1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459718803321

Titolo

China and the European Union in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : partners or competitors? / / edited by Jing Men and Benjamin Barton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2011

ISBN

1-317-16747-3

1-317-16746-5

1-283-04800-0

9786613048004

1-4094-2048-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MenJing <1968->

BartonBenjamin

Disciplina

355/.0326

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Africa Strategic aspects

China Relations Africa

Africa Relations China

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; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: China and the EU in Africa: Changing Concepts and Changing Policies; PART I; 1 China's Design of Global Governance: The Role of Africa; 2 Cultural Heritage and China's Africa Policy; 3 China's African Relations and the Balance with Western Powers; PART II; 4 Going Naval in Troubled Waters: The EU, China and the Fight against Piracy off the Coast of Somalia; 5 Tackling the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons: An Opportunity for EU-China Cooperation; PART III

6 The EU's Perceptions and Interests towards China's Rising Influence on Human Rights in Africa7 China, Sovereignty and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Africa: The Emergence of a 'Third Paradigm' of International Intervention?; 8 Limited Sovereignty: Chinese Peacekeeping Operations in Africa; PART IV; 9 How China is Influencing Africa's Development; 10 China's Aid to Africa: A Challenge to the EU?;



PART V; 11 The EU and China: Friends or Foes for Sustainable Regional Infrastructure Development and Resource Extraction in Africa?

12 The EU, China and Africa: Working for Functional Cooperation?Index

Sommario/riassunto

China and the European Union intelligently weaves together China and the EU's policies in Africa and the impact of this interaction on Africa's future. A much needed insight into how the interaction between the three holds the key to solving one of the world's most challenging issues.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910677165403321

Autore

Syropoulos Apostolos

Titolo

A modern introduction to fuzzy mathematics / / Apostolos Syropoulos, Theophanes Grammenos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-119-44530-2

1-119-44529-9

1-119-44532-9

9781119445326

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 363 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Fuzzy mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book aims to fill a gap in fuzzy mathematics literature by presenting recent developments and also discussing what has been done so far in the field. The book contains 12 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the basic ideas behind fuzzy sets. The authors explain what vagueness is and how it is different from other related ideas such as imprecision. Chapter 2 introduces the various forms, as well as the basic operations between fuzzy sets. In addition, the authors discuss the extension principle and introduce fuzzy numbers



and the basic arithmetic operations between them. Next, Chapter 3 covers fuzzy relations and discusses their properties, while Chapter 4 introduces the notions of fuzzy predicate, fuzzy logics, ordinary fuzzy logical connectives, as well as t-norms and t-conorms. Fuzzy proof theory and related ideas are also covered in this chapter. Generalized measure theory is discussed in Chapter 5, while Chapter 6 introduces a fuzzy version of a statistical theory. Fuzzy grammars, fuzzy languages, and fuzzy automata are covered in Chapter 7, while Chapter 8 examines fuzzy Turing machines. Next, Chapter 9 discusses fuzzy multisets, while Chapter 10 introduces fuzzy algebraic structures and related ideas. Chapter 11 covers fuzzy calculus. Finally, in Chapter 12 the authors examine fuzzy topology and the properties of fuzzy topological spaces, as well as fuzzy metric spaces"--