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Structural Theory of Automata, Semigroups, and Universal Algebra - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Structural Theory of Automata, Semigroups and Universal Algebra, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 7-18 July 2003 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
M. Goldstein; Edited by Valery B. Kudryavtsev, Ivo G. Rosenberg
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This book explores the nexus of corruption, late capitalism, and
illiberal politics in the Trump era. Through deep, contextualized
analysis and careful critique, it offers valuable perspectives on
how corruption is defined and understood in the current historical
moment. The book asks: Is today's corruption something new, or is
it a continuation of prior patterns of illiberalism? Chapters in
this collection consider how corruption is practiced, mobilized, or
invoked in a range of cases, each of which is embedded within
larger concerns about what citizenship, social belonging, honesty,
and justice mean in the United States today. The authors examine a
constellation of unscrupulous actors and questionable actions, with
topics ranging from sex scandals and shady real estate deals to the
Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several
essays directly address the increasingly violent rhetoric and the
deliberately anti-democratic policies that have flourished during
the Trump era. The book draws on anthropological insights and
comparative analysis to place the policies and practices of Trump
and his supporters in a wider global context. Corruption and
Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era will be of great interest to
readers from anthropology, sociology, political science, discourse
studies, media studies, linguistics, and American studies.
This book explores the nexus of corruption, late capitalism, and
illiberal politics in the Trump era. Through deep, contextualized
analysis and careful critique, it offers valuable perspectives on
how corruption is defined and understood in the current historical
moment. The book asks: Is today's corruption something new, or is
it a continuation of prior patterns of illiberalism? Chapters in
this collection consider how corruption is practiced, mobilized, or
invoked in a range of cases, each of which is embedded within
larger concerns about what citizenship, social belonging, honesty,
and justice mean in the United States today. The authors examine a
constellation of unscrupulous actors and questionable actions, with
topics ranging from sex scandals and shady real estate deals to the
Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several
essays directly address the increasingly violent rhetoric and the
deliberately anti-democratic policies that have flourished during
the Trump era. The book draws on anthropological insights and
comparative analysis to place the policies and practices of Trump
and his supporters in a wider global context. Corruption and
Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era will be of great interest to
readers from anthropology, sociology, political science, discourse
studies, media studies, linguistics, and American studies.
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Classical and Modern Potential
The- ory and Applications was held at the Chateau de Bonas, France,
during the last week of July 1993. The workshop was organized by
the Co-Directors M. Goldstein (Ari- zona) and K. GowriSankaran
(Montreal). The other members of the organizing committee were J.
Bliedtner (Frankfurt), D. Feyel (Paris), W. K. Hayman (York,
England) and I. Netuka (Praha). The objective of the workshop was
to bring to- gether the researchers at the forefront of the aspects
of the Potential Theory for a meaningful dialogue and for positive
interaction amongst the mathematicians prac- tising different
aspects of the theory and its applications. Fifty one
mathematicians participated in the workshop. The workshop covered a
fair representation of the classical aspects of the theory covering
topics such as approximations, radial be- haviour, value
distributions of meromorphic functions and the modern Potential
theory including axiomatic developments, probabilistic theories,
studies on infinite dimensional Wiener spaces, solutions of powers
of Laplacian and other second order partial differential equations.
There were keynote addresses delivered by D. Armitage (Belfast), N.
Bouleau (Paris), A. Eremenko (Purdue), S. J. Gardiner (Dublin), W.
Hansen (Bielefeld), W. Hengartner (Laval U. , Quebec), K. Janssen
(Dusseldorf), T. Murai (Nagoya), A. de la Pradelle (Paris) and J.
M. Wu (Urbana). There were thirty six other invited talks of one
half hour duration each.
Minidragons: Fragile Economic Miracles in the Pacific aims to
introduce one of the most significant international developments of
the post World War II era-the dramatic socio-economic
transformation achieved by Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and
Taiwan.
China Briefing, 1984 aims to increase American understanding of
Chinese life, culture, and society; to counter stereotypical
thinking about China; and to provide a non-partisan source of
information for those seeking to understand or explain China to the
American public.
This volume consists of the proceedings of the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop on Approximation by Solutions of Partial
Differential Equations, Quadrature Formulae, and Related Topics,
which was held at Hanstholm, Denmark. These proceedings include the
main invited talks and contributed papers given during the
workshop. The aim of these lectures was to present a selection of
results of the latest research in the field. In addition to
covering topics in approximation by solutions of partial
differential equations and quadrature formulae, this volume is also
concerned with related areas, such as Gaussian quadratures, the
Pompelu problem, rational approximation to the Fresnel integral,
boundary correspondence of univalent harmonic mappings, the
application of the Hilbert transform in two dimensional
aerodynamics, finely open sets in the limit set of a finitely
generated Kleinian group, scattering theory, harmonic and maximal
measures for rational functions and the solution of the classical
Dirichlet problem. In addition, this volume includes some problems
in potential theory which were presented in the Problem Session at
Hanstholm.
An erratic, aging North Korean leadership intent on dynastic
succession and development of nuclear weapons is attracting a lot
of attention in the Asia-Pacific Region -- an area of utmost
importance to the United States. Current concerns about security in
Korea provide the backdrop to this volume, which offers an overview
of the evolution of security on the Korean peninsula and an
assessment of the U.S. role there from the 1940s to the present. A
distinctive feature of this volume is the long historical
perspective that is brought to bear on contemporary security
dilemmas. The renowned contributors examine U.S. policy prior to
and during the Korean War and look at the subsequent changes in
U.S. commitment to South Korea during a period of global stalemate
that had been shaped in part by the war itself. The authors then
assess the future of U.S.-Korean relations within the context of
the changing international environment, considering the prospects
for future strife, the merits of a cooperative security system, and
the possibility of reunification.
The purpose of this book is to introduce one of the most
significant international developments of the post World War II
era-the dramatic socio-economic transformation achieved by Hong
Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In less than three
decades, these "minidragons" of Asia have become major economic
players, not only in the economy of the Pacific rim, but in the
global economic system as well. In the essays which follow, the
nature of this transformation is charted; its causes are described;
and some assessment is made of the factors that will shape the
future of these "fragile economic miracles." This volume was
originally conceived as a companion to the television series
entitled Minidragons, an international co-production of Maryland
Public Television (MPT) with NHK, Japan, and Film Australia.
An erratic, aging North Korean leadership intent on dynastic
succession and development of nuclear weapons is attracting a lot
of attention in the Asia-Pacific Region -- an area of utmost
importance to the United States. Current concerns about security in
Korea provide the backdrop to this volume, which offers an overview
of the evolution of security on the Korean peninsula and an
assessment of the U.S. role there from the 1940s to the present. A
distinctive feature of this volume is the long historical
perspective that is brought to bear on contemporary security
dilemmas. The renowned contributors examine U.S. policy prior to
and during the Korean War and look at the subsequent changes in
U.S. commitment to South Korea during a period of global stalemate
that had been shaped in part by the war itself. The authors then
assess the future of U.S.-Korean relations within the context of
the changing international environment, considering the prospects
for future strife, the merits of a cooperative security system, and
the possibility of reunification.
China Briefing, 1984 aims to increase American understanding of
Chinese life, culture, and society; to counter stereotypical
thinking about China; and to provide a non-partisan source of
information for those seeking to understand or explain China to the
American public.
Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific
Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific
approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from
other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some
feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions
of science. These goals represented our concept of the term
"scientific literacy." Though the book was written for the general
reader, to our surprise and gratification it was also used as a
text in about forty colleges, and some high schools, for courses in
science for the non-scientist, in methodology of science for social
and behavioral sciences, and in the philosophy of science. As a
result we were encouraged to write a textbook with essentially the
same purpose and basic approach, but at a level appropriate to
college students. We have drawn up problems for those chapters that
would benefit from them, described laboratory experiments that
illustrate important points discussed in the text, and made
suggestions for additional readings, term papers, and other
projects. Throughout the book we have introduced a number of
chapters and appendices that provide examples of the uses of
quantitative thinking in the sciences: logic, math ematics,
probability, statistics, and graphical representation."
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an Informa company.
Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as
vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where
they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order
to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines
the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the
Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and
permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant
street and sidewalk vendors (ambulantes), Goldstein shows how the
state's deliberate neglect and criminalization of the Cancha's
poor-a practice common to neoliberal modern cities-makes the poor
exploitable, governable, and consigns them to an insecure
existence. Goldstein's collaborative and engaged approach to
ethnographic field research also opens up critical questions about
what ethical scholarship entails.
Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving
force behind the management of collective political, economic, and
social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril,
security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and
invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles,
CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to
Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory
domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and
rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in
domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills,
border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum
exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through
aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging
from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border,
Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices,
infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.
Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra
Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner,
Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte,
Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor
Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman
2 Vol. 3: Hormones, Psychology and Behavior (1952). A range of
interests was covered in respect to the influence of
glucocorticoids on behavioral responses, as well as to the
glucocorticoid status in various behavioral states and disorders.
Vol. 4: Anterior Pituitary Secretion and Hormonal Influence in
Water Metab olism (1952). Book II of this volume contains
considerable detail about the various relationships of the
glucocorticoids to other hormones with respect to their influence
on water and electrolyte excretion. Vol. 5: Bioassay of Anterior
Pituitary and Adrenal Cortical Hormones (1953). An entire section
was devoted to chemical measurement and bioassay of gluco
corticoids in blood and urine, with a comparison of these methods.
Vol. 7: Synthesis and Metabolism of Adrenal Cortical Steroids
(1954). Additional data on the intermediary metabolism and
biosynthesis of the glucocorticoids are available in this volume
and supplement the review by HECHTER and PINCUS listed below (cf.
DoRFMAN, Chapter 3, Part 1 of this Handbuch volume). Vol. 8: The
Human Adrenal Cortex (1955). A very wide range of articles was
presented which extended from studies of the adrenal cortex itself
to studies of adrenal function in a variety of human somatic and
psychological stressful situa tions, and clinical conditions.
DEBono, R. C., and N. ALTSZULER: Insulin Hypersensitivity and
Physiological Insulin Antagonists. Physiol. Rev. 38: 389-445
(1958). The subject of this review went beyond glucocorticoids, but
the influence and role of these steroids in relation to insulin,
other hormones and carbohydrate metabolism was thoroughly handled."
This volume consists of the proceedings of the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop on Approximation by Solutions of Partial
Differential Equations, Quadrature Formulae, and Related Topics,
which was held at Hanstholm, Denmark. These proceedings include the
main invited talks and contributed papers given during the
workshop. The aim of these lectures was to present a selection of
results of the latest research in the field. In addition to
covering topics in approximation by solutions of partial
differential equations and quadrature formulae, this volume is also
concerned with related areas, such as Gaussian quadratures, the
Pompelu problem, rational approximation to the Fresnel integral,
boundary correspondence of univalent harmonic mappings, the
application of the Hilbert transform in two dimensional
aerodynamics, finely open sets in the limit set of a finitely
generated Kleinian group, scattering theory, harmonic and maximal
measures for rational functions and the solution of the classical
Dirichlet problem. In addition, this volume includes some problems
in potential theory which were presented in the Problem Session at
Hanstholm.
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Classical and Modern Potential
The- ory and Applications was held at the Chateau de Bonas, France,
during the last week of July 1993. The workshop was organized by
the Co-Directors M. Goldstein (Ari- zona) and K. GowriSankaran
(Montreal). The other members of the organizing committee were J.
Bliedtner (Frankfurt), D. Feyel (Paris), W. K. Hayman (York,
England) and I. Netuka (Praha). The objective of the workshop was
to bring to- gether the researchers at the forefront of the aspects
of the Potential Theory for a meaningful dialogue and for positive
interaction amongst the mathematicians prac- tising different
aspects of the theory and its applications. Fifty one
mathematicians participated in the workshop. The workshop covered a
fair representation of the classical aspects of the theory covering
topics such as approximations, radial be- haviour, value
distributions of meromorphic functions and the modern Potential
theory including axiomatic developments, probabilistic theories,
studies on infinite dimensional Wiener spaces, solutions of powers
of Laplacian and other second order partial differential equations.
There were keynote addresses delivered by D. Armitage (Belfast), N.
Bouleau (Paris), A. Eremenko (Purdue), S. J. Gardiner (Dublin), W.
Hansen (Bielefeld), W. Hengartner (Laval U. , Quebec), K. Janssen
(Dusseldorf), T. Murai (Nagoya), A. de la Pradelle (Paris) and J.
M. Wu (Urbana). There were thirty six other invited talks of one
half hour duration each.
This collection brings together a group of experts on Taiwan who attempt to analyze change on this dynamic island during the twentieth century. Thus, in contrast to many works on Taiwan, this collection reveals how important the Japanese colonial antecedents were to the formation of today's Taiwan and illuminates the complexity of the problems this island will face in the twenty-first century.
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Structural Theory of Automata, Semigroups, and Universal Algebra - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Structural Theory of Automata, Semigroups and Universal Algebra, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 7-18 July 2003 (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
M. Goldstein; Edited by Valery B. Kudryavtsev, Ivo G. Rosenberg
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Semigroups, Automata, Universal Algebra, Varieties
More than individual attributes and attitudes motivate individuals to participate in politics and more goes into interest group influence than financial donations and direct activity. To answer fundamental questions about what determines when and why people participate in politics and how organized interests go about trying to influence legislative decision-making, we must understand how and why political leaders recruit which members of the public into the political arena. Looking from the bottom up with survey data and from the top down with data from interest group interviews, Goldstein develops and tests a theory of how tactical choices in a grass roots campaign are made.
This book offers an overview of recent research on the psychology of judgment and decision making, the field that investigates the processes by which people draw conclusions, reach evaluations, and make choices. An introductory, historically oriented chapter provides a way of viewing the overall structure of the field, its recent trends, and its possible directions. Subsequent sections present significant recent papers by prominent researchers, organized to reveal the currents, connections, and controversies that animate the field. Current trends in the field are illustrated with papers from ongoing streams of research. The papers on "connections" explore memory, explanation and argument, affect, attitudes, and motivation. Finally, a section on "controversies" presents problem representation, domain knowledge, content specificity, rule-governed versus rule-described behavior, and proposals for radical departures and new beginnings in the field. Students and researchers in psychology who have an interest in cognitive processes will find this text to be rewarding reading.
In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel
M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration
in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant
workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia Lopez Juarez and
Mirian A. Mijangos Garcia-two local immigrant workers from Latin
America-joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants
and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice
was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four
coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of
social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle
for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize
their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic
field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and
examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show
how the participation of Mijangos Garcia and Lopez Juarez
transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so
doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential
of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and
decolonization.
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