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    Stability of front tracking solutions to the initial and boundary value problem for systems of conservation laws

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    We deal with the non characteristic initial and boundary value problem for an n×nn\times n strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws in one space dimension % \partial_t u+ \partial_x F(u)=0,\qquad u(0,x) = \bar u (x)\,,\qquad b\big( u(\psi(t),t) \big) = g(t)\,.\eqno (\ast) % Here FF is a smooth vector field defined in an open, convex neighborhood of the origin of n\real^n, uˉ\bar u and gg are functions with small total variation, x=ψ(t)x=\psi(t) is a non characteristic Lipschitz boundary profile, and bb a C1\mathcal{C}^1 function. We prove that the front tracking solutions to (\ast) constructed by D. Amadori in \cite{Amadori} are stable for the \elleuno topology. This implies the existence of a Standard Riemann Semigroup and hence the well-posedness of (\ast)

    Business law, 4th ed./ Marson

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    xlvii, p. 611.: ill.; 25 c

    Business law, 4th ed./ Marson

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    xlvii, p. 611.: ill.; 25 c

    Cultural and gender politics in a neglected archive of Jamaican women's poetry : Una Marson and her Creole contemporaries

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    This thesis considers the gender and cultural politics of selected Jamaican women's poetry published during the first half of the twentieth century and seeks to establish that an approach to this poetry sensitive to these issues will illuminate aspects of their work previously neglected by canonical and colonial modes of interpretation. The central interest of this thesis is the poetry of Una Marson, a black woman poet whose work has been critically neglected and devalued to date. My project is to read Marson's work in some detail, and to explore to what extent her poetry, which often works within colonial models and with conventional notions of feminine fulfilment, employs received aesthetic and ideological paradigms both strategically and subversively. In the belief that critics of Jamaican women's writing should be as attentive to the gender and cultural politics of their ways of reading, as of the texts they wish to read, the first chapter of this thesis engages in a sustained analysis of theoretical positions and attempts to map out the various problems and possibilities which critical discourses present in relation to this material. The second chapter examines the various social and literary contexts in which Jamaican poetry was produced and received during this period, and the third chapter looks in more detail at contemporary notions of aesthetic and cultural forms. The fourth and fifth chapters are structured aromd close textual readings which explore the variety and complexity of Marson's, and her Creole contemporaries', poetic engagement with the issues of cultural and gender identities. The thesis concludes that Marson's poetry questions dominant notions both of identity and of aesthetics, and consequently that her poetry offers an example of Jamaican literary expression which moves beyond the nationalization of consciousness which has come to mark the literary achievement of this period

    On the convergence rate for the Glimm scheme

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    We consider a Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic, N×NN\times N quasilinear system in one space dimension ut+A(u)ux=0u_t+A(u) u_x=0, where the matrix valued map AA is smooth and with non genuinely nonlinear characteristic fields. We introduce a Glimm type functional, quadratic in the sizes of waves whose strengths are smaller than some fixed threshold parameter. Next, we investigate the rate of convergence of approximate solutions constructed via the Glimm scheme. Moreover, we give a conjecture on the rate of convergence without any additional assumption on AA beyond the strict hyperbolicity and C2\mathcal{C}^2 regularity

    La pianificazione del territorio a base patrimoniale

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    pianificazione, patrimonio territorial
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