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The Networked Citizen

Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

By: Giovanni Navarria

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The Networked Citizen

Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

By: Giovanni Navarria

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world. To answer such questions, the book analyses and compares the impact of the Internet on the relationship between state, citizens, and politics in three countries: the USA, Italy, and China. The book’s journey starts in the mid-90s and ends in 2016. It pays particular attention to Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, the ascendance to power in Italy of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, and to the enduring Chinese government’s struggle to control the Internet public opinion. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere, while it also warns the reader on the many risks citizens face in a post-truth world. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere.

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Springer Nature

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9811332932

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9789811332937

Common Rail System for GDI Engines

Modelling, Identification, and Control

By: Giovanni Fiengo,Alessandro di Gaeta,Angelo Palladino,Veniero Giglio

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Common Rail System for GDI Engines

Modelling, Identification, and Control

By: Giovanni Fiengo,Alessandro di Gaeta,Angelo Palladino,Veniero Giglio

Progressive reductions in vehicle emission requirements have forced the automotive industry to invest in research and development of alternative control strategies. Continual control action exerted by a dedicated electronic control unit ensures that best performance in terms of pollutant emissions and power density is married with driveability and diagnostics. Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine technology is a way to attain these goals. This brief describes the functioning of a GDI engine equipped with a common rail (CR) system, and the devices necessary to run test-bench experiments in detail. The text should prove instructive to researchers in engine control and students are recommended to this brief as their first approach to this technology. Later chapters of the brief relate an innovative strategy designed to assist with the engine management system; injection pressure regulation for fuel pressure stabilization in the CR fuel line is proposed and validated by experiment. The resulting control scheme is composed of a feedback integral action and a static model-based feed-forward action, the gains of which are scheduled as a function of fundamental plant parameters. The tuning of closed-loop performance is supported by an analysis of the phase-margin and the sensitivity function. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the control algorithm in regulating the mean-value rail pressure independently from engine working conditions (engine speed and time of injection) with limited design effort.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447144686

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9781447144687

The Bookseller of Venice

By: Giovanni Montanaro,Edward Williams

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The Bookseller of Venice

By: Giovanni Montanaro,Edward Williams

In Venice’s Campo San Giacomo you’ll find Moby Dick, one of those bookshops “you’re always surprised to discover still exist...”. The bookseller is Vittorio, he’s just over forty, lives for his books and fights to be able to go on selling them. One day he meets Sofia, bright-eyed and quick-witted, who makes a habit of going to see him there. On the 12th November 2019, however, 187 centimetres of an exceptional acqua alta flood the houses and shops, and submerge Vittorio’s bookshelves. The books drown “and the whole of Campo San Giacomo is full of lost books, and at that moment it seems as if everything is lost”. Giovanni Montanaro experienced first-hand the tragic days of the flood that shook the world. But he also tells another story, not only describing the anxiety caused by the rising water, but revealing another Venice: the young people, the Venetians, the joy which won out amid the devastation, springing from people’s ability to help each other. And most of all the booksellers, the love of books and the love which books engender, the determination to salvage at all costs the things that are most dear. Readers and booksellers have been moved by this story, which evokes Venice and its magnificent uniqueness but becomes, at the same time, a symbol for every tragic emergency and every human rebirth. “...for the first time he sees that these books aren’t dead, even if they’re damaged, even if they’re no longer perfect – just like humans, they get damaged, but they still go on living.” A novel which is a loving tribute to Venice and to books.

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163

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Feltrinelli Editore

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8858860284

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9788858860281

Homeodrink Doping Yes or Not

By: Giovanni Antonio Giannotti

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Homeodrink Doping Yes or Not

By: Giovanni Antonio Giannotti

HOMEODRINK, DOPING YES or NOT Un libro che spiega chiaramente quello che altri non dicono sull'Omeopatia Classica e i vari metodi nei quali oggi viene interpretata. Un libro che insegna ad utilizzare i rimedi Omeopatici col massimo dell'efficacia ed il minimo della spesa ! Un libro per tutti coloro che desiderano migliorare le loro performance psicofisiche, ben oltre il settore dello sport. La Medicina della Sport che regolamenta le leggi sul Doping, oggi è favorevole all'uso di rimedi omeopatici. Lo sarà ancora dopo la divulgazione di questo scritto ?

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Lulu.com

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1470960478

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9781470960476

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The Networked Citizen

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The Bookseller of Venice

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Homeodrink Doping Yes or Not

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