04329nam 2200781 450 991045350630332120200520144314.00-691-11590-71-4008-4964-010.1515/9781400849642(CKB)2550000001137897(EBL)1441392(SSID)ssj0001481565(PQKBManifestationID)12641983(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481565(PQKBWorkID)11502604(PQKB)10006409(SSID)ssj0001154501(PQKBManifestationID)11608893(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001154501(PQKBWorkID)11176713(PQKB)10936926(MiAaPQ)EBC1441392(OCoLC)880236710(MdBmJHUP)muse43304(DE-B1597)453644(OCoLC)979968611(DE-B1597)9781400849642(Au-PeEL)EBL1441392(CaPaEBR)ebr10787687(CaONFJC)MIL537599(OCoLC)862375653(EXLCZ)99255000000113789720131106d2004 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe city at stake secession, reform, and battle for Los Angeles /with a new afterword by the author, Raphael J. SonensheinWith a New afterword by the authorPrinceton, New Jersey ;Oxfordshire, England :Princeton University Press,2004.©20041 online resource (343 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-12603-8 1-306-06348-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface: REFORM UNDER THE GUN -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. The Dynamics of Urban Reform -- PART TWO. The Roots of Los Angeles Charter Reform -- PART THREE. The Battle over the Charter -- PART FOUR. The Unified Charter -- PART FIVE. The Battle over Secession -- PART SIX. The Future of Urban Reform -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Afterword: Reform, Diversity, and the 2005 Election of Antonio Villaraigosa -- IndexThe City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. How did Los Angeles, a diverse city with an image of unstructured politics and fragmented government, find a way to unify itself around a controversial set of reforms? Los Angeles government nearly collapsed in political bickering over charter reform, which generated the remarkable phenomenon of two competing charter reform commissions. Out of this nearly impossible tangle, reformers managed to knit a new city charter that greatly expanded institutions for citizen participation and addressed long-standing weaknesses in the role of the mayor. The new charter, pursued by a Republican mayor, won its greatest support from liberal whites who had long favored reform measures. Written by an urban scholar who played a key role in the charter reform process, the book offers both a theoretical perspective on the process of institutional reform in an age of diversity, and a firsthand, inside-the-box look at how major reform works. The new afterword by the author analyzes the 2005 election of Los Angeles's first modern Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, a milestone in the development of urban reform coalitions in an age of immigration and ethnic diversity.SecessionCaliforniaLos Angeles CountySecessionCaliforniaLos AngelesLos Angeles (Calif.)Politics and governmentLos Angeles County (Calif.)Politics and governmentLos Angeles (Calif.)ChartersLos Angeles (Calif.)Race relationsElectronic books.SecessionSecession320.9794/94Sonenshein Raphael1042736MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453506303321The city at stake2467188UNINA05014nam 22007455 450 991104768130332120251001130514.03-032-00137-410.1007/978-3-032-00137-5(CKB)41520940000041(MiAaPQ)EBC32323263(Au-PeEL)EBL32323263(DE-He213)978-3-032-00137-5(EXLCZ)994152094000004120251001d2026 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOptimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications 5th International Conference, OL2A 2025, Sesti Levante, Italy, April 28–30, 2025, Proceedings, Part I /edited by Ana I. Pereira, Florbela P. Fernandes, João P. Coelho, João P. Teixeira, José Lima, Maria F. Pacheco, Luca Oneto, Rui P. Lopes1st ed. 2026.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2026.1 online resource (471 pages)Communications in Computer and Information Science,1865-0937 ;26173-032-00136-6 -- Optimization. -- On the impact of message brokers implementations in the choreography of microservices. -- Integrating Aging-Awareness into Price-Optimized PV-Battery Controllers Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming. -- Intelligent Inventory Rotation and Revenue Optimization Using Integer Linear Programming: A Coffee Shop Case Study. -- Optimizing E-Learning with MoodleCloud: A Framework for Individualized Learning Paths. -- Decision support system for scheduling vehicle maintenance and repair activities in an automotive repair shop. -- Optimization in Control Systems Design. -- An OpenModelica package for BELBIC. -- Performance Benchmarking of OR-Tools Methods for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows. -- The Impact of Data Representation on Predicting Aircraft Component Removals. -- Risk-Aware Optimal Camera Placement for Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring. -- Shadow Dexterous Hand: Kinematic Retargeting Algorithms Comparison. -- Improved Performance of Stochastic Gradients with Gaussian Smoothing. -- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine. -- Schizophrenia Diagnosis Support with Spectral and Cepstral Features of Speech. -- Influence of Habits and Comorbidities on Liver Disease. -- Interconnection Between Lifestyle, Health, and Academic Outcomes: an Analysis on Study Habits and Well-being. -- Classification of Breast Cancer Subtypes Using Machine and Deep Learning on Gene Expression Data with Hyperparameter Optimization. -- Forecasting COVID-19 in European Countries Using Long Short-Term Memory. -- A classifier based on neural network and differential evolution algorithm for hepatitis prediction.The two-volume set CCIS 2617 and 2618 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications, OL2A 2025, held in Sesti Levante, Italy, during April 28–30, 2025. The 38 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Optimization; Optimization in Control Systems Design; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine; and Deep Learning. Part II: Optimization in the SDG context; Machine Learning; and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Robotics.Communications in Computer and Information Science,1865-0937 ;2617Computational intelligenceArtificial intelligenceComputer networksComputer engineeringSoftware engineeringComputational IntelligenceArtificial IntelligenceComputer Communication NetworksComputer Engineering and NetworksSoftware EngineeringComputational intelligence.Artificial intelligence.Computer networks.Computer engineering.Software engineering.Computational Intelligence.Artificial Intelligence.Computer Communication Networks.Computer Engineering and Networks.Software Engineering.519.6Pereira Ana I1781486Fernandes Florbela P1781487Coelho João P1781488Teixeira João P1781489Lima José1781490Pacheco Maria F1781491Oneto Luca1080855Lopes Rui P1781492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911047681303321Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications4469123UNINA