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The article reviews the book "Scientific Writing and Communication Papers, Proposals, and Presentations," by Angelika H. Hofmann.

Reviews the book `Neural Networks Papers on the Internet,' by Wlodzislaw Duch.

Reviews the book "Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces," by Carolyn Snyder.

The article reviews Jeannine Mosely's exhibition to be held at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, and at the Siggraph 2008 Convention in Los Angeles on August.

Reviews the book 'The Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software,' by Larry L. Constantine.

In this paper, the effects of oscillator phase noise (PN) with arbitrary spectral characteristics on the self-interference (SI) cancelation capability of a full-duplex radio (FDR) transceiver are addressed, and design considerations for optimized phase-locked loop (PLL) design in FDR are given. This paper first presents a full-duplex transceiver model that inherently mitigates most of the phase-noise effects from the SI signal. The remaining effect of the PN is then analyzed, and closed-form expressions for the SI power are derived. In the simulations part, a practical PLL-type oscillator is used, which is based on the arbitrary mask phase-noise model. Analytical derivations are verified with the simulations, and the SI cancelation performance is thoroughly studied with various parameters. Design considerations are finally given for oscillator design in FDR transceivers, with the help of tangible parameters of the PLL-type oscillators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Software engineering (SE) is a multidimensional field that involves activities in various areas and disciplines, such as computer science, project management, and system engineering. Though modern SE curricula include designated courses that address these various subjects, an advanced summary course that synthesizes them is still missing. Such a course would enable young practitioners to get a comprehensive description of SE, to experience a genuine software development process, and to appreciate the relations and tradeoffs between the various domains of SE. This paper proposes a multidimensional SE course framework aimed at giving SE students just such comprehensive, cross-paradigm, practical, and theoretical experience and background. The course is organized along four axes: a) fundamentals of SE; b) practices and tools; c) productization; and d) technology evolution. Each of these axes, in themselves multifaceted, enables an examination of SE on various scales and from different perspectives; together they create a holistic multidimensional description of SE. The course is evaluated according to accepted criteria highlighting the course scope, pedagogic decisions, and relevance. The authors also describe their experience of teaching the course three times in the Tel Aviv University and the academic college of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a fast codebook search method for improving the quantization complexity of full-search vector quantization (VQ). The proposed method is built on the planar Voronoi diagram to label a ripple search domain. Then, the appropriate codeword can easily be found just by searching the local region instead of global exploration. In order to take a step further and obtain the close result full-search VQ would, we equip the proposed method with a duplication mechanism that helps to bring down the possible quantizing distortion to its lowest level. According to the experimental results, the proposed method is indeed capable of providing better outcome at a faster quantization speed than the existing partial-search methods. Moreover, the proposed method only requires a little extra storage for duplication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two-dimensional (2-D) prolate spheroidal wave function (2-D PSWF) method was previously introduced as an efficient method for trading off between spatial and temporal resolution in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with minimal penalty due to truncation and partial volume effects. In the 2-D PSWF method, the k-space sampling area and a matching 2-D PSWF filter, with optimal signal concentration and minimal truncation artifacts, are determined by the shape and size of a given convex region of interest (ROI). The spatial information in the reduced k-space data is used to calculate the total image intensity over a nonsquare ROI instead of producing a low-resolution image. This method can be used for tracking dynamic signals from non-square ROIs using a reduced k-space sampling area, while achieving minimal signal leakage. However, the previous theory is limited to the case of rectilinear sampling. In order to make the 2-D PSWF method more suitable for dynamic studies, this paper presents a generalized version of the 2-D PSWF theory that can be applied to nonrectilinear data acquisition methods. The method is applied to an fMRI study using a spiral trajectory, which illustrates the methods efficiency at tracking hemodynamic signals with high temporal resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This book is a compendium of papers edited by Ahmed S. Khan, an educator and researcher at DeVry University in Addison, IL, U.S.A. DeVry University, whose presence now is mainly but not exclusively online, is a descendant of the former DeVry Technical Institute. The same kinds of technology that enable us to put billions of transistors on a single chip have led to the ability to make increasingly complex nanostructures for a wide variety of other uses, ranging from electronics to chemistry and medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book 'Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L. Parnas,' edited by David M. Weiss and Daniel M. Hoffman.

The article reviews the book "Study Skills: A Student Survival Guide," by Kathryn L. Allen.

The article reviews the book "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance," by Henry Petroski.