1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910903999703321

Autore

Sherkat Darren E.

Titolo

Changing Faith : The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities / / Darren E. Sherkat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

9780814741283

0814741282

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

200.973

Soggetti

Identification (Religion)

Electronic books.

United States Religion

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Making Sense of American Religion -- 1. Religious Identification in America -- 2. Religious Switching and Religious Change -- 3 Belonging and Believing -- 4. Faith, Family, and Fortune -- 5. Religious Identification and Politics in the United States -- Conclusions. Making Sense of Shifting Identities and Their Influence -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

More than anywhere else in the Western world, religious attachments in America are quite flexible, with over 40 percent of U.S. citizens shifting their religious identification at least once in their lives. In Changing Faith, Darren E. Sherkat draws on empirical data from large-scale national studies to provide a comprehensive portrait of religious change and its consequences in the United States. With analysis spanning across generations and ethnic groups, the volume traces the evolution of the experience of Protestantism and Catholicism in the United States, the dramatic growth of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, and the rise of non-identification, now the second most common religious affiliation in the country. Drawing on that wealth of data, it details the impact of religious commitments on broad arenas of



American social life, including family and sexuality, economic well-being, political commitments, and social values. Exploring religious change among those of European heritage as well as of Eastern and Western European immigrants, African Americans, Asians, Latin Americans, and Native Americans, Changing Faith not only provides a comprehensive and ethnically inclusive demographic overview of the juncture between religion and ethnicity within both the private and public sphere, but also brings empirical analysis back to the sociology of religion.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157375003321

Autore

Zhou Keliang

Titolo

Periodic control of power electronic converters / / Keliang Zhou, Danwei Wang, Yongheng Yang, Frede Blaabjerg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, , 2016

ISBN

1-5231-0858-4

1-84919-933-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

621.3/17

Soggetti

Electric current converters

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental periodic control; 3. Advanced periodic control for power harmonics mitigation; 4. Periodic control of power converters; 5. Frequency-adaptive periodic control; 6. Frequency-adaptive periodic control of power converters; 7. Continuing developments of periodic control; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A key issue for power electronic converters is the ability to tackle periodic signals in electrical power processing to precisely and flexibly convert and regulate electrical power. This book provides complete analysis and synthesis methods for periodic control systems. It covers the control, compensation, and filtering of periodic signals in power electronic power processing and proposes a unified framework for housing periodic control schemes for power converters, providing a



general proportional-integral-derivative control solution to periodic signal compensation in extensive engineering applications - a perfect periodic control solution for power electronic conversion. It provides number of demonstrative practical examples of the application of periodic control to: standalone constant-voltage-constant-frequency (CVCF) singlephase Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) inverters; standalone CVCF singlephase High Frequency Link (HFL) inverters; standalone CVCF three-phase PWM inverters; grid-connected single-phase inverters; grid-connected singlephase "Cycloconverter" type HFL rectifiers; grid-connected three-phase PWM inverters; programmable AC power sources; shunt active power filters; and UPS systems. Periodic Control of Power Electronic Converters is of key importance for researchers and engineers in the field of power electronic converter systems and their applications, for control specialists exploring new applications of control theory in power electronics, and for advanced university students in these fields.