The private trustee in Victorian England / / Chantal Stebbings [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454938703321
• Autore: Stebbings Chantal
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12050-0; 1-280-42986-0; 0-511-17493-4; 0-511-15503-4; 0-511-30376-9; 0-511-49545-5; 0-511-04612-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in English legal history
• Disciplina: 346.4205/9
• Soggetti: Trusts and trustees - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / Lord Templeman -- The Trustee -- 1. Challenges to trusteeship -- 2. The relationship with the settlor -- 3. The relationship with the beneficiaries -- 4. The relationship with co-trustees and agents -- 5. Trustees in the commercial context -- 6. Transgressions by trustees.
• Sommario/riassunto: The trust was a popular device among the Victorian middle classes to preserve their private property for the benefit of their families. At the centre of this legal institution was the trustee, whose duty it was to manage the property as the original owner wished. In their task of managing the property, Victorian trustees found themselves in a society which was changing rapidly and extensively, a new commercial and dynamic society which had a profound effect on their ability to carry out their duties. This book explores the legal response to the challenges faced by trustees, and does so through the varied relationships which trustees necessarily experienced in the course of their administration. A consideration of the legal dimension to trusteeship, this book sets the trustee in his legal, social and economic ; context. It will be of interest to legal historians, as well as to historians of nineteenth-century Britain.

The rhythmic event : art, media, and the sonic / / Eleni Ikoniadou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465008003321
• Autore: Ikoniadou Eleni
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-262-32094-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (130 p.)
• Collana: Technologies of Lived Abstraction
• Disciplina: 786.7/11
• Soggetti: Electronic music - History and criticism; Avant-garde (Music); Electronic books.
• 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; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abstract Audio; 1 Virtual Digitality; 2 Hypersonic Sensation; 3 Rhythmic Time; Conclusions: Rhythm and Event; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of accounting for bodies, movements, and events. In 'The Rhythmic Event', Eleni Ikoniadou explores traces and potentialities prompted by the sonic but leading to contingent and unknowable forces outside the periphery of sound. She investigates the ways in which recent digital art experiments that mostly engage with the virtual dimensions of sound suggest alternate modes of perception, temporality, and experience. Ikoniadou draws on media theory, digital art, and philosophical and technoscientific ideas to work toward the articulation of a media philosophy that rethinks the media event as abstract and affective. 'The Rhythmic Event' seeks to define the digital media artwork as an assemblage of sensations that outlive the space, ; time, and bodies that constitute and experience it. Ikoniadou proposes that the notion of rhythm - detached, however, from the idea of counting and regularity - can unlock the imperceptible, aesthetic potential enveloping the artwork. She speculates that addressing the event on the level of rhythm affords us a glimpse into the nonhuman modalities of thought proper to the digital and hidden in the gaps between strict definitions (e.g., human/sonic/digital) and false dichotomies (e.g., virtual/real). Operating at the margins of perception, the rhythmic artwork summons an obscure zone of sonic thought, which considers the event according to its power to become."--Publisher's description.

Understanding behavior in the context of time [[electronic resource] ] : theory, research, and application / / edited by Alan Strathman, Jeff Joireman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457931503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, c2005
• ISBN: 1-135-61182-3; 1-283-88242-6; 1-282-37530-X; 9786612375309; 1-4106-1351-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StrathmanAlan; JoiremanJeff
• Disciplina: 153.7/53
• Soggetti: Time perspective; Time perception; Psychology - Research; Electronic books.
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time; Title Page; ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; I. Introduction; 1 A Brief History of Time (Research); II. Intrapersonal-Level Processes; 2 Time Orientation Measurement: A Conceptual Approach; 3 Thinking About and Acting Upon the Future: Development of Future Orientation Across the Life Span; 4 Time and Terror: Managing Temporal Consciousness and the Awareness of Mortality; 5 Time Perspective, Health, and Risk Taking; 6 Time Orientation and Economic Decision Making; 7 Future Orientation and Anxiety; 8 Personal Goals and Time Travel: How Are Future Places Visited, and Is It Worth It?9 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Counterfactual Thinking and Beyond; 10 Attitudes Over Time: Attitude Judgment and Change; III. Groups and Interpersonal-Level Processes; 11 The Dimension of Time in Interdependence Theory; 12 Temporal Factors in Social Dilemma Choice Behavior: Integrating Interdependence and Evolutionary Perspectives; 13 Considering the Future Consequences of Aggressive Acts: Established and Potential Effects in the Context of the General Aggression Model; 14 Future Focus and Depth in Organizations15 Environmental Problems as Social Dilemmas: The Temporal Dimension; 16 Any Time Is Trinidad Time! Cultural Variations in the Value and Function of Time; IV. Conclusion; 17 Further Study of Behavior in the Context of Time; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time reviews the research on temporal orientation and brings together the disparate social behaviors influenced by time perspective. Organized into four sections, each chapter includes theory, research, applications, and directions for future research. Some chapters outline novel theoretical approaches that help to expand and/or integrate existing theories. The second part focuses on individual level processes and reviews the conceptualization, measurement, and lifespan development of time orientation; the outcomes associated with various time or

Finite fields : theory and applications : Ninth International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications, July 13-17, 2009, Dublin, Ireland / / Gary McGuire [and three others], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808665303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2010]; ©2010
• ISBN: 0-8218-8197-3; 0-8218-4786-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, ; 518 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 512/.3
• Soggetti: Finite fields (Algebra); Arithmetical algebraic geometry; Number theory; Coding theory
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Preface -- Construction of new toric quantum codes -- On the calculation of the linear complexity of periodic sequences -- A few more functions that are not APN infinitely often -- An APN permutation in dimension six -- CCZ-equivalence of single and multi output Boolean functions -- Structural weaknesses of permutations with a low differential uniformity and generalized crooked functions -- Solvability of systems of polynomial equations with some prescribed monomials -- Character sums in finite fields -- Monomial functions with linear structure and permutation polynomials -- Primitive elements on lines in extensions of finite fields -- Commutative semifields of order 243 and 3125 -- Normal elliptic bases and torus-based cryptography -- Unitary superperfect binary polynomials -- Shift-invariant polynomials and Ritts Second Theorem -- Waring's problem in finite fields with Dickson polynomials -- Jacobi sums and irreducible polynomials with prescribed trace and restricted norm -- A family of binary sequences from interleaved construction and their cryptographic properties -- Sziklai's conjecture on the number of ; points of a plane curve over a finite field II -- Folded algebraic-geometric codes from Galois extensions -- A multilinear generalization of the Tate pairing -- The merit factor of binary sequence families constructed from m-sequences -- Intractable problems in cryptography -- Modular curves and coding theory: A survey -- Minimal generating sets of Weierstrass semigroups of certain m-tuples on the norm-trace function field -- On the zeta functions of an optimal tower of function fields over F4 -- The asymptotic theory of algebraic-geometry codes -- A spectrum result on maximal partial ovoids of the generalized quadrangle Q(4, q), q odd -- Cyclic codes aspects of bent functions.