Mario Russo

This is the story of the Boomer Generation and what it was like growing up during the 1960s, arguably the most exciting and momentous time in our nation's history. Over 77 million Baby Boomers witnessed the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war, the moon landing, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the sexual revolution and so much more Whether it was school air raid drills, a first kiss, surfing escapades, Italian Sunday dinners, Christmas eve celebrations, visits to Brooklyn relatives, cross-country trips, high school proms, part-time jobs, college applications, sexual encounters, or family funerals, we all went through some variation of these adolescent experiences, all delightfully described in Baby Boomer Rewind in a series of entertaining stories. There will never be another Woodstock, nor another Beatles. The author recounts these and other memorable events as well as his personal experiences growing up in the 1960s with amusing stories that reveal what life was like in those amazing times, and how different life was then from now.

This is the story of the Boomer Generation and what it was like growing up during the 1960s, arguably the most exciting and momentous time in our nation's history. Over 77 million Baby Boomers witnessed the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war, the moon landing, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the sexual revolution and so much more Whether it was school air raid drills, a first kiss, surfing escapades, Italian Sunday dinners, Christmas eve celebrations, visits to Brooklyn relatives, cross-country trips, high school proms, part-time jobs, college applications, sexual encounters, or family funerals, we all went through some variation of these adolescent experiences, all delightfully described in Baby Boomer Rewind in a series of entertaining stories. There will never be another Woodstock, nor another Beatles. The author recounts these and other memorable events as well as his personal experiences growing up in the 1960s with amusing stories that reveal what life was like in those amazing times, and how different life was then from now.

One of the main requirements of power quality management is the guarantee of an adequate sinusoidal voltage waveform profile at each node of a network. Such a guarantee is facilitated by adaptive systems able to account for unpredictable fluctuations in operating conditions. A self-contained blend of theory and novel application, this book is a detailed treatment of self-tuning control schemes. The reader moves from power system modelling problems through illustrations of the main adaptive control systems to a detailed description of design methods: Kalman filtering, parameter-identification algorithms and discrete-time controller design are all represented. Case studies address applications issues in the implementation of adaptive voltage control. Practicing engineers and researchers in power systems and control engineering will find this monograph, written by researchers from each field, to be a valuable synthesis of both, while its accessible style will also appeal to graduate students.

One of the main requirements of power quality management is the guarantee of an adequate sinusoidal voltage waveform profile at each node of a network. Such a guarantee is facilitated by adaptive systems able to account for unpredictable fluctuations in operating conditions. A self-contained blend of theory and novel application, this book is a detailed treatment of self-tuning control schemes. The reader moves from power system modelling problems through illustrations of the main adaptive control systems to a detailed description of design methods: Kalman filtering, parameter-identification algorithms and discrete-time controller design are all represented. Case studies address applications issues in the implementation of adaptive voltage control. Practicing engineers and researchers in power systems and control engineering will find this monograph, written by researchers from each field, to be a valuable synthesis of both, while its accessible style will also appeal to graduate students.