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Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension

Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension

Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies solutions and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned to cover common topics presenting several practical lesson ideas for each topic. In most cases each pedagogical suggestion is supported by excerpts from standard concert band literature. Topics covered include: score study shortcuts; curriculum development; percussion section management; group and individual intonation; effective rehearsal strategies; and much more! This collection of specific concepts ideas and reproducible pedagogical methods—not unlike short lesson plans—can be used easily and immediately. Ideal for band directors of students at all levels Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director is the product of more than three decades of experience presenting innovative approaches as well as strategies that have been borrowed revised and adapted from scores of successful teachers and clinicians. | Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension

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Band-Notch Characteristics in Ultra-Wideband Antennas

Band-Notch Characteristics in Ultra-Wideband Antennas

This book comprehensively reviews ultra-wideband (UWB) and UWB multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antennas with band-notched characteristics with a focus on interference cancellation functionality. The book is organized into seven chapters that cover single band dual band and multi band-notched UWB antennas followed by band-notched characteristics in UWB (MIMO) antennas. Further it explains the mechanism of reconfigurability and tunability in band-notched UWB antennas including advanced applications of UWB systems. Overall it covers different techniques of canceling the electromagnetic interference in UWB in a concise volume. Features Provides a comprehensive presentation of avoiding interference in UWB systems Reviews state of the art literature related to UWB antennas filtennas and various reconfigurable technologies Explains different techniques for producing band-notch characteristics in UWB systems Includes discussion on historical perspectives of UWB technology Consolidates different research activities carried out on the electromagnetic interference cancellation techniques in the UWB communication systems Band-Notch Characteristics in Ultra-Wideband Antennas is aimed at researchers and graduate students in electrical and antenna engineering. Taimoor Khan has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar since 2014. In addition to this Dr. Khan has also worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok Thailand during September–December 2016. His active research interests include Printed Microwave Circuits Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures Ultra-wideband Antennas Dielectric Resonator Antennas Ambient Microwave Energy Harvesting and Artificial Intelligence Paradigms in Electromagnetics. Dr. Khan has successfully guided three Ph. D. theses and is supervising six Ph. D. students. He has published over 75 research articles in well-indexed journals and in world-renowned conference proceedings. Currently he is executing three funded research projects including two international collaborative SPARC and VAJRA research projects. In September 2020 Dr. Khan has been awarded a prestigious national IETE-Prof SVC Aiya Memorial Award for the year 2020. Yahia M. M. Antar has been a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Royal Military College of Canada since 1990. He served as the Chair of CNC URSI from 1999 to 2008 Commission B from 1993 to 1999 and has a cross appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston. He has authored and co-authored over 250 journal papers several books and chapters in books over 500 refereed conference papers holds several patents has chaired several national and international conferences and has given plenary talks at many conferences. Dr. Antar is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada the Electromagnetic Academy and an International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He was elected by the URSI to the Board as the Vice President in 2008 and in 2014 and to the IEEE AP AdCom in 2009. In 2011 he was appointed as a member of the Canadian Defence Advisory Board (DAB) of the Canadian Department of National Defence. He serves as an Associate Editor for many IEEE and IET Journals and as an IEEE-APS Distinguished Lecturer. Presently he is working as President-Elect for IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society for the year 2020.

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Antenna Engineering Theory and Problems

Antenna Engineering Theory and Problems

The book deals with theoretical and experimental research of antennas. The presentation is based on the electromagnetic theory. It begins with the theory of thin antennas. Thin antennas represent one of the main types of radiators thus the theory of thin antennas is the basis of the antennas analysis. Special attention is paid to the integral equation of Leontovich-Levin for a current along a straight thin-walled metal cylinder which is equivalent to the equation of Hallen with a precise kernel. Together with the analysis of various types of antennas the book deals with the problems of synthesis including the creation a wide-band radiator by means of determining of the types and the magnitudes of concentrated loads which are connected along a linear radiator and create in a given frequency band high electrical performance. Problems of antenna engineering are discussed in the second half of the book including the results of application of a compensation method for the protection of humans against irradiation and structural features of ship antennas. | Antenna Engineering Theory and Problems

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Indium Nitride and Related Alloys

Indium Nitride and Related Alloys

Written by recognized leaders in this dynamic and rapidly expanding field Indium Nitride and Related Alloys provides a clear and comprehensive summary of the present state of knowledge in indium nitride (InN) research. It elucidates and clarifies the often confusing and contradictory scientific literature to provide valuable and rigorous insight into the structural optical and electronic properties of this quickly emerging semiconductor material and its related alloys. Drawing from both theoretical and experimental perspectives it provides a thorough review of all data since 2001 when the band gap of InN was identified as 0. 7 eV. The superior transport and optical properties of InN and its alloys offer tremendous potential for a wide range of device applications including high-efficiency solar cells and chemical sensors. Indeed the now established narrow band gap nature of InN means that the InGaN alloys cover the entire solar spectrum and InAlN alloys span from the infrared to the ultraviolet. However with unsolved problems including high free electron density difficulty in characterizing p-type doping and the lack of a lattice-matched substrate indium nitride remains perhaps the least understood III-V semiconductor. Covering the epitaxial growth experimental characterization theoretical understanding and device potential of this semiconductor and its alloys this book is essential reading for both established researchers and those new to the field.

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Near-Infrared Organic Materials and Emerging Applications

Near-Infrared Organic Materials and Emerging Applications

To physicists and chemists color means light—emission absorption spectrum and coloration. Near-Infrared Organic Materials and Emerging Applications presents knowledge and applications of invisible colored organic materials. Near-infrared (NIR) materials are defined as substances that interact with NIR light namely absorption and reflection and emit NIR light upon stimulation for example photoexcitation electric field and chemical reaction. This book offers up-to-date information on low band-gap organic materials with unique near-infrared absorbing fluorescent and photovoltaic properties for various emerging applications. The author emphasizes the chemistry of materials in particular the structure–property relationship of near-infrared organic compounds and polymers. The text discusses the molecular design aspect of NIR materials including effects of conjugation length and donor–acceptor charge transfer. Chapters also cover information on the structures and key properties of NIR organic compounds such as those containing rylene polymethine and metal-complex chromophores as well as polymers including nonconjugated NIR-absorbing conjugated dye-containing and donor–acceptor conjugated polymers. The final chapter describes emerging applications of NIR organic materials based on absorbing chromogenic photosensitizing photovoltaic and fluorescent properties as well as applications of low band-gap compounds and polymers in ambipolar organic transistors. Presenting useful data and thought-provoking ideas this book provides a practical reference on optical properties and structures of NIR organic materials and their design principles and applications.

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Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Methods and Applications

Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Methods and Applications

The ability to effectively monitor the atmosphere on a continuous basis requires remote sensing in microwave. Written for physicists and engineers working in the area of microwave sensing of the atmosphere Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing: Methods and Applications is completely devoted to ground-based remote sensing. This text covers the fundamentals of microwave remote sensing and examines microwave radiometric measurements and their applications. The book discusses the atmospheric influences on the electromagnetic spectrum addresses the measurement of incoherent electromagnetic radiation from an object obeying the laws of radiation fundamentals and explores the height limits in both the water vapor band and the oxygen band. The author describes the measurement technique of water vapor in the polar region details studies of the measurement of integrated water vapor content by deploying a microwave radiometer and presents several real-time pictures of radiometric and disdrometer measurements. Includes integrated water vapor and cloud liquid water models Contains measurements in adverse weather conditions Illustrates measurement technique in the Antarctic and Arctic regions Describes rain models in different locations including tropical temperate regions along with radiometric measurement techniques Presents a definite model for measurement of propagation path delay The book summarizes the latest research results obtained in the area of measurements and modeling describes the atmospheric influences on electromagnetic spectrum along with different gaseous and cloud models and provides examples of radiometric retrievals from a variety of dynamic weather phenomena. | Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Methods and Applications

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Instrumental Music Education Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony

Instrumental Music Education Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony

Instrumental Music Education: Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony Third Edition is intended for college instrumental music education majors studying to be band and orchestra directors at the elementary middle school and high school levels. This textbook presents a research-based look at the topics vital to running a successful instrumental music program while balancing musical theoretical and practical approaches. A central theme is the compelling parallel between language and music including sound-to-symbol pedagogies. Understanding this connection improves the teaching of melody rhythm composition and improvisation. The companion website contains over 120 pedagogy videos for wind string and percussion instru­ments performed by professional players and teachers over 50 rehearsal videos rhythm flashcards and two additional chapters: The Rehearsal Toolkit and ''Job Search and Interview. It also includes over 50 tracks of acoustically pure drones and demonstration exercises for use in rehearsals sectionals and lessons. New to This Edition: A new chapter on teaching beginning band using sound-to-symbol pedagogies Expanded coverage for strings and orchestra including a new chapter on teaching beginning strings A new chapter on conducting technique Expanded material on teaching students with disabilities Concert etiquette and the concert experience Expanded coverage on the science of learning including the Dunning-Kruger effect and the effective use of repetition in rehearsal Techniques for improving students’ practice habits | Instrumental Music Education Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony

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Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino Practical Audio Circuits with Arduino Control

Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino Practical Audio Circuits with Arduino Control

Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino: Practical Audio Circuits with Arduino Control teaches the reader how to use Arduino to control analogue audio circuits and introduces electronic circuit theory through a series of practical projects including a MIDI drum controller and an Arduino-controlled two-band audio equalizer amplifier. Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino provides all the theoretical knowledge needed to design analyse and build audio circuits for amplification and filtering with additional topics like C programming being introduced in a practical context for Arduino control. The reader will learn how these circuits work and also how to build them allowing them to progress to more advanced audio circuits in the future. Beginning with electrical fundamentals and control systems DC circuit theory is then combined with an introduction to C programming to build Arduino-based systems for audio (tone sequencer) and MIDI (drum controller) output. The second half of the book begins with AC circuit theory to allow analogue audio circuits for amplification and filtering to be analysed simulated and built. These circuits are then combined with Arduino control in the final project – an Arduino-controlled two-band equalizer amplifier. Building on high-school physics and mathematics in an accessible way Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino is suitable for readers of all levels. An ideal tool for those studying audio electronics including as a component within other fields of study such as computer science human-computer interaction acoustics music technology and electronics engineering. | Learn Audio Electronics with Arduino Practical Audio Circuits with Arduino Control

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Nanoelectronics Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles

Nanoelectronics Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles

Brings the Band Structure of Carbon-Based Devices into the LimelightA shift to carbon is positioning biology as a process of synthesis in mainstream engineering. Silicon is quickly being replaced with carbon-based electronics devices are being reduced down to nanometer scale and further potential applications are being considered. While traditionally engineers are trained by way of physics chemistry and mathematics Nanoelectronics: Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles establishes biology as an essential basic science for engineers to explore. Unifies Science and Engineering: from Quantum Physics to NanoengineeringDrawing heavily on published papers by the author this research-driven text offers a complete review of nanoelectronic transport starting from quantum waves to ohmic and ballistic conduction and saturation-limited extreme nonequilibrium conditions. In addition it highlights a new paradigm using non-equilibrium Arora’s Distribution Function (NEADF) and establishes this function as the starting point (from band theory to equilibrium to extreme nonequilibrium carrier statistics). The author focuses on nano-electronic device design and development including carbon-based devices and provides you with a vantage point for the global outlook on the future of nanoelectronics devices and ULSI. Encompassing ten chapters this illuminating text:Converts the electric-field response of drift velocity into current–voltage relationships that are driven by the presence of critical voltage and saturation current arising from the unidirectional drift of carriers Applies the effect of these scaled-down dimensions to nano-MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)Considers specialized applications that can be tried through a number of suggested projects that are all feasible with MATLAB® codesNanoelectronics: Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles contains the latest research in nanoelectronics identifies problems and other factors to consider when it comes to nanolayer design and application and ponders future trends. Print Versions of this book also include access to the ebook version. | Nanoelectronics Quantum Engineering of Low-Dimensional Nanoensembles

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Neuro-Fuzzy Equalizers for Mobile Cellular Channels

Neuro-Fuzzy Equalizers for Mobile Cellular Channels

Equalizers are present in all forms of communication systems. Neuro-Fuzzy Equalizers for Mobile Cellular Channels details the modeling of a mobile broadband communication channel and designing of a neuro-fuzzy adaptive equalizer for it. This book focuses on the concept of the simulation of wireless channel equalizers using the adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The book highlights a study of currently existing equalizers for wireless channels. It discusses several techniques for channel equalization including the type-2 fuzzy adaptive filter (type-2 FAF) compensatory neuro-fuzzy filter (CNFF) and radial basis function (RBF) neural network. Neuro-Fuzzy Equalizers for Mobile Cellular Channels starts with a brief introduction to channel equalizers and the nature of mobile cellular channels with regard to the frequency reuse and the resulting CCI. It considers the many channel models available for mobile cellular channels establishes the mobile indoor channel as a Rayleigh fading channel presents the channel equalization problem and focuses on various equalizers for mobile cellular channels. The book discusses conventional equalizers like LE and DFE using a simple LMS algorithm and transversal equalizers. It also covers channel equalization with neural networks and fuzzy logic and classifies various equalizers. This being a fairly new branch of study the book considers in detail the concept of fuzzy logic controllers in noise cancellation problems and provides the fundamental concepts of neuro-fuzzy. The final chapter offers a recap and explores venues for further research. This book also establishes a common mathematical framework of the equalizers using the RBF model and develops a mathematical model for ultra-wide band (UWB) channels using the channel co-variance matrix (CCM). Introduces the novel concept of the application of adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) in the design of wireless channel equalizers Provides model ultra-wide band (UWB) channels using channel co-variance matrix Offers a formulation of a unified radial basis function (RBF) framework for ANFIS-based and fuzzy adaptive filter (FAF) Type II as well as compensatory neuro-fuzzy equalizers Includes extensive use of MATLAB® as the simulation tool in all the above cases

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Vibro-Acoustics Fundamentals and Applications

Vibro-Acoustics Fundamentals and Applications

The subject of vibro-acoustics is important for the design of machine elements and structures to minimize sound generated by them. For better machine designing it is necessary for machine designers (mechanical engineers) to have a thorough knowledge of vibro-acoustics. Furthermore since the design cycles of machines have become shorter designers will have to design quiet machines at the drawing-board stage rather than applying band-aid techniques after the machine has been built. Although there is common ground in the treatment of acoustics the subject of vibration is not very fortunate. Those interested in low-frequency vibration are generally concerned with the modal approach of using natural frequencies and mode shapes whereas those interested in vibro-acoustics in medium and high frequencies are generally concerned with the wave approach. Since both modal and wave approaches have their advantages it is a good idea to study both together to get the best out of them. This is useful for a better understanding the physics of vibro-acoustics. Written for students and professionals interested in gaining knowledge this book systematically integrates the relevant aspects of vibro-acoustics from various viewpoints. | Vibro-Acoustics Fundamentals and Applications

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Integrated Micro-Ring Photonics Principles and Applications as Slow Light Devices Soliton Generation and Optical Transmission

Integrated Micro-Ring Photonics Principles and Applications as Slow Light Devices Soliton Generation and Optical Transmission

Micro-ring resonators (MRRs) are employed to generate signals used for optical communication applications where they can be integrated in a single system. These structures are ideal candidates for very large-scale integrated (VLSI) photonic circuits since they provide a wide range of optical signal processing functions while being ultra-compact. Soliton pulses have sufficient stability for preservation of their shape and velocity. Technological progress in fields such as tunable narrow band laser systems multiple transmission and MRR systems constitute a base for the development of new transmission techniques. Controlling the speed of a light signal has many potential applications in fiber optic communication and quantum computing. The slow light effect has many important applications and is a key technology for all optical networks such as optical signal processing. Generation of slow light in MRRs is based on the nonlinear optical fibers. Slow light can be generated within the micro-ring devices which will be able to be used with the mobile telephone. Therefore the message can be kept encrypted via quantum cryptography. Thus perfect security in a mobile telephone network is plausible. This research study involves both numerical experiments and theoretical work based on MRRs for secured communication. | Integrated Micro-Ring Photonics Principles and Applications as Slow Light Devices Soliton Generation and Optical Transmission

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Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

This book defines the key ideas scholarly debates and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music cultural studies sociology anthropology philosophy and ethics this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology global/local scenes studies fandom gender and metal identity metal media and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands scenes periods and sounds contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore Doom metal Death metal and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies sound engineering album artwork and band promotion logos and merchandising t-shirt and jewellery design and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music cultural studies and sociology as well as those interested in metal communities around the world. | Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

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An Introduction to Metamaterials and Waves in Composites

An Introduction to Metamaterials and Waves in Composites

Requiring no advanced knowledge of wave propagation An Introduction to Metamaterials and Waves in Composites focuses on theoretical aspects of metamaterials periodic composites and layered composites. The book gives novices a platform from which they can start exploring the subject in more detail. After introducing concepts related to elasticity acoustics and electrodynamics in media the text presents plane wave solutions to the equations that describe elastic acoustic and electromagnetic waves. It examines the plane wave expansion of sources as well as scattering from curved interfaces specifically spheres and cylinders. The author then covers electrodynamic acoustic and elastodynamic metamaterials. He also describes examples of transformations aspects of acoustic cloaking and applications of pentamode materials to acoustic cloaking. With a focus on periodic composites the text uses the Bloch-Floquet theorem to find the effective behavior of composites in the quasistatic limit presents the quasistatic equations of elastodynamic and electromagnetic waves and investigates Brillouin zones and band gaps in periodic structures. The final chapter discusses wave propagation in smoothly varying layered media anisotropic density of a periodic layered medium and quasistatic homogenization of laminates. This book provides a launch pad for research into elastic and acoustic metamaterials. Many of the ideas presented have yet to be realized experimentally—the book encourages readers to explore these ideas and bring them to technological maturity.

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Quaternary Alloys Based on II - VI Semiconductors

Quaternary Alloys Based on II - VI Semiconductors

Doped by isovalent or heterovalent foreign impurities II–VI semiconductor compounds enable control of optical and electronic properties making them ideal in detectors solar cells and other precise device applications. Quaternary alloys allow a simultaneous adjustment of band gap and lattice constant increasing radiant efficiency at a wide range of wavelengths. Quaternary Alloys Based on II–VI Semiconductors consolidates data pertaining to diagrams of quaternary systems based on these semiconductor compounds. The book illustrates up-to-date experimental and theoretical information about phase relations based on II–VI semiconductor systems with four components. It critically evaluates many industrially significant systems presented in two-dimensional sections for the condensed phases. The author classifies all materials according to the periodic groups of their constituent atoms and additional components in the order of their group number. Each quaternary database description contains brief information on the diagram type possible phase transformations and physical–chemical interactions of the components thermodynamic characteristics and methods for equilibrium investigation and sample preparation. Most of the phase diagrams are in their original form. For those with varying published data the text includes several versions for comparison. This book provides invaluable data for technologists and researchers involved in developing and manufacturing II–VI semiconductors at industrial and national laboratories. It is also suitable for phase relations researchers inorganic chemists and semiconductor physicists as well as graduate students in materials science and engineering. Check out the companion books: Ternary Alloys Based on II–VI Semiconductor Compounds and | Quaternary Alloys Based on II - VI Semiconductors

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Time Series Modelling with Unobserved Components

Time Series Modelling with Unobserved Components

Despite the unobserved components model (UCM) having many advantages over more popular forecasting techniques based on regression analysis exponential smoothing and ARIMA the UCM is not well known among practitioners outside the academic community. Time Series Modelling with Unobserved Components rectifies this deficiency by giving a practical overview of the UCM approach covering some theoretical details several applications and the software for implementing UCMs. The book’s first part discusses introductory time series and prediction theory. Unlike most other books on time series this text includes a chapter on prediction at the beginning because the problem of predicting is not limited to the field of time series analysis. The second part introduces the UCM the state space form and related algorithms. It also provides practical modeling strategies to build and select the UCM that best fits the needs of time series analysts. The third part presents real-world applications with a chapter focusing on business cycle analysis and the construction of band-pass filters using UCMs. The book also reviews software packages that offer ready-to-use procedures for UCMs as well as systems popular among statisticians and econometricians that allow general estimation of models in state space form. This book demonstrates the numerous benefits of using UCMs to model time series data. UCMs are simple to specify their results are easy to visualize and communicate to non-specialists and their forecasting performance is competitive. Moreover various types of outliers can easily be identified missing values are effortlessly managed and working contemporaneously with time series observed at different frequencies poses no problem.

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Radio Wave Propagation and Channel Modeling for Earth-Space Systems

Radio Wave Propagation and Channel Modeling for Earth-Space Systems

The accurate design of earth–space systems requires a comprehensive understanding of the various propagation media and phenomena that differ depending on frequencies and types of applications. The choice of the relevant channel models is crucial in the design process and constitutes a key step in performance evaluation and testing of earth–space systems. The subject of this book is built around the two characteristic cases of satellite systems: fixed satellites and mobile satellite systems. Radio Wave Propagation and Channel Modeling for Earth–Space Systems discusses the state of the art in channel modeling and characterization of next-generation fixed multiple-antennas and mobile satellite systems as well as propagation phenomena and fade mitigation techniques. The frequencies of interest range from 100 MHz to 100 GHz (from VHF to W band) whereas the use of optical free-space communications is envisaged. Examining recent research advances in space-time tropospheric propagation fields and optical satellite communication channel models the book covers land mobile multiple antennas satellite- issues and relative propagation campaigns and stratospheric channel models for various applications and frequencies. It also presents research and well-accepted satellite community results for land mobile satellite and tropospheric attenuation time-series single link and field synthesizers. The book examines aeronautical communications channel characteristics and modeling relative radio wave propagation campaigns and stratospheric channel model for various applications and frequencies. Propagation effects on satellite navigation systems and the corresponding models are also covered. | Radio Wave Propagation and Channel Modeling for Earth-Space Systems

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Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications

Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications

Because prevailing atmospheric/troposcopic conditions greatly influence radio wave propagation above 10 GHz the unguided propagation of microwaves in the neutral atmosphere can directly impact many vital applications in science and engineering. These include transmission of intelligence and radar and radiometric applications used to probe the atmosphere among others. Where most books address either one or the other Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing: Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications melds coverage of these two subjects to help readers develop solutions to the problems they present. This reference offers a brief elementary account of microwave propagation through the atmosphere and discusses radiometric applications in the microwave band used to characterize and model atmospheric constituents which is also known as remote sensing. Summarizing the latest research results in the field as well as radiometric models and measurement methods this book covers topics including: Free space propagation Reflection interference polarization and other key aspects of electromagnetic wave propagation Radio refraction and its effects on propagation delay Methodology of estimating water vapor attenuation using radiosonde data Knowledge of rain structures and use of climatological patterns to estimate/measure attenuation of rain snow fog and other prevalent atmospheric particles and human-made substances Dual/multifrequency methodology to deal with the influence of clouds on radiometric attenuation Deployment of microwaves to ascertain various tropospheric conditions Composition and characteristics of the troposphere to help readers fully understand microwave propagation Derived parameters of water free space propagation and conditions and variable constituents such as water vapor and vapor pressure density and ray bending | Microwave Propagation and Remote Sensing Atmospheric Influences with Models and Applications

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British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion. | British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

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Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

This second volume of Stephen Jones' work on ritual and musical life in north China again with accompanying downloadable resources gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000 from the barrage of pop music blaring from speakers in the bustling county-towns to the life-cycle and calendrical ceremonies of poor mountain villages. Based on the practice of grass-roots music-making in daily life not merely on official images the main theme is the painful maintenance of ritual and its music under Maoism its revival with the market reforms of the 1980s and its modification under the assaults of TV pop music and migration since the 1990s. The text is in four parts. Part One gives background to the area and music-making in society. Parts Two and Three discuss the lives of bards and shawm bands respectively describing modifications in their ceremonial activities through the twentieth century. Part Four acclimatizes us to the modern world with glimpses of various types of musical life in Yulin city the regional capital illustrating the contrast with the surrounding countryside. The 44-minute downloadable resources with its informative commentary is intended both to illuminate the text and to stand on its own. It shows bards performing at a temple fair and to bless a family in distress and shawm bands performing at a wedding at funerals and a shop opening - including their pop repertory with the 'big band'. Also featuring as part of these events are opera troupes geomancers and performing beggars; by contrast the film shows a glimpse of the official image of Shaanbei culture as presented by a state ensemble in the regional capital. The publication will appeal to ethnomusicologists anthropologists and all those interested in modern Chinese history and society. | Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

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Gallium Nitride (GaN) Physics Devices and Technology

Gallium Nitride (GaN) Physics Devices and Technology

Addresses a Growing Need for High-Power and High-Frequency Transistors Gallium Nitride (GaN): Physics Devices and Technology offers a balanced perspective on the state of the art in gallium nitride technology. A semiconductor commonly used in bright light-emitting diodes GaN can serve as a great alternative to existing devices used in microelectronics. It has a wide band gap and high electron mobility that gives it special properties for applications in optoelectronic high-power and high-frequency devices and because of its high off-state breakdown strength combined with excellent on-state channel conductivity GaN is an ideal candidate for switching power transistors. Explores Recent Progress in High-Frequency GaN Technology Written by a panel of academic and industry experts from around the globe this book reviews the advantages of GaN-based material systems suitable for high-frequency high-power applications. It provides an overview of the semiconductor environment outlines the fundamental device physics of GaN and describes GaN materials and device structures that are needed for the next stage of microelectronics and optoelectronics. The book details the development of radio frequency (RF) semiconductor devices and circuits considers the current challenges that the industry now faces and examines future trends. In addition the authors: Propose a design in which multiple LED stacks can be connected in a series using interband tunnel junction (TJ) interconnects Examine GaN technology while in its early stages of high-volume deployment in commercial and military products Consider the potential use of both sunlight and hydrogen as promising and prominent energy sources for this technology Introduce two unique methods PEC oxidation and vapor cooling condensation methods for the deposition of high-quality oxide layers A single-source reference for students and professionals Gallium Nitride (GaN): Physics Devices and Technology provides an overall assessment of the semiconductor environment discusses the potential use of GaN-based technology for RF semiconductor devices and highlights the current and emerging applications of GaN. | Gallium Nitride (GaN) Physics Devices and Technology

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