Preface Introduction and Summary of This Book An Introductory Example: the Spinodal Decomposition History Derivation of Dissipative or Conservative Schemes Advanced Topics Target Partial Differential Equations Variational Derivatives First-Order Real-Valued PDEs First-Order Complex-Valued PDEs Systems of First-Order PDEs Second-Order PDEs Discrete Variational Derivative Method Discrete Symbols and Formulas Procedure for First-Order Real-Valued PDEs Procedure for First-Order Complex-Valued PDEs Procedure for Systems of First-Order PDEs Design of Schemes Procedure for Second-Order PDEs Preliminaries on Discrete Functional Analysis Applications Target PDEs Cahn-Hilliard Equation Allen-Cahn Equation Fisher-Kolmogorov Equation Target PDEs Target PDEs Target PDEs Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Target PDEs Zakharov Equations Target PDEs Other Equations Advanced Topic I: Design of High-Order Schemes Orders of Accuracy of the Schemes Spatially High-Order Schemes Temporally High-Order Schemes: With the Composition Method Temporally High-Order Schemes: With High-Order Discrete Variational Derivatives Advanced Topic II: Design of Linearly-Implicit Schemes Basic Idea for Constructing Linearly-Implicit Schemes Multiple-Points Discrete Variational Derivative Design of Schemes Applications Remark on the Stability of Linearly-Implicit Schemes Advanced Topic III: Further Remarks Solving System of Nonlinear Equations Switch to Galerkin Framework Extension to Non-Rectangular Meshes on D Region A Semi-discrete schemes in space B Proof of Proposition 3.4 Bibliography Index
1. Introduction 2. Mulitscale Approximation and Multiresolution 3. Elliptic Boundary Value Problems 4. Multiresolution Galerkin Methods 5. Wavelets 6. Wavelet-Galerkin Methods 7. Adaptive Wavelet Methods 8. Wavelets on General Domains 9. Some Applications APPENDICES REFERENCES INDEX
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With the introduction and popularization of Agile methods of software development, existing relationships and working agreements between user experience groups and developers are being disrupted. Agile methods introduce new concepts: the Product Owner, the Customer (but not the user), short iterations, User Stories. Where do UX professionals fit in this new world? Agile methods also bring a new mindset -- no big design, no specifications, minimal planning -- which conflict with the needs of UX design. This lecture discusses the key elements of Agile for the UX community and describes strategies UX people can use to contribute effectively in an Agile team, overcome key weaknesses in Agile methods as typically implemented, and produce a more robust process and more successful designs. We present a process combining the best practices of Contextual Design, a leading approach to user-centered design, with those of Agile development. Table of Contents: Introduction / Common Agile Methods / Agile Culture / Best Practices for Integrating UX with Agile / Structure of a User-Centered Agile Process / Structuring Projects / Conclusion
The increase in the popularity and the number of potential applications of the finite strip method has created a demand for a definitive text/reference on the subject. Fulfilling this demand, The Finite Strip Method provides practicing engineers, researchers, and students with a comprehensive introduction and theoretical development, and a complete treatment of current practical applications of the method.Written by experts who are arguably the world's leading authorities in the field, The Finite Strip Method covers both the classical strip and the newly developed spline strip and computed shape function strip. Applications in structural engineering, with particular focus on practical structures such as slab-beam bridges, box girder bridges, and tall buildings are discussed extensively. Applications in geotechnology are also covered, as are recently formulated applications in nonlinear analysis.The Finite Strip Method is a unique book, supplying much-needed information by well-known and highly regarded authors.
Fundamental to the study of graphic design is the creative use of images in a design context. This book teaches you how to select and use images for a range of applications, including: magazines and newspapers, posters, booklets, books, leaflets, stationery, book and CD covers, advertising and promotional material, packaging, point of purchase, web pages and digital advertisements. The book explores methodologies for choosing, placing, combining, manipulating and montaging imagery and the relationship of image to text. It has chapters on selection, structure and layout, composition, communication, colour, image potential, and productionUsing fully illustrated case studies from leading graphic designers and practical exercises, the book provides professional insights and tips into ways of using pictures and will be invaluable for graphic design students.
Method in Madness looks at the ways in which nineteenth-century French literature of the fantastic reflected what psychoanalysis would later define as mechanisms of defence. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a particular mechanism – fetishization, projection, intellectualization, mechanization, and compulsion – and to a representative set of texts which illustrate and embody the process concerned. The book thus systematizes what has remained up to now a rather vague perception of the psychological processes at work in fantastic narrative and of the relationship between the fantastic and the emerging science of psychoanalysis. Although centred on French works, including texts by Gautier, Mérimée, Balzac, George Sand, Maupassant, and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, the study necessarily deals with the German tradition of the fantastic, notably Hoffmann and Freud. It argues that mechanisms of defence not only take place in fantastic literature, but that the fantastic itself in fact consists in translating defence into the real, thus making clear to the reader the very processes by which defence occurs. The book finds that the defence mechanisms “fail” in the fantastic, because in this literature defence involves adding a real danger to a merely psychic one, thereby intensifying the anxiety and displeasure which the mechanisms of defence are ideally designed to minimize.
Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book “The Method of Imagination” is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological studies. The volume is an innovative multidisciplinary exploration in the study of imaginative processes as complex phenomena. It covers a wide range of fields, from psychology to sociology, from art and design to marketing and education. The book gathers young and experienced scholars from 6 different countries worldwide, providing a fresh look into the theoretical, methodological and applicative aspects of imagination studies. The audience for this book includes scholars and students in social and human sciences interested in the study and the use of imaginative processes. The volume can be also used as textbook/integrative reading in undergrad and master courses.
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