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... examines, and oftendocuments the pattern of shifting individ-ual actions, roles, and responsibilities in public space. In all of these works, Arendt’sinsistent appeal for thinking and seeingparticipation ... culable, the project’s denouement, determined by the actions of thousands of individuals,remains a data-producing, open-ended experiment in public life.Striking intellectuality, balanced with intense ... is the author of these random, interac-tive passages? Is it the artists, the computer’s vast combinatory capacity, students andfaculty, or other members of the public? Just who is doing the...
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... the password file maintains the mapping between login names and user IDs, and the group file provides the mappingbetween group names and group IDs. The ls -l command, for example, prints the ... groups. These supplementary group IDs areobtained at login time by reading the file /etc/group and finding the first 16 entries that list the user as a member. As we shall see inthe next ... http://www.processtext.com/abcchm.htmlIntroductionThis book describes the programming interface to the Unix systemthe system call interfaceand many of the functions provided inthe standard C library. It is intended for...
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... Unix during the 1980s has been tempered by the various international standards that were s tarted during the late 1980s.These include the A NSI standard for the C programming language, the IEEE ... Henning/Steve V inoski, Advanced CORBA® Programming with C++Brian W. Kernighan/Rob Pike, The Practice of ProgrammingS. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the ... pathname when the first argument is the working direc tory, so we specify the root as the first argument and add 1 to the result. If pa t hc on f indicates thatPA TH _ MA X is indeterminate, we...
... benefit of the reader it is useful to consider how theworkin this thesis fits into the big picture of wireless communications. The main reason for interest in this thesis topic lies in its application ... combining (all ak = 1). In general, maximal ratio combining provides the best performance gain, followed by equal gain combining and selection diversity for the same number of paths in a ... presented in Chapter 5. Knowing these mechanisms and attempting to apply them to observed results is the first step in truly gaining a physical understanding of the wireless channel. 1.3 Thesis...
... Vietnam has been starting industrialization, modernization course since 1990s. The main target is to convert Vietnam into industrialized country by the year of 2020, whereas the industrial and construction ... Industrialization has been resulting in intensive urbanization. Urban population in 1990 was only 19% of the total population, while the ratio has increased up to 29.6% in 2009, and, is being ... management in Vietnam over last years. The paper also provides recommendations for the actions in environmental protection, pollution prevention as well as environment quality improvement inthe coming...
... Regionalism inthe pre-UNCLOS III law of the sea The law of the sea is inherently global. The International Law Com-mission assumed as much in its codification of the subject inthe 1950s; and the words ... definition of a marine region. It does,however introduce the idea of integrating the protection of the marine and coastal environment, requiring states to manage the marine environment and adjacentland ... understanding of the law relating to the protection of the marine environmentin polar regions.6191For discussion of these matters see in particular the Introductory overview and Chapters 4–6 in thisbook....
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