1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481042703321

Autore

Rogers John

Titolo

BIM development and trends in Developing countries : case studies / / John Rogers [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : , : Bentham Science Publishers, , 2015

ISBN

1-68108-017-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Disciplina

624.028553

Soggetti

Building - Superintendence - Data processing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; EUL; Contents; Bio Sketch; Salient Features; Biography; Preface; Keywords; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Chapter 08; References; Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131441203321

Autore

Ransford H. Chris

Titolo

The far horizons of time time and mind in the universe / / H. Chris Ransford; managing editor, Paulina Leśna-Szreter; language editor, Andrew Laister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Warsaw, [Poland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Open, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-044028-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages)

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Space and time

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements & Thanks -- Introduction -- Prologue: Walk Towards A Distant Star -- 1 Time - Part 1 -- 2 When is Now? -- 3 The Time Explorer's Toolkit -- 4 Infinity & Infinities -- 5 Our Quantized Reality: Life in the Strobe Lights -- 6 A Surprisingly Puzzling Reality -- 7 Wave Functions: Mathematics Is Reality -- 8 The Most Complex Object in the Known Universe -- 9 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (aka Indeterminacy) -- 10 Time - Part 2: the Guises of Time -- 11 Gödel Universes? -- 12 Big Bangs -- 13 Bubbles of Time -- 14 Multiverse Scenarios -- 15 In Search of OM -- End Notes -- Further Reading -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation - such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more - and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such



resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777019603321

Titolo

The new frontiers of organic and composite nanotechnology [[electronic resource] /] / Victor Erokhin, Manoj Ram, Ozlem Yavuz, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Elsevier Science, 2008

ISBN

1-281-07050-5

9786611070502

0-08-055407-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ErokhinVictor

RamManoj Kumar

YavuzOzlem

Disciplina

620.5

Soggetti

Nanotechnology

Nanostructured materials - Design and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The New Frontiers of Organic and Composite Nanotechnology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Chapter 1 Layer-by-layer assembly; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.2.1. Basic Principles; 1.2.2. Building Blocks for Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.2.3. Kinetics of Multilayer Adsorption; 1.2.4. Tuning of Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.3. Fabrication of Nanocomposite Thin Films; 1.3.1. Silica/Polyion Multilayer; 1.3.2. Semiconductor Nanoparticle/Polyion Multilayers; 1.3.3. Au Nanoparticle/Polycation Multilayer

1.3.4. Layered Ceramic Plates1.3.5. Conductive Polymers/Polyion Multilayer; 1.3.6. Carbon Nanotube/Polyion Multilayer; 1.3.7. Protein/Polyion Multilayer; 1.3.8. DNA Multilayer; 1.4. Modified Procedures; 1.4.1. Spin Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.4.2. Spray



Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.4.3. Covalent Layer-by-layer Self-assembly; 1.5. Surface Patterning; 1.6. Current and Potential Applications; 1.6.1. Current Applications; 1.6.2. Potential Applications; 1.6.3. Difficulties and Solutions; 1.7. Conclusions; References

Chapter 2 Multifunctional microcontainers with tuned permeability for delivery and (bio)chemical reactions2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Novel Polymer Materials for Low Permeable Capsule Walls and Encapsulation; 2.3. Release of Encapsulated Materials from Polyelectrolyte Capsules; 2.3.1. Enzyme-mediated Release of Encapsulated Materials; 2.3.2. Release by Laser; 2.4. Applications and Perspectives; References; Chapter 3 Advanced optical spectroscopies in nanotechnology; 3.1. Introduction: Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale; 3.2. The Nanoworld; 3.2.1. Small Objects; 3.2.2. Small Structures

3.3. Advanced Optical Spectroscopies3.3.1. Single-molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopies; 3.3.2. The SERS Effect and Enhanced Spectroscopies; 3.3.3. Tip-enhanced Spectroscopies; 3.4. Some Applications; 3.4.1. Blinking, Statistics and PCS; 3.4.2. Surface Plasmon Engineering and Sensors; 3.4.3. Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles; 3.4.4. Polarization and Anisotropy Effects; 3.4.5. Innovative Methods and Results; 3.4.6. 'Normal' Spectroscopy on Nanostructured Systems; 3.5. Conclusions and Perspectives; Bibliographical Appendix; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Conducting nanocomposite systems; 4.1. Introduction

4.2. Classification4.3. Host and Guest Materials for Conducting Nanocomposite Systems; 4.3.1. Host Materials; 4.3.2. Guest Materials; References; Chapter 5 Electrochemically assisted scanning probe microscopy: A powerful tool in nano(bio)science; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Electrochemical Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (EC-STM); 5.2.1. Bipotentiostatic Approach; 5.2.2. Tip Preparation; 5.2.3. Tip Characterization; 5.2.4. Substrate Electrode Preparation; 5.2.5. Tunnelling in Water; 5.3. EC-STM for Studying Underpotential Deposition

5.4. Visualization of Potential-Induced Molecular Assembling and Phase Transitions

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an attempt to illustrate current status of modern nanotechnology. The book is divided into 3 main sections, introduction and conclusion. The introduction describes general questions of the problem and main lines of the research activities. In the first section methods of the nanostructures construction are described. Second section is dedicated to the Structure-property relationship. Special attention is paid to the description of the most powerful experimental methods and tools used in nanotechnology, such as probe microscopies, spectroscopied, and scattering methods, including t



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966307403321

Autore

Rosenthal Jean-Laurent

Titolo

Before and beyond divergence : the politics of economic change in China and Europe / / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, R. Bin Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011

ISBN

9780674061293

0674061292

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Classificazione

QG 000

Altri autori (Persone)

WongRoy Bin

Disciplina

330.94

Soggetti

Comparative economics

China Economic conditions

China Economic policy

Europe Economic conditions

Europe Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Miracles, Myths, and Explanations in Economic History -- 1 Space and Politics -- 2 Population, Resources, and Economic Growth -- 3 Formal and Informal Mechanisms for Market Development -- 4 Warfare, Location of Manufacturing, and Economic Growth in China and Europe -- 5 Credit Markets and Economic Change -- 6 Autocrats, War, Taxes, and Public Goods -- 7 Political Economies of Growth, 1500- 1950 -- Conclusion: Findings, Methods, and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China's early and more recent prosperity and for Europe's difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during



early industrialization.Rosenthal and Wong show that relative prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the choices of institutions in the long run. Their historical perspective on institutional change has surprising implications for understanding modern transformations in China and Europe and for future expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic history, essential to any larger social science account of modern world history.