1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453733103321

Titolo

Power games : a critical sociology of sport / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-25101-X

1-315-01269-3

1-136-40205-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SugdenJohn Peter

TomlinsonAlan

Disciplina

306.4/83

Soggetti

Sports - Social aspects

Power (Social sciences)

Critical theory

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 bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part 1. Theory and method -- part 2. Theory : interventions and re-evaluations -- part 3. Method : case studies and ethnographies.

Sommario/riassunto

Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society.<BR>The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164709303321

Titolo

Quality assurance for environmental measurements : a symposium / / editors, John K. Taylor, T. W. Stanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : ASTM; , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-8031-4932-8

Collana

ASTM special technical publication  Quality assurance for environmental measurements

Disciplina

628.5/028/7

Soggetti

Pollution - Measurement - United States

Quality assurance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Proceedings of the Conference on Quality Assurance for Environmental Measurements, held Aug. 8-12, 1983, Boulder, Colo

"ASTM publication code number (PCN) 04-867000-16."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299780703321

Autore

Reyes Juan Carlos de los

Titolo

Numerical PDE-Constrained Optimization / / by Juan Carlos De los Reyes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-13395-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Optimization, , 2191-575X

Disciplina

510

511/.8

515.353

518

519.6

Soggetti

Mathematical optimization

Differential equations

Numerical analysis

Optimization

Differential Equations

Numerical 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Basic Theory of Partial Differential Equations and Their Discretization -- Theory of PDE-constrained Optimization -- Numerical Optimization Methods -- Box-constrained Problems -- Nonsmooth PDE-constrained Optimization.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces, in an accessible way, the basic elements of Numerical PDE-Constrained Optimization, from the derivation of optimality conditions to the design of solution algorithms. Numerical optimization methods in function-spaces and their application to PDE-constrained problems are carefully presented. The developed results are illustrated with several examples, including linear and nonlinear ones. In addition, MATLAB codes, for representative problems, are included. Furthermore, recent results in the emerging field of



nonsmooth numerical PDE constrained optimization are also covered. The book provides an overview on the derivation of optimality conditions and on some solution algorithms for problems involving bound constraints, state-constraints, sparse cost functionals and variational inequality constraints.