Advanced ceramic materials / / edited by Ashutosh Tiwari, Rosario A. Gerhardt and Magdalena Szutkowska

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807945603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Beverly, Massachusetts ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Scrivener Publishing : , : Wiley, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-119-24272-X; 1-119-24273-8; 1-119-24259-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 p.)
• Collana: Advanced Material Series
• Disciplina: 620.1/4
• Soggetti: Ceramic materials
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part 1 Design, Processing, and Properties; 1 Development of Epitaxial Oxide Ceramics Nanomaterials Based on Chemical Strategies on Semiconductor Platforms; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Integration of Epitaxial Functional Oxides Nanomaterials on Silicon Entirely Performed by Chemical Solution Strategies; 1.2.1 Integration of Piezoelectric Quartz Thin Films on Silicon by Soft Chemistry; 1.2.2 Controllable Textures of Epitaxial Quartz Thin Films; 1.2.3 Integration of Functional Oxides by Quartz Templating; 1.2.4 Highly Textured ZnO Thin Films; 1.3 Integration of Functional Oxides by Combining Soft Chemistry and Physical Techniques1.4 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Biphasic, Triphasic, and Multiphasic Calcium Orthophosphates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 General Definitions and Knowledge; 2.3 Various Types of Biphasic, Triphasic, and Multiphasic CaPO4; 2.4 Stability; 2.5 Preparation; 2.6 Properties; 2.7 Biomedical Applications; 2.8 Conclusions; References; 3 An Energy Efficient Processing Route for Advance Ceramic Composites Using Microwaves; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historical Developments in Materials Processing by Microwaves; 3.3 Introduction to Microwave Heating Process3.3.1 Microwave-; materials Interaction Theory; 3.3.2 Microwave Heating Mechanisms; 3.4 Heating Methods by Microwaves; 3.4.1 Direct Microwave Heating; 3.4.2 Microwave Hybrid Heating; 3.4.3 Selective Heating; 3.4.4 Microwave-assisted Processing of Materials; 3.5 Advantages/Limitations of Microwave Material Processing; 3.5.1 Highly Energy Efficient Processing Method; 3.5.2 Better Quality of Processed Materials; 3.5.3 Cleaner Energy Processing; 3.5.4 Compact Processing Unit; 3.5.5 Restriction in Processing of All Varieties of Materials; 3.5.6 Restrictions in Processing of Complex Shapes3.5.7 Non-uniformity in Heating; 3.5.8 Human Safety Issues; 3.6 Application of Microwave Heating in Composite Processing; 3.6.1 Recent Review of Work Carried Out in MMC/CMC/ Alloys/Ceramic Processing by Microwaves; 3.6.2 Microwave Melting/Casting of Metals/Metal Matrix Composites; 3.7 Future Prospectives; 3.8 Conclusion; References; Part 2 Ceramic Composites: Fundamental and Frontiers; 4 Continuous Fiber-reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Parts of a CMC; 4.2.1 Fibers; 4.2.2 Interphase; 4.2.3 Matrix; 4.3 Modern Uses of CMCs4.4 History; 4.5 Ceramic Fibers; 4.5.1 Oxide Fibers; 4.5.1.1 Alumina Fibers; 4.5.1.2 Stabilized Alumina Fibers; 4.5.1.3 Alumina Silicate Fibers; 4.5.1.4 Other Oxide Fibers; 4.5.2 Non-oxide Fibers (SiC); 4.5.2.1 Oxidation; 4.5.2.2 Irradiation; 4.5.2.3 Sintering; 4.5.3 Carbon Fibers; 4.5.3.1 Polyacrylonitrile; 4.5.3.2 Pitch; 4.6 Interface/Interphase; 4.6.1 Requirements; 4.6.2 Non-oxide; 4.6.3 Oxide; 4.7 Matrix Materials; 4.7.1 Carbon; 4.7.2 Silicon Carbide; 4.7.3 Oxides; 4.8 Matrix Fabrication Techniques; 4.8.1 Polymer Impregnation and Pyrolysis; 4.8.2 Chemical Vapor Infiltration

Critical Trauma Studies : Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life / / Monica J. Casper, Eric Wertheimer, Eric Wertheimer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911004794403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2016; New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4798-2842-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Classificazione: SOC026000SOC032000
• Disciplina: 155.935
• Soggetti: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Traumatic shock; Psychic trauma
• 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 (pages 257-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Within Trauma: An Introduction -- 2. Trauma Is as Trauma Does: The Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Times -- 3. “She Was Just a Chechen”: The Female Suicide Bomber as a Site of Collective Suffering in Wartime Chechen Republic -- 4. Naming Sexual Trauma: On the Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourses -- 5. Conceptualizing Forgiveness in the Face of Historical Trauma -- 6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp -- 7. Voices of Silence: On Speaking from within the Void (A Response to Shahla Talebi) -- 8. Future’s Past: A Conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab -- 9. “No Other Tale to Tell”: Trauma and Acts of Forgetting in The Road -- 10. Body Animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah): A Performance -- 11. First Responders: A Pedagogy for Writing and Reading Trauma -- 12. Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing Trauma -- 13. Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family’s Saga -- 14. A Cure for Bitterness -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a ; continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the Chechen Republic, singing prisoners in Iranian prison camps, sexual assault and survivor advocacy, and families facing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As it proceeds, Critical Trauma Studies never loses sight of the way those who study trauma as an academic field, and those who experience, narrate, and remediate trauma as a personal and embodied event, inform one another. Theoretically adventurous and deeply particular, this book aims to advance trauma studies as a discipline that transcends intellectual boundaries, to be mapped but also to be unmoored from conceptual and practical imperatives. Remaining embedded in lived experiences and material realities, Critical Trauma Studies frames the field as both richly unbounded and yet clearly defined, historical, and evidence-based.

Advanced Computational Methods for Oncological Image Analysis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557353503321
• Autore: Rundo Leonardo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Soggetti: Medicine and Nursing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: [Cancer is the second most common cause of death worldwide and encompasses highly variable clinical and biological scenarios. Some of the current clinical challenges are (i) early diagnosis of the disease and (ii) precision medicine, which allows for treatments targeted to specific clinical cases. The ultimate goal is to optimize the clinical workflow by combining accurate diagnosis with the most suitable therapies. Toward this, large-scale machine learning research can define associations among clinical, imaging, and multi-omics studies, making it possible to provide reliable diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for precision oncology. Such reliable computer-assisted methods (i.e., artificial intelligence) together with clinicians' unique knowledge can be used to properly handle typical issues in evaluation/quantification procedures (i.e., operator dependence and time-consuming tasks). These technical advances can significantly improve result repeatability in disease diagnosis and guide toward appropriate cancer care. Indeed, the need to apply machine learning and computational intelligence techniques has steadily increased to effectively perform image processing operations-such as segmentation, co-registration, classification, and dimensionality reduction-and multi-omics data integration.]