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Complex raw materials and manufacturing processes mean the textile
industry is particularly dependent on good process control to
produce high and consistent product quality. Monitoring and
controlling process variables during the textile manufacturing
process also minimises waste, costs and environmental impact.
Process control in textile manufacturing provides an important
overview of the fundamentals and applications of process control
methods.
Part one introduces key issues associated with process control and
principles of control systems in textile manufacturing. Testing and
statistical quality control are also discussed before part two goes
on to consider control in fibre production and yarn manufacture.
Chapters review process and quality control in natural and
synthetic textile fibre cultivation, blowroom, carding, drawing and
combing. Process control in ring and rotor spinning and maintenance
of yarn spinning machines are also discussed. Finally part three
explores process control in the manufacture of knitted, woven,
nonwoven textiles and colouration and finishing, with a final
discussion of process control in apparel manufacturing.
With its distinguished editors and international team of expert
contributors, Process control in textile manufacturing is an
essential guide for textile engineers and manufacturers involved in
the processing of textiles, as well as academic researchers in this
field.
Provides an important overview of the fundamentals and applications
of process control methodsDiscusses key issues associated with
process control and principles of control systems in textile
manufacturing, before addressing testing and statistical quality
controlExplores process control in the manufacture of knitted,
woven, nonwoven textiles and colouration and finishing, with a
discussion on process control in apparel manufacturing
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Peace and War in Josephus
Viktor KĂłkai-Nagy, Ădám VĂ©r
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Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against
Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the
imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict.
But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life
of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late
Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a
central role in his second book. A broader theme could hardly have
been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the
diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022
at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in
Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took
up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada),
Jiřà HoblĂk (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues:
Tibor GrĂĽll, Ădám VĂ©r, JĂłzsef ZsengellĂ©r, István Karasszon,
and Viktor KĂłkai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are
complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay
(Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA).
Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary
context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.
This volume of the Bioenergy Plants compendium contains a
collection of chapters that focus on the history, economics, and
practical sciences related to sugarcane. As one of the key biofuel
crops in the world that is under large-scale cultivation, sugarcane
is attracting interests for its adoption and emulation worldwide.
With a high ratio of energy output to input for its production,
sugarcane-derived bioethanol currently has the lowest carbon
footprint as a renewable fuel product. Comprehensive chapters
explore all the essential aspects of sugarcane's origin as a crop,
its limitations, and current efforts for its improvement through
traditional breeding, and biochemical and molecular approaches.
Importantly, experts in the economic and social science areas also
provide key insights as to how forces in the policy and human
dimensions intimately interact with geographic factors to help
shape the sugarcane crop's potential for deployment as well as its
future impact on the energy sector.
This book discusses computational complexity of High Efficiency
Video Coding (HEVC) encoders with coverage extending from the
analysis of HEVC compression efficiency and computational
complexity to the reduction and scaling of its encoding complexity.
After an introduction to the topic and a review of the
state-of-the-art research in the field, the authors provide a
detailed analysis of the HEVC encoding tools compression efficiency
and computational complexity. Readers will benefit from a set of
algorithms for scaling the computational complexity of HEVC
encoders, all of which take advantage from the flexibility of the
frame partitioning structures allowed by the standard. The authors
also provide a set of early termination methods based on data
mining and machine learning techniques, which are able to reduce
the computational complexity required to find the best frame
partitioning structures. The applicability of the proposed methods
is finally exemplified with an encoding time control system that
employs the best complexity reduction and scaling methods presented
throughout the book. The methods presented in this book are
especially useful in power-constrained, portable multimedia devices
to reduce energy consumption and to extend battery life. They can
also be applied to portable and non-portable multimedia devices
operating in real time with limited computational resources.
This book discusses computational complexity of High Efficiency
Video Coding (HEVC) encoders with coverage extending from the
analysis of HEVC compression efficiency and computational
complexity to the reduction and scaling of its encoding complexity.
After an introduction to the topic and a review of the
state-of-the-art research in the field, the authors provide a
detailed analysis of the HEVC encoding tools compression efficiency
and computational complexity. Readers will benefit from a set of
algorithms for scaling the computational complexity of HEVC
encoders, all of which take advantage from the flexibility of the
frame partitioning structures allowed by the standard. The authors
also provide a set of early termination methods based on data
mining and machine learning techniques, which are able to reduce
the computational complexity required to find the best frame
partitioning structures. The applicability of the proposed methods
is finally exemplified with an encoding time control system that
employs the best complexity reduction and scaling methods presented
throughout the book. The methods presented in this book are
especially useful in power-constrained, portable multimedia devices
to reduce energy consumption and to extend battery life. They can
also be applied to portable and non-portable multimedia devices
operating in real time with limited computational resources.
Volume 42 of "Progress in Drug Research" contains seven reviews and
the various indexes which facilitate its use and establish the con
nection with the previous volumes. The articles in this volume deal
with organization and management of drug research; luteinizing hor
mone regulators; natural products as anticancer agents; flavonoids
and their pharmacological activity; serenics in the control of
mental disturbances; Transfer Factor and its application and with
Transfer Factor in malignancy. In the 34 years that "Progress in
Drug Research" has existed, the Edi tor has enjoyed the valuable
help and advice of many colleagues. Readers, the authors of the
reviews, and last but not least, the review ers have all
contributed greatly to the success of this series. Although the
comments received so far have generally been favorable, it is
nevertheless necessary to analyze and to reassess the current
position and the future direction of such a review series. So far,
it has been the Editors intention to help disseminate informa tion
on the vast domain of drug research, and to provide the reader with
a tool with which to keep abreast of the latest developments and
trends. The reviews in PDR are useful to the non-specialists, who
can obtain an overview of a particular field of drug research in a
rela tively short time."
This volume of the Bioenergy Plants compendium contains a
collection of chapters that focus on the history, economics, and
practical sciences related to sugarcane. As one of the key biofuel
crops in the world that is under large-scale cultivation, sugarcane
is attracting interests for its adoption and emulation worldwide.
With a high ratio of energy output to input for its production,
sugarcane-derived bioethanol currently has the lowest carbon
footprint as a renewable fuel product. Comprehensive chapters
explore all the essential aspects of sugarcane's origin as a crop,
its limitations, and current efforts for its improvement through
traditional breeding, and biochemical and molecular approaches.
Importantly, experts in the economic and social science areas also
provide key insights as to how forces in the policy and human
dimensions intimately interact with geographic factors to help
shape the sugarcane crop's potential for deployment as well as its
future impact on the energy sector.
What can epistemology tell us about love? Here two philosophers use
their training in arguments and reasoning to uncover the role of
ungrounded beliefs when we fall in love. This not a self-help book,
it is a philosophy book. Free of advice, methods and strategies for
being successful in love, it does not offer solutions for problems.
What it gives us instead is a reading of love as it actually is.
The authors illustrate the fallacies of love by drawing on personal
experiences, literary characters and imaginary individuals. They
provide examples of ungrounded beliefs in Aesop’s Fables,
Cinderella and Don Giovanni amongst others, and illustrate love as
an inexhaustible source of misperceptions, misunderstandings and
misconceptions. By tackling those characteristic and all-too
familiar ways in which ungrounded love beliefs arise, the book
forces us to question why baseless beliefs are maintained and
reinforced, showing us that many love beliefs are built on anything
but logic.
Uniquely reflects an engineering view to social systems in a wide
variety of contexts of application Social Systems Engineering: The
Design of Complexity brings together a wide variety of application
approaches to social systems from an engineering viewpoint. The
book defines a social system as any complex system formed by human
beings. Focus is given to the importance of systems intervention
design for specific and singular settings, the possibilities of
engineering thinking and methods, the use of computational models
in particular contexts, and the development of portfolios of
solutions. Furthermore, this book considers both technical, human
and social perspectives, which are crucial to solving complex
problems. Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity
provides modelling examples to explore the design aspect of social
systems. Various applications are explored in a variety of areas,
such as urban systems, health care systems, socio-economic systems,
and environmental systems. It covers important topics such as
organizational design, modelling and intervention in socio-economic
systems, participatory and/or community-based modelling,
application of systems engineering tools to social problems,
applications of computational behavioral modeling, computational
modelling and management of complexity, and more. Highlights
an engineering view to social systems (as opposed to a
“scientific” view) that stresses the importance of systems
intervention design for specific and singular settings Divulges
works where the design, re-design, and transformation of social
systems constitute the main aim, and where joint considerations of
both technical and social perspectives are deemed important in
solving social problems Features an array of applied cases that
illustrate the application of social systems engineering in
different domains Social Systems Engineering: The Design of
Complexity is an excellent text for academics and graduate students
in engineering and social science—specifically, economists,
political scientists, anthropologists, and management scientists
with an interest in finding systematic ways to intervene and
improve social systems.
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter
contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past,
even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of
subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from
the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the
record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan
al-Tawhidi to the philosopher and historian Abu 'Ali Miskawayh.
Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering
of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic
world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth
century. The correspondence between al-Tawhidi and Miskawayh holds
a mirror to many of the debates and preoccupations of the time and
reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their
era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two
thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments
as by the very different trajectories of their professional
careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, wondering and brooding,
trivial and profound, al-Tawhidi’s questions provoke an
interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content.
This new edition of The Philosopher Responds is accompanied by the
first full-length English translation of this important text,
bringing this interaction to life for the English reader. A
bilingual Arabic-English edition.
The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the early 1980s and its
subsequent rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in
society. The illness itself and its effects on society have also
caused manifold responses by artists and activists in many
countries. United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an
extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism
and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Zurich's Migros Museum of
Contemporary Art (Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst), sheds light
on the multi-faceted and complex interrelation between art and
HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. It examines the blurred
boundaries between art production and HIV/AIDS activism and
showcases artists who played - and still play - leading roles in
this discourse. Alongside images of artworks and brief texts on the
represented artists, the book features voices from the past and
present. Essays by Douglas Crimp, Alexander Garcia Duttmann,
Raphael Gygax, Elsa Himmer, Ted Kerr, Elisabeth Lebovici ,and Nurja
Ritter broaden the view of the international discourse on HIV/AIDS
and society's confrontation with the disease.
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter
contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past,
even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of
subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from
the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the
record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan
al-Tawhidi to the philosopher and historian Abu 'Ali Miskawayh.
Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering
of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic
world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth
century. The correspondence between al-Tawhidi and Miskawayh holds
a mirror to many of the debates and preoccupations of the time and
reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their
era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two
thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments
as by the very different trajectories of their professional
careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, wondering and brooding,
trivial and profound, al-Tawhidi’s questions provoke an
interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content.
This new edition of The Philosopher Responds is accompanied by the
first full-length English translation of this important text,
bringing this interaction to life for the English reader. A
bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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Jugend ohne Gott
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