| Description |
xviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-231) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- ch. 1. The War on noise -- 1.1. Noise is an unwanted signal -- 1.2. The noise-signal duality : one person's signal is another person's noise -- 1.3. Information theory made a science out of the war on noise -- 1.4. Channel noise randomly flips bits -- 1.5. Noise limits channel capacity -- 1.6. Noise can sometimes help -- ch. 2. Noise is a nuisance -- 2.1. Noise is a private nuisance if it substantially and unreasonably interferes with someone's use and enjoyment of land -- 2.2. Noise is a public nuisance if it substantially interferes with a right common to the public -- 2.3. E-mail spam counts as a cyber-noise nuisance -- ch. 3. The nuisance that defers -- 3.1. Noise-induced hearing loss is a common health hazard -- 3.2. Noise can damage the inner ear's frequency detectors -- 3.3. Noise increases stress -- 3.4. Noise can harm simpler animals -- |
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ch. 4. White noise ain't so white -- 4.1. White noise is independent in time and has a flat spectrum, and so is physically impossible -- 4.2. There are infinitely many types of white noise -- 4.3. Most noise is impulsive -- 4.4 Chaos and fuzz can produce white noise -- 4.5. Real noise is colored noise because its frequency spectrum is not flat -- 4.6. Thermal noise fills the universe -- 4.7. Even black holes emit noise, and die -- ch. 5. Fighting noise with noise -- 5.1. The ideal low-pass filter resembles wideband noise in digital sampling -- 5.2. Noise helps shape the spectrum of signals -- 5.3. Noise cancellers learn noise patterns to annihilate them -- 5.4. Delilah's secret : wireless signals can hide in noise -- ch. 6. The zen of noise : stochastic resonance -- 6.1. Many physical and biological systems display a stochastic resonance noise benefit because they are nonlinear systems -- 6.2. The "forbidden interval" theorem : model neurons benefit from noise if the average noise lies outside the "forbidden interval" -- 6.3. Noise can benefit nanosystems and the molecular motors of life -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Noise.
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Noise -- Social aspects.
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Signal processing.
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| ISBN |
0670034959 |
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9780670034956 |
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