A Synthesis of Time

2020-02-07
 |  Social Science
A Synthesis of Time

Author: Konstantinos Retsikas

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030349332

Category: Social Science

Page: 274

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This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.

Analysis of Economic Time Series

2014-05-10
 |  Business & Economics
Analysis of Economic Time Series

Author: Marc Nerlove

Publisher: Academic Press

ISBN: 9781483218885

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 488

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Analysis of Economic Time Series: A Synthesis integrates several topics in economic time-series analysis, including the formulation and estimation of distributed-lag models of dynamic economic behavior; the application of spectral analysis in the study of the behavior of economic time series; and unobserved-components models for economic time series and the closely related problem of seasonal adjustment. Comprised of 14 chapters, this volume begins with a historical background on the use of unobserved components in the analysis of economic time series, followed by an Introduction to the theory of stationary time series. Subsequent chapters focus on the spectral representation and its estimation; formulation of distributed-lag models; elements of the theory of prediction and extraction; and formulation of unobserved-components models and canonical forms. Seasonal adjustment techniques and multivariate mixed moving-average autoregressive time-series models are also considered. Finally, a time-series model of the U.S. cattle industry is presented. This monograph will be of value to mathematicians, economists, and those interested in economic theory, econometrics, and mathematical economics.

The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness

2017-09-07
 |  Philosophy
The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness

Author: Keith Whitmoyer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350003989

Category: Philosophy

Page: 224

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Addressing Merleau-Ponty's work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of “ontological lateness”. This describes the manner in which philosophical reflection is fated to lag behind its objects; therefore an absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach. Merleau-Ponty articulates this philosophy against the backdrop of what he calls “cruel thought”, a style of reflecting that seeks resolution by limiting, circumscribing, and arresting its object. By contrast, the philosophy of ontological lateness seeks no such finality-no apocalypsis or unveiling-but is characterized by its ability to accept the veiling of being and its own constitutive lack of punctuality. To this extent, his thinking inaugurates a new relation to the becoming of sense that overcomes cruel thought. Merleau-Ponty's work gives voice to a wisdom of dispossession that allows for the withdrawal of being. Never before has anyone engaged with the theme of Merleau-Ponty's own understanding of philosophy in such a sustained way as Whitmoyer does in this volume.

Analysis and Synthesis of Dynamical Systems with Time-Delays

2009-09-07
 |  Technology & Engineering
Analysis and Synthesis of Dynamical Systems with Time-Delays

Author: Yuanqing Xia

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9783642026959

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 288

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Time-delay occurs in many dynamical systems such as biological systems, chemical systems, metallurgical processing systems, nuclear reactor, long transmission lines in pneumatic, hydraulic systems and electrical networks. Especially, in recent years, time-delay which exists in networked control s- temshasbroughtmorecomplexproblemintoanewresearcharea.Frequently, itisasourceofthegenerationofoscillation,instabilityandpoorperformance. Considerable e?ort has been applied to di?erent aspects of linear time-delay systems during recent years. Because the introduction of the delay factor renders the system analysis more complicated, in addition to the di?culties caused by the perturbation or uncertainties, in the control of time-delay s- tems, the problems of robust stability and robust stabilization are of great importance. This book presents some basic theories of stability and stabilization of systems with time-delay, which are related to the main results in this book. More attention will be paid on synthesis of systems with time-delay. That is, sliding mode control of systems with time-delay; networked control systems with time-delay; networked data fusion with random delay.

Kant's Dog

2012-05-01
 |  Literary Criticism
Kant's Dog

Author: David E. Johnson

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 9781438442655

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 289

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Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.

Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity

2018-09-27
 |  History
Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity

Author: Kate A. Moran

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107125933

Category: History

Page: 325

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A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant's philosophy.