Tag: Continuity

Governing Knowledge A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education – A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan


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English | 2005 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 9048168821, 140203489X | PDF | 4,7 mb
In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.

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Business Continuity Management Significant Insights from Practice


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032303514 | 125 Pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB
Business continuity management is a critical aspect that investors and company directors evaluate in terms of an organizations’ sustainability and future value propositions in the face of supply chain disruptions, threats of economic recession, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This guide demonstrates a simple and systematic way to ensure that businesses are prepared for any crisis or emergency, including steps to meet the specific requirements prescribed in the international Business Continuity Standard ISO 22201, with a particular focus on the oil and gas sector. The seasoned author team brings their experience to bear on critical issues such as:

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What Is Enlightenment Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings


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English | ISBN: 0739193678 | 2016 | 404 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Libya have fragmented shar’iya (legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: "revolutionary legitimacy," "electoral legitimacy," "legitimacy of the street," and "consensual legitimacy." This volume examines whether the Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with possible progression toward modernity or regression toward neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two centuries.

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Holder Continuity of Weak Solutions to Subelliptic Equations With Rough Coefficients


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 0821838261 | DJVU | pages: 176 | 1.5 mb
We study interior regularity of weak solutions of second order linear divergence form equations with degenerate ellipticity and rough coefficients. In particular, we show that solutions of large classes of subelliptic equations with bounded measurable coefficients are Hölder continuous. We present two types of results dealing with such equations. The first type generalizes the celebrated Fefferman-Phong geometric characterization of subellipticity in the smooth case. We introduce a notion of $L^q$-subellipticity for the rough case and develop an axiomatic method which provides a near characterization of the notion of $L^q$-subellipticity. The second type deals with generalizing a case of Hörmanders’s celebrated algebraic characterization of subellipticity for sums of squares of real analytic vector fields. In this case, we introduce a "flag condition" as a substitute for the Hörmander commutator condition which turns out to be equivalent to it in the smooth case! . The question of regularity for quasilinear subelliptic equations with smooth coefficients provides motivation for our study, and we briefly indicate some applications in this direction, including degenerate Monge-Ampère equations.

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The Arts in Nazi Germany Continuity, Conformity, Change


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English | 2006 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 1845452097, 184545359X | PDF | 2,3 mb
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that "Aryans" alone were capable of creating true art and preserving true German culture. This volume’s essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National Socialism, and are authored by some of the most respected authorities in the field: Alan Steinweis, Michael Kater, Eric Rentschler, Pamela Potter, Frank Trommler, and Jonathan Petropoulos. The result is a volume that offers students and interested readers a brief but focused introduction to this important aspect of the history of Nazi Germany.

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Time Continuity in Discrete Time Models New Approaches for Production Planning in Process Industries


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English | PDF | 2005 | 242 Pages | ISBN : 3540245219 | 13.2 MB
Production planning problems containing special characteristics from process industries are addressed in this book. The main subject is the development of mathematical programming models that allow to model production plans which are not disrupted by discretization of time. However, discrete time models are used as a basis and are subsequently enhanced to include aspects of time continuity. Their integration is achieved by different building blocks which may be combined freely according to the specific planning situation at hand. The primary area of application of these kinds of models are process industries.

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