1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633974903321

Titolo

Casting Processes / / edited by T. R. Vijayaram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, United Kingdom : , : IntechOpen, , 2022

ISBN

1-80355-496-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

671.2

Soggetti

Metal castings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Slope Casting Process: A Review -- 2. Squeeze Casting Process: Trends and Opportunities -- 3. Methods to Determine, Influence and Improve the Flowability of Sand Mixtures -- 4. Novel Physical Modelling under Multiple Dimensionless Numbers Similitudes for Precise Representation of Molten Metal Flow -- 5. Casting Techniques: An Alternative for Producing Parts with Recycled Al in the Gravity Die Casting Process -- 6. 'Vari-Morph' (VM) Cast Iron with Several Forms of Graphite: Technology, Properties, Application.

Sommario/riassunto

Various types of casting processes have been developed to manufacture good-quality castings. Different casting processes produce different casting properties and microstructures in castings. This book examines various types of casting processes as well as their properties and applications. Over six chapters in four sections, this volume discusses semi-solid casting and squeeze casting processes, the flowability of sand mixtures and liquid metal flow in mold cavities, gravity die casting, and cast iron technology.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810099203321

Autore

James D. Clayton

Titolo

America and the Great War, 1914-1920 / / D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 1998

1998

ISBN

1-118-82293-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

American History Series

Classificazione

209.71

253.07

940.3/73

Disciplina

940.3/73

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - United States

World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - United States

United States Politics and government 1913-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-112) and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: The Tangled Paths to Horror in Europe; Bloodbaths But No Decision; A Time of Many Excitements; America Enters the War; CHAPTER TWO: Over There; In Come the Yanks; Emergence of the Citizen-Soldier; CHAPTER THREE: Nineteen Months of Progress on the Home Front; Agencies of War; Life on the Home Front; Progressivism and Politics; CHAPTER FOUR: The Final Wilson Years; Retreat from Global Responsibility; End of an Era; Bibliographical Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis.  A forthright examination of America''s unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and the Great War includes insights into the personalities of key Allied officers and civilian leaders as well as the evolution of the new American ""citizen soldier."" Full coverage is given to Presiden



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911015873003321

Autore

Uchiyama Kenichi

Titolo

Action Research in Action : Thinking and Using Soft Systems Methodology Between Reality and Actuality / / by Kenichi Uchiyama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9667-99-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 pages)

Collana

Translational Systems Sciences, , 2197-8840 ; ; 46

Disciplina

150

Soggetti

Psychology

Knowledge, Theory of

Industrial organization

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology

Epistemology

Organization

Teoria del coneixement

Metodologia de les ciències socials

Canvi organitzatiu

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Current Status and Prospects of SSM. Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Current SSM-Based AR -- Chapter 2. SSM: A look back at the past 25 years: I always think of the present as the infancy of SSM -- Chapter 3. A New Soft Systems Approach to Resilience: A Paradigm Shift from Mono to Koto -- Part 2. The Theory and Practice of Actuality -- Chapter 4. Introduction -- Chapter 5 -- Theoretical Grounding -- Chapter 6. Reinterpreting SSM from the Actuality Point of View -- Chapter 7. Evaluating the C-SSM in Action -- Chapter 8. Implications for The Field of Management and IS Studies -- Chapter 9. Implications for Further Studies and Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to provide the fundamental backbone for the field of action research (AR). One of the main characteristics of AR is to achieve a kind of learning based on experience through action in the



real world, connecting and reconciling theory and practice by reflection for / in / by action. A standard form of AR has not yet been found, however, because it is difficult for conventional academicians to effectively bridge the gap between objectivity in theory and subjectivity in practice. For the past 50 years, soft systems methodology (SSM) has developed the methodology to deal with subjectivity by rigorously adhering to a coherent guideline of a systemic means for discussion— for example, accommodation (i.e., living with different individual worldviews). The author began to reinterpret SSM from an Eastern context at Lancaster University (UK), and received a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, introducing the “actuality” point of view. This idea originated with the eminent Japanese psychiatrist Bin Kimura, who argued that schizophrenics do not lose touch with reality but with actuality. That is, there are two aspects of the world, reality and actuality, based on Latin res (“thing”) and actio (“action”). They can recognize all things of the world as “reality” as expressed by that noun but cannot comprehend with a feeling of reality the predicate “actuality”. Introducing actuality into SSM as a new dimension opened a new perspective in SSM both theoretically and practically. This topic is discussed in detail in Part II of this book. Part I contains three chapters. Chapter 1 provides a basic conceptual overview of SSM. Chapter 2 provides an actual trace of the evolution of SSM over the last 25 years. One topic that is expected to become the subject of serious practical application of SSM in the future is its application to resilience. This is discussed in some detail in Chapter 3. The actuality aspect of SSM has been used for more than 20 years in various contexts, yielding many good results. Among those are a new explanation of accommodation using paleo logic or predicate logic; a new management cycle based on actuality, such as learning for / in / by action; and the novelty of the methodological tool itself. Those 20 years of learning authenticate the guideline for the way of discussion or agreement that is relevant to actuality. Especially in the recent Covid-19 pandemic, it has oriented the restoration of actuality in the digital-based society, where actuality is deadened. This result is also dealt with in Part I.