Controlling The Uncontrollable

Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509543175

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The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa Pdf

The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world. Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside our control. But because we late-modern human beings seek to make the world controllable, we tend to encounter the world as a series of objects that we have to conquer, master or exploit. And precisely because of this, ‘life,’ the experience of feeling alive and truly encountering the world, always seems to elude us. This in turn leads to frustration, anger and even despair, which then manifest themselves in, among other things, acts of impotent political aggression. For Rosa, to encounter the world and achieve resonance with it requires us to be open to that which extends beyond our control. The outcome of this process cannot be predicted, and this is why moments of resonance are always concomitant with moments of uncontrollability. This short book – the sequel to Rosa’s path-breaking work on social acceleration and resonance – will be of great interest students and scholars in sociology and the social sciences and to anyone concerned with the nature of modern social life.

Author : Laura Stack
Publisher : AudioInk
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781613390528

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Controlling Your Day in an Uncontrollable World by Laura Stack Pdf

Do you plan your life as carefully as you plan your vacations? Do you manage your time as well as you manage your money? Do you miss deadlines, stay up late at night, and encounter stress, crisis, and overload? Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro(r), will show you how to effectively manage your time in a world largely out of your control. Laura will help you: *Create a realistic daily schedule and to-do list; *Avoid bottlenecks caused by people or processes; *Understand how much your time is worth; *Save time in bits and pieces; *Make productive use of downtime; and *Learn quick decision making techniques. When you manage your time effectively, you will experience results, recognition, free time, clarity, and focus. With proper time management, you will feel a sense of accomplishment each day. Laura Stack will help you take a good look at your current habits and learn how to use the time within your control. You'll increase your productivity and efficiency at work and home!

Author : Miroslaw Kofta,Gifford Weary,Grzegorz Sedek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475729016

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Personal Control in Action by Miroslaw Kofta,Gifford Weary,Grzegorz Sedek Pdf

This new study presents exciting international research developments on personal control and self-regulation. Each chapter examines the subject at a different level of analysis to foster a complete understanding. Brief synopses of each chapter are provided as introductions to the three major sections of the book. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control.

Author : Ben Aldridge
Publisher : Welbeck Balance
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1801290423

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How to Control the Uncontrollable by Ben Aldridge Pdf

A practical exploration of how we can use the principals of Stoicism as a modern day 'operating system' to help enhance mental resilience to enable us to better cope with life's ups and downs.

Author : Ellen A. Skinner
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452246741

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Perceived Control, Motivation, & Coping by Ellen A. Skinner Pdf

At every point in the life span, individual differences in a sense of control are strong predictors of motivation, coping, success, and failure in a wide range of life domains. What are the origins of these individual differences, how do they develop, and what are the mechanisms by which they exert such influence on psychological functioning? This book draws on theories and research covering key control constructs, including self-efficacy, learned helplessness, locus of control, and attribution theory. Ellen A. Skinner discusses such issues as the origins of control in social interactions; environmental features that promote or undermine control; developmental change in the mechanisms by which experiences of control have their effects on action; and the implications for intervening into the competence system, including interventions for people in uncontrollable circumstances. Written at a level appropriate for upper-division undergraduates, the book can serve as a supplement to the social and personality development course as well as a core text for motivation, educational psychology, or clinical courses at the graduate level. This book won′t be the first one on the topic, but it will be the first one that professionals and graduate students turn to whenever they want a definitive opinion on complex questions of control or an idea for cutting-edge research on the topic of motivation, coping, and control.

Author : Lawrence Pervin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461339977

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Perspectives in Interactional Psychology by Lawrence Pervin Pdf

An old woman walks slowly up the hill from the store to her house. The hill is quite steep and the packages she carries, heavy. The two ten-year-olds watching her feel sorry for her and, moving toward her, ask if they might help carry the packages. They easily lift them and with almost no effort bring the shopping bags to the top of the hill. After receiving all A's in his first term in college, F. finds that this term is much harder, especially his physics courses, in which he is failing. He has talked to his professor twice, but finds he cannot understand what she is teaching. "Somehow," he thinks, "if she could only present the material in a different way, I could understand it better!" A month ago, as B. lay playing quietly in his crib, a toy key slipped out of his hand onto the floor. Almost immediately he turned his attention to another toy, close by, which he took up and put into his mouth. Yesterday, very nearly the same thing happened, except this time as soon as the toy key fell, he began to cry loudly, forcing me to stop what I was doing and retrieve it for him. It seemed in the first case that he forgot it, while yester day, even though it was gone, out of his sight, he still remembered it and wished it back.

Author : Ildikó de Papp Carrington
Publisher : DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0875801498

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Controlling the Uncontrollable by Ildikó de Papp Carrington Pdf

Author : W. Murray Wonham,Kai Cai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319774527

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Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems by W. Murray Wonham,Kai Cai Pdf

This book shows how supervisory control theory (SCT) supports the formulation of various control problems of standard types, like the synthesis of controlled dynamic invariants by state feedback, and the resolution of such problems in terms of naturally definable control-theoretic concepts and properties, like reachability, controllability and observability. It exploits a simple, abstract model of controlled discrete-event systems (DES) that has proved to be tractable, appealing to control specialists, and expressive of a range of control-theoretic ideas. It allows readers to choose between automaton-based and dually language-based forms of SCT, depending on whether their preference is for an internal-structural or external-behavioral description of the problem. The monograph begins with two chapters on algebraic and linguistic preliminaries and the fundamental concepts and results of SCT are introduced. To handle complexity caused by system scale, architectural approaches—the horizontal modularity of decentralized and distributed supervision and the vertical modularity of hierarchical supervision—are introduced. Supervisory control under partial observation and state-based supervisory control are also addressed; in the latter, a vector DES model that exploits internal regularity of algebraic structure is proposed. Finally SCT is generalized to deal with timed DES by incorporating temporal features in addition to logical ones. Researchers and graduate students working with the control of discrete-event systems or who are interested in the development of supervisory control methods will find this book an invaluable aid in their studies. The text will also be of assistance to researchers in manufacturing, logistics, communications and transportation, areas which provide plentiful examples of the class of systems being discussed.

Author : S. Balemi,P. Kozák,R. Smedinga
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034891202

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Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Control by S. Balemi,P. Kozák,R. Smedinga Pdf

Research of discrete event systems is strongly motivated by applications in flex ible manufacturing, in traffic control and in concurrent and real-time software verification and design, just to mention a few important areas. Discrete event system theory is a promising and dynamically developing area of both control theory and computer science. Discrete event systems are systems with non-numerically-valued states, inputs, and outputs. The approaches to the modelling and control of these systems can be roughly divided into two groups. The first group is concerned with the automatic design of controllers from formal specifications of logical requirements. This re search owes much to the pioneering work of P.J. Ramadge and W.M. Wonham at the beginning of the eighties. The second group deals with the analysis and op timization of system throughput, waiting time, and other performance measures for discrete event systems. The present book contains selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'92) held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Au gust 26-28, 1992 and organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Au tomation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, by the Automatic Control Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) , Zurich, Switzerland, and by the Department of Computing Science of the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Author : Benoît Caillaud,Philippe Darondeau,Luciano Lavagno,Xiaolan Xie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781475766561

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Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems by Benoît Caillaud,Philippe Darondeau,Luciano Lavagno,Xiaolan Xie Pdf

This book aims at providing a view of the current trends in the development of research on Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems. Papers col lected in this volume are based on a selection of talks given in June and July 2001 at two independent meetings: the Workshop on Synthesis of Concurrent Systems, held in Newcastle upon Tyne as a satellite event of ICATPN/ICACSD and organized by Ph. Darondeau and L. Lavagno, and the Symposium on the Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems (SCODES), held in Paris as a satellite event of CAV and organized by B. Caillaud and X. Xie. Synthesis is a generic term that covers all procedures aiming to construct from specifications given as input objects matching these specifications. The ories and applications of synthesis have been studied and developped for long in connection with logics, programming, automata, discrete event systems, and hardware circuits. Logics and programming are outside the scope of this book, whose focus is on Discrete Event Systems and Supervisory Control. The stress today in this field is on a better applicability of theories and algorithms to prac tical systems design. Coping with decentralization or distribution and caring for an efficient realization of the synthesized systems or controllers are of the utmost importance in areas so diverse as the supervision of embedded or man ufacturing systems, or the implementation of protocols in software or in hard ware.

Author : Matis Miller
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781684036875

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The Uncontrollable Child by Matis Miller Pdf

Evidence-based skills, insight, and methods drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you gain a greater understanding of your child’s behavior, parent them with compassion and confidence, and restore peace to your home. Is your child extremely irritable most of the time? Do they have difficulty interpreting social cues? Are they impulsive and prone to outbursts or explosive rages? Parenting a child who has emotional dysregulation can be a bumpy ride. You’ve probably received advice—some of it unsolicited—from friends, teachers, and family members. But strategies and techniques that work for other kids are usually ineffective when it comes to your unique child, and can even lead to more stress for everyone in your family. The Uncontrollable Child is here to help. Written for parents of children with emotion dysregulation disorders, including disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), The Uncontrollable Child is a lifeline. It contains a powerful set of skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—including mindfulness, validation, limit-setting, and behavior-shaping—to help you better understand your child and their behavior, and successfully find balance between acceptance and change, flexibility and consistency, and limits and love. As a parent, you want the very best for your child, but if you have a child with explosive emotions, you need extra help. Let this book guide you toward creating a nurturing, healthy, and loving environment in which your whole family can thrive.

Author : Bo Huang,MengChu Zhou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119619703

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Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems by Bo Huang,MengChu Zhou Pdf

Presents strategies with reachability graph analysis for optimizing resource allocation systems Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems offers an important guide to Petri net (PN) models and methods for supervisory control and system scheduling of resource allocation systems (RASs). Resource allocation systems are common in automated manufacturing systems, project management systems, cloud data centers, and software engineering systems. The authors—two experts on the topic—present a definition, techniques, models, and state-of-the art applications of supervisory control and scheduling problems. The book introduces the basic concepts and research background on resource allocation systems and Petri nets. The authors then focus on the deadlock-free supervisor synthesis for RASs using Petri nets. The book also investigates the heuristic scheduling of RASs based on timed Petri nets. Conclusions and open problems are provided in the last section of the book. This important book: Includes multiple methods for supervisory control and scheduling with reachability graphs, and provides illustrative examples Reveals how to accelerate the supervisory controller design and system scheduling of RASs based on PN reachability graphs, with optimal or near-optimal results Highlights both solution quality and computational speed in RAS deadlock handling and system scheduling Written for researchers, engineers, scientists, and professionals in system planning and control, engineering, operation, and management, Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems provides an essential guide to the supervisory control and scheduling of resource allocation systems (RASs) using Petri net reachability graphs, which allow for multiple resource acquisitions and flexible routings.

Author : Irwin Altman,United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015002344144

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Social and Psychological Factors in Stress by Irwin Altman,United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pdf

Author : Miroslaw Kofta,Gifford Weary,Grzegorz Sedek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0306457202

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Personal Control in Action by Miroslaw Kofta,Gifford Weary,Grzegorz Sedek Pdf

This new study presents exciting international research developments on personal control and self-regulation. Each chapter examines the subject at a different level of analysis to foster a complete understanding. Brief synopses of each chapter are provided as introductions to the three major sections of the book. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control.

Author : Mark Comerford,Sarah Mottram
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780729539074

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Kinetic Control by Mark Comerford,Sarah Mottram Pdf

This text is designed as a clinical reference to develop knowledge of the examination, diagnosis and classification of uncontrolled movement (motor control dysfunction) and the management of movement dysfunction. It will help the therapist: Develop clinical skills in the assessment and retraining of movement control To use movement control tests to identify uncontrolled movement To classify uncontrolled movement into diagnostic subgroups Access a large range of motor control and movement retraining strategies Develop an assessment framework that will provide a diagnosis of dysfunction, pain sensitive tissues and pain mechanisms Use a clinical reasoning framework to prioritise clinical decision making