Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Reasoning and Logic
Author: The Book of Forms
Author: Lewis TurcoPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650225
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.
Chaos in Automatic Control
Author: Wilfrid PerruquettiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351836811
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Chaotic behavior arises in a variety of control settings. In some cases, it is beneficial to remove this behavior; in others, introducing or taking advantage of the existing chaotic components can be useful for example in cryptography. Chaos in Automatic Control surveys the latest methods for inserting, taking advantage of, or removing chaos in a variety of applications. This book supplies the theoretical and pedagogical basis of chaos in control systems along with new concepts and recent developments in the field. Presented in three parts, the book examines open-loop analysis, closed-loop control, and applications of chaos in control systems. The first section builds a background in the mathematics of ordinary differential and difference equations on which the remainder of the book is based. It includes an introductory chapter by Christian Mira, a pioneer in chaos research. The next section explores solutions to problems arising in observation and control of closed-loop chaotic control systems. These include model-independent control methods, strategies such as H-infinity and sliding modes, polytopic observers, normal forms using homogeneous transformations, and observability normal forms. The final section explores applications in wireless transmission, optics, power electronics, and cryptography. Chaos in Automatic Control distills the latest thinking in chaos while relating it to the most recent developments and applications in control. It serves as a platform for developing more robust, autonomous, intelligent, and adaptive systems.
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
Author: M. JosephPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540138839
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Rhythm and Meter
Author: Paul KiparskyPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483218538
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Phonetics and Phonology: Volume 1, Rhythm and Meter compiles original articles by 12 linguists and literary critics who have made important contributions to current theories of phonology, verse meter, and music. This book mainly focuses on English poetry—on the meters of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Longfellow, Hopkins, Auden, and other Renaissance dramatists. Poetry in other languages that include Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and German are also examined. This publication emphasizes metrical theory, formulating and illustrating metrical principles within the tradition of generative metrics and competing traditions. The relationships between rhythm in language and music are likewise analyzed. This volume is useful to linguists, literary critics, and specialists conducting work on rhythm and meter.
An Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Other Than Court Forms
Author: Simple Games
Author: Alan D. TaylorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691223890
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Simple games are mathematical structures inspired by voting systems in which a single alternative, such as a bill, is pitted against the status quo. The first in-depth mathematical study of the subject as a coherent subfield of finite combinatorics--one with its own organized body of techniques and results--this book blends new theorems with some of the striking results from threshold logic, making all of it accessible to game theorists. Introductory material receives a fresh treatment, with an emphasis on Boolean subgames and the Rudin-Keisler order as unifying concepts. Advanced material focuses on the surprisingly wide variety of properties related to the weightedness of a game. A desirability relation orders the individuals or coalitions of a game according to their influence in the corresponding voting system. As Taylor and Zwicker show, acyclicity of such a relation approximates weightedness--the more sensitive the relation, the closer the approximation. A trade is an exchange of players among coalitions, and robustness under such trades is equivalent to weightedness of the game. Robustness under trades that fit some restrictive exchange pattern typically characterizes a wider class of simple games--for example, games for which some particular desirability order is acyclic. Finally, one can often describe these wider classes of simple games by weakening the total additivity of a weighting to obtain what is called a pseudoweighting. In providing such uniform explanations for many of the structural properties of simple games, this book showcases numerous new techniques and results.
Russian Postmodernism
Author: Mikhail N. EpsteinPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782388648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.
Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy
Author: Panos MourdoukoutasPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765620026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This groundbreaking text provides both theory and strategy for operating in a semiglobal economy in which international businesses must compete in highly globalized and highly localized markets at the same time. Unlike the traditional transnational and matrix corporate models, a semiglobal corporation organizes its operations according to the global/local content of its value propositions rather than according to geographical regions, products, or contribution to the parent company's performance. As an example of a semiglobal corporation, the Honda Motor Company has a global vision when it com ...
Introduction to metrics
Author: Viktor Maksimovic ŽirmunskijPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111398595
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description