Mary Austin and the American West [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Goodman, Carl Dawson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779550503321
• Autore: Goodman Susan <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-520-94226-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DawsonCarl
• Disciplina: 818/.5209; B
• Soggetti: Authors, American - 20th century; Women and literature - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century; Western stories - History and criticism; West (U.S.) In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simpson, imprint in humanities".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-311) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of Mary Austin's life and work -- 1. Desert Places 1868-1892 -- 2. Owens Valley: 1892-1900 -- 3. Independence: 1900-1905 -- 4. Carmel: 1904-1907 -- 5. In Italy and England: 1907-1910 -- 6. New York: 1911-1914 -- 7. The Village: 1914-1920 -- 8. The Call of the West: 1920-1924 -- 9. Santa Fe: 1924-1929 -- 10. Indian Detours and Spanish Arts -- 11. Last Years: 1929-1934 -- 12. The Accounting -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Mary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, ; where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.

Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics : 10th International Conference, ICINCO 2013 Reykjavík, Iceland, July 29-31, 2013 Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Jean-Louis Ferrier, Oleg Gusikhin, Kurosh Madani, Jurek Sasiadek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299845703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-10891-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, , 1876-1119 ; ; 325
• Disciplina: 006.3; 620; 621; 629.892
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Robotics; Automation; Dynamics; Nonlinear theories; Computational intelligence; Graph theory; Control, Robotics, Automation; Applied Dynamical Systems; Computational Intelligence; Graph Theory
• 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: Organization; Preface; Contents; 1 Invited Paper: Multimodal Interface for an Intelligent Wheelchair; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Human Machine Interaction; 1.2.1 Video based Systems; 1.2.2 Speech Recognition; 1.2.3 Gesture Recognition; 1.2.4 Thought Recognition; 1.2.5 Sip and Puff; 1.3 Multimodal Interfaces; 1.4 IntellWheels Project; 1.4.1 IntellWheels Platform; 1.4.2 IntellWheels Multimodal Interface; 1.4.3 System Implementation; 1.4.4 Actions; 1.4.5 Multimodal Interaction Loop; 1.4.6 Graphical User Interface; 1.5 Experiments and Results; 1.6 Conclusions and Future Work; References; Part IIntelligent Control Systemsand Optimization2 Cognitive Modeling for Automating Learning in Visually-Guided Manipulative Tasks; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Cognitive Architectures; 2.3 Visual Servoing; 2.4 The CRR Proposal; 2.5 Case Study; 2.5.1 Task Definition; 2.5.2 Perception; 2.5.3 Visuomotor Control; 2.5.4 Decision Making; 2.6 Results; 2.6.1 System Performance; 2.6.2 Joint Limit Avoidance; 2.6.3 Learning Task; 2.7 Discussion; 2.8 Conclusions; References; 3 Computational Experience with a Modified Newton Solver for Continuous-Time Algebraic Riccati Equations; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Basic Theory and Newton's Algorithms3.2.1 Algorithmic Details; 3.2.2 Computation of the Newton Direction; 3.2.3 Computation of the Newton Step Size; 3.2.4 Convergence Tests and Updating the Current Iterate; 3.3 Numerical Results; 3.3.1 Randomly Generated Systems; 3.3.2 Systems from the COMPleib Collection; 3.4 Conclusions; References; 4 State Feedback Control with ANN Based Load Torque Feedforward for PMSM Fed by 3-Level NPC Inverter with Sinusoidal Output Voltage Waveform; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mathematical Model of an Electromechanical System; 4.2.1 Model of PMSM; 4.2.2 Model of Reactance Filter4.2.3 Model of Inverter; 4.3 Discrete State Feedback Controller; 4.3.1 State-Space Representation of the System; 4.3.2 An Internal Input Model; 4.3.3 Non-stationary Discrete Controller; 4.4 Feedforward Load Torque Compensation; 4.4.1 Feedforward Computation; 4.4.2 Neural Network Approximation; 4.5 Load Torque Observer; 4.6 Control System with Discrete State Feedback Controller and Load Torque Feedforward; 4.6.1 Model of Proposed Control System; 4.6.2 Simulation Test Results; 4.7 Conclusions; 4.8 Appendix: The Basic Parameters of the Control System; References; 5 Adaptive Dynamic Programming-Based Control of an Ankle Joint Prosthesis5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Dynamical Models of the Gait; 5.2.1 Link-Segment Representation of the Gait; 5.2.2 Ground Reaction Force; 5.2.3 Dynamics of the Prosthetic Ankle Joint During Gait; 5.3 Control Structure of the Prosthetic Ankle Joint; 5.3.1 Control of the Ankle Joint; 5.3.2 DNDP-Based Control Structure; 5.4 Numerical Study; 5.4.1 Simulation Setup; 5.4.2 Simulation Results; 5.5 Conclusions; References; 6 An Agent Based Layered Decision Process for Vehicle Platoon Control; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Definitions; 6.2.1 Leaders
• Sommario/riassunto: The present book includes a set of selected papers from the tenth “International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2013), held in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 29 to 31 July 2013. The conference was organized in four simultaneous tracks: “Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization”, “Robotics and Automation”, “Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control” and “Industrial Engineering, Production and Management”. The book is based on the same structure. ICINCO 2013 received 255 paper ; submissions from 50 countries, in all continents. After a double blind paper review performed by the Program Committee only 30% were published and presented orally. A further refinement was made after the conference, based also on the assessment of presentation quality, so that this book includes the extended and revised versions of the very best papers of ICINCO 2013.