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Analysing Structure in Academic Writing (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
by Tomoko SawakiThis book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity and inclusion in academia. The simplicity of the flexible structure analytical model proposed by Sawaki enables the user to analyse diverse instances of genre. Further innovation is made in the analysis of generic structure components by integrating George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's metaphor analysis method, so that the model can account for cultural and ideological patterns that structure our abstract thinking. Using these integrations, the author has established a structure analytical model that can take into account linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic aspects of genre. Researchers in the fields of linguistics, discourse studies, cultural studies, education, and English for Academic Purposes will be able to use this model to identify whether an atypical instance in academic texts is a result of the writer's individual failure or a failure to understand diversity in academic writing.
Analysing Student Feedback in Higher Education: Using Text-Mining to Interpret the Student Voice
by Elena Zaitseva Beatrice Tucker Elizabeth SanthanamAnalysing Student Feedback in Higher Education provides an in-depth analysis of ‘mining’ student feedback that goes beyond numerical measures of student satisfaction or engagement. By including authentic student voices for understanding the student experience, this book will inform strategies for quality improvement in higher education globally. With contributions, representing an international community of academics, educational developers, institutional data analysts and student-researchers, this book reflects on the role of computer-aided text analysis in gaining insight of student views. The chapters explore the applications of text-mining in different forms, these include varied institutional contexts, using a range of instruments and pursuing different institutional aims and objectives. Contributors provide insights enabled by computer-aided analysis in distilling the student voice and turning large volumes of data into useful information and knowledge to inform actions. Practical tips and core principles are explored to assist academic institutions when embarking on analysing qualitative student feedback. Written for a wide audience, Analysing Student Feedback in Higher Education provides those making informed decisions about how to approach analyses of large volumes of student narratives, with the benefit of learning from the experiences of those who already started treading this path. It enables academic developers, institutional researchers, academics, and administrators to see how bringing text mining to their institutions can help them in better understanding and using the student voice to improve practice.
Analysing Talk in Educational Research
by Susan RodriguesAnalysing Talk in Educational Research is the go-to guide for all educational researchers collecting data in the form of talk. Offering practical and helpful approaches alongside explanations of relevant theories, it is a thorough yet concise guidebook providing all the advice necessary to effectively analyse talk data. Examining talk analysis through the lens of three theoretical approaches – Systemic Functional Linguistics, Positioning Theory and Interpersonal Behaviour Theory – the book offers detailed summaries and analyses of these theories and also covers topics including: How to begin collecting talk data The ethical issues surrounding collecting talk data Appropriate strategies for transcription and coding Checking for trustworthiness and credibility of talk data. Each chapter includes provocation exercises and illustrative examples, as well as links to websites and further reading suggestions to deepen understanding. Guiding readers from the necessary practical considerations required during data collection through to final evaluations, Analysing Talk in Educational Research is essential reading for graduate students and academic researchers completing studies involving talk and looking for a quick and helpful introduction to the rigorous methods with which to analyse their data.
Analysing the Current Afghan Context
by Neeraj Singh ManhasAfghanistan is on the verge of another transition as it seeks stability and deals with a variety of internal and external issues. After the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist organisation, captured Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, on August 15, 2021. It was the culmination of a military offensive against the Afghan government that began in May 2021. The arrest occurred just hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The majority of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals had fallen one after the other as part of a US troop withdrawal scheduled to end on August 31, 2021. Internal political turmoil, constant Taliban attacks across the country, and deadly suicide bombings by the Islamic State-Khorasan keep it busy while external nations play the New Great Game for geo-strategic ambitions both in its front yard and in its backyard. This book highlights all the ongoing issues of Afghanistan’s surge and provides the readers with insights into the country’s past, present and future. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan).
Analysing the History of British Social Welfare: Compassion, Coercion and Beyond
by Jonathan ParkerThis book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughout history. It challenges tacitly accepted arguments that favour particular approaches to welfare, such as conditionality and eligibility. It provides examples of enduring social assumptions which influence the way we perform social welfare, such as the equivocal position of women in social welfare and the unintended consequences of reforms such as Universal Credit. By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice.
Analysing the Instructional Setting: A Guide for Course Designers
by Duncan Harris Martin TessmerDesigned to overcome flaws during the planning and design stages of educational or training courses, this guide explains the importance of physical factors in the instructional environment, the roles of the instructor and learner, and the gathering of information on the learning environment.
Analysing the Israel Effect in Canada: A Critical AutoEthnography
by Peter EglinWhat is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media? Analyzing the Israel Effect documents and analyzes the discursive and organizational methods by which public criticism of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is silenced in Canada, as experienced through ten episodes in the life of the author over a thirty-year period from 1990-2020 in interaction with his university and local and national Canadian news media.As a sociological work the book is a critical autoethnography. But it is also an atrocity tale, a horror story of institutional self-censorship amounting to the abrogation of intellectual responsibility by those specifically charged with upholding it. In the end, the book is a crossover between academic treatise and journalistic exposé, “a historical narrative written by an academic from the standpoint of a political participant-observer” (Rajan Philips). The Israel Effect itself is analyzed as a three-tier propaganda industry. Hasbara is produced in Israel (Tier 1), disseminated to Israel Lobby groups around the world (Tier 2) and independently re-produced, actively and passively, by the “intellectual” institutions – universities and news media (Tier 3). This book is about the non-Jewish, non-Zionist institutions of Tier 3, the onlookers to war crimes, ethnic cleansing and, arguably, genocide, as in Gaza in October-November 2023.This work stands as a compelling testament to the importance of preserving freedom of expression, and the vital role intellectuals play in challenging injustice and promoting transparency. It is ideal for scholars, activists, and anyone seeking to understand the complexities of political activism and the power dynamics behind public discourse.
Analysing the Screenplay
by Jill NelmesMost producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century. Analysing the Screenplay highlights the screenplay as an important form in itself, as opposed to merely being the first stage of the production process. It explores a number of possible approaches to studying the screenplay, considering the depth and breadth of the subject area, including: the history and early development of the screenplay in the United States, France and Britain the process of screenplay writing and its peculiar relationship to film production the assumption that the screenplay is standardised in form and certain stories or styles are universal the range of writing outside the mainstream, from independent film to story ideas in Bhutanese film production to animation possible critical approaches to analysing the screenplay. Analysing the Screenplay is a comprehensive anthology, offering a global selection of contributions from internationally renowned, specialist authors. Together they provide readers with an insight into this fascinating yet complex written form. This anthology will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Film Studies courses, particularly those on scriptwriting.
Analysing the Trust–Transparency Nexus: Multi-level Governance in the UK, France and Germany (Civil Society and Social Change)
by Alistair Cole Ian StaffordIs transparency a necessary condition to build and restore citizen and civil society trust in governance and democracy? Throughout Europe, there is a growing demand for effective forms of citizen engagement and decentralisation in policy-making to increase trust and engage increasingly diverse populations. This volume addresses the relationship between trust and transparency in the context of multi-level governance. Drawing on fieldwork from the UK, France and Germany, this comparative analysis examines different efforts to build trust between key actors involved in decision-making at the sub-national level. It outlines the challenges of delivering this agenda and explores the paradox that trust might require transparency, yet in some instances transparency may undermine trust.
Analysing Users' Interactions with Khan Academy Repositories
by Sahar Yassine Seifedine Kadry Miguel-Ángel SiciliaThis book addresses the need to explore user interaction with online learning repositories and the detection of emergent communities of users. This is done through investigating and mining the Khan Academy repository; a free, open access, popular online learning repository addressing a wide content scope. It includes large numbers of different learning objects such as instructional videos, articles, and exercises. The authors conducted descriptive analysis to investigate the learning repository and its core features such as growth rate, popularity, and geographical distribution. The authors then analyzed this graph and explored the social network structure, studied two different community detection algorithms to identify the learning interactions communities emerged in Khan Academy then compared between their effectiveness. They then applied different SNA measures including modularity, density, clustering coefficients and different centrality measures to assess the users’ behavior patterns and their presence.By applying community detection techniques and social network analysis, the authors managed to identify learning communities in Khan Academy’s network. The size distribution of those communities found to follow the power-law distribution which is the case of many real-world networks.Despite the popularity of online learning repositories and their wide use, the structure of the emerged learning communities and their social networks remain largely unexplored. This book could be considered initial insights that may help researchers and educators in better understanding online learning repositories, the learning process inside those repositories, and learner behavior.
Analysing Web Traffic: A Case Study on Artificial and Genuine Advertisement-Related Behaviour (Studies in Big Data #127)
by Agnieszka Jastrzębska Jan W. Owsiński Karol Opara Marek Gajewski Olgierd Hryniewicz Mariusz Kozakiewicz Sławomir Zadrożny Tomasz ZwierzchowskiThis book presents ample, richly illustrated account on results and experience from a project, dealing with the analysis of data concerning behavior patterns on the Web. The advertising on the Web is dealt with, and the ultimate issue is to assess the share of the artificial, automated activity (ads fraud), as opposed to the genuine human activity.After a comprehensive introductory part, a full-fledged report is provided from a wide range of analytic and design efforts, oriented at: the representation of the Web behavior patterns, formation and selection of telling variables, structuring of the populations of behavior patterns, including the use of clustering, classification of these patterns, and devising most effective and efficient techniques to separate the artificial from the genuine traffic.A series of important and useful conclusions is drawn, concerning both the nature of the observed phenomenon, and hence the characteristics of the respective datasets, and the appropriateness of the methodological approaches tried out and devised. Some of these observations and conclusions, both related to data and to methods employed, provide a new insight and are sometimes surprising. The book provides also a rich bibliography on the main problem approached and on the various methodologies tried out.
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
by Pat Carlen Anne WorrallIn both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to men's. This text is concerned to address the key issues relating to women's imprisonment, contributing at the same time to an understanding of prison issues in general and the historical and contemporary politics of gender and penal justice. What are women's prisons for? What are they like? Why are lone mothers, ethnic minority and very poor women disproportionately represented in the women's prison population? Should babies be sent to prison with their mothers? These are amongst the issues with which this book is concerned. Analysing Women's Imprisonment is written as an introductory text to the subject, aiming to guide students of penology carefully through the main historical and contemporary discourses on women's imprisonment. Each chapter has a clear summary ('concepts to know'), essay questions and recommendations for further reading, and will help students prepare confidently for seminars, course examinations and project work.
Analysis: Geometry, and Probability: Proceedings of the First Chilean Symposium of Mathematics
by Rolando ChuaquiThis volume contains versions of invited addresses and communications for the First Chilean Symposium of Mathematics, revealing the results of the mathematical advances in areas such as stochastic analysis, solutions of differential equations, and differential synthetic geometry and probability.
Analysis: From Concepts to Applications (Universitext)
by Jean-Paul PenotThis textbook covers the main results and methods of real analysis in a single volume. Taking a progressive approach to equations and transformations, this book starts with the very foundations of real analysis (set theory, order, convergence, and measure theory) before presenting powerful results that can be applied to concrete problems. In addition to classical results of functional analysis, differential calculus and integration, Analysis discusses topics such as convex analysis, dissipative operators and semigroups which are often absent from classical treatises. Acknowledging that analysis has significantly contributed to the understanding and development of the present world, the book further elaborates on techniques which pervade modern civilization, including wavelets in information theory, the Radon transform in medical imaging and partial differential equations in various mechanical and physical phenomena. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, engineers as well as practitioners wishing to familiarise themselves with concepts and applications of analysis will find this book useful. With its content split into several topics of interest, the book's style and layout make it suitable for use in several courses, while its self-contained character makes it appropriate for self-study.
Analysis: Grundlagen, Differentiation, Integrationstheorie, Differentialgleichungen, Variationsmethoden, Funktionenräume, Darstellungssätze
by Friedrich SauvignyDieses Lehrbuch behandelt Lehrinhalte der Analysis für die ersten drei Semester des Bachelor-Studiums der Mathematik, Physik und Informatik. Es bietet eine moderne Darstellung der Differential- und Integralrechnung für Funktionen in einer und mehreren reellen sowie einer komplexen Variablen. Elementare Funktionen werden über komplexe Potenzreihen definiert und die Logarithmusfunktion auf ihrer Riemannschen Fläche betrachtet. Nachdem die eindimensionale Integration mittels reeller und komplexer Stammfunktionen durchgeführt ist, wird über uneigentliche n-dimensionale Riemannsche Integrale die Integration auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit Differentialformen vorgestellt. Mit dem Lebesgueschen Integral und dessen Maßtheorie wird der Banachraum der p-fach integrablen Funktionen eingeführt. Für gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen werden Existenz-, Eindeutigkeits- und Stabilitätsfragen beantwortet. In einem Kapitel zur Variationsrechnung wird über Geodätische der n-dimensionale Riemannsche Raum präsentiert. Ferner wird das Stieltjes-Integral mit BV-Belegungsfunktionen behandelt und die Differentiation absolut stetiger Funktionen durchgeführt. Schließlich wird der stetige Dualraum zum Lebesgueraum der p-fach integrablen Funktionen über den Rieszschen Darstellungssatz bestimmt.
Analysis
by Norbert SteinmetzDas Buch wendet sich sowohl an Studierende aller mathematischen Fachrichtungen und mathematisch interessierte Studierende der Physik als auch an Dozentinnen und Dozenten, die den Aufbau ihres ersten Analysiskurses noch vor sich haben oder Anregungen für ihre Vorlesungen suchen. Inhalt und Form sind entstanden und vielfach erprobt in immer wieder kritisch veränderten und angepassten 3-semestrigen Analysiskursen. Etwa 2/3 des Buches decken die Erfordernisse einer 2-semestrigen Grundvorlesung Analysis ab, wohingegen das restliche Drittel Elemente der Fourieranalysis, der Differentialgeometrie, der gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen und der Funktionentheorie behandeln, Themen, denen eigenständige Vorlesungen auch weiterhin zu wünschen sind. Zu den Besonderheiten zählen die parallele und miteinander verzahnte Einführung des Riemann- und Lebesgueintegrals, die Einbettung einfacher Elemente der komplexen in die reelle Analysis, ausgedehnte Anwendungen – von der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation über die Lösung der Wärmeleitungsgleichung bis hin zur Black-Scholes-Formel – sowie die Darstellung der Methode von Ostrogradski und des Dixon-Beweises der allgemeinen Cauchyschen Integralformel. Dass an verschiedenen Stellen die eingefahrenen Pfade verlassen wurden, wird der kundigen Leserschaft nicht verborgen bleiben. Die Frage „abstrakt oder anschaulich-verständlich“ wird konsequent zugunsten des letzteren entschieden. Die Übungsaufgaben sind in den laufenden Text eingebaut in der Hoffnung, dass sie so mehr Beachtung finden. Schließlich vermitteln die historischen Anmerkungen und Kurzbiographien einen Eindruck davon, wie die Analysis sich entwickelt hat und wer wesentlich an dieser Entwicklung beteiligt war.
ANALYSIS: The Key to Improving Organization and Individual Performance
by Richard A. Swanson Thomas J. ChermackWith the volatile nature of today’s workplaces, analysis tools are more valuable than ever: this book provides those tools to capture human expertise before it leaves the organization.The concepts of analysis may be timeless, but recent years have seen massive changes in terms of organizational structures, work systems, and worker requirements, such as remote working and increased employee turnover. This book covers the theory and concepts behind performance improvement, and then turns to the real-world work of performance diagnosis, process improvement, and task documentation, introducing cross-functional task analysis, which recognizes the changing nature of work as more of today’s tasks are extensive and require collaboration across jobs. Each chapter can stand alone if organizations need to focus on a particular area, and includes examples that reflect contemporary work, from job descriptions to task inventories and specific task analyses.One of the only texts providing the tools and processes necessary to analyze workplace performance, document human expertise, and develop training materials, this book is intended for managers, executives, students, and any workplace or organization development professional interested in human expertise and how to manage it.
Analysis – Grundlagen und Exkurse: Mehrdimensionale Integralrechnung und ihre Anwendungen
by Adrian Hirn Christian WeißIn diesem Lehrbuch wird der moderne Lebesguesche Integralbegriff ausf#65533;hrlich entwickelt und auf eine vielf#65533;ltige Klasse von geometrischen Objekten, sogenannte Untermannigfaltigkeiten, #65533;bertragen. Der vorliegende zweite Band richtet den Fokus st#65533;rker auf h#65533;here Dimensionen und stellt zusammen mit dem ersten Band eine umfassende Einf#65533;hrung in die Analysis dar. Die mathematischen Grundlagen werden durch zahlreiche *-Kapitel erweitert, welche die Beziehungen der erlernten Inhalte zu anderen Teilgebieten der Mathematik aufzeigen und die Bedeutung der Analysis f#65533;r praktische Anwendungen verdeutlichen. Dar#65533;ber hinaus enth#65533;lt dieses Buch mehr als 50 #65533;bungsaufgaben inklusive L#65533;sungen, sodass es sich sehr gut f#65533;r Pr#65533;fungsvorbereitungen und zum Selbststudium eignet.
Analysis – Grundlagen und Exkurse: Grundprinzipien der Differential- und Integralrechnung
by Adrian Hirn Christian WeißIn diesem Lehrbuch wird der moderne Lebesguesche Integralbegriff ausf#65533;hrlich entwickelt und auf eine vielf#65533;ltige Klasse von geometrischen Objekten, sogenannte Untermannigfaltigkeiten, #65533;bertragen. Der vorliegende zweite Band richtet den Fokus st#65533;rker auf h#65533;here Dimensionen und stellt zusammen mit dem ersten Band eine umfassende Einf#65533;hrung in die Analysis dar. Die mathematischen Grundlagen werden durch zahlreiche *-Kapitel erweitert, welche die Beziehungen der erlernten Inhalte zu anderen Teilgebieten der Mathematik aufzeigen und die Bedeutung der Analysis f#65533;r praktische Anwendungen verdeutlichen. Dar#65533;ber hinaus enth#65533;lt dieses Buch mehr als 50 #65533;bungsaufgaben inklusive L#65533;sungen, sodass es sich sehr gut f#65533;r Pr#65533;fungsvorbereitungen und zum Selbststudium eignet.
Analysis 1: Ein zuverlässiger und verständlicher Begleiter für Studium und Prüfung
by Martin Brokate Johannes Zimmer Florian LindemannZiel dieses Lehrbuchs ist es, das Material des ersten Semesters eines Vorlesungszyklus zur Analysis prägnant und verständlich darzustellen und darüber hinaus Ausblicke und Ergänzungen zu geben, die den Stoff lebendig werden lassen. Besonderer Wert wird auf die Motivation der zu behandelnden Themen gelegt. Zu Beginn des Buchs wird die mathematische Denkweise, insbesondere Beweistechniken und axiomatisches Vorgehen, ausführlich eingeführt. Dieses Buch basiert auf Vorlesungen, die regelmäßig und seit vielen Jahren an der TU München abgehalten werden. Zahlreiche Abbildungen veranschaulichen die behandelten Konzepte und Ideen. Zudem ermöglicht dieses Lehrbuch den Zugriff auf mehr als 250 interaktive Aufgaben in der Springer Nature Flashcards-App, mit denen Wissen und Verständnis überprüft werden kann – hervorragend geeignet auch zur Prüfungsvorbereitung.
Analysis 1: Differential- und Integralrechnung einer Veränderlichen (Grundkurs Mathematik)
by Otto Forster Florian LindemannDieses fest etablierte Lehrbuch begleitet Studierende der Mathematik, Physik und Informatik seit über vier Jahrzehnten durch die Analysis des ersten Semesters. Es gelangt in systematischer Weise, aber ohne zu große Abstraktionen, einfach und verständlich zu den grundlegenden Begriffen (Konvergenz von Folgen und Reihen, Stetigkeit, Differentiation, Riemannsches Integral) und illustriert sie mit zahlreichen Beispielen. Die numerische Seite der Analysis wird an verschiedenen Stellen beleuchtet, um den Grenzwertbegriff konkreter zu machen. Das Buch schließt mit zwei Kapiteln über Taylor- und Fourier-Reihen, in denen alle bis dahin gelernten Techniken zum Einsatz kommen. Jedes Kapitel enthält Übungsaufgaben zum Vertiefen der Inhalte. Für die vorliegende Auflage wurde der Text einschließlich aller Abbildungen erneut überarbeitet. Darüber hinaus ergänzen nun elektronische Flashcards das Buch: Diese per App zugänglichen Verständnisfragen unterstützen den Lernprozess und eignen sich auch sehr gut zur Prüfungsvorbereitung.
Analysis 2: Differentialrechnung im ℝⁿ, gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen (Grundkurs Mathematik)
by Otto Forster Florian LindemannDieses fest etablierte Lehrbuch begleitet Studierende der Mathematik, Physik und Informatik durch die Analysis des zweiten Semesters, genauer: durch die mehrdimensionale Differentialrechnung sowie die gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen. Bei der Darstellung wurden allzu große Abstraktionen vermieden, stattdessen wird die Theorie durch viele konkrete Beispiele erläutert – insbesondere solche, die für die Physik relevant sind. Jedes Kapitel enthält Übungsaufgaben zum Vertiefen der Inhalte. Für die vorliegende Auflage wurde der Text vollständig überarbeitet. Darüber hinaus ergänzen nun elektronische Flashcards das Buch: Diese per App zugänglichen Verständnisfragen unterstützen den Lernprozess und eignen sich auch sehr gut zur Prüfungsvorbereitung.
Analysis and Activism: Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology
by Andrew Samuels Emilija Kiehl Mark SabanJungian psychology has taken a noticeable political turn in the recent years, and analysts and academics whose work draws on Jung’s ideas have made internationally recognised contributions in many humanitarian, communal and political contexts. This book brings together a multidisciplinary and international selection of contributors, all of whom have track records as activists, to discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics. Analysis and Activism is presented in six parts: Section One, Interventions, includes discussion of what working outside the consulting room means, and descriptions of work with displaced children in Colombia, projects for migrants in Italy and of an analyst’s engagement in the struggles of indigenous Australians. Section Two, Equalities and Inequalities, tackles topics ranging from the collapse of care systems in the UK to working with victims of torture. Section Three, Politics and Modernity, looks at the struggles of native people in Guatemala and Canada and oral history interviews with members of the Chinese/Vietnamese diaspora. Section Four, Culture and Identity, studies issues of race and class in Brazil, feminism and the gendered imagination, and the introduction of Obamacare in the USA. Section Five, Cultural Phantoms, examines the continuing trauma of the Cultural Revolution in China, Jung’s relationship with Jews and Judaism, and German-Jewish dynamics. Finally, Section Six, Nature: Truth and Reconciliation, looks at our broken connection to nature, town and country planning, and relief work after the 2011 earthquake in Japan. There remains throughout the book an acknowledgement that the project of thinking forward the political in Jungian psychology can be problematic, given Jung’s own questionable political history. What emerges is a radical and progressive Jungian approach to politics informed by the spirit of the times as well as by the spirit of the depths. This cutting-edge collection will be essential reading for Jungian and post-Jungian academics and analysts, psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists, and academics and students of politics, sociology, psychosocial studies and cultural studies.
Analysis and Algebra on Differentiable Manifolds: A Workbook for Students and Teachers (Problem Books in Mathematics)
by Ihor V. Mykytyuk Jaime Muñoz Masqué Pedro M. GadeaThis is the second edition of this best selling problem book for students, now containing over 400 completely solved exercises on differentiable manifolds, Lie theory, fibre bundles and Riemannian manifolds. The exercises go from elementary computations to rather sophisticated tools. Many of the definitions and theorems used throughout are explained in the first section of each chapter where they appear. A 56-page collection of formulae is included which can be useful as an aide-mémoire, even for teachers and researchers on those topics. In this 2nd edition: * 76 new problems * a section devoted to a generalization of Gauss' Lemma * a short novel section dealing with some properties of the energy of Hopf vector fields * an expanded collection of formulae and tables * an extended bibliography Audience This book will be useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics, theoretical physics and some branches of engineering with a rudimentary knowledge of linear and multilinear algebra.
Analysis and Analyzers: Volume II
by Béla G. LiptákThe Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH) is the #1 process automation handbook in the world. Volume two of the Fifth Edition, Analysis and Analyzers, describes the measurement of such analytical properties as composition. Analysis and Analyzers is an invaluable resource that describes the availability, features, capabilities, and selection of analyzers used for determining the quality and compositions of liquid, gas, and solid products in many processing industries. It is the first time that a separate volume is devoted to analyzers in the IAEH. This is because, by converting the handbook into an international one, the coverage of analyzers has almost doubled since the last edition. Analysis and Analyzers: Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various process analyzer designs Offers application- and method-specific guidance for choosing the best analyzer Provides tables of analyzer capabilities and other practical information at a glance Contains detailed descriptions of domestic and overseas products, their features, capabilities, and suppliers, including suppliers’ web addresses Complete with 82 alphabetized chapters and a thorough index for quick access to specific information, Analysis and Analyzers is a must-have reference for instrument and automation engineers working in the chemical, oil/gas, pharmaceutical, pollution, energy, plastics, paper, wastewater, food, etc. industries. About the eBookThe most important new feature of the IAEH, Fifth Edition is its availability as an eBook. The eBook provides the same content as the print edition, with the addition of thousands of web addresses so that readers can reach suppliers or reference books and articles on the hundreds of topics covered in the handbook. This feature includes a complete bidders' list that allows readers to issue their specifications for competitive bids from any or all potential product suppliers.