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Free Download Michael Leifer, "Constraints and Adjustments in British Foreign Policy"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415709652, 0415710626 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.5 mb
This book, first published in 1972, offers a detailed analysis of the post-war formulation of foreign policy, as Britain sought to detach itself from its imperialist past and moved towards a European future. The contributors – all experts in their fields – together provide a comprehensive commentary on the complexities of the external pressures that moulded British foreign policy during these years. The subjects covered highlight the dichotomy of, and interaction between, residual obligations and new goals and national aspirations. These include the examination of past policies regarding the Commonwealth, South-East Asia, NATO, and the ‘special relationship’ with the U.S.A., as well as multi-national companies and Britain’s place in the changing global society. This reissue will of particular interest to students and academics researching the history of British foreign policy, international diplomacy and development, and post colonialism.

Free Download Benno Ndulu, L. Chakraborti, L. Lijane, "Challenges of African Growth: Opportunities, Constraints, and Strategic Directions"
English | 2007 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0821368826 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world’s population but a staggering 30 percent of the world’s poor, the challenges it faces are enormous but NOT insurmountable. The message of this book is clear―poverty-eradicating development in Africa is possible. In fact, there are indications that Africa is at a turning point, and there is growing momentum among front-runner economies in the region toward higher and sustained growth. This study challenges African countries and their development partners to consolidate and continue this momentum and to exploit the advantages of the continent as a latecomer, particularly in innovation and in drawing lessons from successful export-led growth experiences in Asia and Latin America. ‘Challenges of African Growth’ identifies opportunities, constraints, and strategic choices that African countries face in their quest for achieving the growth necessary for poverty alleviation. More important, the study provides a broad menu of stategic options for ensuring not only that countries embark on a growth path, but also that the growth is shared and sustainable. The critical areas for action rest on four pillars: the investment climate; infrastructure; innovation for increasing productivity and competitiveness; and institutional capacity.

Free Download Project Scheduling under Resource Constraints: Efficient Heuristics for Several Problem Classes By Dr. Rainer Kolisch (auth.)
1995 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 3790808296 | PDF | 11 MB
This book introduces the field of resource-constrained project scheduling. State-of-the-art reviews of optimal and heuristic procedures are provided for classical project scheduling models. Furthermore, new models which are relevant for practical problem settings, are introduced. The main emphasis is on newly developed competitive heuristic methods.

Free Download Do I Have Your Attention? Understanding Memory Constraints and Maximizing Learning
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032750278 | 146 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
Drawing on evidence from cognitive science, Part I offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the process of memory and highlights certain barriers that hinder students’ ability to learn. Part II introduces over a century of research into two widely applicable learning strategies and, drawing on the author’s extensive teaching experience, demonstrates a plethora of classroom applications that maximize learning while working within the known constraints of human memory.

Free Download Shannon Jenkins, "The Context of Legislating: Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138599654 | EPUB | pages: 146 | 1.2 mb
The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkinstraces these important contextual effects across the legislative process, examining bill introduction, committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process, the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions?

Free Download Nicholas R. Seabrook, "Drawing the Lines: Constraints on Partisan Gerrymandering in U.S. Politics"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1501705318 | EPUB | pages: 152 | 2.2 mb
Radical redistricting plans, such as that pushed through by Texas governor Rick Perry in 2003, are frequently used for partisan purposes. Perry’s plan sent twenty-one Republicans (and only eleven Democrats) to Congress in the 2004 elections. Such heavy-handed tactics strike many as contrary to basic democratic principles. In Drawing the Lines, Nicholas R. Seabrook uses a combination of political science methods and legal studies insights to investigate the effects of redistricting on U.S. House elections. He concludes that partisan gerrymandering poses far less of a threat to democratic accountability than conventional wisdom would suggest.

Free Download Kun Liu, "Networked Control Under Communication Constraints: A Time-Delay Approach "
English | ISBN: 9811542295 | 2020 | 274 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book presents a time-delay approach to the analysis and synthesis of networked control systems (NCSs) under communication constraints. Differently from other approaches, the time-delay approach to NCSs allows communication delays to be larger than the sampling intervals in the presence of scheduling protocols. The book starts from a comprehensive introduction to three main approaches to sampled-data and networked control. It then focuses on time-delay approach, and the modelling of the closed-loop systems in the form of time-delay system. It presents discontinuous (in time) Lyapunov functional constructions that are efficient for NCSs in the presence of communications delays. Further, it highlights time-delay approaches developed to model and analyze NCSs under communication constraints, with a particular focus on dynamic quantization, round-robin, try-once-discard and stochastic protocols. The results are first presented for the continuous-time NCSs and then extended to discrete-time NCSs. Discussing recent developments in Lyapunov-based analysis of NCSs under communication constraints, the book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in sampled-data and networked control, and time-delay systems, as well as for graduate students in automatic control and systems theory.

Free Download Houdini School – HS-234 Mastering Constraints
MP4 | Video: av01 / 0x31307661, 2560×1440 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz | Duration: 2.5h | 736 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
The all-in-one stop for all things constraints. This recorded course will dive into understanding the purpose, construction, manipulation, application, and destruction of using constraints in the RBD context. Topics will cover both traditional and custom ways to create constraints to fit the needs of the scene, including building constraints from scratch to achieve full control to art direct behaviors in your simulations.
The all-in-one stop for all things constraints. This recorded course will dive into understanding the purpose, construction, manipulation, application, and destruction of using constraints in the RBD context. Topics will cover both traditional and custom ways to create constraints to fit the needs of the scene, including building constraints from scratch to achieve full control to art direct behaviors in your simulations.

Free Download Uncertainty, Constraints, and Decision Making
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031363930 | 696 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14 MB
In the first approximation, decision making is nothing else but an optimization problem: We want to select the best alternative. This description, however, is not fully accurate: it implicitly assumes that we know the exact consequences of each decision, and that, once we have selected a decision, no constraints prevent us from implementing it. In reality, we usually know the consequences with some uncertainty, and there are also numerous constraints that needs to be taken into account. The presence of uncertainty and constraints makes decision making challenging. To resolve these challenges, we need to go beyond simple optimization, we also need to get a good understanding of how the corresponding systems and objects operate, a good understanding of why we observe what we observe – this will help us better predict what will be the consequences of different decisions. All these problems – in relation to different application areas – are the main focus of this book.

Free Download Decision Making with Dominance Constraints in Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programming by Uwe Gotzes
English | PDF | 2009 | 96 Pages | ISBN : 3834808431 | 0.94 MB
Two-stage stochastic programming models are considered as attractive tools for making optimal decisions under uncertainty. Traditionally, optimality is formalized by applying statistical parameters such as the expectation or the conditional value at risk to the distributions of objective values.