1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910838331903321

Autore

Barnett Tertia

Titolo

An Engraved Landscape : 2 Volume Set

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Havertown : , : Society for Libyan Studies, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9781900971386

9781900971539

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (933 pages)

Collana

Society for Libyan Studies Monograph

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973319003321

Autore

Aldama Frederick Luis <1969->

Titolo

Why the humanities matter : a commonsense approach / / Frederick Luis Aldama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

9780292793972

0292793979

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

001.3

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Philosophy, Modern - 21st century

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. [327]-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: a new humanism -- Self, identity, and ideas -- Revisiting



Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault -- Derrida gets medieval -- Imaginary empires, real nations -- Edward Said spaced out -- Modernity, what? -- Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today -- Translation matters -- Can music resist? -- The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies -- Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims -- Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness -- Why literature matters -- Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people.

Sommario/riassunto

Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty. Offering a lens of "new humanism," Frederick Aldama also provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, and writing in colloquial yet multifaceted prose, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what "culture" actually does—who generates it and how it shapes our identities—and the role of academia in sustaining it.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911021972903321

Autore

Borutzky Wolfgang

Titolo

Multivariable Control Engineering Problems and their Solutions with GNU Octave / / by Wolfgang Borutzky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-95408-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages)

Collana

Intelligent Technologies and Robotics Series

Disciplina

629.8312

003

Soggetti

Automatic control

Telecommunication

Electronic circuits

Mechanics, Applied

Computer simulation

Control and Systems Theory

Communications Engineering, Networks

Electronic Circuits and Systems

Engineering Mechanics

Computer Modelling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems -- State Observability -- State Controllability -- Decomposition of an LTI system into subsystems -- Minimal State-Space Realisation of a Transfer Function Matrix -- Stability of Multivariable Systems -- Closed Loop Stability -- State Feedback -- Optimal control -- Robust Control -- Linear Convex Optimisation -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This problem and solution-oriented textbook covers standard control engineering tasks as well as advanced modern control techniques. Throughout, students are provided examples of control engineering problems with step-by-step solutions. Each chapter addresses basic ideas, key control concepts, and definitions and provides a compilation of theoretical results used for the solution of the problems. The book is



aimed not only at engineering students and practitioners but also computer science students and software engineers who, for instance, are working on the design of autonomous cars or with digital twins and need some knowledge of basic control concepts and advanced modern control techniques. The book addresses graduate students and readers in the overlap of engineering and computer science. The book aims to further their understanding of theoretical results learned in undergraduate control classes or in textbooks; the book shows them how to apply their knowledge in exercises to small problems and to see how some examples of problems can be solved. Whenever possible, the problems have been solved by means of the open-source software GNU Octave. In some cases, also the free open-source mathematical software Scilab has been used. Provides problems and solutions for standard control engineering tasks and advanced modern control techniques; Provides a collection of examples of control engineering problems with step-by-step solutions; Addresses control concepts and provides a compilation of theoretical results used for the solution of the problems.