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Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

Biomechanics of Human Motion: Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition explores the biomechanical principles of nine different forms of martial arts with specific attention paid to their anatomical features. Within this examination Professor Arus highlights the use of energy and force especially in Kyusho-Jutsu. Whereas the first edition provided an in-depth explanation of the Aikido techniques of Kokyu-ryoku the second edition focusses specifically on the grabbing and liberation techniques used in Kyusho-Jutsu. Such an examination stresses the importance of vital points finger manipulation and their co rresponding emphasis on energy usage. As Professor Arus details throughout Biomechanics of Human Motion Second Edition knowledge of this form of pressure point maneuvering is useful in both attack and counterattack situations especially since the martial artist’s anatomo-physiological adaptation to effort represents the most significant development in fighting regimens. The second edition also includes a discussion of the katana. Professor Arus notes that defense against the katana is nearly impossible describing the three major steps used in Japanese (Ma). It is customary in Aikido to defend against a wooden sword. By using a wooden sword an Aikido Master’s demonstration is pre-determined. Techniques to defend against these demonstrations are discussed throughout the book. Finally various attack and defense techniques using pressure points are also explained in Biomechanics of Human Motion Second Edition. | Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

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Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems

Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems

Learn the theory behind grounding systems and bonding equipotential connections from a worldwide expert. Through mathematical analysis comprehensive explanations and detailed figures Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems explains the theory and the reasons behind basic ground-electrodes (i. e. the sphere the ground rod and the horizontal ground wire) and more complex grounding systems (i. e. ground-grids) buried in uniform and non-uniform soils. Through calculations and explanatory diagrams this comprehensive guide provides code-complying solutions for the safety against electric shock provided by equipotential bonding connections between exposed-conductive-parts such as equipment enclosures and metalwork. Details on the calculation of step and touch voltages in different types of system grounding (i. e. TT TN and IT) are provided also with the aid of solved problems. Readers will learn how to minimize hazardous interactions between grounding systems cathodically protected pipelines and heat networks. The analysis of the effectiveness of bonding systems against electric shock in the case of contact with electric vehicles during charge in the event of ground-faults which is an upcoming issue challenging our safety is included.

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Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry uses a step by step approach to enable students to independently master the field. This second edition contains many new themes and developments including: the essence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) integration of the changes caused by the evolution of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) the extension of price elasticity of demand and addition of income and cross elasticities the addition of break-even time (BET) as an additional method of analysing capital investments Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage this textbook is essential reading for hospitality management students. Additional study and teaching materials can be found on www. hospitalitymanagement. noordhoff. nl

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Advanced Structural Mechanics

Advanced Structural Mechanics

Building on the author’s Structural Mechanics Fundamentals this text presents a complete and uniform treatment of the more advanced topics in structural mechanics ranging from beam frames to shell structures from dynamics to buckling analysis from plasticity to fracture mechanics from long-span to high-rise civil structures. Plane frames Statically indeterminate beam systems: Method of displacements Plates and shells Finite element method Dynamics of discrete systems Dynamics of continuous elastic systems Buckling instability Long-span structures High-rise structures Theory of plasticity Plane stress and plane strain conditions Mechanics of fracture This book serves as a text for graduate students in structural engineering as well as a reference for practising engineers and researchers. | Advanced Structural Mechanics

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Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

In this second edition of a bestseller authors Paul H. Brunner and Helmut Rechberger guide professional newcomers as well as experienced engineers and scientists towards mastering the art of material flow analysis (MFA) from the very beginning to an advanced state of material balances of complex systems. Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition serves as a concise and reproducible methodology as well as a basis for analysis assessment and improvement of anthropogenic systems through an approach that is helpfully uniform and standardized. The methodology featured in this book is a vital resource for generating new data fostering understanding and increasing knowledge to benefit the growing MFA community working in the fields of industrial ecology resource management waste management and environmental protection. This new second edition takes into account all new developments and readers will profit from a new exploration of STAN software newly added citations and thoroughly described case studies that reveal the potential of MFA to solve industrial ecology challenges. | Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

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Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide

Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control. This book covers a wide range of equipment and provides a good overview of the related principles and applications. A particularly valuable feature are the practical examples not commonly available in other books. Based on the author’s fifty years of experience in applying and operating air pollution control equipment this book provides easy-to-read information on basic air pollution control technology and is the quintessential resource for the busy engineer and for those who do not have formal training in air pollution control. FEATURES OF THE THIRD EDITION Uniform and consistent applications information for comparing the effectiveness of different technologies. Provides answers to questions about how to reduce operating costs and how to achieve peak performance. Concise descriptions of each equipment with diagnostics and testing suggestions. New chapters on optimization techniques that help readers deal with different types of hardware for better performance and efficacy.

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On Shell Structure

On Shell Structure

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the VP Shell or Split VP analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: Light Predicate Raising (1989) which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of NP Shift phenomena and The Projection of DP (and DegP) (1991) which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published unpublished and limited distribution work the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed. | On Shell Structure

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Blade Element Rotor Theory

Blade Element Rotor Theory

Blade Element Rotor Theory This book presents an extension of the conventional blade element rotor theory to describe the dynamic properties of helicopter rotors. The presented theory focuses on the accurate mathematical determination of the forces and moments by which a rotor affects its rotorcraft at specified flight conditions and control positions. Analyzing the impact of a blade's non-uniform properties the book covers blade twisting the non-rectangular planform shape of a blade and inhomogeneous airfoil along the blade. It discusses inhomogeneous induced airflow around a rotor disc in terms of the blade element rotor theory. This book also considers the impact of flapping hinge offset on the rotor's dynamic properties. Features • Focuses on a comprehensive description and accurate determination of the rotor's aerodynamic properties • Presents precise helicopter rotor properties with inhomogeneous aerodynamic properties of rotor blades • Considers inhomogeneous distribution of induced flow • Discusses a mathematical model of a main helicopter rotor for a helicopter flight simulator This book is intended for graduate students and researchers studying rotor dynamics and helicopter flight dynamics

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Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods From CAD Data Directly to Simulation Results

Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods From CAD Data Directly to Simulation Results

This book is an entertaining easy to read introduction to advanced numerical modeling. The aim of the book is to lead the reader on a journey towards the ‘holy grail’ of numerical simulation namely one without the requirement of mesh generation that takes data directly from CAD programs. On this journey readers will discover the beauty of Non-uniform Rational B-Splines or NURBS and see how well they are suited for describing geometry discover how CAD programs work and how their data can be used for simulation. The implementation of NURBS-based simulation is discussed using Finite Element and Boundary Element technology. This is a hands-on book with emphasis on implementation and examples of programming in a higher level language are given. It has been written for users of simulation software so they can understand the benefits of this new technology and demand progress from a somewhat conservative industry for software developers so they can see that this is a technology with a big future and for researchers in the hope that it will attract more people to work in this exciting new field. | Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods From CAD Data Directly to Simulation Results

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Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

In a Victorian-era German asylum seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out or to publish them on their own. Today in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes’s Jacket tells their story focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) an international collaboration of professionals people with lived experience and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices visions and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein’s work helps us to bridge that gulf guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia bipolar illness depression and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves. | Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

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Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema. From early films such as Mädchen in Uniform and La Maternelle to contemporary images of teaching in Notes on a Scandal and The History Boys teachers’ roles in film have been consistently contradictory portraying teachers as both seducers and selfless heroes social outcasts and moral models contributing to a similarly divided popular understanding of teachers as both salvific and sinister. In this book Stillwaggon and Jelinek present these contradictory images of teaching through the concept of transference—the fantastical belief in another’s knowing that founds a teacher’s authority in relation to her students and to some degree the public at large. Tracing the place of transference across a century of school films each chapter demonstrates the persistence of this fantasy in one of the dreams or nightmares of teaching that recurs thematically in school films: the teacher-as-savior seducer signifier in a moribund discourse and sacrificial object. Through these analyses the authors suggest that something might be missing in our attempts to theorize education when we leave our unthought fantasies of teaching out of the picture. This book will be of key interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of educational theory teacher education philosophy of education film and media studies psychoanalysis sociology of education curriculum studies and cultural studies. | Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

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Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach to Regression ANOVA and Beyond is an integrated treatment of data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences. It covers all of the statistical models normally used in such analyses such as multiple regression and analysis of variance but it does so in an integrated manner that relies on the comparison of models of data estimated under the rubric of the general linear model. Data Analysis also describes how the model comparison approach and uniform framework can be applied to models that include product predictors (i. e. interactions and nonlinear effects) and to observations that are nonindependent. Indeed the analysis of nonindependent observations is treated in some detail including models of nonindependent data with continuously varying predictors as well as standard repeated measures analysis of variance. This approach also provides an integrated introduction to multilevel or hierarchical linear models and logistic regression. Finally Data Analysis provides guidance for the treatment of outliers and other problematic aspects of data analysis. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in data analysis and offers an integrated approach that is very accessible and easy to teach. Highlights of the third edition include: a new chapter on logistic regression; expanded treatment of mixed models for data with multiple random factors; updated examples; an enhanced website with PowerPoint presentations and other tools that demonstrate the concepts in the book; exercises for each chapter that highlight research findings from the literature; data sets R code and SAS output for all analyses; additional examples and problem sets; and test questions. | Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

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Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

Although power method polynomials based on the standard normal distributions have been used in many different contexts for the past 30 years it was not until recently that the probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function (cdf) were derived and made available. Focusing on both univariate and multivariate nonnormal data generation Statistical Simulation: Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations presents techniques for conducting a Monte Carlo simulation study. It shows how to use power method polynomials for simulating univariate and multivariate nonnormal distributions with specified cumulants and correlation matrices. The book first explores the methodology underlying the power method before demonstrating this method through examples of standard normal logistic and uniform power method pdfs. It also discusses methods for improving the performance of a simulation based on power method polynomials. The book then develops simulation procedures for systems of linear statistical models intraclass correlation coefficients and correlated continuous variates and ranks. Numerical examples and results from Monte Carlo simulations illustrate these procedures. The final chapter describes how the g-and-h and generalized lambda distribution (GLD) transformations are special applications of the more general multivariate nonnormal data generation approach. Throughout the text the author employs Mathematica® in a range of procedures and offers the source code for download online. Written by a longtime researcher of the power method this book explains how to simulate nonnormal distributions via easy-to-use power method polynomials. By using the methodology and techniques developed in the text readers can evaluate different transformations in terms of comparing percentiles measures of central tendency goodness-of-fit tests and more. | Statistical Simulation Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations

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Clustering A Data Recovery Approach Second Edition

Clustering A Data Recovery Approach Second Edition

Often considered more of an art than a science books on clustering have been dominated by learning through example with techniques chosen almost through trial and error. Even the two most popular and most related clustering methods—K-Means for partitioning and Ward's method for hierarchical clustering—have lacked the theoretical underpinning required to establish a firm relationship between the two methods and relevant interpretation aids. Other approaches such as spectral clustering or consensus clustering are considered absolutely unrelated to each other or to the two above mentioned methods. Clustering: A Data Recovery Approach Second Edition presents a unified modeling approach for the most popular clustering methods: the K-Means and hierarchical techniques especially for divisive clustering. It significantly expands coverage of the mathematics of data recovery and includes a new chapter covering more recent popular network clustering approaches—spectral modularity and uniform additive and consensus—treated within the same data recovery approach. Another added chapter covers cluster validation and interpretation including recent developments for ontology-driven interpretation of clusters. Altogether the insertions added a hundred pages to the book even in spite of the fact that fragments unrelated to the main topics were removed. Illustrated using a set of small real-world datasets and more than a hundred examples the book is oriented towards students practitioners and theoreticians of cluster analysis. Covering topics that are beyond the scope of most texts the author’s explanations of data recovery methods theory-based advice pre- and post-processing issues and his clear practical instructions for real-world data mining make this book ideally suited for teaching self-study and professional reference. | Clustering A Data Recovery Approach Second Edition

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Animal Behavior Desk Reference A Dictionary of Animal Behavior Ecology and Evolution Third Edition

Animal Behavior Desk Reference A Dictionary of Animal Behavior Ecology and Evolution Third Edition

Words are our tools and as a minimum we should use clean tools. We should know what we mean and what we do not and we must forearm ourselves against the traps that language sets us. The Need for Precise Terminology Austin (1957 7–8) It follows that for effective and efficient communication people should have or at least understand the same precise terminology. Such terminology is crucial for the advancement of basic theoretical and applied science yet too often there is ambiguity between scientific and common definitions and even discrepancies in the scientific literature. Providing a common ground and platform for precise scientific communication in animal behavior ecology evolution and related branches of biology Animal Behavior Desk Reference A Dictionary of Behavior Ecology and Evolution Third Edition contains more than 800 new terms and definitions 48 new figures and thousands of additions and improvements. Using a dictionary format to present definitions in a standard easily accessible manner the book’s main body emphasizes conceptual terms rather than anatomical parts or taxonomic terms and focuses on nouns rather than verbs or adjectives. Term hierarchies are handled with bulleted entries and terms with multiple definitions are included as superscripted entries. All sources are cited and most are paraphrased to conform to uniform style and length. The dictionary also includes nontechnical and obsolete terms synonyms pronunciations and notes and comments as well as etymologies term originators and related facts. Appendices address organism names organizations and databases. Devoted to the precise and correct use of scientific language this third edition of a bestselling standard enables students and scientists alike to communicate their findings and promote the efficient advancement of science. | Animal Behavior Desk Reference A Dictionary of Animal Behavior Ecology and Evolution Third Edition

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Telecommunication Networks

Telecommunication Networks

Many argue that telecommunications network infrastructure is the most impressive and important technology ever developed. Analyzing the telecom market’s constantly evolving trends research directions infrastructure and vital needs Telecommunication Networks responds with revolutionized engineering strategies to optimize network construction. Omnipresent in society telecom networks integrate a wide range of technologies. These include quantum field theory for the study of optical amplifiers software architectures for network control abstract algebra required to design error correction codes and network thermal and mechanical modeling for equipment platform design. Illustrating how and why network developers make technical decisions this book takes a practical engineering approach to systematically assess the network as a whole—from transmission to switching. Emphasizing a uniform bibliography and description of standards it explores existing technical developments and the potential for projected alternative architectural paths based on current market indicators. The author characterizes new device and equipment advances not just as quality improvements but as specific responses to particular technical market necessities. Analyzing design problems to identify potential links and commonalities between different parts of the system the book addresses interdependence of these elements and their individual influence on network evolution. It also considers power consumption and real estate which sometimes outweigh engineering performance data in determining a product’s success. To clarify the potential and limitations of each presented technology and system analysis the book includes quantitative data inspired by real products and prototypes. Whenever possible it applies mathematical modeling to present measured data enabling the reader to apply demonstrated concepts in real-world situations. Covering everything from high-level architectural elements to more basic component physics its focus is to solve a problem from different perspectives and bridge descriptions of well-consolidated solutions with newer research trends.

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Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women’s tasks holdings and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE identifying how Mycenaean women functioned in the economic institutions where they were best attested - production property control land tenure and cult. Analysing all references to women in the Mycenaean documents the book focuses on the ways in which the economic institutions of these Bronze Age palace states were gendered and effectively extends the framework for the study of women in Greek antiquity back more than 400 years. Throughout the book seeks to establish whether gender practices were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed from site to site and to gauge the relationship of the roles and status of Mycenaean women to their Archaic and Classical counterparts to test if the often-proposed theories of a more egalitarian Bronze Age accurately reflect the textual evidence. The Linear B tablets offer a unique if under-utilized point of entry into women’s history in ancient Greece documenting nearly 2000 women performing over fifty task assignments. From their decipherment in 1952 one major gap in the scholarly record remained: a full accounting of the women who inhabited the palace states and their tasks ranks and economic contributions. Women in Mycenaean Greece fills that gap recovering how class rank and other social markers created status hierarchies among women how women as a group functioned relative to men and where different localities conformed or diverged in their gender practices. | Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

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Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R provides coverage with worked examples of a large number of dimension reduction procedures along with model performance metrics to compare them. Factor analysis in the form of principal components analysis (PCA) or principal factor analysis (PFA) is familiar to most social scientists. However what is less familiar is understanding that factor analysis is a subset of the more general statistical family of dimension reduction methods. The social scientist's toolkit for factor analysis problems can be expanded to include the range of solutions this book presents. In addition to covering FA and PCA with orthogonal and oblique rotation this book’s coverage includes higher-order factor models bifactor models models based on binary and ordinal data models based on mixed data generalized low-rank models cluster analysis with GLRM models involving supplemental variables or observations Bayesian factor analysis regularized factor analysis testing for unidimensionality and prediction with factor scores. The second half of the book deals with other procedures for dimension reduction. These include coverage of kernel PCA factor analysis with multidimensional scaling locally linear embedding models Laplacian eigenmaps diffusion maps force directed methods t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding independent component analysis (ICA) dimensionality reduction via regression (DRR) non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF) Isomap Autoencoder uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) models neural network models and longitudinal factor analysis models. In addition a special chapter covers metrics for comparing model performance. Features of this book include: Numerous worked examples with replicable R code Explicit comprehensive coverage of data assumptions Adaptation of factor methods to binary ordinal and categorical data Residual and outlier analysis Visualization of factor results Final chapters that treat integration of factor analysis with neural network and time series methods Presented in color with R code and introduction to R and RStudio this book will be suitable for graduate-level and optional module courses for social scientists and on quantitative methods and multivariate statistics courses. | Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

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Optimal Enterprise Structures Processes and Mathematics of Knowledge Technology and Human Capital

Optimal Enterprise Structures Processes and Mathematics of Knowledge Technology and Human Capital

In the modern world most gross product is created within Enterprise firms project programs state agencies transnational corporations and their divisions as well as various associations and compositions of the above entities. Enterprises being on the one hand complex and on the other hand widespread systems are the subject matter of cybernetics system theory operations research management sciences and many other fields of knowledge. However the complexity of the system obstructs the development of mathematically rigorous foundations for Enterprise control. Moreover methods of operations research and related sciences which are widely used in practice provide optimization of the constituents of an Enterprise without modeling it as a whole system. But the optimization of parts does not lead to the optimality of the whole and also the absence of top-down and holistic mathematical models of Enterprise contradicts the principle of holism and the system approach. The approach in this book looks first at Enterprise Systems and their essential aspects as complex sociotechnical systems composed of integrated sets of structural and process models (Chapters 1 and 2). A uniform description of all the heterogeneous fields of the modern Enterprise (marketing sales manufacturing HR finance etc. ) is then made and the Enterprise Control Problem is posed as a top-down and holistic mathematical optimization problem (Chapter 3). Original models and methods of contract theory (Chapter 4) technology management (Chapter 5) human behavior and human capital (Chapter 6) and complex activity and resource planning (Chapter 7) are developed to solve the problem. Structural processes and mathematical models constitute an Optimal Enterprise Control Framework (Chapter 8) that provides a practical solution to the Enterprise Control Problem. This book is a resource for postgraduate and doctoral students postdoctoral researchers and professors with research interests in the following fields of science: Fundamental Complex Systems study Complex Systems Engineering Enterprise Systems Engineering Applications of Operations Research Optimization Probability and Stochastic processes to Management Science Economics and Business Theory of the Firm Business and Management – general strategy/leadership organization management operations management and management information systems Theory of Business Processes Business Processes Improvement and Reengineering | Optimal Enterprise Structures Processes and Mathematics of Knowledge Technology and Human Capital

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Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications

Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications

Classification and Examples of Differential Equations and their Applications is the sixth book within Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six-volume Set. As a set they are the fourth volume in the series Mathematics and Physics Applied to Science and Technology. This sixth book consists of one chapter (chapter 10 of the set). It contains 20 examples related to the preceding five books and chapters 1 to 9 of the set. It includes two recollections: the first with a classification of differential equations into 500 standards and the second with a list of 500 applications. The ordinary differential equations are classified in 500 standards concerning methods of solution and related properties including: (i) linear differential equations with constant or homogeneous coefficients and finite difference equations; (ii) linear and non-linear single differential equations and simultaneous systems; (iii) existence unicity and other properties; (iv) derivation of general particular special analytic regular irregular and normal integrals; (v) linear differential equations with variable coefficients including known and new special functions. The theory of differential equations is applied to the detailed solution of 500 physical and engineering problems including: (i) one- and multidimensional oscillators with damping or amplification with non-resonant or resonant forcing; (ii) single non-linear and parametric resonance; (iii) bifurcations and chaotic dynamical systems; (iv) longitudinal and transversal deformations and buckling of bars beams and plates; (v) trajectories of particles; (vi) oscillations and waves in non-uniform media ducts and wave guides. Provides detailed solution of examples of differential equations of the types covered in tomes l-5 of the set (Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six -volume Set)Includes physical and engineering problems that extend those presented in the tomes 1-6 (Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations Six-volume Set)Includes a classification of ordinary differential equations and their properties into 500 standards that can serve as a look-up table of methods of solutionCovers a recollection of 500 physical and engineering problems and sub-cases that involve the solution of differential equationsPresents the problems used as examples including formulation solution and interpretation of results

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Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

For over a decade the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words such as enlightenment reason rationality modernization and the most recent by-word globalization. However it is a language that has been accompanied by colonialism imperialism racism the exploitation of people and nature an unequal distribution of the world’s resources pogroms genocides and world wars. There has been a gap between assumptions underlying a visionary ambition and the often-brutal practices that have accompanied it. Moreover it is a language that expresses European values with the implicit or explicit suggestion that they pertain to the whole world a civilizing mission from a European centre. Although the established narrative argued that there was continuous progress it was a conclusion reached through hindsight. The idea of progress had to be repeatedly recreated through new visionary projects that attempted to live up to the high ideals their predecessors failed to achieve. Against the backdrop of this meta-normative point of departure the book argues that a convincing grand narrative has failed to materialize since the discrediting of globalization. In the search for a new narrative it argues at a meta-normative level for a reformulation of the term ‘global’ away from its close connection to the globe as an unbounded self-propelling market that exists beyond human influence. ‘Global’ should no longer be reduced to auto-playing market fiction but instead be connected to the planet Terra the Earth. With reference to Latour and Chakrabarty ‘global’ and ‘planetary’ mean cohabitation; life on earth is seen as an infinite symbiotic system nurtured and protected but also destroyed by human action. The book argues that a new conceptualization of ‘the global’ and ‘the planet’ requires input from African and Asian language cultures. The book explores in depth the history of the two political African key concepts of ujamaa and ubuntu and argues that they are cases showing how work on a new global/planetary narrative might look. The investigation of the two concepts demonstrate that translations are juxtapositions that point up what is shared and what isn’t between concepts in two or more languages. The point of comparison is not to develop a uniform global perspective even if that were possible but to develop a global understanding of difference and through that to begin to look for a common ground. Translations of political key concepts are the source of a growing understanding of difference. | Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

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