The birth of string theory / / edited by Andrea Cappelli, INFN, Florence, Elena Castellani, Department of Philosophy, University of Florence, Filippo Colomo, INFN, Florence, Paolo Di Vecchia, Nordita, Stockholm and Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452037803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-107-22369-5; 1-280-64721-3; 9786613633262; 1-139-37782-5; 1-139-37496-6; 0-511-97772-7; 1-139-37639-X; 1-139-37097-9; 1-139-37925-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 636 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 539.7/258
• Soggetti: String models; Duality (Nuclear physics)
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Overview: ; 1. Introduction and synopsis; ; 2. Rise and fall of the hadronic string / Gabriele Veneziano; ; 3. Gravity, unification, and the superstring / John H. Schwarz; ; 4. Early string theory as a challenging case study for philosophers / Elena Castellani -- ; Part II. The Prehistory: The Analytic S-Matrix: ; 5. Introduction to Part II; ; 6. Particle theory in the sixties: from current algebra to the Veneziano amplitude / Marc Ademollo; ; 7. The path to the Veneziano model / Hector R. Rubinstein; ; 8. Two-component duality and strings / Peter G.O. Freund; ; 9. Note on the prehistory of string theory / Murray Gell-Mann -- ; Part III. The Dual Resonance Model: ; 10. Introduction to Part III; ; 11. From the S-matrix to string theory / Paolo Di Vecchia; ; 12. ; Reminiscence on the birth of string theory / Joel A. Shapiro; ; 13. Personal recollections / Daniele Amati; ; 14. Early string theory at Fermilab and Rutgers / Louis Clavelli; ; 15. Dual amplitudes in higher dimensions: a personal view / Claud Lovelace; ; 16. Personal recollections on dual models / Renato Musto; ; 17. Remembering the 'supergroup' collaboration / Francesco Nicodemi; ; 18. The '3-Reggeon vertex' / Stefano Sciuto -- ; Part IV. The String: ; 19. Introduction to Part IV; ; 20. From dual models to relativistic strings / Peter Goddard; ; 21. The first string theory: personal recollections / Leonard Susskind; ; 22. The string picture of the Veneziano model / Holger B. Nielsen; ; 23. From the S-matrix to string theory / Yoichiro Nambu; ; 24. The analogue model for string amplitudes / David B. Fairlie; ; 25. Factorization in dual models and functional integration in string theory / Stanley Mandelstam; ; 26. The hadronic origins of string theory / Richard C. Brower -- ; Part V. Beyond the Bosonic String: ; 27. Introduction to Part V; ; 28. From dual fermion to superstring / David I. Olive; ; 29. Dual models with fermions: memoirs of an early string theorist / Pierre Ramond; ; 30. Personal recollections / André Neveu; ; 31. Aspects of fermionic dual models / Edward Corrigan; ; 32. The dual quark models / Korkut Bardakci and Martin B. Halpern; ; 33. Remembering the dawn of relativistic strings / Jean-Loup Gervais; ; 34. Early string theory in Cambridge: personal recollections / Claus Montonen -- ; Part VI. The Superstring: ; 35. Introduction to Part VI; ; 36. Supersymmetry in string theory / Ferdinando Gliozzi; ; 37. Gravity from strings: personal reminiscences of early developments / Tamiaki Yoneya; ; 38. From the Nambu-Goto to the [sigma]-model action / Lars Brink; ; 39. Locally supersymmetric action for the superstring / Paolo Di Vecchia; ; 40. Personal recollections / Eugène Cremmer; ; 41. The scientific contributions of Jooël Scherk / John H. Schwarz -- ; Part VII. Preparing the String Renaissance: ; 42. Introduction to Part VII; ; 43. From strings to superstrings: a personal perspective / Michael B. Green; ; 44. Quarks, strings and beyond / Alexander M. Polyakov; ; 45. The rise of superstring theory / Andrea Cappelli and Filippo Colomo.
• Sommario/riassunto: String theory is currently the best candidate for a unified theory of all forces and all forms of matter in nature. As such, it has become a focal point for physical and philosophical discussions. This unique book explores the history of the theory's early stages of development, as told by its main protagonists. The book journeys from the first version of the theory (the so-called dual resonance model) in the late sixties, as an attempt to describe the physics of strong interactions outside the framework of quantum field theory, to its reinterpretation around the mid-seventies as a quantum theory of gravity unified with the other forces, and its successive developments up to the superstring revolution in 1984. Providing important background information to current debates on the theory, this book is essential reading for students and researchers in physics, as well as historians and philosophers of science.

Conceptions of the afterlife in early civilizations : universalism, constructivism, and near-death experience / / Gregory Shushan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455377803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-4725-4894-9; 1-282-18939-5; 9786612189395; 1-4411-8812-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Collana: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies ; ; v.6
• Disciplina: 202/.3
• Soggetti: Future life; Near-death experiences; Universalism; 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 (pages [210]-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword by Gavin Flood -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Primary Sources -- Introduction -- Part I: Theory and Methodology in Concept and Application. 1. Comparison, Universalism, and the Rehabilitation of the Comparative 'Similar' ; 2. Early Civilizations, Contact, Diffusion, and Cultural Continuity ; 3. Near-Death Experience -- Part II: Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations. 4. Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt ; 5. Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia ; 6. Vedic India ; 7. Pre-Buddhist China ; 8. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica -- Part III: Universalism and Culture-Specificity: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 9. Analysis of Similarities and Differences ; 10. The Interface of Conception and Experience ; 11. Alternative and Supplementary Theories ; 12. Conclusions: Theoretical Eclecticism and A New Comparative Framework -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Gregory Shushan challenges post-modern scholarly attitudes concerning cross-cultural comparisons in the study of religions. In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, he analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle ; Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica). These are considered in light of historical and contemporary reports of near-death experiences, and shamanic afterlife 'journeys'. Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations is a significant study, for it presents a comprehensive new comparative framework for the cross-cultural study of myth and religion, while at the same time providing a fascinating exploration of the interface between belief and experience."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Software Technologies : 17th International Conference, ICSOFT 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11–13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Hans-Georg Fill, Marten van Sinderen, Leszek A. Maciaszek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910735388903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• ISBN: 3-031-37231-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Collana: Communications in Computer and Information Science, , 1865-0937 ; ; 1859
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetti: Software engineering; Computers, Special purpose; Computer systems; Microprogramming; Computer programming; Software Engineering; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Computer System Implementation; Control Structures and Microprogramming; Programming Techniques
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Tool Assisted Empirical Approach to Reusability Models Assessment -- ; Microservices Deployment on a Multi-platform Ecosystem: A Contract-based Approach -- A Decision Model based on an Optimized Choquet Integral: Multifactor Prediction and Intelligent Agriculture Application.-A New Simulation Tool for Sensor Networks based on an Energy-efficient and Fault-tolerant Methodology -- Adapting Cyber-Risk Assessment for the Planning of Cyber-Physical Smart Grids based on Industrial Needs -- Three Forms of Mutant Subsumption: Basic, Strict and Broad -- On the Efficiency of Building Large Collections of Software: Modeling, Algorithms, and Experimental Results -- An AST-based Code Change Representation and Its Performance in Just-in-time Vulnerability Prediction -- Towards Extracting Reusable and Maintainable Code Snippets -- A deep learning architecture based on advanced textual language models for detecting disease through its symptoms associated with a reinforcement learning algorithm.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2022, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 11–13, 2022. The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: tool assisted empirical approach to reusability models assessment; functional programming; three forms of mutant subsumption: basic, strict and broad; and on the efficiency of building large collections of software: modeling, algorithms, and experimental results.