1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910372748603321

Autore

Oschema Klaus

Titolo

Making the Medieval Relevant : How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present / / Conor Kostick, Chris Jones, Klaus Oschema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-054648-5

3-11-054631-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297)

Collana

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; ; 6

Classificazione

NM 1300

Disciplina

909.07

Soggetti

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Medieval history

Society & social sciences

Gender studies, gender groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Why Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe -- Providing Reliable Data? Combining Scientific and Historical Perspectives on Flooding Events in Medieval and Early Modern Nuremberg (1400-1800) -- Medieval History, Explosive Volcanism, and the Geoengineering Debate -- The Middle Ages in the Genetics Lab -- Could Medieval Medicine Help the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance? -- The Contemporary Delegitimization of (Medieval) History - and of the Traditional University Curriculum as a Whole -- Pacific Perspectives: Why study Europe's Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand? -- How to be a Time Traveller: Exploring Venice with a Fifteenth-Century Pilgrimage Guide -- Heaven Can Tell . . . Late Medieval Astrologers as Experts - and what they can Teach us about Contemporary Financial Expertise -- Eoin MacNeill's Early Medieval Ireland: A Scholarship for Politics or a Politics of Scholarship? -- What's in a Word? Naming 'Muslims' in Medieval Christian Iberia -- The



Enduring Power of the Cult of Relics - an Irish Perspective -- Resilience and Society in Medieval Southampton: An Archaeological Approach to Anticipatory Action, Politics, and Economy -- Studying the Middle Ages: Historical Food for Thought in the Present Day -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Medieval Studies have potential repercussions and value far beyond the boundaries of the Middles Ages. These chapters are powerful demonstrations of the value of medieval research to our own times, both in terms of providing answers to some of the specific questions facing humanity today and in terms of much broader considerations. Taken together, the research presented here also provides readers with confidence in the fact that Medieval Studies cannot be neglected without a great loss to the understanding of what it means to be human.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOUBO1207267

Autore

Raven, Francis Harvey <1928-    >

Titolo

Automatic control engineering / Francis H. Raven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [etc.], : McGraw-Hill, c1995

ISBN

0070513414

0071136398

Edizione

[5. ed]

Descrizione fisica

XV, 619 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Collana

McGraw-Hill series in mechanical engineering

Disciplina

629.8

629.83

Soggetti

Controlli automatici

Sistemi di controllo automatici

Collocazione

SALA DING 629.8                   RAV.au

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910410034703321

Titolo

Advanced Materials : Proceedings of the International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2019 / / edited by Ivan A. Parinov, Shun-Hsyung Chang, Banh Tien Long

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-45120-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (628 pages)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Materials, , 2662-3161 ; ; 6

Disciplina

620.11

Soggetti

Building materials

Nanoscience

Nanostructures

Electrochemistry

Semiconductors

Nanotechnology

Ceramics

Glass

Composite materials

Structural Materials

Nanoscale Science and Technology

Nanotechnology and Microengineering

Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Influence of Composition and Structure of Pt-Based Electrocatalysts on Their Durability in Different Conditions of Stress-Test -- Investigation of the Effect of Different Organic Additives on Morphology and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum Nanomaterials towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions -- Investigation of the Effect of Different Organic Additives on Morphology and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum Nanomaterials towards Oxygen Reduction Reactions -- Morphology



and Structure of Carbon Nanoparticles Generated from Graphite Nitrate Co-intercalation Compound. Effect of Sonication Regime.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents selected peer-reviewed contributions from the 2019 International Conference on “Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications”, PHENMA 2019 (Hanoi, Vietnam, 7–10 November, 2019), divided into four scientific themes: processing techniques, physics, mechanics, and applications of advanced materials. The book describes a broad spectrum of promising nanostructures, crystals, materials and composites with special properties. It presents nanotechnology approaches, modern environmentally friendly techniques and physical-chemical and mechanical studies of the structural-sensitive and physical–mechanical properties of materials. The obtained results are based on new achievements in material sciences and computational approaches, methods and algorithms (in particular, finite-element and finite-difference modeling) applied to the solution of different technological, mechanical and physical problems. The obtained results have a significant interest for theory, modeling and test of advanced materials. Other results are devoted to promising devices demonstrating high accuracy, longevity and new opportunities to work effectively under critical temperatures and high pressures, in aggressive media, etc. These devices demonstrate improved comparative characteristics, caused by developed materials and composites, allowing investigation of physio-mechanical processes and phenomena based on scientific and technological progress.