Elliptic and parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910146235603321
• Autore: Maugeri A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley VCH, 2000
• ISBN: 1-280-55853-9; 9786610558537; 3-527-60086-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 pages)
• Collana: Mathematical research Elliptic and parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients
• Disciplina: 515/.35
• Soggetti: Discontinuous functions; Differential equations, Elliptic; Differential equations, Parabolic; Calculus; Mathematics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: This book unifies the different approaches in studying elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations with discontinuous coefficients. To the enlarging market of researchers in applied sciences, mathematics and physics, it gives concrete answers to questions suggested by non-linear models. Providing an up-to date survey on the results concerning elliptic and parabolic operators on a high level, the authors serve the reader in doing further research.; Being themselves active researchers in the field, the authors describe both on the level of good examples and precise analysis, the crucial role played by such requirements on the coefficients as the Cordes condition, Campanato's nearness condition, and vanishing mean oscillation condition. They present the newest results on the basic boundary value problems for operators with VMO coefficients and non-linear operators with discontinuous coefficients and state a lot of open problems in the field.

Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean : Challenging Transitions in South Europe and the MENA Region / / edited by Ronald G. Sultana

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255107403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2017
• ISBN: 9789463009928; 9463009922
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (CDLII, 12 p.)
• Collana: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices, A Diversity of Voices, , 2214-9899
• Disciplina: 370
• Soggetti: Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Ronald G. Sultana -- Anchoring Career Guidance in the Mediterranean? In Search of Southern Perspectives / Ronald G. Sultana -- Contexts Matter / Ronald G. Sultana -- Debunking Myths Surrounding Women’s Careers in the Arab Region / Fida Afiouni and Charlotte Karam -- Career Guidance / Aboubakr Abdeen Badawi -- Syrian Refugees in Jordan / Maha Kattaa -- Educational and Career Guidance in Morocco / Aziza Chbani and Amina Jaouane -- Education and Career Guidance in Algeria / Rosa Mahdjoub and Mohamed Miliani -- Careers Information and Guidance in Tunisia / Ammar Mejri and John McCarthy -- Career Guidance in Libya / Ali Elhawat -- Youth Education and Guidance for Employment in Libya / Adele M. E. Jones -- Career Guidance in Egypt / Shahinaz Khalil -- Exploration Process and Future Plans of Arabs and Jewish Israeli Young Adults / Rachel Gali Cinamon -- Career Education and Guidance Under Occupation in Palestine / Mazen Hashweh -- Career Development Services in Jordan / Michel Turcotte, , Celine Renald and Lynne Bezanson -- Career Services in Syrian Higher Education / Batoul Diab and Neruda Barakat -- The Lebanese Education System / Barend Vlaardingerbroek, , Anies Al-Hroub and Cyrine Saab -- Career Counselling Services in Turkey / Binnur Yesilyaprak -- The Saudi Experiment with Career Guidance / Tristram Hooley -- Career Counselling and Guidance in Greece / ; Michael Kassotakis -- Guidance and Counselling in Cyprus / Antonis Antoniou -- Career Education and Guidance in Malta / Manwel Debono -- Career Guidance in Multicultural Contexts / Roberta Piazza, , Paola Magnano and Andrea Zammitti -- Young Adults of Maghrebi Descent in France / Valérie Cohen-Scali, , Alma Hafsi and Patrick Werquin -- Guidance in Catalan Secondary Education / Màrius Martínez-Muñoz and Carme Martínez-Roca -- Career Education and Guidance Services in Portugal / Maria Do Céu Taveira -- Futures for Career Education and Guidance in the Mediterranean? / Ronald G. Sultana -- Notes on Contributors / Ronald G. Sultana -- Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies / Ronald G. Sultana.
• Sommario/riassunto: Perhaps no other challenge preoccupies governments and citizens in the Mediterranean region than the mass unemployment of young people, many of who have invested in higher education in the hope that ability and effort lead to fulfilling lives. Transitions to independent adulthood are, however, frustratingly long drawn-out, and often jeopardised by labour markets that are neither youth-friendly nor meritocratic. While such challenges require structural responses at the macro-economic level, career education and guidance have an important role to play in addressing both the public and private good, and in furthering the social justice agenda. This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of career education and guidance in Southern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa Region, presenting a multi-faceted portrayal of the situation in each country as well as overviews of cross-cutting themes that are especially relevant to context, such as women’s career development in the Arab states, job placement support for refugees, and the impact of faith on livelihood planning. “This book is a major achievement, focusing on a pivotal part of the world.” – Tony Watts, Cambridge, UK “This book challenges career guidance to truly think in a contextual, localised, plural and dialogical way. In providing an opportunity for the South to speak on its own terms it helps renew the field through different ways of thinking and doing career guidance.” – Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil “This wonderful new book furnishes a way forward in helping people and communities establish practices that will support our natural striving for work that is decent, dignified, and meaningful.” – David L. Blustein, Boston College, USA “This book is packed with fresh ideas based on lucid arguments that draw from a substantial evidence base. This work is essential reading.” – Gideon Arulmani, The Promise Foundation, Bangalore, India “This publication isa must-read for every individual involved in policy, research and practice activities in the career guidance field.” – Rènette du Toit, Independent Research Services, South Africa.

The assumptions economists make / / Jonathan Schlefer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972814503321
• Autore: Schlefer Jonathan <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 9780674065529; 0674065522; 9780674068834; 0674068831
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetti: Economics; Economists; Economistes; Política econòmica; Llibres electrònics
• 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 (p.[317]-330) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- One. The Metaphor of the Invisible Hand -- Two. What Do Economists Do? -- Three. In Search of a Model -- Four. Economics When Society Matters -- Five. Chasing a Chimera -- Six. Utopia -- Seven. This Imperfect World -- Eight. Entering the Realm of Production -- Nine. What Caused Income Inequality? -- Ten. Understanding an Uncertain World -- Eleven. In the Long Run -- Twelve. In the Short Run -- Thirteen. The Puzzle of the Golden Age of Capitalism -- Fourteen. Economies in Crisis -- Fifteen. Thinking about Economies -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news-so why are their explanations often at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with these contradictions, Jonathan Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. While economists cloak their views in the aura of science, what they actually do is make assumptions about the world, ; use those assumptions to build imaginary economies (known as models), and from those models generate conclusions. Their models can be useful or dangerous, and it is surprisingly difficult to tell which is which. Schlefer arms us with an understanding of rival assumptions and models reaching back to Adam Smith and forward to cutting-edge theorists today. Although abstract, mathematical thinking characterizes economists' work, Schlefer reminds us that economists are unavoidably human. They fall prey to fads and enthusiasms and subscribe to ideologies that shape their assumptions, sometimes in problematic ways.Schlefer takes up current controversies such as income inequality and the financial crisis, for which he holds economists in large part accountable. Although theorists won international acclaim for creating models that demonstrated the inherent instability of markets, ostensibly practical economists ignored those accepted theories and instead relied on their blind faith in the invisible hand of unregulated enterprise. Schlefer explains how the politics of economics allowed them to do so. The Assumptions Economists Make renders the behavior of economists much more comprehensible, if not less irrational.