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This textbook is a comprehensive overview of the construction,
implementation, and application of important numerical methods for
the solution of Initial Value Problems (IVPs). Beginning with IVPs
involving Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) and progressing to
problems with Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in 1+1 and 3+1
dimensions, it provides readers with a clear and systematic
progression from simple to complex concepts. The numerical methods
selected in this textbook can solve a considerable variety of
problems and the applications presented cover a wide range of
topics, including population dynamics, chaos, celestial mechanics,
geophysics, astrophysics, and more. Each chapter contains a variety
of solved problems and exercises, with code included. These
examples are designed to motivate and inspire readers to delve
deeper into the state-of-the-art problems in their own fields. The
code is written in Fortran 90, in a library-free style, making them
easy to program and efficient to run. The appendix also includes
the same code in C++, making the book accessible to a variety of
programming backgrounds. At the end of each chapter, there are
brief descriptions of how the methods could be improved, along with
one or two projects that can be developed with the methods and
codes described. These projects are highly engaging, from
synchronization of chaos and message encryption to gravitational
waves emitted by a binary system and non-linear absorption of a
scalar field. With its clear explanations, hands-on approach, and
practical examples, this textbook is an essential resource for
advanced undergraduate and graduate students who want to the learn
how to use numerical methods to tackle challenging problems.
This Handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields,
disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts
to understand how student voice is operating in different higher
education dimensions and contexts around the world. The Handbook
helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in
college and university settings, but also to identify the common
core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes
associated with student voice work in higher education. It offers a
broad understanding of the methodologies, current debates, history,
and future of the field, identifying avenues for future research.
Bananas are a key food source for millions, whilst their production
supports the livelihood of farmers across the globe. However,
recent research has identified the vulnerability of particular
banana varieties to major pests and diseases, such as the threat of
Tropical Race 4 (Panama disease) to the Cavendish variety. With the
banana industry under threat of extinction, more research is
required into understanding the biology of the pests and diseases
that pose this threat so that more effective management strategies
can be developed and the risk of future outbreaks reduced.
Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 3: Diseases and
pests provides a comprehensive review of the major pests and
diseases affecting global banana production including Tropical Race
4, black Sigatoka, banana streak virus, root knot nematodes, weevil
borer and thrips. The collection explores existing methods for
pest/disease diagnosis and identification, as well as current
management strategies used to control and/or prevent outbreaks,
such as cultural, chemical and biological control methods, the
development of disease resistant cultivars and integrated pest and
disease management.
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Latinx Curriculum Theorizing
Theodorea Regina Berry, Mariela Rodríguez, Crystal A. Kalinec Craig; Contributions by Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Ann M. Avilés, …
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This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that
focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora
from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives,
and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in
scholarship in curriculum studies/theory for/from Latinx
perspectives, this book is a beginning toward answering two
important questions: first, what is the significance of the
presence and absence of Latinx curriculum theorizing? And second,
in what ways is Latinx curriculum theorizing connected to
curriculum, as a general concept, schools’ purposes, goals, and
objectives and curriculum as autobiographical? This book opens a
door into understanding curriculum for/from an important population
in U.S. society.
A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of
animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on
in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings
together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep
with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams
provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives
of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible
realm of animal experience. David Peña-Guzmán uncovers evidence
of animal dreaming throughout the scientific literature, suggesting
that many animals run “reality simulations” while asleep, with
a dream-ego moving through a dynamic and coherent dreamscape. He
builds a convincing case for animals as conscious beings and
examines the thorny scientific, philosophical, and ethical
questions it raises. Once we accept that animals dream, we incur a
host of moral obligations and have no choice but to rethink our
views about who animals are and the interior lives they lead. A
mesmerizing journey into the otherworldly domain of nonhuman
consciousness, When Animals Dream carries profound implications for
contemporary debates about animal cognition, animal ethics, and
animal rights, challenging us to regard animals as beings who
matter, and for whom things matter.
It is widely recognized that the degree of development of a science
is given by the transition from a mainly descriptive stage to a
more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative
interpretations (conceptual models) are complemented with
quantification (numerical models, both, deterministic and
stochastic). This has been the main task of mathematical
geoscientists during the last forty years - to establish new
frontiers and new challenges in the study and understanding of the
natural world. Mathematics of Planet Earth comprises the
proceedings of the International Association for Mathematical
Geosciences Conference (IAMG2013), held in Madrid from September
2-6, 2013. The Conference addresses researchers, professionals and
students. The proceedings contain more than 150 original
contributions and give a multidisciplinary vision of mathematical
geosciences.
This monograph is framed within the context of off-road mobile
robotics. In particular, it discusses issues related to modelling,
localization, and motion control of tracked mobile robots working
in planar slippery conditions. Tracked locomotion constitutes a
well-known solution for mobile platforms operating over diverse
challenging terrains, for that reason, tracked robotics constitutes
an important research field with many applications (e.g.
agriculture, mining, search and rescue operations, military
activities). The specific topics of this monograph are: historical
perspective of tracked vehicles and tracked robots;
trajectory-tracking model taking into account slip effect;
visual-odometry-based localization strategies; and advanced
slip-compensation motion controllers ensuring efficient real-time
execution. Physical experiments with a real tracked robot are
presented showing the better performance of the suggested novel
approaches to known techniques. Keywords: longitudinal slip,
visual odometry, slip-compensation control, robust predictive
control, trajectory tracking. Related subjects: Robotics –
Mechanical Engineering – Mechanics – Computer Science –
Artificial Intelligence - Applications
Psychoanalysis has traditionally viewed women as objects of desire.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis uses a
contemporary psychoanalytic view to resituate women’s place in
the narrative as desiring subjects. Contributors to this collection
raise questions about the status of woman in culture and society
and contend with the theme of loss and mourning that has been
associated with women since the beginning of psychoanalysis. The
various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in
diverse societies and cultures are explored in order to reconstruct
the role of women in modern psychoanalysis.
Reared in Freedmen's Town, Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist,
newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff,
adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. He was frequently
called "the power broker of the Tuskegee Machine": he was a
Renaissance man, scholar, and political fixer. However, his life
has not received a full examination until now. Built upon fifty
years of research, Maceo C. Dailey's Emmett J. Scott offers
fascinating detail by describing Scott's role in promoting the
Tuskegee Institute. Before his death, Dailey had nearly singular
access to the Scott papers at Morgan State University, which have
been officially closed for decades. Readers will finally be exposed
to Scott's behind-the-scenes contributions to racial uplift and
will see Scott's influential role in advancing not only the
Tuskegee Institute but also the Booker T. Washington agenda.
Editors Will Guzmán and David H. Jackson lend their own expertise
in bringing Dailey's lifetime project to fruition. Two-time
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, a close
friend of Maceo Dailey, provides a timely foreword. Former Black
Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown, granddaughter of Emmett J.
Scott, reflects on her relationship with Scott and his impact in
the afterword. Taken together, this work of biography is an
impressive reference and an essential endeavor of recovery, one
that restores to prominence the life and legacy of Emmett J. Scott.
Automatic Control with Interactive Tools is a textbook for
undergraduate study of automatic control. Providing a clear course
structure, and covering concepts taught in engineering degrees,
this book is an ideal companion to those studying or teaching
automatic control. The authors have used this text successfully to
teach their students. By providing unique interactive tools, which
have been designed to illustrate the most important automatic
control concepts, Automatic Control with Interactive Tools helps
students overcome the potential barriers presented by the
significant mathematical content of automatic control courses. Even
when they have previously had only the benefit of an introductory
control course, the software tools presented will help readers to
get to grips with the use of such techniques as differential
equations, linear algebra, and differential geometry. This textbook
covers the breadth of automatic control topics, including time
responses of dynamic systems, the Nyquist criterion and PID
control. It switches smoothly between analytical and practical
approaches. Automatic Control with Interactive Tools offers a clear
introduction to automatic control, ideal for undergraduate
students, instructors and anyone wishing to familiarize themselves
with the fundamentals of the subject
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