Distributed Multiple Description Coding

Demystifying JCL, this book illustrates both major points and subtle aspects with concrete coding examples. It outlines the relationship between JCL and the IBM mainframe, provides instruction for co

Highlights the most common, distinctive and widely distributed species in Arkansas. Like all Pocket Naturalists, these guides provide simplified pocket reference that allows readers to easily identif

Decision making in organizations is often pictured as a coherent and rational process in which alternative interests and perspectives are considered in an orderly manner until the optimal alternative is selected. Yet, as many members of organizations have discovered from their own experience, real decision processes in organizations only seldom fit such a description. This book brings together researchers who focus on cognitive aspects of decision processes, on the one hand, and those who study organizational aspects such as conflict, incentives, power, and ambiguity, on the other. It draws from the tradition of Herbert Simon, who studied organizational decision making's pervasive use of bounded rationality and heuristics of reasoning. These multiple perspectives may further our understanding of organizational decision making. Organizational Decision Making is particularly well suited for students and faculties of business, psychology, and public administration.

Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled p

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressWhen Edmund Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in 1903, it was page one news - not just in the Pacific Northw

This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. Three hypothetical patients, each with a different chance of survival, desire intensive care. A multinatio

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn response to the Great Depression FDR rolled out the collection of sweeping reforms known as the New Deal - and few dared to oppose th

Fast track route to successful innovation in a digital worldCovers the key areas of e-innovation, from planning for continuous change and trend forecasting to e-innovation processes and distributed in

As networks, devices, and systems continue to evolve, software engineers face the unique challenge of creating reliable distributed applications within frequently changing environments. "C++ Network P

Covering a variety of areas including software analysis, design, coding and maintenance, this text details the research conducted since the 1970s in this fast-developing field before going on to defin

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressIn the 1980s, a community in northern Idaho unwittingly became the home to the Aryan Nations, one of the most virulent

Describes how the National Multiple Sclerosis Society was formed and documents the search for a cure for this complex and mysterious disease.

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressColorado is considered by many to be the promised land of lost treasure. Silver miners, gold prospectors, government agents, crooked Ar

Ever since the seminal work of Goppa on algebraic-geometry codes, rational points on algebraic curves over finite fields have been an important research topic for algebraic geometers and coding theorists. The focus in this application of algebraic geometry to coding theory is on algebraic curves over finite fields with many rational points (relative to the genus). Recently, the authors discovered another important application of such curves, namely to the construction of low-discrepancy sequences. These sequences are needed for numerical methods in areas as diverse as computational physics and mathematical finance. This has given additional impetus to the theory of, and the search for, algebraic curves over finite fields with many rational points. This book aims to sum up the theoretical work on algebraic curves over finite fields with many rational points and to discuss the applications of such curves to algebraic coding theory and the construction of low-discrepancy sequences.

Covers the latest versions of CICS (including CICS Transaction Server) so that beginners can learn current coding practices from the start. Six beginning chapters show how to develop CICS programs, an

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressExperience the world of 1492 through the eyes of a young Basque adventurer who, born to a family of whalers, feels the calling of the se

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressCorporal Burke Langdon thought he was escaping from the doldrums of frontier Army life when he was assigned to take six strange-looking

The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that

Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that has long been regarded almost beyond the possibility of successful treatment. For many patients a diagnosis of MS has meant the end of a normally func

Coffee, one of the most commercially important crops grown, is distributed and traded globally in a multi-million dollar world industry. This exciting new book brings together in one volume the most i

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressConsidering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways tha

Coding theory, system theory, and symbolic dynamics have much in common. Among the central themes in each of these subjects are the construction of state space representations, understanding of fundam

Bridging the gap between the video compression and communication communities, this unique volume provides an all-encompassing treatment of wireless video communications, compression, channel coding, a

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressThis book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia on his death in 1942. Ben Stein acquired the manuscript and ed

SDL (Specification and Description Language) is a modern, high-level programming language intended for the description of complex, event-driven, real-time and communicating systems. SDL was originally

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressTwelve evocative essays contributing to the research about writer/intellectual Vardis Fisher and his missing place in A

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressA classic in American West literature and the inspiration for Robert Redford's portrayal in the classic film Jeremiah J

Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Along the way, it exposes ind

Optical Fiber Sensor Technology, Advanced Applications - Bragg Gratings and Distributed Sensors, builds upon the foundations of the subject in the preceding four volumes of this series, concentrati

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness

Johnson (classics and comparative literature, emeritus, U. of Chicago) traces the relevance to modern science of Lucretius' atomistic idea-based poem, On the Nature of Things . Distributed in the US

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressHistorian Brigham Madsen has devoted much of his career to telling the story of the Shoshoni. The tribe once occupied a huge region that

The idea that multiple personalities can exist within the same body has long captured the Western imagination. From Three Faces of Eve to Sybil, from Pyscho to Raising Caine, from 60 Minutes to Oprah

Does your child have a favorite subject, activity, or hobby? Children learn in multiple ways, and educator Thomas Armstrong has shown hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers how to locate those

A collection of 70 prototypical techniques and coding examples that can be adapted for applications. Each example begins with a quick synopsis that is followed by the supporting source code. The examp

Founders of Christian eremitism, these heroes of asceticism and virtue earned a reputation as much by their lifestyle as by their writings which have been translated into all languages and distributed

Shlomi Dolev presents the fundamentals of self-stabilization and demonstrates the process of designing self-stabilizing distributed systems.

Self-stabilization, an important concept to theoreticians and practitioners in distributed computing and communication networks, refers to a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected f

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's "Classification of Mammals" is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematic

"Today the wireless communications industry is heavily dependent upon advanced speech coding techniques, while the integration of personal computers and voice technology is poised for growth. In this