Economic Growth : An American Problem / Edited by Peter M. Gutmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA990003848280403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) : Prentice Hall, 1964
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 181 p. ; 20 cm
• Collana: Modern economic issues
• Disciplina: F/1.221; F/3.3
• Locazione: SES
• Collocazione: F/1.221 ECO/64
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

News from Abroad / / Donald Shanor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462471903321
• Autore: Shanor Donald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 0-231-52943-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.4332
• Soggetti: Foreign news - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Does Foreign News Matter? -- 1. Introduction: The Test of War -- 2. Gatekeepers and Bookkeepers -- 3. Getting the News from Abroad -- ; 4. Broadcasting -- Part II. The Transformation of Foreign News -- 5. Evolution, Not Revolution -- 6. Abroad at Home -- 7. News from Abroad from Those Abroad -- 8. The Electronic Newspaper -- 9. Conclusion: The Journalistic Guerrillas -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the last two decades, following major conflicts in Kuwait, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Americans began to participate more actively than ever before in the world's numerous nationalist, religious, and ethnic conflicts. During this time, however, American news organizations drastically reduced the resources devoted to in-depth coverage of international affairs. Viewing foreign bureaus as an expensive luxury, major news providers closed overseas offices and cut the number of full-time correspondents working abroad, relying instead upon improvised news crews flown in on short notice to cover the latest crisis.In this insightful and hard-hitting investigation, former international news correspondent Donald R. Shanor follows the deterioration of international reporting and assesses the dangers that arise when U.S. citizens and policymakers are uninformed about foreign events until local problems erupt into international crises. Shanor also considers three major factors-technology, immigration, and globalization-that are influencing and complicating the debate over whether quality or profit should prevail in foreign reporting. In only a decade, the Internet has become a primary source of information for millions of Americans, particularly for younger generations. At the same time, a surge in America's immigrant population is rapidly changing the country's ethic and cultural landscape-making news from abroad local news in many cities-while global business practices are broadening the range of issues directly affecting the average citizen.News from Abroad provides a comprehensive portrait of the contemporary state of international news coverage and argues for the importance of maintaining networks of experienced journalists who can cover difficult subjects, keep Americans informed about the global economy, deliver early warnings of impending disasters and threats to national security, and prevent the United States from falling into cultural isolation.

The complete dimension theory of partially ordered systems with equivalence and orthogonality / / K.R. Goodearl, F. Wehrung

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910481015803321
• Autore: Goodearl K. R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2005]; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-4704-0432-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (134 p.)
• Collana: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 831
• Disciplina: 510 s; 511.3/3
• Soggetti: Lattice theory; Boolean rings; Partial algebras; Modules (Algebra); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Volume 176, number 831 (third of 5 numbers)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1-1. Background""; ""1-2. Results and methods""; ""1-3. Notation and terminology""; ""Chapter 2. Partial commutative monoids""; ""2-1. Basic results about partial commutative monoids""; ""2-2. Direct decompositions of partial refinement monoids""; ""2-3. Projections of partial refinement monoids""; ""2-4. General comparability""; ""2-5. Boolean-valued partial refinement monoids""; ""2-6. Least and largest difference functions""; ""Chapter 3. Continuous dimension scales""; ""3-1. Basic properties; the monoids Z[sub(γ)], R[sub(γ)], and 2[sub(γ)]""""3-2. Dedekind complete lattice-ordered groups""; ""3-3. Continuous functions on extremally disconnected topological spaces""; ""3-4. Completeness of the Boolean algebra of projections""; ""3-5. The elements (p | α)""; ""3-6. The dimension function Î?""; ""3-7. Projections on the directly finite elements""; ""3-8. Embedding arbitrary continuous dimension scales""; ""3-9. Uniqueness of the canonical embedding""; ""3-10. Continuous ; dimension scales which are proper classes""; ""Chapter 4. Espaliers""; ""4-1. The axioms""; ""4-2. Purely infinite elements trim sequences""; ""4-3. Axiom (M6)""; ""4-4. D-universal classes of espaliers""; ""4-5. Existence of large constants""; ""Chapter 5. Classes of espaliers""; ""5-1. Abstract measure theory; Boolean espaliers""; ""5-2. Conditionally complete, meet-continuous, relatively complemented, modular lattices""; ""5-3. Self-injective regular rings and nonsingular injective modules""; ""5-4. Projection lattices of W*- and AW*-algebras""; ""5-5. Concluding remarks""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""