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Active Calculus, 2015 Edition: Multivariable
Rather than detailed explanations and worked out examples, this book uses activities intended to be done by the students in order to present the standard concepts and computational techniques of calculus. The student activities provide most of the material to be assigned as homework, but since the book does not contain the usual routine exercises, instructors wanting such exercises will need to supply their own or use a homework system such as WebWork. With this approach, Active Calculus makes it possible to teach an inquiry based learning course without severely restricting the material covered. Although this book is new, it has been class tested by the author and his colleagues both at their university and elsewhere.From the preface:Where many texts present a general theory of calculus followed by substantial collections of worked examples, we instead pose problems or situations, consider possibilities and then ask students to investigate and explore. Following key activities or examples, the presentation normally includes some overall perspective and a brief synopsis of general trends or properties, followed by formal statements of rules or theorems. While we often offer a plausibility argument for such results, rarely do we include formal proofs.Contents:Understanding the DerivativeComputing the DerivativesUsing DerivativesThe Definite IntegralFinding Antiderivatives and Evaluating IntegralsUsing Definite IntegralsDifferential EquationsSequences and Series
Active Ageing and Healthy Living: A Human Centered Approach in Research and Innovation as Source of Quality of Life
Increased life expectancy and the ageing of the population have been the subject of attention in Western countries, and particularly in Europe, for some years now. The challenge of ‘squaring the circle’ between ends and means – as well as between personal aspirations and systemic constraints – in health and social care continues to be a major concern for policymakers and all those involved in the delivery of services.This book, Active Ageing and Healthy Living: A Human Centered Approach in Research and Innovation as Source of Quality of Life, presents the results of a number of research projects from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – the largest private university in Italy and in Europe – with a strong commitment to the areas of medicine and health sciences, economics, business, international relations, political science, psychology and communications. Visions and research directions for the future are also presented and discussed.
Accounting: Introduction to Financial Accounting
The form of this book is completely new to the market. This is an open text supported by Lyryx Service Course SoluOons (L.S.C.S.) products and services.
Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications
This text is intended for a one- or two-semester undergraduate course in abstract algebra. Traditionally, these courses have covered the theoretical aspects of groups, rings and fields. However, with the development of computing in the last several decades, applications that involve abstract algebra and discrete mathematics have become increasingly important, and many science, engineering and computer science students are now electing to minor in mathematics. Though theory still occupies a central role in the subject of abstract algebra and no student should go through such a course without a good notion of what a proof is, the importance of applications such as coding theory and cryptography has grown significantly.Until recently most abstract algebra texts included few if any applications. However, one of the major problems in teaching an abstract algebra course is that for many students it is their first encounter with an environment that requires them to do rigorous proofs. Such students often find it hard to see the use of learning to prove theorems and propositions; applied examples help the instructor provide motivation.This text contains more material than can possibly be covered in a single semester. Certainly there is adequate material for a two-semester course, and perhaps more; however, for a one-semester course it would be quite easy to omit selected chapters and still have a useful text. The order of presentation of topics is standard: groups, then rings, and finally fields. Emphasis can be placed either on theory or on applications. A typical one-semester course might cover groups and rings while briefly touching on field theory, using Chapters 1 through 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 (the first part), 16, 17, 18 (the first part), 20, and 21. Parts of these chapters could be deleted and applications substituted according to the interests of the students and the instructor. A two-semester course emphasizing theory might cover Chapters 1 through 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 through 18, 20, 21, 22 (the first part), and 23. On the other hand, if applications are to be emphasized, the course might cover Chapters 1 through 14, and 16 through 22. In an applied course, some of the more theoretical results could be assumed or omitted. A chapter dependency chart appears below. (A broken line indicates a partial dependency.)Though there are no specific prerequisites for a course in abstract algebra, students who have had other higher-level courses in mathematics will generally be more prepared than those who have not, because they will possess a bit more mathematical sophistication. Occasionally, we shall assume some basic linear algebra; that is, we shall take for granted an elementary knowledge of matrices and determinants. This should present no great problem, since most students taking a course in abstract algebra have been introduced to matrices and determinants elsewhere in their career, if they have not already taken a sophomore- or junior-level course in linear algebra.
6.977 Ultrafast Optics
This course is offered to graduate students and addresses issues regarding ultrafast optics. Topics covered include: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers, optical parametric amplifiers, and oscillators; Applications in research and industry: Pump-probe techniques, Optical imaging, Frequency metrology, Laser ablation, High harmonic generation.
Past and Present Energy Societies: How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.
Zingend door het leven: Het Nederlandse liedboek in de Gouden Eeuw
The songbooks are a tangible reminder of the lively seventeenth-century song culture. Young and old, rich and poor: everyone sang, from the cradle to the grave. Natascha Veldhorst shows the diversity and originality of the genre. In addition, the book contains many surprising illustrations that underline how much singing and songbooks were integrated into daily life at the time. Songbooks were long loved by the Dutch population. The genre was invented in the sixteenth century, but remained popular for centuries afterwards. The Golden Age in particular flourished impressively, with hundreds of bundles in various sizes, prices and designs. The Dutch situation was unique in quantity and quality. Nowhere in Europe have the songbooks been produced and purchased with such energy and enthusiasm. Singing through life is devoted to this fascinating cultural-historical phenomenon. The book elaborates on the design and content of the songbooks, the relationship between newly composed and existing music, the influence of publishers and printers, the connections between song culture and theater, the popularity of amorous songbooks with young people, and religious resistance to the compelling influence of music. Thematic chapters are interspersed with twelve short interludes about individual songbooks, which show the great diversity and originality of the genre. Surprising illustrations emphasize how much the songbooks were integrated into everyday life. Song books, paintings and prints are a tangible reminder of our lively seventeenth-century song culture. Young and old, rich and poor: everyone sang, from the cradle to the grave.
Writing for the Medium: Television in transition
This collection of essays, by well known writers on the subject of writing for television, is divided into three sections, with the first one devoted to the debates on quality television. The second one focuses on literature and television. The final section examines ‘Science on television’, with series editors from Britain and Germany giving first-hand accounts of the scope for serious science reporting on television.
Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942
Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children’s literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.
Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States: A Comparative Overview of Textual Development and Advocacy
A number of Arab states have recently either codified Muslim family law for the first time, or have issued amendments or new laws which significantly impact the statutory rights of women as wives, mothers and daughters. In Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States Lynn Welchman examines women’s rights in Muslim family laws in Arab states across the Middle East while also surveying the public debates surrounding the issues. The author considers these new laws alongside older statutes to comment on the patterns and dynamics of change both in the texts of the laws, and in the processes through by which they are drafted and issued. She draws on original legal texts and explanatory statements as well as on extensive secondary literature particular to certain states for an insight into practice, and on; interventions by women’s rights organizations and other parties to the debate in the press and in advocacy materials. The discussions are set in the contemporary global context that ‘internationalises’ the domestic and regional debates. The book considers laws in states from the Gulf to North Africa in regard to their approaches to issues of codification processes and issues of and of registration, capacity and guardianship in marriage, polygyny, the marital relationship, divorce and child custody. It has a full bibliography and includes an annex providing translated extracts of the laws under examination.
Why Are Artists Poor?: The Exceptional Economy of the Arts
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists’ poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional. Although the arts operate successfully in the marketplace, their natural affinity is with gift-giving, rather than with commercial exchange. People believe that artists are selflessly dedicated to art, that price does not reflect quality, and that the arts are free. But is it true? This unconventional multidisciplinary analysis explains the exceptional economy of the arts. Insightful illustrations from the practice of a visual artist support the analysis.
What about Asia?: Revisiting Asian Studies
What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is one of the many questions that the contributors to this volume ask themselves. In the past decade the use and legitimacy of area studies, and in particular Asian studies, have been passionately debated in conferences and academic journals. What about Asia? gives the current state of the debate on Asian studies by tackling the issue from a multiregional and interdisciplinary perspective.
Wetenschap in Nederland: Waar een klein land groot in is en moet blijven
Dutch science is doing very well. Our researchers, universities and institutes score remarkably high on global rankings. In this essay, José van Dijck and Wim van Saarloos, president and vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, investigate how our small country could become big in science. However, they also show how reaching for higher peaks has sometimes come at the expense of a strong and indispensable foundation. Investments in knowledge, science and innovation are lagging behind, and typical Dutch success factors such as cooperation, trust, a strong civil society and a great intertwining of education and research are under pressure. They conclude with schools of thought that can help success of Dutch science, and to secure its major contributions to society for the future.
The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning
Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular media such as photography, painting, (pulp) literature, Wild West Shows and popular ethnography. Through this exploration of archival material she raises new questions of historiography and provides a model for historical analysis. These first traces of the Western film reveal a preoccupation with presence and actuality that informs us about the way in which film, as new medium, took shape within the context of its contemporary visual culture.
The Viability of Human Security
This volume elaborates on the EU report A Human Security Doctrine for Europe, adding an engaging discussion of international legal consequences and operational demands in the European Union’s quest for domestic security. Introducing the concept of “Human Security from Below,” the editors highlight how people in war-torn countries have no choice but to create their own security arrangements. But such structures, surprisingly, are not unique to war zones, the contributors reveal-human security initiatives from below occur in even the most stable Western countries. Arguing that human security as a concept only makes sense if it covers both foreign and domestic policy concerns, The Viability of Human Security offers concise insights on this largely neglected topic.
Vertrouwen in de school: Over de uitval van ‘overbelaste’ jongeren
Schools must provide education to threatened dropouts, as well as all the social-emotional care and support needed to secure a place in society. Only in schools with such a broad range of tasks is there a real chance to prevent the most vulnerable young people from being completely excluded from society. The government should actively encourage schools and ROCs to offer this broader ‘plus package’. That writes the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in its report to the government Trust in the school. About the dropout of ‘overloaded’ young people. In this report, the Council focuses on one category of (imminent) dropouts, namely ‘overloaded’ young people. These are young people who suffer from an accumulation of problems, ranging from limited skills and behavioral problems to broken families, poverty, debt or addiction. School dropout is often the prelude to general social dropout among these young people. On the basis of many discussions in the field and study of the domestic and foreign literature, the Council formulates recommendations in this report for effective prevention of early school leaving among these young people. The WRR’s central recommendation is that schools should offer these young people ‘structure’ and ‘connectedness’. The Council advocates a school that assumes a broader view of the task than just the transfer of knowledge and calls schools with such a broad social task definition ‘plus schools’. In this way, the school can develop into a safe haven that counteracts the chaos and risks in their lives.
The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
Vertrouwen in burgers
Actively engaged citizens are vital for a living democracy. They keep representatives of the people and government agencies on their toes, renew society with their ideas and initiatives and provide policy support. It is therefore worrying that only small groups of citizens feel addressed by the way policymakers try to involve them. By means of a literature study and field research, the Council has identified the opportunities and possibilities to entice citizens into active involvement. The Council distinguishes three fields of citizen involvement: policy participation, social participation and social initiative, and makes recommendations for increasing citizen involvement in all fields. Two basic principles are essential for the role of policy makers: think from the perspective of citizens and increase the frameworks for involvement. This WRR research leads to suggestions and advice on how policymakers and policy implementers can make more and better use of the knowledge, skills and preferences of (individual) citizens.
Verantwoordingh van Renatus Descartes aen d’achtbare overigheit van Uitrecht
Utrecht has not only been the first place where Descartes’ ideas were taught, but also the city where Cartesian philosophy was first forbidden. The driving force behind this ban was the pastor and professor of theology Gijsbert Voetius. In 1648 Descartes sent a petition to the Utrecht city center to grant him reparation. The text of this edition is based on a transcription of the Dutch version of this petition, which has never been published before. The Accountability is a true Descartes text that offers a unique insight into the working method of the author.
The Value of Culture: On the Relationship between Economics and Arts
Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value that exceeds market price. So what is the real value of culture? Unlike the usual focus on formal problems, which has ‘de-cultured’ and ‘de-moralized’ the practice of economics, this book brings together economists, philosophers, historians, political scientists and artists to try to sort out the value of culture. This is a book not only for economists and social scientists, but also for anybody actively involved in the world of the arts and culture.
Transnational Archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora
The island nation of Cape Verde has given rise to a diaspora that spans the four continents of the Atlantic Ocean. Migration has been essential to the island since the birth of its nation. This volume makes a significant contribution to the study of international migration and transnationalism by exploring the Cape Verdean diaspora through its geographic diversity and with a broad thematic range.
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
Thuis voelen in de buurt: een opgave voor stedelijke vernieuwing: Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de buurthechting van bewoners in Nederland en Engeland
When transforming problem areas into beautiful neighborhoods, much attention is paid to the physical, social and economic aspects of deprivation. Little is known about the relationship between deprivation and emotional connection: what are the effects of urban renewal on the home feeling of these residents? This is central to this research, in which practice in the Netherlands and England is compared. Based on data from the Housing Requirements Research / WoOn (1998 – 2006) and the British Household Panel Survey (1998 – 2003), the neighborhood adhesion of Dutch and English residents has been mapped.
Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier
By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries began to introduce Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.
Syntax of Hungarian: Nouns and Noun Phrases Volume 2
These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.
Syntax of Hungarian: Nouns and Noun Phrases Volume 1
These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.
Synod on the Freedom of Conscience: A Thorough Examination during the Gathering Held in the Year 1582 in the City of Freetown
This is the first English translation of a pivotal work in the history of religious tolerance. In Synod on the Freedom of Conscience (1582) the Dutch humanist Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590) provides one of the first book-length pleas for religious freedom published in the West. His central concern in his writings and exchanges with ministers of the Reformed Church was the safeguarding of freedom of conscience, the chief cause, he believed, for which the struggle against Habsburg Spain was being waged. The imaginary Synod, held in “Freetown,” gathers together chief Catholic and Protestant leaders and theologians who engage in spirited debates on such matters as religious diversity, the freedom to criticize, the norms used to determine what constitutes heresy, freedom of the press, and the role of the state in the suppression of heresy. Each session concludes with remarks by the irenic Gamaliel (Coornhert’s alter ego), who shows that both parties sin equally on the side of intolerance and pleads for the tolerant alternative. In this work Coornhert continues an Erasmian theme which would be picked up again in the following century by the Remonstrants and Hugo Grotius.
Gender in Science and Technology: Interdisciplinary Approaches
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies
What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western countries, involving more than a dozen surveys, are used to explore difficulties in designing these types of surveys and some of the choices made to deal with them. The rich array of cases covered gives rise to valuable lessons, from local and national surveys, from well-funded surveys and those with limited means, and on a wide variety of topics ranging from politics to health.
Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata
Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg’s chamber play The Ghost Sonata (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. rIn this monograph of the play as text and as performance – the first of its kind – Egil Törnqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman’s 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.