Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1991

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Hardbound. These Proceedings provide a general overview as well as detailed information on the developing field of reliability and safety of technical processes in automatically controlled processes. The plenary papers present the state-of-the-art and an overview in the areas of aircraft and nuclear power stations, because these safety-critical system domains possess the most highly developed fault management and supervision schemes. Additional plenary papers covered the recent developments in analytical redundancy. In total there are 95 papers presented in these Proceedings.

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1994, 2-Volume Set

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Paperback. Fault detection, supervision and safety are an essential part of modern control engineering. In this publication, over two hundred experts from various fields and application areas present their latest results on reliability, availability and safety of technical processes, covering both theoretical and practical problems. Applications in all phases are covered, from design, start-up, operation, maintenance through to repair. Relevant methods and tools for monitoring, diagnosis and detection are discussed as well as the increasingly important topics of failure data collection and analysis, human factors and man-machine interfaces. This volume lays strong emphasis on applications and aims to promote further research and industrial co-operation.

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997, (3-Volume Set) (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)

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ASIN: 0080423817

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SAFEPROCESS '97 was the third in this major IFAC symposia series and covered a wide range of theoretical and application studies concerned with the reliability, availability and safety of controlled systems.

The goal of the symposium was to bring together experts from different fields to give an overview of the state-of-the-art, present new research results and show future developments. In addition, there was special emphasis on industrial requirements for FDI (fault detection and isolation) and a new session on the human factors aspects of system monitoring and safety that reflects the growing interest in this area.

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This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on fault detection, supervision and safety for technical processes held Budapest on 14-16 June.

SAFEPROCESS is a triennial symposium series of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, covering the area of fault detection, supervision and safety for technical processes.

The theme of the SAFEPROCESS 2000 symposium was reliability, availability and safety of technical processes and their control systems. These qualities are emphasized during all phases of design and at start-up, normal system operation, maintenance and repair. Reliability, availability and safety imply the continuous monitoring of the whole process, including the sensors, actuators and control equipment, both in open and closed-loop operation, and also human factors of the operation. Fault tolerant control and concepts of reconfigurability of the systems play an increasing role in the discussions. The wide range of different issues to be considered implies that many papers are interdisciplinary in their approach.

The 36 technical sessions of the program were compiled from 217 carefully selected invited and regular papers, in 5 parallel sessions. These comprised 6 plenary overviews covering the fields of diagnosis in process control and automotive engineering, state-of-the-art reviews and surveys, contributed papers describing the latest results, and 9 specially organized invited sessions striking a good balance between application and theory.

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (IPV - IFAC Proceedings Volume)

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Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2006: A Proceedings Volume from the 6th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and ... Volume) (IPV - IFAC Proceedings Volume)

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The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value. The correct functioning of those systems has a profound impact also on production cost and product quality. The early detection of faults is critical in avoiding performance degradation and damage to the machinery or human life. Accurate diagnosis then helps to make the right decisions on emergency actions and repairs.
Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) has developed into a major area of research, at the intersection of systems and control engineering, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and statistics, and such application fields as chemical, electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineering. IFAC has recognized the significance of FDD by launching a triennial symposium series dedicated to the subject.
The SAFEPROCESS Symposium is organized every three years since the first symposium held in Baden-Baden in 1991. SAFEPROCESS 2006, the 6th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes was held in Beijing, PR China.
The program included three plenary papers, two semi-plenary papers, two industrial talks by internationally recognized experts and 258 regular papers, which have been selected out of a total of 387 regular and invited papers submitted.

* Discusses the developments and future challenges in all aspects of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control
* 8 invited and 36 contributed sessions included with a special session on the demonstration of process monitoring and diagnostic software tools

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Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997, (3-Volume Set) (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
Editor-R.J. Patton; Editor-J. Chen
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Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2003 - 3 Volume Set, 5th IFAC 6/03

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Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2003 - 3 Volume Set, 5th IFAC 6/03
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Pocket Book of Integrals and Mathematical Formulas, a revision of a very successful pocket book, provides a handy desk-top reference for engineers and scientists seeking essential formulas, concepts, and definitions. Topics range from pre-calculus to vector analysis and from Fourier transforms to statistics. This third edition contains: · A new chapter on business and financial mathematics - providing information on progressions, especially geometric progressions, which is the basis for many formulas related to annuities, growth of funds, and interest payments · Additional topics in statistics - including sample size calculations for testing differences and proportions Featuring numerical tables of probability distributions, the book also includes · Discussions on formula listings and differential equations · Fourier series · Laplace and z-transforms · Vector analysis · Orthogonal polynomials Many other handbooks go too far in their attempts, essentially mimicking larger comprehensive texts they try to summarize. The result is a reference less detailed than the full texts and too big to be conveniently portable. Most scientists do not carry them. Through a careful selection of topics and detail, Pocket Book of Integrals and Mathematical Formulas truly meets the needs of engineers and scientists - a convenient, usable supplementary text providing worked examples where most necessary. Its comprehensive information and convenient arrangement of tables makes it an essential and easy to use reference.

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Good, But Needs Correction, More Info.......2007-03-09

Pricey, considering the book needs better editing. As one example: the index lists the table of derivatives on the wrong page. It needs more info on a variety of subjects, it's almost too general.

All it's really good for is to have something you can carry in your backback for basic consultation, better than Schaum's bulky paperback. Beyond that, use the CRC manual, Gradsteyn & Reyshzik's tables, or engineering specific handbooks.

handy reference.......2007-01-04

good for those nagging little identies and theorms you never thought you would actually use. the intergral tables are useful for basic integration, but for advanced integration I would suggestion something else (namely Schaum's) to do the heavy lifting.

Helpfull little book.......2002-03-27

This Book is good for general to advance caluations in geometry to advanced calculus and differential equations. Help in Bussiness and other areas too. Very good book for engineers and physics to math majors!!

Handy little reference book........2001-03-10

I've had the 2nd edition of this book for about six years and I can't tell you how many times I have used it. When I was in college, it came in very handy with the tables of derivatives and integrals, along with all those trig identities. After I graduated and started working, it became a great reference for those geometry equations that you start to forget or methods for solving multiple equations. It's also compact, so it will easily fit in a briefcase or a drawer. I would definately recommend it to anyone looking for a good, quick, easy to use math reference.

Lacks some key formulas.......1998-11-24

Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables is slightly less portable but I found it to be more complete

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Consider a war in which 25,000 soldiers are killed or wounded in a single battle, as they were at Gettysburg, or 16,000 in a single day, as at Antietam. The degree of suffering and hardship during the American Civil War has been well documented and analyzed in books and films from Margaret Mitchell's fictional Gone with the Wind to Bell Irvin Wiley's classic studies of Civil War soldiers, The Life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank. All these sources agree on the brutality of the combat, but what motivated soldiers to continue fighting under such bitter conditions is the cause of some controversy. Until recently, the common stance has been that soldiers enlisted out of economic need and stayed out of loyalty to their comrades. The respected Civil War historian James M. McPherson weighs in with a different point of view in For Cause and Comrades.

Professor McPherson posits that the common rank-and-file soldiers did indeed hold political and ideological beliefs that prodded them to enlist and to fight. His research is based on letters and diaries from 1,076 Union and Confederate soldiers. These reveal many motivations, but always they lead back to duty, honor, and a cause worth dying for. For Cause and Comrades is a fascinating exploration of the 19th-century mind--a mind, it seems, that differs profoundly from our own.

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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.

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More Excellent Work by Professor McPherson.......2007-06-02

I don't know if anyone will ever read this review for a 10-year old book, but I'm reading it right now and I really wanted to share about it.

I truly appreciate the scholarship of McPherson on the Civil War and all the research he has done on the subject. For this book alone, he read hundreds of soldiers letters and diaries to understand what motivated them to put their lives on the line. A great many of them understood the issues of the day, volunteered for the war, and did not need a whole lot of incentive to enlist. A 1982 movie, "The Blue & the Gray," contains a scene where Union soldiers in 1861 are inspired to enlist with the help of a beautiful young lady singing a patriotic song. In actuality, most of these soldiers would not have needed such encouragement.

Anyway, a book like this is highly important. It has become very popular to say things like "the war was not fought over slavery" or "the Civil war had nothing to do with slavery." This book goes straight to the sources and finds out why the men who were there did what they did.

Clearly, for some of them, North and South, slavery was THE issue. In fact, I have long believed slavery was just an institution, but the real issue for many Confederates was the preservation of white supremacy. Many soldier's letters cited declare that they saw it as an abomination- even laughable to some- that anyone would want to free "inferior savages" they thought could not be educated or assimilated into American society. In fact, on page 109, a private of the 25th Wisconsin Infantry wrote home that some captured Confederates told them they were fighting because "You Yanks want us to marry our daughters to the n----rs." But this book does show that while slavery was a huge issue, certainly the source of political and territorial strife for so many years leading up to the war, it was not the only issue. The book shares the letters of immigrant Union soldiers who fought to secure democracy, something denied to them in their oppressive native countries. And many Confederate soldiers clearly say they are fighting in defense of their homes and families and because their states have been "invaded."

I tend to think some people who want to minimize or dismiss altogether the impact of slavery- or really, the place that black people would have in America, North AND South- unfortunately miss the understanding of the Civil War and American History. Personally, the older I get, the less I'm concerned about why the war started and why it was fought than I am with what happened when it ended. All I know is, the Union was saved and slavery was dead. Unless all people in "the land of the free" have access to liberty, that "land" is a hypocrisy.

Audio version is engrossing and thorough.......2007-04-02

I listened to the unabridged Books on Tape version which consists of 8 cassette tapes in a case. I found it very interesting. The tapes seemed to go by quickly.

My only suggestion would be to shorten some of the lengthy introductory material (dedication and credits) so as to get into the actual book more quickly. Also, a portion of the last cassette is devoted to a preview of another book, so the set could fit onto 7 tapes if edited just a bit.

McPherson quotes extensively from letters and diaries written during the war, so most of the accounts are first-hand. He groups them into categories and draws conclusions from their similar opinions, although he sprinkles in disclaimers because the sample is not totally balanced as it is only from literate English-speaking soldiers whose letters were saved by their descendants. Men who could not write (including most of the large number of ex-slaves who served in the Union army) did not leave a record of their experiences. Also, families of men who died in battle were often more likely to save their letters than those who survived the war.

As a female who has never served in the military, I have often wondered why so many men left their homes and families to fight in the Civil War, especially puzzling since their enemies had recently been their countrymen and were often even their relatives. McPherson has done a good job of using the soldiers' own words to explain why they risked their lives again and again. He also points out how the war changed men's viewpoints on slavery. Union soldiers who did not care much about it were exposed to it's hardships as they marched through the South and became anti-slavery, while some Confederates expressed doubts about it as the futility of their struggle became apparent. By 1865 some Southern soldiers said they would rather see the slaves freed then to lose the war. But of course it was too late.

The narrator does an excellent job of reading the book. Recommended.

A very differnt civil war novel.......2006-12-14

James McPherson does it again with a great analysis of why men fought in the civil war and what made them continue fighting after that first battle. Whether it was brotherhood, pride, or religion each side brought with it various and compelling reasons for going to war. The war was a travesty that brought devastation to both sides but if you want to see inside the soldiers minds this is the only book that does it. There are few out there like it and I McPhereson is among the best. This is an essential book for any civil war library.

a good reason.......2006-06-26

Very well researched and easy to read. McPherson tries to be fair to both sides of the war, giving the good and the bad, but it is rather obvious that he favors the North.

Well written account.......2006-04-24

McPherson has weaved together a very well written study of what motivated soldiers, both North and South, to fight in the Civil War. McPherson does an excellent job of breaking up the chapters to keep the text flowing. He also describes what would motivate men to continue to fight after seeing the horrors of battle, why men joined up, why married men continued to serve despite pleas from family members to go AWOL or take a medical leave, etc. All the while, McPherson uses dozens of quotes from diaries and letters to back up his claims. McPherson should be applauded for letting the soldiers tell most of this story rather than the author conjecture why he thought they fought. He also seems to have let the story come to him rather than set out with an agenda. A must have for any Civil War or military history student.

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Daniel Baracskay
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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 2110 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: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
Author: Daniel Baracskay
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
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Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p612(5)

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
James M. McPherson
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
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The Burger Court is part of the ABC-CLIO Supreme Court Handbooks Series. Proving not as counterrevolutionary as its legal architect Richard Nixon had hoped, the Burger Court delivered significant decisions in cases involving the separation of powers (including landmark United States vs. Nixon), federal-state relations, equal protection, free speech, and civil liberties. Another surprise: the Burger Court guaranteed in Roe vs. Wade a woman's right to an abortion, demonstrating that this court definitely had a mind of its own. An understanding of the Burger Court and its decisions is absolutely vital to a basic knowledge of how the Supreme Court fits into the long history of American jurisprudence.

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