Doreen Elliott, Nazneen S. Mayadas, and Uma A. Segal
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195388138
- eISBN:
- 9780199863440
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388138.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Communities and Organizations
This chapter provides an overview of theories of immigration, historical trends, and a model for policy analysis. The focus is on worldwide migration, providing a historical perspective that has ...
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This chapter provides an overview of theories of immigration, historical trends, and a model for policy analysis. The focus is on worldwide migration, providing a historical perspective that has helped shape understanding of the phenomenon, explanatory theories of migration, including cost—benefit analyses, and an international comparative analysis that can be applied across the country chapters that follow.Less
This chapter provides an overview of theories of immigration, historical trends, and a model for policy analysis. The focus is on worldwide migration, providing a historical perspective that has helped shape understanding of the phenomenon, explanatory theories of migration, including cost—benefit analyses, and an international comparative analysis that can be applied across the country chapters that follow.
Benjamin C. Alamar
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231162920
- eISBN:
- 9780231535250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231162920.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, to help teams and other organizations recognize the opportunities for competitive advantage that a strong analytics program can provide. ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, to help teams and other organizations recognize the opportunities for competitive advantage that a strong analytics program can provide. No two teams will use analytics in exactly the same manner. Different levels of investment, long-term strategies, and appetites for analytics will shape how teams implement and develop their analytics programs. Understanding the possibilities of analytics and how to manage them in conjunction with the strategic plan of the organization, however, will give teams the best opportunity to maximize competitive advantage. The remainder of the chapter discusses the goals of sports analytics, the role of data management in the analytics program, analytic models and information systems, and organization structures for analytics success.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, to help teams and other organizations recognize the opportunities for competitive advantage that a strong analytics program can provide. No two teams will use analytics in exactly the same manner. Different levels of investment, long-term strategies, and appetites for analytics will shape how teams implement and develop their analytics programs. Understanding the possibilities of analytics and how to manage them in conjunction with the strategic plan of the organization, however, will give teams the best opportunity to maximize competitive advantage. The remainder of the chapter discusses the goals of sports analytics, the role of data management in the analytics program, analytic models and information systems, and organization structures for analytics success.
Andreas C. Arlt, Wolfgang H. Zangemeister, and JÜrgen Dee
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195068207
- eISBN:
- 9780199847198
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195068207.003.0060
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Systems
This paper explains the results of Zangemeister et al. The experimental and modeling results of Hannaford et al. were also reassessed with respect to normally fast and very fast time-optimal ...
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This paper explains the results of Zangemeister et al. The experimental and modeling results of Hannaford et al. were also reassessed with respect to normally fast and very fast time-optimal movements. More importantly, this study employs mathematical and manipulation analysis of the model, specifically the threefold approach of sensitivity analysis to gain valuable insights about the pathologic features of clinical neurologic deficits. The modification of an existing model is also presented and briefly discussed in this chapter. This chapter concludes that applying powerful mathematical tools such as threefold sensitivity analysis to analytic models is helpful in explaining and treating disorders of motor control.Less
This paper explains the results of Zangemeister et al. The experimental and modeling results of Hannaford et al. were also reassessed with respect to normally fast and very fast time-optimal movements. More importantly, this study employs mathematical and manipulation analysis of the model, specifically the threefold approach of sensitivity analysis to gain valuable insights about the pathologic features of clinical neurologic deficits. The modification of an existing model is also presented and briefly discussed in this chapter. This chapter concludes that applying powerful mathematical tools such as threefold sensitivity analysis to analytic models is helpful in explaining and treating disorders of motor control.
Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691144917
- eISBN:
- 9781400845606
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691144917.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter studies the evolution of perturbations in the nonlinear regime. It focuses for the most part on analytic models that shed light on the physical processes involved. The advent of computer ...
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This chapter studies the evolution of perturbations in the nonlinear regime. It focuses for the most part on analytic models that shed light on the physical processes involved. The advent of computer technology has made numerical studies of nonlinear evolution almost routine, and many of today's theoretical calculations follow this path. The analytic approaches described here inform these calculations, but the numerical simulations help to sharpen this chapter's conclusions and predictions. The chapter discusses this synergy and describes “semianalytic” models that can be written analytically but whose ultimate justification lies in their good agreement with numerical simulations. It also describes the fundamental aspects of computational methods.Less
This chapter studies the evolution of perturbations in the nonlinear regime. It focuses for the most part on analytic models that shed light on the physical processes involved. The advent of computer technology has made numerical studies of nonlinear evolution almost routine, and many of today's theoretical calculations follow this path. The analytic approaches described here inform these calculations, but the numerical simulations help to sharpen this chapter's conclusions and predictions. The chapter discusses this synergy and describes “semianalytic” models that can be written analytically but whose ultimate justification lies in their good agreement with numerical simulations. It also describes the fundamental aspects of computational methods.
Henry E. Allison
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198724858
- eISBN:
- 9780191792397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724858.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter deals with Kant’s writings in theoretical philosophy in the early and mid-1760s, which are characterized by an attempt to develop metaphysics on the basis of an analytic method, which is ...
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This chapter deals with Kant’s writings in theoretical philosophy in the early and mid-1760s, which are characterized by an attempt to develop metaphysics on the basis of an analytic method, which is analogous to the procedure of Newton in natural science and sharply distinguished from the synthetic method of mathematics, which was favored by the then dominant Wolffian tradition. It argues that, under the influence of Crusius, and perhaps Hume, Kant became increasingly aware during this period of the limitations of this method, particularly with respect to the doctrine of the soul and its relation to the body, as well as of a distinct, essentially Wolffian, analytic model of cognition to which he also subscribed.Less
This chapter deals with Kant’s writings in theoretical philosophy in the early and mid-1760s, which are characterized by an attempt to develop metaphysics on the basis of an analytic method, which is analogous to the procedure of Newton in natural science and sharply distinguished from the synthetic method of mathematics, which was favored by the then dominant Wolffian tradition. It argues that, under the influence of Crusius, and perhaps Hume, Kant became increasingly aware during this period of the limitations of this method, particularly with respect to the doctrine of the soul and its relation to the body, as well as of a distinct, essentially Wolffian, analytic model of cognition to which he also subscribed.
Johanna Drucker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226165073
- eISBN:
- 9780226165097
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226165097.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the ...
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Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature, and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects the author engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized Paracritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, the book functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies the contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.Less
Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature, and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects the author engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized Paracritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, the book functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies the contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.
Joseph Gafaranga
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748675951
- eISBN:
- 9781474430463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748675951.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Research in code-switching, undertaken against the backdrop of very negative attitudes towards the concurrent use of two or more languages within the same conversation, has traditionally been geared ...
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Research in code-switching, undertaken against the backdrop of very negative attitudes towards the concurrent use of two or more languages within the same conversation, has traditionally been geared towards rehabilitating this form of language use. From being seen as a random phenomenon reflecting the user’s lack of competence, code-switching is currently seen as sign of an advanced level of competence in the languages involved and as serving different interactional functions. This chapter discusses in some detail the research effort which has led to the rehabilitation of code-switching, with a special focus on studies conducted from a socio-functional perspective. Key paradigms in this perspective are covered, including Gumperz’ interactional sociolinguistics model, Myers-Scotton’s markedness (rational choice) model and Auer’s and Gafaranga’s conversation analytic model of code-switching. In turn, this overview of existing research serves as a context for the challenge the study of code-switching is face with, namely that of its continued relevance.Less
Research in code-switching, undertaken against the backdrop of very negative attitudes towards the concurrent use of two or more languages within the same conversation, has traditionally been geared towards rehabilitating this form of language use. From being seen as a random phenomenon reflecting the user’s lack of competence, code-switching is currently seen as sign of an advanced level of competence in the languages involved and as serving different interactional functions. This chapter discusses in some detail the research effort which has led to the rehabilitation of code-switching, with a special focus on studies conducted from a socio-functional perspective. Key paradigms in this perspective are covered, including Gumperz’ interactional sociolinguistics model, Myers-Scotton’s markedness (rational choice) model and Auer’s and Gafaranga’s conversation analytic model of code-switching. In turn, this overview of existing research serves as a context for the challenge the study of code-switching is face with, namely that of its continued relevance.
Thorvald Abel Engh, Geoffrey K. Sigworth, and Anne Kvithyld
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- November 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198811923
- eISBN:
- 9780191850035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198811923.003.0007
- Subject:
- Physics, Condensed Matter Physics / Materials
This chapter discusses our scientific understanding of alloying. Class I alloy additions have a melting point lower than the bulk melt temperature, whereas class II additions have a melting point ...
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This chapter discusses our scientific understanding of alloying. Class I alloy additions have a melting point lower than the bulk melt temperature, whereas class II additions have a melting point higher than the bulk melt temperature. This means that magnesium is a class I element when added to aluminium, and silicon and manganese are class II alloy additions. An energy conservation model for melting is presented and compared to measurements. A numerical model is presented for continuous feeding and melting of aluminium plates into aluminium melt. For class II alloy additions it is shown from the literature that the melting rate can be strongly affected by the formation of intermetallic phases during the melting process. Therefore, it is virtually impossible to put up a general model for the melting of these types of alloying elements. Safety regarding alloying operations is also addressed.Less
This chapter discusses our scientific understanding of alloying. Class I alloy additions have a melting point lower than the bulk melt temperature, whereas class II additions have a melting point higher than the bulk melt temperature. This means that magnesium is a class I element when added to aluminium, and silicon and manganese are class II alloy additions. An energy conservation model for melting is presented and compared to measurements. A numerical model is presented for continuous feeding and melting of aluminium plates into aluminium melt. For class II alloy additions it is shown from the literature that the melting rate can be strongly affected by the formation of intermetallic phases during the melting process. Therefore, it is virtually impossible to put up a general model for the melting of these types of alloying elements. Safety regarding alloying operations is also addressed.
