Handbook of management theories and models for office environments and services / / edited by Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Vitalija Danivska

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910493744503321
• Autore: Appel-Meulenbroek Rianne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Taylor & Francis, 2022; London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-00-312878-5; 1-000-43415-X; 1-003-12878-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.38
• Soggetti: Work environment; Work design
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different disciplines. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do not reach workplace managers in practice. Therefore, this new book series is started by associate professor Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and postdoc researcher Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) as editors, published by Routledge. It is titled ‘Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management’ because it bundles important research insights from different disciplinary fields ; and shows its relevance for both academic workplace research and workplace management in practice. The books will address the complexity of the transdisciplinary angle necessary to solve ongoing workplace-related issues in practice, such as knowledge worker productivity, office use, and more strategic management. In addition, the editors work towards further collaboration and integration of the necessary disciplines for further development of the workplace field in research and in practice. This book series is relevant for workplace experts both in academia and industry. This second book in the series focuses on the role of workplace management in the organization and the tasks that workplace management needs to consider. The 18 theories that are presented in this book and applied to workplace research discuss management aspects from the organization’s perspective or dive deeper into issues related to people and/or building management. They all emphasize that workplace management is a complex matter that requires more strategic attention in order to add value for various stakeholders. The final chapter of the book describes a first step towards integrating the presented theories into an interdisciplinary framework for developing a grand workplace management theory.

Nonlocal diffusion and applications / / by Claudia Bucur, Enrico Valdinoci

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254075003321
• Autore: Bucur Claudia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• ISBN: 3-319-28739-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana, , 1862-9113 ; ; 20
• Disciplina: 515.53
• Soggetti: Differential equations, Partial; Calculus of variations; Integral transforms; Calculus, Operational; Functional analysis; Partial Differential Equations; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Integral Transforms, Operational Calculus; Functional Analysis
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1 A Probabilistic Motivation; 1.1 The Random Walk with Arbitrarily Long Jumps; 1.2 A Payoff Model; 2 An Introduction to the Fractional Laplacian; 2.1 Preliminary Notions; 2.2 Fractional Sobolev Inequality and Generalized Coarea Formula; 2.3 Maximum Principle and Harnack Inequality; 2.4 An s-Harmonic Function; 2.5 All Functions Are Locally s-Harmonic Up to a Small Error; 2.6 A Function with Constant Fractional Laplacian on the Ball; 3 Extension Problems; 3.1 Water Wave Model; 3.1.1 Application to the Water Waves; 3.2 Crystal Dislocation; 3.3 An Approach to the Extension Problem via the Fourier Transform4 Nonlocal Phase Transitions; 4.1 The Fractional Allen-Cahn Equation; 4.2 A Nonlocal Version of a Conjecture by De Giorgi; 5 Nonlocal Minimal Surfaces; 5.1 Graphs and s-Minimal Surfaces; 5.2 Non-existence of Singular Cones in Dimension 2; 5.3 Boundary Regularity; 6 ; A Nonlocal Nonlinear Stationary Schrödinger Type Equation; 6.1 From the Nonlocal Uncertainty Principle to a Fractional Weighted Inequality; A Alternative Proofs of Some Results; A.1 Another Proof of Theorem 2.4.1; A.2 Another Proof of Lemma 2.3; References
• Sommario/riassunto: Working in the fractional Laplace framework, this book provides models and theorems related to nonlocal diffusion phenomena. In addition to a simple probabilistic interpretation, some applications to water waves, crystal dislocations, nonlocal phase transitions, nonlocal minimal surfaces and Schrödinger equations are given. Furthermore, an example of an s-harmonic function, its harmonic extension and some insight into a fractional version of a classical conjecture due to De Giorgi are presented. Although the aim is primarily to gather some introductory material concerning applications of the fractional Laplacian, some of the proofs and results are new. The work is entirely self-contained, and readers who wish to pursue related subjects of interest are invited to consult the rich bibliography for guidance.