1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910800189403321

Autore

Zhang Hongyan <1962->

Titolo

Resistance welding : fundamentals and applications / / Hongyan Zhang and Jacek Senkara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL, : CRC Press, ©2012

ISBN

0-429-09726-3

1-138-07524-8

1-4398-5371-1

1-4665-5641-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SenkaraJacek

Disciplina

671.5/213

Soggetti

Electric welding

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1 - Welding Metallurgy; Chapter 2 - Electrothermal Processes of Welding; Chapter 3 - Weld Discontinuities; Chapter 4 - Mechanical Testing; Chapter 5 - Resistance Welding Process Monitoring and Control; Chapter 6 - Weld Quality and Inspection; Chapter 7 - Expulsion in Resistance Spot Welding; Chapter 8 - Influence of Mechanical Characteristics of Welding Machines; Chapter 9 - Numerical Simulation in Resistance Spot Welding; Chapter 10 - Statistical Design, Analysis, and Inference in Resistance Welding Research; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

""The second edition has made a great book even better. It remains a significant, practical aid to anyone interested in a better understanding of resistance welding science and it should be considered for their library.""-Welding Journal, February 2013Praise for the First Edition:""The chapters are easy to comprehend, and the topics are presented in a 'big picture' basis. ... General concepts are the highlight. ... There are 20 to 40 references at the end of each chapter, and most of the chapters begin with a good literature, which then allows this book to be used as an introduction to welding at



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810234503321

Autore

Phillips Natalie M.

Titolo

Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4214-2013-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

Enlightenment - Great Britain

Psychology and literature - History - 18th century

Distraction (Psychology)

Interest (Psychology)

Cognition in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

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

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Literary History of Distraction; The Unifocal and the Multifocal; The Rise of the Distracted Character; Attention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind; A Swiftly Tilting Madness; Categorizing Distraction; 1 Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay; Distraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay; The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas; The Essay as a Tool of Focus; Training Attention to Attention; Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic Irony

Economies of AttentionThe History of Attention Span; 2 Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female Mind; Environment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain; The Problem of a Soft Female Mind; Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette; The Challenges of Situational Awareness; Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves; Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine; The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention; "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read": Indulging the Diverted Reader



3 Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive OverloadRhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind; Tristram's Style and the Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload; Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader; The Anatomy of Parallel Processing; The Sermon and Rhythms of Distraction; Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest; Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload; Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction; 4 Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded Focus; Microscope and Mind

Scientific Metaphors and the Madness of AttentionThe Politics and Poetics of Fixation; Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness; Sympathy and the Bene.ts of Distraction; Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime; Fixation and the Science of Obsession; 5 Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen; The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice; The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters; Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind; Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of Depth

Lydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive VacancyThe Dangers of Too Much Attention; Distraction as Liveliness of Mind; Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility; Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excessive Vigilance; Elizabeth Bennet: The Bene.ts of Diversion; Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest; Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience; Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice; Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen; The Value of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R

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