Filter This

Author: Sophie White
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN: 1529343321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
'Ali is one of the best flawed heroines in Irish commercial fiction since Rachel Walsh in Marian Keyes' ground-breaking Rachel's Holiday...' Sunday Times 'Hyper current ... hugely relevant' Irish Independent 'Modern and witty' Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling books 'So sweet, so funny -- I loved it' Marian Keyes The Glossie Influencer Awards are fast approaching and Ali Jones is hell-bent on a win and breaking through 10,000 followers on Instagram. But when Ali inadvertantly leads people to believe she's pregnant, she quickly realises that playing the 'Mummy-Influencer' card could be her ticket to Insta-success. And she's not going to let a small detail like a fake pregnancy get in her way. Even if the reappearance of Tinder Sam, who seems determined to take his role of 'baby' daddy seriously, makes things a little more complicated ... Elsewhere on Insta, Shelly Devine, Ireland's biggest influencer (and Ali's idol) is also guarding secrets from her followers, and her husband ... Both Ali and Shelly have decisions to make but as the night of the Glossies draws near, will they realise what's important before they lose what matters most? 'Fresh, current and thoroughly enjoyable' Eithne Shortall 'Written with heart and humour, Filter This peels back the social media mask so many wear as a disguise and reveals the real people beneath' Cecelia Ahern

Are Filter Bubbles Real?

Author: Axel Bruns
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509536469
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems. This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars, as well as anyone concerned about challenges to public debate and the democratic process.

Solid-Liquid Filtration and Separation Technology

Author: Albert Rushton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527614966
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 542

Book Description
A valuable presentation of theoretical and practical information in the area of liquid-solid filtration. The development of theoretical models is highlighted with practical design data and problem-related examples. Modern trends, e.g., membrane systems, are reported together with the fundamental aspects of particulate technology. The increasing interest in pollution control and environmental protection provides an expansive market for this book. Chemical engineers, chemists, physicists, water treatment/sewage engineers, civil engineers and all those concerned with filtration and pollution will find this book of tremendous value and practical use.

Passive, Active, and Digital Filters

Author: Wai-Kai Chen
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 142005886X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 838

Book Description
Upon its initial publication, The Circuits and Filters Handbook broke new ground. It quickly became the resource for comprehensive coverage of issues and practical information that can be put to immediate use. Not content to rest on his laurels, in addition to updating the second edition, editor Wai-Kai Chen divided it into tightly-focused texts that made the information easily accessible and digestible. These texts have been revised, updated, and expanded so that they continue to provide solid coverage of standard practices and enlightened perspectives on new and emerging techniques. Passive, Active, and Digital Filters provides an introduction to the characteristics of analog filters and a review of the design process and the tasks that need to be undertaken to translate a set of filter specifications into a working prototype. Highlights include discussions of the passive cascade synthesis and the synthesis of LCM and RC one-port networks; a summary of two-port synthesis by ladder development; a comparison of the cascade approach, the multiple-loop feedback topology, and ladder simulations; an examination of four types of finite wordlength effects; and coverage of methods for designing two-dimensional finite-extent impulse response (FIR) discrete-time filters. The book includes coverage of the basic building blocks involved in low- and high-order filters, limitations and practical design considerations, and a brief discussion of low-voltage circuit design. Revised Chapters: Sensitivity and Selectivity Switched-Capacitor Filters FIR Filters IIR Filters VLSI Implementation of Digital Filters Two-Dimensional FIR Filters Additional Chapters: 1-D Multirate Filter Banks Directional Filter Banks Nonlinear Filtering Using Statistical Signal Models Nonlinear Filtering for Image Denoising Video Demosaicking Filters This volume will undoubtedly take its place as the engineer's first choice in looking for solutions to problems encountered when designing filters.

Database and XML Technologies

Author: Zohra Bellahsène
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 354020055X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2003. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML-relational database management systems, XML query processing, systems and tools for XML data processing, XML access structures, stream processing and updates, and design issues.

Practical Filters and Couplers

Author: Noble Publishing Corporation
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
ISBN: 1884932215
Category : Directional couplers
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Annotation A collection of 16 articles compiled from previously published magazine articles. The articles were selected based on their meeting one or more of three criteria: reviewing important techniques, solving practical problems, or presenting original ideas. Among the specific articles within the broader field of filters and couplers are discussions of matching double-tuned LC filters, microwave multiplexers using complementary filters, RF capacitive-coupled filters, and a new approach to broadband transmission line hybrid design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Surface Engineering

Author: Mark J. Jackson
Publisher: ASM International
ISBN: 1615031197
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description

Fundamental Understanding of Electrode Processes in Memory of Professor Ernest B. Yeager

Author: Jai Prakash
Publisher: The Electrochemical Society
ISBN: 9781566774543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description

Instantaneous Power Theory and Applications to Power Conditioning

Author: Hirofumi Akagi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118362101
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
This book covers instantaneous power theory as well as the importance of design of shunt, series, and combined shunt-series power active filters and hybrid passive-active power filters Illustrates pioneering applications of the p-q theory to power conditioning, which highlights distinct differences from conventional theories Explores p-q-r theory to give a new method of analyzing the different powers in a three-phase circuit Provides exercises at the end of many chapters that are unique to the second edition

Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11

Author: Jason Zink
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1568817207
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 649

Book Description
Direct3D 11 offers such a wealth of capabilities that users can sometimes get lost in the details of specific APIs and their implementation. While there is a great deal of low-level information available about how each API function should be used, there is little documentation that shows how best to leverage these capabilities. Written by active members of the Direct3D community, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11 provides a deep understanding of both the high and low level concepts related to using Direct3D 11. The first part of the book presents a conceptual introduction to Direct3D 11, including an overview of the Direct3D 11 rendering and computation pipelines and how they map to the underlying hardware. It also provides a detailed look at all of the major components of the library, covering resources, pipeline details, and multithreaded rendering. Building upon this material, the second part of the text includes detailed examples of how to use Direct3D 11 in common rendering scenarios. The authors describe sample algorithms in-depth and discuss how the features of Direct3D 11 can be used to your advantage. All of the source code from the book is accessible on an actively maintained open source rendering framework. The sample applications and the framework itself can be downloaded from http://hieroglyph3.codeplex.com By analyzing when to use various tools and the tradeoffs between different implementations, this book helps you understand the best way to accomplish a given task and thereby fully leverage the potential capabilities of Direct3D 11.