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Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker Publisher: UMass + ORM ISBN: 1613766319 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 291
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The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker Publisher: UMass + ORM ISBN: 1613766319 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
Author: Roger Rios Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461411238 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 312
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Whether different types of costs are to be reduced, benefits to be maximized or scarce resources to be managed, scheduling theory provides intelligent methods for practitioners and scientists. The just-in-time (JIT) production philosophy has enriched the classical scheduling theory with models that consider characteristics such as inventory costs, set-up times, lot sizing, or maintenance. This edited volume considers the specifics of just-in-time systems. It provides knowledge and insights on recent advances in scheduling theory where just-in-time aspects are considered. Contributions on models, theory, algorithms, and applications, that bring the theory up-to-date on the state-of-the-art of JIT systems are presented. Professionals, researchers and graduate students will find this book useful.
Author: Marco Conti Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540398678 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 871
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 Eighth - ternational Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, PWC 2003. PWC 2003 is the ?agship conference of the IFIP Working Group 6.8, Mobile and Wireless Communications, and is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. It is a great pleasure to present the PWC 2003 technical program. This year the conference received 115 submissions from 27 countries indicating that PWC is a reference conference for worldwide researchers from the wireless and mobile community. With so many papers to choose from, the Technical Program Committee’s job, to provide a conference program of the highest technical quality, was challenging and time consuming. From the 115 submissions, we ?nally selected 34 full papers and 15 short papers for presentation in the conference technical sessions. The conference technical program was split into three days, and included, in addition to the 49 refereed contributions, 4 invited papers from top-level researchers from the mobile and wireless community. To give researchers the opportunity to present ongoing work, and the novel ideas they are starting to explore, we included in the technical program two work-in-progress sessions and two novel-ideas sessions. The technical program also included a poster session devoted to presenting ongoing research projects on wireless and mobile communications.
Author: John A. Stankovic Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461555353 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 280
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Many real-time systems rely on static scheduling algorithms. This includes cyclic scheduling, rate monotonic scheduling and fixed schedules created by off-line scheduling techniques such as dynamic programming, heuristic search, and simulated annealing. However, for many real-time systems, static scheduling algorithms are quite restrictive and inflexible. For example, highly automated agile manufacturing, command, control and communications, and distributed real-time multimedia applications all operate over long lifetimes and in highly non-deterministic environments. Dynamic real-time scheduling algorithms are more appropriate for these systems and are used in such systems. Many of these algorithms are based on earliest deadline first (EDF) policies. There exists a wealth of literature on EDF-based scheduling with many extensions to deal with sophisticated issues such as precedence constraints, resource requirements, system overload, multi-processors, and distributed systems. Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: EDF and Related Algorithms aims at collecting a significant body of knowledge on EDF scheduling for real-time systems, but it does not try to be all-inclusive (the literature is too extensive). The book primarily presents the algorithms and associated analysis, but guidelines, rules, and implementation considerations are also discussed, especially for the more complicated situations where mathematical analysis is difficult. In general, it is very difficult to codify and taxonomize scheduling knowledge because there are many performance metrics, task characteristics, and system configurations. Also, adding to the complexity is the fact that a variety of algorithms have been designed for different combinations of these considerations. In spite of the recent advances there are still gaps in the solution space and there is a need to integrate the available solutions. For example, a list of issues to consider includes: preemptive versus non-preemptive tasks, uni-processors versus multi-processors, using EDF at dispatch time versus EDF-based planning, precedence constraints among tasks, resource constraints, periodic versus aperiodic versus sporadic tasks, scheduling during overload, fault tolerance requirements, and providing guarantees and levels of guarantees (meeting quality of service requirements). Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: EDF and Related Algorithms should be of interest to researchers, real-time system designers, and instructors and students, either as a focussed course on deadline-based scheduling for real-time systems, or, more likely, as part of a more general course on real-time computing. The book serves as an invaluable reference in this fast-moving field.
Author: S. K. Chakraborty Publisher: New Age International ISBN: 9788122415513 Category : Languages : en Pages : 1320
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This Book Is Designed As Per The New Syllabus Effective From 1St October 2001, Prescribed By The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India.The Book Has The Following Significant Features:It Contains Solutions Of Numerous Problems Set In The Previous C.A. Examinations.At The End Of Each Chapter Objective/Descriptive Type Questions With Answers And Summary Of Important Formulae Are Given. Descriptive Questions Will Enable The Students To Test Their Understanding Of The Subject.It Explains The Various Cost Accounting Principles And Concepts, Tool And Techniques Of Financial Management And Their Applications In Real Life Situations In A Simple And Lucid Language With Appropriate Examples, Diagrams, Tables, Etc.It Describes Different Sources Of Finance Available To Business Enterprises To Cater To Their Various Types Of Requirements.Examples Have Been Graded With Care.This Book Would Serve As An Excellent Comprehensive Text For Not Only C.A. Students But Also For Those Preparing For M.B.A., I.C.W.A.I (Inter), C.S. And Similar Examinations.
Author: K. Senthilkumar, K. Maruthamuthu & Desti Kannaiah Publisher: Vikas Publishing House ISBN: 9325981084 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages :
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Advanced Cost Accounting presents the subject matter in simple and easy-to-understand language. It includes latest solved questions papers of university examinations. The book will serve the B.Com, B.Com.(CA)., M.Com., M.Com.(CA), BBA, BCA And MBA students of Periyar, Thiruvalluvar, Bharathiar, Madras and various Indian Universities. The given solutions to past semesters question papers in this book will help the students in preparing for examinations. KEY FEATURES • This book designed as per the syllabi of various Indian universities • Step-by-step approach adopted for solved problems • Easy-to-understand approach • Solved problems & theories
Author: Sven Rogalski Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642181171 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 195
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The requirements for production systems are constantly changing as a result of changing competitive conditions. This poses a challenge for manufacturers in the various branches of industry and creates an ever-increasing need for flexibility. With this as a background, this book explores the current developments and trends as well as their impact on today’s production systems. It also compares known strategies, concepts and methods used to achieve production flexibility. Similarly, the practical knowledge and current research will be drawn upon and subjected to a sound scientific analysis, through which the technical and organizational flexibility ranges can be measured in their application in a production system. The convenience and usefulness of this concept for manufacturers is substantiated by its implementation in a software tool called ecoFLEX and its practical application, based on extensive examples. This illustrates how flexibility flaws can be quickly identified, classified and properly disposed of using ecoFLEX. This tool helps to close the gap between ERP / PPS systems and digital factory planning tools.
Author: Américo Azevedo Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 331900557X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1693
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The proceedings includes the set of revised papers from the 23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2013). This conference aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of leading edge scientific knowledge and industrial experience regarding the development and integration of the various aspects of Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems covering the complete life-cycle of a company’s Products and Processes. Contents will include topics such as: Product, Process and Factory Integrated Design, Manufacturing Technology and Intelligent Systems, Manufacturing Operations Management and Optimization and Manufacturing Networks and MicroFactories.
Author: Kyle Idleman Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1493433946 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 256
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How does God want to use you to have an impact? Most of us don't want to spend our lives being time-wasters, space-takers, binge-watchers, or game-players. We want to be difference-makers. But how do we do it? By revealing the way Jesus valued people, bestselling author Kyle Idleman shows us the Jesus way of changing the world--by loving people one at a time. Influencing just one person at a time may seem insignificant at first look. But as we better understand the surprising habits of Jesus, we unlock the power of small things done with great love and discover how God wants to use us to change the world one person at a time.
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Author: Giorgio Buttazzo
Author: Roger Rios
Author: Marco Conti
Author: John A. Stankovic
Author: S. K. Chakraborty
Author: K. Senthilkumar, K. Maruthamuthu & Desti Kannaiah
Author: Sven Rogalski
Author: Américo Azevedo
Author: Kyle Idleman