1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707942703321

Autore

Briggs Maxwell H.

Titolo

Fission surface power technology demonstration unit test results / / Maxwell H. Briggs [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , December 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (9 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2016-219382

Soggetti

Fission products

Heat transfer

Liquid metals

Manned space flight

Mars missions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2016."

"Prepared for the 14th International Energy Conversions Engineering Conference (IECEC) sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 25-27, 2016."

"AIAA-2016-5012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-9).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787355603321

Autore

Pearson Christopher E. M.

Titolo

1000 Monuments de Genie / / Chris E. M. Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Parkstone Press International, , [2014]

©[2014]

ISBN

1-84484-661-X

1-78310-454-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Disciplina

711.6

Soggetti

Monuments

Architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

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

Sommaire; Introduction; L'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient; L'Asie et l'Océanie; L'Europe, la Russie et la Turquie; Les Amériques; Biographies; Chronologie; Glossaire; Liste des illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

Depuis la mythique tour de Babel, les hommes ont toujours tenté d'ériger des monuments à la hauteur de leur ego démesuré. Que ce soit les antiques ziggourats, le Taj Mahal ou encore l'Empire State Building, l'homme n'a cessé, depuis des millénaires, de montrer sa puissance grâce à l'érection de ces bâtiments à l'utilité autant religieuse que profane. Témoignages aux mille visages, symboles des valeurs des peuples tels la dévotion, le patriotisme, la puissance ou encore symboles de leur grandeur, ces monuments, par la créativité et l'ingéniosité de leurs architectes, fascinent et attirent aujou



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484656703321

Titolo

Advances in artificial life : 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005 : proceedings / / Mathieu S. Capcarrere ... [et al.] (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, c2005

ISBN

3-540-31816-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 949 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, , 0302-9743 ; ; 3630

Altri autori (Persone)

CapcarrereMathieu S

Disciplina

570.1/13

Soggetti

Biological systems - Computer simulation

Biological systems - Simulation methods

Robotics

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conceptual Track -- Morphogenesis and Development -- Robotics and Autonomous Agents -- Evolutionary Computation and Theory -- Cellular Automata -- Models of Biological Systems and Their Applications -- Ant Colony and Swarm Systems -- Evolution of Communication -- Simulation of Social Interactions -- Self-replication -- Artificial Chemistry -- Posters.

Sommario/riassunto

TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like



importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like ‘Robotics and Autonomous Agents’ or ‘Evolutionary Computation’ are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear.