Author: Ross ChambersPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100760
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Room for Maneuver
Author: Ross ChambersPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100760
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
Author: Julia DahlvikPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319633066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diverging legal, political, and administrative objectives. The study focuses on structural aspects on the one hand, such as legal and organisational elements, and aspects of agency on the other hand, examining the social practices and processes going on at the frontside and the backside of the administrative asylum system. Coverage is based on a case study using ethnographic methods, including qualitative interviews, participant observation, as well as artefact analysis. This case study is positioned within a broader context and allows for comparison within and beyond the European system, building a bridge to the international scientific community. In addition, the author links the empirical findings to sociological theory. She explains the identified patterns of social practice in asylum administration along the theories of social practices, social construction and structuration. This helps to contribute to the often missing theoretical development in this particular field of research. Overall, this book provides a sociological contribution to a key issue in today's debate on immigration in Europe and beyond. It will appeal to researchers, policy makers, administrators, and practitioners as well as students and readers interested in immigration and asylum.
Room for Manoeuvre
Author: Nicholas DornDesign of Trajectory Optimization Approach for Space Maneuver Vehicle Skip Entry Problems
Author: Runqi ChaiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811398453
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book explores the design of optimal trajectories for space maneuver vehicles (SMVs) using optimal control-based techniques. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to and overview of three main approaches to trajectory optimization, and subsequently focuses on the design of a novel hybrid optimization strategy that combines an initial guess generator with an improved gradient-based inner optimizer. Further, it highlights the development of multi-objective spacecraft trajectory optimization problems, with a particular focus on multi-objective transcription methods and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. In its final sections, the book studies spacecraft flight scenarios with noise-perturbed dynamics and probabilistic constraints, and designs and validates new chance-constrained optimal control frameworks. The comprehensive and systematic treatment of practical issues in spacecraft trajectory optimization is one of the book’s major features, making it particularly suited for readers who are seeking practical solutions in spacecraft trajectory optimization. It offers a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in GNC systems, engineering optimization, applied optimal control theory, etc.
Fundamentals of Primary Flight Maneuvers (maneuver Sheets) United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics, Training Division
Author: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Globalization and Mass Politics
Author: Timothy HellwigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107075076
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.
The Populist Challenge
Author: Jens RydgrenPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571816917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic nationalism and xenophobia as well as an opposition against the 'political establishment'. Being the prototypic ERP party, the French Front National (FN) has been a model for ERP parties emerging elsewhere in Western Europe. This study presents a theoretically based explanation that combines the macro and the micro-level, as well as the political supply and the demand-side. More specifically, this study shows that it is necessary to consider both opportunity structures, created by demand and supply-side factors, as well as the ability of the FN to take advantage of the available opportunities. Of particular interest is the author's analysis of the sociology and attitudes of the FN-voters.
The Multi-Criteria Approach for Decision Support
Author: Lotfi AzzabiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030572625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This book presents the multi-criteria approach to decision support, as well as the various multi-criteria tools to help avoid multi-objective optimization. The book is intended as a tool for understanding the multi-criteria tools for decision support and modeling in mathematical programming. It helps to structure models, to easily model complex constraints, to have a basic modeling guide for any multi-criteria system and to better understand models already existing in the literature. The book is structured in the same order as components of the methodology, established in a multi-criteria optimization problem. It introduces the elements of the actors, the decision-making activity under criteria, calculations, specifications and objective criterion.
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