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Analysis and Comparison of National and EU-wide Projections of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, the European Community and its Member States have made commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8% from 1990 levels in the period 2008-2012. Report assesses progress in emission reduction. Examines differences in projections of greenhouse gas reduction based on national vs. European Union-wide data.

Options that can contribute to GHG mitigation in 2010 have been characterised Primes is a partial equilibrium model of the by reduction potential , investment cost , energy and economic system of the operation and maintenance ...

A Comparison of the Treatment of Racism in Selected Novels by Mildred D. Taylor and that of Several Widely Used Middle School American History Textbooks

He reminds David that the economic system does not allow the equal participation of African Americans when he says , “ But , you can't sell all these logs , David ” ( p . 45 ) . B. Examples of Resistance and / or Resilience 1.

Dar Al Islam--the Mediterranean, the World System and the Wider Europe

The Chain of Peripheries and the New Wider Europe

With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at a positive and co-operative relationship with the region. A successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace. World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems analysis, economics, integration theory, political science, theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of peace, co-operation, dialogue and stability in the framework of world centre-periphery relationships.

With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how ...

Christian Worship Worldwide

Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices

As Christianity has boomed in the non-Western world, several significant questions have emerged regarding how worship and culture relate. Charles Farhadian here presents a timely investigation of the interaction between culture and worship. Leading scholars -- experts in history, mission, culture, and liturgy -- offer diverse essays addressing worship in the context of worldwide Christianity. At the heart of Christian Worship Worldwide are several case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific that explore the contours of particular nations, cultures, and liturgical actions. These essays show how Christian plurality is most vividly exemplified in the context of worship, where language, song, culture, and indigenous theology come together. Contributors: M. L. Daneel Samuel Escobar Charles E. Farhadian C. Michael Hawn Seung Joong Joo Ogbu U. Kalu Thomas A. Kane Miguel A. Palomino Robert J. Priest Dana L. Robert Lamin Sanneh Bryan D. Spinks Andrew F. Walls Philip L. Wickeri John D. Witvliet

These essays show how Christian plurality is most vividly exemplified in the context of worship, where language, song, culture, and indigenous theology come together.

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telaah tentang fenomena dan fakta-fakta sosial finding fact pendidikan sosiologi dalam perspektif lokalisme dan globalisme

Non-Maximally Decimated Filter Bank and Its Applications in Wideband Signal Processing

Throughput, spectral efficiency and power consumption are the three major factors that drive the evolution of the communication systems. The data rate of modern wireless communication has increased from 10 kb/s (1995 narrow band GSM) to over 100 Mb/s (2015 LTE Advanced) in just twenty years. The data rate of the wired communication has reached more than 2 Gb/s to accommodate the fast growing cellular data rates. The Moore's law is still in effect and the wideband communication era continues to become more entrenched in our daily lives! Dealing with wideband signals poses great challenges to our existing signal processing approaches. At a high sample rate, i.e., GHz level, any non-trivial signal processing, e.g., digital filtering, may saturate the processing resources. This is because the signal's sample rate has become comparable to the hardware's clock rate! At such high rate, significant amount of hardware resources or parallelism is needed to execute the required number of multiply and accumulation operations. This phenomenon is the bottleneck in our further pursuit of higher data rate communication and will raise the hardware cost significantly. This dissertation tackles several challenging wideband signal processing problems in communication system design. In particular, we propose the non-maximally decimated filter bank (NMDFB) based digital filtering approach. A key attribute of this structure is that the filtering is achieved via the intermediated processing element (IPE) embedded in between a pair of analysis and synthesis NMDFB. The polyphase implementation of NMDFB has its workload on the same order as the FFT and is thus extremely efficient. This type of digital filter implementation not only allows the signal processing to be performed at a significantly reduced sampling rate but also exhibits significant savings in power consumption over the conventional approaches. The NMDFB based processing supports many if not all of the commonly used filtering tasks in communications, and therefore can be used to implement a wideband receiver. We demonstrate this by developing a NMDFB based efficient linear / non-linear equalization techniques for single carrier QAM signal. We also address the carrier and symbol timing synchronization problems based on NMDFB approach. Besides the filtering tasks, the NMDFB based architecture also enables several key signal processing tasks required by the future's communication systems. We show NMDFB can be used as the basis of an efficient wideband diversity combiner over frequency selective channels. We also demonstrate advanced channelization technique based on NMDFB. Unlike the existing channelizers that often pose constrains on either signal format or signal spectrum, the proposed channelizer is able to channelize multiple signals with arbitrary center frequency, arbitrary bandwidth and arbitrary format.

At a high sample rate, i.e., GHz level, any non-trivial signal processing, e.g., digital filtering, may saturate the processing resources. This is because the signal's sample rate has become comparable to the hardware's clock rate!