This book, first published in 1996, introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines. The first of its three parts examines the existence of solutions to optimization problems in Rn, and how these solutions may be identified. The second part explores how solutions to optimization problems change with changes in the underlying parameters, and the last pa…
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference(formerly Workshop) on Information Security Theory and Practices, WISTP 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in August 2015. The 14 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. WISTP 2015 sought original submissions from acade…
Biologi tanaman telah menjadi bidang biologi yang fundamental selama berabad-abad, tetapi selama sekitar 30 tahun terakhir, biologi tanaman telah mengalami transformasi besar yang mengarah pada pemahaman yang lebih baik dan lebih dalam tentang banyak proses fundamental utama dalam tanaman. Gagasan untuk menyiapkan dua volume ini tumbuh dari kebutuhan akan buku yang sesuai tentang biologi tanama…
Populasi manusia meningkat dengan laju yang mengkhawatirkan dan diperkirakan akan mencapai 11 miliar pada tahun 2050. Karena terdapat kesenjangan yang besar antara pertumbuhan populasi dan produksi pangan, ketahanan pangan untuk populasi yang terus meningkat menjadi tantangan besar di masa kini dan masa depan. Faktanya, dalam dua dekade mendatang, produksi pangan harus digandakan dengan lahan p…
Selama dekade terakhir, para ahli telah mengembangkan pendekatan kompleksitas tempat (complexities of place/COP) untuk mempelajari tempat dan kesehatan. Menurut COP, masalah dalam penelitian kesehatan masyarakat konvensional adalah kurangnya teori dan metode yang efektif untuk memodelkan kompleksitas lingkungan, komunitas, dan sebagainya, mengingat tempat menunjukkan sembilan karakteristik "sis…
This Element examines just how much the public knows about some of America's most stigmatized social groups, who comprise 40.3% of the population, and evaluates whether misinformation matters for shaping policy attitudes and candidate support. The authors design and field an original survey containing large national samples of Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and White Americans, and include measu…
In this book, we shall consider the kinematics and dynamics of the flows of fluids exhibiting a yield stress. To highlight the principal characteristics of such fluids, the first chapter emphasizes the role played by the yield stress. Next, a careful description of the continuum mechanics behind the constitutive equations for incompressible and compressible viscoplastic fluids is given in Chapt…
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.
This text is the first of its kind to bring together both the thermomechanics and mathematical analysis of Reiner-Rivlin fluids and fluids of grades 2 and 3 in a single book. Each part of the book can be considered as being self-contained. The first part of the book is devoted to a description of the mechanics, thermodynamics, and stability of flows of fluids of grade 2 and grade 3. The second…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, held in Oulu, Finland, in August 2015. The theme for this book as well as for the conference is “Design for, with, and by Users.” This theme has characterized information systems research already for decades, and it is still a vibrant topic, especially so within the Scandinavian…