1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449662903321

Autore

Price Peter W.

Titolo

Macroevolutionary theory on macroecological patterns / / Peter W. Price [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13478-1

0-511-06112-9

1-280-43431-7

9786610434312

1-139-14847-8

0-511-17853-0

0-511-05479-3

0-511-30575-3

0-511-61503-5

0-511-06958-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

576.8

Soggetti

Macroevolution

Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-273) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The general thesis; 2 Historical views on distribution, abundance, and population dynamics; 3 The focal species - Basic biology; 4 The focal species - Emergent properties; 5 The focal group - The common sawflies; 6 Convergent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups; 7 Divergent constraints and emergent properties; 8 Common constraints and divergent emergent properties; 9 The thesis applied to parasitoids, plants, and vertebrate taxa; 10 Theory development and synthesis; Glossary; References; Author index

Taxonomic indexSubject index

Sommario/riassunto

In Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns, Peter Price establishes a completely new vision of the central themes in ecology.



For the first time in book form, the study of distribution, abundance, and population size variation in animals is cast in an evolutionary framework. The book argues that evolved characters of organisms such as morphology, behavior, and life history influence strongly their ecological relationships, including the way that populations fluctuate through time and space. The central ideas in the book are supported by data gathered from over 20 years of research, primarily into plant and herbivore interactions, concentrating on insects. The huge diversity of insect herbivores provides the immense comparative power necessary for a strong evolutionary study of ecological principles. The book is intended as essential reading for all researchers and students of ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior, and for entomologists working in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450341103321

Titolo

Perception of faces, objects, and scenes [[electronic resource] ] : analytic and holistic processes / / edited by Mary A. Peterson and Gillian Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-53392-7

1-4237-4612-0

0-19-534741-2

0-19-518656-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Collana

Advances in visual cognition

Altri autori (Persone)

PetersonMary A. <1950->

RhodesGillian

Disciplina

152.14

Soggetti

Visual perception

Whole and parts (Psychology)

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

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Analytic and Holistic Processing-



The View Through Different Lenses; 1. What Are the Routes to Face Recognition?; 2. The Holistic Representation of Faces; 3. When Is a Face Not a Face? The Effects of Misorientation on Mechanisms of Face Perception; 4. Isolating Holistic Processing in Faces (And Perhaps Objects); 5. Diagnostic Use of Scale Information for Componential and Holistic Recognition; 6. Image-Based Recognition of Biological Motion, Scenes, and Objects; 7. Visual Object Recognition: Can a Single Mechanism Suffice?

8. The Complementary Properties of Holistic and Analytic Representations of Shape9. Relative Dominance of Holistic and Component Properties in the Perceptual Organization of Visual Objects; 10. Overlapping Partial Configurations in Object Memory: An Alternative Solution to Classic Problems in Perception and Recognition; 11. Neuropsychological Approaches to Perceptual Organization: Evidence from Visual Agnosia; 12. Scene Perception: What We Can Learn from Visual Integration and Change Detection; 13. Eye Movements, Visual Memory, and Scene Representation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Deals with how analytic and holistic processes contribute to the perception of faces, objects, and scenes. This volume focuses on the state of the debate in the field of visual perception by bringing together the views of the leading researchers, including James Tanaka, Ken Nakayama, Michael Tarr, John Hummel, and Marlene Behrmann.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910357823703321

Autore

Archibugi Franco

Titolo

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics : Volume I: A Revival of Myrdal, Frisch, Tinbergen, Johansen and Leontief / / by Franco Archibugi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319780573

3319780573

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (573 pages)

Disciplina

330.01

Soggetti

Economics - History

Philosophy and social sciences

History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. How scientific are the social sciences? -- 2. Toward a new scientific paradigm for the social science: according Myrdal -- 3. Planning and planning theory: the difficult legacy of Ragnar Frisch -- 4. Basic requirements for the Programming approach -- 5. The 'Programming approach' -- 6. The political preference function -- 7. The impact of the programming approach on socio-economic modelling -- 8. The World-Wide Vision and the 'Central Planning' Vision: Methodology for the Implementation of the 'Programming Approach' (The Great Jan Tinbergen's Role' ) -- 9. The Pitfalls of Implicit Theorising and the Abuse of Indirect Statistical Inference: Leontief 's Criticism (of Robinson, Kahn, Hicks, Keynes and Many Other Authors, Based on Implicit Theorising).

Sommario/riassunto

In this book - the first of three volumes - Franco Archibugi sets out to create an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of the conventional analysis from a "positive" approach to a "programming" approach. This overturning leads to a reappraisal of the foundations of Economics itself, and to an improved integration of



Economics as an autonomous discipline alongside Sociology, Political Science, Operational Research, Social Engineering and Physical or Spatial Planning. The author interrogates how scientific the social sciences really are before proposing a new scientific paradigm for the social sciences, a political preference function and a general programming approach. The chapters revisit hitherto neglected economists like Gunnar Myrdal, Ragnar Frisch, Vassili Leontief, and Leif Johansen, using their theory to overturn the epistemological approach of the entire science of economics. Volume IIexplores oppositions to the traditional and conventional teaching of economics, whilst Volume III presents a concrete and practical example of how to build a Planning Accounting Framework (PAF), as associated with Frisch's 'plan-frame' (explored in Volume II), to demonstrate the extent to which decisions and negotiations can be routed in the social sciences.