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UNINA9910791970103321 |
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Pugh Allison J |
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Longing and belonging [[electronic resource] ] : parents, children, and consumer culture / / Allison J. Pugh |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
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1-283-42258-1 |
9786613422583 |
0-520-94339-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Consumer behavior - Social aspects - California |
Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - California |
Child consumers - California |
Parent and child - California |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Care and Belonging in the Market -- Chapter 2. Differences in Common: Studying Inequality -- Chapter 3. Making Do: Children and the Economy of Dignity -- Chapter 4. Ambivalence and Allowances: Affluent Parents Respond -- Chapter 5. The Alchemy of Desire into Need: Dilemmas of Low-Income Parenting -- Chapter 6. Saying No: Resisting Children's Consumer Desires -- Chapter 7. Consuming Contexts, Buying Hope: Shaping the Pathways of Children -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Beyond the Tyranny of Sameness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison |
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J. Pugh spent three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh finds that children's desires stem less from striving for status or falling victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children's need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act as passports in children's social worlds, because they sympathize with their children's fear of being different from their peers. Even under financial constraints, families prioritize children "feeling normal". Pugh masterfully illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong. |
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UNINA9910821845803321 |
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Autore |
Chen Der-San <1940-> |
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Applied integer programming : modeling and solution / / Der-San Chen, Robert G. Batson, Yu Dang |
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Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2010 |
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1-282-25370-0 |
9786613814357 |
1-118-16600-0 |
1-118-16599-3 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (490 p.) |
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BatsonRobert G. <1950-> |
DangYu. <1977-> |
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Integer programming |
Mathematical optimization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-121) and index. |
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Applied Integer Programming: Modeling and Solution; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I MODELING; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Integer Programming; 1.2 Standard Versus Nonstandard Forms; 1.3 Combinatorial Optimization Problems; 1.4 Successful Integer Programming Applications; 1.5 Text Organization and Chapter Preview; 1.6 Notes; 1.7 Exercises; 2 Modeling and Models; 2.1 Assumptions on Mixed Integer Programs; 2.2 Modeling Process; 2.3 Project Selection Problems; 2.3.1 Knapsack Problem; 2.3.2 Capital Budgeting Problem; 2.4 Production Planning Problems; 2.4.1 Uncapacitated Lot Sizing; 2.4.2 Capacitated Lot Sizing |
2.4.3 Just-in-Time Production Planning 2.5 Workforce/Staff Scheduling Problems; 2.5.1 Scheduling Full-Time Workers; 2.5.2 Scheduling Full-Time and Part-Time Workers; 2.6 Fixed-Charge Transportation and Distribution Problems; 2.6.1 Fixed-Charge Transportation; 2.6.2 Uncapacitated Facility Location; 2.6.3 Capacitated Facility Location; 2.7 Multicommodity Network Flow Problem; 2.8 Network Optimization Problems with Side Constraints; 2.9 Supply Chain Planning Problems; 2.10 Notes; 2.11 Exercises; 3 Transformation Using 0-1 Variables; 3.1 Transform Logical (Boolean) Expressions |
3.1.1 Truth Table of Boolean Operations 3.1.2 Basic Logical (Boolean) Operations on Variables; 3.1.3 Multiple Boolean Operations on Variables; 3.2 Transform Nonbinary to 0-1 Variable; 3.2.1 Transform Integer Variable; 3.2.2 Transform Discrete Variable; 3.3 Transform Piecewise Linear Functions; 3.3.1 Arbitrary Piecewise Linear Functions; 3.3.2 Concave Piecewise Linear Cost Functions: Economy of Scale; 3.4 Transform 0-1 Polynomial Functions; 3.5 Transform Functions with Products of Binary and Continuous Variables: Bundle Pricing Problem; 3.6 Transform Nonsimultaneous Constraints |
3.6.1 Either/Or Constraints 3.6.2 p Out of m Constraints Must Hold; 3.6.3 Disjunctive Constraint Sets; 3.6.4 Negation of a Constraint; 3.6.5 If/Then Constraints; 3.7 Notes; 3.8 Exercises; 4 Better Formulation by Preprocessing; 4.1 Better Formulation; 4.2 Automatic Problem Preprocessing; 4.3 Tightening Bounds on Variables; 4.3.1 Bounds on Continuous Variables; 4.3.2 Bounds on General Integer Variables; 4.3.3 Bounds on 0-1 Variables; 4.3.4 Variable Fixing Redundant Constraints, and Infeasibility; 4.4 Preprocessing Pure 0-1 Integer Programs; 4.4.1 Fixing 0-1 Variables |
4.4.2 Detecting Redundant Constraints And Infeasibility 4.4.3 Tightening Constraints (or Coefficients Reduction); 4.4.4 Generating Cutting Planes from Minimum Cover; 4.4.5 Rounding by Division with GCD; 4.5 Decomposing a Problem into Independent Subproblems; 4.6 Scaling the Coefficient Matrix; 4.7 Notes; 4.8 Exercises; 5 Modeling Combinatorial Optimization Problems I; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Set Covering and Set Partitioning; 5.2.1 Set Covering Problem; 5.2.2 Set Partitioning and Set Packing; 5.2.3 Set Covering in Networks; 5.2.4 Applications of Set Covering Problem; 5.3 Matching Problem |
5.3.1 Matching Problems in Network |
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An accessible treatment of the modeling and solution of integer programming problems, featuring modern applications and software In order to fully comprehend the algorithms associated with integer programming, it is important to understand not only how algorithms work, but also why they work. Applied Integer Programming features a unique emphasis on this point, focusing on problem modeling and solution using commercial software. Taking an application-oriented approach, this book addresses the art and science of mathematical modeling related to the mixed integer |
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