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Author : Félix Stéphane Csajka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Transition Pathways in Complex Systems written by Félix Stéphane Csajka and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mauro Ferrario
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540352732
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter: From Materials to Chemical Biology. Volume 1 written by Mauro Ferrario and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of lectures by leading experts in the field introduces and reviews all relevant computer simulation methods and their applications in condensed matter systems. Volume 1 is an in-depth introduction to a vast spectrum of computational techniques for statistical mechanical systems of condensed matter. Volume 2 is a collection of state-of-the-art surveys on numerical experiments carried out for a great number of systems.
Author : John Grin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135151172
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Transitions to Sustainable Development written by John Grin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, and the energy and food crises. This sense of urgency includes an awareness that our entire social system is in need of fundamental transformation. But like the earlier transition between the 1750's and 1890's from a pre-modern to a modern industrial society, this second transition is also a contested one. Sustainable development is only one of many options. This book addresses the issue on how to understand the dynamics and governance of the second transition dynamics in order to ensure sustainable development. It will be necessary reading for students and scholars with an interest in sustainable development and long-term transformative change.
Author : Bo Qi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781303229121
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Finding Reaction Coordinates for Complex Biomolecular Dynamics written by Bo Qi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simulations are important for understanding complex reactions. But to use simulations to 1) efficiently generate reactive trajectories and then 2) accurately analyze simulation data to reveal reaction mechanisms for complex systems is challenging owing to the large number of degrees of freedom typically involved. To address these two issues, here we present the development and applications of several computational methods. We first describe how two leading approaches, namely, the transition network and the genetic neural network (GNN) approach, can be combined to efficiently relate the dynamics of a stochastic system to its structural and energetic features. Then we implement the Locally Scaled Diffusion Map method with an improved procedure for extracting individual pathways from reactive trajectories. This leads us to a coherent interpretation of metastable states and folding pathways of a miniprotein system based on correlations between a set of diffusion coordinates and different time scales of dynamic motions. We then introduce the multiscale string method aiming at accelerating the generation of transition pathways for complex systems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method by successfully applying it to a two-particle toy system and to conformational changes of two large biomolecular systems. Finally, we present another useful application of simulations -- to interpret experimental data. We show how collaborative free energy calculations based on experimentally obtained crystal structures can probe the duplex interrogation by a direct DNA repair protein in search of base damage.
Author : Adriana Galderisi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128114789
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities written by Adriana Galderisi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities’ capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues. Then, the Authors provide an overview of current large-scale and urban strategies to counterbalance climate change so far undertaken in different geographical contexts (Europe, United States, China, Africa and Australia), shedding light on the different approaches, on the different weights assigned to mitigation and adaptation issues as well as on the main barriers hindering their effectiveness and translation into measurable outcomes. Opportunities and criticalities arising from the rich, ‘sprawled’ and ‘blurred’ landscape of current strategies and initiatives in the face of climate change pave the way to a discussion on the lessons learnt from current initiatives and provide new hints for developing integrated climate strategies, capable to guide planners and decision makers towards a climate sensitive urban development Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development merges a scientific approach with a pragmatic one. Through a case study approach, the Authors explore strengths and weaknesses of institutional and informal practices to foreshadow innovative paths for an adaptive process of urban governance in the face of climate change. The book guides the reader along new governance paths, characterized by continuous learning and close cooperation and communication among different actors and stakeholders and, in so doing, helps them to overcome current ‘siloed’ approaches to climate issues. Links resilience, smart growth, low-carbon urbanism, climate-friendly cities, sustainable development and transition cities, being all these concepts crucial to improve effective climate policies Includes a number of case studies showing how cities, different in size, geographical, cultural and economic contexts are currently dealing with climate issues, grasping synergies and commonalities arising from current institutional practices and transition initiatives Provides strategic and operative guidelines to overcome barriers and critical issues emerging from current practices, promoting cross-sectoral approaches to counterbalance climate change
Author : Ricard Solé
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838924
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Phase Transitions written by Ricard Solé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--have long helped to explain physics concepts, such as why water freezes into a solid or boils to become a gas. How might phase transitions shed light on important problems in biological and ecological complex systems? Exploring the origins and implications of sudden changes in nature and society, Phase Transitions examines different dynamical behaviors in a broad range of complex systems. Using a compelling set of examples, from gene networks and ant colonies to human language and the degradation of diverse ecosystems, the book illustrates the power of simple models to reveal how phase transitions occur. Introductory chapters provide the critical concepts and the simplest mathematical techniques required to study phase transitions. In a series of example-driven chapters, Ricard Solé shows how such concepts and techniques can be applied to the analysis and prediction of complex system behavior, including the origins of life, viral replication, epidemics, language evolution, and the emergence and breakdown of societies. Written at an undergraduate mathematical level, this book provides the essential theoretical tools and foundations required to develop basic models to explain collective phase transitions for a wide variety of ecosystems.
Author : Omri Har Shemesh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Phase Transitions in Complex Systems written by Omri Har Shemesh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We live in a complex world. Whether we look at chemical reactions in a reactor, networks of neurons in the brain, or human societies, a fascinating multi-level, non-linear system appears. The field of complexity has set it as a goal to study the common denominator of these systems, which are usually studied separately in disparate academic disciplines. Since the premise of complexity research is that there exists a common denominator, a question arises about what will be the conceptual and mathematical framework that can unite these phenomena. In my thesis I explore the possibility that critical phenomena in complex systems can be studied using a framework called Information Geometry. The idea is borrowed from geometrical statistical mechanics where the information geometry of many models exhibiting phase transitions have been studied and some researchers have even gone so far as to suggest the geometrical properties as a definition for critical transitions. The intuition is simple - when a system is described in statistical terms, its different phases will invariably have different statistical properties. The sudden change in these properties can be used to define the phase transition line. Inverting the question one can term this as an inference problem - given the statistical properties of the system, how well can we measure the underlying control parameters that govern the transition. At the phase transition point, where the change in statistical properties is large, the value of the parameter is easy to infer. Therefore one can use the Fisher information to detect the phase transition."--Samenvatting auteur.
Author : Sabine Attinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642187560
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Multiscale Modelling and Simulation written by Sabine Attinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2003, ETHZ Computational Laboratory (CoLab), together with the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing in Manno and the Universit della Svizzera Italiana (USI), organized the Summer School in "Multiscale Modelling and Simulation" in Lugano, Switzerland. This summer school brought together experts in different disciplines to exchange ideas on how to link methodologies on different scales. Relevant examples of practical interest include: structural analysis of materials, flow through porous media, turbulent transport in high Reynolds number flows, large-scale molecular dynamic simulations, ab-initio physics and chemistry, and a multitude of others. Though multiple scale models are not new, the topic has recently taken on a new sense of urgency. A number of hybrid approaches are now created in which ideas coming from distinct disciplines or modelling approaches are unified to produce new and computationally efficient techniques
Author : Jacqueline Broerse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351867148
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems written by Jacqueline Broerse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical problems facing modern-day health systems. This rich, interdisciplinary work explores the hypothesis that many of these problems cannot be adequately addressed without structural changes to our health systems, and examines the embedded features of our health systems that underlie contemporary challenges as well as how, and under what conditions, our health systems can be made more sustainable. Combining and building upon theoretical approaches from transition and innovation studies for analysing health system deficits, Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems raises fundamental questions about how new research, new needs and exogenous trends are transforming current health innovation systems. Providing an original and substantial analysis of the complex structural features of the health innovation system, this book will be of interest to students and practitioners of the politics of health, social epidemiology, medical sociology and those with an interest in transition theory.
Author : Giovanni Ciccotti
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3906980650
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Molecular Dynamics Simulation written by Giovanni Ciccotti and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Entropy
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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1131 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on with total page 1131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135151180
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Transitions to Sustainable Development written by John Grin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. This book addresses how to understand the dynamics and governance of long term transformative change towards sustainable development.
Author : Joe Tranquillo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030025896
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Complex Systems written by Joe Tranquillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interdisciplinary field of complex systems theory. By the end of the book, readers will be able to understand terminology that is used in complex systems and how they are related to one another; see the patterns of complex systems in practical examples; map current topics, in a variety of fields, to complexity theory; and be able to read more advanced literature in the field. The book begins with basic systems concepts and moves on to how these simple rules can lead to complex behavior. The author then introduces non-linear systems, followed by pattern formation, and networks and information flow in systems. Later chapters cover the thermodynamics of complex systems, dynamical patterns that arise in networks, and how game theory can serve as a framework for decision making. The text is interspersed with both philosophical and quantitative arguments, and each chapter ends with questions and prompts that help readers make more connections. “The text provides a useful overview of complex systems, with enough detail to allow a reader unfamiliar with the topic to understand the basics. The book stands out for its comprehensiveness and approachability. It will be particularly useful as a text for introductory physics courses. Tranquillo’s strength is in delivering a vast amount of information in a succinct manner.... A reader can find information quickly and efficiently—that is, in my opinion, the book’s greatest value.” (Stefani Crabtree, Physics Today)
Author : Ricardo Vicente Solé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Phase Transitions and Complex Systems written by Ricardo Vicente Solé and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geert Verbong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136456627
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Governing the Energy Transition written by Geert Verbong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions. It brings together prominent European scholars and practitioners from the fields of energy transition research and governance to draw attention to the current complex dynamics in the energy domain, and offer elegant and provocative explanations for current crises and lock-ins. They identify multiple energy transition pathways that emerge and increasingly compete, and emphasize the need and possibilities for novel governance. By analysing the complexity of energy transition processes and the difficulties in shifting to sustainable pathways, this text questions the extent to which actually governing energy transitions is already reality, just an illusion, or a bare necessity.
Author : Tian Ma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461489636
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Phase Transition Dynamics written by Tian Ma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to a comprehensive and unified dynamic transition theory for dissipative systems and to applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences. The main objectives of this book are to introduce a general principle of dynamic transitions for dissipative systems, to establish a systematic dynamic transition theory, and to explore the physical implications of applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences. The basic philosophy of the theory is to search for a complete set of transition states, and the general principle states that dynamic transitions of all dissipative systems can be classified into three categories: continuous, catastrophic and random. The audience for this book includes advanced graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics as well as in other related fields.
Author : Rajendra Bhatia
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814462934
Total Pages : 4137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Proceedings Of The International Congress Of Mathematicians 2010 (Icm 2010) (In 4 Volumes) - Vol. I: Plenary Lectures And Ceremonies, Vols. Ii-iv: Invited Lectures written by Rajendra Bhatia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 4137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICM 2010 proceedings comprises a four-volume set containing articles based on plenary lectures and invited section lectures, the Abel and Noether lectures, as well as contributions based on lectures delivered by the recipients of the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna, and Chern Prizes. The first volume will also contain the speeches at the opening and closing ceremonies and other highlights of the Congress.
