Auto mania McCarthy, Tom
2007, 20071024
eBook, Book
The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. InAuto Maniahe ...presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle-from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal.
From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s,Auto Maniaexplores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford's fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley's widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming.
McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America's market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.
Ulaşım ve taşıma ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak için icat edilen otomobil zaman içerisinde satış sayılarını artırmış ve günlük hayatın vazgeçilmezlerinden olmuştur; ancak çeşitli etkenler nedeniyle ...otomobil talebi dönemler boyunca dalgalı bir seyir izlemiştir. Bu çalışma Türkiye'deki otomobil talebini etkileyen rasyonel ve irrasyonel dinamikleri tartışmayı, rasyonel dinamik olarak kabul edilen makroekonomik değişkenlerin otomobil talebi üzerindeki etkisini ARDL yaklaşımıyla analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Elde edilen bulgular Türkiye'de otomobil talebini etkileyen en önemli değişkenlerin, işsizlik, otomobil fiyatları ve enflasyon olduğunu göstermektedir.
El presente artículo analiza las medidas adoptadas por el ordenamiento jurídico español a efectos de prevenir y sancionar el extendido e inapropiado uso del empleo público temporal para la cobertura ...de puestos de trabajo de carácter permanente y el consiguiente fraude a la obligación legal de recurrir, como regla general, al empleo indefinido. Se examina una situación de gran actualidad en la que, a las últimas sentencias del Tribunal Supremo, se añaden inminentes pronunciamientos del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, que podrían obligar a un cambio jurisprudencial en los fallos nacionales.
Sarah Seo shows that the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, led to ever more intrusive policing, with devastating consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice ...system. Criminal procedures designed to safeguard us on the road undermined the nation's commitment to equal protection before the law.
Traditionally, the study of internal combustion engines has focused on the steady-state performance. However, the daily driving schedule of automotive and truck engines is inherently related to ...unsteady operation, whereas the most critical conditions encountered by industrial or marine engines are met during transients. Unfortunately, the transient operation of turbocharged diesel engines has been associated with poor driveability, as well as overshoot in particulate and gaseous emissions, making the study and modeling of transient engine operation an important scientific objective. Diesel Engine Transient Operation provides an in-depth discussion of all the complex thermodynamic and dynamic phenomena that are experienced by a diesel engine during load increase, acceleration, cold starting or Transient Cycle. Beginning with the fundamental and most influential turbocharger lag problem, the analysis covers a range of topics, including heat transfer, combustion, air-supply and friction. Diesel Engine Transient Operation presents the most important findings in the field, with special attention paid to the discussion of exhaust emission mechanisms and to the various methods of improving transient response. Moreover, the discussion of the main experimental techniques covers the measurement of exhaust emissions and particle size distribution, which has gained increasing interest in recent years due to stringent regulations imposed by the EU, USA, and Japan. Researchers and students in the field will find this books comprehensive coverage of the latest research particularly informative, and will also appreciate the authors analysis of available modeling techniques.
In an interview, Hiroya Tanaka from Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Japan talks about his field of research. He was engaged in the research of mobile antennas and radio wave ...propagation analysis during his Ph.D. Afterwards, he joined Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc. A lot of electric and electrical components are used in recent vehicles for energy management and advanced control. His current interests are nano-structured electromagnetic devices, nonlinear circuit elements and electromagnetic compatibility management for automotive applications.
Wie sich Tropfen bewegen Geyer, Florian; Seiler, Patrick M.; Vollmer, Doris ...
Physik in unserer Zeit,
03/2019, Letnik:
50, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Zusammenfassung
Wie bewegen sich Tropfen über Oberflächen mit unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften? Diese Frage ist bis heute wissenschaftlich aktuell. Moderne Messmethoden eröffnen neue Einblicke in die ...Reibungseigenschaften solcher Flüssig‐fest‐Kontakte. Die Kräfte, die zum Beispiel kleine Wassertropfen über Untergründe bewegen können, liegen im Mikronewton‐Bereich. Entsprechend empfindlich müssen diese Methoden sein. Sie zeigen, dass Wassertropfen auf rauen wasserabweisenden Oberflächen, zum Beispiel Vogelfedern, wesentlich leichter gleiten als auf glatten hydrophoben Flächen. Der Übergang zwischen Haft‐ und Gleitreibung zeigt ein überraschend ähnliches Verhalten wie die Reibung zwischen zwei Festkörpern. Diese grundlegenden Ergebnisse fließen direkt in die angewandte Forschung ein. Dabei geht es um die Frage, wie eine gute Sicht aus Autos bei Regen sichergestellt werden kann. Auch Sensoren zum autonomen Fahren müssen wasserfrei sein. Davon hängt die Zulassung neuer Automodelle ab.
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