C. King - Böcker

Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports; and it unpacks social categories, particularly gender, race and heritage and their implications for understanding Native Americans and sport in North America. Contributors discuss the interplay of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of American Indians playing sport. Included in this book are discussions on:continuity and change, the place of sport in the survival and adaptation of indigenous beliefs and behavioursthe play of power and the power of play within indigenous communities, intercultural spaces, and American popular culturethe contradictions and conditions of possibilities sport has offered American Indiansthe politics and poetics of identitythe axes of difference structuring the indigenous sporting experience, particularly, gender, race, and nationalismrepresentations and stagings of Indianness in the context of sport.

Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports; and it unpacks social categories, particularly gender, race and heritage and their implications for understanding Native Americans and sport in North America. Contributors discuss the interplay of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of American Indians playing sport. Included in this book are discussions on:continuity and change, the place of sport in the survival and adaptation of indigenous beliefs and behavioursthe play of power and the power of play within indigenous communities, intercultural spaces, and American popular culturethe contradictions and conditions of possibilities sport has offered American Indiansthe politics and poetics of identitythe axes of difference structuring the indigenous sporting experience, particularly, gender, race, and nationalismrepresentations and stagings of Indianness in the context of sport.

This is the first comprehensive book on the AIMD algorithm, the most widely used method for allocating a limited resource among competing agents without centralized control. The authors offer a new approach that is based on positive switched linear systems. It is used to develop most of the main results found in the book, and fundamental results on stochastic switched nonnegative and consensus systems are derived to obtain these results.The original and best known application of the algorithm is in the context of congestion control and resource allocation on the Internet, and readers will find details of several variants of the algorithm in order of increasing complexity, including deterministic, random, linear, and nonlinear versions. In each case, stability and convergence results are derived based on unifying principles. Basic and fundamental properties of the algorithm are described, examples are used to illustrate the richness of the resulting dynamical systems, and applications are provided to show how the algorithm can be used in the context of smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, and the smart grid.