1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465157103321

Autore

Mackay Francis

Titolo

Asiago : 15/16 June 1918 : battle in the woods and clouds / / Francis Mackay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

South Yorkshire, England : , : Leo Cooper, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-78383-266-5

1-4738-1198-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Battleground Europe Series

Disciplina

940.4/34

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Italy - Sette Comuni

World War, 1914-1918 - Battlefields - Italy - Sette Comuni

Battlefields - Italy - Sette Comuni

Electronic books.

Sette Comuni (Italy) History, Military

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""; ""Series""; ""Title""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction by Series Editor""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Advice for Tourists""; ""Chapter 1 The Asiago plateau""; ""Chapter 2 Italy v Austria 1915-1917""; ""Chapter 3 Allied Assistance""; ""Chapter 4 Operation RADETZKY:""; ""Chapter 5 15/16 June 1918 - GRANEZZA: Battle in the clouds""; ""Chapter 6 15/16 June 1918 - CARRIOLA: Battle in the woods""; ""Chapter 7 Aftermath""; ""Chapter 8 Walking and car tours CAR TOUR 1:""; ""WALK 1: Asiago to San Sisto Ridge""

""WALK 2: Austrian front line, Canove Museum""""CAR TOUR 2: Barental, Pria dell' Acqua, Granezza, Tattenham Corner""; ""CAR TOUR 3: Ghelpac Fork, Hill 1021, Boscon, Handley Cross""; ""CAR TOUR 4: Happy Valley, Valle Gap, Perghele, Magnaboschi, Chiesa Museum""; ""Chapter 9 Memorials & Cemeteries""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

A battlefield guide to the scene of an Austro-Hungarian attack on the British Corps sector of the Allied front line on the Asiago Plateau, forty miles north of Venice in Northern Italy, on 15/16 June 1918. This



comprehensive and attractive guidebook describes the terrain, the forces involved and the fighting, including the action leading to the award of two Vcs.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783381803321

Titolo

Information handling in astronomy : historical vistas / / edited by André Heck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands, , 2002

ISBN

0-306-48080-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 298 p.)

Collana

Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; ; 285

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Communication in astronomy

Information storage and retrieval systems - Astronomy

Astronomy - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Half a Century of Intense Maturation -- Evolution of Time Measurement in Astronomy -- Evolution of Data Processing in Optical Astronomy — A Personal Account -- IHAP: Image Handling and Processing System -- FITS: A Remarkable Achievement in Information Exchange -- The Munich Image Data Analysis System -- AIPS, the VLA, and the VLBA -- Changes in Astronomical Publications During the 20th Century -- The Evolution and Role of the Astronomical Library and Librarian -- The Development of the Astronomy Digital Library -- From Early Directories to Current Yellow-Page Services -- Pre-College Astronomy Education in the United States in the Twentieth Century -- The Birth and Evolution of the Planetarium -- The Changing Role of the IAU in Providing and Organizing Information -- Was the Carte du Ciel an Obstruction to the Development of Astrophysics in Europe? -- Amateur Data and Astronomical Discoveries in the 20th Century.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is dedicated to the memory of Gisèle Mersch whose life ended prematurely in June 2002. Back in the 1970's, when few people were using them, Gisèle introduced me to the arcane secrets of then



advanced multivariate statistical methodologies. I was already involved in more classical statistical studies undertaken at Paris Observatory with Jean Jung: developing and applying maxim- likelihood algorithms to stellar photometric and kinematic data in order to derive absolute luminosities, distances and velocities in the solar neighborhood. But what could be envisaged with those methodologies was something of another dimension: for the first time, I could really see how to extract information from massive amounts of data without calling for elaborated physical or mechanical theories. Several pioneering applications were developed under Gisèle’s guidance and with her collaboration to study the delicate interface between spectroscopic and photometric data. Thus errors in spectral classifications were investigated as well as predictions of spectral classifications from pho- metric indices (see Heck 1976, Heck et al. 1977, Heck & Mersch 1980 and Mersch & Heck 1980), with very interesting results for the time. Gisèle also took part in studies of period determination algorithms (see Mersch & Heck 1981, Manfroid et al. 1983 and Heck et al. 1985).