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From the reviews: "The style of the book reflects the author's wish to assist in the effective learning of optimal control by suitable choice of topics, the mathematical level used, and by including numerous illustrated examples.

With contributions by numerous experts

These include integral inequalities, differential inequalities and difference inequalities, which play a crucial role in establishing (uniform) bounds, global existence, large-time behavior, decay rates and blow-up of solutions to various classes of evolutionary differential equations.

This book opens up a critical dimension to the interdisciplinary field of Industrial Ecology (IE) and one of its four areas - Industrial Symbiosis (IS). Transforming industrial systems into closed-loop industrial ecosystems dramatically reduces the negative impact of industrial activities on the environment.

This new and expanded monograph improves upon Mohan's earlier book, Residue Number Systems (Springer, 2002) with a state of the art treatment of the subject.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in pre-Second World War Germany, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics.

This is a comprehensive survey on the research on the parabolic Anderson model - the heat equation with random potential or the random walk in random potential - of the years 1990 - 2015.

In addition some advanced methods and extensions, including path integrals, jump diffusion and others are presented.The book consists of four parts: Analysis, Geometry, Perturbations and Applications.

An introduction to the basic tools of the theory of (partially) ordered sets such as visualization via diagrams, subsets, homomorphisms, important order-theoretical constructions and classes of ordered sets.

Each chapter that follows provides a detailed case study of alternative proofs for particular theorems, including the Pythagorean Theorem, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Desargues' Theorem, the Prime Number Theorem, and the proof of the irreducibility of cyclotomic polynomials.Why Prove It Again?

Louis I. Kahn (1901ΓÇô1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in ways both profound and subtle. Unlike previous publications on Kahn, which have focused on his built work and which considered the drawings foremost as illustrations of these, this is the first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into KahnΓÇÖs architecture and creative imagination.By offering a spectrum of close readings of drawings by Kahn and his associates in a series of incisive and richly illustrated essays, this book is at once an intimate artistic portrait of this important architect and a provocative and timely contribution to the current discourse on representation in architecture. For architects and students of architecture, KahnΓÇÖs lasting significance is not only in the buildings he built, but in how he designed them.Based on unprecedented archival research, engagingly presented by a group of eminent scholars and architects, and lavishly illustrated with over 600 highest quality reproductions, The Importance of a Drawing is destined to become a standard work in the literature on Louis Kahn.

Sverre FehnΓÇÖs Nordic Pavilion in Venice is a masterpiece in postwar architecture. The young Norwegian architect won the competition in 1958 and the building was inaugurated in 1962. Through six decades the beloved structure has been mired in phenomenology, poetry and the personal memory of the select. When one looks at the archives, a very different story emerges. In minute detail, this book presents the history of the origins and making of the Nordic Pavilion, spanning from the geopolitical context in an increasingly tense cold war atmosphere, to the aggregates in the concrete of the audacious roof construction, to the iconic trees, many of which had already died before the second exhibition in 1964.Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives documents the vast cast involved in the making of the Nordic Pavilion, spanning from kings, prime ministers, bureaucrats, ambassadors, museum directors, architects and a myriad of artistsΓÇÖ associations, to Venetian dignitaries, engineers, gardeners, lawyers and plumbers. The pavilion was conceived and built against a backdrop of friendships and animosities, power play and diplomacy. The detours and disappointments, successes and failures of the Venice affair make a prism in miniature to understand the mindset and conflicting ambitions of the Nordic countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished images ΓÇô among them many photographs taken by Fehn himself ΓÇô the archival evidence also sheds new light on one of the great Nordic architects of the recent past.

Wenn man die von Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) erbauten Villen besichtigt, fragt man sich unweigerlich, wie Menschen im 16. Jahrhundert dort gelebt haben. Palladio konzipierte sie als «Kleinstädte» (piccole città), die eine Einheit mit den angrenzenden Wirtschaftsgebäuden und landwirtschaftlichen Flächen bildeten. Innerhalb ihrer Mauern lebte eine Vielzahl von Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters, sozialer Herkunft und Fähigkeiten. Palladio-Villen waren Schauplätze bedeutender Momente des öffentlichen Lebens, aber die Grundsätze der Hygiene, der Privatsphäre und des Komforts, die wir heute für wesentlich halten, galten dort nicht. Auch Möbel im heutigen Sinn gab es keine. Living with Palladio in the Sixteenth Century untersucht, wie Palladios Häuser, ihre Stockwerke und Räume gestaltet waren, damit sie das Leben einer so heterogenen Gemeinschaft von Menschen strukturieren konnten. Ihre hierarchische Struktur - mit dem Eigentümer (padrone) an der Spitze und allen am Haushalt Beteiligten (famiglia minuta) darunter - ist der zentrale Ausgangspunkt dieser Analyse. Antonio Foscari zeigt auf, wie Palladio die häuslichen Funktionen seiner Privatgebäude in den Vordergrund stellte, und schliesst damit eine wichtige Lücke in der Forschungsliteratur zu dem berühmten Renaissancearchitekten.

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc.

Therefore, this book conceptualises circular business models and investigates their theoretical foundations in relation to the rationale for adopting them, drawing on circular economy, business model, strategic management and neo-institutional literature and secondary data.

In addition, while interventionist actions of various non-state actors to implement material guarantees of (human) security reaching both citizens and non-citizens (including refugees) have solved some immediate problems, they have not answered the question of where accountability ultimately lies.