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Many process control books focus on control design techniques, taking the construction of a process model for granted. Process Modelling for Control concentrates on the modelling steps underlying a successful design, answering questions like: How should I carry out the identification of my process in order to obtain a good model? How can I assess the quality of a model with a view to using it in control design? How can I ensure that a controller will stabilise a real process and achieve a pre-specified level of performance before implementation? What is the most efficient method of order reduction to facilitate the implementation of high-order controllers? Different tools, namely system identification, model/controller validation and order reduction are studied in a framework with a common basis: closed-loop identification with a controller that is close to optimal will deliver models with bias and variance errors ideally tuned for control design. As a result, rules are derived, applying to all the methods, that provide the practitioner with a clear way forward despite the apparently unconnected nature of the modelling tools. Detailed worked examples, representative of various industrial applications, are given: control of a mechanically flexible structure; a chemical process; and a nuclear power plant. Process Modelling for Control uses mathematics of an intermediate level convenient to researchers with an interest in real applications and to practising control engineers interested in control theory. It will enable working control engineers to improve their methods and will provide academics and graduate students with an all-round view of recent results in modelling for control. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Process control --- Manufacturing processes. --- Mathematical models. --- Industrial processing --- Manufacture --- Process engineering (Manufactures) --- Processes, Manufacturing --- Processing, Industrial --- Production processes --- Industrial arts --- Production engineering --- Machine-tools --- Materials --- Control of industrial processes --- Industrial process control --- Automatic control --- Manufacturing processes --- Quality control --- Computer simulation. --- Chemical engineering. --- Mechanical engineering. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering. --- Mechanical Engineering. --- Chemistry, Industrial --- Engineering, Chemical --- Industrial chemistry --- Engineering --- Chemistry, Technical --- Metallurgy --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Control engineering. --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers

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L’ambition est double. Analyser d’abord l’inscription de la mort dans une œuvre de poésie et en dresser le paysage. Ensuite montrer comment la totalité de cette œuvre s’organise en fonction de ce point de vue majeur, la mort, et sortir ainsi du lieu commun énoncé quant à l’œuvre de Jouve, laquelle n’aurait d’autre pivot que le sexe. De cela, il découle une « histoire » de la mort, avec son théâtre d’ombres, et ses coulisses, ses personnages et ses « lustres », ses « machines » et ses décors, une « histoire de la mort » dans l’œuvre qui est histoire de l’œuvre poétique même.

Death in literature. --- Jouve, Pierre Jean, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rosé, Daniel, --- poésie --- mort --- littérature --- œuvre littéraire

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L’histoire des techniques et des artisanats de la Grèce antique a laissé jusqu'ici peu de place à un matériau comme le cuir, sous prétexte du manque de sources textuelles et iconographiques ou de leur caractère trop allusif, et parce que les objets réalisés en peau, fourrure et cuir n’ont que trop rarement été retrouvés en fouille. Pourtant, la collecte des sources testimoniales (images, textes littéraires, épigraphiques, papyrologiques) – menée non sans élargir le champ de la recherche à certains auteurs latins et tardifs, comme les lexicographes – et, dans une proportion bien moindre, des don- nées de terrain, articulée à une modélisation technique de la fabrication du matériau, permet de renouveler quelque peu l’approche et de préciser ce que furent cet artisanat et les usages des peaux et du cuir en Grèce antique, bien que la somme réunie ici suscite également un grand nombre de questions et de pistes qui restent non résolues. Notre enquête tente ainsi, avec toute la prudence et la modestie que doit garder le chercheur qui travaille sur les mondes antiques, de dresser le bilan de nos connaissances quant aux étapes de fabrication de la matière première en matériau, fabrication relevant d’un savoir spécifique mais qui devait trouver des degrés de réalisation très variables. Nous passons ensuite en revue l’utilisation des peaux, fourrures et cuir, des emplois quotidiens les plus attendus aux cas les plus particuliers. Nous envisageons enfin l'organisation des « métiers du cuir », depuis l'approvisionnement en peaux brutes jusqu’aux opérations de cordonnerie, et le jugement porté sur ces activités au IVe siècle av. J.-C. à Athènes, période la mieux documentée sur la question.

Leather industry and trade --- Hides and skins industry --- Leatherwork --- Handicraft --- Cuir --- Cuirs et peaux --- Travail du cuir --- Artisanat --- History --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Archaeology --- production artisanale --- Antiquité grecque --- travail du cuir --- travail des peaux --- cordonnerie --- To 1500 --- Greece --- Grèce --- Greece. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān

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The notion of an operad supplies both a conceptual and effective device to handle a variety of algebraic structures in various situations. Operads were introduced 40 years ago in algebraic topology in order to model the structure of iterated loop spaces. Since then, operads have been used fruitfully in many fields of mathematics and physics. This monograph begins with a review of the basis of operad theory. The main purpose is to study structures of modules over operads as a new device to model functors between categories of algebras as effectively as operads model categories of algebras.

Modules (Algebra) --- Operads --- Algebra --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Operads. --- Finite number systems --- Modular systems (Algebra) --- Mathematics. --- Algebra. --- Category theory (Mathematics). --- Homological algebra. --- Algebraic topology. --- Algebraic Topology. --- Category Theory, Homological Algebra. --- Topology --- Homological algebra --- Algebra, Abstract --- Homology theory --- Category theory (Mathematics) --- Algebra, Homological --- Algebra, Universal --- Group theory --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Functor theory --- Mathematical analysis --- Math --- Science --- Categories (Mathematics) --- Finite groups --- Rings (Algebra)

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From lobbyists such as Jack Abramoff, to corporate executives, like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, recent scandals dealing with politics and government have focused only on men at the top. But do these high-profile men accurately represent the gendered make up of corporate-government in the United States? In this first in-depth look at the changing face of corporate lobbying, Denise Benoit shows how women who have historically worked mostly in policy areas relating to "women's issues" such as welfare, family, and health have become increasingly influential as corporate lobbyists, specializing in what used to be considered "masculine" policy, such as taxes and defense. Benoit finds that this new crop of female lobbyists mobilize both masculinity and femininity in ways that create and maintain trusting, open, and strong relations with those in government, and at the same time help corporations to save and earn billions of dollars. While the media focuses on the dubious behaviors of men at the top of business and government, this book shows that female corporate lobbyists are indeed one of the best kept secrets in Washington.

Businesswomen. --- Corporations. --- Lobbying. --- Businesswomen --- Corporations --- Lobbying --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Political activity --- E-books