Laser processing of engineering materials [e-book] : principles, procedure and industrial application / John C. Ion

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991003238339707536
• Autore: Ion, John C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
• ISBN: 9780750660792; 0750660791
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 556 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
• Disciplina: 621.366
• Soggetti: Lasers - Industrial applications; Lasers - Applications industrielles; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Risorsa elettronica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction; Evolution of Laser Material Processing; Lasers; Systems for Material Processing; Engineering Materials; Laser Processing Diagrams; Athermal Processing; Structural Change; Surface Hardening; Deformation and Fracture; Surface Melting; Cladding; Conduction Joining; Cutting; Marking; Keyhole Welding; Thermal Machining; Opportunities; Glossary; Appendices
• Sommario/riassunto: The complete guide to understanding and using lasers in material processing! Lasers are now an integral part of modern society, providing extraordinary opportunities for innovation in an ever-widening range of material processing and manufacturing applications. The study of laser material processing is a core element of many materials and manufacturing courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. As a consequence, there is now a vast amount of research on the theory and application of lasers to be absorbed by students, industrial researchers, practising engineers and production managers. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field with over twenty years' experience in laser processing, John Ion distils cutting-edge information and research into a single key text. Essential for anyone studying or working with lasers, Laser Processing of Engineering Materials provides a clear explanation of the underlying ; principles, including physics, chemistry and materials science, along with a framework of available laser processes and their distinguishing features and variables. This book delivers the knowledge needed to understand and apply lasers to the processing of engineering materials, and is highly recommended as a valuable guide to this revolutionary manufacturing technology. * The first single volume text that treats this core engineering subject in a systematic manner * Covers the principles, practice and application of lasers in all contemporary industrial processes; packed with examples, materials data and analysis, and modelling techniques * Accompanied by extensive examination questions plus a companion website with instructor's solutions manual

Testimony, tensions, and tikkun : teaching the Holocaust in colleges and universities / / edited and introduced by Myrna Goldenberg and Rochelle L. Millen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969852403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9780295801407; 0295801409
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Collana: The Pastora Goldner series in post-Holocaust studies
• Altri autori (Persone): GoldenbergMyrna; MillenRochelle L. <1943->
• Disciplina: 940.53/18071173
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Study and teaching (Higher); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States
• 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: Uses of the arts in the classroom : an unexpected alternative / Stephen Feinstein -- History, memory, and the city : case study, Berlin / Rachel Rapperport Munn -- Looking for words : teaching the Holocaust in writing-intensive courses / Beth Hawkins Benedix -- Teaching business ethics and the Holocaust / Donald Felipe -- Teaching the Holocaust : ; the ethics of "witness" history / Tam K. Parker -- From archive to classroom : reflections on teaching the history of the Holocaust in different countries / Paul A. Levine -- Teaching as testimony : pedagogical peculiarities of teaching the Holocaust / David Patterson -- Histories : betrayed and unfulfilled / Timothy A. Bennett and Rochelle L. Millen -- Cross-disciplinary notes : four questions for teaching the Shoah / David R. Blumenthal -- Developing criteria for religious and ethical teaching of the Holocaust / Didier Pollefeyt -- Students' affective responses to studying the Holocaust : pedagogical issues and an interview process / Amy H. Shapiro -- Keeping the faith : exploring the Holocaust with Christian students / Mary Todd -- Teaching theology after Auschwitz : a political-theological perspective / Juergen Manemann -- The tensions of teaching : truth and consequences / Laurinda Stryker -- An unlikely setting : Holocaust education in Orange County / Marilyn J. Harran -- The importance of teaching the Holocaust in community colleges : democratizing the study of the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg -- Teaching about the Holocaust in the setting of museums and memorials / Stephen D. Smith -- Dialogue at the threshold : the Pastora Goldner Holocaust Symposium and the work of Tikkun Olam / Leonard Grob and Henry F. Knight.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Holocaust was a cataclysmic upheaval in politics, culture, society, ethics, and theology. The very fact of its occurrence has been forcing scholars for more than sixty years to assess its impact on their disciplines. Educators whose work is represented in this volume ask their students to grapple with one of the grand horrors of the twentieth century and to accept the responsibility of building a more just, peaceful world (tikkun olam). They acknowledge that their task as teachers of the Holocaust is both imperative and impossible; they must "teach something that cannot be taught, " as one contributor puts it, and they recognize the formidable limits of language, thought, imagination, and comprehension that thwart and obscure the story they seek to tell. Yet they are united in their keen sense of pursuing an effort that is pivotal to our understanding of the past-and to whatever prospects we may have for a more decent and humane future. A "Holocaust course" refers to an instructional offering that may focus entirely on the Holocaust; may serve as a touchstone in a larger program devoted to genocide studies; or may constitute a unit within a wider curriculum, including art, literature, ethics, history, religious studies, jurisprudence, philosophy, theology, film studies, Jewish studies, German studies, composition, urban studies, or architecture. It may also constitute a main thread that runs through an interdisciplinary course. The first section of Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun can be read as an injunction to teach and act in a manner consistent with a profound cautionary message: that there can be no tolerance for moral neutrality about the Holocaust, and that there is no subject in the humanities or social sciences where its shadow has not reached. The second section is devoted to the process and nature of students' learning. These chapters describe efforts to guide students through terrain that hides cognitive and emotional land mines. The authors examine their responsibility to foster students' personal connection with the events of the Holocaust, but in such a way that they not instill hopelessness about the future. The third and final section moves the subject of the Holocaust out of the classroom and into broader institutional settings-universities and community colleges and their surrounding communities, along with museums and memorial sites. For the educators represented here, teaching itself is testimony. The story of the Holocaust is one that the world will fail to master at its ; own peril. The editors of this volume, and many of its contributors, are members of the Pastora Goldner Holocaust Symposium. Led since its founding in 1996 by Leonard Grob and Henry F. Knight, the symposium's scholars--a group that is interfaith, international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational--meet biennially in Oxfordshire, England.

The Jackknife and Bootstrap / / by Jun Shao, Dongsheng Tu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961075203321
• Autore: Shao Jun
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995
• ISBN: 1-4612-0795-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1995.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVII, 517 p.)
• Collana: Springer Series in Statistics, , 2197-568X
• Disciplina: 519
• Soggetti: Mathematics; Applications of Mathematics
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Statistics and Their Sampling Distributions -- 1.2 The Traditional Approach -- 1.3 The Jackknife -- 1.4 The Bootstrap -- 1.5 Extensions to Complex Problems -- 1.6 Scope of Our Studies -- 2. Theory for the Jackknife -- 2.1 Variance Estimation for Functions of Means -- 2.2 Variance Estimation for Functionals -- 2.3 The Delete-d Jackknife -- 2.4 Other Applications -- 2.5 Conclusions and Discussions -- 3. Theory for the Bootstrap -- 3.1 Techniques in Proving Consistency -- 3.2 Consistency: Some Major Results -- 3.3 Accuracy and Asymptotic Comparisons -- 3.4 Fixed Sample Performance -- 3.5 Smoothed Bootstrap -- 3.6 Nonregular Cases -- 3.7 Conclusions and Discussions -- 4. Bootstrap Confidence Sets and Hypothesis Tests -- 4.1 Bootstrap Confidence Sets -- 4.2 Asymptotic Theory -- 4.3 The Iterative Bootstrap and Other Methods -- 4.4 Empirical Comparisons -- 4.5 Bootstrap Hypothesis Tests -- 4.6 Conclusions and Discussions -- 5. Computational Methods -- 5.1 The Delete-1 Jackknife -- 5.2 The Delete-d Jackknife -- 5.3 Analytic Approaches for the Bootstrap -- 5.4 ; Simulation Approaches for the Bootstrap -- 5.5 Conclusions and Discussions -- 6. Applications to Sample Surveys -- 6.1 Sampling Designs and Estimates -- 6.2 Resampling Methods -- 6.3 Comparisons by Simulation -- 6.4 Asymptotic Results -- 6.5 Resampling Under Imputation -- 6.6 Conclusions and Discussions -- 7. Applications to Linear Models -- 7.1 Linear Models and Regression Estimates -- 7.2 Variance and Bias Estimation -- 7.3 Inference and Prediction Using the Bootstrap -- 7.4 Model Selection -- 7.5 Asymptotic Theory -- 7.6 Conclusions and Discussions -- 8. Applications to Nonlinear, Nonparametric, and Multivariate Models -- 8.1 Nonlinear Regression -- 8.2 Generalized Linear Models -- 8.3 Cox’s Regression Models -- 8.4 Kernel Density Estimation.-8.5 Nonparametric Regression -- 8.6 Multivariate Analysis -- 8.7 Conclusions and Discussions -- 9. Applications to Time Series and Other Dependent Data -- 9.1 m-Dependent Data -- 9.2 Markov Chains -- 9.3 Autoregressive Time Series -- 9.4 Other Time Series -- 9.5 Stationary Processes -- 9.6 Conclusions and Discussions -- 10. Bayesian Bootstrap and Random Weighting -- 10.1 Bayesian Bootstrap -- 10.2 Random Weighting -- 10.3 Random Weighting for Functional and Linear Models -- 10.4 Empirical Results for Random Weighting -- 10.5 Conclusions and Discussions -- Appendix A. Asymptotic Results -- A.1 Modes of Convergence -- A.2 Convergence of Transformations -- A.4 The Borel-Cantelli Lemma -- A.5 The Law of Large Numbers -- A.6 The Law of the Iterated Logarithm -- A.7 Uniform Integrability -- A.8 The Central Limit Theorem -- A.9 The Berry-Esséen Theorem -- A.10 Edgeworth Expansions -- A.11 Cornish-Fisher Expansions -- Appendix B. Notation -- References -- Author Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The jackknife and bootstrap are the most popular data-resampling meth­ ods used in statistical analysis. The resampling methods replace theoreti­ cal derivations required in applying traditional methods (such as substitu­ tion and linearization) in statistical analysis by repeatedly resampling the original data and making inferences from the resamples. Because of the availability of inexpensive and fast computing, these computer-intensive methods have caught on very rapidly in recent years and are particularly appreciated by applied statisticians. The primary aims of this book are (1) to provide a systematic introduction to the theory of the jackknife, the bootstrap, and other resampling methods developed in the last twenty years; (2) to provide a guide for applied statisticians: practitioners often use (or misuse) the resampling methods in situations where no theoretical confirmation has been made; and (3) to stimulate the use of the jackknife and bootstrap and further devel­ opments of the resampling methods. The theoretical properties of the jackknife and bootstrap methods are studied in this book in an asymptotic framework. Theorems are illustrated by examples. Finite sample properties of the jackknife and bootstrap are mostly investigated by examples and/or empirical simulation studies. In addition to the theory for the jackknife and bootstrap methods in problems with independent and identically distributed (Li.d.) data, we try to cover, as much as we can, the applications of the jackknife and bootstrap in various complicated non-Li.d. data problems.