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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785200803321

Autore

Castillo Greg

Titolo

Cold war on the home front [[electronic resource] ] : the soft power of midcentury design / / Greg Castillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8166-7048-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

339.4/709045

Soggetti

Consumer goods - United States - History - 20th century

Consumer goods - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

Capitalism - United States - History - 20th century

Socialism - United States - History - 20th century

Cold War

Propaganda, American

Propaganda, Soviet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; INTRODUCTION: Domesticity as a Weapon; 1 Household Affluence and Its Discontents; 2 Cultural Revolutions in Tandem; 3 Better Living through Modernism; 4 Stalinism by Design; 5 People's Capitalism and Capitalism's People; 6 The Trojan House Goes East; 7 Consuming Socialism; EPILOGUE: Critical Masses; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon squared off on the merits of their respective economic systems. One of the signature events of the cold war, the impromptu Kitchen Debate has been widely viewed as the opening skirmish in a propaganda war over which superpower could provide a better standard of living for its citizens. However, as Greg Castillo shows in Cold War on the Home Front, this debate and the American National Exhibition itself w



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366611103321

Autore

Zhang Wengang

Titolo

MARS Applications in Geotechnical Engineering Systems : Multi-Dimension with Big Data / / by Wengang Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-13-7422-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 240 p. 99 illus., 64 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

624.15

Soggetti

Engineering geology

Engineering—Geology

Foundations

Hydraulics

Geotechnical engineering

Big data

Computer input-output equipment

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics

Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

Big Data

Big Data/Analytics

Input/Output and Data Communications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- MARS methodology -- Simple MARS modeling examples -- MARS use in prediction of collapse potential for compacted soils -- MARS use in prediction of diaphragm wall deflections in soft clays -- MARS use in HP-pile drivability assessment -- MARS use in assessment of soil liquefaction -- MARS use in evaluating entry-type excavation stability -- Summary and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the application of a comparatively simple nonparametric regression algorithm, known as the multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) surrogate model, which can be used to approximate the relationship between the inputs and outputs, and express that relationship mathematically. The book first describes the



MARS algorithm, then highlights a number of geotechnical applications with multivariate big data sets to explore the approach’s generalization capabilities and accuracy. As such, it offers a valuable resource for all geotechnical researchers, engineers, and general readers interested in big data analysis. .