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Divided Politics, Divided Nation: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era By Darrell M. West
2019 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0815736916 | EPUB | 1 MB
Why are Americans so angry with each other?The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities--and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting inferno. This polarization has become so intense that many people no longer trust anyone from a differing perspective.Drawing on his personal story of growing up as a fundamentalist Christian on a dairy farm in rural Ohio, then as an academic in the heart of the liberal East Coast establishment, Darrell West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. He takes advantage of his experiences inside both conservative and liberal camps to explain the views of each side and offer insights into why each is angry with the other.West argues that societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy. Unless people can bridge these divisions and forge a new path forward, it will be impossible to work together, maintain a functioning democracy, and solve the country's pressing policy problems.
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Distributed Economic Operation in Smart Grid: Model-Based and Model-Free Perspectives
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811985936 | 413 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
This book aims to work out the distributed economic operation in smart grids in a systematic way, which ranges from model-based to model-free perspectives. The main contributions of this book can be summarized into three folds. First, we investigate the fundamental economic operation problems in smart grids from model-based perspective. Specifically, these problems can be modeled as deterministic optimization models, and we propose some distributed optimization algorithms by integrating the multi-agent consensus theory and optimization techniques to achieve the distributed coordination of various generation units and loads. Second, due to the randomness of the large-scale renewable energies and the flexibility of the loads, we further address these economic operation problems from a model-free perspective, and we propose learning-based approaches to address the uncertainty and randomness. At last, we extend the idea of model-based and model-free algorithms to plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging/discharging scheduling problem, the key challenge of which involves multiple objectives simultaneously while the behavior of PEVs and the electricity price are intrinsically random. This book presents several recent theoretical findings on distributed economic operation in smart grids from model-based and model-free perspectives. By systematically integrating novel ideas, fresh insights, and rigorous results, this book provides a base for further theoretical research on distributed economic operation in smart grids. It can be a reference for graduates and researchers to study the operation and management in smart grids. Some prerequisites for reading this book include optimization theory, matrix theory, game theory, reinforcement learning, etc.
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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 8th Edition
English | 2019 | ISBN: 125967651X | 1118 Pages | PDF (True) | 35 MB
Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and its Applications presents a precise, relevant, comprehensive approach to mathematical concepts. This world-renowned best-selling text was written to accommodate the needs across a variety of majors and departments, including mathematics, computer science, and engineering. As the market leader, the book is highly flexible, comprehensive and a proven pedagogical teaching tool for instructors. Digital is becoming increasingly important and gaining popularity, crowning Connect as the digital leader for this discipline.
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Discrete Choice Analysis With R
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031207181 | 332 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 88 MB
1. Data, Models, and Software.- 2. Exploratory Data Analysis.- 3. Fundamental Concepts.- 4. 4 Logit.- 5. Practical Issues in the Specification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Models.- 6. Behavioral Insights from Choice Models.- 7. Non-Proportional Substitution Patterns I: Generalized Extreme Value Models.- 8. Non-Proportional Substitution Patterns II: The Probit Model.- 9. Dealing with Heterogeneity I: The Latent Class Logit Model.- 10 Dealing with Heterogeneity II: The Mixed Logit Model.- 11. Models for Ordinal Responses.- Epilogue.- References
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Robert F. Trager, "Diplomacy: Communication and the Origins of International Order"
English | 2017 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1107627125, 1107049164 | PDF | 2,5 mb
How do adversaries communicate? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling: choosing the scope of demands on another state, risking a breach in relations, encouraging a protégé, staking one's reputation, or making a diplomatic approach all convey specific sorts of information. Through rich history and analyses of diplomatic network data from the Confidential Print of the British Empire, Trager demonstrates the lasting effects that diplomatic encounters have on international affairs. The Concert of Europe, the perceptions of existential threat that formed before the World Wars, the reduction in Cold War tensions known as détente, and the institutional structure of the current world order were all products of inferences about intentions drawn from the statements of individuals represented as the will of states. Diplomacy explains how closed-door conversations create stable orders and violent wars.
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Digital Technologies in Logistics and Infrastructure
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031244338 | 597 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 70 MB
Methods of Recognition and Classification of Objects in Digital Logistics.- Prospects and Opportunities for Green Logistics Development in Russia.- Ice Reconnaissance Data Processing under Low Quality Source Images.- Assessment of the Impact of the Level of Railway Tariffs on the Evolution of Cargo Supply Chains.- Stochastic Operational Logic for Berths Throughput Modelling of Export Coal Terminal.- New Approaches to the Economic Assessment of Transport Projects in the Context of Changing Urban Mobility.- Digitalization and Data Driven Logistics at Dutch Logistic SMEs.- Conventional and Digital Technologies Convergence as an Additional Advantage in Ensuring of Supply Chain Counterparties Economic Growth.- Development of Rail Container Transportation Based on Mobility and Logistics Efficiency.- Two-level Algorithms as Part of Digital Logistics Platforms.- Digitalization of Oil Refining Process (Fuel Gas Flow Rate for Hydrotreatment).- Prospects of Multimodal Container Transportation in Russia.- Application of Digital Twins for Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas Enterprises.- The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Healthcare Logistic: Risks and Opportunities.- Improvement of Information and Communication Activities of Participants in Supply Chains Using Corporate Portals.
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Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography By Jonas Larsen (editor), Mette Sandbye (editor)
2014 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 178076331X | EPUB | 13 MB
Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typical, vernacular, everyday practices: the development of the family photo album from a physical object in the living room to a digital practice on the Internet; the use of mobile phones in everyday life; photo communities on the Internet; photo booth photography; studio photography; and fine arts' appropriation of amateur photography. They explore how this media convergence transforms the media ecology - the networks, objects, performances, meanings and circulations - of vernacular photography, as we research it through ordinary people's use of such new cameras and interactive Internet spaces as part of their everyday lives.
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Adam Rosenblatt, "Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity"
English | 2015 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 0804788774, 080479491X | PDF | 3,5 mb
The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named.
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Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds by Raymond O. Wells
English | PDF | 2008 | 315 Pages | ISBN : 0387738916 | 1.9 MB
In developing the tools necessary for the study of complex manifolds, this comprehensive, well-organized treatment presents in its opening chapters a detailed survey of recent progress in four areas: geometry (manifolds with vector bundles), algebraic topology, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Subsequent chapters then develop such topics as Hermitian exterior algebra and the Hodge *-operator, harmonic theory on compact manifolds, differential operators on a Kahler manifold, the Hodge decomposition theorem on compact Kahler manifolds, the Hodge-Riemann bilinear relations on Kahler manifolds, Griffiths's period mapping, quadratic transformations, and Kodaira's vanishing and embedding theorems.
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Didactics in a Changing World: European Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031208099 | 256 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
The collection of chapters in this book results from ongoing scientific discussions on teaching, learning and curriculum studies in Europe. Didactics as a research field and area of knowledge deals with questions about teaching, learning and educational content. Didactics explores institutionalized teaching and learning processes that are fundamental to allow people living together and acting as citizens. It connects curriculum issues to classroom practices and student's learning experience in a unique manner that goes beyond the field of curriculum studies and the field of the learning sciences. Focusing on different research traditions for conceptualizing the relationships between learning and teaching through the educational content learnt, the book presents advanced research in field of "Didactics - teaching and learning" that addresses the new challenges faced by the teaching profession.
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