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UNINA9910451605503321 |
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Autore |
Hoad Neville Wallace <1966-> |
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African intimacies [[electronic resource] ] : race, homosexuality, and globalization / / Neville Hoad |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Homosexuality - Africa |
Gays - Africa - History |
AIDS (Disease) - Africa |
HIV infections - Africa |
Electronic books. |
Africa Social life and customs |
Africa Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index. |
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African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow. |
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There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the ÒAfricannessÓ of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms ÒsexualityÓ and ÒhomosexualityÓ outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incidentÑthe execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addres |
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UNINA9910132301403321 |
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Fritzson Peter A. <1952-> |
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Principles of object oriented modeling and simulation with Modelica 3.3 : a cyber-physical approach / / Peter Fritzson |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1-118-85916-2 |
1-118-98916-3 |
1-118-85897-2 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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1 online resource (1252 p.) |
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Object-oriented methods (Computer science) |
Computer simulation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; About the Author; About this Book; Reading Guide; Acknowledgements; Contributions to Examples; Contributors to the Modelica Standard Library, Version 3.2.1; Contributors to the Modelica Standard Library, Versions 1.0 to 2.1; Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.3 and Version 3.3 revision 1; Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.2; Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.0; Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 2.0; Contributors to the Modelica Language, up to Version 1.3 |
Modelica Association Member Companies and Organizations 2013Funding Contributions; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation; 1.1 Systems and Experiments; 1.2 The Model Concept; 1.3 Simulation; 1.4 Building Models; 1.5 Analyzing Models; 1.6 Kinds of Mathematical Models; 1.7 Using Modeling and Simulation in Product Design; 1.8 Examples of System Models; 1.9 Summary; 1.10 Literature; Chapter 2 A Quick Tour of Modelica; 2.1 Getting Started with Modelica; 2.2 Object-Oriented Mathematical Modeling; 2.3 Classes and Instances; 2.4 Inheritance; 2.5 Generic |
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2.6 Equations2.7 Acausal Physical Modeling; 2.8 The Modelica Software Component Model; 2.9 Partial Classes; 2.10 Component Library Design and Use; 2.11 Example: Electrical Component Library; 2.12 The Simple Circuit Model; 2.13 Arrays; 2.14 Algorithmic Constructs; 2.15 Discrete Event and Hybrid Modeling; 2.16 Packages; 2.17 Annotations; 2.18 Naming Conventions; 2.19 Modelica Standard Library; 2.20 Implementation and Execution of Modelica; 2.21 Tool Interoperability through Functional Mockup Interface; 2.22 History; 2.23 Summary; 2.24 Literature; 2.25 Exercises; Part II The Modelica Language |
Chapter 3 Classes, Types, Declarations, and Lookup3.1 Contract between Class Designer and User; 3.2 A Class and Instance Example; 3.3 Variables; 3.4 Behavior as Equations; 3.5 Access Control; 3.6 Simulating the Moon Landing Example; 3.7 Short Classes and Nested Classes; 3.8 Specialized Classes; 3.9 Predefined Types/Classes; 3.10 Structure of Variable Declarations; 3.11 Declaration Prefixes; 3.12 Variable Specifiers; 3.13 Initial Values of Variables; 3.14 Conditional Instance Declarations; 3.15 Declaration Order and Use before Declaration; 3.16 Introduction to Scoping and Name Lookup |
3.17 Nested Lookup Procedure in Detail3.18 The Concepts of Type and Subtype; 3.19 Use of Subtyping and Type Compatibility; 3.20 Summary of Type Concepts; 3.21 Summary; 3.22 Literature; 3.23 Exercises; Chapter 4 Inheritance, Modifications, and Generics; 4.1 Inheritance; 4.2 Inheritance through Modification; 4.3 Redeclaration; 4.4 Parameterized Generic Classes; 4.5 Designing a Class to Be Extended; 4.6 Adapting and Extending Libraries by class extends; 4.7 Summary; 4.8 Literature; 4.9 Exercises; Chapter 5 Components, Connectors, and Connections; 5.1 Software Component Models |
5.2 Connectors and Connector Classes |
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Fritzson covers the Modelica language in impressive depth from the basic concepts such as cyber-physical, equation-base, object-oriented, system, model, and simulation, while also incorporating over a hundred exercises and their solutions for a tutorial, easy-to-read experience.<br /><br /> The only book with complete Modelica 3.3 coverage Over one hundred exercises and solutions Examines basic concepts such as cyber-physical, equation-based, object-oriented, system, model, and simulation |
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