1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910257384403321

Titolo

Anomalous Diffusion [[electronic resource] ] : From Basics to Applications / / edited by Andrzej Pekalski, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

3-540-49259-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 382 p. 57 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 519

Disciplina

530.4/75

Soggetti

Gravitation

Physics

Condensed matter

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Condensed Matter Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Coherent spatio-temporal coupling in fractional wanderings. Renewed approach to continuous-time Lévy flights -- Lévy flights and Lévy walks revisited -- Mean first-passage times and hopping mobility of particles under bias in nonsymmetric potentials -- Coherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering from lattice gases and its relationship to fick’s law of diffusion -- Random flights with quenched noise amplitudes -- On fractional diffusion and its relation with continuous time random walks -- Anomalous diffusion in disordered lattices: Effect of bias -- Aspects of the noisy burgers equation -- Anomalous diffusion of polymers in supercooled melts near the glass transition -- Intermittent dynamics and aging in glassy systems -- Macroscopic finite size effects in relaxational processes -- Diagnosis using photon diffusion: From brain oxygenation to the fat of the atlantic salmon -- Stochastic modelling of ion diffusion in complex systems -- Dispersion in freely decaying and forced 2D turbulence -- Fluctuations and their correlations in econophysics -- Fronts and pattern formation in



reaction-diffusion systems -- Entanglement effects in model polymer networks -- Models of cooperative diffusion -- Hydrogen diffusion in proton conducting oxides and in nanocrystalline metals -- Shape and selfsimilarity of diffusion-limited aggregation clusters -- Random walks, fractons, and electrons on percolation structures at criticality -- From microscopic kinetics to generalized allen-cahn equations. Application to adatoms and intercalation dynamics -- Diffusive and subdiffusive step dynamics -- Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium surface diffusion measurements -- Classical diffusion in presence of geometrical constraints and/or interactions -- Diffusion of adsorbed particles on surfaces with channeled atomic corrugation -- Instabilities and transport properties in sheared granular gases -- Avalanches of dry sand -- Anomalous diffusion: Summary.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of articles gives a nice overview of the fast growing field of diffusion and transport. The area of non-Browman statistical mechanics has many extensions into other fields like biology, ecology, geophysics etc. These tutorial lectures address e.g. Lévy flights and walks, diffusion on metal surfaces or in superconductors, classical diffusion, biased and anomalous diffusion, chemical reaction diffusion, aging in glassy systems, diffusion in soft matter and in nonsymmetric potentials, and also new problems like diffusive processes in econophysics and in biology.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830335203321

Autore

Young Laurie <1955->

Titolo

From products to services [[electronic resource] ] : insight and experience from companies which have embraced the service economy / / Laurie Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

1-119-20929-3

1-281-84104-8

9786611841041

0-470-77273-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Classificazione

85.10

Disciplina

658.406

658.8

Soggetti

Customer services

New products

Service industries

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

From Products to Services; Contents; Foreword; 1: Why product companies consider service business; 2: Clarifying the strategic intent of the service business; 3: The degree of change needed to set up a service business; 4: First base: gaining a clear perspective of service markets; 5: Creating the services to be sold in the new market; 6: Altering the operations of a product company to provide services; 7: Selling services; 8: Marketing services instead of products; 9: Positioning a product brand in a service market; 10: In conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the last thirty years, a wide range of product companies throughout the Western economies have considered moving into or setting up service businesses. Some have rejected the idea after careful consideration, some have wandered into competitive services without any real idea of what is involved and others have deliberately executed a carefully considered strategic manoeuvre. Included in this debate are some of the most famous business names in the western world: Unisys,



Ericsson, Michelin, Nokia and HP. For IBM it was Lou Gerstener's 'big bet'; at GE it was one of former CEO Jack Welch'