1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465390703321

Titolo

Sea changes : historicizing the ocean / / edited by Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-283-58960-5

9786613902054

0-203-49853-4

1-135-94047-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KleinBernhard <1963->

MackenthunGesa <1959->

Disciplina

910.45

Soggetti

Ocean and civilization

Ocean - History

Ocean travel

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 (p. 203-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Sea Changes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Is History; Notes; Chapter 1: Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea; Polyglot Time: Polyglot Space; Encompassing Oceania; The Theater of Reenactment; Observing the Unobservable; Ocean; Civilizing the Sea; Double-Visioned History; Way-Finding; Looming; Notes; Chapter 2: Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach; Divested of Command; The Moment of Discovery; Opposite Camps; Breeches of Etiquette; Seeing through Clothes; ""A Proper Sample""; ""A Genteel Dressing""

NotesChapter 3: The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture; Introduction: Space and Time; Commodities and the Search for Labor; Lanun: A Terrifying Presence; Colonialism's Pirates; Notes; Chapter 4: Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce; Notes; Chapter 5: Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano; I; II; III; Notes; Chapter 6: The Red Atlantic;  or,""A Terrible Blast Swept Over



the Heaving Sea""; Notes

Chapter 7: Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black AtlanticChartless Voyages; The Grandeur of Egypt; Hybrid Geographies; Protean Ships; Notes; Chapter 8: ""At Sea-Coloured Passenger""; I; II; III; Notes; Chapter 9: Slavery, Insurance, and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic; In Transit: Insuring Slaves; Maritime Cannibalism, or Why Eating People Is Wrong; Notes; Chapter 10: Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968232503321

Autore

Garcia-Sanz Mario

Titolo

Wind energy systems : control engineering design / / Mario Garcia-Sanz, Constantine H. Houpis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

9781439821800

1439821801

9780429185618

0429185618

9781466552241

1466552247

9781628704945

1628704942

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (613 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoupisConstantine H

Disciplina

621.31/2136

Soggetti

Wind energy conversion systems - Automatic control

Wind turbines - Automatic control

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Introduction to QFT; Chapter 3: MISO Analog QFT Control System; Chapter 4: Discrete Quantitative Feedback Technique; Chapter 5: Diagonal MIMO QFT; Chapter 6: Non-Diagonal MIMO QFT93,97,102; Chapter 7: QFT for Distributed Parameter Systems115; Chapter 8: Nonlinear Switching Control Techniques140; Chapter 9: Introduction to Wind Energy Systems; Chapter 10: Standards and Certification for Wind Turbines; Chapter 11: Wind Turbine Control Objectives and Strategies

Chapter 12: Aerodynamics and Mechanical Modeling of Wind TurbinesChapter 13: Electrical Modeling of Wind Turbines; Chapter 14: Advanced Pitch Control System Design; Chapter 15: Experimental Results with the Direct-Drive Wind Turbine TWT-1.65174,349,366,379; Chapter 16: Blades Manufacturing:: MIMO QFT Control for Industrial Furnaces178,375,386; Chapter 17: Smart Wind Turbine Blades433-498; Chapter 18: Offshore Wind Energy:: Overview410-432; Chapter 19: Airborne Wind Energy Systems499-517; Appendix A: Templates Generation38; Appendix B: Inequality Bound Expressions48,76

Appendix C: Analytical QFT Bounds61Appendix D: Essentials for Loop Shaping; Appendix E: Fragility Analysis with QFT70; Appendix F: QFT Control Toolbox: User's Guide149,150; Appendix G: Controller Design Examples; Appendix H: Conversion of Units; Problems; Answers to Selected Problems; References; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

IntroductionBroad Context and MotivationConcurrent Engineering: A Road Map for EnergyQuantitative Robust ControlNovel CAD Toolbox for QFT Controller DesignOutline Part I: Advanced Robust Control Techniques: QFT and Nonlinear SwitchingIntroduction to QFTQuantitative Feedback TheoryWhy Feedback? QFT OverviewInsight into the QFT TechniqueBenefits of QFTMISO Analog QFT Control SystemIntroductionQFT Method (Single-Loop MISO System)Design Procedure OutlineMinimum-Phase System Performance SpecificationsJ LTI Plant ModelsPlant Templates of Pι(s), P( j_i )Nominal PlantU-Contour (Stability Bound)Trackin