Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies / / Jason R. Rudy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467907703321
• Autore: Rudy Jason R. <1975->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-4214-2393-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 821/.8099171241
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Imperialism in literature; Literature and society - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century; National characteristics, English, in literature; Colonies in literature; English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism; Commonwealth poetry (English) - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada--often disparaged as derivative and uncouth--should instead be seen as vitally engaged in the social and political work of settlement. The book illuminates cultural pressures that accompanied the unprecedented growth of British emigration across the nineteenth century. It also explores the role of poetry as a mediator between familiar British ideals and new colonial paradigms within emerging literary markets from Sydney and Melbourne to Cape Town and Halifax. ; Rudy focuses on the work of poets both canonical--including Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, and Hemans--and relatively obscure, from Adam Lindsay Gordon, Susanna Moodie, and Thomas Pringle to Henry Kendall and Alexander McLachlan. He examines in particular the nostalgic relations between home and abroad, core and periphery, whereby British emigrants used both original compositions and canonical British works to imagine connections between their colonial experiences and the lives they left behind in Europe. Drawing on archival work from four continents, Imagined Homelands insists on a wider geographic frame for nineteenth-century British literature. From lyrics printed in newspapers aboard emigrant ships heading to Australia and South Africa, to ballads circulating in New Zealand and Canadian colonial journals, poetry was a vibrant component of emigrant life. In tracing the histories of these poems and the poets who wrote them, this book provides an alternate account of nineteenth-century British poetry and, more broadly, of settler colonial culture"--

Optimization Theory, Decision Making, and Operations Research Applications : Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium and 10th Balkan Conference on Operational Research / / edited by Athanasios Migdalas, Angelo Sifaleras, Christos K Georgiadis, Jason Papathanasiou, Emmanouil Stiakakis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437876303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-86509-2; 1-4614-5134-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Collana: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1017 ; ; 31
• Altri autori (Persone): MigdalasAthanasios
• Disciplina: 519.6
• Soggetti: Mathematical optimization; Operations research; Management science; Optimization; Operations Research, Management Science
• 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: Optimization Theory, Decision Making, and Operations Research Applications; Preface; Contents; Contributors; BALCOR 2011; Moderately Exponential Approximation: Bridging the Gap Between Exact Computation and Polynomial Approximation; 1 Introduction; 2 What Is Moderately Exponential Approximation?; 3 Generating a ``Small'' Number of Candidate Solutions or Exhaustively Searching a Small Part of Instance; 4 Divide-and-Approximate; 5 Approximately Pruning the Search Tree; 6 Randomization; 7 Final Remarks; References; Multistart Branch and Bound for Large Asymmetric Distance-Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem1 Introduction; 2 Mathematical Programming Formulations for ADVRP; 2.1 Flow-Based Formulation; 2.2 TSP Formulation; 3 Branch and Bound for ADVRP; 3.1 Lower Bounds; 3.2 Tolerance-Based Branching Rule; 3.3 Algorithm; 3.4 Illustrative Example; 4 Multistart Method; 4.1 Algorithm; 4.2 Illustrative Example; 5 An Efficient Implementation: Data Structure; 6 Computational Results; 7 Conclusions; References; On a Relationship Between Graph Realizability and Distance Matrix Completion; 1 Introduction; 2 The Distance Geometry Problem3 The Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion Problem; 4 Rigidity and Henneberg type graphs; 5 Branch-and-Prune; 5.1 Partial reflections; 6 BP in distance space; 6.1 The main idea; 6.2 Formalization and properties; 6.3 A dual Branch-and-Prune; References; Effect Oriented Planning of Joint Attacks; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Network Centric Framework; 1.2 Mission Planning; 1.3 Paper Overview; 2 The Joint Attack Problem; 2.1 Tactics and Angles of Attack; 2.2 The Objective; 3 Mathematical Models; 3.1 A Generic Model; 3.2 Optimistic Model; 3.3 Pessimistic Model; 4 Simulation Details4.1 Specifications of the Defensive System; 4.2 Specification of the Objective; 4.3 An Illustrative Example; 5 Heuristic Solution Methods; 5.1 Local Search; 5.2 A Constructive Heuristic; 5.3 Simulated Annealing; 6 Numerical Experiments; 6.1 Case 105; 6.2 Results for Case 105; 6.3 Results for Larger Instances; 7 Conclusions and Future Work; References; Competitive Multilevel Capacity Allocation; 1 Introduction; 2 Bilevel Programming; 3 Optimal Facilities Location and Capacity Assignment Under Customer Competition; 3.1 Optimal System Location; 3.2 Bilevel Problem Formulation Under Customer Competition3.3 Numerical Comparison of the Models; 4 Duopoly; 4.1 Competitive Facility Location when Customers Participate in Their Competitive Game; 4.2 The Impact of the Duopoly in the Service Level; 5 Conclusion; References; A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithmfor the Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem; 1 Introduction; 2 The Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem; 3 Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm; 3.1 General Description; 3.2 Variable Neighborhood Search; 3.3 Path Relinking; 4 Results and Discussion; 5 Conclusions
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past two decades, the Balkan Conference on Operational Research (BALCOR) has facilitated the exchange of scientific and technical information on the subject of Operations Research and related fields such as Mathematical Programming, Game Theory, Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, Information Systems, Data Mining, and more, in order to promote international scientific cooperation. The contributed papers contained in this volume consist of 25 selected research papers based on results presented at the 10th Balkan ; Conference & 1st International Symposium on Operational Research in Thessalonike, Greece. Subjects include, but do not restrict to, the development of theory and mathematical models for Operations Research, theory and applications of Combinatorial Optimization, Supply Chain Optimization, and Military Operations Research. These carefully selected papers present important recent developments and modern applications, and will serve as excellent reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in these disciplines. The contributed papers contained in this volume consist of 25 selected research papers based on results presented at the 10th Balkan Conference & 1st International Symposium on Operational Research in Thessalonike, Greece. Subjects include, but do not restrict to, the development of theory and mathematical models for Operations Research, theory and applications of Combinatorial Optimization, Supply Chain Optimization, and Military Operations Research. These carefully selected papers present important recent developments and modern applications, and will serve as excellent reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in these disciplines.