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Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

By: Carlos A. Smith,Armando B. Corripio

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Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

By: Carlos A. Smith,Armando B. Corripio

A practical guide for understanding and implementing industrial control strategies. Highly practical and applied, this Third Edition of Smith and Corripio's Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control continues to present all the necessary theory for the successful practice of automatic process control. The authors discuss both introductory and advanced control strategies, and show how to apply those strategies in industrial examples drawn from their own professional practice. Now revised, this Third Edition features: * Expanded coverage of the development of dynamic balances (Chapter 3) * A new chapter on modeling and simulation (Chapter 13) * More extensive discussion of distributive control systems * New tuning exercises (Appendix D) * Guidelines for plant-wide control and two new design case studies (Appendix B) * New operating case studies (Appendix E) * Book Website containing simulations to practice the tuning of feedback controllers, cascade controllers, and feedforward controllers, and the MATLAB(r) files for simulation examples and problem With this text, you can: * Learn the mathematical tools used in the analysis and design of process control systems. * Gain a complete understanding of the steady state behavior of processes. * Develop dynamic mathematical process models that will help you in the analysis, design, and operation of control systems. * Understand how the basic components of control systems work. * Design and tune feedback controllers. * Apply a variety of techniques that enhance feedback control, including cascade control, ratio control, override control, selective control, feedforward control, multivariable control, and loop interaction. * Master the fundamentals of dynamic simulation of process control systems using MATLAB.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471431907

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9780471431909

A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation

By: Carlos A. Smith,Scott W. Campbell

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A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation

By: Carlos A. Smith,Scott W. Campbell

A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation shows how differential equations arise from applying basic physical principles and experimental observations to engineering systems. Avoiding overly theoretical explanations, the textbook also discusses classical and Laplace transform methods for obtaining the analytical solution of

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1482257238

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Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

By: Carlos A. Smith,Armando B. Corripio

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By: Carlos A. Smith,Armando B. Corripio

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Automated Continuous Process Control

By: Carlos A. Smith

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Automated Continuous Process Control

By: Carlos A. Smith

Automated Continuous Process Control pulls together–in one compact and practical volume–the essentials for understanding, designing, and operating process control systems. This comprehensive guide covers the major elements of process control in a well-defined and ordered framework. Concepts are clearly presented, with minimal reliance on mathematical equations and strong emphasis on practical, real-life examples. Beginning with the very basics of process control, Automated Continuous Process Control builds upon each chapter to help the reader understand and efficiently practice industrial process control. This complete presentation includes: A discussion of processes from a physical point of view Feedback controllers and the workhorse in the industry–the PID controller The concept and implementation of cascade control Ratio, override (or constraint), and selective control Block diagrams and stability Feedforward control Techniques to control processes with long dead times Multivariable process control Applicable for electrical, industrial, chemical, or mechanical engineers, Automated Continuous Process Control offers proven process control guidance that can actually be used in day-to-day operations. The reader will also benefit from the companion CD-ROM, which contains processes that have been successfully used for many years to practice tuning feedback and cascade controllers, as well as designing feedforward controllers.

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0471459267

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The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World

By: Dave Zirin,John Carlos

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The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World

By: Dave Zirin,John Carlos

“A powerful and poignant memoir” of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters). An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography John Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his athletic accomplishments. His and his fellow medalist’s Tommie Smith’s Black Power salutes on the podium sparked controversy and career fallout—yet their show of defiance, seen around the world, remains one of the most iconic images of both Olympic history and African American history. This is the remarkable story of John Carlos’s experience as a young man in Harlem, a track and field athlete, and lifelong activist. “This book is fascinating for more than just the sports history, as the text talks about Carlos’ connection to Dr. King, basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Olympic runner Ralph Boston, baseball legend Jackie Robinson and boxer George Foreman. Carlos even comments on topics in today’s news including First Lady Michelle Obama, the value of Twitter, the antics of athletes like Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens, and his views on an award he received at ESPN’s 2008 ESPYs.” —Chicago Tribune “John Carlos is an American hero . . . I couldn’t put this book down.” —Michael Moore, filmmaker and New York Times–bestselling author of Here Comes Trouble

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Haymarket Books

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1608461335

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Kukulkan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

By: Marilyn Masson,Carlos Peraza Lope

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Kukulkan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

By: Marilyn Masson,Carlos Peraza Lope

Kukulkan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center. Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant market economy that played a critical role in the city's political and economic success. They offer new perspectives from the homes of governing elites, secondary administrators, affluent artisans, and poorer members of the service industries. Household occupational specialists depended on regional trade for basic provisions that were essential to crafting industries, sustenance, and quality of life. Settlement patterns reveal intricate relationships of households with neighbors, garden plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and resources. Urban planning endeavored to unite the cityscape and to integrate a pluralistic populace that derived from hometowns across the Yucatán peninsula. New data from Mayapán, the pinnacle of Postclassic Maya society, contribute to a paradigm change regarding the evolution and organization of Maya society in general and make Kukulkan's Realm a must-read for students and scholars of the ancient Maya and Mesoamerica.

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University Press of Colorado

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1492012734

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Kukulcan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

By: Marilyn Masson,Carlos Peraza Lope

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Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

By: Marilyn Masson,Carlos Peraza Lope

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center. Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant market economy that played a critical role in the city's political and economic success. They offer new perspectives from the homes of governing elites, secondary administrators, affluent artisans, and poorer members of the service industries. Household occupational specialists depended on regional trade for basic provisions that were essential to crafting industries, sustenance, and quality of life. Settlement patterns reveal intricate relationships of households with neighbors, garden plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and resources. Urban planning endeavored to unite the cityscape and to integrate a pluralistic populace that derived from hometowns across the Yucatán peninsula. New data from Mayapán, the pinnacle of Postclassic Maya society, contribute to a paradigm change regarding the evolution and organization of Maya society in general and make Kukulcan's Realm a must-read for students and scholars of the ancient Maya and Mesoamerica.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607323206

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Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

By: Carlos Garrido Castellano

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Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

By: Carlos Garrido Castellano

Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework—that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of “political art” at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7166.

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State University of New York Press

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1438485743

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Cuba

By: Carlos Soldevila

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Cuba

By: Carlos Soldevila

This second edition reveals Cuba's true island spirit: from colonial Havana and the world-heritage site of Trinidad, to the Afro-Cuban culture of Santiago. This guide also covers famous beaches and provides travelers with countless shortcuts and tips for independent travel in Cuba.

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Ulysses Travel Guides

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2894641435

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9782894641439

Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist

From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán

By: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

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Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist

From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán

By: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez explores his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of the interdisciplinary fields of transborder and applied anthropology. He shows us his path through anthropology as both a theoretical and an applied anthropologist whose work has strongly influenced borderlands and applied research. Importantly, he explains the underlying, often hidden process that led to his long insistence on making a difference in lives of people of Mexican origin on both sides of the border and to contribute to a “People with Histories.” In each chapter, Vélez-Ibáñez revisits a critical piece of his written work, providing a new introduction and discussion of ideas, sources, and influences for the piece. These are followed by the work, chosen because it accentuates key aspects of his development and formation as an anthropologist. By returning to these previously published works, Vélez-Ibáñez offers insight not only into the evolution of his own thinking and conceptualization but also into changes in the fields in which he has been so influential. Throughout his career, Vélez-Ibáñez has addressed why he does the work that he does, and in this volume he continues to address the personal and intellectual drives that have brought him from Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán. Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist shows how both Vélez-Ibáñez and anthropology have changed and formed over a fifty-year period. Throughout, he has worked to understand how people survive and thrive against all odds. Vélez-Ibáñez has been guided by the burning desire to understand inequality, exploitation, and legitimacy, and, most importantly, to provide platforms for the voiceless to narrate their own histories.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816542120

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9780816542123

Orthopedic Emergencies

A Radiographic Atlas

By: Scott Vanderwink Haig,Carlos Ramon Flores

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Orthopedic Emergencies

A Radiographic Atlas

By: Scott Vanderwink Haig,Carlos Ramon Flores

Provides the quickest and most accurate orthopedic differential diagnosis! Based on radiographs rather than line drawings, this is the only book to incorporate radiographs of normal and common variants. Features over 700 radiographs with bulleted text illustrating fractures and dislocations as well as normal anatomy.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007138068X

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9780071380683

Algebraic Multiplicity of Eigenvalues of Linear Operators

By: Julián López-Gómez,Carlos Mora-Corral

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Algebraic Multiplicity of Eigenvalues of Linear Operators

By: Julián López-Gómez,Carlos Mora-Corral

This book brings together all available results about the theory of algebraic multiplicities. It first offers a classic course on finite-dimensional spectral theory and then presents the most general results available about the existence and uniqueness of algebraic multiplicities for real non-analytic operator matrices and families. Coverage next transfers these results from linear to nonlinear analysis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764384018

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Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation

A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation

Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

Principles and Practices of Automatic Process Control

Automated Continuous Process Control

Automated Continuous Process Control

The John Carlos Story

The John Carlos Story

Kukulkan's Realm

Kukulkan's Realm

Kukulcan's Realm

Kukulcan's Realm

Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

Cuba

Cuba

Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist

Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist

Orthopedic Emergencies

Orthopedic Emergencies

Algebraic Multiplicity of Eigenvalues of Linear Operators

Algebraic Multiplicity of Eigenvalues of Linear Operators

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