Essays On Control

Author : H.L. Trentelman,Jan C. Willems
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461203131

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Essays on Control by H.L. Trentelman,Jan C. Willems Pdf

This book contains the text of the plenary lectures and the mini-courses of the European Control Conference (ECC'93) held in Groningen, the Netherlands, June 2S-July 1, 1993. However, the book is not your usu al conference proceedings. Instead, the authors took this occasion to take a broad overview of the field of control and discuss its development both from a theoretical as well as from an engineering perpective. The first essay is by the key-note speaker ofthe conference, A.G.J. Mac Farlane. It consists of a non-technical discussion of information processing and knowledge acquisition as the key features of control engineering tech nology. The next six articles are accounts of the plenary addresses. The contribution by R.W. Brockett concerns a mathematical framework for modelling motion control, a central question in robotics and vision. In the paper by M. Morari the engineering and the economic relevance of chemical process control are considered, in particular statistical quality control and the control of systems with constraints. The article by A.C.P.M. Backx is written from an industrial perspec tive. The author is director of an engineering consulting firm involved in the design of industrial control equipment. Specifically, the possibility of obtaining high performance and reliable controllers by modelling, identifi cation, and optimizing industrial processes is discussed.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199742981

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Deep Control by John Martin Fischer Pdf

This collection of essays puts forth the idea that moral responsibility is associated with "deep control," what the author defines as the middle ground between the two extreme positions of "superficial control" and "total control."

Author : Thomas G. Blomberg,Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0202307018

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Punishment and Social Control by Thomas G. Blomberg,Stanley Cohen Pdf

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of punishment and social control. The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime will become more unstable; national and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime control policies will be more influenced by interests of national security; measures to prevent and control international terrorism will cast their reach wider (to financial structures and ideological support); the movements of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers will be curtailed and criminalized; taken-for-granted human rights and civil liberties will be restricted. In the midst of these dramatic social changes, hardly anyone will notice the academic field of "punishment and social control" being drawn closer to political matters. Criminology is neither a "pure" academic discipline nor a profession that offers an applied body of knowledge to solve the crime problem. Its historical lineage has left an insistent tension between the drive to understand and the drive to be relevant. While the scope and orientation of this new second edition remain the same, in recognition of the continued growth and diversity of interest in punishment and social control, new chapters have been added and several original chapters have been updated and revised.

Author : Matthew Wysocki
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476600413

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Ctrl-Alt-Play by Matthew Wysocki Pdf

The word "control" has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways to improve play to make the gamer feel more connected to the virtual world. The sixteen essays in this collection offer critical examinations of the issue of control in video games, including different ways to theorize and define control within video gaming and how control impacts game design and game play. Close readings of specific games--including Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Dragon Age: Origins--consider how each locates elements of control in their structures. As video games increasingly become a major force in the media landscape, this important contribution to the field of game studies provides a valuable framework for understanding their growing impact.

Author : Walter J. Perrig,Alexander Grob
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135679644

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Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness by Walter J. Perrig,Alexander Grob Pdf

In this book, an international group of leading scientists present perspectives on the control of human behavior, awareness, consciousness, and the meaning and function of perceived control or self-efficacy in people's lives. The book breaks down the barriers between subdisciplines, and thus constitutes an occasion to reflect on various facets of control in human life. Each expert reviews his or her field through the lens of perceived control and shows how these insights can be applied in practice.

Author : H. L. Trentelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Control theory
ISBN : 3764336706

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Essays on Control by H. L. Trentelman Pdf

Author : Georgios A. Antonopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319316086

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Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control by Georgios A. Antonopoulos Pdf

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The contributions to this book are new chapters written in honor of Professor Dick Hobbs, on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his powerful influence on the study of organized crime, offering a novel perspective that located organized crime in its socio-economic context, studied through prolonged ethnographic engagement. Professor Hobbs has influenced a generation of criminology researchers engaged in studying organized crime groups, and this work provides a both a look back and this influence and directions for future research. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a focus on organized crime and financial crime, as well as those interested in corruption, crime prevention, and applications of ethnographic methods.

Author : Richard Godbeer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195161298

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Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer Pdf

Turning an eye to a relatively unknown witchcraft trial in Stamford, Connecticut, Godbeer pens a gripping narrative that captures the mindset of colonial New England.

Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618871713

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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Pdf

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

Author : H. Martin
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788121905039

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School Essays And Letters by H. Martin Pdf

The object of this little book is to supply students with a number of model essays and letters on a variety of subjects The language of the letters and essays is very simple and easy-to-understand. After reading this book, students will be able to write e

Author : George Orwell,Eric Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946963445

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Animal Farm by George Orwell,Eric Blair Pdf

2021 Facsimile of the 1945 Edition. This is now considered a classic Satire on dictatorship and one of Orwell's most enduring short novels. Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. The future, however, is far from certain as the drama plays out in actual events. A cautionary tale. Reviews "Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history."-Malcolm Bradbury "As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift."-Atlantic Monthly "A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times."-The New York Times "Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift."-Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker "Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written."-San Francisco Chronicle "The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed."-Ruth Rendell

Author : Chris Heath
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782229711

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Essays in Good Practice: Lecture notes in contemporary General Practice - Second Edition by Chris Heath Pdf

This is a text book for all doctors but especially GPs, appraisers and registrars. It is written by a 40 year plus front line NHS doctor who for most of his career worked twice to three times the current doctors’ Working Time Directive limited week. Chris Heath has been a Paediatric Lecturer in a teaching hospital, an Anaesthetist, various junior specialists and a GP over 30 years in 3 different practices. He has been a GP Trainer and Appraiser and has seen politics and political correctness harm patients’ interests constantly over the last half of his career. From the way it selects young doctors to the way they are educated and assessed, the best interests of the patient are largely ignored. This is a text book but it also contains home truths, insights and a warts and all appraisal of how to be a good doctor as well as an unbiased assessment of what is wrong with today’s NHS. It also explains why today’s politicians, medical schools and doctors will resist the changes that are needed to put the patients’ needs first again.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780544179592

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420099

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Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality by José Luis Bermúdez Pdf

A distinguished group of philosophers, decision theorists, and psychologists offer new interdisciplinary perspectives on the rationality of self-control.

Author : Robert Granfield,Craig Reinarman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135015978

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Expanding Addiction: Critical Essays by Robert Granfield,Craig Reinarman Pdf

The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the historical and cultural interstices in which the disease concept of addiction is constructed and deployed. The readings selected for this anthology include both classic foundational pieces and cutting-edge contemporary works that constitute critical addiction studies. This book is a welcome addition to drugs or addiction courses in sociology, criminal justice, mental health, clinical psychology, social work, and counseling.