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La Porta, Caterina AM |
Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation |
I08919 |
2020 |
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Schreuder, Duco |
Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception |
I05901 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Juval Portugali |
Self-organization and the city |
020620 |
2000 |
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| Title | Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation |
| Author(s) | La Porta, Caterina AM;Zapperi, Stefano;Pilotti, Luciano |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | X, 194 p. 50 illus., 40 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can be exploited for new purposes throughout the evolutionary process. Edited by three active scholars in the fields of biology, physics and economics, the book presents an interdisciplinary collection of expert viewpoints illustrating the importance of exaptation for interpreting current reality in various fields of investigation. Using the lenses of exaptation, the contributing authors show how to view the overall macroscopic landscape as comprising many disciplines, all working in unity within a single complex system. This book is the first to discuss exaptation in both hard and soft disciplines and highlights the role of this concept in understanding the birth of innovation by identifying key elements and ideas. It also offers a comprehensive guide to the emerging interdisciplinary field of exaptation, provides didactic explanations of the basic concepts, and avoids excessive jargon and heavy formalism. Its target audience includes graduate students in physics, biology, mathematics, economics, psychology and architecture; it will also appeal to established researchers in the humanities who wish to explore or enter this new science-driven interdisciplinary field |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030457846 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological systems
2. Cancer Research
3. CITY PLANNING
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Evolutionary Biology
9. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
10. Systems biology
11. Urban planning
12. Urbanism
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| Item Type | eBook |
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| Title | Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception |
| Author(s) | Schreuder, Duco |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008. |
| Description | XVIII, 448 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds and coherence. There are many fundamental aspects that are essential for understanding why different ways to install and use lighting give different results. A purely pragmatic approach to solving practical lighting problems will lead to pitfalls. But as this book shows, on the basis of fundamental considerations on optics, light sources and vision, causes and effects that tend to be overlooked by lighting engineers and designers can be identified. The selection of subjects in this book is based on more than 50 years of experience in studying the fundamental and practical applications of lighting and vision. The author has given classes on these topics, in master courses at post-graduate and post-doctoral levels. Audience: graduate students, researchers, designers, engineers and consultants engaged in lighting, public lighting, lighting equipment and installations |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402086021 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CITY PLANNING
2. CIVIL ENGINEERING
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ENGINEERING
6. Engineering, general
7. LASERS
8. Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
9. PHOTONICS
10. Urban planning
11. Urbanism
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| Title | Self-organization and the city |
| Author(s) | Juval Portugali |
| Publication | Berlin, Springer, 2000. |
| Description | ix, 352p. |
| Series | (Springer Series in Synergetics) |
| Contents Note | In this book, Juval Portugali introduces a new idea : Cities are self-organizing systems. To substantiate his revolutionary concep, he uses several interlinked methods. On the one hand, he employs in his arguments theoretical tools, developed in the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. On the other hand, jointly with his co-workers, he has performed detailed model calculations on cellular nets. |
| ISBN,Price | 3540654836 : Euro 39.95 |
| Classification | 711.4
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| Keyword(s) | 1. CITIES AND TOWNS
2. CITY PLANNING
3. SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS
4. SYNERGETICS
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