Tag: Performance

Free Download Adrian Bejan, "Heat Transfer: Evolution, Design and Performance"
English | ISBN: 1119467403 | 2022 | 608 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Provides authoritative coverage of the fundamentals of heat transfer, written by one of the most cited authors in all of Engineering

Free Download Laurie Postlewate, Wim Husken, "Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
English | 2007 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 9042021918 | PDF | 4,0 mb
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.

Free Download The Adventure of Sustainable Performance: Beyond ESG Compliance to Leadership in the New Era (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7G4XBV | 2023 | 8 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Stuart McLachlan, Dean Sanders
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
A guidebook for leaders to create value from sustainability and organizational performance. In The Adventure of Sustainable Performance, the authors share their many years of experience serving clients and driving performance as the world transitions to a net zero carbon future. A future that uses resources sustainably and that seeks social justice. Through storytelling and interviews from many international leaders in business and sustainability, and by anchoring practical advice with evidence and truth, you will find: the avalanche of new regulations and changes to the compliance landscape; the opportunity for value creation beyond compliance box ticking; inspirational stories on how ambitions can be reset; a destination that supports ongoing prosperity for humanity from sustainable performance models; how purpose driven brands generate superior value; the role of "Total Value Systems" as we move from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism models; the relationship between sustainability, talent, and customer attraction; and how digital will play an increasingly important role as the world pivots in response to the climate crisis. Perfect for executives, managers, directors, and other business leaders, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance is an actionable guidebook for the implementation of value-add sustainability programs.

Free Download Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPYPQWJL | 2023 | 13 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 398 MB
Author: Richard O. Prum
Narrator: Graham Winton
The idea that gender is a performance-a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s-has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates. In accessible language, Prum shows that gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance through which individuals regulate and achieve their own becoming. Human development is a performative continuum from a fertilized egg to a complex adult with tissues and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological mechanisms, gender, and sexual behavior. This complex hierarchy of self-enactment reflects the evolved agency of distinct genes, molecules, cells, and tissues. Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.

Free Download Practical Guide to Backend Performance
Published 1/2024
Created by Antonin MOREL
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 14 Lectures ( 1h 14m ) | Size: 502 MB

Free Download Jennie Hirsh, "Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art "
English | ISBN: 1032304766 | 2023 | 274 pages | EPUB, PDF | 23 MB + 21 MB
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

Free Download Turbomachinery Flow Physics and Dynamic Performance by Meinhard Schobeiri
English | PDF | 2005 | 535 Pages | ISBN : 3642061141 | 18 MB
Over the past three decades turbomachines experienced a steep increase in efficiency and performance. Based on fundamental principles of turbomachinery thermo-fluid mechanics, numerous CFD based calculation methods are being developed to simulate the complex 3-dimensional, highly unsteady turbulent flow within turbine or compressor stages. The objective of this book is to present the fundamental principals of turbomachinery fluid-thermodynamic design process of turbine and compressor components, power generation and aircraft gas turbines in a unified and compact manner. The book provides senior undergraduate students, graduate students and engineers in the turbomachinery industry with a solid background of turbomachinery flow physics and performance fundamentals that are essential for understanding turbomachinery performance and flow complexes.

Free Download Daniel Varndell, "Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form "
English | ISBN: 1438493517 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 2 MB
Explores the "torture" of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.

Free Download The Binocular Handbook: Function, Performance and Evaluation of Binoculars by Holger Merlitz
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 224 Pages | ISBN : 3031444078 | 22.9 MB
This book is a comprehensive technical treatise on binoculars as visual optical instruments. The author begins by discussing the function of binoculars and the properties of human visual perception. Theoretical models for the synthesis of binoculars and the complex interplay of the different components of binoculars are described. Subsequently, the performance limits, as experienced by the observer in a variety of external conditions, are derived. In the concluding section, the book takes the reader outdoors, where they learn to evaluate the properties and limitations of their binoculars in the field, and to recognize possible problems that may be due to manufacturing errors or accidental damages. Thus, a level of knowledge is provided that will enable the reader to fully exploit the capacities of their binoculars. This book is written for those who work professionally with binoculars and are technically interested, but it is equally useful for professional staff working in the optical industry and the distribution of optical instruments. It includes recent discoveries and is easily accessible to anyone who is seriously interested in learning about binocular function. High school level math is useful to understand the derivations, but not needed to comprehend the results, which are discussed and displayed graphically.

Free Download Pseudocapacitors: Fundamentals to High Performance Energy Storage Devices by Ram K. Gupta
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 403 Pages | ISBN : 3031454294 | 109.1 MB
This book provides an overview of pseudocapacitive materials, including their fundamentals, synthetic methods, architectural enhancements to boost their properties, and emerging materials. It covers numerous strategies to enhance their performance, such as altering morphology, doping, introducing multivalent ions, designing devices, and utilizing emerging pseudocapacitive materials. The book also delves into fundamental approaches for fine-tuning the properties of pseudocapacitive materials and explores their applications in energy storage devices, with a specific focus on emerging pseudocapacitive materials and their utilization in energy storage devices.