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Approximation of Set-Valued Functions
Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book is aimed at the approximation of set-valued functions with compact sets in an Euclidean space as values. The interest in set-valued functions is rather new. Such functions arise in various modern areas such as control theory, dynamical systems and optimization. The authors' motivation also...
Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict
The Evolution of Patience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive study of asymmetric territorial conflict combining game theory, statistical empirical analysis and historiographic analysis. Using the Israeli-Palestine conflict as a case study, it tests the model on a database of almost four hundred territorial conflicts.
Mathematics Without Boundaries
Surveys in Interdisciplinary Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This volume consists of chapters written by eminent scientists and engineers from the international community and present significant advances in several theories, methods and applications of an interdisciplinary research. These contributions focus on both old and recent developments of Global Optimization...
Read E-Books Faster!
Printed and Virtual Text Speed Reading Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
This book is not for everyone. It is for people with ambitions who want to advance and perfect themselves as personalities, who seek and strive for Success, who are focused on their future and insist on achieving something more in their lives. It is intended only for people who love reading and it is...
The Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out”...
Performance Benchmarking
Measuring and Managing Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
"In this book, Peter Bogetoft - THE expert on the theory and practice of benchmarking - provides an in–depth yet very accessible and readable explanation of the best way to do benchmarking, starting from the ground up."
Rick Antle
William S. Beinecke Professor of Accounting, Yale School...
Sandtray
Playing to Heal, Recover, and Grow
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures. In this versatile and multisensory process clients create a three-dimensional “world” in a tray of sand. In doing so, a person can uncover and access the image or implicit thinking portion of his or her mind that lies out...
by John Waterman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
At last, here is the book that brings it all together. "48 Hours to Chaos: An Engineer Looks at Life and How the World Really Works" is the one place to find answers to all those questions that have been bugging you all your life. Why do other people do things and act in ways that seem illogical...
by Philip Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships provides psychotherapists and coaches with a thorough understanding of two-person dynamics and offers practical interventions for working with couples and with two-person teams within larger organizations. Part I of this text relates contemporary...
Relational Being
Beyond Self and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only...
The Call of Character
Living a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character...
Beyond Individualism
Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the...
Optimization Issues in Web and Mobile Advertising
Past and Future Trends
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of optimization issues and models in web and mobile advertising. It begins by discussing the evolution of web advertising over time. This is followed by the discussion of prominent pricing models. The reader is provided with a basic overview of different...
Optimization of Pharmaceutical R&D Programs and Portfolios
Design and Investment Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Very little has been published on optimization of pharmaceutical portfolios. Moreover, most of published literature is coming from the commercial side, where probability of technical success (PoS) is treated as fixed, and not as a consequence of development strategy or design. In this book there is...