1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004884940403321

Autore

Hart, John

Titolo

An orthographie / John Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Menston (England) : The Scolar Press, 1969

Edizione

[Ristampa anastatica]

Descrizione fisica

67 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

421.52

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

421.52 HAR 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sul front.: 1569

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785528403321

Autore

Purushotam Nirmala

Titolo

Negotiating language, constructing race [[electronic resource] ] : disciplining difference in Singapore / / by Nirmala Srirekam PuruShotam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998

ISBN

3-11-080445-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 79.

Classificazione

ES 135

Disciplina

306.44/095957

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics - Singapore

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

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 'Nation' and 'Race': realms of problematic possibilities for language -- Race-ing language:



the institutionalisation of 'Chinese', 'Malay', and 'Indian' in Singapore -- Talk about language: from political project to daily life positionings -- Language on the life trajectory: Everyday Life contexts, relevances and practices -- The mother tongue: male texts and female readings -- Second language: official bilingualism brought home -- Disciplining difference -- Notes -- References -- Index

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144031903321

Titolo

Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases : 8th International Symposium, SSTD 2003, Santorini Island, Greece, July 24 - 27, 2003. Proceedings / / edited by Thanasis Hadzilacos, Yannis Manolopoulos, John F. Roddick, Yannis Theodoridis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

9783540450726

3540450726

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 528 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 2750

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Computer industry

Computer science

Database management

Information storage and retrieval systems

Application software

Artificial intelligence

The Computer Industry

Computer Science

Database Management

Information Storage and Retrieval

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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



Nota di contenuto

Keynote Address -- Data Modeling for Mobile Services in the Real World -- Access Methods -- Performance Evaluation of Main-Memory R-tree Variants -- The BTR-Tree: Path-Defined Version-Range Splitting in a Branched and Temporal Structure -- Bkd-Tree: A Dynamic Scalable kd-Tree -- Advandced Query Processing -- Efficient Object-Relational Interval Management and Beyond -- Efficient k-NN Search on Streaming Data Series -- On Query Processing and Optimality Using Spectral Locality-Preserving Mappings -- Categorical Range Queries in Large Databases -- Probabilistic Spatial Database Operations -- Validity Information Retrieval for Spatio-Temporal Queries: Theoretical Performance Bounds -- Data Minning and Warehousing -- Exploiting the Multi-Append-Only-Trend Property of Historical Data in Data Warehouses -- Cross-Outlier Detection -- Accessing Scientific Data: Simpler is Better -- Distance-Based Queries -- Optimization of Spatial Joins on Mobile Devices -- On Spatial-Range Closest-Pair Query -- Evaluation of Iceberg Distance Joins -- Mobility and Moving Points Management -- Indexing Objects Moving on Fixed Networks -- On-Line Discovery of Dense Areas in Spatio-temporal Databases -- Accuracy and Resource Consumption in Tracking and Location Prediction -- Modeling and Languages -- Region-Based Query Languages for Spatial Databases in the Topological Data Model -- Query Pre-processing of Topological Constraints: Comparing a Composition-Based with Neighborhood-Based Approach -- Logical Data Expiration for Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal Logics -- A Multi-representation Spatial Data Model -- Similarity Processing -- Learning Similarity with Fuzzy Functions of Adaptable Complexity -- Spatial Similarity Queries with Logical Operators -- Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries -- Systems and Implementation Issues -- Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets -- Location- and Time-Based Information Delivery in Tourism -- Building a Robust Relational Implementation of Topology.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2003, held at Santorini Island, Greece in July 2003. The 28 revised full papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on access methods, advanced query processing, data mining and data warehousing, distance-based queries, mobility and moving points management, modeling and languages, similarity processing, systems and implementation issues.