1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707427203321

Autore

Dyson Rodger W (Rodger William)

Titolo

NASA electric aircraft test bed (NEAT) development plan: design, fabrication, installation / / Rodger W. Dyson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , July 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 25 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2016-219085

Soggetti

Electric motors

Electrification

Engine testing laboratories

Flight simulation

Product development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 30, 2016).

"July 2016."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 25).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785836303321

Titolo

Laws of nature [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the philosophical, scientific and historical dimensions / / edited by Friedel Weinert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 1995

ISBN

3-11-086985-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

Philosophie und Wissenschaft ; ; 8

Classificazione

CC 3200

Altri autori (Persone)

WeinertFriedel <1950->

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Philosophy and science

Nature

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- I. Introduction -- Laws of Nature - Laws of Science / Weinert, Friedel -- II. Philosophical Views -- The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities / Swartz, Norman -- The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments / Leckey, Martin / Bigelow, John -- The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature / Giere, Ronald -- The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief / Skyrms, Brian / Lambert, Karl -- The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws / Morrison, Margaret -- III. Scientific Views -- Laws and Experiment / Franklin, Allan -- Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence / Scheibe, Erhard -- Laws and Chaos / Haken, Hermann -- Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws / Davies, Paul -- The Distinctness of Biology / Ayala, Francisco -- IV. Historical Views -- Origins of Scientific "Law" / Ruby, Jane -- Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences / Steinle, Friedrich -- Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments / Galison, Peter -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Names Index

Sommario/riassunto

Laws of Nature



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973771603321

Autore

Allen G. C (George Cyril), <1900-1982., >

Titolo

Japan : the hungry guest / / G.C. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011, c1938

ISBN

1-136-92812-X

1-136-92813-8

1-283-03810-2

9786613038104

0-203-84556-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Japan ; ; v. 23

Disciplina

952.033

Soggetti

Eastern question (Far East)

National characteristics, Japanese

Japan Social conditions

Japan Economic conditions 1918-1945

Japan Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1938.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Nippon Seishin -- 3. Infinite variety -- 4. The structure of society -- 5. The government of the people -- 6. Fields, factories, and workshops -- 7. Economic development up to the world depression -- 8. Industrial recovery and the invasion of markets -- 9. The condition of the workers -- 10. Japan into Nippon -- 11. Manifest destiny -- 12. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Written after the outbreak of war between Japan and China but putting aside British sentiments of suspicion, dislike and a sense of competition, G C Allen bases his observations of Japanese social, political and economic life on his first-hand experience of living and working in the country for a number of years. He argues that the economic expansion of Japan was regarded as a greater threat to Britain because of Japan's political aims and aggressive territorial expansion, but he is at pains to explain the Japanese domestic circumstances which gave rise to this situation. He also argues that t