1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794519303321

Autore

Jones Ann

Titolo

The enigmatic electron / / Ann Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Austin Macauley Publishers, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5289-9627-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 pages)

Disciplina

539.72112

Soggetti

Electrons

Electronics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Discovery -- Chapter 2 -- Structure Of The Atom -- Bohr's Model of the Atom -- Further Development of the Bohr Model -- Chapter 3 -- The Periodic Table of the Elements -- The Transition Metals -- The Role of Neutrons -- Reactivity of the Elements -- Chapter 4 -- Wave-Particle Duality -- The Nature of Light -- The Nature of Electrons -- Electrons Behaving as Waves -- Chapter 5 -- Electrons as Particles -- Storing Charge -- Chapter 6 -- Elements and Compounds -- Metallic Structures -- The Ionic Bond -- The Covalent Bond -- Chapter 7 -- Electron Beams -- The Oscilloscope Tube -- The TV Tube -- Plasma TV -- The Transmission Electron Microscope -- The Scanning Electron Microscope -- Electron Beam Welding -- The Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) -- Chapter 8 -- Electromagnetic Waves -- Chapter 9 -- Electric Current -- Alternating Current -- Electrolysis -- Explaining Semiconductors -- Doping -- Transistors -- Light-Emitting Diode (LED) -- Photodiode -- Chapter 10 -- Electricity and Magnetism -- Magnetic Effect of an Electric Current -- The Hall Effect -- Electromagnetic Induction -- Transformers -- Further Applications of Electromagnetic Induction -- Summary of Chapter 10 -- Summary -- References -- List Of Diagrams.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959679203321

Autore

Strengell Heidi

Titolo

Dissecting Stephen King : from the Gothic to literary naturalism / / Heidi Strengell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612269851

9780299209735

0299209733

9781282269859

1282269852

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Horror tales, American - History and criticism

Gothic revival (Literature) - United States

Naturalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Ray and Pat Browne book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- King, His World, and Its Characters -- Interpreter of the Postmodern Condition -- King's Brand of Horror -- 1. The Gothic in King's Works -- Abnorml and Repressed Sexuality (the Vampire) -- Hubris and Death (Frankenstein's Monster) -- The Gothic Double (the Werewolf) -- The Gothic Melodrama (the Ghost) -- 2. Myths and Fairy Tales in King's Works -- The Hero as a Generic Hybrid (Roland the Gunslinger) -- The Antihero as a Generic Hybrid (Randall Flagg) -- Adapted and Revised Myths and Fairy Tales -- Mythical and Fairy-Tale Themes -- 3. Literary Naturalism in King's Works -- Free Will and Responsibility -- Genetic and Sociological Determinism -- Cosmological Determinism and Fate -- Metafictional Determinism -- Conclusion -- Appendix:  A Note on Previous Criticism -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to



reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And in the manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate. Ultimately, Strengell shows how King shatters our illusions of safety and control: "King places his decent and basically good characters at the mercy of indifferent forces, survival depending on their moral strength and the responsibility they may take for their fellow men."

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483562003321

Titolo

Decision Economics: Complexity of Decisions and Decisions for Complexity / / edited by Edgardo Bucciarelli, Shu-Heng Chen, Juan Manuel Corchado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-38227-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 1009

Disciplina

004.36

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Machine learning

Econometrics

Computational Intelligence

Machine Learning

Quantitative Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Calibrating Methods for Decision Making Under Uncertainty -- Coordination and Search for New Solutions: An Agent-based Study on



the Tension in Boundary Systems -- Appeasement or Radicalism: A Game between Intruders and Occupiers -- Coping with bounded rationality, uncertainty, and scarcity in product development decisions: experimental research -- What Next for Experimental Economics? Searching for an Alternative Pathway Founded on Mathematical Methods -- Generating Neural Archetypes to Instruct Fast and Interpretable Decisions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on the International Conference on Decision Economics (DECON 2019). Highlighting the fact that important decision-making takes place in a range of critical subject areas and research fields, including economics, finance, information systems, psychology, small and international business, management, operations, and production, the book focuses on analytics as an emerging synthesis of sophisticated methodology and large data systems used to guide economic decision-making in an increasingly complex business environment. DECON 2019 was organised by the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), the National Chengchi University of Taipei (Taiwan), and the University of Salamanca (Spain), and was held at the Escuela politécnica Superior de Ávila, Spain, from 26th to 28th June, 2019. Sponsored by IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, Spain Section Chapter, and IEEE Spain Section (Technical Co-Sponsor), IBM, Indra, Viewnext, Global Exchange, AEPIA-and-APPIA, with the funding supporting of the Junta de Castilla y León, Spain (ID: SA267P18-Project co-financed with FEDER funds) .