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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456369603321

Autore

Menzies Heather <1949->

Titolo

No time [[electronic resource] ] : stress and the crisis of modern life / / Heather Menzies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, B.C., : Douglas & McIntyre

[Berkeley, CA], : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, c2005

ISBN

1-282-69647-5

9786612696473

1-926685-74-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Individuals : trashing the body and the mind through stress and overwork. Building an environment in motion -- Stressed out and dreamless -- Workaholics and chronic fatigue. Part II: Institutions : living in an attention-deficit culture. Virtual worlds and deserting the real -- Nurses and health care -- Minding the common welfare. Part III: Society : bringing a crisis of accountability and meaning home to roost. Children's time and attention deficit disorder -- Drawing students into society's conversations -- Civic dialogue and noisy silence. Part IV: Renewal : reclaiming a feeling for ourselves. Take your time -- Time for dialogue and democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

Everyone agrees: there aren't enough hours in the day. But what happened to the promise that technology would provide more leisure time? Instead, everyone is working harder and longer than they did 15 years ago, squeezed and scattered and stressed to the point of burnout. Coping with the dizzying pace of a society drowning in information overload, it's a wonder anyone functions normally.Building on the success of Whose Brave New World? and Fastforward and Out of Control, Heather Menzies takes readers on a sobering tour of this



troubling phenomenon, highlightin

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136809103321

Autore

Fischer Veronique

Titolo

Quantization on Nilpotent Lie Groups [[electronic resource] /] / by Veronique Fischer, Michael Ruzhansky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-29558-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 557 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Progress in Mathematics, , 0743-1643 ; ; 314

Disciplina

512.55

512.482

Soggetti

Topological groups

Lie groups

Harmonic analysis

Functional analysis

Mathematical physics

Topological Groups, Lie Groups

Abstract Harmonic Analysis

Functional Analysis

Mathematical Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Notation and conventions -- 1 Preliminaries on Lie groups -- 2 Quantization on compact Lie groups -- 3 Homogeneous Lie groups -- 4 Rockland operators and Sobolev spaces -- 5 Quantization on graded Lie groups -- 6 Pseudo-differential operators on the Heisenberg group -- A Miscellaneous -- B Group C* and von Neumann algebras -- Schrödinger representations and Weyl quantization -- Explicit symbolic calculus on the Heisenberg group -- List of quantizations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a consistent development of the Kohn-Nirenberg



type global quantization theory in the setting of graded nilpotent Lie groups in terms of their representations. It contains a detailed exposition of related background topics on homogeneous Lie groups, nilpotent Lie groups, and the analysis of Rockland operators on graded Lie groups together with their associated Sobolev spaces. For the specific example of the Heisenberg group the theory is illustrated in detail. In addition, the book features a brief account of the corresponding quantization theory in the setting of compact Lie groups. The monograph is the winner of the 2014 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize.