Electrical power systems [[electronic resource] /] / C. L. Wadhwa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461936003321
• Autore: Wadhwa C. L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tunbridge Wells, : New Academic Science, c2012
• ISBN: 1-906574-39-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (979 p.)
• Soggetti: Electric power systems; Electric power transmission; Electronic books.
• 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: ""Cover""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Power Systems""; ""1.1 Single-Phase Transmission""; ""1.2 The 3-Phase Transmission ""; ""1.3 Complex Power ""; ""1.4 Load Characteristics""; ""1.5 The Per Unit System""; ""Chapter 2. Line Constant Calculations ""; ""2.1 Magnetic Flux Density ""; ""2.2 Inductors and Inductance ""; ""2.3 Magnetic Field Intensity Due to a Long Current Carrying Conductor ""; ""2.4 Inductance of Two-Wire (1-Ï?) Transmission line""; ""2.5 Flux Linkages of one Conductor in a Group of Conductors ""; ""2.6 Inductance of 3-Ï? Unsymmetrically Spaced Transmission Line """"2.7 Transposition of Power Lines ""; ""2.8 Composite Conductors""; ""2.9 Inductance of Composite Conductors ""; ""2.10 Inductance of Double Circuit 3-Ï? Line ""; ""2.11 Concept of Geometric Mean Distance ""; ""2.12 Bundled Conductors ""; ""2.13 Skin and Proximity Effect""; ""Chapter 3. Capacitance of Transmission Lines ""; ""3.1 Electric Field of an Infinite Line of Charge ""; ""3.2 Potential Difference between Two Points Due to a Line Charge ""; ""3.3 Two Infinite Lines of Charge""; ""3.4 Capacitance of A 1-Ï? Transmission Line """"3.5 Capacitance of a 3-Phase Unsymmetrically Spaced Transmission Line ""; ""3.6 Capacitance of a Double Circuit Line ""; ""3.7 Effect of Earth on the Capacitance of Conductors ""; ""Chapter 4. Performance of Lines ""; ""4.1 Representation of Lines ""; ""4.2 Short Transmission Line ""; ""4.3 Medium Length Lines ""; ""4.4 Long Transmission Lines ""; ""4.5 ABCD Constants ""; ""4.6 Ferranti-Effect""; ""Chapter 5. High Voltage d.c ; Transmission""; ""5.1 Rectification ""; ""5.2 The 3-Phase Bridge Rectifier or Graetz Circuit ""; ""5.3 Inversion ""; ""5.4 Kinds of d.c. Links """"5.5 Parallel and Series Connection of Thyristors""; ""5.6 Power Flow in HVDC Transmission System ""; ""5.7 Constant Ignition Angle β Control ""; ""5.8 Constant Extinction Angle Î? Control ""; ""5.9 Constant Current Control""; ""5.10 Actual Control Characteristics""; ""5.11 Frequency Control""; ""5.12 Reactive VAr Requirements of HVDC Converters ""; ""5.13 Parallel Operation of d.c Link with an a.c Network""; ""5.14 Ground Return""; ""5.15 Circuit Breaking ""; ""5.16 Advantages of d.c Transmission""; ""5.17 Disadvantages ""; ""5.18 Cables ""; ""5.19 Economic Distances for d.c Transmission""""Chapter 6. Corona ""; ""6.1 Critical Disruptive Voltage""; ""6.2 Corona Loss ""; ""6.3 Line Design Based on Corona""; ""6.4 Radio Interference""; ""6.5 Inductive Interference between Power and Communication Lines ""; ""Chapter 7. Mechanical Design of Transmission Lines""; ""7.1 The Catenary Curve ""; ""7.2 Sag Tension Calculations""; ""7.3 Supports at Different Levels""; ""7.4 Stringing Chart""; ""7.5 Sag Template""; ""7.6 Equivalent Span""; ""7.7 Stringing of Conductors""; ""7.8 Vibration and Vibration Dampers""; ""Chapter 8. Overhead Line Insulators""

Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence [[electronic resource] ] : conundrums in modern American medicine / / Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780831903321
• Autore: Grob Gerald N. <1931->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-280-49240-6; 9786613587633; 0-8135-4812-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Critical issues in health and medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): HorwitzAllan V
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Social medicine - United States; Diseases and history - United States; Diagnosis
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine -- Chapter 2. Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer -- Chapter 3. How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy -- Chapter 4. How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer -- Chapter 5. Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety -- Chapter 6. Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion -- Chapter 7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals? -- Epilogue. Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.