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Hand-Based Biometrics

Methods and technology

Martin Drahanský

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018

Hand-based biometrics identifies users by unique features in their hands, such as fingerprints, palmprints, hand geometry, and finger and palm vein patterns. This book explores the range of technologies and methods under development and in use for hand-based biometrics, with evaluations of the advantages and performance of each. The inclusion of significant material on the relevant aspects of the physiology of the hand is a particularly useful and innovative feature.
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Handbook of Antenna Design, Volume 1

A.W. Rudge

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1982

  • Authored by a multi-national group of antenna experts of international standing.
  • Presents the principles and applications of antenna design, with emphasis upon key developments in the last 15 years.
  • Fundamental background theory and analytical techniques explained in detail where appropriate.
  • Includes extensive design data and numerous examples of practical application.
  • Deals with a very wide range of antenna types, operating from very low frequencies to millimetre waves.
  • New measurement techniques described in detail.
  • Covers associated topics such as radomes, array signal processing and coaxial components.
  • Includes design data for antennas for satellite and terrestrial communications, radar, mobile communications and broadcasting.
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Handbook of Antenna Design, Volume 2

A.W. Rudge

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1983

  • Authored by a multi-national group of antenna experts of international standing.
  • Presents the principles and applications of antenna design, with emphasis upon key developments in the last 15 years.
  • Fundamental background theory and analytical techniques explained in detail where appropriate.
  • Includes extensive design data and numerous examples of practical application.
  • Deals with a very wide range of antenna types, operating from very low frequencies to millimetre waves.
  • New measurement techniques described in detail.
  • Covers associated topics such as radomes, array signal processing and coaxial components.
  • Includes design data for antennas for satellite and terrestrial communications, radar, mobile communications and broadcasting.
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History of Telegraphy

Ken Beauchamp

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2001

A dominating theme of the 21st Century will be the transmission and processing of information as the global network of communication channels continues to develop. The emergence of today's digital communications technology owes much to the growth of telegraphy in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The realisation of cheap long-distance communication using telegraphy stimulated the initial design and development of coded transmissions that proved vital in both World Wars for use on land, sea, and in the air. Methods of data compaction, coding and encryption in modern communication systems all have their origins in the techniques used by the telegraph pioneers. In fact the two main phases of telegraph development - cable-based techniques that began in the early 19th Century and wireless transmission in the 20th Century - parallel the changes in voice and information communications seen recently.
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Hollywood Outsiders

The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934

Anne Morey

University of Minnesota Press, 2003

An innovative approach to the relationship between filmmaking and society during Hollywood’s golden age

The 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom and its public in the United States. Hollywood, its proponents, and its critics sought to establish new connections between audience and industry, suggesting means by which Hollywood outsiders could become insiders. Hollywood Outsiders looks at how four disparate entities—the Palmer Photoplay correspondence school of screenwriting, juvenile series fiction about youngsters involved in the film industry, film appreciation and character education programs for high school students, and Catholic and Protestant efforts to use and influence filmmaking—conceived of these connections, and thus of the relationship of Hollywood to the individual and society. Anne Morey’s exploration of the diverse discourses generated by these different conjunctions leads to a fresh and compelling interpretation of Hollywood’s place in American cultural history.

In its analysis of how four distinct groups, each addressing constituencies of various ages and degrees of social authority, defined their interest in the film industry, Hollywood Outsiders combines concrete discussions of cultural politics with a broader argument about how outsiders viewed the film industry as a vehicle of self-validation and of democratic ideals.
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