Sensors Applications: Senors in Household Applications

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This book provides both engineers and scientists with a competent and comprehensive survey on the different types of sensors currently applied in modern electronic household devices, their strengths, weaknesses and the reason for using them in which subsystem.

More and more microelectronics are establishing themselves in all aspects of our daily life, and the use of a growing number of increasingly sophisticated, low-cost sensors is directly linked to this trend, and they are responsible for many of the technical achievements of the last decades.

Their use in modern washing machines, dish washers, dryers, freezers as well as in cooking, domestic heating, air conditioning or small appliances results in reduction of electricity, water or detergent consumption, less noise emission, increased efficiency and higher user comfort.

Market data is given, demonstrating the increasing demand for large quantities of suitable, reliable sensor systems, and the subsequent growing need for comprehensive information on their potentials and limitations. Exemplary products, new types of appliances and improved electronic control are presented. Chapters on thin film temperature sensors, Reed switches, gas sensors, UV sensors, acceleration and pressure sensors illustrate the utilization of modern device mass fabrication technologies. Finally, an outlook into the future forecasts the needs of the appliances of the coming decade.

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on May 1, 1990. The length of the article is 513 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The crowded brink of extinction. (a quarter of plant and animal species that existed in mid-1980's will be extinct in the next 25 years)
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1990
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v24 Issue: n3 Page: p54(2)

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Europe's only endemic 'tiger' is down to its last 150: An article from: The Ecologist

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Europe's only endemic 'tiger' is down to its last 150: An article from: The Ecologist

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Lie of the tiger: An article from: The Ecologist

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Snakes of the World: Synopsis of Living and Extinct Species (Williams, Kenneth L//Snakes of the World)

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Snakes of the World: Synopsis of Living and Extinct Species (Williams, Kenneth L//Snakes of the World)
Kenneth L. Williams , and Van Wallach
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This book surveys the theory of defects in solids, concentrating on the electronic structure of point defects in insulators and semiconductors. The relations between different approaches are described, and the predictions of the theory compared critically with experiment. The physical assumptions and approximations are emphasized. The book begins with the perfect solid, then reviews the main methods of calculating defect energy levels and wave functions. The calculation and observable defect properties is discussed, and finally, the theory is applied to a range of defects that are very different in nature. This book is intended for research workers and graduate students interested in solid-state physics. From reviews of the hardback: 'It is unique and of great value to all interested in the basic aspects of defects in solids.' Physics Today 'This is a particularly worthy book, one which has long been needed by the theoretician and experimentalist alike.' Nature

Theory of Defects in Solids: Electronic Structure of Defects in Insulators and Semiconductors

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Theory of Defects in Solids: Electronic Structure of Defects in Insulators and Semiconductors
A. M. Stoneham
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When conservative President-elect MacArthur Foyle dies in a freak accident four days after the election, it seems as if the next leader of the United States will be his running mate, Ted Block, whose frequent verbal mishaps are no doubt intended to remind readers of some vice-presidential figure or other (wink, wink). But one electoral representative from Michigan, Dorothy Ledger, sets off a wild chain of events when she innocently asks about some procedural rules....

Veteran TV political correspondent Jeff Greenfield has pulled off the seemingly impossible task of making one of the most arcane components of the American political system, the Electoral College, the center of a genuinely entertaining novel. Some of the fun, of course, stems from the "guess who" quality of many of the political characters, but the scrappy, improvised team assembled by Dorothy and her friends also provides much fun.

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Hilarious.......2005-07-23

What happens when the victorious president-elect is killed in an accident 3 days after the election? Total pandimonium and hilarity. Remember, no one is REALLY elected until December, by the Electoral College, not the People. So here are 538 men and women with the legal power to elect the next president, nobody knows who they are and the presidency is essentially up for grabs! Could this really happen? Some lawyers say yes.

The characters are great satires of some living persons (we all know who is supposed to be the Very Reverend W. Dixon Mason don't we? and Teddy Block is a charicature of Dan Quayle) but most are made up. I can't tell you how funny this book is until you read it, and the story line is a real possibility.

I don't think the Electoral College needs abolishing...but that's just me, and it's a debate for another time.

Unorthodox, but very good.......2004-06-04

This was quite an interesting book. One who critiques the setup of the novel may be infuriated. This is not Cervantes or Dickens. Jeff Greenfield is probably the best political analyist on T.V., and his insight provides a great story. Twists and turns keep you inthralled. I went from start to finish with this book on Memorial Day. If you like politics and Constitutional loopholes, you'll love this book.

This kept me laughing . . ........2003-06-29

and in light of the fact that it was written and published before the 2000 Presidential Election/Fiasco, it seems amazingly prescient. I agree with those reviewers who say this book isn't the greatest work of literature, but it is nevertheless incredibly entertaining and informed about the wheels of politics and the ways in which they spin, all puns intended.

Interesting shades of 2000.......2002-04-03

I heard about this book when Judy Woodruff commented about it while talking to Jeff on air on CNN during the 2000 election. So I finally picked up the audio version and gave it a listen all in one night. Four double sided tapes is a bit long, but it was an amusing listen.

Let me say that this was an excellent book. But...

My first complaint though right off was that Mr. Greenfield reads way too fast. Understandably he was the one who wrote it and therefore knew it nearly by heart. It had already sunken into his mind. But to me as he sped through scenery and other descriptions I couldn't get a hold of it in my mind. He was already on to the next paragraph. Perhaps if it was not read by the author it would have been a better listen.

But the book itself seemed to be well written. The only problem I had with his style was that he seemed to put the 'heroes' into situations that were unrealistically impossible. Not just one or two. But seemingly every situation. The road blocks were immense and then he would proceed to write the characters out of the problem though yet another miraculous turn of events.

The very nature of the story was supposed to be unreal. But it seemed like every situation the 'heroes' of our story ran into tried to feel like they had no hope of escape. Its used by many authors to portray a sense of excitement and drama. Especially when they are faced by these great odds and seem to triumph time and again. Real life just isn't that interesting. But this is fiction. :)

I was a little disappointed in the ending. I would have preferred to see perhaps the opposite candidate get in. I would have preferred to see the showdown they had talked about through the whole book. I would have even preferred to have seen perhaps a third party candidate involved in this some how just to spice things up.

All that aside, it was worth the money and its better than 99% of the other political garbage writing that is out there.

I highly recommend it. The ending, though not my preferred ending, was still a nice surprise. Who would have thought that he would show that kind of character?

In the end Mr Greenfield could never have guessed the actual level that real life politicians and deal makers would stoop to win the 2000 election. At least his characters followed the laws.

Political Junkie Fun.......2001-08-31

While covering Campaign 2000 late last October, I loaned this book to my boss, who started it... and then, after Election Day, was unable to finish it because Greenfield's imagined fiasco was too close to reality. (In fact, Greenfield said that what happened in the 2000 election put this book to shame.)
Greenfield is television's smartest and most knowledgable commentator about elections, and this comedic novel about the Electoral College -- imagining what might happen if, following the president-elect's death, the electors decided they did not want to make the vice president-elect president -- is full of great historical tidbits. Greenfield is at his best, and seems to be enjoying himself the most, where filling pages with anecdotes about electoral wrinkles in the past. That's where the book shines.
As for the story itself, it is a bit thin, and the ending is less than satisfying. But, especially with the renewed (but now-waning) interest in the Electoral College, this book is a fun read.

Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History

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I Loved It....Good, Unbiased Account of Election 2000
very relevant, wonderfully funny, full of great insights
The best book about the 2000 election available
Mediocre review of the events of the election
An entertaining look at the election

Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History
Jeff Greenfield
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Release Date: 2001-05-17

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The one account you won't want to miss. From the bestselling author and television commentator comes a brilliant, hilarious, incisive look at just what happened on Election Night, and after.

"Circumstances have changed dramatically since I first called you."
- Al Gore to George W. Bush, November 8, 2000

Few people know the absurdities of American politics better than Jeff Greenfield, CNN's award-winning political and media analyst. Now for all those millions of Americans who are still trying to figure out how we ended up with America's closest, craziest election, Greenfield takes us behind the scenes to explore Election Night 2000 and its tumultuous aftermath in all their surreal glory. From November 7th itself and its famous media flipflops ("Oh, waiter!" Greenfield proclaimed aloud, "One order of crow!") to its hard-fought finale, he leads us through and Alice-in-Wonderland world of butterfly ballots and pregnant chads, shifting deadlines and Doomsday Scenarios, lawyers, recounts, spin doctors, demonstrations, felons and faithless electors. It is an exceptional work of commentary and living history, destined to be a political classic.

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I Loved It....Good, Unbiased Account of Election 2000.......2005-03-08

It would be easy to dismiss this book by Jeff Greenfield, former field worker for Democrat Bobby Kennedy and political analyst on the Clinton News Network (CNN). It would also be wrong, because this book is hilarious and a serious treatment of the issues of the 2000 Election simultaneously.

I must commend Greenfield for being one of the few analysts who - on the written paper - spelled out his thoughts that Bush had the election in the bag from the earliest hours of the Florida debacle. Had Vice President Gore read Greenfield's points, the entire country could have been spared the 36 day ordeal and who knows how many millions in attorney's fees.

Greenfield is a worthy successor to the old Jack Germond/Jules Witcover series which itself was a worthy successor to the Theodore H. White series of books, "The Making of the President." He recounts in vivid detail the back and forth shock of Election Night 2000 - the only night in American history where the networks somehow got the winner of the election wrong not once but twice.

I can see how a Gore supporter might think the book is biased against Gore though I disagree with that assessment. It points out Gore's biggest liability - exaggeration - and makes the valid point that Gore's exaggeration as well as his demonstrated arrogance cost him the first debate and may well have cost him the election. Greenfield also shows what Republicans knew - the nomination of George W. Bush was a foregone conclusion as have all been ALL GOP nominations since 1968 (with the possible exception of 1976 - but that caveat comes from Ford having not been elected by the voters).

Greenfield covers McCain (the maverick who is conservative but not radical) and Bradley, pointing out that Bradley missed a vital exchange that could have altered the Democratic race. But the best part of the book is the conclusion.

Greenfield demonstrates - rightly so, might I add - that regardless of what the US Supreme Court would rule and regardless what was done - Bush had Gore beaten in every possible way. The governor's office as well as the Secretary of State's office (Katherine Harris) were in Republican hands and the Supreme Court had a conservative majority. On top of that, all Congress under GOP control would have had to do was not accept the Gore electors even if Gore had won. Gore was simply beaten in every constitutional way possible despite his slight edge in the popular vote.

Greenfield also points out some of the Republican hypocrisy: after all, it was presumed by many in the Bush camp that Gore might win the election without winning the popular vote. Yet when just the opposite happened, the Bush cry became constitution over what they (on the previous Friday) had called 'the will of the people.' Suffice it to say that there were no angels on either side of the debate.

I hope Greenfield writes a 2004 tome. It would surely be interesting if it's anything like this one. Get it and enjoy.

very relevant, wonderfully funny, full of great insights.......2003-12-31

great fun to be reading this book at the start of the 2004 campaign -- so many of its insights about the personalities, the parties, the processes that shaped the 2000 election seem as pertinent today as they did when first written a few years ago. Greenfield is a peerless writer with extraodinarily dry wit and a priceless ability to find just the right concise anecdote to summarize what others might take long chapters to chronicle. He appers even-handed -- a partisan for only intelligence and common sense, in his coverage of the respective campaigns, election night, and the 37-day aftermath. No one interested in politics will fail to find enlightenment and entertainment in this charming, timeless volume. Although I have become addicted to the 'blogosphere' and rarely look to tv for news and commentary, Jeff Greenfield's appearances on the tube would provide a rare excuse for me to turn on the tv again.

The best book about the 2000 election available.......2003-08-05

So many political books nowadays cater to one particular idealogy or another. This is a book that can be received by both left-wingers and right-wingers. For a CNN analyst, Greenfield is surprising down-the-middle, focusing on both candidates strengths and weaknesses, and giving us his own perspectives on the fiasco as it happened. The wit he includes in the book is dry but extremely well-done. If I ever have to teack about the 2000 Election in a college classroom, without a doubt this would be the book I'd use.

Mediocre review of the events of the election.......2003-03-19

I've read *At Any Cost* before. This time, I thought, it might be interesting to read a review of the election resolution by someone who wasn't displaying his bias on every page. I respect Jeff Greenfield as a journalist, because he comes the closest of just about any of them out there to staying objective and removing his preferences from his reporting. And besides, most of the other books on this subject have a clear bias.

I must say that that is exactly what I got. I was amazed how objectively he managed to report on the events, especially when it came to the "We want every vote counted," vs. "They're devining the intent of the voters." You could believe that he really did see some merit on both sides; in fact, he seemed frustrated that the politicians he interviewed could not. If the only reporting in this book were on the events of the election, he'd get a four or five star review from me.

Where his bias creeps in is when he explains how the two bad calls of Florida occurred. It is as though he is telling the reader, "Don't be too hard on us. After all, who would have EVER thought such a fluke could have occurred." I do believe that if it were up to Jeff Greenfield, there would be no cause for regret at all. It was fate that led to the press calling Florida twice when it never should have been called at all!

He argues, rather persuasively in fact, that calling Florida before all the polls in Florida were closed didn't change the outcome at all. And he may be right, but I think it would be hard to prove definitively either way, and even if it were true, it doesn't justify calling it when they did at all.

As a conservative, while I wish neither call had been made, I have always thought that that was the bigger faux paus. I don't really believe that the final call after most of the apathetic public had retired for the night truly persuaded them that Bush won. As a Bush supporter, while I hoped it would come out that way, when the closeness of the vote became clear, I didn't know who won. I disregarded the media call when they said it was no longer certain. And initially, before ridiculous things like holding the cards up looking for light to peak through were done, I thought a recount was only reasonable. The call in the wee hours of the morning didn't convince me of the outcome; the mechanical recount did. I think most of the public does enough thinking not to just decide Bush won because the press called it too soon.

But it was clear that the only call Jeff Greenfield worried much about was the last one. The fact that the voting in Florida wasn't over before they called it the first time was no big deal. I don't expect Jeff Greenfield, or anyone who would prefer in his or her heart for Gore to have won to share my emotions about it. I simply think that they should acknowledge that whether it affected the Florida results or not, it SHOULDN'T have been done, and was something the powers that be that called it should lose a little sleep over.

Another reason why I give this book three stars is that it just didn't grip me clear through. I started out engrossed in the book but found that the last fifty pages or so really started to drag. I finished the book, but I'm not really sure why I made myself do so. I guess I felt like his perspective on the final days of how it wound down didn't really offer anything to provoke consideration that hadn't already been discussed before. I think the point at which it started to drag was after he covered what each side was saying in the aftermath of the recounts.

An entertaining look at the election.......2002-03-31

Greenfield writes very well and uses humour to make good points. He provides some sound insights from the point of view of the media on the inside.

About the only place where I thought he went astray was the lengthy and detailed (tortourous?) passage on how the moon and stars lined up and led to the bad calls on Florida. Besides using this explanation as a "devil made us do it" defense; he also points out that all of the available studies indicate that media calls do not influence subsequent voter action. Greenfield is much too intelligent to believe either of these points.

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Greenfield for President is a novel satirizing presidential politics. It tells the story of Jeremiah Greenfield's rise to fame as a reporter for a small newspaper in suburban New Jersey. He feeds his readers the Washington trivia they crave as an alternative to the disturbing truth. He attains national recognition and attracts the attention of some of the most powerful men in the country. He is approached by CRAP - the Committee to Resurrect the American Presidency - to run for president on a third-party ticket

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Poor editing detracts from a super story!.......2001-01-06

It may be that the publisher is relying on spell-check rather than real-alive editors. The reader is hauled up short and has to figure out which word is meant in a number of cases. In a rather funny description of a bizarre golf game, a player's ball has gone into both the "ruff" and the rough. An apartment is located in the "nastiness part of town," and a character is wearing a "waste-high" white apron.

One hopes Acropolis Books, Inc. will improve its attention to these editorial details in future Robbins books.

Politics that you can laugh (not cry) about.......2000-10-12

Witty and entertaining; a fine political satire that embraces many of the ills of the modern poltical process in a very funny format. I laughed out loud. I loved it.

Read This Book Before November.......2000-08-12

If simple reading enjoyment and literary craftsmanship were the sole requisites for a best seller, I would say Greenfield for President has Primary Colors beaten by a mile.

media and politics.......2000-08-09

As a political science major in Washington DC any political satire is welcomed reading. Robbins, in particular, intertwined politics and the media which now should be considered connected at the hip. His study of Voltaire is clear in his own humorous, but thought provoking, style of writing.

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The Real Campaign
Jeff Greenfield
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Communication from H. Haupt, to D.N. Carpenter, esq., President of the Troy and Greenfield R.R. Company, in regard to the suspension of operations on the Hoosac Tunnel

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Communication from H. Haupt, to D.N. Carpenter, esq., President of the Troy and Greenfield R.R. Company, in regard to the suspension of operations on the Hoosac Tunnel
Herman Haupt
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A discourse in commemoration of Rev. Timothy Dwight: D.D., LL. D., fourth pastor of the church at Greenfield Hill, and afterwards president of Yale College, ... church at Greenfield Hill, May 18th, 1876

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A discourse in commemoration of Rev. Timothy Dwight: D.D., LL. D., fourth pastor of the church at Greenfield Hill, and afterwards president of Yale College, ... church at Greenfield Hill, May 18th, 1876
Timothy Dwight
Manufacturer: Chronicle Print
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