Mechanism

Author : Larry L. Howell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471384786
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compliant Mechanisms written by Larry L. Howell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-08-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compliant Mechanisms" beschreibt eine besonders exakte, flexible und zuverlässige Entwurfsmethode im Maschinenbau, vorgestellt von einem international anerkannten Experten. Einem allgemeinen Überblick folgt die Erläuterung fortgeschrittener, moderner, zum Teil hochspezialisierter Anwendungen.

Author : Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986523
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mechanism written by Domenico Bertoloni Meli and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mechanical philosophy first emerged as a leading player on the intellectual scene in the early modern period—seeking to explain all natural phenomena through the physics of matter and motion—and the term mechanism was coined. Over time, natural phenomena came to be understood through machine analogies and explanations and the very word mechanism, a suggestive and ambiguous expression, took on a host of different meanings. Emphasizing the important role of key ancient and early modern protagonists, from Galen to Robert Boyle, this book offers a historical investigation of the term mechanism from the late Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, at a time when it was used rather frequently in complex debates about the nature of the notion of the soul. In this rich and detailed study, Domenico Bertoloni Melifocuses on strategies for discussing the notion of mechanism in historically sensitive ways; the relation between mechanism, visual representation, and anatomy; the usage and meaning of the term in early modern times; and Marcello Malpighi and the problems of fecundation and generation, among the most challenging topics to investigate from a mechanistic standpoint.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742569616
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Mechanism written by Philip Mirowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...the history of economic theory at its best.'-EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

Author : Veli-Pekka Parkkinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319946102
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine written by Veli-Pekka Parkkinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such evidence into account in the evidence appraisal process. In addition, it develops procedures for seeking evidence of mechanisms, for evaluating evidence of mechanisms, and for combining this evaluation with evidence of association in order to yield an overall assessment of effectiveness. Evidence-based medicine seeks to achieve improved health outcomes by making evidence explicit and by developing explicit methods for evaluating it. To date, evidence-based medicine has largely focused on evidence of association produced by clinical studies. As such, it has tended to overlook evidence of pathophysiological mechanisms and evidence of the mechanisms of action of interventions. The book offers a useful guide for all those whose work involves evaluating evidence in the health sciences, including those who need to determine the effectiveness of health interventions and those who need to ascertain the effects of environmental exposures.

Author : Steven R. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139471791
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication in Mechanism Design written by Steven R. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanism design is the field of economics that treats institutions and procedures as variables that can be selected in order to achieve desired objectives. An important aspect of a mechanism is the communication among its participants that it requires, which complements other design features such as incentives and complexity. A calculus-based theory of communication in mechanisms is developed in this book. The value of a calculus-based approach lies in its familiarity as well as the insight into mechanisms that it provides. Results are developed concerning (i) a first order approach to the construction of mechanisms, (ii) the range of mechanisms that can be used to achieve a given objective, as well as (iii) lower bounds on the required communication.

Author : Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026263032X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information, Mechanism and Meaning written by Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of selected papers written by the information theorist and "brain physicist," most of which were presented to various scientific conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of this collection concerns MacKay's abiding preoccupation with information as represented and utilized in the brain and exchanged between human beings, rather than as formalized in logical patterns of elementary propositions.

Author : Mårten Lange
Publisher : Mack
ISBN 13 : 9781910164822
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marten Lange written by Mårten Lange and published by Mack. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mechanism' is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society. Lange attempts to trace the effects of technological developments on human experiences, using architectural tropes to build a narrative loaded with the threats and promises of the future. Cutting back and forth between close-up views and cityscapes, 'The Mechanism' offers a filmic sequence of photographs that is at once affective and estranging.

Author : Brian G. Henning
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174371
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Mechanism written by Brian G. Henning and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang “in the air” (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers together, this volume explores what might be termed “the New Frontiers” of biology, namely contemporary areas of research that appear to call an updating, a supplementation, or a relaxation of some of the main tenets of the Modern Synthesis. Such areas of investigation include: Emergence Theory, Systems Biology, Biosemiotics, Homeostasis, Symbiogenesis, Niche Construction, the Theory of Organic Selection (also known as “the Baldwin Effect”), Self-Organization and Teleodynamics, as well as Epigenetics. Most of the chapters in this book offer critical reflections on the neo-Darwinist outlook and work to promote a novel synthesis that is open to a greater degree of inclusivity as well as to a more holistic orientation in the biological sciences.

Author : Tilman Borgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190244682
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design written by Tilman Borgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the best way to auction an asset? How should a group of people organize themselves to ensure the best provision of public goods? How should exchanges be organized? In An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design, Tilman Börgers addresses these questions and more through an exploration of the economic theory of mechanism design. Mechanism design is reverse game theory. Whereas game theory takes the rules of the game as a given and makes predictions about the behavior of strategic players, the theory of mechanism design goes a step further and selects the optimal rules of the game. A relatively new economic theory, mechanism design studies the instrument itself as well as the results of the instrument. An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design provides rigorous but accessible explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design, such as Myerson's theorem on expected revenue maximizing auctions, Myerson and Satterthwaite's theorem on the impossibility of ex post efficient bilateral trade with asymmetric information, and Gibbard and Satterthwaite's theorem on the non-existence of dominant strategy voting mechanisms. Börgers also provides an examination of the frontiers of current research in the area with an original and unified perspective that will appeal to advanced students of economics.

Author : Peter Hedström
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521596879
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Mechanisms written by Peter Hedström and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches. The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. For social theory to be of use for the working social scientist, it must attain a high level of precision and provide a toolbox from which middle range theories can be constructed.