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Dorsality [[electronic resource] ] : thinking back through technology and politics / / David Wills
| Dorsality [[electronic resource] ] : thinking back through technology and politics / / David Wills |
| Autore | Wills David <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | Posthumanities |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Political science - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0-8166-5668-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The dorsal turn -- Facades of the other : Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas -- No one home : Homer, Joyce, Broch -- A line drawn in the ocean : Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud -- Friendship in torsion : Schmitt, Derrida -- Revolutions in the darkroom : Balázs, Benjamin, Sade -- The controversy of dissidence : Nietzsche. |
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| Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 | ||
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Dorsality [[electronic resource] ] : thinking back through technology and politics / / David Wills
| Dorsality [[electronic resource] ] : thinking back through technology and politics / / David Wills |
| Autore | Wills David <1953-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | Posthumanities |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Political science - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0-8166-5668-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The dorsal turn -- Facades of the other : Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas -- No one home : Homer, Joyce, Broch -- A line drawn in the ocean : Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud -- Friendship in torsion : Schmitt, Derrida -- Revolutions in the darkroom : Balázs, Benjamin, Sade -- The controversy of dissidence : Nietzsche. |
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| Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 | ||
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Du mode d'existence des objets techniques / Gilbert Simondon
| Du mode d'existence des objets techniques / Gilbert Simondon |
| Autore | SIMONDON, Gilbert |
| Edizione | [ed. augmentée d'une preface de John Hart et d'une postface de Yves Deforge] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : Aubier, stampa 1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | XIV, 333 p., 15 p. di tav. : ill. ; 22 cm |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | L'invention philosophique |
| Soggetto topico | Tecnologia - Aspetti filosofici |
| ISBN | 2-7007-3414-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-990000772280203316 |
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| Paris : Aubier, stampa 1989 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Du mode d'existence des objets techniques : édition augmentée d'une preface de John Hart et d'une postface de Yves Deforge / Gilbert Simondon
| Du mode d'existence des objets techniques : édition augmentée d'une preface de John Hart et d'une postface de Yves Deforge / Gilbert Simondon |
| Autore | Simondon, Gilbert |
| Edizione | [3. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : Aubier, 1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 333 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Deforge, Yves |
| Collana | Philosophie |
| Soggetto topico |
Tecnologia e Uomo
Tecnologie e Cultura |
| ISBN | 2700734149 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991001722849707536 |
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| Paris : Aubier, 1989 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Dual innovation systems : concepts, tools and methods / / Francois-Xavier Meunier
| Dual innovation systems : concepts, tools and methods / / Francois-Xavier Meunier |
| Autore | Meunier Francois-Xavier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Soggetto topico | Military policy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-80167-2
1-119-80168-0 1-119-80166-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910555003303321 |
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2020] | ||
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Dual innovation systems : concepts, tools and methods / / Francois-Xavier Meunier
| Dual innovation systems : concepts, tools and methods / / Francois-Xavier Meunier |
| Autore | Meunier Francois-Xavier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Soggetto topico | Military policy |
| ISBN |
1-119-80167-2
1-119-80168-0 1-119-80166-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830407703321 |
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2020] | ||
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Early engagement and new technologies: Opening up the laboratory / / edited by Neelke Doorn, Daan Schuurbiers, Ibo van de Poel, Michael E. Gorman
| Early engagement and new technologies: Opening up the laboratory / / edited by Neelke Doorn, Daan Schuurbiers, Ibo van de Poel, Michael E. Gorman |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Economic development Ethics Philosophy of Technology Economic Development, Innovation and Growth Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics |
| ISBN | 94-007-7844-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mandates and methods for early engagement; Schuurbiers, Daan, Doorn, Neelke, van de Poel, Ibo, and Gorman, Michael E. -- Chapter 2. Technology Assessment and approaches to early engagement; Grunwald, Armin and Achternbosch, Matthias -- Part 2. Approaches to Early Engagement -- Chapter 3. Constructive Technology Assessment and the methodology of insertion; Rip, Arie, and Robinson, Douglas -- Chapter 4. Value Sensitive Design; Friedman, Batya, Kahn, Peter, Broning, Alan, and Huldtgren, Alina -- Chapter 5. Socio-Technical integration research: Collaborative inquiry at the midstream of Research and Development; Fisher, Erik, and Schuurbiers, Daan -- Chapter 6. Ethical Parallel Research: A Network Approach for Moral Evaluation (NAME); van de Poel, Ibo, and Doorn, Neelke -- Chapter 7. Political TA: Opening up the political debate. Stimulating early engagement of parliamentarians and policy makers on emerging technologies – Attempts by the Rathenau Institute; van Est, Rinie -- Part 3. Reflections -- Chapter 8. Integrating ethicists and social scientists into cutting edge research and technological development; Gorman, Michael E., Calleja-López, Antonio, Conley, Shannon N., and Mahootian, Farzad -- Chapter 9. Collaboration as a research method? Navigating social scientific involvement in synthetic biology; Calvert, Jane -- Chapter 10. Ethicists in the laboratory: Reflecting about non-existent objects; van der Burg, Simone -- Chapter 11. Metaphors and cohabitation within and beyond the walls of life sciences; Pauwels, Eleonore -- Chapter 12. Early engagement and new technologies: Towards Comprehensive Technology Engagement?; Doorn, Neelke, Schuurbiers, Daan, van de Poel, Ibo, and Gorman, Michael E. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910438247103321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
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Emerging technologies during the era of covid-19 pandemic / / edited by Ibrahim Arpaci, 3 others
| Emerging technologies during the era of covid-19 pandemic / / edited by Ibrahim Arpaci, 3 others |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | Studies in Systems, Decision and Control |
| Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Innovacions tecnològiques Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-67716-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- List of Reviewers -- Contents -- 1 A Survey of Using Machine Learning Algorithms During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 COVID-19 Infection Prediction -- 3 Survival Prediction of COVID-19 Patients -- 4 Vaccine Development -- 5 Drug Discovery -- 6 Critical Reflections -- 7 Conclusion and Future Insights -- References -- 2 Deep Learning Techniques and COVID-19 Drug Discovery: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art and Future Directions -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery -- 3 DL-Based Drug Discovery: State-of-the-Art -- 4 COVID-19 Drug Discovery Strategy: A Viewpoint -- 5 Future Directions -- 6 Discussion -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Covid-19 Detection Using Advanced CNN and X-rays -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous Works -- 3 Theory System Architecture -- 4 Proposed Model Building -- 5 Results and Observation -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Integration of Deep Learning Machine Models with Conventional Diagnostic Tools in Medical Image Analysis for Detection and Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Role of Medical Imaging in COVID-19 Detection -- 3 Materials, Methods and Procedure -- 3.1 Creating a Systematic Search Strategy -- 4 Research Studies Related to DLM Applications in COVID-19 -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Interpretation -- 6 Advantages of DLM Applications -- 6.1 Rapid Screening -- 6.2 Segmentation -- 6.3 Detection -- 6.4 Classification -- 7 AI Used Techniques to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 -- 8 Limitations -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Intelligent Systems and Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Bibliometric Analysis -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Method -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Most Used Keywords -- 3.2 Most Cited Articles and Journals.
3.3 Most Productive Countries and Institutions -- 3.4 Most Cited Authors -- 3.5 Role of Intelligent Systems During COVID-19 Outbreaks -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Computational IT Tool Application for Modeling COVID-19 Outbreak -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Application of IT Technology for Infectious Disease Outbreak Management -- 3 Applied IT Technology for Modeling COVID-19 Outbreak -- 4 Examples of IT Application for Corresponding to COVID-19 Outbreak -- 5 Conclusion -- Conflict of interest -- References -- 7 Efficient Twitter Data Cleansing Model for Data Analysis of the Pandemic Tweets -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Proposed Model -- 3.1 Twitter Data Cleansing Model -- 3.1.1 Extraction and Filtering Tweets -- 3.1.2 Noise Removal -- 3.1.3 Out of Vocabulary Cleansing -- 3.1.4 Tweet Transformations -- 3.2 Feature Extraction of the Model -- 3.3 Twitter Sentiment Classification Process -- 4 Experiments and Analysis -- 4.1 Experimental Setup -- 4.2 Data Collection -- 4.3 Performance Evaluation -- 4.4 Experimental Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Feature Based Automated Detection of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray Images -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Contribution of the Study -- 3 Methodologies of COVID-19 Detection -- 3.1 Data Collection and System Requirement -- 3.2 Feature Extraction -- 3.3 Classification -- 3.4 Validation -- 4 Results -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Systems and COVID-19 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 COVID-19 and Underlying Illness -- 1.2 Indoor Air Pollution -- 2 Indoor Air Quality and COVID-19 -- 2.1 COVID-19: Association to Biomass Usage -- 2.2 COVID-19 and Ventilation Issues -- 3 IAQ Monitoring Systems: A Missed Opportunity -- 3.1 Existing Solutions for IAQ Monitoring -- 4 Conclusion. References -- 10 Leveraging Digital Transformation Technologies to Tackle COVID-19: Proposing a Privacy-First Holistic Framework -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background of the Study -- 3 Literature Review -- 3.1 Data-Driven Solutions -- 3.2 Digital Contact Tracing -- 3.3 Robotics -- 3.4 Virtual Clinics -- 4 The Proposed Integrated Digital Transformation Framework -- 4.1 Data Sources -- 4.2 Digital Transformation Technologies -- 4.3 Applications -- 4.3.1 Applications for Diagnosing COVID-19 -- 4.3.2 Applications for Treating COVID-19 -- 4.3.3 Applications for Preventing COVID-19 -- 4.4 Users -- 5 Benefits and Challenges of the Proposed System -- 5.1 Benefits of the Proposed Framework Architecture -- 5.1.1 Effective Strategic Management of COVID-19 Crisis -- 5.1.2 Reducing the Risk of Virus Transmission -- 5.1.3 Detecting COVID-19 Carriers as Early as Possible -- 5.1.4 Decreasing the Workload and the Stress Level of the Hospital Staff -- 5.1.5 Reducing the Risk of an Overwhelmed Healthcare System -- 5.1.6 Decreasing the Mortality Rates and Increasing the Treatment Success Rates -- 5.1.7 Reducing the Negative Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy -- 5.1.8 Decreasing the Stress Level of People -- 5.2 Challenges of the Proposed Framework Architecture -- 5.2.1 Data Acquisition and Integration -- 5.2.2 Privacy -- 5.2.3 The Lack of Historical Data -- 5.2.4 Governance -- 5.2.5 Expertise -- 5.2.6 Scalability -- 5.2.7 Lack of Legislation -- 5.2.8 The Lack of Infrastructure for 5G Network -- 5.2.9 Cost of Setup and Operation -- 5.2.10 Adoption and Trust -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Application of Modern Technologies on Fighting COVID-19: A Systematic and Bibliometric Analysis -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Telemedicine and Telehealth Service During COVID-19 -- 3.2 3D Printing Technology. 3.3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- 3.4 Robotics -- 3.5 Mobile Data (5G, 6G) and Cloud Partnership -- 3.6 Cloud Partnership -- 3.7 Internet of Things (IoT) -- 3.8 Drone Technology -- 3.9 Solar-Powered Automated Handwashing Machine -- 3.10 GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Mid-Term Forecasting of Fatalities Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Nine Most Affected Countries -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Holt's Exponential Smoothening Method -- 2.2 Polynomial Curve Fitting -- 2.3 Performance Parameters -- 3 Case Study -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13 Problematic Use of Digital Technologies and Its Impact on Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessment Using Machine Learning -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Internet Addiction -- 2.1 Excessive Internet Usage During COVID-19 Pandemic -- 2.2 Assessment of Internet Addiction: Conventional Approach -- 2.3 Assessment of Internet Addiction: Machine Learning Based Approach -- 3 Social Media Addiction -- 3.1 Excessive Use of Social Media During Covid-19 Pandemic -- 3.2 Assessment of Social Media Addiction: Conventional Approach -- 3.3 Assessment of Social Media Addiction: Machine Learning Based Approach -- 3.4 Case Study I: Machine Learning for Analysis of Addictive Use of Twitter During COVID-19 Lockdown in India -- 4 Smartphone Addiction -- 4.1 Excessive Smartphone Usage During COVID-19 Pandemic -- 4.2 Assessment of Smartphone Addiction: Conventional Approach -- 4.3 Assessment of Smartphone Addiction: Machine Learning Based Approach -- 4.4 Case Study II: Assessment of Nomophobia Among University Students During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Machine Learning -- 5 Impact on Mental and Emotional Health and Sleep -- 5.1 Mental and Emotional Health -- 5.2 Sleep -- 6 Research Model -- 7 Discussion and Conclusion. References -- 14 The Role of Technology Acceptance in Healthcare to Mitigate COVID-19 Outbreak -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) -- 3 Research Methodology -- 3.1 Search Strategy -- 3.2 Selection Criteria -- 3.3 Data Abstraction and Analysis -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Study Implications -- 6 Study Implications -- 7 Conclusion and Future Work -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15 Psychological and Socio-Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Turkish Population -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Method -- 3.1 Population and Sample -- 4 Instruments -- 5 Procedure -- 6 Results -- 7 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 16 Behavioral Intention of Students in Higher Education Institutions Towards Online Learning During COVID-19 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Model and Hypothesis Development -- 2.1 Perceived Enjoyment (PE) -- 2.2 Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU) and Perceived Usefulness (PU) -- 2.3 Social Influence (SI) -- 3 Research Methodology -- 3.1 Context of Study -- 3.2 Measurement Development and Pilot Study -- 4 Finding -- 4.1 Common Method Bias (CBM) -- 4.2 Measurement Model Assessment -- 4.3 Structural Model Assessment -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion, Limitation, and Future Research -- References -- 17 Exploring the Main Determinants of Mobile Learning Application Usage During Covid-19 Pandemic in Jordanian Universities -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 2.1 Online Learning and Covid-19 Pandemic in Jordanian Universities -- 3 Hypotheses and Research Model -- 3.1 Technological Factors -- 3.2 Individual Factors -- 3.3 Psychological Factors -- 4 Research Method -- 4.1 Data Collection -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Research Instrument -- 4.4 Data Analysis Methods -- 5 Results -- 5.1 Results of Cronbach's Alpha -- 5.2 Results of Convergent and Discriminant Validity. 5.3 Results of the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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Energy Justice Across Borders [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gunter Bombaerts, Kirsten Jenkins, Yekeen A. Sanusi, Wang Guoyu
| Energy Justice Across Borders [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gunter Bombaerts, Kirsten Jenkins, Yekeen A. Sanusi, Wang Guoyu |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Soggetto topico |
Engineering ethics
Energy policy Energy and state Economic geography Renewable energy resources Sustainable development Energy systems Engineering Ethics Energy Policy, Economics and Management Economic Geography Renewable and Green Energy Sustainable Development Energy Systems |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-24021-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Section 1-Introduction -- Chapter 1-Where are we now? justice and energy transitions -- Chapter 2-Ethics without borders-world ethics, comparative philosophy, intercultural ethics for energy transitions -- Section 2-African Philosophy -- Chapter 3-Exploring marginalisation and exclusion in renewable energy development in Africa -- Chapter 4-South Africa's renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme -- Chapter 5-The role of energy technology in quality of life and well being in North Africa -- Section 3-Asian philosophy -- Chapter 6-Chinese energy evaluations -- Chapter 7-Energy ethics and Indian philosophical traditions -- Chapter 8-A question of energy ethics-the creative orthodoxy of Buddhist monks in Mongolia -- Section 4-European ethics -- Chapter 9-Contemporary European approaches to energy ethics -- Chapter 10-Energy ethics in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands -- Section 5-South America -- Chapter 11-Latin American principles and environmental ethics -- Chapter 12-Native Americans and energy development -- Section 6-Theistic traditions -- Chapter 13-(Energy) justice in theistic traditions -- Section 7-Conclusion. |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
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An engineer's alphabet : gleanings from the softer side of a profession / / Henry Petroski [[electronic resource]]
| An engineer's alphabet : gleanings from the softer side of a profession / / Henry Petroski [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Petroski Henry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Soggetto topico |
Engineering - Philosophy
Technology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-107-23007-1
1-139-18006-1 1-283-38420-5 1-139-18984-0 9786613384201 1-139-18853-4 1-139-18391-5 1-139-19113-6 1-139-18623-X 1-139-05751-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; AN ENGINEER'S ALPHABET; Other Books by the Author; Title; Copyright; To Stephen and Laura; Preface; A; abbreviations.; acronyms.; "alphabet of the engineer."; ancient engineering.; applied science.; architects vs. engineers.; arm waving.; artist-engineers.; asphalt cookies.; B; back of the envelope.; backups and redundancy.; badges of engineering societies.; bents and bridges.; biographies of engineers.; books by and about engineers.; David Billington.; Eugene Ferguson.; James Kip Finch.; Samuel Florman.; Richard Meehan.; Walter Vincenti.; Richard G.Weingardt.; Engineers' Dreams.
The Great Bridge.The Soul of a New Machine.; bridge-building contests.; bug.; C; calculators.; Centennial of Engineering.; cheers of engineers.; cities and other places named for engineers.; civil engineering.; codes and standards.; codes of ethics.; computer.; concrete.; concrete canoes.; Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.; craft tradition.; cut-and-try.; D; definitions of engineering.; Dilbert.; disasters and near-disasters.; Bhopal.; Challenger.; Citicorp Tower.; Columbia.; Deepwater Horizon.; Fukushima.; Hyatt Regency.; Texas A&M Bonfire.; Three Mile Island.; World Trade Center. drafting tables.duty of an engineer.; E; economics and engineering.; education of engineers.; egg-drop competition.; "electronic engineer."; "Elegy to an Engineer's Sweetheart."; engineer.; engineer.; Engineering News-Record.; engineering science.; "engineers."; "Engineer's Creed."; Engineers Week.; "enginerd."; Erector set.; Erie Canal.; ethics.; expert witness.; Daubert.; Kumho.; F; factor of safety.; failure.; "Faith of the Engineer."; famous engineers.; Theodore von Kármán.; Charles Kettering.; John Smeaton.; David B. Steinman.; Charles Steinmetz.; Thomas Telford.; Stephen P. Timoshenko. J. A. L. Waddell.father-and-son engineers.; The Lighthouse Stevensons.; fight songs for engineers.; financial engineering.; FIRST.; founder societies.; French tradition in engineering.; G; gentlemen and engineers.; G.I. Bill.; glass half full.; Grand Challenges.; Greatest Britons.; Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.; "a great profession."; H; hairy-eared engineer.; half-life of technical skills.; hard hat.; heroic engineers.; highway numbering system.; historic engineering landmarks.; history and engineering.; history of technology.; honor societies. hubris in engineering.I; image of engineers.; imagineering.; industrial design.; industry.; infrastructure.; insight in engineering.; intuition in engineering.; inventions without necessity.; invention vs. innovation.; inventors.; Iron Bridge.; iron ring.; J; jokes about engineers.; joylessness of engineering.; K; keys of honor societies.; L; land-grant institutions.; land surveying.; LAND SURVEYING; letters after an engineer's name.; C.E.; C.Eng.; D.E.E.; D.Sc.; E.I.T.; F.Eng.; M.E.; M.I.C.E.; N.A.E.; P.E.; P.Eng.; S.E.; letters and numerals.; liberal education.; libraries. licensing of engineers. |
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