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    It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed.B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

    In 1985, a new version of the language was developed, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined functions. This new version is available for both Unix and MS-DOS. This is the first book on AWK. It begins with a tutorial that shows how easy AWK is to use. The tutorial is followed by a comprehensive manual for the new version of AWK. Subsequent chapters illustrate the language by a range of useful applications, such as: Retrieving, transforming, reducing, and validating data Managing small, personal databases Text processing Little languages Experimenting with algorithms The examples illustrates the books three themes: showing how to use AWK well, demonstrating AWKs versatility, and explaining how common computing operations are done. In addition, the book contains two appendixes: summary of the language, and answers to selected exercises.

    An illustration program supports the concepts and theories discussed.

    The authors discuss the latest simulation techniques of molecular dynamics and the Monte Carlo methods as well as how to avoid common programming pitfalls. Theoretical concepts and practical programming advice are amply reinforced with examples of computer simulation in action and samples of Fortran code. The authors have also included a wide selection of programs and routines on microfiche to aid chemists, physicists, chemical engineers, and computer scientists, as well as graduate and advanced students in chemistry.

    This text covers the basics of emerging areas in power electronics and a broad range of topics such as power switching devices, conversion methods, analysis and techniques, and applications. Its unique approach covers the characteristics of semiconductor devices first, then discusses the applications of these devices for power conversions. Four main applications are included: flexible ac transmissions (FACTs), static switches, power supplies, dc drives, and ac drives. - New chapters - Including Ch. 9, Multilevel Inverters, Ch. 13, Flexible AC Transmission Systems, and Ch. 17, Gate Drive Circuits.', gives students the latest information available on these topics. - New sections throughout - Including Semiconductor Basics, State-Space Analysis of Regulators, Vector Controls, Stepper Motor Control and more, gives students the latest information available on these topics. - Well-written and easy-to-follow, helps students maintain interest in the text. - Numerous worked-out examples, demonstrates for students the applications of conversion techniques in design and analysis of converter cir

    

    An updated and expanded edition of this text on noise reduction techniques offers new chapters on controlling the emission from electronic systems, especially digital systems, and on low-cost techniques for providing electromagnetic compatibility.

    Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West.Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life.Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor.Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure.Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic.

    Bruce Franklin brings the epic story of the superweapon and the American imagination into the ominous twenty-first century, demonstrating its continuing importance both to comprehending our current predicament and to finding ways to escape from it. Sweeping through two centuries of American culture and military history, Franklin traces the evolution of superweapons from Robert Fulton's eighteenth-century submarine through the strategic bomber, atomic bomb, and Star Wars to a twenty-first century dominated by "weapons of mass destruction," real and imagined. Interweaving culture, science, technology, and history, he shows how and why the American pursuit of the ultimate defensive weapon—guaranteed to end all war and bring universal triumph to American ideals—has led our nation and the world into an epoch of terror and endless war.

    This book serves as a cookbook for software engineering, presenting the subject as a series of steps that the student can apply to complete a software project.

    More than 330 black-and-white photographs document the design and development of this complex and controversial technology.

    Covers in a progressive fashion a number of analysis tools and design techniques directly applicable to nonlinear control problems in high performance systems (in aerospace, robotics and automotive areas).

    Trained as both a racing driver and an industrial engineer, Taruffi provides a unique perspective on the art and science of motor racing. He drove for the works teams of Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, and others, in a career that spanned over 25 years and was crowned by his victory in the 1957 Mille Miglia. First published in 1959, The Technique of Motor Racing has become the standard by which other driving texts are measured.

    

    It also serves as a comprehensive reference for practicing engineers.This new edition includes enhanced pedagogy (additional problems, more in-depth coverage of negative feedback, more effective layout), updated technology (current-feedback and folded-cascode amplifiers, and low-voltage amplifiers), and increased topical coverage (current-feedback amplifiers, switching regulators and phase-locked loops).

    The book covers on-line quality control through theory and principle and reinforces concepts with immediate application. This is the only book of its kind on the market today.

    The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke.It includes: Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies.Basic concepts for improving production systems.The "scientific thinking mechanism" -- a new approach to improvement.Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production.Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production.Significance of the different production systems.

    The second edition provides many new problems and illustrative examples.

    Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world.Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer. It also exposes the high risk in backwardness, whether it is a result of policy or inadvertent. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as plants, animals, and insects, cope with danger. Wildavsky addresses the master dilemma head on, asking whether piling on safety measures actually improves safety. While he agrees that society should sometimes try to prevent large harms from occurring, he explains why such anticipatory measures are usually inferior to a strategy of resilience -learning from error how to bounce back in better shape. His purpose is to shift the risk debate from passive prevention of harm to active search for safety.Written for the intelligent layman, the book will be of special interest to individuals concerned with risk, technology, health, safety, environmental protection, regulation, and analysis of systems for making decisions.

    The majority of the aircraft featured have been battle-tested in the skies over Iraq and the Balkans. The remainder are either currently being flight-tested or are ready for production.

    Topics include radiation from monochromatic sources in unbounded regions, electromagnetic waves in a plasma medium, Doppler effect, much more. 1965 edition.

    Shaw, replaces the material on the Flood Studies Report with an equivalent section on the methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook and its revisions. Other completely revised sections on instrumentation and modelling reflect the many changes that have occurred over recent years. The updated text has taken advantage of the extensive practical experience of the staff of JBA Consulting who use the methods described on a day-to-day basis. Topical case studies further enhance the text and the way in which students at undergraduate and MSc level can relate to it. The fourth edition will also have a wider appeal outside the UK by including new material on hydrological processes, which also relate to courses in geography and environmental science departments. In this respect the book draws on the expertise of Keith J. Beven and Nick A. Chappell, who have extensive experience of field hydrological studies in a variety of different environments, and have taught undergraduate hydrology courses for many years.Second- and final-year undergraduate (and MSc) students of hydrology in engineering, environmental science, and geography departments across the globe, as well as professionals in environmental protection agencies and consultancies, will find this book invaluable. It is likely to be the course text for every undergraduate/MSc hydrology course in the UK and in many cases overseas too.

    The second edition adds a large number of end-of-chapter problems, solved exercises, and a new chapter on metal-semiconductor contacts.

    Portland Cement Association reference, dealing with fundamentals, cold weather concreting, curing, admixtures, aggregates, mixing, and much more.

    Partial Contents1: The Problem of PersistenceWeinberg's Law(s) of Twins - The General Systems Approach to Continuity2: AggregatesBirths and Deaths--The Fundamental Aggregate Equation3: Birth-Free AggregatesSocial Versus Innate Survival - Exponential Decay - Unimodal Life Tables, and Ogives4: Reasoning About AggregatesCooperation and Competition--The Law of Collapse - The Law of Typology5: Modeling Differentiated AggregatesThe State Vector - Constructing a System of Equations - To Solve or Not To Solve?6: Programs for Models of Differentiated AggregatesVarieties of Programs - Transitive Closure--The Diagram of Possible Effects7: Structure and BehaviorThe Structure of Structure - Projecting Behavior with a Linear Program8: The Structure-Regulation LawThe Equivalence of Structure and Input - Can a Linear System Be Stable?9: The Search for RegulationThe Problem of Multidimensional Regulation - Separation of Variables10: The Homeostatic HeuristicsThe Internal Environment - Identifying and Essential Variables11: Other Regulatory HeuristicsThe Feedback Principle - Analyzing Feedback Loops - The Piddling Principle12: Types of Regulatory MechanismsConditional and Unconditional Mechanisms - Error-Control - Anticipation13: Regulation and EnvironmentActing on the Environment - The Environment Regulation Laws - The Regulatory Model - The Game of Regulation14: When the Model FailsThe Fundamental Regulator Paradox - Noise - Noise in Communication Systems15: Making Regulation MysteriousThe Impression of Intelligence - The Myth of Superiority16: Overly Simple Views of RegulationThe Kool-Aid Fallacy and the Aspirin Illusion - The False-Alarm Fallacy - Flareback17: Blindness and Reversed VisionHiddenReverses - Denying the Existence of Regulation18: Epilogue

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