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Environmental planning --- urban planning --- open spaces --- squares [open spaces] --- public spaces

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An immigrant daughter who returned to her mother's home town, Giovanna Del Negro spent a year doing intensive fieldwork in the homes and public spaces of Sasso. She reveals the diverse reactions that Sassani have to industrialization, changing gender roles, immigration, and the proliferation of the global media. Unlike accounts that focus exclusively on large-scale social forces or universal theories of historical change, this study, set against the backdrop of Italy's mid-1990s corruption scandals, centres on the experiences of ordinary people and the culturally specific ways that modernity reveals itself in a particular place. Del Negro focuses on the passeggiata, and her evocative descriptions of dressing, walking, courting, and socializing in the piazza paint a vivid picture of this event. Sassani pride themselves on their urbane sophistication, only half jokingly referring to their town as "our little Paris." Del Negro shows how different segments of Sassani society (older women and teenage girls, motorbike boys and established professionals) use passeggiata performances to depict themselves as modern, stake their place in the town's collective self-image, and debate the meaning of modernity. Examining everything from Sassani interpretations of tabloid television and soap operas to community games and postcards, Del Negro casts her net wide to illuminate the local culture. Richly sophisticated yet highly accessible, this innovative study speaks to contemporary debates about modernity and globalization.

Folklore --- Plazas --- Walking --- Popular culture --- Places --- Culture populaire --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns --- Pedestrianism --- Aerobic exercises --- Animal locomotion --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Social aspects --- Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzo (Italie) --- Abruzzi (Italy) --- Regione Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzes (Italy) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes.

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Besides a series of six articles on Lévy processes, Volume 38 of the Séminaire de Probabilités contains contributions whose topics range from analysis of semi-groups to free probability, via martingale theory, Wiener space and Brownian motion, Gaussian processes and matrices, diffusions and their applications to PDEs. As do all previous volumes of this series, it provides an overview on the current state of the art in the research on stochastic processes.

Mathematics. --- Probabilities. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Distribution (Probability theory. --- Distribution functions --- Frequency distribution --- Characteristic functions --- Probabilities --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk

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Lack of ability to think probabilistically makes one prone to a variety of irrational fears and vulnerable to scams designed to exploit probabilistic naiveté, impairs decision making under uncertainty, facilitates the misinterpretation of statistical information, and precludes critical evaluation of likelihood claims. Cognition and Chance presents an overview of the information needed to avoid such pitfalls and to assess and respond to probabilistic situations in a rational way. Dr. Nickerson investigates such questions as how good individuals are at thinking probabilistically and how c

Probabilities. --- Risk assessment. --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Evaluation --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk

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Nonlinear programming --- Linear programming --- dataverwerking --- lineaire programmering --- 519.85 --- 681.3*G16 --- Programming (Mathematics) --- Production scheduling --- 681.3*G16 Optimization: constrained optimization; gradient methods; integer programming; least squares methods; linear programming; nonlinear programming (Numericalanalysis) --- Optimization: constrained optimization; gradient methods; integer programming; least squares methods; linear programming; nonlinear programming (Numericalanalysis) --- 519.85 Mathematical programming --- Mathematical programming