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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494611203321

Titolo

Handbook of reflector antennas and feed systems . Volume 3 Applications of reflectors / / Sudhakar Rao, Lotfollah Shafai, Satish Sharma, editors ; Vicki Kane, cover design ; contributors Dr. S. Bassily [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, Massachusetts : , : Artech House, , 2013

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2013]

ISBN

1-5231-1727-3

1-60807-520-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (462 p.)

Disciplina

621.31242

Soggetti

Antennas, Reflector - Design and construction

Antennas, Reflector

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Handbook of Reflector Antennas and Feed Systems; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Reflector Antenna Basics; 1.3 Organization of Book Chapters; References; Chapter 2 Reflector Antennas for Space Communicatiion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Contoured Beam Antennas; 2.2.1 Single-Offset Shaped Reflector Antenna for Contoured Beams; 2.2.2 Dual-Offset Gregorian Reflectors; 2.2.3 Gridded-Reflector Antennas; 2.3 Multiple-Beam Antennas; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Frequency Reuse Schemes ; 2.3.3 Multiple-Beam Antenna Types.

2.3.4 Design and Analysis of Multiple-Beam Reflector Antennas2.3.5 Multiple-Beam Antenna Design Examples for Various Satellite Services; References; Chapter 3 Reflector Antennas for Terrestrial Commutions; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Large Earth Station Reflector Antenn; 3.2.1 Design Method; 3.2.2 Main Performance; 3.3 Tri-Reflector Offset Antenna for Ter; 3.3.1 Electrical Design; 3.3.2 Structur.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first truly comprehensive and most up-to-date handbook available on modern reflector antennas and feed sources for diversified



space and ground applications. There has never been such an all-encompassing reflector handbook in print, and no currently available title offers coverage of such recent research developments. The Handbook consists of three volumes. Volume III focuses on the range of reflector antenna applications, including space, terrestrial, and radar. The intent of this book volume is to provide practical applications and design information on reflector antennas used fo.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828515303321

Titolo

Bread from the lion's mouth : artisans struggling for a livelihood in Ottoman cities / / edited by Suraiya Faroqhi ; contributors Seven Agir [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-559-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

International Studies in Social History ; ; Volume 26

Disciplina

331.7/94

Soggetti

Material culture - Turkey - History

Artisans - Turkey - History

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

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

Bread from the Lion's Mouth; Contents; List of Figures/Maps/Tables; Preface; Introduction: Once Again, Ottoman Artisans; Part I: Artisans over the Course of Time; 1 Tracing Esnaf in Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa Court Records; 2 The Art of the potter in Ottoman Hungary History, Meet Archaeology The Potter's Craft in Ottoman Hungary; 3 Damascene Artisans around 1700; 4 Mapping Istanbul's Hammams of 1752 and their Employees; 5 Surviving in Difficult Times:  The Cotton and Silk Trades in Bursa around 1800; 6 The Shoe Guilds of Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century:  A Case Study

Part II: Intra-guild Problems7 Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians: Artisan Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul; 8 Rich



Artisans and Poor Merchants? A Critical Look at the Supposed Egalitarianism in Ottoman Guilds; 9 Gedik: What's in a Name?; 10 Punishment, Repression and Violence in the Marketplace: Istanbul, 1730-1840; Part III: Artisans Confronting the Modernizing State; 11 Some Observations on Istanbul's Artisans during the Reign of  Selim III (1789-1808); 12 Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Protest, the State, and the End of the Guilds in Egypt; Glossary

BibliographyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries. The guilds transformed and eventually dissolved as they were increasingly co-opted by modernization and state-building projects, and by the movement of manufacturing to the countryside. In consequence by the 20th ce