Case Studies in Mathematical Modelling for Medical Devices: How Pulse Oximeters and Doppler Ultrasound Fetal Heart Rate Monitors Work focuses on two medical devices: pulse oximeters and Doppler ultrasound fetal heart rate monitors. The mathematical topics needed to explain their operation from first principles are introduced. These broadly cover the statistics of random processes and Fourier based signal processing. They are used to explain the devices' operation from first principles to h...

Set in the volatile decade of the 1960s, "FSU's Sons of the Sixties: A Case For the Defense" provides an insider's peek into the work, sweat, tears, challenges, and joy of being a college athlete at Florida State University. This book is not just a nostalgic trip down college football's memory lane; it is a compilation of gridiron stories about a group of stellar defensive athletes and coaches who helped define a decade of success for the Seminoles of Florida State.The aspiring ath...

Life is a race. Most people are pedaling uphill on a bicycle with a flat tire, sweating for a participation trophy.You? You're smarter than that.Easy Win! is not a polite business manual. It is a manifesto for the smart-ass. It is a whispered collection of cheat codes for the creative jungle, handed down by the enigmatic John Crow—a man who has survived three decades of recessions, bubbles, and bad clients without ever breaking a sweat.This guide will not teach you ...

Die Gegenwart als kataklystisches Trauma-Gedächtnis.Die Zukunft als dystopisch unverheilte, tiefe Verwundung.Die Zahl 17 als biblische Zahl der Zerstörung …17 Autorinnen und Autoren erschufen – auf der Grundlage vollkommener künstlerischer Freiheit – eine Anthologie gespiegelter Szenarien, eine Anthologie, die ebenso ein neuzeitlicher Fleischfresser wie ein avantgardistisch vorbeischleichender Schatten ist. Literarischer Fortschritt und literarische Setzkasten-Gewissh...

An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of feminist criticism, postcolonial theory, queer theory, new historicism, and more....

In a world starved for certainty, one voice promises the ultimate truth. The Cultmaker Bible is a provocative, sharp-edged guide to power, faith, and human desire — equal parts revelation and warning. Written with biting wit and unnerving insight, it dares you to question who leads, who follows, and what belief is really worth.

Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”-from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors  of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence...

Rule them. Win. Become Grand High.My name is Hector Briar, and I live for revenge. It's been eighteen years since Witch Hunters murdered my parents, and still, the night haunts me. A part of me died that night when six-year-old me was forced to listen to their brutal murder. Since then, I've gone from prey to predator. I spend my nights stalking Oxford's streets for those who'd see me slaughtered for being what I am. A witch. And more than that, the son of the last...

Stan Coren’s groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich’s classic Mind of the Raven in this astonishing, beautifully illustrated look at the uncanny intelligence and emotions of crows.Playful, social, and passionate, crows have brains that are huge for their body size, which allows them to think, plan, and reconsider their actions. They also exhibit an avian kind of eloquence, mate for life, and associate with relatives and neigh...

Jesus is the divine Son of God who has taken on human nature in the incarnation. And as prophet, priest, and king, he leads his people in a new exodus. In The Lord Jesus Christ, Brandon D. Crowe reflects on Christ's person and work. Crowe traces christological concerns throughout the Old and New Testaments and church history and then presents systematic and practical implications. Through a combination of biblical, historical, and theological study, Crowe provides a fresh and robu...

Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the modern democratic social and political order? This volume consists of essays by political theori...

An Ariel Moravec Occult Mystery, #4Returning to Adocentyn after an unpleasant Christmas with her parents, 18-year-old Ariel Moravec is eager to study more magic with her adept grandfather. But she barely has time to arrive before she's investigating her newest mystery: a haunting even professional ghost hunters couldn't solve.One of the old mansions south of Coopers Bay is haunted by the ghost of an old woman with a cane, who is only seen by moonlight. Behind tha...