This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...

This brief presents a reconfigurable fast filter bank (RFFB) with less gate counts for wireless communication applications such as spectrum sensing and channelization. This is designed with an improved modified frequency transformation-based variable digital filter (MFTVDF) at the first stage of the multistage implementation. The low-pass MFT-VDF offers unabridged control over the cutoff freque...

Microfinance in China has entered the phase of rapid development and it has become one of the most important businesses in commercial banks. According to the principals of low carbon economy and the characteristics of farmer microfinance of Chinese commercial bank, this paper designed the performance evaluation system and evaluated the performance of small and micro businesses microfinance. In ...

This brief presents a reconfigurable fast filter bank (RFFB) with less gate counts for wireless communication applications such as spectrum sensing and channelization. RFFB offers fine control over subband bandwidth without any reimplementation. This is accomplished with an improved modified frequency transformation-based variable digital filter (MFTVDF) at the first stage of the multistage imp...

In this paper a bank of velocity filters is devised to be used for isolating a moving object with specific velocity in a sequence of frames. The approach used is a 3-D FFT based experimental procedure without applying any theoretical concept from velocity filters. Accordingly, velocity filters are built using the spectral signature of each separate moving object. Experimentation reveals the cap...

The history of technology and banking is examined as it relates to risk and technological determinism. It is proposed that the services that banks offer are determined by technology and that banks must adopt new technologies to be competitive. The adoption of technologies paradoxically forces the adoption of other new technologies to protect the bank from the increased risk of technology. This ...