Cloud platforms and remove the constraints of deployment, portability, and reversibility for end users of Cloud services. Experts involved in the project provide a clear overview of the MODAClouds approach and explain how it operates in…
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- 9783319460314
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- viii. 149p. : ill.
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- 004.6782 MOD m
Communication and materiality. Written and unwritten communication in pre-mod…
This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines such as archaeology, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, this volume provides the specialist and non-specialist with insights on how humans express themselv…
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- 9783110371758
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- v, 133 p.; 22 cm.
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- Materiale Textkulturen ; Vol. 8
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- 302.230935 COM c
Communication and capitalism: a critical theory
‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transce…
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- 9781912656714
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- 302.2 FUC c
Turn on the light on science: a research-based guide to break down popular st…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- 9781911529057
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- xvi, 104p.: ill.
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- 530.092 TIN t
Family communication at the end of life
Scholars contributing to this special issue on “Family Communication at the End of Life” have provided evidence that communication is vital for terminally ill individuals, family members, and healthcare/palliative care specialists. Overall, the fifteen articles in this special issue focus on five questions: First, what are the trends regarding different approaches for beginning the conversa…
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- 9783038425199
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- x, 156 p.; 22 cm.
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- 302 FAM f
Tantalisingly close: an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of…
In this important new study, Imar de Vries take a historical and comparative approach in researching our intimate relationship with present-day mobile wireless technologies. By analyzing the full range of human expectations and behavior in regard to mobile devices, de Vries looks at how wireless gadgets have changed our ideas about communication, while at the same time he demonstrates how moder…
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- 9789048514915
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- 256 p.; 22 cm.
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- MediaMatters; 7
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- 303.4833 DEV t
Digital peripheries : the online circulation of audiovisual content from the …
This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends i…
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- 9783030448509
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- XI, 302 p.
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- Springer Series in Media Industries
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- 302.231 DIG d
Facets of facebook: use and users
The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook.Facebook has many facets, and we just look forward above all to the use and users. The facet of users has sub-facets, such as different age, sex, and culture. The facet of use consists of sub…
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- 9783110418163
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- 339 p.; 23 cm.
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- Knowledge and Information
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- 302.30285 FAC f
Media and participation: a site of ideological-democratic struggle
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To dea…
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- 9781841504070
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- 408 p.; 22 cm.
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- 302.30285 CAR m
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