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Tasca, Paolo |
Banking Beyond Banks and Money |
I10210 |
2016 |
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Kenna, Ralph |
Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives |
I10033 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Masys, Anthony J |
Disaster Forensics |
I09959 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Lehmann, Sune |
Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems |
I09819 |
2018 |
eBook |
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dell'Isola, Francesco |
Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents |
I09391 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Brugge, Doug |
Incident on Simpac III |
I09286 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Huysman, M.H |
Communities and Technologies |
I11587 |
2003 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Information Handling in Astronomy |
I11565 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11560 |
2001 |
eBook |
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Heck, Andre |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy |
I11554 |
2003 |
eBook |
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| Title | Banking Beyond Banks and Money : A Guide to Banking Services in the Twenty-First Century |
| Author(s) | Tasca, Paolo;Aste, Tomaso;Pelizzon, Loriana;Perony, Nicolas |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | VI, 316 p. 64 illus., 54 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Do you know how banking and money will look like in the new digital age? This book collects the voices of leading scholars, entrepreneurs, policy makers and consultants who, through their expertise and keen analytical skills, are best positioned to picture from various angles the ongoing technological revolution in banking and finance. You will learn how lending and borrowing can exist without banks; how new forms of money can compete to better serve different society needs; how new technologies are banking the unbanked communities in the poorest parts of the world, and how ideas and small projects can be financed by the crowds without the need to rely upon banks. You will learn how, in the new digital age, we will interact with new self-organised and autonomous companies that operate without any human involvement, based on a set of programmed and incorruptible rules. You will learn that new business models will emerge thanks to technology-enabled platforms, upon which one can build new forms of non-hierarchical cooperation between strangers. And you will also learn that new forms of risks and threats are emerging that will destabilise our systems and jeopardise the stability of our financial order |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319424484 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Data structures (Computer science)
2. Data Structures and Information Theory
3. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Economics, Mathematical??
7. ECONOPHYSICS
8. FINANCE
9. Finance, general
10. Methodology of the Social Sciences
11. Quantitative Finance
12. SOCIAL SCIENCES
13. Sociophysics
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| Title | Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives |
| Author(s) | Kenna, Ralph;MacCarron, M??ir??n;MacCarron, P??draig |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | X, 228 p. 64 illus., 47 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and humanities scholars in investigations aimed at achieving greater understanding of our cultural inheritance. Accordingly, each contribution reports on a modern quantitative approach applicable to narrative sources from the past, or describes those which would be amenable to such treatment and why they are important. This volume is a unique state-of-the-art compendium on an emerging research field which also addresses anyone with interests in quantitative approaches to humanities |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319394459 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Historical linguistics
5. HISTORY
6. History, general
7. Medieval philosophy
8. Methodology of the Social Sciences
9. PHYSICS
10. SOCIAL SCIENCES
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| I10033 |
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| Title | Disaster Forensics : Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality |
| Author(s) | Masys, Anthony J |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XVII, 409 p. 41 illus., 30 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ???forensic analysis approaches??? to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that characterizes them and explaining how and why hazards do, or do not, become disasters. This yields ???systemic??? strategies for managing disasters. Recently the global threat landscape has seen the emergence of high impact, low probability events. Events like Hurricane Katrina, the Great Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Hurricane Sandy, Super Typhoon Haiyan, global terrorist activities have become the new norm. Extreme events challenge our understanding regarding the interdependencies and complexity of the disaster aetiology and are often referred to as Black Swans. Between 2002 and 2011, there were 4130 disasters recorded that resulted from natural hazards around the world. In these, 1,117,527 people perished and a minimum of US$1,195 billion in losses were reported. In the year 2011 alone, 302 disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million people and inflicted damages worth a minimum of estimated US$366 billion |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319418490 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Environmental law
4. Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
5. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
6. Methodology of the Social Sciences
7. NATURAL DISASTERS
8. NATURAL HAZARDS
9. Security Science and Technology
10. SOCIAL SCIENCES
11. System safety
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| Title | Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems : Influence and Contagion in Real-World Social Networks |
| Author(s) | Lehmann, Sune;Ahn, Yong-Yeol |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | VI, 361 p. 104 illus., 81 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 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 |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319773322 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks
2. COMPUTER SIMULATION
3. DATA MINING
4. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Methodology of the Social Sciences
8. PHYSICS
9. Simulation and Modeling
10. SOCIAL SCIENCES
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| Title | Big-(Wo)men, Tyrants, Chiefs, Dictators, Emperors and Presidents : Towards the Mathematical Understanding of Social Groups |
| Author(s) | dell'Isola, Francesco |
| Publication | Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2019. |
| Description | XXI, 164 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book highlights mathematical ideas to help explain a number of important aspects of the dynamics of social groups. These ideas are similar to those used to describe the behaviour of Lagrangian mechanical systems, and as such this book appeals to anyone wanting to gain an understanding of the intrinsic unity of natural phenomena |
| ISBN,Price | 9789811394799 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Computational Social Sciences
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. MATHEMATICS
5. Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
6. Popular Science in Mathematics
7. Science???Social aspects
8. SOCIAL SCIENCES
9. Social sciences???Computer programs
10. Social sciences???Data processing
11. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
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| Title | Incident on Simpac III : A Scientific Novel |
| Author(s) | Brugge, Doug |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | IX, 234 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth???s history of successes and failures. Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up, making an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data, the computations, or is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program? A race against time ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge. While grounded in the social systems aspect, the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based tools than most contemporary science fiction ??? which most often relies entirely on non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies ??? predicts. The result is an entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF, complemented by a nontechnical appendix describing the underlying science. About the Author: Doug Brugge holds a PhD in Biology from Harvard University and an MS in Industrial Hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has secondary appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Active Citizenship and Public Service. Most of his work employs a community-based participatory research approach with a deep commitment to translating research into concrete policies and practices. He is the author of Particles in the Air: The Deadliest Pollutant is One You Breathe Every Day (Springer 2018). ???A taut, brilliantly crafted thriller! Brugge reminds us that the fabric of every society contains the pull threads for its unraveling.??? ???Len Boswell, author, A Grave Misunderstanding |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319931609 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Behavioral economics
3. Behavioral/Experimental Economics
4. BIOINFORMATICS
5. Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
6. Computational Social Sciences
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. Popular Social Sciences
11. SOCIAL SCIENCES
12. Social sciences???Computer programs
13. Social sciences???Data processing
14. SPACE SCIENCES
15. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Communities and Technologies |
| Author(s) | Huysman, M.H;Wenger, Etienne;Wulf, Volker |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | XII, 484 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional communities and the internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects the best of current research and practice in the field of C&T |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401701150 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE
3. Computer Science, general
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
7. MANAGEMENT
8. Science???Social aspects
9. SOCIAL SCIENCES
10. Social Sciences, general
11. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
12. User interfaces (Computer systems)
13. User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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| Title | Information Handling in Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2000. |
| Description | X, 242 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The pilot boat just moved away and'its lights are already fading towards the coast of Northeastern Queensland over which Saturn is going to set. There is still quite some time to go before dawn. The big ship has now regained her cruise speed following its roughly northwesterly route in the South Coral Sea along the chain of nearby reefs. Few people are around at this time, except a dozen early birds sharing some 'shipshaping' exercise on the top deck and taking advantage of the relative coolness of the night. On my way down to the stateroom, I cannot but stop once more in front of that elegant composition by British artist Brigid Collins (1963-) hanging in the monumental staircase between Decks 7 and 8. That piece 2 of art, a 1.8x 1.8m oil on canvas plus collage entitled Berinl in honour of the Danish explorer, gathers together many navigation-related themes of the time: Suns, Moons, planets, sky maps, astrolabes, small telescopes, as well as drawings, diagrams and charts of all kinds. It is somehow a digest of how astronomical information was then collected, made available, and used |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401143455 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. COMPUTER SCIENCE
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. EDUCATION
7. Education, general
8. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
9. Management of Computing and Information Systems
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. SOCIAL SCIENCES
12. Social Sciences, general
13. Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
14. Statistics??
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy : Volume II |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2001. |
| Description | IX, 280 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon?? der about the mysteries of the universe. We might make the trip to Paris and ask him, in the Louvre, what precisely is on his mind. Unfortunately, there will be no answer. But we do know what his mind was not on. It was not on the approaching deadlines for the proposals he would have to write for getting funds and telescope-time, not on the meeting of the observing programs committee, not on his refereeing duty for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, nor on his university's tightening budget for science. In the Kapteyn Institute at Groningen I stand face to face with the im?? pressive portrait of J.C. Kapteyn, painted in the year 1918. Seated at his desk he is doing his calculations with pen, pencil and tables, perhaps check?? ing the work of his skilled staff of human computers. Early in his career he had completed his magnum opus, the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung in collaboration with his close friend David Gill at Capetown, South Africa |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401006668 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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| Title | Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy : Volume 4 |
| Author(s) | Heck, Andre |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | XII, 330 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | I am most grateful to Andr?? e Heck for his invitation to write a foreword to OSA Volume 4 ??? I will use this valued opportunity to emphasise those topics in Vol. 4 which I consider important even if other topics may be of even greater importance in the universal scale of things. At the outset let me say that I commend Vol. 4 to its readers ??? it contains much of very great interest for organisations and strategies in astronomy. A topic which I consider to be of very great importance at this time is Adverse Environmental Impact on Astronomy. There are two papers on this topic in OSA 4 ??? Cohen on Strategies for Protecting Radio Ast- nomy and Schwarz on Light Pollution Control. The growth in the extent of use, the power and spectral demand for radio transmission continues to increase virtually exponentially. The impact on the ???listening??? services such as radio astronomy has been severe. Only by creativity in developing new techniques for radio noise (including legal transmissions) reduction and by participating fully in the allocation process for radio frequencies has radio astronomy developed to the powerful investigative tool it is today |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401000499 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES
7. Social Sciences, general
8. Sociology
9. Sociology, general
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