1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464101703321

Titolo

2012 labour overview [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America and the Caribbean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2012

ISBN

92-2-127829-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

104 p. : ill

Soggetti

Labor - Latin America

Labor - Caribbean Area

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830196503321

Autore

Seberry Jennifer <1944->

Titolo

Hadamard matrices : constructions using number theory and algebra / / Jennifer Seberry, Mieko Yamada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2020

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2020]

ISBN

1-119-52013-4

1-119-52027-4

1-119-52025-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

512.9434

Soggetti

Hadamard matrices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Basic Definitions -- Chapter 2 Gauss Sums, Jacobi Sums, and Relative Gauss Sums -- Chapter 3 Plug-In Matrices -- Chapter 4 Arrays: Matrices to Plug-Into -- Chapter 5 Sequences -- Chapter 6 M-structures -- Chapter 7 Menon Hadamard Difference Sets and Regular Hadamard Matrices -- Chapter 8 Paley Hadamard Difference Sets and Paley Type Partial Difference Sets -- Chapter 9 Skew Hadamard, Amicable, and Symmetric Matrices -- Chapter 10 Skew Hadamard Difference Sets -- Chapter 11 Asymptotic Existence of Hadamard Matrices -- Chapter 12 More on Maximal Determinant Matrices -- Appendix A Hadamard Matrices -- Appendix B List of sds from Cyclotomy -- Appendix C Further Research Questions -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book, which is the update of a 1992 survey by the same authors, summarizes some known constructions of Hadamard Matrices that are based on algebraic and number theoretic methods. Hadamard matrices are of practical use in signal processing and design experiments among other applications. This book begins with basic definitions, and is followed by a chapter on Gauss sums, Jacobi sums and relative Gauss sums. Next, the authors discuss plug-in matrices, arrays, and sequences. M-structure is covered next, along with Menon Hadamard



differences sets and regular Handmard matrices. The authors then discuss Paley difference sets, skew-Handmard matrices, and skew Handmard differences sets. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of asymptotic existence of Handmard matrices and more on maximal determinant matrices"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254094603321

Autore

Shmailov Maya M

Titolo

Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky : The Queer Duck of Biology / / by Maya M. Shmailov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-39922-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Science Networks. Historical Studies, , 2296-6080 ; ; 55

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Mathematics

History

Science—History

Biomathematics

History of Mathematical Sciences

History of Science

Mathematical and Computational Biology

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.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter I: An Overview: Rashevsky's Mathematical Biology -- A Brief Sketch of Rashevsky's Life -- Crossing Boundaries: When Interest Crystallizes -- Rashevsky's Mathematical Biologist -- 1st Arc of Intellectual Trajectory -- An Outsider's Sad Lot -- Chapter II: Chicago Experiments in Mathematical Biology -- In Search of a "Queer Duck" -- A Forward-Looking Policy in the Division of Biological Sciences -- The Scientific Pathfinder -- An Experiment in Scientific Procedure: the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology -- The Queer Ducks: The University of Chicago Group of



Mathematical Biologists -- Chapter III: Scientific Experiment: Attempts to Converse across Disciplinary Boundaries Using the Method of Approximation  -- Cell division and cellular aggregates -- Growing up and Making a Name -- Making "an Honest Woman" of Mathematical Biology -- Chapter IV: Breaking through the Iron Curtain -- In search of the Holy Grail: Discovering Form and Relations in Biology -- Betting on a Dark Horse -- A New Reign in Chicago -- Towards the Golden Years -- Chapter V: How Experiments End: The Drama at Chicago -- Pawns on a Chess Board -- "Mustard Plaster" -- The End -- Trotsky of Mathematical Biology -- Last of the Mohicans -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky’s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture. “Most modern-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?” In what constitutes the first detailed biography of theoretical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972), spanning key aspects of his long scientific career, the book captures Rashevsky’s ways of thinking about the place mathematical biology should have in biology and his personal struggle for the acceptance of his views. It brings to light the tension between mathematicians, theoretical physicists and biologists when it comes to the introduction of physico-mathematical tools into biology. Rashevsky’s successes and failures in his efforts to establish mathematical biology as a subfield of biology provide an important test case for understanding the role of theory (in particular mathematics) in understanding the natural world. With the biological sciences moving towards new vistas of inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborations and research programs, the book will appeal to a wide readership ranging from historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture to students and general readers with an interest in the history of the life sciences, mathematical biology and the social construction of science.