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Modelling Transitions
Author | : Enayat A. Moallemi,Fjalar J. de Haan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780429578779 |
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Modelling Transitions shows what computational, formal and data-driven approaches can and could mean for sustainability transitions research, presenting the state-of-the-art and exploring what lies beyond. Featuring contributions from many well-known authors, this book presents the various benefits of modelling for transitions research. More than just taking stock, it also critically examines what modelling of transformative change means and could mean for transitions research and for other disciplines that study societal changes. This includes identifying a variety of approaches currently not part of the portfolios of transitions modellers. Far from only singing praise, critical methodological and philosophical introspection are key aspects of this important book. This book speaks to modellers and non-modellers alike who value the development of robust knowledge on transitions to sustainability, including colleagues in congenial fields. Be they students, researchers or practitioners, everyone interested in transitions should find this book relevant as reference, resource and guide.
Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain
Author | : D. Alistair Steyn-Ross,Moira Steyn-Ross |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2010-03-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781441907967 |
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Foreword by Walter J. Freeman. The induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic agents demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate in two very different behavioral modes: alert and responsive vs. unaware and quiescent. But the states of wakefulness and sleep are not single-neuron properties---they emerge as bulk properties of cooperating populations of neurons, with the switchover between states being similar to the physical change of phase observed when water freezes or ice melts. Some brain-state transitions, such as sleep cycling, anesthetic induction, epileptic seizure, are obvious and detected readily with a few EEG electrodes; others, such as the emergence of gamma rhythms during cognition, or the ultra-slow BOLD rhythms of relaxed free-association, are much more subtle. The unifying theme of this book is the notion that all of these bulk changes in brain behavior can be treated as phase transitions between distinct brain states. Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain contains chapter contributions from leading researchers who apply state-space methods, network models, and biophysically-motivated continuum approaches to investigate a range of neuroscientifically relevant problems that include analysis of nonstationary EEG time-series; network topologies that limit epileptic spreading; saddle--node bifurcations for anesthesia, sleep-cycling, and the wake--sleep switch; prediction of dynamical and noise-induced spatiotemporal instabilities underlying BOLD, alpha-, and gamma-band Hopf oscillations, gap-junction-moderated Turing structures, and Hopf-Turing interactions leading to cortical waves.
Transitions
Author | : William Bridges |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Lifelong Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2004-08-11 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780738211428 |
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The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.
Business Models for Sustainability Transitions
Author | : Annabeth Aagaard,Florian Lüdeke-Freund,Peter Wells |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783030775803 |
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Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. ‘Business Models for Sustainability Transitions’ therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciously consume our way out of trouble. This book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us. For researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the coupling of the two questions has the potential to unlock answers to our grand global challenges with responses that are at the same time rapid and enduring. This work offers unique and considered glimpses into what it may take to harness wide-ranging innovations for the collective good.
Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models
Author | : Sei Suzuki,Jun-ichi Inoue,Bikas K. Chakrabarti |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2012-12-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642330391 |
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Quantum phase transitions, driven by quantum fluctuations, exhibit intriguing features offering the possibility of potentially new applications, e.g. in quantum information sciences. Major advances have been made in both theoretical and experimental investigations of the nature and behavior of quantum phases and transitions in cooperatively interacting many-body quantum systems. For modeling purposes, most of the current innovative and successful research in this field has been obtained by either directly or indirectly using the insights provided by quantum (or transverse field) Ising models because of the separability of the cooperative interaction from the tunable transverse field or tunneling term in the relevant Hamiltonian. Also, a number of condensed matter systems can be modeled accurately in this approach, hence granting the possibility to compare advanced models with actual experimental results. This work introduces these quantum Ising models and analyses them both theoretically and numerically in great detail. With its tutorial approach the book addresses above all young researchers who wish to enter the field and are in search of a suitable and self-contained text, yet it will also serve as a valuable reference work for all active researchers in this area.
Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Models
Author | : Amit Dutta,Gabriel Aeppli,Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Thomas F. Rosenbaum |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107068797 |
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This book establishes the fundamental connections between the physics of quantum phase transitions and the technological promise of quantum information.
Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Lattice Models
Author | : Joaquin Marro,Ronald Dickman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 052101946X |
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This book provides an introduction to nonequilibrium statistical physics via lattice models. Beginning with an introduction to the basic driven lattice gas, the early chapters discuss the relevance of this lattice model to certain natural phenomena, examining simulation results in detail. Later chapters discuss absorbing-state transitions, and examine a variety of systems subject to dynamic disorder. The book discusses the effects of multiparticle rules, nonunique absorbing-states and conservation laws, as well as the use of methods such as mean-field theory, Monte Carlo simulation and the concept of universality. It also includes detailed references and examples using simple respresentations of nature to describe real systems.
Continuum Models for Phase Transitions and Twinning in Crystals
Author | : Mario Pitteri,G. Zanzotto |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781420036145 |
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Continuum Models for Phase Transitions and Twinning in Crystals presents the fundamentals of a remarkably successful approach to crystal thermomechanics. Developed over the last two decades, it is based on the mathematical theory of nonlinear thermoelasticity, in which a new viewpoint on material symmetry, motivated by molecular theories, plays a c