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UNINA9910823784103321 |
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Autore |
Phillips Kim M |
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Before Orientalism : Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 / / Kim M. Phillips |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Travel, Medieval - History |
Travelers' writings, European - History and criticism |
Asia Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
Asia Foreign public opinion, Western History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I. Theory, People, Genres -- Chapter 1. On Orientalism -- Chapter 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences -- Chapter 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe -- Part II. Envisioning Orients -- Chapter 4. Food and Foodways -- Chapter 5. Femininities -- Chapter 6. Sex -- Chapter 7. Civility -- Chapter 8. Bodies -- Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made-or claimed to have made-journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring. In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how |
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Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign. |
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UNINA9910300106703321 |
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Autore |
Ahmad Khalil |
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Titolo |
Wavelet Packets and Their Statistical Applications / / by Khalil Ahmad, Abdullah |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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981-13-0268-5 |
978-981-13-0268-8 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVII, 238 p. 70 illus., 36 illus. in color.) |
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Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, , 2364-6748 |
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Functional analysis |
Numerical analysis |
Applied mathematics |
Engineering mathematics |
Statistics |
Signal processing |
Image processing |
Speech processing systems |
Functional Analysis |
Numerical Analysis |
Applications of Mathematics |
Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences |
Signal, Image and Speech Processing |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 2. Wavelet Packets -- Chapter 3. Convergence of Wavelet Packet Series -- Chapter 4. Function Spaces and Wavelet Packets -- Chapter 5. Applications in Signal Processing -- Chapter 6. Applications in Image Processing. |
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This book presents the basic concepts of functional analysis, wavelet analysis and thresholding. It begins with an elementary chapter on preliminaries such as basic concepts of functional analysis, a brief tour of the wavelet transform, Haar scaling functions and function space, wavelets, symlets wavelets and coiflets wavelets. In turn, Chapters 2 and 3 address the construction of wavelet packets, selected results on wavelet packets, band-limited wavelet packets, characterisations of wavelet packets, multiresolution analysis (MRA) wavelet packets, pointwise convergence, the convergence of wavelet packet series and convolution bounds. Chapter 4 discusses characterisations of function spaces like Lebesgue spaces, Hardy spaces and Sobolev spaces in terms of wavelet packets, while Chapter 5 is devoted to applications of wavelets and wavelet packets in speech denoising and biomedical signals. In closing, Chapter 6 highlights applications of wavelets and wavelet packets in image denoising. |
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