AIEE No 805-1960 : AIEE Proposed Test Procedure for Alternating Current 400 Cycle Per second Aircraft Induction Motors / / IEEE

• Record Nr.: UNISA996280826103316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : IEEE, , 1960
• ISBN: 1-5044-0446-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 621.46
• Soggetti: Electric motors, Induction; Electric machinery, Induction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The purpose of this procedure is to define uniform acceptable methods for making tests to determine the performance of alternating-current, 400-cycle-per-second, aircraft-type induction electric motors. Aircraft-type machines are subjected to environmental operating conditions much more stringent than those normally encountered by commercial type machines and yet minimum weight and the utmost reliability are essential to the application. Weight reduction is normally achieved by reduction of life expectancy, thus making direct measurements a necessity in order to determine that reliability is commensurate with aircraft practices. It is recognized that there may be acceptable methods for making tests other than those included herein. However, the methods in this publication are intended to serve as a standard for both manufacturers and users of aircraft motors. It is intended that the standardizing of test procedures will Iead to coincident test data regardless of which party conducts the test.

The time of our lives : a critical history of temporality / / David Couzens Hoy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954803303321
• Autore: Hoy David Couzens
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009
• ISBN: 9786612240218; 9780262260831; 0262260832; 9781282240216; 1282240218; 9780262255226; 0262255227
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 115
• Soggetti: Time - Philosophy; Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 In Search of Lost Time -- Kant on the Source of Time -- Heidegger's Reading of Kant -- The Early Heidegger -- Reflections -- 2 There Is No Time Like the Present! -- Hegel's Critique of the Now -- William James and the Specious Present -- Husserl on Time-Consciousness -- Heidegger in Being and Time -- Merleau-Ponty on Temporal Idealism -- Derrida's Critique of the Metaphysics of Presence -- Nietzsche and Deleuze on Eternal Recurrence -- Reflections -- 3 Where Does the Time Go? -- Phenomenology of the Past -- Twentieth-Century German Phenomenology -- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy -- Deleuze contra Bergson? -- Reflections -- 4 "The Times They Are a-Changin'" -- Kant and Hegel on Universal History -- Heidegger on the Futural -- Walter Benjamin's Angelus Novus -- Deleuze on the Temporality of the Self -- Derrida on Democracy-to-Come -- Žižek on Bartleby Politics -- Reflections -- 5 Le temps retrouvé -- Strategy 1: Remembering -- Strategy 2: Interpretation -- Strategy 3: Critique -- Strategy 4: Dual ; Temporalization -- Closing Time -- Postscript on Method -- Genealogy and Critical Theory -- Universalism -- Genealogy and Phenomenology, Redux -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this study, Hoy charts the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality. Drawing upon a broad range of theory, Hoy considers four existential strategies for coping with the apparent flow of temporality.

Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia : Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices / / Yulia Krasheninnikova, Andreas Umland, Vasily Vlassov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972888703321
• Autore: Krasheninnikova Yulia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2017
• ISBN: 9783838209708; 3838209702
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 281 pages)
• Collana: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; 165
• Disciplina: 362.10947
• Soggetti: Russia; Medicine; health care
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Author's note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Goals and tools of informal healthcare sociography -- 1.1. Problem statement -- 1.2. Description model -- 1.3. "Informal healthcare" drivers -- 2 Agents in the markets for health products -- 2.1. "We are like Galileo-they burn us at the stake, but we continue promoting dietary supplements": Direct selling of health products -- 2.2. Latent functions of the healthcare institution: The case of pharmacies -- 2.3. Contemporary peddlers: Itinerant trade and peddling health products -- 3 Health from the garden, forest, and market: Procuring and selling gifts of nature -- 4 Shadow and ; respectable alternative medicine: From healers to "complementary" specialists -- 4.1. "People remember a certain Baba Vanga, so they will also remember me": Healers -- 4.2. Frontier zone: Ambivalent status, recognition problems and shadow practices of complementary and alternative medicine specialists -- 4.3. All diseases of the nerves: Psychotherapy as an alternative to orthodox medicine -- 5 Religious institutions: Health concerns and commerce on health problems -- 5.1. The attitude of religious organizations to conventional and alternative medicine -- 5.2. Treatment arsenal: Religious ceremonies, rituals, and practices to address health problems -- 5.3. Social service as a form of religions' participation in healthcare -- 5.4. Religious associations in the markets for health products -- 6 The "informal healthcare" framework: Information markets -- 6.1. Mass media -- 6.2. Information intermediaries -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Characteristics of the fieldwork in the Perm Territory -- Appendix 2. The religious landscape in the field research area -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. A wide range of agents is described—from network marketing companies to 'folk' journals on health as well as healers, complementary medicine specialists, and religious organizations. Krasheninnikova’s book is based on rich empirical observations and avoids both positive and critical assessment of the analyzed phenomena. Her investigation pays particular attention to the legal, social, and economic status of informal healthcare providers. She demonstrates that these agents tend to flourish in bigger towns rather than in small settlements, where public healthcare is lacking. The study reveals the important role of institutions that are generally not related to alternative medicine, such as pharmacies, libraries, and church shops. The result is a vivid and thorough introduction to the world of self-medication and alternative healing in contemporary Russia. A special emphasis was made on the flexibility of boundaries between formal and informal healthcare due to the evolution of rules and regulations.; “As the author remarkably demonstrates, informal healthcare of the Russian province is a vast universe of people with their social institutions and networks that paradoxically combine rational approaches with irrational beliefs in miraculous cures …“ —Alexander Nikulin, Director of the Center for Agrarian Studies, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; “The book provides conclusive evidence that the informal healthcare of provincial Russia, which successfully survives outside and between the market and the state, is one of the most flexible sectors of the informal economy and is extremely important for the majority of the Russian population.“ —Teodor Shanin, President, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; “I read the book with a degree of horror. It dispels the myth that alternative medicine is a substitute for the conventional one: where there is no conventional medicine, there is none at all. The book demonstrates yet again that traditional medicine is increasingly becoming business-focused rather than folk-based. […] Moreover, informal techniques penetrate the formal healthcare system and merge with it. At the same time, although many practices involving breathing exercises, leech therapy, massage, etc. are not evidence-based, even I have nothing against them. In general, the book draws attention to numerous issues and highlights a maze of concerns that have to be dealt with. Measures to be adopted must not be purely restrictive; ; rather, they should be scientific and educational, in particular, based on telemedicine technology.“ —Pavel Vorobiev, Professor, Head of the Department of Hematology and Geriatrics, First Sechenov, Moscow State Medical University; “The book offers a fascinating account on the markets, agents, and infrastructures of informal health, which is defined as the diverse set of health-maintenance institutions and practices outside the scope of the formal health-care system. […] Krasheninnikova’s study offers a valuable contribution to our understanding of public health in contemporary Russia as well as of the country’s sociology of informal institutions and practices.” —The Russian Review (Vol. 77, No. 2), April 2018; “This approach is novel. It addresses an important void in the literature on CAM and other alternative forms of healing and healthcare that is generally unavailable. In this respect, Krasheninnikova has made an important contribution to the literature.” —Slavic Review, Spring 2019