Efficient Lighting Applications and Case Studies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910473536303321
• Autore: Dunning Scott C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton : , : River Publishers, , 2012; ©2013
• ISBN: 87-7022-305-X; 1-003-15174-4; 1-000-35593-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): ThumannAlbert
• Disciplina: 621.320286
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Section I: Lighting Systems Design -- Chapter 1 How to Design a Lighting System -- Chapter 2 Selection Criteria for Lighting Energy Management -- Chapter 3 Practical Selection of Fluorescent Lamps with Emphasis on Efficiency and Color -- Chapter 4 Ideal Task Lighting -- Chapter 5 Efficient and Effective Lighting Design -- Section II: Lighting Control Considerations -- Chapter 6 Review of Lighting Control Equipment and Applications -- Chapter 7 Energy vs. Quality of Light -- Section III: Reflectors -- Chapter 8 Fluorescent Reflectors: The Main Considerations -- Chapter 9 Specular Retrofit Reflectors for Fluorescent Troffers -- Section IV Ballast Selection -- Chapter 10 Matching Fluorescent Lamps and Solid State Ballasts to Maximize Energy Savings -- Section V Natural Daylighting -- Chapter 11 Natural Daylighting - An Energy Analysis -- Chapter 12 Windows and Daylighting -- Section VI Wireless Lighting Control -- Chapter 13 Wireless Lighting Controls in Parking Garages -- Chapter 14 Energy Savings with Zigbee Wireless in China -- Section VII Case Studies -- Chapter 15 Mesopic Outdoor Lighting -- Chapter 16 Assessment of the Lighting Systems for the Oil Sector Complex Building in Kuwait-Before and After Commissioning -- Chapter 17 Intelligent Lighting -- Chapter 18 New Lighting Technologies Demonstsrated at ; Defense Commissaries -- Chapter 19 Innovative Lighting Contest: Small Actions Add up to Big Savings in Schools -- Index.

Wittgenstein [[electronic resource] ] : understanding and meaning . Part 1 Essays / / G.P. Baker & P.M.S. Hacker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830299503321
• Autore: Baker Gordon P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-32273-3; 9786611322731; 0-470-75280-7; 0-470-75279-3
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: Analytical commentary on the Philosophical investigations ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Language and languages - Philosophy; Semantics (Philosophy)
• 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: Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Part I: Essays; Abbreviations; I The Augustinian conception of language (1); 1. Augustine's picture; 2. The Augustinian family; (a) word-meaning; (b) correlating words with meanings; (c) ostensive explanation; (d) metapsychological corollaries; (e) sentence-meaning; 3. Moving off in new directions; 4. Frege; 5. Russell; 6. The Tractatus; II Explanation (6); 1.Training, teaching and explaining; 2. Explanation and meaning; 3. Explanation and grammar; 4. Explanation and understanding; III The language-game method (7)1. The emergence of the game analogy; 2. An intermediate phase: comparisons with invented calculi; 3. The emergence of the language-game method; 4. Invented language-games; 5. Natural language-games; IV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (18); 1. Flying in the face of the facts; 2. Sentences as descriptions of facts: surface-grammatical paraphrase; 3. Sentences as ; descriptions: depth-grammatical analysis and descriptive contents; 4. Sentences as instruments; 5. Assertions, questions, commands make contact in language; V Ostensive definition and its ramifications (28)1. Connecting language and reality; 2. The range and limits of ostensive explanations; 3. The normativity of ostensive definition; 4. Samples; 5. Misunderstandings resolved; 6. Samples and simples; VI Indexicals (39); VII Logically proper names (39); 1. Russell; 2. The Tractatus; 3. The criticisms of the Investigations: assailing the motivation; 4. The criticisms of the Investigations: real proper names and simple names; VIII Meaning and use (43); 1. The concept of meaning; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Wittgenstein: meaning and its internal relations4. Qualifications; IX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (50); 1. The problems of a principle; 2. Frege; 3. The Tractatus; 4. After the Tractatus; 5. Compositional theories of meaning; 6. Computational theories of understanding; X The standard metre (50); 1. The rudiments of measurement; 2. The standard metre and canonical samples; 3. Fixing the reference or explaining the meaning?; 4. Defusing paradoxes; XI Family resemblance (65); 1. Background: definition, logical constituents and analysis; 2. Family resemblance: precursors and anticipations3. Family resemblance: a minimalist interpretation; 4. Sapping the defences of orthodoxy; 5. Problems about family-resemblance concepts; 6. Psychological concepts; 7. Formal concepts; XII Proper names (79); 1. Stage-setting; 2. Frege and Russell: simple abbreviation theories; 3. Cluster theories of proper names; 4. Some general principles; 5. Some critical consequences; 6. The significance of proper names; 7. Proper names and meaning; XIII Turning the examination around: the recantation of a metaphysician (89); 1. Reorienting the investigation
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. New edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written. Following Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays and sections of exegesis completely. Part One - the Essays - now includes tw