This volume presents a selection of contributions to the XXIV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Public debt, global governance and... Læs mere
The idea for this text stemmed from the fruitful experience gathered during the training course of 9 Nigerian university students organized in Naples from 3 to 18 September 2008 by the team of Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza under the project Science Centre Owerri.
This book collects several contributions, written both by statisticians and medical doctors, which focus on... Læs mere
It becomes increasingly evident that the tools to construct such complex models include, not only bioinformatics and modern applied statistics, as is... Læs mere
This book covers methods for spatial statistical analysis suitable for modeling spatial information in support of decision systems. Includes data mining, point processes analysis, nearest neighbor statistics and cluster detection, Fuzzy Regression and more.
This assessment of the impact of Darwin's theory on a range of scientific fields covers everything from the history of science to language and philosophy. Within the scope of this coverage, fundamental biological concepts such as genetics are elaborated.
The neuroscience of action has identified specific cognitive processes that allow the organism to refer the cause or origin of an... Læs mere
The book introduces methods and tools adopted by the critical systems industry,... Læs mere
This book looks at innovations that will change our lives by the year 2062. It covers a wide variety of scientific topics of great interest to the general public, from astrophysics to genetics to robotics to clean energy.
This book is intended for undergraduates and young researchers who wish to understand the role that different branches of physics and mathematics play in the execution of actual experiments.
The modern formulations of the principle of virtual work are only a particular form of them.The book begins with the first documented formulations of laws of virtual work in the IV century BC in Greece and proceeds to the end of the XIX century AD in Europe.