1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910523792803321

Autore

Ng Xian Wen

Titolo

Concise guide to optimization models and methods : a problem-based test prep for students / / Xian Wen Ng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783030844172

9783030844165

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 pages)

Disciplina

519.3

Soggetti

Mathematical optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495744703321

Autore

Barthélémy Carole

Titolo

De la ville durable à la nature en ville / Isabelle Hajek, Philippe Hamman, Jean-Pierre Lévy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Villeneuve d'Ascq, : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2018

ISBN

2-7574-1183-7

2-7574-1839-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlancNathalie

ChelkoffGrégoire

ClaeysCécilia

ConsalesJean-Noël

DinhDu Tran

DonzelAndré

GeneysCyril

GoiffonMarie

HajekIsabelle

HératArlette

JehlingMathias

LaigleLydie

LeducqDivya

LévyJean-Pierre

LizéeCécile

ManolaThéa

MatasJuan

MohnikeThomas

ParisMagali

RobineauOphélie

ScarwellHelga-Jane

ScherommPascale

WintzMaurice

ZaccaïEdwin

HammanPhilippe

Soggetti

Sustainable urban development

City planning - Environmental aspects

Urban ecology (Sociology)



Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Les projets de « ville durable » se sont aujourd'hui multipliés à travers le monde. Comment interpréter cet engouement généralisé ? Est-ce une nouvelle façon de concevoir les relations entre sociétés urbaines et environnements naturels ? Dans un contexte d'accélération de l’urbanisation, plutôt que d’acter l’inauguration de nouvelles politiques urbaines, la nécessité d’une analyse des pratiques, représentations et discours de la durabilité urbaine, assortie d’un recul critique s’imposent. C’est l’objectif de cet ouvrage. Il rassemble les travaux actuels de spécialistes en géographie, sociologie et urbanisme, ainsi qu’en architecture, agronomie, lettres, paysagisme, et interroge les dynamiques socio-spatiales de diffusion et de traduction du mot d’ordre désormais mondial de « durabilité urbaine », sur des aires différenciées, en conjuguant les regards « macro » et « micro ». Confrontant de façon originale villes du nord et villes du sud, l’ouvrage donne des clés de compréhension sur la façon dont le projet de « ville durable » a pu devenir le symbole de ce contre quoi il est censé lutter : un « verdissement » inégal de la ville, facteur de ségrégation sociale. Si une ville naturalisée apparaît bien au cœur de la « ville durable », elle procède moins de l’application d’un paradigme idéologique, d’une régulation politique « par le haut » que d’une mosaïque d’initiatives, croisant ambiances, pratiques sociales et récits ordinaires.  Nowadays sustainable cities projects are increasing  through the world. How can we explain this success? Is this a new model of interpretation of the relations between  urban societies and natural environment?



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779327503321

Titolo

Persuasion and compulsion in democracy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2013

ISBN

0-7391-7879-2

1-299-14878-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KegleyJacquelyn Ann K

SkowrońskiKrzysztof Piotr

Disciplina

303.3/42

Soggetti

Persuasion (Psychology)

Compulsive behavior

Democracy

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

Contents; Preface; Introduction; I: Public Issues; Chapter One: Between Rhetoric and Dialectic; Chapter Two: Democracy, Persuasion, or Inclusion?; Chapter Three: Compulsion and Persuasion in a Democracy of Split Levels; Chapter Four: Hegemony, Social Iniquiry, and the Primacy of Practical Reason; II: Theoretical Matters; Chapter Five: Keeping Radical Democracy Pragmatic; Chapter Six: A Good Citizen; Chapter Seven: Pragmatist Philosophy and Persuasive Discourse; Chapter Eight: Constructivist Problems, Realist Solutions; III: Actions

Chapter Nine: A Pragmatist Communicative Ethics for Politics and Everyday LifeChapter Ten: Persuasion and Compulsion in Radical Democracy; Chapter Eleven: Aesthetic Persuasion and Political Compulsion; Chapter Twelve: The Global Learning Chain and Baltimore City's Filipino Teachers; Chapter Thirteen: Persuasion and Compulsion in Democratic Urban Planning; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents a variety of philosophical and socio-political perspectives related to the relationship between persuasion and compulsion in democracy. It meets the need of the present time, in America and in Europe, to re-read and discuss the basic assumptions of democracy and the role of individual within it in the context of



institutional persuasions that can become factual compulsions for other institution and, first of all, individuals.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820092903321

Titolo

Introduction to audiovisual archives / / editor, Peter Stockinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE Ltd

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

London : , : ISTE Ltd

Hoboken, N.J. : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2012

ISBN

9781118562048

1118562046

9781118566206

1118566203

9781118566275

1118566270

9781299188976

1299188974

Edizione

[First edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations

Collana

ISTE

Altri autori (Persone)

StockingerPeter

Disciplina

025.3/47

Soggetti

Audio-visual archives

Audio-visual materials

Research - Methodology

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. [281]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Context and issues / Peter Stockinger, Elisabeth de Pablo, Francis Lemaitre -- Part 1. The segmentation and description workshops for audiovisual corpora -- The segmentation workshop for audiovisual resources / Elisabeth de Pablo -- Description workshop for audiovisual corpora / Muriel Chemouny -- Analysis of the audiovisual expression / Elisabeth de Pablo and Jirasri Deslis -- Analysis of the audiovisual content / Peter Stockinger -- Uses of an audiovisual resource / Muriel



Chemouny, Primuda Sakunthabai -- Model of an audiovisual publication in the form of a Web portal / Jirasri Deslis -- Part 2. Technological environment, development, and new perspectives -- The ASW digital environment / Francis Lemaitre -- The ASW Studio / Francis Lemaitre -- The technical development of the "Web portal" publishing model / Richard Guerinet.

Sommario/riassunto

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data from these archives or libraries - videos, images, sound tracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or "target community"). They have to undergo more or less significant qualitative transformations in order to become user- or community-relevant intellectual goods.These qualitative transformations are performed through a series of concrete operations such as: audiovisual text