Tag: Phenomena

Free Download New Frontiers in the Study of Social Phenomena: Cognition, Complexity, Adaptation by Federico Cecconi
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 209 Pages | ISBN : 3319239368 | 7.3 MB
This book studies social phenomena in a new way, by making judicious use of computer technology. The book addresses the entire spectrum of classic studies in social science, from experiments to the computational models, with a multidisciplinary approach. The book is suitable for those who want to get a picture of what it means to do social research today, and also to get an indication of the major open issues. The book is connected to a database of code for simulations, experimental data and allows to activate a subscription to a teaching tool using NetLogo, a programming language widely used in the social studies. The authors are researchers with first-hand experience research projects, both basic and applied. The work will be useful for those who want to understand more of the social, economic and political phenomena via computer applications.

Free Download Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools by Didier Sornette
English | PDF | 2006 | 538 Pages | ISBN : 3540308822 | 6.8 MB
Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena. This is the first textbook written by a well-known expert that provides a modern up-to-date introduction for workers outside statistical physics. The emphasis of the book is on a clear understanding of concepts and methods, while it also provides the tools that can be of immediate use in applications. Although this book evolved out of a course for graduate students, it will be of great interest to researchers and engineers, as well as to post-docs in geophysics and meteorology.

Free Download Perturbation Methods and Nonlinear Phenomena: Applications to Continuous Mechanical Systems
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031493966 | 206 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This concise text introduces the reader to the use of perturbation methods, able to investigate nonlinear phenomena in continuous (not only discrete) mechanical systems. Distinct from the classic books on perturbation methods, the algorithms are directly illustrated for continuous systems, referring to a very simple case-study as well as to a metamodel, for which Statics, Buckling, Dynamics and Bifurcation behavior are quickly analyzed. Moreover, fundamental mechanical aspects are discussed in dealing with applications. Concepts herein are reinforced with worked examples at the end the book, relevant to several continuous systems.

Free Download Andy Weeks, "Haunted Idaho: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Gem State (Haunted Series)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0811711765 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 2.4 mb
A collection of frightening stories from the Gem State, including . . .

Free Download Relaxation Phenomena: Liquid Crystals, Magnetic Systems, Polymers, High-Tc Superconductors, Metallic Glasses by Wolfgang Haase, Stanislaw Wróbel
English | PDF (True) | 2003 | 732 Pages | ISBN : 3540442693 | 19.3 MB
The authors describe the electric, magnetic and other relaxational processes in a wide spectrum of materials: liquid crystals, molecular magnets, polymers, high-Tc superconductors and glasses. The book summarizes the phenomenological fundamentals and the experimental methods used. A detailed description of molecular and collective dynamics in the broad range of liquid crystals is presented. Magnetic systems, high-Tc superconductors, polymers and glasses are an important subject of matter. It is shown that the researchers working on relaxation processes in different fields of materials sciences are dealing with the same physical fundamentals, but are sometimes using slightly different terms. The book is addressed to scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students, experimentalists and theorists in physics, chemistry, materials sciences and electronic engineering. Many internationally well known experts contribute to it.

Free Download Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us About the Nature of Reality by Bernard Kastrup
English | January 16, 2012 | ISBN: 1846948592 | True EPUB | 134 pages | 1.9 MB
This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its path one finds UFOs and fairies, quantum mechanics, analytic philosophy, history, mathematics, and depth psychology. The enterprise of constructing a coherent story out of these incommensurable disciplines is exploratory.

Free Download The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena: Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory by Bruce J. Diamond, Amy E. Learmonth, Katherine Makarec
English | September 29, 2022 | ISBN: 1498555470 | 134 pages | MOBI | 0.50 Mb
In this The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena: Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory, authors Bruce J. Diamond, Amy E. Learmonth, and Katherine Makarec argue that there is an inner world within all of us that profoundly impacts our lives, and that memories, perceptions, tastes, preferences, biases, and beliefs are encoded and expressed on an unaware, largely non-conscious level. In other words, many aspects of our lives and actions are guided and influenced by factors about which we may know very little, but which nevertheless alter the quality, substance, and trajectory of our lives, our loves, our likes, and our dislikes. Drawing on novel experimental designs and computer and imaging-based technologies, the authors demonstrate that people can react to faces and places in measurable ways, despite the fact that they may profess to having never seen or visited these faces or places. The authors show that these unaware phenomena are not isolated instances, but rather that they permeate and influence virtually every aspect of our lives.

Free Download Electrostatic Phenomena on Planetary Surfaces by Ph.D ., Carlos I Calle,, Karen L Aplin
English | November 30, 2022 | ISBN: 075033889X | 102 pages | MOBI | 5.70 Mb
This book examines our understanding of electrostatic phenomena on the different planetary surfaces in the solar system using knowledge gathered from instrumentation on space exploration missions.

Free Download Mark Blitz, "Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena"
English | ISBN: 0268109125 | 2021 | 202 pages | EPUB | 503 KB
Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, therefore, of human affairs in general.

Free Download Vassilis Gekas, "Transport Phenomena of Foods and Biological Materials (Food Engineering & Manufacturing)"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0849379016 | PDF | pages: 252 | 214.1 mb
Transport Phenomena of Foods and Biological Materials provides comprehensive coverage of transport phenomena modeling in foods and other biological materials. The book is unique in its consideration of models ranging from rigorous mathematical to empirical approaches, including phenomenological and semi-empirical models. It examines cell structure and descriptions of other non-traditional models, such as those based on irreversible thermodynamics or those focused on the use of the chemical and electrochemical potential as the driving forces of transport. Other topics discussed include the source term (important for the coupling transport phenomena-reaction or other intentional/unintentional phenomena) and the connections between transport phenomena modeling and design aspects. Some 100 tables provide useful summaries of the characteristics of each model and provide data about the transport properties of an extensive variety of foods.