25 research outputs found
On geophysical inverse problems and constraints
Mathematical methods for linearized geophysical inverse problems are reviewed, in cases with and in cases without constraints. The role of constraints receives particular attention, both in linear convex problems and in an exactly solvable non-linear example.
ARK: https://n2t.net/ark:/88439/y081128
Permalink: https://geophysicsjournal.com/article/178
 
Is American Public Administration Detached From Historical Context?: On the Nature of Time and the Need to Understand It in Government and Its Study
The study of public administration pays little attention to history. Most publications are focused on current problems (the present) and desired solutions (the future) and are concerned mainly with organizational structure (a substantive issue) and output targets (an aggregative issue that involves measures of both individual performance and organizational productivity/services). There is much less consideration of how public administration (i.e., organization, policy, the study, etc.) unfolds over time. History, and so administrative history, is regarded as a âpastâ that can be recorded for its own sake but has little relevance to contemporary challenges. This view of history is the product of a diminished and anemic sense of time, resulting from organizing the past as a series of events that inexorably lead up to the present in a linear fashion. To improve the understanding of governmentâs role and position in society, public administration scholarship needs to reacquaint itself with the nature of time.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Nonlinear evolution equations from an inverse spectral problem
P.A. Clarkson Ed., NATO ASI Series
C 413, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrech
Soft methods, hard targets: regional alcohol managers as a policy network
Regional Alcohol Managers (RAMs) was employed in the nine English health regions over 2008â2011. Their mission was to impact on the âhard targetâ of Alcohol-Related Hospital Admissions (AHRAs) through the âsoft methodsâ of persuasion and influence: working with local partners on evidence-based interventions. Drawing on a qualitative evaluation, this article shows how a central government policy imperative (ARHAs) led to âgovernment at a distanceâ responses, including the introduction of RAMs. The processes involved in shaping and delivering this function bore the hallmarks of a complex, interactive policy network model, involving individuals whose bearings and roles were flexible and sometimes ambiguous. While there were overlaps and blurring of boundaries, there were three levels of policy network: central government, regional and local. As the ânetwork in the middleâ, the RAMs were pulled in both directions by conflicting agendas but were also able to have an impact on central and local policy