1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007296940403321

Autore

Malinvaud, Edmond

Titolo

Lectures on microeconomic theory / E. Malinvaud ; translated by A. Silvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : North Holland, 1972

Descrizione fisica

IX, 318 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Advanced textbooks in economics ; 2

Disciplina

338.5

Locazione

DTE

Collocazione

XV B 114

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910576798603321

Autore

Peatrik Anne-Marie

Titolo

A Complex Polity : Generations, Initiation, and Territory, among The Old Meru Of Kenya / / Anne-Marie Peatrik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nairobi, Nanterre, : Africae, 2021

ISBN

2-493207-06-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Africae Monographs

Soggetti

History

Anthropology

Kenya

eastern Africa

ages of life

family

kinship

Meru

pre-colonial polity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Weaving together ethnography and history, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the pre-colonial polity of the Meru of Kenya and its radical transformations from 1908 through the 1950s. It addresses the manifold issues of initiation and the politics of belonging, unravels the intertwined life courses of men and women, and disentangles the web of family life and the handover of power across political generations. Restoring two well-known instances of Meru politics to their rightful place―the enigmatic mûgwe and the famous njûûri ncheke-the book also offers a fresh reading of the controversial story of Mbwaa. It sheds light on the crisis of the 1930s affecting male and female initiations, and establishes a link with the demographic transformations and the radical shift that occurred during the 1950s. A Complex Polity renews the issue of the historicity of political generation-set systems in Meru, as well as elsewhere in Kenya and eastern Africa. More broadly, the work aims to promote comparative anthropology to enhance knowledge of African pre-colonial democracies and polities, and a deeper understanding of social and cultural change in the longue durée, linking precolonial and postcolonial Africa.  “Peatrik’s book is not a simple ethnographic monograph, it is an innovative analysis on the topic of age grades… Her study lies, in its own right, among the classics of ethnology and among the most original and comprehensive works on this subject. It is recommended not only to the africanists and the anthropologists, but also to those who are interested in studying social and political systems.” Bernardo Bernardi, author of The Mugwe, a Failing Prophet, and of Age Class Systems.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910566478903321

Autore

Tjing Lie Tek

Titolo

AI Applications to Power Systems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering & technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Today, the flow of electricity is bidirectional, and not all electricity is centrally produced in large power plants. With the growing emergence of prosumers and microgrids, the amount of electricity produced by sources other than large, traditional power plants is ever-increasing. These alternative sources include photovoltaic (PV), wind turbine (WT), geothermal, and biomass renewable generation plants. Some renewable energy resources (solar PV and wind turbine generation) are highly dependent on natural processes and parameters (wind speed, wind direction, temperature, solar irradiation, humidity, etc.). Thus, the outputs are so stochastic in nature. New data-science-inspired real-time solutions are needed in order to co-develop digital twins of large intermittent renewable plants whose services can be globally delivered.