Audio Compression using Multiple Transformation Techniques

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? This book provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. The book melds cultural anthropology and psychiatry. Through the stories of ministry converts, the book examines key elements of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of other-worldliness. It then reconstructs the ministries' strategies of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts' reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial “culture of disposability.” By contrasting the ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, the book rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries.

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Optimal Bit Layering for Scalable Audio Compression Using Objective Audio Quality Metrics

2007 Conference Record of the Forty-First Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers ◽

10.1109/acssc.2007.4487275 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Srivatsan Kandadai ◽

Charles D. Creusere

Keyword(s):

Quality Metrics ◽

Audio Compression ◽

Audio Quality

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TRANSFORMATION OF NESTED LOOPS WITH MODULO INDEXING TO AFFINE RECURRENCES

Parallel Processing Letters ◽

10.1142/s0129626494000260 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 04 (03) ◽

pp. 271-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

FLORIN BALASA ◽

FRANK H.M. FRANSSEN ◽

FRANCKY V.M. CATTHOOR ◽

HUGO J. DE MAN

Keyword(s):

Code Generation ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Transformation Method ◽

Control Flow ◽

Code Optimization ◽

Transformation Techniques ◽

Hermite Normal Form ◽

Nested Loops ◽

Affine Functions ◽

Systems Transformation

For multi-dimensional (M-D) signal and data processing systems, transformation of algorithmic specifications is a major instrument both in code optimization and code generation for parallelizing compilers and in control flow optimization as a preprocessor for architecture synthesis. State-of-the-art transformation techniques are limited to affine index expressions. This is however not sufficient for many important applications in image, speech and numerical processing. In this paper, a novel transformation method is introduced, oriented to the subclass of algorithm specifications that contains modulo expressions of affine functions to index M-D signals. The method employs extensively the concept of Hermite normal form. The transformation method can be carried out in polynomial time, applying only integer arithmetic.

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Local transformation techniques for multi-level logic circuits utilizing circuit symmetries for power reduction

Proceedings. 1998 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (IEEE Cat. No.98TH8379) ◽

10.1145/280756.280904 ◽

1998 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ki-Seok Chung ◽

C. L. Liu

Keyword(s):

Logic Circuits ◽

Power Reduction ◽

Local Transformation ◽

Transformation Techniques ◽

Multi Level

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Vertical soil-structure interaction effects

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ◽

10.1785/bssa0690010221 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 221-236

Author(s):

R. R. Little ◽

D. D. Raftopoulos

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Power ◽

Soil Structure ◽

Power Plants ◽

Structural Model ◽

Free Field ◽

Interaction Effects ◽

Soil Structure Interaction ◽

Response Curves ◽

Transformation Techniques ◽

Structure Interaction

abstract An analytical expression describing the three-dimensional vertical soil-structure interaction effects is developed using Laplace and Hankel transformation techniques. Utilizing these transformation techniques and normal mode theory of vibration, an N-mass structural model is coupled to an elastic half-space representing the earth. The resulting interaction equation is solved by numerical iteration techniques for a model of a nuclear power plant subjected to actual earthquake ground excitation. The effects of the soil-structure interaction are evaluated by comparing free-field acceleration spectrum response curves with similar curves determined from the foundation motion. These effects are found to be significant for structures typical of modern nuclear power plants subjected to seismic ground motions.

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