Catalysis by ceria and related materials [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alessandro Trovarelli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451314703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-86094-965-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Collana: Catalytic science series ; ; v. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): TrovarelliAlessandro
• Disciplina: 541.3/95
• Soggetti: Cerium oxides; Catalysis; Electronic books.
• 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: CONTENTS ; Preface ; 1. Mining, Production, Application and Safety Issues of Cerium-based Materials; 1.1. Mining ; 1.2. Production and Application ; 1.3. Safety Issues ; 1.4. References ; 2. Structural Properties and Nonstoichiometric Behavior of CeO2; 2.1. Structural Properties ; 2.2. Defect Structure Analysis ; 2.3. Transport Properties; 2.4. References 3. Synthesis and Modification of Ceria-based Materials ; 3.1. Introduction ; 3.2. Solid to Solid Synthesis ; 3.3. Liquid to Solid Synthesis ; 3.4. Gas to Solid Synthesis ; 3.5. Modification of Bulk and Surface ; 3.6. References; 4. Chemical and Nanostructural Aspects of the Preparation and Characterisation of Ceria and Ceria-Based Mixed Oxide-Supported Metal Catalysts4.1. Introduction ; 4.2. Preparation of M/CeO2 and Closely Related Catalysts; 4.3. Characterisation of M/CeO2 and Closely Related Catalysts; 4.4. References ; 5. Studies of Ceria-containing Catalysts Using Magnetic Resonance and X-ray Spectroscopies; 5.1. Introduction ; 5.2. EPR ; 5.3. NMR ; 5.4. XPS ; 5.5. XAFS; 5.6. References 6. Structural Properties and Thermal ; Stability of Ceria-Zirconia and Related Materials ; 6.1. The CeO2-ZrO2 Phase Diagram; 6.2. Effects of High Temperature Reducing and Oxidising Treatments ; 6.3. Effects of Aliovalent Doping on Thermal and Phase Stability ; 6.4. Effects of Addition of Al2O3 to CeO2-ZrO2 Mixed Oxides; 6.5. References 7. Oxygen Storage/Redox Capacity and Related Phenomena on Ceria-Based Catalysts ; 7.1. Introduction ; 7.2. Oxygen Storage Capacity Measurements ; 7.3. Elementary Steps Involved in OSC Processes ; 7.4. OSC and Catalysis ; 7.5. References; 8. Computer Simulation Studies of Ceria-based Oxides
• Sommario/riassunto: The use of CeO2-based materials in catalysis has attracted considerable attention in recent years, particularly in applications like environmental catalysis, where ceria has shown great potential. This book critically reviews the most recent advances in the field, with the focus on both fundamental and applied issues. The first few chapters cover structural and chemical properties of ceria and related materials, i.e. phase stability, reduction behaviour, synthesis, interaction with probe molecules (CO, O2, NO), and metal-support interaction - all presented from the viewpoint of catalytic appl

Philosophers of the Renaissance / / edited by Paul Richard Blum ; translated by Brian McNeil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464382803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, District of Columbia : , : Catholic University of America Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• ISBN: 0-8132-1807-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BlumPaul Richard; McNeilBrian
• Disciplina: 190.9/031
• Soggetti: Philosophy, Renaissance; Philosophers, Medieval; Electronic books.
• 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: Introduction: philosophy in the Renaissance / Paul Richard Blum -- Ramon Lull (1232-1316) : the activity of God and the hominization of the world / Charles Lohr -- George Gemistos Plethon (ca. 1360-1454), George of Trebizond (1396-1472), and Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) : the controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians in the fifteenth century / Peter Schulz -- Lorenzo Valla (1406/7-1457) : humanism as philosophy / Paul Richard Blum -- Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) : squaring the circle : politics, piety, and rationality / Detlef Thiel -- Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) : philosophy of private and public life and of art / Michaela Boenke -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) : the synthetic reconciliation of all philosophies / Stephane Toussaint -- Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) : the aesthetic of the one in the soul / Tamara Albertini -- Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) : secular aristotelianism in the Renaissance / Jill Kraye -- Niccoli Macchiavelli (1469-1527) : a good state for bad people / Heinrich C. Kuhn -- Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum -- Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. Andersson -- Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and ; philosopher / Günter Frank -- Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst -- Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz -- Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf -- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. Bauer -- Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) : the revolution of knowledge from the prison / Germana Ernst.

Dedicated digital processors [[electronic resource] ] : methods in hardware/software system design / / F. Mayer-Lindenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145770203321
• Autore: Mayer-Lindenberg F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : J. Wiley, c2004
• ISBN: 1-280-26941-3; 9786610269419; 0-470-09282-3; 0-470-09284-X
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.39/16; 621.3916
• Soggetti: Microprocessors - Design and construction; Computer software; Electronic books.
• 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 (p. [291]-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: DEDICATED DIGITAL PROCESSORS; Contents; Preface; 1 Digital Computer Basics; 1.1 Data Encoding; 1.1.1 Encoding Numbers; 1.1.2 Code Conversions and More Codes; 1.2 Algorithms and Algorithmic Notations; 1.2.1 Functional Composition and the Data Flow; 1.2.2 ; Composition by Cases and the Control Flow; 1.2.3 Alternative Algorithms; 1.3 Boolean Functions; 1.3.1 Sets of Elementary Boolean Operations; 1.3.2 Gate Complexity and Simplification of Boolean Algorithms; 1.3.3 Combined and Universal Functions; 1.4 Timing, Synchronization and Memory; 1.4.1 Processing Time and Throughput of Composite Circuits; 1.4.2 Serial and Parallel Processing1.4.3 Synchronization; 1.5 Aspects of System Design; 1.5.1 Architectures for Digital Systems; 1.5.2 Application Modeling; 1.5.3 Design Metrics; 1.6 Summary; Exercises; 2 Hardware Elements; 2.1 Transistors, Gates and Flip-Flops; 2.1.1 Implementing Gates with Switches; 2.1.2 Registers and Synchronization Signals; 2.1.3 Power Consumption and Related Design Rules; 2.1.4 Pulse Generation and Interfacing; 2.2 Chip Technology; 2.2.1 Memory Bus Interface; 2.2.2 Semiconductor Memory Devices; 2.2.3 Processors and Single-Chip Systems; 2.2.4 Configurable Logic, FPGA; 2.3 Chip Level and Circuit Board-Level Design2.3.1 Chip Versus Board-Level Design; 2.3.2 IP-Based Design; 2.3.3 Configurable Boards and Interconnections; 2.3.4 Testing; 2.4 Summary; Exercises; 3 Hardware Design Using VHDL; 3.1 Hardware Design Languages; 3.2 Entities and Signals; 3.3 Functional Behavior of Building Blocks; 3.4 Structural Architecture Definitions; 3.5 Timing Behavior and Simulation; 3.6 Test Benches; 3.7 Synthesis Aspects; 3.8 Summary; Exercises; 4 Operations on Numbers; 4.1 Single Bit Binary Adders and Multipliers; 4.2 Fixed Point Add, Subtract, and Compare; 4.3 Add and Subtract for Redundant Codes4.4 Binary Multiplication; 4.5 Sequential Adders, Multipliers and Multiply-Add Structures; 4.6 Distributed Arithmetic; 4.7 Division and Square Root; 4.8 Floating Point Operations and Functions; 4.9 Polynomial Arithmetic; 4.10 Summary; Exercises; 5 Sequential Control Circuits; 5.1 Mealy and Moore Automata; 5.2 Scheduling, Operand Selection and the Storage Automaton; 5.3 Designing the Control Automaton; 5.4 Sequencing with Counter and Shift Register Circuits; 5.5 Implementing the Control Flow; 5.6 Synchronization; 5.7 Summary; Exercises; 6 Sequential Processors6.1 Designing for ALU Efficiency; 6.1.1 Multifunction ALU Circuits; 6.1.2 Pipelining; 6.2 The Memory Subsystem; 6.2.1 Pipelined Memory Accesses, Registers, and the Von Neumann Architecture; 6.2.2 Instruction Set Architectures and Memory Requirements; 6.2.3 Caches and Virtual Memory, Soft Caching; 6.3 Simple Programmable Processor Designs; 6.3.1 CPU1 - The Basic Control Function; 6.3.2 CPU2 - An Efficient Processor for FPGA-based Systems; 6.4 Interrupt Processing and Context Switching; 6.5 Interfacing Techniques; 6.5.1 Pipelining Input and Output; 6.5.2 Parallel and Serial Interfaces, Counters and Timers
• Sommario/riassunto: The recent evolution of digital technology has resulted in the design of digital processors with increasingly complex capabilities. The implementation of hardware/software co-design methodologies provides new opportunities for the development of low power, high speed DSPs and processor networks. Dedicated digital processors are digital processors with an application specific computational task. Dedicated Digital Processors presents an integrated and accessible approach to digital processor design principles, processes, and implementations based upon the author's considerable experienc

Africa handbook / Editor: Colin Legum

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00068521
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Harmondsworth, : Penguin Books, 1969
• Edizione: [Specially revised for this edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 681 p. ; 20 cm
• Disciplina: 960
• Soggetti: AFRICA - Manuali; AFRICA - Studi
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia