1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002220359707536

Autore

Back, Kerry

Titolo

Stochastic methods in finance [e-book] : lectures given at the C.I.M.E.-E.M.S. summer school held in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy, July 6-12, 2003 / by Kerry Back ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : Springer, 2004

ISBN

9783540446446

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 311 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1617-9692 ; 1856

Classificazione

AMS 60G

AMS 91B02

AMS 93E

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Mathematics

Finance

Systems theory

Distribution (Probability theory)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786438103321

Autore

Orie Ọlanikẹ-Ọla

Titolo

Acquisition reversal [[electronic resource] ] : the effects of postlingual deafness in Yoruba / / by Olanike Ola Orie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85678-6

1-61451-045-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; ; 47

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Postlingual deafness - Patients - Rehabilitation - Nigeria

Yoruba language - Phonology

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Postlingual Deafness -- Chapter 2. The Yoruba: the people and their language -- Chapter 3. Deafness, Societal Attitude, and Language Adaptation -- Chapter 4. Yoruba Sign Language: A Basic Description -- Chapter 5. Postlingual Deafness at Age 5: Patterns of Loss after 25 Years -- Chapter 6. Postlingual Deafness at Age 8: Patterns of Loss after 25 Years -- Chapter 7. The Connection of Postlingual Deafness Language Loss to Acquisition -- Chapter 8. Summary, Suggestions for Rehabilitation and Further Research -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive account of prolonged hearing loss and its impact on a language that was once spoken fluently. Although it is currently assumed that hearing loss results in speech deterioration, it is shown that language loss occurs when speakers remain deaf for a long time. The reader is introduced to a significant deaf population - postlingually deafened Yoruba speakers who have been deaf for more than twenty years and who have no access to hearing aids or speech therapy. After becoming deaf, they continue to speak Yoruba from memory and "hear" visually through lip reading. These speakers exhibit phonological, lexical and syntactic losses which mirror acquisition patterns attested in the speech of Yoruba children. Based on these similarities, it is argued that a direct link exists between language loss



and first language acquisition. It is further argued that prolonged deafness results in language reversal. Finally, the book presents the first description of the sign language and gestures used by deafened speakers to augment their spoken language. These findings will be of value to linguists, speech, language and hearing therapists, anthropologists, Africanists, deaf studies researchers, and non-specialists who are interested in hearing health and wellness.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816426003321

Autore

Fegley Randall <1955->

Titolo

A history of Rwandan identity and trauma : the mythmakers' victims / / Randall Fegley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1944-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

967.571

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict - Rwanda - History

Psychic trauma - Rwanda

Rwanda History

Rwanda Ethnic relations

Rwanda Politics and government

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

Introduction: Myth, trauma, and Rwanda -- Pre-colonial inequalities and colonial assumptions -- Hutu power and genocide -- Justice and unity? -- Creating a competing mythology -- Comparisons and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the complicated events, conditions, and narratives that have shaped Rwanda's identity. Drawing on numerous sources and fieldwork, it discusses this east central African nation's deeply seated cleavages, atrocious recent past, and the internal and external myths that have directed its history and national life.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300257403321

Autore

Santambrogio Filippo

Titolo

Optimal Transport for Applied Mathematicians : Calculus of Variations, PDEs, and Modeling / / by Filippo Santambrogio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-20828-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVII, 353 p. 30 illus., 19 illus. in color.)

Collana

Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, , 1421-1750 ; ; 87

Disciplina

519.6

Soggetti

Calculus of variations

Differential equations

Differential equations, Partial

Measure theory

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization

Ordinary Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations

Measure and Integration

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

Preface -- Primal and Dual Problems -- One-Dimensional Issues -- L^1 and L^infinity Theory -- Minimal Flows -- Wasserstein Spaces -- Numerical Methods -- Functionals over Probabilities -- Gradient Flows -- Exercises -- References -- Index. .

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph presents a rigorous mathematical introduction to optimal transport as a variational problem, its use in modeling various phenomena, and its connections with partial differential equations. Its main goal is to provide the reader with the techniques necessary to understand the current research in optimal transport and the tools which are most useful for its applications. Full proofs are used to illustrate mathematical concepts and each chapter includes a section that discusses applications of optimal transport to various areas, such as economics, finance, potential games, image processing and fluid dynamics. Several topics are covered that have never been previously in



books on this subject, such as the Knothe transport, the properties of functionals on measures, the Dacorogna-Moser flow, the formulation through minimal flows with prescribed divergence formulation, the case of the supremal cost, and the most classical numerical methods. Graduate students and researchers in both pure and applied mathematics interested in the problems and applications of optimal transport will find this to be an invaluable resource.