1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451688103321

Autore

Krzanowski Roman

Titolo

Spatial evolutionary modeling [[electronic resource] /] / Roman Krzanowski, Jonathan Raper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-756162-4

1-280-53096-0

0-19-803101-7

1-4294-0390-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Spatial information systems

Altri autori (Persone)

RaperJonathan

Disciplina

910.285

910/.285

Soggetti

Genetic algorithms

Geographic information systems

Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Evolutionary Algorithms: An Introduction; 1 Concepts of Evolutionary Modeling and Evolutionary Algorithms; Part II: Spatial Evolutionary Modeling: Algorithms and Models; 2 Modeling Spatial Phenomena; Part III: Spatial Evolutionary Algorithms: Applications; 3 Beyond Data: Handling Spatial and Analytical Contexts with Genetics-Based Machine Learning; 4 A Genetic Algorithm to Design Optimal Patch Configurations Using Raster Data Structures; 5 Designing Genetic Algorithms to Solve GIS Problems; 6 Evolutionary Modeling of Routes: The Case of Road Design

7 Airspace Sectoring by Evolutionary ComputationIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Evolutionary models (e.g genetic algorithms, artificial life) are emerging as an important new tool for geographic information systems for a number of reasons. First, they are highly appropriate for modelling geographic phenomena; second, geographical problems are often spatially separate (broken down into logical or regional problems), and



evolutionary algorithms can exploit this structure; and finally, the ability to store, manipulate, and visualise spatial data has increased to the point that space-time attribute databases can be easily handled. This book is proposed to serve as a guide to the evolutionary modelling of spatial phenomena.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137495203321

Autore

Riggan Jennifer <1971->

Titolo

The Struggling State : Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea / / Jennifer Riggan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Temple University Press, 2016

Philadelphia : , : Temple University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781439912720

1439912726

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Disciplina

320.9635

Soggetti

Nationalism - Eritrea

Education and state - Eritrea

Teachers - Eritrea

Militarism - Eritrea

Militarization - Eritrea

Civil-military relations - Eritrea

Eritrea Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Everyday authoritarianism, teachers and the tenuous hyphen in nation-state -- Struggling for the nation: Contradictions of revolutionary nationalism -- "It seemed like a punishment": Coercive state effects and the maddening state -- Students or soldiers?: Troubled state technologies and the imagined future of educated Eritrea -- Reeducating Eritrea: Disorder, disruption and remaking the nation -- The teacher state: Morality and everyday sovereignty over



schools -- Conclusion:  Escape, encampment and alchemical nationalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Following independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea's leaders were praised for their success at building a coherent nation, but over the last two decades the government has increasingly turned to coercion particularly by forcing citizens into endless military service. The Struggling State: Teachers, Mass Militarization and the Reeducation of Eritrea is an ethnographic exploration of how citizens' redefined their relationship with the nation in response to the state's increased authoritarianism and use of force. Extremes of coercion and control led Eritreans' to imagine the once-heroic ruling party as turning against them, which, in turn unraveled the legitimacy of state-produced imaginaries of the nation. The book focuses on teachers, who were situated to do the work of hyphenating, or gluing, nation to state but instead had to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation and their discontent with their role in the government program of mass militarization. As teachers confronted their own conflicted imaginaries of the state and questioned what it meant to be Eritrean, they reeducated the nation, but not necessarily in the way the government wanted them to.