Finite Media

Author : Sean Cubitt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373475
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finite Media written by Sean Cubitt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is through an eco-political media aesthetics, in which people use media to shift their relationship to the environment and where public goods and spaces are available to all. Cubitt demonstrates this through case studies ranging from the 1906 film The Story of the Kelly Gang to an image of Saturn taken during NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission, suggesting that affective responses to images may generate a populist environmental politics that demands better ways of living and being. Only by reorienting our use of media, Cubitt contends, can we overcome the failures of political elites and the ravages of capital.

Author : Clément Cancès
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319573942
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finite Volumes for Complex Applications VIII - Hyperbolic, Elliptic and Parabolic Problems written by Clément Cancès and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second volume of proceedings of the 8th conference on "Finite Volumes for Complex Applications" (Lille, June 2017). It includes reviewed contributions reporting successful applications in the fields of fluid dynamics, computational geosciences, structural analysis, nuclear physics, semiconductor theory and other topics. The finite volume method in its various forms is a space discretization technique for partial differential equations based on the fundamental physical principle of conservation, and recent decades have brought significant advances in the theoretical understanding of the method. Many finite volume methods preserve further qualitative or asymptotic properties, including maximum principles, dissipativity, monotone decay of free energy, and asymptotic stability. Due to these properties, finite volume methods belong to the wider class of compatible discretization methods, which preserve qualitative properties of continuous problems at the discrete l evel. This structural approach to the discretization of partial differential equations becomes particularly important for multiphysics and multiscale applications. The book is useful for researchers, PhD and master’s level students in numerical analysis, scientific computing and related fields such as partial differential equations, as well as for engineers working in numerical modeling and simulations.

Author : Kerryn Higgs
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262529696
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collision Course written by Kerryn Higgs and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom. Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth—written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III—found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs—climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organon, Or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book The Organon written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Osborne Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The sub-mechanics of the universe written by Osborne Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Osborne Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects written by Osborne Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Wood
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483148130
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding written by James Wood and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding deals with the mathematical processes involved in how to effectively control the dangerous effect of nuclear radiation. Reactor shielding is considered an important aspect in the operation of reactor systems to ensure the safety of personnel and others that can be directly or indirectly affected. Composed of seven chapters, the book discusses ionizing radiation and how it aids in the control and containment of radioactive substances that are considered harmful to all living things. The text also outlines the necessary radiation quantities and units that are needed for a systemic control of shielding and presents an examination of the main sources of nuclear radiation. A discussion of the gamma photon cross sections and an introduction to BMIX, a computer program used in illustrating a technique in identifying the gamma ray build-up factor for a reactor shield, are added. The selection also discusses various mathematical representations and areas of shielding theory that are being used in radiation shielding. The book is of great value to those involved in the development and implementation of systems to minimize and control the dangerous and lethal effect of radiation.

Author : Hans-Jörg G. Diersch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364238739X
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FEFLOW written by Hans-Jörg G. Diersch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEFLOW is an acronym of Finite Element subsurface FLOW simulation system and solves the governing flow, mass and heat transport equations in porous and fractured media by a multidimensional finite element method for complex geometric and parametric situations including variable fluid density, variable saturation, free surface(s), multispecies reaction kinetics, non-isothermal flow and multidiffusive effects. FEFLOW comprises theoretical work, modeling experiences and simulation practice from a period of about 40 years. In this light, the main objective of the present book is to share this achieved level of modeling with all required details of the physical and numerical background with the reader. The book is intended to put advanced theoretical and numerical methods into the hands of modeling practitioners and scientists. It starts with a more general theory for all relevant flow and transport phenomena on the basis of the continuum approach, systematically develops the basic framework for important classes of problems (e.g., multiphase/multispecies non-isothermal flow and transport phenomena, discrete features, aquifer-averaged equations, geothermal processes), introduces finite-element techniques for solving the basic balance equations, in detail discusses advanced numerical algorithms for the resulting nonlinear and linear problems and completes with a number of benchmarks, applications and exercises to illustrate the different types of problems and ways to tackle them successfully (e.g., flow and seepage problems, unsaturated-saturated flow, advective-diffusion transport, saltwater intrusion, geothermal and thermohaline flow).

Author : Francis Joseph Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kenotic Theory written by Francis Joseph Hall and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: