This book describes how people invest migration with hopes for enjoyable experiences of retirement and contrast their lives with a marginality they imagine to be experienced by older people at home. They anticipate freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfilment. However, the book documents a number of contradictions underpinning the pursuits of such a lifestyle and shows the negotiations that individuals undertake to manage the...
This book describes how people invest migration with hopes for enjoyable experiences of retirement and contrast their lives with a marginality t...
Based on the proceedings of a conference on Influence Diagrams for Decision Analysis, Inference and Prediction held at the University of California at Berkeley in May of 1988, this is the first book devoted to the subject. The editors have brought together recent results from researchers actively investigating influence diagrams and also from practitioners who have used influence diagrams in developing models for problem-solving in a wide range of fields.
Based on the proceedings of a conference on Influence Diagrams for Decision Analysis, Inference and Prediction held at the University of California at...