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UNINA9910838359003321 |
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Autore |
Raheb Mitri |
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Titolo |
The Politics of Persecution : Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire |
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Waco : , : Baylor University Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-4813-1442-4 |
1-4813-1608-7 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Persecution - Middle East - History |
Persecution |
Politics and government |
War - Religious aspects |
History |
Middle East Politics and government |
Middle East Religious aspects |
Moyen-Orient Politique et gouvernement |
Middle East |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Endorsements, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Under Ottoman Rule -- 2. Religious Mobility -- 3. A Massacre on Mount Lebanon -- 4. Agents of Renaissance -- 5. Christian Zionism -- 6. The Road to Genocide -- 7. Minorities in Nation-States -- 8. A Catastrophe -- 9. Arab and Christian -- 10. A Turning Point -- 11. Petrodollars -- 12. Challenging Times -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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"Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurgence in the last few years, especially during the Trump era. Middle Eastern Christians are often portrayed as a homogeneous, helpless group ever at the mercy of their Muslim |
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enemies, a situation that only Western powers can remedy. The Politics of Persecution revisits this narrative with a critical eye. Mitri Raheb charts the plight of Christians in the Middle East from the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 to the so-called Arab Spring. The book analyzes the diverse socioeconomic and political factors that led to the diminishing role and numbers of Christians in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan during the eras of Ottoman, French, and British Empires, through the eras of independence, Pan-Arabism, and Pan-Islamism, and into the current era of American empire. With an incisive exposé of the politics that lie behind alleged concerns for these persecuted Christians--and how the concept of persecution has been a tool of public diplomacy and international politics--Raheb reveals that Middle Eastern Christians have been repeatedly sacrificed on the altar of Western national interests. The West has been part of the problem for Middle Eastern Christianity and not part of the solution, from the massacre on Mount Lebanon to the rise of ISIS. The Politics of Persecution, written by a well-known Palestinian Christian theologian, provides an insider perspective on this contested region. Middle Eastern Christians survived successive empires by developing great elasticity in adjusting to changing contexts; they learned how to survive atrocities and how to resist creatively while maintaining a dynamic identity. In this light, Raheb casts the history of Middle Eastern Christians not so much as one of persecution but as one of resilience." -- |
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UNINA9911020051703321 |
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Autore |
Hottinen Ari |
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Multi-antenna transceiver techniques for 3G and beyond / / Ari Hottinen, Olav Tirkkonen, Risto Wichman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2003 |
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9786610268870 |
9781280268878 |
1280268875 |
9780470024805 |
0470024801 |
9780470014080 |
0470014083 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TirkkonenOlav |
WichmanRisto |
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Disciplina |
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Radio - Transmitter-receivers - Design and construction |
Radio circuits |
Modulation (Electronics) |
Antennas (Electronics) |
Signal processing |
Wireless communication systems - Equipment and supplies - Design and construction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acronyms; Part I: Introduction; 1 Background; 1.1 Modular System Design; 1.2 Diversity Techniques in 3G Systems; 1.3 GSM/EDGE; 1.4 Multi-antenna Modems for 3G and Beyond; 1.5 Summary; 2 Diversity Gain, SNR Gain and Rate Increase; 2.1 Channel Models; 2.2 Performance Limits of Transmit Diversity; 2.3 Theoretical MIMO Channel Capacity; 2.4 MIMO Capacity in Correlated Channels; 2.5 Performance Measures for Closed-loop Transmit Diversity; 2.6 Summary; Part II: Open-loop Methods; 3 Open-loop Concepts: Background; 3.1 Delay Diversity; 3.2 Implicit Diversity via Phase |
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Modulation |
3.3 Code and Time Division Transmit Diversity3.4 Diversity Transform; 3.5 Space-Time Coding; 3.6 Space-Time Block Codes; 3.7 Non-linear Matrix Modulation; 3.8 Summary; 4 Matrix Modulation: Low SNR Aspects; 4.1 Linear Matrix Modulation; 4.2 Examples; 4.3 Heuristic Design Rules at Low SNR; 4.4 Matched Filtering and Maximum Likelihood Metric; 4.5 Mutual Information; 4.6 Expansion around Diagonal Dominance; 4.7 Performance of Examples; 4.8 Summary; 5 Increasing Symbol Rate: Quasi-orthogonal Layers; 5.1 Orthogonal Designs; 5.2 Complexity Issues: Choosing Symbol Rate and Target Tx Diversity |
5.3 Multimodulation Schemes5.4 Matrix Modulation with Quasi-orthogonal Layers; 5.5 Summary; 6 Receiver Algorithms; 6.1 Channel Estimation Issues; 6.2 Maximum Likelihood Detection; 6.3 Quasi-orthogonality Assisted Maximum Likelihood Detection; 6.4 Linear Receivers; 6.5 Iterative Receivers; 6.6 Joint Decoding and Detection; 6.7 Example: Linear Detection for ABBA; 6.8 Performance; 6.9 Summary; 7 Matrix Modulation: High SNR Aspects; 7.1 Symmetries of Information and Performance; 7.2 Optimizing Performance with Orthogonal Symbol Rotations; 7.3 Explicit Performance Optima for ABBA |
7.4 Improved Performance by Extending Block7.5 Comparison of Layered Schemes for Four Tx Antennas; 7.6 Weighted and Multimodulation Non-orthogonal Matrix Modulation; 7.7 Summary; 8 Robust and Practical Open-loop Designs; 8.1 Randomized Matrix Modulations; 8.2 Space-Time Block Code with Rotated Constellations; 8.3 Performance Evaluation; 8.4 Summary; 9 High-rate Designs for MIMO Systems; 9.1 Sets of Frobenius Orthogonal Unitary Matrices; 9.2 Optimizing Rate 2 MIMO-Modulation for N[sub(t)] = T = 2; 9.3 Four Transmit Antennas, Rate 2; 9.4 Four Transmit Antennas, Rate 3 |
9.5 Four Transmit Antennas, Rate 49.6 The Information Provided by the Schemes; 9.7 Summary; Part III: Closed-loop Methods; 10 Closed-loop Methods: Selected Multi-antenna Extensions; 10.1 Closed-loop Transmit Diversity in WCDMA; 10.2 More than Two Transmit Antennas; 10.3 Performance; 10.4 Summary; 11 Analysis of Closed-loop Concepts; 11.1 Generalized Feedback Signalling Design; 11.2 Analysis of SNR Gain of the Co-phase Algorithm; 11.3 Analysis of SNR Gain of the Order and Co-phase Algorithm; 11.4 SNR Gain in Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels; 11.5 Errors in Feedback Signalling |
11.6 Feedback Latency |
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Multi-antenna techniques are widely considered to be the most promising avenue for significantly increasing the bandwidth efficiency of wireless data transmission systems. In so called MIMO (multiple input multiple output) systems, multiple antennas are deployed both at the transmitter and the receiver. In MISO (multiple input single output) systems, the receiver has only one antenna, and the multiple transmit antennas are used for transmit diversity.The key aspects of multiple antenna transceiver techniques for evolving 3G systems and beyond are presented. MIMO and MISO (transmit dive |
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