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The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of 'Dialogues' as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with 'others', which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, "dialogue" as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title 'translated' into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and self-representation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This edited collection includes case studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East to create a dialogue around these developments and the challenges presented, such as the tension between the idea of prestige and current values in urban planning, the discussion between academic reflections and operational practices, and how these interact with the long-term economic and social dynamic of the city. With rich analysis and a preface written by Patsy Healey, this book will be an important addition to the discourse on luxury for urban planners and researchers." --

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Preparation -- 1 Introduction: Following the Furrow -- 2 Vectensian: Youth, 1875-1895 -- 3 The Lion and the Sphinx: The British Empire and the Middle East -- 4 A Smack at the Khalifa: The Sudan Campaign, 1898 -- 5 Bimbashi: Clayton in the Egyptian Army -- 6 It A'int all Violets Here: Inspector in Southern Sudan, 1902-1903 -- 7 Master: Private Secretary to Wingate, 1907-1913 -- 8 Sudan Agent: Cairo, 1913-1914 -- War -- 9 Intrusive: Organizing a Middle Eastern Intelligence, 1914-1915 -- 10 Our Friends Across the Water: Origins of the Anglo-Arab Alliance -- 11 Clayton and the Pledge: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence -- 12 Like Permeating Oil: Counter-Intelligence -- 13 Reorganizing the Intelligence, 1916 -- 14 Egypt's Little Wars: the Conflicts in Libya and Darfur -- 15 Revolt!: The Arab Rising, 1916 -- 16 Between the Upper and the Nether Millstone: The End of Intrusive, 1916 -- 17 Chief of Staff, Hijaz Operations, 1917 -- 18 A Very Deep Game: Anglo-French Rivalry in the Middle East -- Diplomacy -- 19 Jacob and Esau: Arabs and Jews in Palestine, 1918-1919 -- 20 A Nest of Intrigue: Allied Disputes in the Levant -- 21 The Shadow and the Substance: The Egyptian Revolution, 1919 -- 22 Peace and Empire: The Middle Eastern Settlement -- 23 A Witch's Cauldron: Egypt, 1920-1922 -- 24 Palestine Revisited: Chief Secretary in the Mandate, 1923-1925 -- 25 Trouble in Transjordan: Clayton and Abdullah, 1923-1925 -- 26 Desert Diplomat: The Arabian Treaties, 1925-1926 -- 27 Rome and Jeddah: Eastern Diplomacy, 1927-1928 -- 28 The Attack of the Ikhwan: The Arabian Threat to Iraq, 1928 -- 29 Final Posting: High Commissioner for Iraq, 1929 -- 30 Conclusion: Friend of the Arabs -- Appendix: Biographies -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Introduction to linear programming -- Primal and dual LP problems -- Setting up lp problems -- The transportation and transshipment problems -- Spaces, cones, bases and extreme points -- Solving systems of equations -- Primal simplex algorithm : the price-taking firm -- The dual simplex algorithm -- Linear programming and the lagrangean function -- The artificial variable algorithm -- The artificial constraint algorithm -- The diet problem revisited -- Parametric programming: input demand functions -- Parametric programming: output supply functions -- Dealing with multiple optimal solutions -- Solid waste management -- The choice of techniques in a farm production model -- Cattle ranch management -- The measurement of technical and economic efficiency -- Decentralized economic planning -- Theorems of linear programming

This text covers the basic theory and computation for mathematical modeling in linear programming. It provides a strong background on how to set up mathematical proofs and high-level computation methods, and includes substantial background material and direction. Paris presents an intuitive and novel discussion of what it means to solve a system of equations that is a crucial stepping stone for solving any linear program. The discussion of the simplex method for solving linear programs gives an economic interpretation to every step of the simplex algorithm. The text combines in a unique and novel way the microeconomics of production with the structure of linear programming to give students and scholars of economics a clear notion of what it means, formulating a model of economic equilibrium and the computation of opportunity cost in the presence of many outputs and inputs.