Radar system analysis, design, and simulation / / Eyung W. Kang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455182803321
• Autore: Kang Eyung W.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, Massachusetts : , : Artech House, , ©2008; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2008]
• ISBN: 1-5231-1754-0; 1-59693-348-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.3848
• Soggetti: Radar; Radar - Design and construction; Radar - Simulation methods; System analysis; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Radar System Analysis, Design, and Simulation; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Matrix, Vector, and Linear Equations; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Simultaneous Linear Equation; 1.2.1 Gaussian Elimination with Backsubstitution; 1.2.2 Gaussian Elimination with Forward Substitution; 1.3 Matrix Factorization; 1.3.1 LU Factorization; 1.3.2 LLT Factorization (Cholesky); 1.3.3 LDLT Factorization (Modified Cholesky); 1.3.4 UDUT Factorization; 1.3.5 QR Factorization; 1.4 Matrix Inversion; 1.4.2 Lx-1; 1.4.3 U1-1; 1.4.4 Ux-1; 1.4.5 D-1; 1.4.6 Q-1; 1.5 Vector Operations.; 1.6 Matrix Operations1.7 Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Chapter 2 Pseudorandom Number, Noise, andClutter Generation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Pseudorandom Number and Unit Uniform Variables; 2.2.1 PRN Generation of an Arbitrary Population; 2.3 White Gaussian Noise; 2.4 Rayleigh Noise; 2.5 Rician Random Variables, Signal-to-Noise Ratio; 2.6 Chi-Squared Noise; 2.7 Square-Law Detector; 2.8 Exponential Noise; 2.9 Lognormal Clutter; 2.10 Weibull Clutter; 2.11 Postulate of Probability Density Function from Sampled Data; 2.12 Construction of Gaussian (Normal) Probability Paper; 2.13 Conclusion.; 3.3.9 Quantized Noise and the Dynamic Range of A/D ConverterReferences; Chapter 4 Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and IFFT; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Fast Fourier Transform, Decimation-in-Time and Decimation-in-Frequency; 4.3 Demonstration of FFT_DIT and FFT_DIF; 4.4 Spectral Leakage and Window Function; 4.5 Inverse Fast Fourier Transform, Decimation-in-Time, and Decimation-in-Frequency; 4.6 Applications of FFT and IFFT; 4.6.1 Filtering in the Frequency Domain; 4.6.2 Detection of Signal Buried in Noise; 4.6.3 Interpolation of Data; 4.6.4 Pulse Compression.; 4.6.5 Amplitude Unbalance and Phase MismatchAppendix 4A; References; Chapter 5 Ambiguity Function; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Rectangular Pulse with a Single Constant Frequency; 5.3 Linear Frequency Modulation (LFM); 5.4 Costas-Coded Frequency Hopping Modulation; References; Selected Bibliography; Appendix 5A; Chapter 6 Array Antennas; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Linear Array; 6.3 Circular Aperture Array; 6.4 Elliptical Aperture Array; 6.5 Monopulse Array Antenna; 6.6 Conclusion; References; Appendix 6A; Closing Remarks; Chapter 7 Target Detection; 7.1 Introduction.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book helps you master critical system analysis and design skills, and shows you how to use digital computer simulation to verify that an analysis is correct and that a design is optimal. This comprehensive resource covers a wide range of essential topics, from matrix, vector and linear equations, noise and clutter generation, Filters (FIR and IIR), and fast Fourier transforms ... to ambiguity functions, antennas, target detection, and the Kalman filter ... to the Monte Carlo method, constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processing, and moving target indicators (MTI).

Mind time [[electronic resource] ] : the temporal factor in consciousness / / Benjamin Libet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455198203321
• Autore: Libet Benjamin <1916-2007.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-674-26543-2; 0-674-02080-4
• Edizione: [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: Consciousness; Time perception; Memory; Cognitive neuroscience; Senses and sensation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Once regarded as a conservative critic of culture, then enlisted by the court theoreticians of Nazism, Nietzsche has come to be revered by postmodern thinkers as one of their founding fathers, a prophet of human liberation who revealed the perspectival character of all knowledge and broke radically with traditional forms of morality and philosophy. In Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist, Peter Berkowitz challenges this new orthodoxy, asserting that it produces a one-dimensional picture of Nietzsche’s philosophical explorations and passes by much of what is provocative and problematic in his thought. Berkowitz argues that Nietzsche’s thought is rooted in extreme and conflicting opinions about metaphysics and human nature. Discovering a deep unity in Nietzsche’s work by exploring the structure and argumentative movement of a wide range of his books, Berkowitz shows that Nietzsche is a moral and political philosopher in the Socratic sense whose governing question is, “What is the best life?” Nietzsche, Berkowitz argues, puts forward a severe and aristocratic ethics, an ; ethics of creativity, that demands that the few human beings who are capable acquire a fundamental understanding of and attain total mastery over the world. Following the path of Nietzsche’s thought, Berkowitz shows that this mastery, which represents a suprapolitical form of rule and entails a radical denigration of political life, is, from Nietzsche’s own perspective, neither desirable nor attainable. Out of the colorful and richly textured fabric of Nietzsche’s books, Peter Berkowitz weaves an interpretation of Nietzsche’s achievement that is at once respectful and skeptical, an interpretation that brings out the love of truth, the courage, and the yearning for the good that mark Nietzsche’s magisterial effort to live an examined life by giving an account of the best life.