1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000597960403321

Autore

Krasnoselʹskij, Mark Aleksandrovič

Titolo

Approximate solution of operator equations / M. A. Krasnoselʹskij ... [et al.] ; translated D. Louvish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Groningen : Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing, 1972

Descrizione fisica

XII, 484 p. ; 23 cm

Locazione

DINSC

MA1

FINBN

Collocazione

07 H-261

6-I-8

02 23 D 23

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781327703321

Autore

Porter Roger J. <1936->

Titolo

Bureau of missing persons [[electronic resource] ] : writing the secret lives of fathers / / Roger J. Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [N.Y.], : Cornell University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8014-6144-8

0-8014-6096-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

808/.06692

Soggetti

Autobiography - Authorship

Fathers in literature

Secrecy in literature

Deception in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Child's Book of Parental Deception -- 1. Faith-Changing for Life -- 2. Deciphering Enigma Codes -- 3. The Men Who Were Not There -- 4. Becoming One's Parent -- 5. Breaking the Silence -- Conclusion: Freedom or Exploitation? -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men. Struck by the intensely human drama of secrecy and deception played out for all to see, Porter explores the phenomenon in great depth. In Bureau of Missing Persons he examines a large number of these works-eighteen in all-placing them in a wide literary and cultural context and considering the ethical quandaries writers face when they reveal secrets so long and closely held.Among the books Porter treats are Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude, Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home, Essie Mae Washington-Williams's Dear Senator (on her father, Strom Thurmond), Bliss Broyard's One Drop, Mary Gordon's The Shadow Man, and Geoffrey



Wolff's The Duke of Deception. He also discusses Nathaniel Kahn's documentary film, My Architect. These narratives inevitably look inward to the writer as well as outward to the parent. The autobiographical children are compelled, if not consumed, by a desire to know. They become detectives, piecing together clues to fill memory voids, assembling material and archival evidence, public and private documents, letters, photographs, and iconic physical objects to track down the parent.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910674369603321

Autore

Gentili Stefania

Titolo

Statistics and Pattern Recognition Applied to the Spatio-Temporal Properties of Seismicity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Soggetti

Environmental science, engineering and technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Due to the significant increase in the availability of new data in recent years, as a result of the expansion of available seismic stations, laboratory experiments, and the availability of increasingly reliable synthetic catalogs, considerable progress has been made in understanding the spatiotemporal properties of earthquakes. The study of the preparatory phase of earthquakes and the analysis of past seismicity has led to the formulation of seismicity models for the forecasting of future earthquakes or to the development of seismic hazard maps. The results are tested and validated by increasingly accurate statistical methods. A relevant part of the development of many models is the correct identification of seismicity clusters and scaling laws of background seismicity. In this collection, we present



eight innovative papers that address all the above topics. The occurrence of strong earthquakes (mainshocks) is analyzed from different perspectives in this Special Issue.