Measures and Transforms -- Selfadjointness and Spectrum -- Criteria for Identifying the Spectrum -- Operators of Interest -- Applications.Themainobjectiveofthisbookistogiveacollectionofcriteriaavailablein the spectral theory of selfadjoint operators, and to identify the spectrum and its components in the Lebesgue decomposition. Many of these criteria were published in several articles in di?ere…
Classical Abstract Spaces in Functional Analysis -- Linear Functionals and Linear Operators -- Common Function Spaces in Applications -- Differential Calculus in Normed Vector Spaces -- Minimization of Functionals -- Convex Functionals -- Lower Semicontinuous Functionals.This volume is dedicated to the fundamentals of convex functional analysis. It presents those aspects of functional analysis …
1 -- Introduction -- Part I: Housing, rights, land policy, and global social citizenship -- 2. The monitoring of human rights Discourses on housing -- 4. Land policy meets social citizenship on a global level -- Part II: The discourse on the human right housing under the monitoring system of the ICESCR -- 5. Changing views: Housing in the past four decades -- 6. Comparative discussion: Interpre…
The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …
Introduction -- Total Subsidence Analysis -- Tectonic Subsidence Analysis -- Thermal Subsidence Analysis -- Subsidence Visualization with BasinVis 1.5.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques for quantitative subsidence analysis and visualization with example applications. Subsidence analysis is an essential step to understand basin evolution through geologic time and space…
Introduction: Beginnings of an Adventure -- Chapter 1: The Lure of the Poles -- Chapter 2: The Mountain and Its Madness -- Chapter 3: First Step: Getting There -- Chapter 4: Second Step: McMurdo -- Chapter 5: Working on the Edge -- Chapter 6: Our Voyage Up the Mountain -- Chapter 7: Landscapes on This and Other Worlds -- Chapter 8: Future Explorations -- Chapter 9: Journal Entries -- Glossary -…
Sensor Design -- Measurement System -- Characterization -- Applications -- Conclusions and Outlook.This monograph is intended for wire bonding and flip-chip packaging professionals and for scientists and engineers working in the field of mechanical microsensors. New measurement technologies are introduced that allow in situ and real-time examination of physical processes during the packaging pr…
Autoimmune Bullous Skin Disorders -- Pemphigus -- Bullous Pemphigoid: Clinical Features, Diagnostic Markers, and Immunopathogenic Mechanisms -- Dermatitis Herpetiformis Duhring -- Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita -- Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Disease -- Scleroderma -- Localized Scleroderma -- Progressive Systemic Scleroderma -- Epidemiology of Autoimmune Skin Disorders -- Lupus Erythematosus -- …
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
Introduction -- What Is Sprawl And Why Should We Care About It? -- Sprawl as Where We Grow: Or, How Government Spreads Suburbia -- Sprawl as Where We Grow, Part 2: How Government Prices Americans Out of Cities -- Sprawl As How We Grow, Or, How Government Makes Suburbia Sprawling -- The Criminalization of Walking -- Policy Conclusions: Or, A Short Guide to Market Urbanism.This book shows how sub…