Applied Sciences category: 551 books
Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation
For Environmental and Water Resource Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This three-part book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to these challenging topics such as model calibration, parameter estimation, reliability assessment, and data collection design. Part 1 covers the classical inverse problem for parameter estimation in both deterministic and...
Mathematical and Theoretical Neuroscience
Cell, Network and Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This volume gathers contributions from theoretical, experimental and computational researchers who are working on various topics in theoretical/computational/mathematical neuroscience. The focus is on mathematical modeling, analytical and numerical topics, and statistical analysis in neuroscience...
Network-Oriented Modeling
Addressing Complexity of Cognitive, Affective and Social Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes. It provides an alternative means of addressing complexity, better suited for its purpose than and effectively complementing traditional strategies involving isolation and separation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book focuses on the modeling and mathematical analysis of stochastic dynamical systems along with their simulations. The collected chapters will review fundamental and current topics and approaches to dynamical systems in cellular biology.
This text aims to develop improved mathematical...
Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine
Case Studies from Lake Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Biology majors and pre-health students at many colleges and universities are required to take a semester of calculus but rarely do such students see authentic applications of its techniques and concepts. Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case Studies from Lake Victoria is designed...
by Bettina Sellmeier
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This pioneering work deals with the parameterization of rockfalls in the context of 3D run-out modelling at a study site in the Bavarian Alps. The main objective was to cover not only low-magnitude, high-frequency rockfalls (<10 m3) but also Mid-Magnitude events, which involve rock volumes of between...
by Philipp O.J. Scherer, Sighart F. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book gives an introduction to molecular biophysics. It starts from material properties at equilibrium related to polymers, dielectrics and membranes. Electronic spectra are developed for the understanding of elementary dynamic processes in photosynthesis including proton transfer and dynamics...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book, featuring a truly interdisciplinary approach, provides an overview of cutting-edge mathematical theories and techniques that promise to play a central role in climate science. It brings together some of the most interesting overview lectures given by the invited speakers at an important...
by Ihor Lubashevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
This book tackles the challenging question which mathematical formalisms and possibly new physical notions should be developed for quantitatively describing human cognition and behavior, in addition to the ones already developed in the physical and cognitive sciences.
Indeed, physics is widely...
by S. Twomey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
In this graduate-level monograph, S. Twomey, a professor of atmospheric sciences, develops the background and fundamental theory of inversion processes used in remote sensing — e.g., atmospheric temperature structure measurements from satellites—starting at an elementary level.
The text opens...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of “30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics” held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting. The volume brings...
Models, Algorithms and Technologies for Network Analysis
From the Third International Conference on Network Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This volume compiles the major results of conference participants from the "Third International Conference in Network Analysis" held at the Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod in May 2013, with the aim to initiate further joint research among different groups. The contributions in...
by Johan Gielis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book focuses on the origin of the Gielis curves, surfaces and transformations in the plant sciences. It is shown how these transformations, as a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem, play an essential role in plant morphology and development. New insights show how plants can be understood...
BIOMAT 2015
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This is a book of an international series on interdisciplinary topics of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The chapters are related to selected papers on the research themes presented at BIOMAT 2015 International Symposium on Mathematical and C