Memory for forgetfulness [[electronic resource] ] : August, Beirut, 1982 / / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated, with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817439203321
• Autore: Darwīsh Maḥmūd
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95459-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 182 pages)
• Collana: Literature of the Middle East
• Altri autori (Persone): MuhawiIbrahim <1937->
• Disciplina: 956.9204/4
• Soggetti: POETRY / General; Lebanon History Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 Personal narratives, Palestinian; Beirut (Lebanon) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Memory for Forgetfulness -- Chapter I
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon's foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.

Multi-objective optimization in physical synthesis of integrated circuits / / David A. Papa, Igor L. Markov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910438044903321
• Autore: Papa David A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Springer, 2012, c2013
• ISBN: 9786613924421; 9781283611978; 128361197X; 9781461413561; 1461413567
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Collana: Lecture notes in electrical engineering, , 1876-1100 ; ; v. 166
• Altri autori (Persone): MarkovIgor L <1973-> (Igor Leonidovich)
• Disciplina: 621.38173
• Soggetti: Integrated circuits - Design and construction; Timing circuits
• 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: Part I: Introduction and Prior Art -- Timing Closure for Multi-Million-Gate Integrated Circuits -- State of the Art in Physical Synthesis -- Part II: Local Physical Synthesis and Necessary Analysis Techniques -- Buffer Insertion during Timing-Driven Placement -- Bounded Transactional Timing Analysis -- Gate Sizing During Timing-Driven Placement -- Part III: Broadening the Scope of Circuit Transformations -- Physically-Driven Logic Restructuring -- Logic Restructuring as an Aid to Physical Retiming -- Broadening the Scope of Optimization using Partitioning -- Co-Optimization of Latches and Clock Networks -- Conclusions and Future Work.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book introduces techniques that advance the capabilities and strength of modern software tools for physical synthesis, with the ultimate goal to improve the quality of leading-edge semiconductor products. It provides a comprehensive introduction to physical synthesis and takes the reader methodically from first principles through state-of-the-art optimizations used in cutting edge industrial tools. It explains how to integrate chip optimizations in novel ways to create powerful circuit transformations that help satisfy performance ; requirements. Broadens the scope of physical synthesis optimization to include accurate transformations operating between the global and local scales; Integrates groups of related transformations to break circular dependencies and increase the number of circuit elements that can be jointly optimized to escape local minima; Derives several multi-objective optimizations from first observations through complete algorithms and experiments; Describes integrated optimization techniques that ensure a graceful timing closure process and impact nearly every aspect of a typical physical synthesis flow.

The Ancestry of Regional Spatial Planning : A Planner’s Look at History / / by Louis C. Wassenhoven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910337919003321
• Autore: Wassenhoven Louis C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-319-96995-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Disciplina: 519.5
• Soggetti: Regional planning; City planning; Cities and towns—History; Economic development; History, Modern; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Urban History; Regional Development; Modern History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Ch.1. Introduction (Looking for the origins of regional spatial planning – Short presentation of chapters – Appendix on regional planning in the interwar period) -- PART I (Chapters 2-11) -- ; Ch.2. Historical periods, regions and examples -- Ch. 3. Greek colonization -- Ch. 4. Colonies and towns in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires -- Ch. 5. New capitals -- Ch. 6. Middle Ages and Modern Era: Towns and planned settlements -- Ch. 7. Land: Empires and ancient world -- Ch. 8. Land: Medieval period and Modern Era -- Ch. 9. Government, territorial organization and decision structures -- Ch. 10. Trade, industry and natural resources -- Ch. 11. Transport, infrastructures and fortifications -- Ch. 12. Parameters of analysis -- PART II -- Ch. 13. Planning “actors”, government and regions -- Ch. 14. Planning process: Means and survey -- Ch. 15. Population re-distribution and spatial re-structuring -- Ch. 16. Towns and urban networks -- Ch. 17. Land, natural resources and innovations -- Ch. 18. Networks, flows, trade and interconnected areal units -- Ch. 19. Long-run change and future prospects: Closing statement -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is not a historical or archaeological treatise, but rather a study in which the author looks at the past, not as a historian, but as a planner who has the ambition to unravel the early manifestations of his discipline; a discipline which did not exist as such in remote periods, but the ingredients of which were nevertheless present. The author has observed the past equipped with knowledge and understanding of what regional planning was in the second half of the twentieth century and still is. He stands in the period of the first decades after the Second World War, which were the formative years of regional planning, and looks back at bygone ages. He discusses ideas and literature from the immediate post-war period in order to examine the ancestry of regional planning through their lens. The book will attract a broad range of readers because of its approach and its wide coverage of historical periods and world regions. Although Europe is the main focus, the book contains material on all continents and all periods, the ancient world, the medieval age and the modern era. The history of Urban Planning is taught and researched widely, but the history, or pre-history, before the twentieth century, of Regional Spatial Planning is not. This book will fill that vacuum.