1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458740703321

Autore

Condie Kent C

Titolo

Earth as an evolving planetary system [[electronic resource] /] / Kent C. Condie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-01078-2

9786611010782

0-08-049458-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CondieKent C

Disciplina

551.1

Soggetti

Plate tectonics

Electronic books.

Earth Crust

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Plate tectonics and crustal evolution. 4th ed. 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-441) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Earth as an Evolving Planetary System; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Earth Systems; Earth as a Planetary System; Structure of the Earth; Plate Tectonics; Is the Earth Unique?; Interacting Earth Systems; Further Reading; Chapter 2. The Crust; Introduction; Crustal Types; Continent Size; Seismic Crustal Structure; Heat Flow; Exhumation and Cratonization; Processes in the Continental Crust; Crustal Composition; Crustal Provinces and Terranes; Crustal Province and Terrane Boundaries; The United Plates of America; Supercontinents; Further Reading

Chapter 3. Tectonic SettingsIntroduction; Ocean Ridges; Tectonic Settings Related to Mantle Plumes.; Continental Rifts; Cratons and Passive Margins; Arc Systems; Orogens; Uncertain Tectonic Settings; Mineral and Energy Deposits; Plate Tectonics with Time; Further Reading; Chapter 4. The Mantle; Introduction; Seismic Structure of the Mantle; Mantle Upwellings and Geoid Anomalies; Temperature Distribution in the Mantle; The Lithosphere; The Low-Velocity Zone; The Transition Zone; The Lower Mantle; Plate-Driving Forces; Mantle Plumes; Mantle Geochemical Components; Convection in the Mantle

Further ReadingChapter 5. The Core; Introduction; Core Temperature;



The Inner Core; Composition of the Core; Age of the Core; Generation of the Earth's Magnetic Field; Origin of the Core; Where Do We Go From Here?; Further Reading; Chapter 6. The Atmosphere and Oceans; Introduction; General Features of the Atmosphere; The Primitive Atmosphere; The Secondary Atmosphere; The Carbon Cycle; The Precambrian Atmosphere; The Origin of Oxygen; Phanerozoic Atmospheric History; The Oceans; Paleoclimates; Conclusions; Further Reading; Chapter 7. Living Systems; General Features; Origin of Life

First FossilsOrigin of Photosynthesis; Tree of Life; Stromatolites; Appearance of Eukaryotes; Origin of Metazoans; Neoproterozoic Multicellular Organisms; Evolution of Phanerozoic Life Forms; Biologic Benchmarks; Mass Extinctions; Further Reading; Chapter 8. Crustal and Mantle Evolution; Introduction; Earth's Thermal History; Earth's Primitive Crust; Earth's Oldest Rocks and Minerals; Crustal Origin; How Continents Grew; Continental Growth Rates; Secular Changes in the Crust; Secular Changes in the Mantle; Evolution of the Crust...Mantle System; Further Reading

Chapter 9. The Supercontinent Cycle and Mantle-Plume EventsIntroduction; Supercontinent Cycle; Supercontinents, Mantle Plumes, and Earth Systems; Mantle-Plume Events Through Time; What Causes a Mantle-Plume Event?; Mantle-Plume Events and Supercontinents; Further Reading; Chapter 10. Comparative Planetary Evolution; Introduction; Impact Chronology in the Inner Solar System; Members of the Solar System; Chemical Composition of the Earth and the Moon; Age and Early Evolution of the Earth; Comparative Evolution of the Atmospheres of the Earth, Venus, and Mars; Continuously Habitable Zone

Condensation and Accretion of the Planets

Sommario/riassunto

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System presents the key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. It examines the role of plate tectonics in the geological past via geological evidence and proposed plate reconstruction.  Kent Condie synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to examine the key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle. This volume provides a substantial update to Condie's established text, Plate Tectonics



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996475763503316

Autore

Suzuki Joe

Titolo

Kernel Methods for Machine Learning with Math and RaKernel methods for machine learning with math and R : 100 exercises for building logic / / Joe Suzuki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9789811903984

9789811903977

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 pages)

Disciplina

006.31

Soggetti

R (Computer program language)

Kernel functions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- How to Overcome Your Kernel Weakness -- What Makes KMMR Unique? -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Positive Definite Kernels -- 1.1 Positive Definiteness of a Matrix -- 1.2 Kernels -- 1.3 Positive Definite Kernels -- 1.4 Probability -- 1.5 Bochner's Theorem -- 1.6 Kernels for Strings, Trees, and Graphs -- Appendix -- Exercises 1 sim 15 -- 2 Hilbert Spaces -- 2.1 Metric Spaces and Their Completeness -- 2.2 Linear Spaces and Inner Product Spaces -- 2.3 Hilbert Spaces -- 2.4 Projection Theorem -- 2.5 Linear Operators -- 2.6 Compact Operators -- Appendix: Proofs of Propositions -- Exercises -- 3 Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space -- 3.1 RKHSs -- 3.2 Sobolev Space -- 3.3 Mercer's Theorem -- Appendix -- Exercises -- 4 Kernel Computations -- 4.1 Kernel Ridge Regression -- 4.2 Kernel Principle Component Analysis -- 4.3 Kernel SVM -- 4.4 Spline Curves -- 4.5 Random Fourier Features -- 4.6 Nyström Approximation -- 4.7 Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition -- Appendix -- Exercises 46sim64 -- 5 The MMD and HSIC -- 5.1 Random Variables in RKHSs -- 5.2 The MMD and Two-Sample Problem -- 5.3 The HSIC and Independence Test -- 5.4 Characteristic and Universal Kernels -- 5.5 Introduction to Empirical Processes -- Appendix -- 6 Gaussian Processes and Functional Data Analyses -- 6.1 Regression -- 6.2



Classification -- 6.3 Gaussian Processes with Inducing Variables -- 6.4 Karhunen-Lóeve Expansion -- 6.5 Functional Data Analysis -- Appendix -- Exercises 83sim100 -- Appendix  Bibliography.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141283703321

Titolo

A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East / / edited by D.T. Potts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

9786613615695

9781118362587

1118362586

9781782686767

1782686762

9781280585869

1280585862

9781444360769

1444360760

9781444360790

1444360795

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1499 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Altri autori (Persone)

PottsDaniel T

Disciplina

939/.4

Soggetti

Archaeology - Middle East

Middle East Antiquities

Middle East Civilization To 622

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

A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; Volume I; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Maps; PART I: The Framework; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology; CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting; CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914); CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities



Departments; CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices; CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures

PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and GatherersCHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant; CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia; PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology; CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia; CHAPTER TEN: Fruit-Growing; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Animals in the Ancient World; CHAPTER TWELVE: Fish and Fishing; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Irrigation; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ceramic Production; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Metallurgy; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glass; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Textiles

CHAPTER NINETEEN: WatercraftPART IV: Varieties of Early Village and Town Life; CHAPTER TWENTY: The Northern Levant; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Southern Levant; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Northern Mesopotamia; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000-4000 bc; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Southern Mesopotamia; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Arabian Peninsula; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Iranian Plateau; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Southwestern Iran; PART V: Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Southern Mesopotamia

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Northern MesopotamiaCHAPTER THIRTY: The Anatolian Plateau; CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Iran; CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Northern Levant; CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: The Southern Levant; Volume II; Illustrations; Tables; Maps; PART VI: The Archaeology of Empire; CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination; CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Caucasus and the Near East; CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500-1500 bc; CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires; CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: The Hittite Empire

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elam: Iran's First EmpireCHAPTER FORTY: India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300-600 bc; CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age; CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia; CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: North Arabian Kingdoms; CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Egypt and the Near East; CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Assyrian Heartland; CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Assyrians Abroad; CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: The Urartian Empire; CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The Neo-Babylonian Empire

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity Features up-to-date surveys and the latest information from major new excavations such as Qatna (Syria), Göbekli Tepe (Turkey)Includes a diverse range of perspectives by senior, mid-career and junior scholars in Europe, USA, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East for a truly international group Includes major reviews of the origins of agriculture, animal domestication, and archaeological landscapesIncludes chapters dealing with periods after