1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704347603321

Autore

St. James Lorelei

Titolo

U.S. coins : benefits and considerations for replacing the $1 note with a $1 coin : testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives / / statement of Lorelei St. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (9 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-13-164T

Soggetti

Paper money - Economic aspects - United States

Coins - Economic aspects - United States

Coin design - United States

Coin design - Economic aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 28, 2013).

"For release ... November 29, 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821975303321

Autore

McCullough Steve (Stephen)

Titolo

The caribbean policy of the Ulysses S. Grant administration : foreshadowing an informal empire / / Stephen McCullough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-0013-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages)

Disciplina

972.9

Soggetti

Politics and government

Diplomatic relations

History

Caribbean Area History

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

A failing peace effort : the U.S. mediation offer of 1869 -- The South and the War -- Thorny issues -- "A most painful story" : the Santo Domingo fiasco -- "A ripe orange" : American relations with Haiti -- Neutrality proclamation -- Turbulent years : 1870-1873 -- The Virginius.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019777003321

Titolo

Formal methods for industrial critical systems : a survey of applications / / edited by Stefania Gnesi, Tiziana Margaria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons Inc., c2013

ISBN

1-118-45989-X

1-283-85888-6

1-118-45986-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Classificazione

COM059000

Altri autori (Persone)

GnesiStefania <1954->

Margaria-SteffenTiziana <1964->

Disciplina

004.21

620.86028551

Soggetti

Formal methods (Computer science)

System design

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

FOREWORD by Mike Hinchey xiii -- FOREWORD by Alessandro Fantechi and Pedro Merino xv -- PREFACE xvii -- CONTRIBUTORS xix -- PART I INTRODUCTION AND STATE OF THE ART 1 -- 1 FORMAL METHODS: APPLYING {LOGICS IN, THEORETICAL} COMPUTER SCIENCE 3 -- Diego Latella -- 1.1 Introduction and State of the Art 3 -- 1.2 Future Directions 9 -- PART II MODELING PARADIGMS 15 -- 2 A SYNCHRONOUS LANGUAGE AT WORK: THE STORY OF LUSTRE 17 -- Nicolas Halbwachs -- 2.1 Introduction 17 -- 2.2 A Flavor of the Language 18 -- 2.3 The Design and Development of Lustre and Scade 20 -- 2.4 Some Lessons from Industrial Use 25 -- 2.5 And Now . . . 28 -- 3 REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTEGRATED FORMAL METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT SWARMS 33 -- Mike Hinchey, James L. Rash, Christopher A. Rouff, Walt F. Truszkowski, and Amy K.C.S. Vanderbilt -- 3.1 Introduction 33 -- 3.2 Swarm Technologies 35 -- 3.3 NASA FAST Project 39 -- 3.4 Integrated Swarm Formal Method 41 -- 3.5 Conclusion 55 -- PART III TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 61 -- 4 SOME TRENDS IN FORMAL METHODS APPLICATIONS TO RAILWAY SIGNALING 63 -- Alessandro Fantechi, Wan Fokkink, and Angelo Morzenti -- 4.1



Introduction 63 -- 4.2 CENELEC Guidelines 65 -- 4.3 Software Procurement in Railway Signaling 66 -- 4.4 A Success Story: The B Method 70 -- 4.5 Classes of Railway Signaling Equipment 71 -- 4.6 Conclusions 80 -- 5 SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING FOR AVIONICS 85 -- Radu I. Siminiceanu and Gianfranco Ciardo -- 5.1 Introduction 85 -- 5.2 Application: The Runway Safety Monitor 87 -- 5.3 A Discrete Model of RSM 95 -- 5.4 Discussion 107 -- PART IV TELECOMMUNICATIONS 113 -- 6 APPLYING FORMAL METHODS TO TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES WITH ACTIVE NETWORKS 115 -- Mar&#x192;ia del Mar Gallardo, Jesús Mart&#x192;inez, and Pedro Merino -- 6.1 Overview 115 -- 6.2 Active Networks 116 -- 6.3 The Capsule Approach 117 -- 6.4 Previous Approaches on Analyzing Active Networks 118 -- 6.5 Model Checking Active Networks with SPIN 122 -- 6.6 Conclusions 129 -- 7 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC MODEL CHECKING TO COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS 133 -- Marie Dufl ot, Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker, Sylvain Peyronnet, Claudine Picaronny, and Jeremy Sproston.

7.1 Introduction 133 -- 7.2 PTAs 134 -- 7.3 Probabilistic Model Checking 136 -- 7.4 Case Study: CSMA/CD 139 -- 7.5 Discussion and Conclusion 146 -- PART V INTERNET AND ONLINE SERVICES 151 -- 8 DESIGN FOR VERIFIABILITY: THE OCS CASE STUDY 153 -- Johannes Neubauer, Tiziana Margaria, and Bernhard Steffen -- 8.1 Introduction 153 -- 8.2 The User Model 155 -- 8.3 The Models and the Framework 158 -- 8.4 Model Checking 159 -- 8.5 Validating Emerging Global Behavior via Automata Learning 161 -- 8.6 Related Work 170 -- 8.7 Conclusion and Perspectives 173 -- 9 AN APPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC MODEL CHECKING IN THE INDUSTRY: USER-CENTERED MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF COLLABORATION IN THINKTEAM 179 -- Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink, Maurizio Sebastianis, and Gianluca Trentanni -- 9.1 Introduction 179 -- 9.2 thinkteam 182 -- 9.3 Analysis of the thinkteam Log File 184 -- 9.4 thinkteam with Replicated Vaults 189 -- 9.5 Lessons Learned 201 -- 9.6 Conclusions 201 -- PART VI RUNTIME: TESTING AND MODEL LEARNING 205 -- 10 THE TESTING AND TEST CONTROL NOTATION TTCN-3 AND ITS USE 207 -- Ina Schieferdecker and Alain-Georges Vouffo-Feudjio -- 10.1 Introduction 207 -- 10.2 The Concepts of TTCN-3 210 -- 10.3 An Introductory Example 216 -- 10.4 TTCN-3 Semantics and Its Application 219 -- 10.5 A Distributed Test Platform for the TTCN-3 220 -- 10.6 Case Study I: Testing of Open Service Architecture (OSA)/Parlay Services 223 -- 10.7 Case Study II: Testing of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Equipment 225 -- 10.8 Conclusion 230 -- 11 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ACTIVE AUTOMATA LEARNING 235 -- Falk Howar, Maik Merten, Bernhard Steffen, and Tiziana Margaria -- 11.1 Introduction 235 -- 11.2 Regular Extrapolation 239 -- 11.3 Challenges in Regular Extrapolation 244 -- 11.4 Interacting with Real Systems 247 -- 11.5 Membership Queries 250 -- 11.6 Reset 253 -- 11.7 Parameters and Value Domains 256 -- 11.8 The NGLL 260 -- 11.9 Conclusion and Perspectives 263 -- References 264 -- INDEX 269.

Sommario/riassunto

"Balances leading edge material, established practice, and reviews of historically important contributions"--



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483565603321

Autore

Jiménez-Martínez César

Titolo

Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests / / by César Jiménez-Martínez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030382384

3030382389

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages)

Disciplina

306.0981

327.2

Soggetti

Communication

Digital media

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Communication in politics

Diplomacy

Media and Communication

Digital and New Media

Latin American Culture

Political Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The June 2013 Protests and the Image of Brazil -- 2. Theorising the Image of the Nation: Contestation, Media and Visibility -- 3. Before the June Journeys: The Contested Visibility of the ‘New’ Brazil -- 4. The Visible Nation: The Media Coverage of the June Journeys -- 5. Strategies of Mediated Visibility: Replacement, Adjustment and Re-appropriation -- 6. Conditions of Mediated Visibility: Routines, Norms, Technologies and Commercialism -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Visible, Beyond the June Journeys.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing



on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors –authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents– disseminated competing versions of ‘what Brazil was’ during that pivotal episode. The book offers a fresh conceptual approach, supported by media coverage analysis and original interviews, that demonstrates the potential of digital media to challenge power structures and establish new ways of representing the nation. It also highlights the vulnerability of both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media to forms of inequality and disruption due to political interferences, technological constraints, and continuing commercial pressures. Contributing to the study of media and the nation as well as media and social movements, the author throws into sharp relief the profound transformation of mediated nationhood in a digital and global media environment. .