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Perturbation, Behavioural Feedbacks, and Population Dynamics in Social Animals
This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals, including ourselves. Social responses to perturbations, especially dispersal processes, can also generate non-linear population dynamics, including the potential appearance of tipping points and critical population transitions, which can in turn lead to catastrophic shifts and collapses. The book describes the links between social behaviour (mainly the use of social information and social copying), and non-linear population dynamics at different spatial scales (local dynamics and meta-population dynamics), and their eco...
Xarxes complexes
Xarxes complexes. Del genoma a Internet és un magnífic estudi, rigorós i alhora divulgatiu, que vol fer arribar a un públic ampli i no especialitzat els descobriments més recents en el camp de les xarxes complexes, un àmbit d'estudi cada cop més important que, més enllà de la ciència, ja s'ha estès a la lingüística, les ciències socials i la tecnologia.La revolució dels últims anys en l'estudi d'aquests sistemes, basada en una nova cartografia de la complexitat i en l'aparició de conjunts de dades impensables fa un temps, ens obre les portes al coneixement de les propietats universals subjacents a les xarxes complexes, tant les naturals com les artificials. Així, descobrim que els genomes, els ecosistemes i les xarxes elèctriques comparteixen el fet de ser sistemes extremament fràgils alhora que d'una gran plasticitat i eficiència. Les conseqüències d'aquestes troballes són enormes i estan modificant amb rapidesa la nostra visió del món.
Redes complejas
Este libro presenta a un público general los descubrimientos más recientes en el área emergente de las redes complejas, que, más allá del dominio de la ciencia, ya han comenzado a influir en los terrenos de la lingüística, las ciencias sociales e incluso el desarrollo de la tecnología.En los últimos años se ha producido una revolución en el estudio de los sistemas complejos, a la vez que asistimos al surgimiento de una nueva cartografía de la complejidad. Junto a un conjunto de datos sin precedentes acerca de las interacciones en el genoma o Internet, hemos contemplado el descubrimiento de ciertas propiedades universales que subyacen a la totalidad de las redes complejas, tanto n...
Vidas sintéticas
Con el cambio de siglo, la ciencia está experimentando una revolución que nos acerca a los límites del conocimiento humano. A lo largo de las últimas décadas, los investigadores han conseguido recrear en el ordenador entidades tan diferentes como células, enfermedades, cerebros o climas, todo ello en busca de leyes que definan su funcionamiento. En esta larga travesía, cuestiones fundamentales acerca del origen de la materia y de la vida, la naturaleza de la conciencia o la posibilidad de predecir el comportamiento humano han ido conquistando terreno a la filosofía, hasta el punto de que, para muchos, la ciencia es la que realmente puede abordar las cuestiones clásicas y su posible ...
Genesis - In The Beginning
Genesis – In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication of polymers in mineral habitats. One chapter is dedicated to the photobiological regime on early Earth and the emergence of Life. This volume covers the role of symmetry, information and order (homochrial biomolecules) in the beginning of Life. The models of protocells and the genetic code with gene transfer are important topics in this volume. Three chapters discuss the Panspermia hypothesis (to answer “Are we from outer Space?”). Other chapters cover the Astrobiological aspects of Life in the Universe in extraterrestrial Planets of the Solar System and deal with cometary hydrosphere (and its connection to Earth). We conclude with the history and frontiers of Astrobiogy.
Terraforming Mars
TERRAFORMING MARS This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation. The idea of terraforming Mars has, in recent times, become a topic of intense scientific interest and great public debate. Stimulated in part by the contemporary imperative to begin geoengineering Earth, as a means to combat global climate change, the terraforming of Mars will work to make its presently hostile environment more suitable to life—especially human life. Geoengineering and terraforming, at their core, have the same goal—that is to enhance (or revive) the ability of a specific environment t...
Combinatorial Dynamics and Entropy in Dimension One
This book introduces the reader to the two main directions of one-dimensional dynamics. The first has its roots in the Sharkovskii theorem, which describes the possible sets of periods of all cycles (periodic orbits) of a continuous map of an interval into itself. The whole theory, which was developed based on this theorem, deals mainly with combinatorial objects, permutations, graphs, etc.; it is called combinatorial dynamics. The second direction has its main objective in measuring the complexity of a system, or the degree of “chaos” present in it; for that the topological entropy is used. The book analyzes the combinatorial dynamics and topological entropy for the continuous maps of either an interval or the circle into itself.
Art as We Don't Know it
What worlds are revealed when we listen to alpacas, make photographs with yeast or use biosignals to generate autonomous virtual organisms? Bioart invites us to explore artistic practices at the intersection of art, science and society. This rapidly evolving field utilises the tools of life sciences to examine the materiality of life; the collision of human and nonhuman. Microbiology, virtual reality and robotics cross disciplinary boundaries to engage with arts as artists and scientists work together to challenge the ways in which we understand and observe the world. This book offers a stimulating and provocative exploration into worlds emerging, seen through art as we don?t know it ? yet.0...
Plant Virus Evolution
This book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. It is the first book ever published on the topic. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, emerging viruses, plant viruses that integrate into the host genome, population biology, evolutionary mechanisms and appropriate methods for analysis. It covers RNA viruses, DNA viruses, pararetroviruses and viroids, and presents a number of thought-provoking ideas.
Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics
This volume contains lectures delivered at the International Conference Operator Theory and its Applications in Mathematical Physics (OTAMP 2004), held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Center in Bedlewo near Poznan, Poland. The idea behind these lectures was to present interesting ramifications of operator methods in current research of mathematical physics.
