Spreading Patterns

Author : Hendrik De Smet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812756
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spreading Patterns written by Hendrik De Smet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day

Author : Armin Bunde
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031059468
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society written by Armin Bunde and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the movements of molecules and the migration of humans have in common? How does the functionality of our brain tissue resemble the flow of traffic in New York City? How can understanding the spread of ideas, rumors, and languages help us tackle the spread a pandemic? This book provides an illuminating look into these seemingly disparate topics by exploring and expertly communicating the fundamental laws that govern the spreading and diffusion of objects. A collection of leading scientists in disciplines as diverse as epidemiology, linguistics, mathematics, and physics discuss various spreading phenomena relevant to their own fields, revealing astonishing similarities and correlations between the objects of study—be they people, particles, or pandemics. This updated and expanded second edition of an award-winning book introduces timely coverage of a subject with the greatest societal impact in recent memory—the global fight against COVID-19. Winner of the 2019 Literature Prize of the German Chemical Industry Fund and brainchild of the international and long-running Diffusion Fundamentals conference series, this book targets an interdisciplinary readership, featuring an introductory chapter that sets the stage for the topics discussed throughout. Each chapter provides ample opportunity to whet the appetite of those readers seeking a more in-depth treatment, making the book also useful as supplementary reading in appropriate courses dealing with complex systems, mass transfer, and network theory.

Author : Sune Lehmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319773321
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems written by Sune Lehmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about spreading of information and influence in complex networks. Although previously considered similar and modeled in parallel approaches, there is now experimental evidence that epidemic and social spreading work in subtly different ways. While previously explored through modeling, there is currently an explosion of work on revealing the mechanisms underlying complex contagion based on big data and data-driven approaches. This volume consists of four parts. Part 1 is an Introduction, providing an accessible summary of the state of the art. Part 2 provides an overview of the central theoretical developments in the field. Part 3 describes the empirical work on observing spreading processes in real-world networks. Finally, Part 4 goes into detail with recent and exciting new developments: dedicated studies designed to measure specific aspects of the spreading processes, often using randomized control trials to isolate the network effect from confounders, such as homophily. Each contribution is authored by leading experts in the field. This volume, though based on technical selections of the most important results on complex spreading, remains quite accessible to the newly interested. The main benefit to the reader is that the topics are carefully structured to take the novice to the level of expert on the topic of social spreading processes. This book will be of great importance to a wide field: from researchers in physics, computer science, and sociology to professionals in public policy and public health.

Author : Sitabhra Sinha
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466552840
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns in Excitable Media written by Sitabhra Sinha and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excitable media comprise a class of models for a wide range of physical, chemical, and biological systems that exhibit spontaneous formation of spatial patterns. Patterns in Excitable Media: Genesis, Dynamics, and Control explores several aspects of the dynamics of such patterns-in particular their evolution upon interaction with structural and fun

Author : Philip M. Iannaccone
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849376368
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractal Geometry in Biological Systems written by Philip M. Iannaccone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractal Geometry in Biological Systems was written by the leading experts in the field of mathematics and the biological sciences together. It is intended to inform researchers in the bringing about the fundamental nature of fractals and their widespread appearance in biological systems. The chapters explain how the presence of fractal geometry can be used in an analytical way to predict outcomes in systems, to generate hypotheses, and to help design experiments. The authors make the mathematics accessible to a wide audience and do not assume prior experience in this area.

Author : Ryan Light
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019025176X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks written by Ryan Light and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others"--

Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications of the National Bureau of Standards ... Catalog written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josep Quer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501516086
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SignGram Blueprint written by Josep Quer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability, and it appears scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. In general, comprehensive grammars are a rarity. The SignGram Blueprint is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systematic way, and with the highest scientific standards. The work builds on the existing knowledge in Descriptive Linguistics, but also on the insights from Theoretical Linguistics. It consists of two main parts running in parallel: the Checklist with all the grammatical features and phenomena the grammar writer can address, and the accompanying Manual with the relevant background information (definitions, methodological caveats, representative examples, tests, pointers to elicitation materials and bibliographical references). The areas covered are Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax and Meaning. The Manual is endowed with hyperlinks that connect information across the work and with a pop-up glossary. The SignGram Blueprint will be a landmark for the description of sign language grammars in terms of quality and quantity.

Author : Christoph von der Malsburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540615101
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 96 written by Christoph von der Malsburg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-07-10 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 96, held in Bochum, Germany in July 1996. The 145 papers included were carefully selected from numerous submissions on the basis of at least three reviews; also included are abstracts of the six invited plenary talks. All in all, the set of papers presented reflects the state of the art in the field of ANNs. Among the topics and areas covered are a broad spectrum of theoretical aspects, applications in various fields, sensory processing, cognitive science and AI, implementations, and neurobiology.

Author : John McLevey
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 152961466X
Total Pages : 951 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis written by John McLevey and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field. Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: · General issues such as social categories and computational social science; · Applications in contexts such as environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition and social media and digital networks; · Concepts and methods such as centrality, blockmodeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, data collection, and beyond. By providing authoritative accounts of the history, theories and methodology of various disciplines and topics, the second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis is designed to provide a state-of-the-art presentation of classic and contemporary views, and to lay the foundations for the further development of the area. PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES PART 2: APPLICATIONS PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS