Authors:Dr. Joel A.C. Baum, Dr. Bill McKelvey,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: donald, campbell, honor, science, organization, variations
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-05-14
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 076191126X
ISBN-13: 9780761911265

Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell’s many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work. Contributing authors review and extend Campbell’s theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology. The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell’s curriculum vitae.

Author: Alexander J. Zaslavski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nonconvex, optimization, applications, control, optimal, properties, calculus, variations, turnpike
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 2005-08-25
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 038728155X
ISBN-13: 9780387281551

This book is devoted to the recent progress on the turnpike theory. The turnpike property was discovered by Paul A. Samuelson, who applied it to problems in mathematical economics in 1949. These properties were studied for optimal trajectories of models of economic dynamics determined by convex processes. In this monograph the author, a leading expert in modern turnpike theory, presents a number of results concerning the turnpike properties in the calculus of variations and optimal control which were obtained in the last ten years. These results show that the turnpike properties form a general

Authors:Charlie Keil, Ben Singer,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: screen, decades, series, variations, themes, cinema, 1910s, american
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544459
ISBN-13: 9780813544458

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Studios migrated to the West Coast, establishing a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith s unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-p

Authors:Luciano Carbone, Riccardo De Arcangelis,
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: relaxation, homogenization, representation, variations, functionals, calculus, unbounded
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2001-12-12
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 1584882352
ISBN-13: 9781584882350

Over the last few decades, research in elastic-plastic torsion theory, electrostatic screening, and rubber-like nonlinear elastomers has pointed the way to some interesting new classes of minimum problems for energy functionals of the calculus of variations. This advanced-level monograph addresses these issues by developing the framework of a general theory of integral representation, relaxation, and homogenization for unbounded functionals. The first part of the book builds the foundation for the general theory with concepts and tools from convex analysis, measure theory, and the theory of va

Authors:Mariano Giaquinta, Stefan Hildebrandt,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: der, mathematischen, wissenschaften, grundlehren, formalism, variations, hamiltonian, calculus
Number of Pages: 652
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 3540579613
ISBN-13: 9783540579618

This long-awaited book by two of the foremost researchers and writers in the field is the first part of a treatise that covers the subject in breadth and depth, paying special attention to the historical origins, partly in applications, e.g. from geometrical optics, of parts of the theory. A variety of aids to the reader is provided: besides the very detailed table of contents, an introduction to each chapter, section and subsection, an overview of the relevant literature (in Vol. 2) plus the references in the Scholia to each chapter, in the (historical) footnotes, and in the bibliography,

Authors:Mariano Giaquinta, Stefan Hildebrandt,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematischen, wissenschaften, vol, der, grundlehren, variations, lagrangian, formalism, calculus
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 1995-12-12
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 354050625X
ISBN-13: 9783540506256

This long-awaited book by two of the foremost researchers and writers in the field is the first part of a treatise that will cover the subject in breadth and depth, paying special attention to the historical origins, partly in applications, e.g. from geometrical optics, of parts of the theory. A variety of aids to the reader are provided: the detailed table of contents, an introduction to each chapter, section and subsection, an overview of the relevant literature (in Vol. 2) plus the references in the Scholia to each chapter, in the (historical) footnotes, and in the bibliography, and finally

Authors:Stanley Alama, Lia Bronsard, and Peter J. Sternberg,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: proceedings, lecture, notes, crm, variations, pde, calculus, singularities
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0821843508
ISBN-13: 9780821843505

This book contains papers presented at the ""Workshop on Singularities in PDE and the Calculus of Variations"" at the CRM in July 2006. The main theme of the meeting was the formation of geometrical singularities in PDE problems with a variational formulation. These equations typically arise in some applications (to physics, engineering, or biology, for example) and their resolution often requires a combination of methods coming from areas such as functional and harmonic analysis, differential geometry and geometric measure theory. Among the PDE problems discussed were: the Cahn-Hilliard model