Martins: 201 books
Lizzie and the Redcoat
Stirrings of Revolution in the American Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: Dec. 1764 - May 1766 Tensions simmer in 1765 Boston, home to twelve-year-old Lizzie Murray. Residents of the city are dividing over loyalty to England-and the divisions strike within Lizzie's own family, as her brother and father often find themselves at odds. When a mob wounds a young...
Lydia the Patriot
The Boston Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: 1770 Twelve-year-old Bostonian Lydia Lankford knows in her heart of hearts that the patriot cause is true and just-so why can't other members of her family see that, too? When the Boston Massacre occurs, this fictional colonist finds herself witnessing a spark that helps to ignite the...
Rosa Takes a Chance
Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Time Period: 1934 - 1935 Rosa Sanchez's parents took a chance on their future by emigrating from Mexico to the United States. Now, the ten-year-old takes a chance of her own. She wants to go to school! That's not easy for an immigrant girl in the Texas Panhandle of 1935-and it's even more challenging...
Computational Metrics for Soccer Analysis
Connecting the dots
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides an account of the use of computational tactical metrics in improving sports analysis, in particular the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data in soccer. As well as offering a practical perspective on collective behavioural analysis, it introduces the computational metrics...
The Cultural History of Money and Credit
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present original research into the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth...
by Pui-In Mak (Elvis), Zhicheng Lin, Rui Paulo Martins
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This book provides readers with a state-of-the-art description of techniques to be used for ultra-low-power (ULP) and ultra-low-cost (ULC), short-range wireless receivers. Readers will learn what is required to deploy these receivers in short-range wireless sensor networks, which are proliferating...
Analog Integrated Circuit Design Automation
Placement, Routing and Parasitic Extraction Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book introduces readers to a variety of tools for analog layout design automation. After discussing the placement and routing problem in electronic design automation (EDA), the authors overview a variety of automatic layout generation tools, as well as the most recent advances in analog layout-aware...
by Sai-Weng Sin, Seng-Pan U, Rui Paulo Martins
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) play an important role in most modern signal processing and wireless communication systems where extensive signal manipulation is necessary to be performed by complicated digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry. This trend also creates the possibility of fabricating...
by Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva, Raul D. S. G. Campilho
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
This book deals with the most recent numerical modeling of adhesive joints. Advances in damage mechanics and extended finite element method are described in the context of the Finite Element method with examples of application. The book also introduces the classical continuum mechanics and fracture...
Handheld Total Chemical and Biological Analysis Systems
Bridging NMR, Digital Microfluidics, and Semiconductors
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The book Handheld Total Chemical and Biological Analysis Systems: Bridging NMR, Digital Microfluidics, and Semiconductors centers on the complete design of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) microsystems for in vitro chemical and biological assays based on semiconductor chips and portable magnet. Different...
Defect Evolution in Cosmology and Condensed Matter
Quantitative Analysis with the Velocity-Dependent One-Scale Model
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This book sheds new light on topological defects in widely differing systems, using the Velocity-Dependent One-Scale Model to better understand their evolution. Topological defects – cosmic strings, monopoles, domain walls or others - necessarily form at cosmological (and condensed matter) phase...
Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool (uPATO)
Implementation of Network Measures Based on Adjacency Matrices for Team Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This book introduces the ultimate performance analysis tool (uPATO) as a new software to compute social network metrics in the scope of team sports analysis. The reader will identify the algorithms to test the general properties of the team, the co-dependencies and the centrality levels of players,...
by Pui-In Mak, Rui Paulo Martins
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This book presents high-/mixed-voltage analog and radio frequency (RF) circuit techniques for developing low-cost multistandard wireless receivers in nm-length CMOS processes. Key benefits of high-/mixed-voltage RF and analog CMOS circuits are explained, state-of-the-art examples are studied, and...
6 Love Languages For Her: Attract Him! Addict Him! How To Make A Man Love You! The 25+ Attraction Factor Secrets
How Men Think & What Men Really Want + 19 Rules Every Woman Should Know To Get Him
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Since my first encounters with men, I have been on a mission or better yet on a transformational experience that I call: What is really going on inside his head. yes, it is true, I have been coming through dark times, but finally, I figured it out. I cracked the male love code and turned it into my...