1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003725559707536

Autore

Clark, Manning

Titolo

A Short History Of Australia / Manning Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : A Mentor Book, 1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811308403321

Autore

Jurdjevic Mark

Titolo

A great and wretched city : promise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought / / Mark Jurdjevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-36903-3

0-674-36899-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; ; 13

Disciplina

945/.506

Soggetti

Republicanism - Italy - Florence - History

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Savonarolan Lens -- 2. Roman Doubts -- 3. Nobles and Noble Culture in the Florentine Histories -- 4. A New View of the People -- 5. The Albizzi Regime in the Florentine Histories -- 6. The Virtues and Vices of Medici Power in the Florentine Histories -- 7. The Failure of Florentine Institutions -- Conclusion: Machiavelli's Republican Realism -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Despite the alternating tones of sarcasm and despair he used to describe Florentine affairs, Machiavelli provided a stubbornly persistent sense that his city had all the materials and potential necessary for a wholesale, triumphant, and epochal political renewal. As he memorably put it, Florence was "truly a great and wretched city." Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici. He shows that significant and as yet unrecognized aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were distinctly Florentine in inspiration, content, and purpose. From a new perspective and armed with new arguments, A Great and Wretched City reengages the venerable debate about Machiavelli's relationship to Renaissance republicanism. Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered Machiavelli only negative lessons, Jurdjevic argues that his contempt for the city's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of its unrealized political potential.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966671703321

Autore

Becchetti Claudio

Titolo

Medical instrument design and development : from requirements to market placements : includes a case study in ECG implementation / / Claudio Becchetti, Alessandro Neri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons, 2013

ISBN

9781118652459

1118652452

9781118652466

1118652460

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 575 p. : ill. (some col.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NeriA (Alessandro)

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Electrocardiography

Medical instruments and apparatus - Design and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

System engineering -- Concepts and requirements -- Biomedical engineering design -- Signal processing and estimation -- Applied electronics -- Medical software -- C-health -- Certification process.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains all of the stages involved in developing medical devices; from concept to medical approval including system engineering, bioinstrumentation design, signal processing, electronics, software and ICT with Cloud and e-Health development.   Medical Instrument Design and Development offers a comprehensive theoretical background with extensive use of diagrams, graphics and tables (around 400 throughout the book). The book explains how the theory is translated into industrial medical products using a market-sold Electrocardiograph disclosed in its design by the Gamma Cardio Soft manufacturer.   The sequence of the chapters reflects the product development lifecycle. Each chapter is focused on a specific University course and is divided into two sections: theory and implementation. The theory sections explain the main concepts and principles which remain valid across technological evolutions of medical instrumentation. The Implementation sections show how the theory is



translated into a medical product. The Electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) is used as an example as it is a suitable device to explore to fully understand medical instrumentation since it is sufficiently simple but encompasses all the main areas involved in developing medical electronic equipment.   Key Features:    * Introduces a system-level approach to product design  * Covers topics such as bioinstrumentation, signal processing, information theory, electronics, software, firmware, telemedicine, e-Health and medical device certification  * Explains how to use theory to implement a market product (using ECG as an example)  * Examines the design and applications of main medical instruments  * Details the additional know-how required for product implementation: business context, system design, project management, intellectual property rights, product life cycle, etc.  * Includes an accompanying website with the design of the certified ECG product ( www.gammacardiosoft.it/book )  * Discloses the details of a marketed ECG Product (from Gamma Cardio Soft) compliant with the ANSI standard AAMI EC 11 under open licenses (GNU GPL, Creative Common)  This book is written for biomedical engineering courses (upper-level undergraduate and graduate students) and for engineers interested in medical instrumentation/device design with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary system perspective.