A to Z world superstitions and folklore [[electronic resource] ] : 175 countries : spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and the dead, animals, food, marriage, good luck, bad luck, totems and amulets and ancestor spirits / / Sibylla Putzi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455546903321
• Autore: Putzi-Ortiz Sibylla
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Petaluma, : World Trade Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-18456-3; 9786612184567; 1-60780-119-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 398.06
• Soggetti: Folklore; Superstition; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: A to Z World Superstitions and Folklore; Table of Contents; Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Central African Republic; Chad; Chechnya; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic of Congo; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; EritreaEstonia; Ethiopia; Fiji; Finland; France; French Guiana; Gabon; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kosovo; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macau; Macedonia; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Malta; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Moldova; Mongolia; Morocco; Mozambique; ; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; NicaraguaNiger; Nigeria; North Korea; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Qatar; Romania; Russia; Rwanda; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slovakia; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Korea; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Togo; Trinidad & Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Venezuela; Vietnam; Western Sahara; Yemen; ZambiaZimbabwe
• Sommario/riassunto: A to Z World Superstitions & Folklore is an encyclopedia featuring myths, legends and irrational beliefs passed down through generations in 175 countries worldwide. Detailed entries on spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and th

Software-enabled control : information technology for dynamical systems / / edited by Tariq Samad and Gary Balas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830076403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Piscataway, New Jersey : , : IEEE Press, , c 2003; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2005]
• ISBN: 1-280-55703-6; 9786610557035; 0-471-72287-1; 0-471-72288-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 PDF (xx, 419 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): SamadTariq; BalasGary J
• Disciplina: 629.8
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Control theory; Flight control; Mechanical Engineering - General; Mechanical Engineering; Engineering & Applied Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contributors. -- Preface. -- Introduction. -- The Sec Vision (H. Gill & J. Bay). -- Trends and Technologies For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (D. Van Cleave). -- Previewing the Software-Enabled Control Research Portfolio (T. Samad & G. Balas). -- II:<U+0083>SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL. -- Open Control Platform: A Software Platform Supporting Advances in UAV Control Technology (J. Paunicka, et al.). -- A Prototype Open Control Platform For Reconfigurable Control Systems (L. Wills,<U+0083>et al.).<U+0083> -- Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management for Multimodel Control (M. Agrawal,<U+0083>et al.).<U+0083> -- Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems (X. Liu, et al.). -- Embedded Control Systems Development with Giotto (T. Henzinger, et al.). -- III: ONLINE<U+0083>MODELING AND CONTROL. -- Online Control Customization Via Optimization-Based Control (R. Murray, et al.). -- Model Predictive Neural Control For Aggressive Helicop ter Maneuvers (E. Wan, et al.). -- Active Model Estimation For Complex Autonomous Systems (M. Campbell, et al.). -- An Intelligent Methodology For Real-Time Adaptive Mode Transitioning and Limit Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (G. Vachtsevanos, et al.).<U+0083> -- Implementation of Online Control Customization Within the Open Control Platform (R. Bhattacharya & G. Balas). -- IV: HYBRID DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS. -- Hybrid Systems: Review and Recent Progress (P. Antsaklis & X. Koutsoukos). -- A Maneuver-Based Hybrid Control Architecture for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning (E. Frazzoli, et al.). -- Multimodal Control of Constrained Nonlinear Systems (T. Koo, et al.). -- Towards Fault-Adaptive Control of Complex Dynamical Systems (G. Karsai, et al.). -- Computational Tools For the Verification of Hybrid Systems (C. Tomlin, et al.). -- V: CONCLUSIONS. -- The Outlook For Software-Enabled Control (T. Samad & G. Balas). -- Index. -- About the Editors.
• Sommario/riassunto: . Discusses open systems, object orientation, software agents, domain-specific languages, component architectures, as well as the dramatic IT-enabled improvements in memory, communication, and processing resources that are now available for sophisticated control algorithms to exploit.. Useful for practitioners and researchers in the fields of real-time systems, aerospace engineering, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence.