Inverse problems of wave processes / / A.S. Blagoveshchenskii

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788955103321
• Autore: Blagoveshchenskii A. S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Utrecht, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : VSP, , 2001
• ISBN: 3-11-094089-2
• Edizione: [Reprint 2014]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Collana: Inverse and ill-posed problems series
• Disciplina: 530.12/4
• Soggetti: Wave-motion, Theory of
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. One-dimensional inverse problems -- Chapter 2. Theory of inverse problems for wave processes in layered media -- Chapter 3. Inverse problems for vector wave processes -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph covers dynamical inverse problems, that is problems whose data are the values of wave fields. It deals with the problem of determination of one or more coefficients of a hyperbolic equation or a system of hyperbolic equations. The desired coefficients are functions of point. Most attention is given to the case where the required functions depend only on one coordinate. The first chapter of the book deals mainly with methods of solution of one-dimensional inverse problems. The second chapter focuses on scalar inverse problems of wave propagation in a layered medium. In the final chapter inverse problems for elasticity equations in stratified media and acoustic equations for moving media are given.

Design processes [[electronic resource] ] : what architects & industrial designers can teach each other about managing the design process / / edited by Wim Poelman and David Keyson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782848503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : IOS Press, 2008
• ISBN: 6612070587; 1-282-07058-4; 9786612070587; 1-4416-0550-9; 600-00-1258-6; 1-60750-387-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PoelmanW. A; KeysonDavid Victor <1962->
• Disciplina: 620.0042
• Soggetti: Engineering design - Methodology; Architectural design - Methodology; Industrial design - Methodology; Design - 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Design Processes - Between academic and practice views; Visualization - Sketching is Alive and Well in this Digital Age; Project Management - Project and risk Management in architecture and industrial design; Social Complexity - Social complexity in design collaboration; Decision Making - A decision-based design approach; Technology Diffusion and Design - The metabolism of knowledge; Closing speech; Appendix 1 - Chairman's impressions; Appendix 2 - Program
• Sommario/riassunto: The script of life is for a large part written by architects and designers. This title discusses such issues as the contemporary interrelationship of industrial design and architecture and a confrontation of contemporary design practice in both domains with academic theory ; and education.

Insurance as governance / / Richard V. Ericson, Aaron Doyle, Dean Barry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820417603321
• Autore: Ericson Richard Victor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 9786612023279; 1-282-02327-6; 1-4426-7622-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetti: Insurance - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• 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: Governance, Insurance, and Moral Risks -- Governance beyond the State -- Insurance as Governance -- Governance through Moral Risks -- Governing the Insurers -- Negotiating Political Economies -- Corporate Governance -- Market Misconduct -- Governing the Insured -- Prospects as Suspects -- Agents of Prevention -- Claims of Fraud.
• Sommario/riassunto: Insurance as Governance is the first major sociological study of the insurance industry. It examines how the industry controls our institutions and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it thereby functions as a form of government beyond the state. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on industry practices, the work penetrates the complexities of the insurance industry and demonstrates why it is such a powerful and pervasive institution. The authors advance the concept of moral risk as they consider how insurance companies partner with governments and corporations in the negotiation of economic policy. In effect, Insurance as Governance ; documents liberal theory at work. It offers a major case study of liberal governance beyond the state and explores such larger issues as how insurance is increasingly liberal rather than welfarist in orientation, and how insurance is the vanguard of liberalization in governance throughout postindustrial societies. Wide-ranging in scope and original in approach, the text provides a sophisticated integration of empirical data and theoretical approaches relating to insurance, risk, governance, and security.