1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974418603321

Autore

Resko Stella M. <1978->

Titolo

Intimate partner violence and women's economic insecurity / / Stella M. Resko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

9781593325510

1593325517

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Disciplina

362.82/920973

Soggetti

Intimate partner violence

Women - Violence against

Abused women - Economic conditions

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 (p. 203-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Universal risk ideology and intimate partner violence -- Women's economic well-being and intimate partner violence -- Theoretical perspectives on intimate partner violence -- Survey research on intimate partner violence -- "Fragile families" and intimate partner violence -- Male-to-female physical violence within urban families -- Male-to-female coercive control within urban families -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

Resko examines the relationship between women's economic wellbeing and intimate partner violence. Using data from the Fragile Families Survey, she examines hypotheses shaped by stress theory and social exchange theory and investigates racial and ethnic differences in these models. Her results support the notion that improving women's economic position can reduce intimate partner violence. Little evidence supported the backlash hypothesis, but in some situations men's poor performance in the labor force may be associated with an increased abuse. The strength of these results, however, differs a



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483029203321

Autore

Wonham W. Murray

Titolo

Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems / / by W. Murray Wonham, Kai Cai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-77452-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 pages)

Collana

Communications and Control Engineering, , 0178-5354

Disciplina

003.83

Soggetti

Automatic control

System theory

Production management

Control and Systems Theory

Systems Theory, Control

Operations Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- TCT: General Information -- Chapter 1. Algebraic Preliminaries -- Chapter 2. Linguistic Preliminaries -- Chapter 3. Supervision of Discrete-Event Systems: Basics -- Chapter 4. Decentralized and Distributed Supervision of Discrete-Event Systems -- Chapter 5. Hierarchical Supervision of Discrete-Event Systems -- Chapter 6. Supervisory Control With Partial Observations -- Chapter 7. State-Based Control of Discrete-Event Systems -- Chapter 8. Supervision of Vector Discrete-Event Systems -- Chapter 9. Supervisory Control of Timed Discrete-Event Systems -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Supervisory Control of a Mine Pump -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows how supervisory control theory (SCT) supports the formulation of various control problems of standard types, like the synthesis of controlled dynamic invariants by state feedback, and the resolution of such problems in terms of naturally definable control-theoretic concepts and properties, like reachability, controllability and observability. It exploits a simple, abstract model of controlled discrete-event systems (DES) that has proved to be tractable, appealing



to control specialists, and expressive of a range of control-theoretic ideas. It allows readers to choose between automaton-based and dually language-based forms of SCT, depending on whether their preference is for an internal-structural or external-behavioral description of the problem. The monograph begins with two chapters on algebraic and linguistic preliminaries and the fundamental concepts and results of SCT are introduced. To handle complexity caused by system scale, architectural approaches—the horizontal modularity of decentralized and distributed supervision and the vertical modularity of hierarchical supervision—are introduced. Supervisory control under partial observation and state-based supervisory control are also addressed; in the latter, a vector DES model that exploits internal regularity of algebraic structure is proposed. Finally SCT is generalized to deal with timed DES by incorporating temporal features in addition to logical ones. Researchers and graduate students working with the control of discrete-event systems or who are interested in the development of supervisory control methods will find this book an invaluable aid in their studies. The text will also be of assistance to researchers in manufacturing, logistics, communications and transportation, areas which provide plentiful examples of the class of systems being discussed.