1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910253923903321

Autore

Diogo Rui

Titolo

Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Bonobos : With Notes on the Weight, Attachments, Variations, and Innervation of the Muscles and Comparisons with Common Chimpanzees and Humans / / by Rui Diogo, Brian Shearer, Josep M. Potau, Juan F. Pastor, Felix J. de Paz, Julia Arias-Martorell, Cassandra Turcotte, Ashley Hammond, Evie Vereecke, Marie Vanhoof, Sandra Nauwelaerts, Bernard Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-54106-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 262 p. 201 illus., 133 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

599.885

Soggetti

Anatomy

Evolution (Biology)

Anthropology

Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology

Evolutionary Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and Aims -- Methodology and Material -- Head and neck musculature -- Pectoral and upper limb musculature -- Trunk and back musculature -- Diaphragmatic and abdominal musculature -- Perineal, coccygeal and anal musculature -- Pelvic and lower limb musculature -- Discussion: Discussion about the major evolutionary implications of our bonobo data, with a phylogenetic analysis and notes on chimp stasis and mosaicism, and how our data also exposes many just-so-stories on human evolution, e.g. by showing that muscles that were supposedly only present in humans and linked e.g. to our bipedalism, etc., are also present as variations in bonobos -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution. This book, which is the first photographic



and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of bonobos (Pan paniscus), adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of other apes previously published by the same authors. These books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and their closest relatives. The present atlas, which includes detailed high quality photographs of the musculoskeletal structures from most anatomical regions of the body as well as textual information about the attachments, innervation, function and weight of the respective muscles, is based on dissections of seven bonobos, including adults, adolescents, infants and fetuses, and males and females, and on an extensive review of the literature for comparisons with common chimpanzees. It therefore provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within chimpanzees as well as an extensive list of synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures covered here. Moreover, contrary to the previous photographic atlases of apes, it also provides details on neurovascular structures such as the brachial and lumbrosacral plexuses. The book will therefore be of interest to students, teachers and researchers focusing on primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and physical anthropology and to medical students, doctors and researchers who are curious about the origin, evolution, homology and variations of the musculoskeletal and neurovascular structures of modern humans.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299988803321

Titolo

Dynamics of Information Systems : Computational and Mathematical Challenges / / edited by Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Jose L. Walteros, Panos M. Pardalos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-10046-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1017 ; ; 105

Disciplina

003.54

Soggetti

Operations research

Management science

Dynamical systems

System theory

Control theory

Operations Research, Management Science

Dynamical Systems

Systems Theory, Control

Operations Research and Decision Theory

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Asymmetry of Risk and Value of Information -- A Risk-Averse Differential Game Approach to Multi-Agent Tracking and Synchronization with Stochastic Objects and Command Generators -- Informational Issues in Decentralized Control -- Sparse Signal Reconstruction: LASSO and Cardinality Approaches -- Evaluation of the Copycat Model for predicting complex network growth -- Optimal Control Formulations for the Unit Commitment Problem -- On the far from most string problem, one of the hardest string selection problems -- IGV-plus: a Java software for the analysis and visualization of Next-Generation Sequencing data -- Statistical Techniques for Assessing Cyberspace Security -- Systems Safety Analysis via Accident Precursors Selection.

Sommario/riassunto

The contributions of this volume stem from the “Fifth International



Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems” held in Gainesville, FL in February 2013, and discuss state-of the-art  techniques in handling problems and solutions in the broad field of information systems. Dynamics of Information Systems: Computational and Mathematical Challenges presents diverse aspects of modern information systems with an emphasis on interconnected network systems and related topics, such as signal and message reconstruction, network connectivity, stochastic network analysis, cyber and computer security, community and cohesive structures in complex networks. Information systems are a vital part of modern societies. They are essential to our daily actions, including social networking, business and bank transactions, as well as sensor communications. The rapid increase in these capabilities has enabled us with more powerful systems, readily available to sense, control, disperse, and analyze information.