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Home in India (Hardcover)
Andrew Mills; Foreword by Deenabandhu Manchala
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R875
Discovery Miles 8 750
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book is a practical introduction to the safe operation and
control of critical systems in defense, industrial, and healthcare
applications. It highlights system engineering processes and
presents an overview of the equipment health monitoring (EHM)
functional architecture and algorithm design. The book also
explores machine learning functions, such as feature extraction,
data visualization and model boundaries. The need for intelligent
diagnostics and proposed health monitoring framework is
increasingly important within sensing technology, big data
analytics and grid capabilities. This resource, packed with case
studies from industrial and healthcare settings, identifies key
problems along with various techniques that address the current
issues as well as future developments in the field. A MATLAB code
is included to assist engineers with projects in the field.
Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors
and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However,
the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic
arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects
this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they
deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most
strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the
world, showcase a society's most complex technologies, and encode a
wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict,
cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume
brings together an international collective of museum
professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and
material culture specialists to address the historical role of
weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the
value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural
histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to
ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return
ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In
doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future
treatment of world weaponry.
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