High power ultrasonic transducers are now used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from medical devices, ultrasonic cleaning, ultrasonic welding and machining to sono-chemistry reactors. Use of ultrasonic transducers for various applications of atomizers, cleaning, sonochemistry and sonoluminescence, surgery, peening of welding joints, forming processes, ultrasonic motor, ultrasonic lubrication and nondestructive evaluations show the wide range of this growing technology in science and engineering. This work presents essential information, and shows the wide range of engineering & scientific applications for them.

A stunning poster book to introduce the National Gallery and its masterpieces to children and adults alike.

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments, 3rd Edition provides a clear, concise introduction to major pedagogical and psychological theories that have implications for the design of learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations.

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments, 3rd Edition provides a clear, concise introduction to major pedagogical and psychological theories that have implications for the design of learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations.

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff develops a theoretical framework that allows his readers to understand architectural styles as concrete expressions of historically shifting conceptions of the human, matter, space and time. As such, the book appeals to both a general public interested in exploring what architecture means, and experts working in the fields of aesthetic theory, art history and cultural studies.

The Process of Social Research concentrates on the core principles of research methods, presenting them in an accessible, concise form that students will find easy to understand and engage with. Extensive online materials allow students to expand their learning and gives instructors resources to make classroom teaching more interesting and exciting. This book will be essential reading for all undergraduate students learning how to do research.

The Process of Social Research concentrates on the core principles of research methods, presenting them in an accessible, concise form that students will find easy to understand and engage with. Extensive online materials allow students to expand their learning and gives instructors resources to make classroom teaching more interesting and exciting. This book will be essential reading for all undergraduate students learning how to do research.

This book challenges the neo-liberal view of private property as a liberal choice in respect of the use of goods and resources, which can be controlled. It argues that ultimately private property is not choice, it is ego. The book develops a theory to reject the neo-liberal concept of private property as the means of apportioning the world. It offers reflections on alternatives as to how the earth's things might be allocated, forcing us to reflect upon how a world without private property might look.

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The Body in Music is a groundbreaking music psychology text innovatively marrying perspectives from western music performance practice and pedagogy with those spanning experimental to social research. Founded on a significant heritage of artistic practice, it reinvigorates traditional ideas with fresh knowledge garnered from the burgeoning field of inquiry into the role of the body in generating, communicating, and perceiving performance. An exemplar vignette, crafted from the authorsΓÇÖ shared performance experience, sets the tone for the work, embedding it in an established socio-cultural context. Case-study driven chapters strive to reconcile empirical work and performance practice. Woven together, they form a narrative journeying the multi-dimensional roles of bodily engagement with music performance. This text is timely in that it bridges a widening gap between disciplines, researcher, and practitioner offering pathways of convergence towards developing theory and understanding of the body in music performance.

This book explores how Japanese popular culture, exported to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is received in these societies. Based on extensive ethnographic research observing in detail the reception of a particular Japanese cultural product, the book shows how, even when the product has been modified to anticipate a different reception in each of the three places, even then the reception is different. The book goes onto discuss more generally the nature of Japanese popular culture and its reception in the three places, showing how history and continuing national antagonism influence attitudes in China, how Hong Kong's special "in between" status affects the reception there, and how in Taiwan the memory of Japanese colonialism is being re-formed in order to reinforce Taiwan's cultural distinctiveness.

This book explores the ambiguity of racial and caste categories in Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is essential for a more nuanced understanding of the role of Americans of African descent in American art history as artists and as patrons. Wendy Castenell argues that that black Creoles deliberately employed the French Neoclassical style to assert their Latin roots and equality status. The book sheds new light on the under-studied genre of portraiture and the role of academically trained itinerant portrait painters. The book complicates dominant conceptions of race in American art by looking to Louisiana and its free people of color as an entry point into the controversial history of race mixing and racial identity in the United States.

The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and the subsequent Byzantine military corpus, which it profoundly influenced. Of unprecedented size and scope, the Strategikon discusses every aspect of contemporary land warfare, and includes ethnographic excursuses on the late Roman Empire¿s varied enemies.Volume I is a new English translation and detailed commentary on the work, and Volume II provides studies on the text¿s structure, composition, language, sources and literary antecedents.

Rebecca Upton closely examines how women in a rural part of southern Africa give voice to contemporary issues of environment, health, economic disparity and the impact of migration on everyday lives through production of baskets for a global marketplace. These objects and cultural artifacts are both an insight into Tswana culture as well as a new means through which women produce, tell and re--¿tell narratives of cultural and global, financial success and resistance.

The Book of Life presents Shelby Lee Adam's color photographs of four generations of the Appalachian people. Adams began photographing the inhabitations of the rural Appalachian mountain range in 1974, using black-and-white film and Polaroid materials. In time he also worked with color Kodachrome film, invariably returning to the Eastern Kentucky region where he was born. By 2010 Adams was photographing exclusively in digital color, and this book marks the first time he is sharing his color work. Adams has consistently focused on the valleys and homes of Kentucky families, relatives and neighbors in a predominantly seven-county region. He has often revisited individuals and families many times over decades, distributing his photos and books while creating new pictures. This personal approach has led to the creation of genuine and deep relationships between photographer and subject, in which the subject is often involved in unusually creative ways, verbalizing the emotions they would like to express during the shoot, and where and how they would like to be depicted.

On the night of 13 November 2015, Paris was convulsed by a series of coordinated attacks. Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong, not far from the strikes, did not consider taking photographs, weighed on not only by the difficulty of depicting a city already so exhaustively pictured, but more so by the impossibility of representing such tragedy. The next day Leong, wandering the city in the aftermath of the events, turned his camera downward to the ground, focusing on an aspect of the city we repeatedly look at yet largely do not notice. The resulting photos render a seemingly known city strange and unfamiliar. At first appearing to be abstractions or even aerials or views of the cosmos, they reveal specific details we would otherwise miss and which contain gravity in their apparent banality-from cigarettes left on the asphalt by mourners, to the footprints and broken glass of the night before, and the sawdust scattered on the sidewalks soaking up blood. Paris, Novembre is a portrait of a city at a traumatic moment in its history and an exploration of how that history leaves its marks on the city's ground. Leong's series is a gesture of mourning and contemplation, seemingly of nothing and the reluctance to look, yet at the same time of looking closely and intently.

This book presents little-known photos by the legendary Christer Strömholm selected by Gunnar Smoliansky. In the late eighties gallerist Kim Klein proposed a small exhibition of Strömholm's pictures at the Lido Gallery in Stockholm. Strömholm agreed and entrusted Smoliansky with making a selection from his early 6 x 6 Rolleiflex negatives. Smoliansky was delighted to do so-the planned ten to twelve photos soon ballooned to 70-and he printed two sets, one for Strömholm and one for himself. The photos date from the late 1940s and early '50s and show Strömholm's formative years in Paris, the south of France, Morocco and other destinations. Most of these pictures had never before been printed, let alone publicized, until that exhibition of 1990.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt den Studierenden, Leitungen und Netze hinsichtlich Spannungsabfall, thermischer Belastbarkeit und Kurzschlussfestigkeit zu dimensionieren. Auf die Bauarten und die Bemessung von Freileitungen und Kabelanlagen einschließlich der Hochleistungskabel wird eingegangen, und zur Schadensbegrenzung bei elektrischen Fehlern werden die erforderlichen und notwendigen Schutzeinrichtungen vorgestellt. Der Abschnitt über Schaltanlagen gibt einen Einblick in die Struktur der Gerätetechnik zur Versorgung mit elektrischer Energie. Die Kraftwerke als Quelle der elektrischen Energieversorgung werden im Überblick besprochen. Schließlich werden Grundbegriffe der Elektrizitätswirtschaft, die jeder Ingenieur der Elektrotechnik kennen sollte, erläutert.In der 10. Aufl. wurde der Anhang überarbeitet insb. die VDE-Bestimmungen, die Schutzmaßnahmen nach DIN VDE sowie Richtwerte und Sicherheitswerte.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Russian armed forces.

Aircraft ground damage, particularly in view of the airline industry’s thin profit margins, is a significant financial, operational and safety issue. The Flight Safety Foundation several years ago estimated that ramp accidents cost major airlines worldwide at least $10 billion a year. These accidents affect airport operations, result in personnel injuries and damage aircraft, facilities and ground-support equipment. The Foundation also estimated that 27,000 ramp accidents and incidents - one per 1,000 departures - occur worldwide annually. Ground damage is associated with safety risks that cannot be underestimated. About 243,000 people are injured each year in ground-occurrence accidents and incidents; the injury rate is 9 per 1,000 departures. This book addresses the issue of ground-damage reduction at the level of a single service provider. Several industry bodies have tried to address the problem by launching a number of programs and promoting a number of initiatives. However, the industry has lacked what this book now offers: guidance on how to manage airline ground operations more efficiently from an aviation management perspective. It deals with many of the causes of ground damage not contemplated by the existing programs, such as the low sophistication of an average ground-handling company’s management system, the infrastructural constraints at airports, the airline enforced policy of fast turnarounds, the insufficient training of personnel, the lack of human factors awareness, the high turnover rate of personnel and thus their low motivation in the performance of duties. Reducing Aircraft Ground Damage sets out to fill the void in the literature, targeting those causes of ground damage under the reasonable control of an organization’s management which the existing ground-damage reduction initiatives fail to address. The readership will include ground-handling managers at an executive level, ground safety managers and station managers. The book c

Human living entails the perpetual exploration of both natural and built-up environments, including physical movement ΓÇô all modes of sensory involvement, and psychological movement ΓÇô the movement of the mind. This book takes human movement as a central concept to understanding the richness and complexity of living and explores how both forms of movement, the body and the psyche, intersect and interact. Chapters examine how the higher and lower psychological functions converge in a meaning-making process and provide a theoretical development of semiotic mediation and ambivalence. A series of case studies offer concrete examples of the application of the theory of meaning-making, and consider the relationship between continental traditions (e.g. hermeneutics and phenomenology) and semiotic cultural psychology.