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UNINA9910315227503321 |
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Braarvig Jens E. |
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Studies in Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra |
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Edition Open Access Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2018 |
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Max Planck research library for the history and development of knowledge ; ; 10 |
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Language |
Bilingualism & multilingualism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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The present book comprises a number of studies centered around the topic of how knowledge diffuses from one culture to another, and how knowledge diffusion is connected with the spread of languages and the conceptual systems they carry by translation. This diffusion also takes place also over linguistic borders, in the way that a given receiving language may also absorb systems of knowledge from languages that are linguistically quite unrelated but culturally connected with respect to knowledge transfer. Thus we find that Sumerian concepts with considerable impact were moved into the Akkadian language, along with writing-systems, religion, science and literature, even though linguistically the languages are completely unrelated. Another example is how Chinese culture and writing systems spread throughout East Asia into Korea, Japan and Vietnam, though the languages of these countries were linguistically unrelated to Chinese. The same case can be made for Buddhist ways of thinking when it was clothed in the garb of Chinese or Tibetan, or one of the other languages along the Silk Road. This is also true for the spread of Manicheism, as it was portrayed in a great number of languages, related or unrelated. German and Latin are linguistically related, but when Latin learning was communicated in Old High German, many of its terms were created in Middle German to accommodate the Latin conceptual world, and the |
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German language was lastingly enriched with novisms denoting concepts of the Classical traditions of learning, in a process parallel to the spread of Greek Christianity into the East European cultures and languages. The book describes some cases of such knowledge transfer and what kind of mechanisms are involved in the ensuing language changes in the receiving languages and cultures. |
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UNINA9910254089203321 |
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Greenwood Priscilla E |
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Stochastic Neuron Models / / by Priscilla E. Greenwood, Lawrence M. Ward |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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1 online resource (82 p.) |
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Stochastics in Biological Systems, , 2364-2297 ; ; 1.5 |
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Biomathematics |
Probabilities |
Neurosciences |
Statistics |
Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics |
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes |
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Single Neuron Models -- Population and Subpopulation Models -- Spatially-structured Neural Systems -- The Bigger Picture. |
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This book describes a large number of open problems in the theory of stochastic neural systems, with the aim of enticing probabilists to work on them. This includes problems arising from stochastic models of individual neurons as well as those arising from stochastic models of the activities of small and large networks of interconnected neurons. The necessary neuroscience background to these problems is outlined |
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within the text, so readers can grasp the context in which they arise. This book will be useful for graduate students and instructors providing material and references for applying probability to stochastic neuron modeling. Methods and results are presented, but the emphasis is on questions where additional stochastic analysis may contribute neuroscience insight. An extensive bibliography is included. Dr. Priscilla E. Greenwood is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lawrence M. Ward is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. |
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