1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004131730403321

Autore

Wickham, Chris <1950- >

Titolo

Comunità e clientele nella Toscana del XII secolo : le origini del comune rurale nella Piana di Lucca / Chris Wickham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Viella, 1995

ISBN

88-85669-38-7

Descrizione fisica

279 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

I libri di Viella ; 5

Disciplina

307.7209455

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

307.72 WIC 1 BIS

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453868303321

Titolo

Annual review of nursing research . Volume 23 Alcohol use, misuse, abuse and dependence [[electronic resource] /] / Joanne Sabol Stevenson, Marilyn Sawyer Sommers, volume editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, c2006

ISBN

1-281-81340-0

9786611813406

0-8261-4129-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Collana

Annual review of nursing research ; ; v. 23, 2005

Altri autori (Persone)

StevensonJoanne S

SommersMarilyn Sawyer

Disciplina

610.73

610.73/072

Soggetti

Nursing - Research - United States

Nursing - Practice

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I: Perspectives on Alcohol Use Research and Measurement Issues; 1. The Case for Alcohol Research as a Focus of Study by Nurse Researchers; 2. Measurement of Alcohol Consumption: Issues and Challenges; 3. Moderate Drinking and Cardiovascular Disease; Part II: Research on Alcohol Use, Misuse, Abuse, and Dependence through the Life Span; 4. Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy; 5. Alcohol, Children, and Adolescents; 6. College Students' Alcohol Use: A Critical Review; 7. Alcohol Misuse, Abuse, and Addiction in Young and Middle Adulthood

8. Alcohol Use, Misuse, Abuse, and Dependence in Later AdulthoodPart III: Alcohol Challenges in Selected Populations and Situations; 9. Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Lesbians and Gay Men; 10. Alcohol and Risky Behaviors; Part IV: Alcohol Intervention Research; 11. Alcohol Brief Interventions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Contents of Previous Volumes

Sommario/riassunto

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. This volume brings together, for the



first time, all the research on alcohol use that is relevant to nursing practice. Alcohol plays a major role in health care problems, which affects nursing practice from obstetrics to geriatrics. It also may have some significant health benefits, when used in moderation. This book reviews the research on both detrimental and beneficial effects, throughout the lifespan. As in all the Annual Reviews, leading nurse researchers provide students, researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and fu

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131281903321

Titolo

Quantitative assessments of distributed systems : methodologies and techniques / / edited by Dario Bruneo and Salvatore Distefano ; cover design by Russell Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, Massachusetts ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Scrivener Publishing : , : Wiley, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-13113-8

1-119-13115-4

1-119-13114-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Performability Engineering Series

Classificazione

TEC008000

Disciplina

004.029

Soggetti

Computer systems - Evaluation - Mathematics

System analysis - Mathematics

Electronic data processing - Distributed processing - Mathematical models

Quantitative research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; PART I VERIFICATION; 1 Modeling and Verification of Distributed Systems Using Markov Decision Processes; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Markov Decision Processes; 1.3 Markov Decision Well-Formed Net formalism;



1.4 Case study: Peer-to-Peer Botnets; 1.5 Conclusion; Appendices: Well-formed Net Formalism; A.0.1 Syntax of Basic Predicates; A.0.2 Markings and Enabling; References; 2 Quantitative Analysis of Distributed Systems in Stoklaim: A Tutorial; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 StoKlaim: Stochastic Klaim; 2.2.1 Klaim in a Nutshell; 2.2.2 Syntactic Categories

2.2.3 StoKlaim Syntax2.2.4 StoKlaim at Work; 2.3 StoKlaim Operational Semantics; 2.3.1 Rate Transition Systems; 2.3.2 StoKlaim: RTS-based Semantics; 2.4 MoSL: Mobile Stochastic Logic; 2.5 jSAM: Java Stochastic Model-Checker; 2.6 Leader Election in StoKlaim; 2.6.1 As far as it can; 2.6.2 Asynchronous Leader Election; 2.7 Concluding Remarks; References; 3 Stochastic Path Properties of Distributed Systems: the CSLTA Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Reference Formalisms for System Definition; 3.3 The Formalism for Path Property Definition: CSLTA; 3.4 CSLTA at work: a Fault-Tolerant Node

3.5 Literature Comparison3.6 Summary and Final Remarks; References; PART II EVALUATION; 4 Failure Propagation in Load-Sharing Complex Systems; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Building Blocks; 4.2.1 Coarse-grained Modeling; 4.2.2 Abstract Mechanisms Impacting the Failure Occurrence; 4.2.3 Parametric Distributions Revisited; 4.2.4 Exponential Distribution; 4.2.5 Weibull Distribution; 4.2.6 Lognormal Distribution; 4.2.7 Other Distributions; 4.3 Sand Box for Distributed Failures; 4.3.1 Failure Modes; 4.3.2 LOS and Stress Rupture; 4.4 Summary; References

5 Approximating Distributions and Transient Probabilities by Matrix Exponential Distributions and Functions5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Phase Type and Matrix Exponential Distributions; 5.3 Bernstein Polynomials and Expolynomials; 5.4 Application of BEs to Distribution Fitting; 5.5 Application of BEs to Transient Probabilities; 5.6 Conclusions; References; 6 Worst-Case Analysis of Tandem Queueing Systems Using Network Calculus; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Basic Network Calculus Modeling: Per-fl ow Scheduling; 6.2.1 Service Curve; 6.2.2 Arrival Curve; 6.2.3 Delay and Backlog Bounds; 6.2.4 Numerical Examples

6.3 Advanced Network Calculus Modeling: Aggregate Multiplexing6.3.1 Aggregate-multiplexing Schemes; 6.4 Tandem Systems Traversed by Several Flows; 6.4.1 Model; 6.4.2 Loss of the Tightness; 6.4.3 Separated-flow Analysis; 6.5 Mathematical Programming Approach; 6.5.1 Blind Multiplexing; 6.5.2 FIFO Multiplexing; 6.6 Related Work; 6.7 Numerical Results; 6.8 Conclusions; References; 7 Cloud Evaluation: Benchmarking and Monitoring; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Benchmarking; 7.2.1 Benchamrking State of Art; 7.2.2 Benchmarking Big Data Services; 7.3 Benchmarking with mOSAIC; 7.4 Monitoring

7.4.1 Monitoring Problem Scenarios

Sommario/riassunto

Distributed systems employed in critical infrastructures must fulfill dependability, timeliness, and performance specifications. Since these systems most often operate in an unpredictable environment, their design and maintenance require quantitative evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic timed models. This need gave birth to an abundant literature devoted to formal modeling languages combined with analytical and simulative solution techniques   The aim of the book is to provide an overview of techniques and methodologies dealing with such specific issues in the context of distributed



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778911403321

Autore

Mavelli Luca

Titolo

Europe's Encounter with Islam : The Secular and the Postsecular / / by Luca Mavelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2013]

©2012

ISBN

1-136-44843-8

1-280-66556-4

9786613642493

1-136-44844-6

0-203-12512-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

303.48/2401767

Soggetti

Muslims - Europe

Islam and secularism - Europe

Postsecularism - Europe

Other (Philosophy)

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Europe's Encounter with Islam; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Theorizing the Secular: Modernity and the Separation of Reason and Faith; Introduction; Contending Conceptions of the Secular: the Asad-casanova Debate; Religion Within the Boundaries of the Secular: Casanova's 'modern Public Religions' and Kant's 'rational Faith'; The Exclusionary Character of the Secular Notion of Faith: Asad's Critique of Kant's 'rational Religion'; The Constitution of the Subject in the Secular Episteme: Foucault's Critique of Modern Subjectivity and the 'analytic of Finitude'

Conclusion2. from Autonomy to Isolation: a Genealogy of European Secularity; Introduction; Aquinas' Ladders of Individuation; Descartes' Withdrawal in the Cogito; Kant's Faith in the Transcendental Subject; Durkheim's Society of Individuals; Weber's Iron Cage of Secular Subjectivity; Conclusion; 3. the Withdrawal from the Muslim Other;



Introduction; The Secular Political Theology of the Headscarf; The Appropriation of Secularism; The Redemption of the Muslim Other; The Paradigm of Immunization; Conclusion; 4. Islam and the European Search for Co-immunity; Introduction

Beyond the Paradigm of Immunization (i): Habermas' Intersubjective ProceduralismProcedural Europe; Political Church; Conclusion; 5. Imagining the Postsecular; Introduction; Beyond the Paradigm of Immunization (ii): Connolly's Postsecular Philosophy of Becoming; Habermas' Postsecular Turn; Beyond the Paradigm of Immunization (iii): Buber's Philosophy of Life as Encounter; Conclusion; Conclusion; A Personal Note; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe’s secular tradition and its role in Europe’s conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel Foucault’s spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgën Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latter’s achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that Europe’s secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe’s incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the ‘postsecular’ as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.