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The value of multi-disciplinary research lies in the exchange of
ideas and methods across the traditional boundaries between areas
of study. It could be argued that many of the advances in science
and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools
of thought from one discipline become re-applied in another.
The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as
advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal
representations, and extended the range and scope of visual
representation and interpretation in our lives. Under this broad
heading there are many different perspectives and approaches, from
across the entire spectrum of human knolwedge and activity.
The editors and authors of this book aim to break down
cross-disciplinary barriers, by bringing together people working in
a wide variety of disciplines where visual representations and
interpretations are exploited. Contributions come from researchers
actively investigating visual representations and interpretations
in a wide variety of areas, including art history, biology,
clinical science, cognitive science, computer science, design,
engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics,
psychology, and sociology.
The book provides a forum for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary
contributions on visual representations and interpretations.
* Contributors include researchers actively investigating visual
representations and interpretations
* Content spans a wide variety of areas including but not limited
to biology, sociology, and computer science
* Discusses how new technology has affected "the visual"
representation of information
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book is summarizing the results of the workshop "Uniform
Distribution and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods" of the RICAM Special
Semester on "Applications of Algebra and Number Theory" in October
2013. The survey articles in this book focus on number theoretic
point constructions, uniform distribution theory, and quasi-Monte
Carlo methods. As deterministic versions of the Monte Carlo method,
quasi-Monte Carlo rules enjoy increasing popularity, with many
fruitful applications in mathematical practice, as for example in
finance, computer graphics, and biology. The goal of this book is
to give an overview of recent developments in uniform distribution
theory, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and their applications,
presented by leading experts in these vivid fields of research.
A naturalist on Montana's academic frontier, passionate
conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing
the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as
Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana's
Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment of Elrod's
career, George M. Dennison reveals how one man helped to shape the
scholarly study of nature and its institutionalization in the West
at the turn of the century. Elrod moved to Missoula in 1897, just
four years after the state university's founding, and participated
in virtually every aspect of university life for almost forty
years. To reveal the depths of this pioneer scientist's influence
on the growth of his university, his state, and the academic fields
he worked in, author George M. Dennison delves into state and
university archives, including Elrod's personal papers. Although
Elrod was an active participant in bison conservation and the
growth of the National Park Naturalist Service, much of his work
focused on Flathead Lake, where he surveyed local life forms and
initiated the university's biological station - one of the first of
its kind in the United States. Yet at heart Elrod was an educator
who desired to foster in his students a ""love of nature,"" which,
he said, ""should give health to any one, and supply knowledge of
greatest value, either to the individual or to society, or to
both."" In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost
forgotten, Dennison - longtime president of the University of
Montana - demonstrates how Elrod's scholarship and philosophy
regarding science and nature made him one of Montana's most
distinguished naturalists, conservationists, and educators.
The concept of network as a mathematical description of a set of
states, or events, linked according to a certain topology has been
developed recently and has led to a novel approach of real world.
This approach is no doubt important in the field of biology. In
fact biological systems can be considered networks. Thus, for
instance, an enzyme-catalysed reaction is a network that links,
according to a certain topology, the various states of the protein
and of its complexes with the substrates and products of the
chemical reaction. Connections between neurons, social relations in
animal and human populations are also examples of networks. Hence
there is little doubt that the concept of network transgresses the
boundaries between traditional scientific disciplines.
This book is aimed at discussing in physical terms these exciting
new topics on simple protein model lattices, supramolecular protein
edifices, multienzyme and gene networks.
*Physical and mathematical approach of biological phenomena.
*Offers biochemists and biologists the mathematical background
required to understand the text.
*Associates in the same general formulation, the ideas of
communication of a message and organization of a system.
*Provides a clear-cut definition and mathematical expression of the
concepts of reduction, integration, emergence and complexity that
were so far time-honoured and vague
The Beagle Diary was used to write Darwin's famous book 'Voyage of
the Beagle' (1839). The narrative of the surveying voyages of His
Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and
1836. Darwin describes each day of the voyage, some in intimate
detail, during the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.
Previously published as "Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence
Love, Sex, and Relationships."
PHILOSOPHERS, THEOLOGIANS, ARTISTS, AND BOY BANDS HAVE WAXED poetic
for centuries about the nature of love. But what does the "brain
"have to say about the way we carry our hearts? In the wake of a
divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a
guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out.
"This Is Your Brain on Sex "is her lively and hilarious examination
of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in
hardcover as "Dirty Minds."
Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at
a different aspect of love above the belt. What in your brain makes
you love someone--or simply lust after them? Why do good girls like
bad boys? Is monogamy practical? How thin is that line between love
and hate? After reading this gimlet-eyed look at love, sex, and the
brain, you'll never look at romance the same way again.
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