In Search Of Staszewski

Author : Kenneth Fedzin
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783063512

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In Search of Staszewski by Kenneth Fedzin Pdf

“However horrible the past may have been, forgetting it would make the future even worse.” International Historical-Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society Memorial, Moscow. Set around the time of the 1863 Uprising and World War II, In Search of Staszewski is a powerful and moving real life account of a Polish family’s six-year ordeal and fight for survival under Soviet Oppression. Focusing on a family that were victims of Tsarist Russia’s oppression, the book also investigates Stalin’s brutal regime and the dreaded Gulag system where, in addition to millions of Russian citizens, hundreds of thousands of innocent Poles died as a result. Some survived and escaped the Soviet ‘paradise’, going on to fight courageously alongside allied forces during World War II. Investigated and told by the son of a survivor, who only learned the truth after the sudden death of his father, two strands of detailed investigation are woven into an emotional journey of discovery, uncovering the shocking details his father was so reluctant to speak about. In Search of Staszewski is not only the story of a fight for survival by four generations of one family, but also of a people’s struggle to preserve their cultural and national identity in the face of powerful neighbours. Inspired by authors such as Norman Davies, Orlando Figes, and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum,In Search of Staszewski uncovers the truth surrounding a little known and largely untold episode of World War II history that will surprise and shock fans of historical and biographical non-fiction works.

Author : Vicky Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350372313

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Central Asia in World War Two by Vicky Davis Pdf

Central Asia has long been situated at the geographical crossroads of East and West, once strategically located on the ancient Silk Road. The envy of the expanding Russian empire, it was colonized in the 19th century by Cossacks and traders from the north. This book examines how Central Asia, by then part of the Soviet Union, experienced population displacements on an even greater scale during the Second World War. Vicky Davis analyses how troops were sent westwards into action, only for waves of civilians to travel eastwards into the region: evacuees, refugees and even internal deportees sent into exile from their homelands in other parts of the vast Soviet Union. Central Asia in World War Two is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the Second World War. Based on meticulous archival research, it considers the interactions of the individual citizen and the Soviet state, weaving together the experiences of over three hundred ordinary men and women in Central Asia as they coped with their new roles on the front line or in the rear. Suffering incredible economic and physical hardship, racism and religious oppression, these mainly Muslim citizens were subjected to a forced process of Sovietization under the influence of Stalin's ubiquitous propaganda machine. Davis reveals how, while conscripts were all too often slaughtered or scapegoated in their regiments, the women and children left at home slaved in factories and communal farms to fuel the machinery of a war taking place thousands of kilometres away. She convincingly argues that the impact of forced assimilation, cultural indoctrination, anti-Semitism and re-education on the region were as great as the daily fight for survival in wartime. The legacy of the period is almost as complex, with struggles over the ownership and revision of history continuing even today.

Author : Jan Holnicki-Szulc,C. A. Mota Soares
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662056158

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Advances in Smart Technologies in Structural Engineering by Jan Holnicki-Szulc,C. A. Mota Soares Pdf

This book collects invited lectures presented and discussed on the AMAS & ECCOMAS Workshop/Thematic Conference SMART'o3. The SMART'o3 Conference on Smart Materials and Structures was held in a 19th century palace in Jadwisin near Warsaw, 2-5 September 2003, Poland .It was organized by the Advanced Materials and Structures (AMAS) Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IFTR) in Warsaw,ECCOMAS - European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and SMART-TECH Centre at IFTR. The idea of the workshop was to bring together and consolidate the community of Smart Materials and Structures in Europe. The workshop was attended by 66 participants from n European countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, U.K., Ukraine), 1 participant from Israel and 1 participant from the USA. The workshop program was grouped into the following major topics: 4 sessions on Structural Control (18 presentations), 3 sessions on Vibration Controland Dynamics (14 presentations), 2 sessions on Damage Identification (10 presentations), 2 sessions on Smart Materials (9 presentations). Each session was composed of an invited lecture and some contributed papers. Every paper scheduled in the program was presented, so altogether 51 presentations were given. No sessions were run in parallel. The workshop was attended not only by researchers but also by people closely related to the industry. There were interesting discussions on scientific merits of the presented papers as well as on future development of the field and its possible industrial applications.

Author : G.R Tomlinson,W.A Bullough
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482268560

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Smart Materials and Structures by G.R Tomlinson,W.A Bullough Pdf

Significant changes have occurred in materials science, including increasing demands on life extensions, and the reliability and exploitability of components, materials, and structures. These changes provide smart technologies with excellent application opportunities in aerospace, civil and electrical engineering, transportation, manufacturing, com

Author : Eleni Chatzi,Vasilis K. Dertimanis
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036506326

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Sensor Networks in Structural Health Monitoring: From Theory to Practice by Eleni Chatzi,Vasilis K. Dertimanis Pdf

The intense development of novel data-driven and hybrid methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) has been demonstrated by field deployments on large-scale systems, including transport, wind energy, and building infrastructure. The actionability of SHM as an essential resource for life-cycle and resilience management is heavily dependent on the advent of low-cost and easily deployable sensors Nonetheless, in optimizing these deployments, a number of open issues remain with respect to the sensing side. These are associated with the type, configuration, and eventual processing of the information acquired from these sensors to deliver continuous behavioral signatures of the monitored structures. This book discusses the latest advances in the field of sensor networks for SHM. The focus lies both in active research on the theoretical foundations of optimally deploying and operating sensor networks and in those technological developments that might designate the next generation of sensing solutions targeted for SHM. The included contributions span the complete SHM information chain, from sensor design to configuration, data interpretation, and triggering of reactive action. The featured papers published in this Special Issue offer an overview of the state of the art and further proceed to introduce novel methods and tools. Particular attention is given to the treatment of uncertainty, which inherently describes the sensed information and the behavior of monitored systems.

Author : K Worden,W A Bullough,J Haywood
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789814489928

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Smart Technologies by K Worden,W A Bullough,J Haywood Pdf

This book is a general introduction to intelligent or smart materials, systems and machines. Presented in understandable and non-mathematical terms, it is for anyone who is interested in future developments in these fields or who needs to be briefed on the current status of these interdisciplinary technologies. The intended audience comprises physicists, engineers, materials scientists and computer scientists of all levels, from undergraduates to post-doctoral practitioners. Contents: The Smart Approach — An Introduction to Smart TechnologiesSensing Systems for Smart StructuresVibration Control Using Smart StructuresData Fusion — The Role of Signal Processing for Smart Structures and SystemsShape Memory Alloys — A Smart Technology?Piezoelectric MaterialsMagnetostrictionSmart Fluid MachinesSmart Biomaterials — “Out-Smarting” the Body's Defence Systems and Other Advances in Materials for MedicineNatural Engineering — The Smart Synergy Readership: Undergraduates and researchers in materials science and engineering, electrical & electronic engineering, systems engineering and aerospace engineering. Keywords:Reviews:“All contributions are presented in a simple and non-mathematical approach. This book is particularly suited to scientists who are already involved in one sector of smart technologies and would like to broaden their knowledge or are willing to expand their activities to another field. Also, because of the simple approach used to introduce the various topics and the large number of examples presented it could be of great help for Masters or PhD students who are beginning their projects in their field.”Journal of Sound and Vibration

Author : Eric Ehrenreich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253116871

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The Nazi Ancestral Proof by Eric Ehrenreich Pdf

How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After the enactment of Nazi racial laws in the 1930s, the Reich Genealogical Authority, employing professional genealogists, became the providers and arbiters of the ancestral proof. This is the first detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution.

Author : William O'Donohue,Richard F Kitchener
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761953051

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The Philosophy of Psychology by William O'Donohue,Richard F Kitchener Pdf

This major text provides the first comprehensive anthology of the key topics arising in the philosophy of psychology. Bringing together internationally renowned authors, including Herb Simon, Karl Pribram, Joseph Rychlak, Ullin T Place and Adolf Gr[um]unbaum, this volume offers a stimulating and informative addition to contemporary debate. With the cognitive revolution of the 1960s, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of the philosophical assumptions and implications of psychology. Several significant themes, such as the foundations of knowledge, behaviourism, rationality, emotion and cognitive science span both philosophy and psychology, and are covered here along with a wide range of issues in the fields

Author : Stephen J. Guastello
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466560109

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Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics by Stephen J. Guastello Pdf

Although still true to its original focus on the person-machine interface, the field of human factors psychology (ergonomics) has expanded to include stress research, accident analysis and prevention, and nonlinear dynamical systems theory (how systems change over time), human group dynamics, and environmental psychology. Reflecting new development

Author : Zhongqing Su,Lin Ye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781848827844

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Identification of Damage Using Lamb Waves by Zhongqing Su,Lin Ye Pdf

Lamb waves are guided waves that propagate in thin plate or shell structures. There has been a clear increase of interest in using Lamb waves for identifying structural damage, entailing intensive research and development in this field over the past two decades. Now on the verge of maturity for diverse engineering applications, this emerging technique serves as an encouraging candidate for facilitating continuous and automated surveillance of the integrity of engineering structures in a cost-effective manner. In comparison with conventional nondestructive evaluation techniques such as ultrasonic scanning and radiography which have been well developed over half a century, damage identification using Lamb waves is in a stage of burgeoning development, presenting a number of technical challenges in application that need to be addressed and circumvented. It is these two aspects that have encouraged us to write this book, with the intention of consolidating the knowledge and know-how in the field of Lamb-wave-based damage identification, and of promoting widespread attention to mature application of this technique in the practical engineering sphere. This book provides a comprehensive description of key facets of damage identification technique using Lamb waves, based on the authors’ knowledge, comprehension and experience, ranging from fundamental theory through case studies to engineering applications.

Author : David Z. Hambrick,Guillermo Campitelli,Brooke N. Macnamara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351624831

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The Science of Expertise by David Z. Hambrick,Guillermo Campitelli,Brooke N. Macnamara Pdf

Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational, neural, and genetic approaches to understanding complex skill. The chapters show how performance in music, the arts, sports, games, medicine, and other domains reflects basic traits such as personality and intelligence, as well as knowledge and skills acquired through training. In doing so, this book moves the field of expertise beyond the duality of "nature vs. nurture" toward an integrative understanding of complex skill. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in expertise, and for professionals seeking current reviews of psychological research on expertise.

Author : Wai Tat Fu,Herre van Oostendorp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030388256

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Understanding and Improving Information Search by Wai Tat Fu,Herre van Oostendorp Pdf

This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search. It is timely as the broader research area of cognitive computing and cognitive technology have recently attracted much attention, and there has been a surge in interest to develop systems and technology that are more compatible with human cognitive abilities. Divided into three interlocking sections, the first introduces the foundational concepts of information search from a cognitive computing perspective to highlight the research questions and approaches that are shared among the contributing authors. Relevant concepts from psychology, information and computing sciences are addressed. The second section discusses methods and tools that are used to understand and predict information search behavior and how the cognitive perspective can provide unique insights into the complexities of the behavior in various contexts. The final part highlights a number of areas of applications of which education and training, collaboration and conversational search interfaces are important ones. Understanding and Improving Information Search - A Cognitive Approach includes contributions from cognitive psychologists, information and computing scientists around the globe, including researchers from Europe (France, Netherlands, Germany), the US, and Asia (India, Japan), providing their unique but coherent perspectives to the core issues and questions most relevant to our current understanding of information search behavior and improving information search.

Author : Eric Ehrenreich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : WISC:89087444030

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Genealogy and Genocide by Eric Ehrenreich Pdf

Author : K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521406129

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Toward a General Theory of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith Pdf

During the last twenty years our understanding of expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analysis of chess masters, experts in physics and medicine, musicians, athletics, writers, and performance artists have included careful examination of the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training practice. The importance of domain-specific knowledge has led researchers on expertise to focus on characteristics of expertise in specific domains. In Toward a General Theory of Expertise many of the world's foremost scientists review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise in different domains, with the goal of identifying characteristics of expert performance that are generalizable across many different areas of expertise. These essays provide a comprehensive summary of general methods for studying expertise and of current knowledge about expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports and performance arts, music, writing, and decision making. Most important, the essays reveal the existence of many general characteristics of expertise.

Author : Stella Vosniadou,Daniel Kayser,Athanassios Protopapas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 975 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317705550

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Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 by Stella Vosniadou,Daniel Kayser,Athanassios Protopapas Pdf

This volume contains the invited lectures, invited symposia, symposia, papers and posters presented at the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference held in Greece in May 2007. The papers presented in this volume range from empirical psychological studies and computational models to philosophical arguments, meta-analyses and even to neuroscientific experimentation. The quality of the work shows that the Cognitive Science Society in Europe is an exciting and vibrant one. There are 210 contributions by cognitive scientists from 27 different countries, including USA, France, UK, Germany, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, and Australia. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with current research in Cognitive Science.