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The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision
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ISBN: 9780262526364 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has reconfigured itself. In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect’s acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries—from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication—that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material testing, and the rhetorical obstacles that blighted cybernetics. Why is it, she asks, that the more we cornered physical error, the more we feared it?

The statistical mind in a pre-statistical era: The Netherlands, 1750-1850
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ISBN: 9057420341 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amsterdam Aksant


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IEEE instrumentation & measurement magazine.
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ISSN: 10946969 19410123 Year: 1998 Publisher: New-York: IEEE,

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Noncontact atomic force microscopy
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ISBN: 3540431179 3642627722 3642560199 9783540431176 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin: Springer,

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Since 1995, the noncontact atomic force microscope (NC-AFM) has achieved remarkable progress. Based on nanomechanical methods, the NC-AFM detects the weak attractive force between the tip of a cantilever and a sample surface. This method has the following characteristics: it has true atomic resolution; it can measure atomic force interactions, i.e. it can be used in so-called atomic force spectroscopy (AFS); it can also be used to study insulators; and it can measure mechanical responses such as elastic deformation. This is the first book that deals with all of the emerging NC-AFM issues.


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IET science, measurement & technology
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ISSN: 17518822 17518830 Year: 2007 Publisher: Stevenage: Institution of engineering and technology,

Radiation detection and measurement
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ISBN: 0471073385 9780471073383 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Wiley,

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A Classic Text on Radiation Detection and Measurement Now Updated and Expanded Building on the proven success of this widely-used text, the Third Edition will provide you with a clear understanding of the methods and instrumentation used in the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation. It provides in-depth coverage of the basic principles of radiation detection as well as illustrating their application in a full set of modern instruments. In addition to a complete description of well-established detection and spectroscopic methods, many recently developed approaches are also explored. These include extensive new discussions of semiconductor detectors with unique properties, recently developed scintillation materials and photomultiplier tubes, and several gas-filled detectors of new design. Many other updates and additions have been made throughout the text and two appendices have been added. Over 100 new figures and tables have been included. Key Features of the Third Edition* Every chapter has been updated with extensive addition of new references to relevant articles in the scientific literature.* A number of new detection techniques have been added, strengthening the status of the text as the most comprehensive coverage of the topic to be found in any single book.* The writing style has maintained the readability that has attracted favorable response from readers and reviewers of the earlier editions.* The author uses his extensive research experience in radiation measurements, nuclear instrumentation, and radiation imaging to provide you with an invaluable resource.

Space science reviews
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ISSN: 00386308 ISBN: 9781402038440 9781402038433 1402038437 9048169798 9786610624546 128062454X 1402038445 Year: 1962 Volume: v. 119 Publisher: Utrecht Servaas Bolwerk

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Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the last branch of this discipline to come of age. After a very successful sky survey performed in the eighties by the IRAS satellite, the Infrared Space Observatory, in the nineties, brought spectacular advances in the understanding of the processes giving rise to powerful infrared emission by a great variety of celestial sources. Outstanding results have been obtained on the bright comet Hale-Bopp, and in particular of its water spectrum, as well as on the formation, chemistry and dynamics of planetary objects in the solar system. Ideas on the early stages of stellar formation and on the stellar initial mass function have been clarified. ISO is the first facility in space able to provide a systematic diagnosis of the physical phenomena and the chemistry in the close environment of pre-main sequence stars, in the interstellar medium, and in the final stages of stellar life, using, among other indicators, molecular hydrogen, ubiquitous crystalline silicates, water and ices. ISO has dramatically increased our ability to investigate the power production, excitation and fuelling mechanism of galaxies of every type, and has discovered a new very cold dust component in galaxies. ISO has demonstrated that luminous infrared galaxies were brighter and much more numerous in the past, and that they played a dominant role in shaping present day galaxies and in producing the cosmic infrared background.

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Digital image processing
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ISBN: 3540677542 3662047837 3662047810 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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This book offers an integral view of image processing from image acquisition to the extraction of the data of interest. The discussion of the general concepts is supplemented with examples from applications on PC-based image processing systems and ready-to-use implementations of important algorithms. The fifth edition has been completely revised and extended. The most notable extensions include a detailed discussion on random variables and fields, 3-D imaging techniques and a unified approach to regularized parameter estimation. The complete.text of the book is now available on the accompanying CD-ROM. It is hyperlinked so that it can be used in a very flexible way. The CD-ROM contains a full set of exercises to all topics covered by this book and a runtime version of the image processing software heurisko. A large collection of images, image sequences, and volumetric images is available for practical exercises.

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Stochastic processes --- Mathematical statistics --- Analyse d'image --- Image analysis --- Application des ordinateurs --- computer applications --- Image processing --- Digital techniques. --- Traitement d'images --- Digital techniques --- Techniques numériques --- Techniques numériques. --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Optical data processing. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement   . --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Mechatronics. --- Radiology. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Programmable controllers --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Electronic data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Optical equipment --- Techniques numériques.

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