First Order

Author : Valerie M. Hudson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550936
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Political Order written by Valerie M. Hudson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide.

Author : Amir Beck
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611974984
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-Order Methods in Optimization written by Amir Beck and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary goal of this book is to provide a self-contained, comprehensive study of the main ?rst-order methods that are frequently used in solving large-scale problems. First-order methods exploit information on values and gradients/subgradients (but not Hessians) of the functions composing the model under consideration. With the increase in the number of applications that can be modeled as large or even huge-scale optimization problems, there has been a revived interest in using simple methods that require low iteration cost as well as low memory storage. The author has gathered, reorganized, and synthesized (in a unified manner) many results that are currently scattered throughout the literature, many of which cannot be typically found in optimization books. First-Order Methods in Optimization offers comprehensive study of first-order methods with the theoretical foundations; provides plentiful examples and illustrations; emphasizes rates of convergence and complexity analysis of the main first-order methods used to solve large-scale problems; and covers both variables and functional decomposition methods.

Author : Jeff Abbott
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455558400
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Order written by Jeff Abbott and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Capra returns as he embarks on a one-man mission to find his brother from the New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Abbott, in this "fast-paced, high-octane" read (Publishers Weekly). Two brothers. One dead, executed by extremists on a grainy video. The other forged into a top undercover agent. But now, Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive. And if Danny has been living a secret life these past years, where has he been--and what has he become? Sam's desperate search for his brother leads him into a modern heart of darkness: the Russian elite inner circle, a group of ruthless ex-KGB billionaires who owe fealty to Russia's corrupt president, Morozov. One of these men wants Morozov dead. And Danny will be the one to kill him--on American soil. To save his brother--and to save the world from certain war--Sam, along with his mysterious partner, Mila, must stop Danny from killing Morozov. The mission will take Sam from the slums of Pakistan to the hipster galleries of Brooklyn to the Caribbean playgrounds of the superrich. And as Sam untangles the secret past locked in his brother's heart, he may be forced to make a choice between his brother--and the greater good . . .

Author : Raymond R. Smullyan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642867189
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-Order Logic written by Raymond R. Smullyan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except for this preface, this study is completely self-contained. It is intended to serve both as an introduction to Quantification Theory and as an exposition of new results and techniques in "analytic" or "cut-free" methods. We use the term "analytic" to apply to any proof procedure which obeys the subformula principle (we think of such a procedure as "analysing" the formula into its successive components). Gentzen cut-free systems are perhaps the best known example of ana lytic proof procedures. Natural deduction systems, though not usually analytic, can be made so (as we demonstrated in [3]). In this study, we emphasize the tableau point of view, since we are struck by its simplicity and mathematical elegance. Chapter I is completely introductory. We begin with preliminary material on trees (necessary for the tableau method), and then treat the basic syntactic and semantic fundamentals of propositional logic. We use the term "Boolean valuation" to mean any assignment of truth values to all formulas which satisfies the usual truth-table conditions for the logical connectives. Given an assignment of truth-values to all propositional variables, the truth-values of all other formulas under this assignment is usually defined by an inductive procedure. We indicate in Chapter I how this inductive definition can be made explicit-to this end we find useful the notion of a formation tree (which we discuss earlier).

Author : Tom Taylor
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302517171
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars written by Tom Taylor and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects STAR WARS: AGE OF RESISTANCE — CAPTAIN PHASMA, GENERAL HUX, KYLO REN and SUPREME LEADER SNOKE. This is the Age of Star Wars — an epic series of adventures that unites your favorite characters from all three trilogies! The First Order takes center stage! As Captain Phasma leads an attack on the iron planet Demir, a young Stormtrooper looks to follow in Phasma’s footsteps. But can she follow the First Order captain’s merciless ways? General Hux has always been looked down upon, but Kylo Ren’s fate will be in Hux’s hands when a sabotaged shuttle crash-lands on an unknown planet! Meanwhile, can Kylo Ren ever escape the long shadow cast by his grandfather, Anakin Skywalker — or will he succeed where Darth Vader failed? And as Supreme Leader Snoke begins Ren’s training, will the sadistic master break his tormented protégé?

Author : Petr Hájek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739457
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamathematics of First-Order Arithmetic written by Petr Hájek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. This volume, the third publication in the Perspectives in Logic series, is a much-needed monograph on the metamathematics of first-order arithmetic. The authors pay particular attention to subsystems (fragments) of Peano arithmetic and give the reader a deeper understanding of the role of the axiom schema of induction and of the phenomenon of incompleteness. The reader is only assumed to know the basics of mathematical logic, which are reviewed in the preliminaries. Part I develops parts of mathematics and logic in various fragments. Part II is devoted to incompleteness. Finally, Part III studies systems that have the induction schema restricted to bounded formulas (bounded arithmetic).

Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108991521
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical First-Order Logic written by Stewart Shapiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One is often said to be reasoning well when they are reasoning logically. Many attempts to say what logical reasoning is have been proposed, but one commonly proposed system is first-order classical logic. This Element will examine the basics of first-order classical logic and discuss some surrounding philosophical issues. The first half of the Element develops a language for the system, as well as a proof theory and model theory. The authors provide theorems about the system they developed, such as unique readability and the Lindenbaum lemma. They also discuss the meta-theory for the system, and provide several results there, including proving soundness and completeness theorems. The second half of the Element compares first-order classical logic to other systems: classical higher order logic, intuitionistic logic, and several paraconsistent logics which reject the law of ex falso quodlibet.

Author : Hyun-Ku Rhee
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146200
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-Order Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 1 written by Hyun-Ku Rhee and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a highly regarded two-volume text is fully usable on its own. After going over some of the preliminaries, the authors discuss mathematical models that yield first-order partial differential equations; motivations, classifications, and some methods of solution; linear and semilinear equations; chromatographic equations with finite rate expressions; homogeneous and nonhomogeneous quasilinear equations; formation and propagation of shocks; conservation equations, weak solutions, and shock layers; nonlinear equations; and variational problems. Exercises appear at the end of most sections. This volume is geared to advanced undergraduates or first-year grad students with a sound understanding of calculus and elementary ordinary differential equations. 1986 edition. 189 black-and-white illustrations. Author and subject indices.

Author : M. Fitting
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401152926
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-Order Modal Logic written by M. Fitting and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic. The book covers such issues as quantification, equality (including a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle), the notion of existence, non-rigid constants and function symbols, predicate abstraction, the distinction between nonexistence and nondesignation, and definite descriptions, borrowing from both Fregean and Russellian paradigms.

Author : Maria Manzano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521354356
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extensions of First-Order Logic written by Maria Manzano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to many-sorted logic as an extension of first-order logic.