A Wild Constraint

Author : Jenny Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441126702

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A Wild Constraint by Jenny Taylor Pdf

In A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity, Taylor addresses the provocative subject of celibacy. Too often considered an exclusively religious option, celibacy has been reclaimed by some feminists and sociologists over the last 20 years as a radical alternative in secular society to the liberal sexual lifestyle. What, after all, is sexual liberation when so often the outcome is pain and social chaos? In the context of promiscuity, sexual abuse and confusion, celibacy can herald a different sexual freedom. Jenny Taylor draws on personal experience and interviews with men and women of all ages to demonstrate the impact of the sexual revolution and to make a case for celibacy. She argues that celibacy is a viable alternative that deserves to be taken seriously and challenges the church to speak out for sexual abstinence with confidence and certainty.

Author : Blandine Françoise Doligez,Laure Cauchard
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889765522

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Links between cognition and fitness: mechanisms and constraints in the wild by Blandine Françoise Doligez,Laure Cauchard Pdf

Author : Michael Frank
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443452014

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The Mighty Franks by Michael Frank Pdf

**One of the Telegraph's 50 best books of the year!**Longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize** The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir, which turns on the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself. All his life Michael Frank has been fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loves him more than life itself. At first, when he is a young boy, this is a very good thing. He takes refuge in her adoration and attention. But soon things turn bad and her hold on the entire family begins to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.

Author : Regine Claßen-Bockhoff,Louis Philippe Ronse De Craene,Annette Becker
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889668274

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From Meristems to Floral Diversity: Developmental Options and Constraints by Regine Claßen-Bockhoff,Louis Philippe Ronse De Craene,Annette Becker Pdf

Author : Michael Maher,Jean-Francois Puget
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540652243

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP98 by Michael Maher,Jean-Francois Puget Pdf

Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains. This volume contains papers dealing with all aspects of c- puting with constraints. In particular, there are several papers on applications of constraints, re?ecting the practical usefulness of constraint programming. The papers were presented at the 1998 International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’98), held in Pisa, Italy, 26{30 - tober, 1998. It is the fourth in this series of conferences, following conferences in Cassis (France), Cambridge (USA), and Schloss Hagenberg (Austria). We received 115 high quality submissions. In addition, 7 abstracts submissions were not followed by a full paper, hence were not counted as submissions. The program committee selected 29 high quality papers after thorough refereeing by at least 3 experts and further discussion by committee members. We thank the referees and the program committee for the time and e ort spent in reviewing the papers. The program committee invited three speakers: { Joxan Ja ar { Peter Jeavons { Patrick Prosser Their papers are in this volume.

Author : Volker Loeschcke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642727702

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Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution by Volker Loeschcke Pdf

Genetic constraints on adaptive evolution can be understood as those genetic aspects that prevent or reduce the potential for natural selection to result in the most direct ascent of the mean phenotype to an optimum. The contributions to this volume emphasize how genetic aspects in the transmission of traits constrain adaptive evolution. Approaches span from quantitative, population, ecological to molecular genetics. Much attention is devoted to genetic correlations, to the maintenance of quantitative genetic variation, and to the intimate relation between genetics, ecology, and evolution. This volume addresses all evolutionary biologists and explains why they should be wary of evolutionary concepts that base arguments purely on phenotypic characteristics.

Author : Willem-Jan van Hoeve,Willem-Jan Van Hoeve,John N. Hooker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642019289

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Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems by Willem-Jan van Hoeve,Willem-Jan Van Hoeve,John N. Hooker Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2009, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 10 extended abstracts presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers describe current research in the fields of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research and present new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization, thus exploring ways of solving large-scale, practical optimization problems through integration and hybridization of the fields' different techniques.

Author : B.M. Campbell,S. Jeffrey,W. Kozanayi,M. Luckert,M. Mutamba,C. Zindi
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Arid regions
ISBN : 9789798764783

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Household Livelihoods in Semi-arid Regions: Options and Constraints by B.M. Campbell,S. Jeffrey,W. Kozanayi,M. Luckert,M. Mutamba,C. Zindi Pdf

The study sites. Methods. The wealth index and its variation. Human, financial, physical and natural capital - the essets available to households. Households productive activities - the generation of cash and subsistence gross income. Exploring household strategies. Net income and poverty. Temporal changes in livelihood strategies. Modelling livelihood change. Making a difference.

Author : Rachel Vorona Cote
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538729717

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Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote Pdf

Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang) A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. Women who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited, that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm, hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare occasions, we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke, perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's "hysterical" behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much."

Author : Claude-Guy Quimper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319339542

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Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming by Claude-Guy Quimper Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2016, held in Banff, Canada, in May/June 2016. The 21 full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The conference brings together interested researchers from constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research to present new techniques or applications in combinatorial optimization and provides an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others, and to show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems.

Author : A. Uzo Mokwunye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401132244

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Alleviating Soil Fertility Constraints to Increased Crop Production in West Africa by A. Uzo Mokwunye Pdf

Tropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age. The legacy is that most of the parent materials of the soils of tropical Africa are old, highly weathered and devoid of bases and phosphate-bearing minerals. Traditional farming systems which were relatively stable and sustainable relied on long fallow periods after one to two years of cropping to maintain the productive capacity of the soils. In recent times and especially in densely populated areas, a sizeable class of 'landless' farmers have begun to cultivate marginal lands or to invade the 'forest reserves' thereby exacerbating the problems of land and environ mental degradation. of soil fertility that will facilitate the production of adequate quantities of the principle Maintaining a level staples has become a major challenge to agricultural scientists in tropical Africa. To increase the nutrient supplying power of soils requires the inputs of fertilizers. These can be organic or inorganic. The efficiency with which these externally supplied inputs can increase agricultural production and reduce soil and environmental deterioration is dependent on the ability of scientists to determine the right types and quantities of the products to apply to each soil, crop and cropping system as well as the ability of farmers to acquire requisite farm manage ment skills.

Author : Anton Benz,Peter Kühnlein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254168

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Constraints in Discourse by Anton Benz,Peter Kühnlein Pdf

It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. In this edited volume, leading scientists in the field investigate these questions from structural, cognitive, and computational perspectives. The last decades have seen the development of numerous formal frameworks in which the structure of discourse can be analysed, the most important of them being the Linguistic Discourse Model, Rhetorical Structure Theory and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. This volume contains an introduction to these frameworks and the fundamental topics in research about discourse constraints. Thus it should be accessible to specialists in the field as well as advanced graduate students and researchers from neighbouring areas. The volume is of interest to discourse linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, and computational linguists.

Author : Carey S. Rosemarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Coal-fired power plants
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043671804

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Water Law Constraints to Siting and Operating Coal-fired Electric Generation Plants in Kentucky by Carey S. Rosemarin Pdf

Author : United States. Interagency Task Force on Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015095120310

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Water Requirements, Availabilities, Constraints, and Recommended Federal Actions by United States. Interagency Task Force on Water Resources Pdf

This report is a technical analysis of the Water Resources Council prepared to determine the degree to which the water resources of the United States will be able to accommodate potential increases in energy production. The study considers the competition of energy-related water requirements with existing or anticipated future water uses for other purposes; accommodation of energy-related water requirements with other competing uses; the magnitude and extent of any water supply shortages, water quality, institutional and other water supply problems (environmental, capital investment, manpower, inter-basin transfer) that may restrict or prevent selected future condition energy development scenarios from being implemented; water-related Federal actions required to overcome problems and constraints of the nature described above; the requirements which need to be placed on hydroelectric power generation capability to assist in meeting the Nation's energy needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789712202247

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Priorities for Alleviating Soil-related Constraints to Food Production in the Tropics by Anonim Pdf