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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465927303321

Autore

McCully C. B.

Titolo

The earliest English : an introduction to Old English language / / Chris McCully and Sharon Hilles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-87698-9

1-315-83847-8

1-317-87697-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Learning about Language

Altri autori (Persone)

HillesSharon

Disciplina

429/.82

Soggetti

English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100

English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Grammar

English language - Middle English, 1100-1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of symbols and a note on conventions; Abbreviations; Using this book; UNIT 1: Thinking about the earliest English; 1.0 Preliminaries; 1.1 Uniformity and change; 1.2 Initial terminology; 1.3 Old English poetry; 1.4 Reading passage; 1.5 Words, words, words; 1.6 Pronouncing Old English; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading; UNIT 2: History, culture, language origins; 2.0 Reading passage; 2.1 Some history; 2.2 A language-family tree; 2.3 The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy; Summary

Study questions websites;  further reading; UNIT 3: Nouns; 3.0 Mercenaries and settlers; 3.1 The Germania; 3.2 The Germania and the Anglo-Saxons; 3.3 Local shires and their politics; 3.4 Women; 3.5 Reading passage; 3.6 Inflections, nouns and grammatical roles; 3.7 Inflections in other languages; 3.8 Articles in OE; 3.9 More on OE articles, noun inflections and grammatical case; 3.10 Inflections on OE nouns; 3.11 Additional noun declensions in OE; 3.12 Pronouns; 3.13 NPs, nominals, strong and weak adjectives; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading



Appendix 1: At-a-glance guide to OE inflections - nouns and adjectivesUNIT 4: Verbs; 4.0 The conversion of England; 4.1 Influence of the Celtic church; 4.2 The convergence of the Celtic and Roman traditions; 4.3 Reading passage (1); 4.4 Word order and pronouns in OE; 4.5 OE verbs: present participles; 4.6 Relative clauses; 4.7 Thou and you in OE; 4.8 OE and PDE verbs; 4.9 'Less regular' verbs; 4.10 Still more on OE verbs; 4.11 Weak verbs; 4.12 Reading passage (2); 4.13 Comments on reading passage (2) - the subjunctive; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading

Appendix 2: At-a-glance guide to OE inflections - verbsINTERLUDE: Working with dictionaries; UNIT 5: OE metrics; 5.0 Overview of OE metre; 5.1 Stress in OE; 5.2 Syllables in OE and PDE; 5.3 Syllables and alliteration; 5.4 How half-lines end: poetic closure in OE; 5.5 Resolution; 5.6 The concept of metrical position in OE verse; 5.7 Half-line patterns that never occur; 5.8 The Five Types; 5.9 Secondary stress, metrical position and 'L'; 5.10 Stress, L and alliteration; Summary; Study questions;  websites;  further reading; UNIT 6: Standards and crosses; 6.0 Poetry and prose

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460243103321

Titolo

Energy storage for smart grids : planning and operation for renewable and variable energy resources (VERs) / / edited by Pengwei Du, Ning Lu ; contributors, Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi [and twenty-six others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Academic Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-12-409543-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

621.31/26

Soggetti

Smart power grids

Energy storage

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 at the end of each chapters and



index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Energy Storage for Smart Grids: Planning and Operation for Renewable and Variable Energy Resources (VERs); Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Electricity Sources; 1. Introduction; 2. An Overview of Variable Renewable Electricity Sources; 3. Electric Energy-Storage Applications and Technologies; 3.1. Pumped Hydro Storage; 3.2. Compressed to Air Energy Storage; 3.3. Batteries; 3.3.1. Lead-Acid Batteries; 3.3.2. Nickel-Cadmium Batteries; 3.3.3. Sodium-Sulphur Batteries; 3.3.4. Lithium-ion batteries

3.3.5. Zinc-Bromine Batteries3.3.6. Vanadium Redox Batteries; 3.4. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage; 3.5. Hydrogen Storage; 3.6. Flywheels; 3.7. Capacitors and Supercapacitors; 4. Discussion; 4.1. Managing VRES variability using EES; 4.1.1. Power Quality; 4.1.2. Regulation; 4.1.3. Load following; 4.1.4. Unit commitment; 4.1.5. Seasonal storage; 4.2. Managing the Distributed Nature of VRES; 4.3. EES Development Potential; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: Assessment of Revenue Potentials of Ancillary Service Provision by Flexible Unit Portfolios

1. Introduction and Literature Review2. Aggregators in Electricity Markets; 2.1. The Role of Aggregators; 2.2. Distribution-Grid Constraints; 2.3. Unit-Monitoring Challenges; 3. Modeling of Revenue Potential; 3.1. Regulatory Basis for Revenue Calculation; 3.2. Net-Operating Profit; 4. Simulation Study; 4.1. Simulation Scenarios; 4.2. Numerical Results; Primary Control with Portfolio A; Primary Control with Portfolio B; Secondary Control with Portfolio A; Secondary Control with Portfolio B; 5. Profit-Sharing Methodology; 5.1. Business Value Model; 5.2. Actors and Activities; 5.3. Exchanges

5.4. Cash-Flow Consolidation5.5. Application Example; 6. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Potential of Sodium-Sulfur Battery Energy Storage to Enable Further Integration of Wind; 1. Introduction; 2. Energy storage as an alternative; 2.1. Energy storage in electricity markets; 3. Sodium-Sulfur battery energy storage; 3.1. Principle; 3.2. Target applications and existing installations; 3.3. The Sodium-Sulfur battery at Luverne, Minnesota; 3.3.1. Emulation of different storage-to-wind ratios; 4. Generation shifting; 4.1. Charging/discharging simulation

4.1.1. Charging/discharging intervals4.1.2. Effect of storage-to-wind ratio on the battery SOC; 4.2. Analysis of the value added by storage; 4.2.1. Procedure; 4.2.2. Results; 4.2.3. Discussion on an optimal storage-to-wind ratio; 5. Ramp-rate limiting; 5.1. Low-pass filter to limit ramp rate; 5.2. Field results and extended simulation; 5.3. Simulation results; 6. Integrating generation shifting and ramp-rate limiting; 7. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Application of Energy Storage for Fast Regulation Service in Energy Market; 1. Introduction

2. Overview of Secondary Regulation Control

Sommario/riassunto

Energy storage is a main component of any holistic consideration of smart grids, particularly when incorporating power derived from variable, distributed and renewable energy resources. Energy Storage for Smart Grids delves into detailed coverage of the entire spectrum of available and emerging storage technologies, presented in the context of economic and practical considerations.    Featuring the latest research findings from the world's foremost energy storage experts, complete with data analysis, field tests, and simulation results, this book helps device manufacturers develop robust busi



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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003365829707536

Autore

Cena, Giovanni

Titolo

Poesie : Madre ; In Umbria ; Nubi e sogni ; Homo ; Liriche inedite ; Versioni / Giovanni Cena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : L'impronta, 1928

Edizione

[Ed. definitiva con notizia]

Descrizione fisica

X, 400 p. : ill. ; 18 cm

Collana

Opere complete di Giovanni Cena ; 1

Disciplina

851.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia