Nurturing the nation [[electronic resource] ] : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / / Lisa Pollard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450374603321
• Autore: Pollard Lisa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0520230235; 1-282-76298-2; 1-59734-779-5; 9786612762987; 0-520-93753-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/0962
• Soggetti: Families - Egypt - History; Family policy - Egypt - Cross-cultural studies - History; Electronic books.; Egypt History 19th century; Egypt History 20th century
• 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: My house and yours -- Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationhood -- Inside Egypt -- The harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian landscape -- Domesticating Egypt -- The gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the schoolroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk, or the home economics of nationhood -- The household on display -- The family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Gender and the birth of the modern Egyptian nation-state.
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth ; century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.

Interventions to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination : a literature review to guide evaluation of California's mental health prevention and early intervention initiative / / Rebecca L. Collins [and four others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910220119203321
• Autore: Collins Rebecca L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, California : , : RAND Corporation, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-8330-8358-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (45 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.20425
• Soggetti: Mental illness - Prevention; Mental illness - Public opinion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Numerical analysis with applications in mechanics and engineering / / Petre Teodorescu, Nicolae-Doru Stanescu, Nicolae Pandrea

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829990803321
• Autore: Teodorescu P. P.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , c2013; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2013]
• ISBN: 1-118-61462-3; 1-299-47574-4; 1-118-61463-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (647 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StanescuNicolae-Doru; PandreaNicolae
• Disciplina: 620.001518
• Soggetti: Numerical analysis; Engineering mathematics
• 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 xi -- 1 Errors in Numerical Analysis 1 -- 1.1 Enter Data Errors, 1 -- 1.2 Approximation Errors, 2 -- 1.3 Round-Off Errors, 3 -- 1.4 Propagation of Errors, 3 -- 1.4.1 Addition, 3 -- 1.4.2 Multiplication, 5 -- 1.4.3 Inversion of a Number, 7 -- 1.4.4 Division of Two Numbers, 7 -- 1.4.5 Raising to a Negative Entire Power, 7 -- 1.4.6 Taking the Root of pth Order, 7 -- 1.4.7 Subtraction, 8 -- 1.4.8 Computation of Functions, 8 -- 1.5 Applications, 8 -- Further Reading, 14 -- 2 Solution of Equations 17 -- 2.1 The Bipartition (Bisection) Method, 17 -- 2.2 The Chord (Secant) Method, 20 -- 2.3 The Tangent Method (Newton), 26 -- 2.4 The Contraction Method, 37 -- 2.5 The Newton-Kantorovich Method, 42 -- 2.6 Numerical Examples, 46 -- 2.7 Applications, 49 -- Further Reading, 52 -- 3 Solution of Algebraic Equations 55 -- 3.1 Determination of Limits of the Roots of Polynomials, 55 -- 3.2 Separation of Roots, 60 -- 3.3 Lagrange's Method, 69 -- 3.4 The Lobachevski-Graeffe Method, 72 -- 3.4.1 The Case of Distinct Real Roots, 72 -- 3.4.2 The Case of a Pair of Complex Conjugate Roots, 74 -- 3.4.3 The Case of Two Pairs of Complex Conjugate Roots, 75 -- 3.5 The Bernoulli Method, 76 -- 3.6 The ; Bierge-Vi`ete Method, 79 -- 3.7 Lin Methods, 79 -- 3.8 Numerical Examples, 82 -- 3.9 Applications, 94 -- Further Reading, 109 -- 4 Linear Algebra 111 -- 4.1 Calculation of Determinants, 111 -- 4.1.1 Use of Definition, 111 -- 4.1.2 Use of Equivalent Matrices, 112 -- 4.2 Calculation of the Rank, 113 -- 4.3 Norm of a Matrix, 114 -- 4.4 Inversion of Matrices, 123 -- 4.4.1 Direct Inversion, 123 -- 4.4.2 The Gauss-Jordan Method, 124 -- 4.4.3 The Determination of the Inverse Matrix by its Partition, 125 -- 4.4.4 Schur's Method of Inversion of Matrices, 127 -- 4.4.5 The Iterative Method (Schulz), 128 -- 4.4.6 Inversion by Means of the Characteristic Polynomial, 131 -- 4.4.7 The Frame-Fadeev Method, 131 -- 4.5 Solution of Linear Algebraic Systems of Equations, 132 -- 4.5.1 Cramer's Rule, 132 -- 4.5.2 Gauss's Method, 133.; 4.5.3 The Gauss-Jordan Method, 134 -- 4.5.4 The LU Factorization, 135 -- 4.5.5 The Schur Method of Solving Systems of Linear Equations, 137 -- 4.5.6 The Iteration Method (Jacobi), 142 -- 4.5.7 The Gauss-Seidel Method, 147 -- 4.5.8 The Relaxation Method, 149 -- 4.5.9 The Monte Carlo Method, 150 -- 4.5.10 Infinite Systems of Linear Equations, 152 -- 4.6 Determination of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, 153 -- 4.6.1 Introduction, 153 -- 4.6.2 Krylov's Method, 155 -- 4.6.3 Danilevski's Method, 157 -- 4.6.4 The Direct Power Method, 160 -- 4.6.5 The Inverse Power Method, 165 -- 4.6.6 The Displacement Method, 166 -- 4.6.7 Leverrier's Method, 166 -- 4.6.8 The L-R (Left-Right) Method, 166 -- 4.6.9 The Rotation Method, 168 -- 4.7 QR Decomposition, 169 -- 4.8 The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), 172 -- 4.9 Use of the Least Squares Method in Solving the Linear Overdetermined Systems, 174 -- 4.10 The Pseudo-Inverse of a Matrix, 177 -- 4.11 Solving of the Underdetermined Linear Systems, 178 -- 4.12 Numerical Examples, 178 -- 4.13 Applications, 211 -- Further Reading, 269 -- 5 Solution of Systems of Nonlinear Equations 273 -- 5.1 The Iteration Method (Jacobi), 273 -- 5.2 Newton's Method, 275 -- 5.3 The Modified Newton's Method, 276 -- 5.4 The Newton-Raphson Method, 277 -- 5.5 The Gradient Method, 277 -- 5.6 The Method of Entire Series, 280 -- 5.7 Numerical Example, 281 -- 5.8 Applications, 287 -- Further Reading, 304 -- 6 Interpolation and Approximation of Functions 307 -- 6.1 Lagrange's Interpolation Polynomial, 307 -- 6.2 Taylor Polynomials, 311 -- 6.3 Finite Differences: Generalized Power, 312 -- 6.4 Newton's Interpolation Polynomials, 317 -- 6.5 Central Differences: Gauss's Formulae, Stirling's Formula, Bessel's Formula, Everett's Formulae, 322 -- 6.6 Divided Differences, 327 -- 6.7 Newton-Type Formula with Divided Differences, 331 -- 6.8 Inverse Interpolation, 332 -- 6.9 Determination of the Roots of an Equation by Inverse Interpolation, 333 -- 6.10 Interpolation by Spline Functions, 335.; 6.11 Hermite's Interpolation, 339 -- 6.12 Chebyshev's Polynomials, 340 -- 6.13 Mini-Max Approximation of Functions, 344 -- 6.14 Almost Mini-Max Approximation of Functions, 345 -- 6.15 Approximation of Functions by Trigonometric Functions (Fourier), 346 -- 6.16 Approximation of Functions by the Least Squares, 352 -- 6.17 Other Methods of Interpolation, 354 -- 6.17.1 Interpolation with Rational Functions, 354 -- 6.17.2 The Method of Least Squares with Rational Functions, 355 -- 6.17.3 Interpolation with Exponentials, 355 -- 6.18 Numerical Examples, 356 -- 6.19 Applications, 363 -- Further Reading, 374 -- 7 Numerical Differentiation and Integration 377 -- 7.1 Introduction, 377 -- 7.2 Numerical Differentiation by Means of an Expansion into a Taylor Series, 377 -- 7.3 Numerical Differentiation by Means of Interpolation Polynomials, 380 -- 7.4 Introduction to Numerical Integration, 382 -- 7.5 The Newton-Cˆotes ; Quadrature Formulae, 384 -- 7.6 The Trapezoid Formula, 386 -- 7.7 Simpson's Formula, 389 -- 7.8 Euler's and Gregory's Formulae, 393 -- 7.9 Romberg's Formula, 396 -- 7.10 Chebyshev's Quadrature Formulae, 398 -- 7.11 Legendre's Polynomials, 400 -- 7.12 Gauss's Quadrature Formulae, 405 -- 7.13 Orthogonal Polynomials, 406 -- 7.13.1 Legendre Polynomials, 407 -- 7.13.2 Chebyshev Polynomials, 407 -- 7.13.3 Jacobi Polynomials, 408 -- 7.13.4 Hermite Polynomials, 408 -- 7.13.5 Laguerre Polynomials, 409 -- 7.13.6 General Properties of the Orthogonal Polynomials, 410 -- 7.14 Quadrature Formulae of Gauss Type Obtained by Orthogonal Polynomials, 412 -- 7.14.1 Gauss-Jacobi Quadrature Formulae, 413 -- 7.14.2 Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Formulae, 414 -- 7.14.3 Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature Formulae, 415 -- 7.15 Other Quadrature Formulae, 417 -- 7.15.1 Gauss Formulae with Imposed Points, 417 -- 7.15.2 Gauss Formulae in which the Derivatives of the Function Also Appear, 418 -- 7.16 Calculation of Improper Integrals, 420 -- 7.17 Kantorovich's Method, 422 -- 7.18 The Monte Carlo Method for Calculation of Definite Integrals, 423.; 7.18.1 The One-Dimensional Case, 423 -- 7.18.2 The Multidimensional Case, 425 -- 7.19 Numerical Examples, 427 -- 7.20 Applications, 435 -- Further Reading, 447 -- 8 Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations and of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations 451 -- 8.1 State of the Problem, 451 -- 8.2 Euler's Method, 454 -- 8.3 Taylor Method, 457 -- 8.4 The Runge-Kutta Methods, 458 -- 8.5 Multistep Methods, 462 -- 8.6 Adams's Method, 463 -- 8.7 The Adams-Bashforth Methods, 465 -- 8.8 The Adams-Moulton Methods, 467 -- 8.9 Predictor-Corrector Methods, 469 -- 8.9.1 Euler's Predictor-Corrector Method, 469 -- 8.9.2 Adams's Predictor-Corrector Methods, 469 -- 8.9.3 Milne's Fourth-Order Predictor-Corrector Method, 470 -- 8.9.4 Hamming's Predictor-Corrector Method, 470 -- 8.10 The Linear Equivalence Method (LEM), 471 -- 8.11 Considerations about the Errors, 473 -- 8.12 Numerical Example, 474 -- 8.13 Applications, 480 -- Further Reading, 525 -- 9 Integration of Partial Differential Equations and of Systems of Partial Differential Equations 529 -- 9.1 Introduction, 529 -- 9.2 Partial Differential Equations of First Order, 529 -- 9.2.1 Numerical Integration by Means of Explicit Schemata, 531 -- 9.2.2 Numerical Integration by Means of Implicit Schemata, 533 -- 9.3 Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, 534 -- 9.4 Partial Differential Equations of Second Order of Elliptic Type, 534 -- 9.5 Partial Differential Equations of Second Order of Parabolic Type, 538 -- 9.6 Partial Differential Equations of Second Order of Hyperbolic Type, 543 -- 9.7 Point Matching Method, 546 -- 9.8 Variational Methods, 547 -- 9.8.1 Ritz's Method, 549 -- 9.8.2 Galerkin's Method, 551 -- 9.8.3 Method of the Least Squares, 553 -- 9.9 Numerical Examples, 554 -- 9.10 Applications, 562 -- Further Reading, 575 -- 10 Optimizations 577 -- 10.1 Introduction, 577 -- 10.2 Minimization Along a Direction, 578 -- 10.2.1 Localization of the Minimum, 579 -- 10.2.2 Determination of the Minimum, 580 -- 10.3 Conjugate Directions, 583.; 10.4 Powell's Algorithm, 585 -- 10.5 Methods of Gradient Type, 585 -- 10.5.1 The Gradient Method, 585 -- 10.5.2 The Conjugate Gradient Method, 587 -- 10.5.3 Solution of Systems of Linear Equations by Means of Methods of Gradient Type, 589 -- 10.6 Methods of Newton Type, 590 -- 10.6.1 Newton's Method, 590 -- 10.6.2 Quasi-Newton Method, 592 -- 10.7 Linear Programming: The Simplex Algorithm, 593 -- 10.7.1 Introduction, 593 -- 10.7.2 Formulation of the Problem of Linear Programming, 595 -- 10.7.3 Geometrical Interpretation, 597 -- 10.7.4 The Primal Simplex Algorithm, 597 -- 10.7.5 The Dual Simplex Algorithm, 599 -- 10.8 Convex Programming, 600 -- 10.9 Numerical ; Methods for Problems of Convex Programming, 602 -- 10.9.1 Method of Conditional Gradient, 602 -- 10.9.2 Method of Gradient's Projection, 602 -- 10.9.3 Method of Possible Directions, 603 -- 10.9.4 Method of Penalizing Functions, 603 -- 10.10 Quadratic Programming, 603 -- 10.11 Dynamic Programming, 605 -- 10.12 Pontryagin's Principle of Maximum, 607 -- 10.13 Problems of Extremum, 609 -- 10.14 Numerical Examples, 611 -- 10.15 Applications, 623 -- Further Reading, 626 -- Index 629.
• Sommario/riassunto: A much-needed guide on how to use numerical methods to solve practical engineering problems Bridging the gap between mathematics and engineering, Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering arms readers with powerful tools for solving real-world problems in mechanics, physics, and civil and mechanical engineering. Unlike most books on numerical analysis, this outstanding work links theory and application, explains the mathematics in simple engineering terms, and clearly demonstrates how to use numerical methods to obtain solutions and interpret resu