1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457650103321

Autore

Finkler Kaja

Titolo

Experiencing the New Genetics : Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier / / Kaja Finkler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]

©2000

ISBN

1-283-21107-6

9786613211071

0-8122-0060-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Anthropology / General

Families - Social aspects - United States

Heredity, Human - Social aspects

Kinship

Medical genetics

Families

Anthropology

Biomedical Research

Biology

Genotype

Psychology, Social

Medicine

Disease Susceptibility

Sociology

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Behavioral Sciences

Diseases

Genetic Phenomena

Disease Attributes

Social Sciences

Health Occupations

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Research

Biological Science Disciplines

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena



Disciplines and Occupations

Psychiatry and Psychology

Science

Phenomena and Processes

Natural Science Disciplines

Pathologic Processes

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Genetics, Medical

Adoption

Genetic Determinism

Family

Genetics, Behavioral

Genetic Research

Anthropology, Cultural

Genetics

Genetic Predisposition to Disease

Genetic Diseases, Inborn

Social & Cultural Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Stage: Kinship and Genetics -- Chapter 2. The Role of Kinship in Human Life -- Chapter 3. Family and Kinship in American Society -- Chapter 4. Concepts of Heredity in Western Society -- Part II. Setting Out People's Experience -- Chapter 5. People with a Genetic History I -- Chapter 6. People with a Genetic History II -- Chapter 7. People Without a Medical History -- Part III. Implications -- Chapter 8. The Ideology of Genetic Inheritance in Contemporary Life -- Chapter 9. A Multidimensional Critique of Genetic Determinism -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging human life, placing the family and kin group under the spotlight.In Experiencing the New Genetics, Kaja Finkler argues that the often uncritical presentation of research on genetic inheritance as well as the attitudes of some in the biomedical establishment contribute to a "genetic essentialism," a new genetic determinism, and the medicalization of kinship in American society. She explores some of the social and cultural consequences of this phenomenon. Finkler discovers that the new genetics can turn a healthy person into a perpetual patient, complicate the redefinition of the family that has been occurring in American society for the past few decades, and lead to the abdication of responsibility for addressing the problem of unhealthy environmental conditions. Experiencing the New Genetics will assist scholars and general readers alike in making sense of this timely and multifaceted issue.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996466740603316

Autore

Grodzicki Michael

Titolo

Physical reality -- construction or discovery? : an introduction to the methodology and aims of physics / / Michael Grodzicki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-74579-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 333 p. 2 illus.)

Disciplina

530

Soggetti

Physics - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Worldview of Physics I: Presuppositions -- Methodology of Physics -- The Structure of Physical Theories -- Theory and Experience -- The Worldview of Physics II: Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience. An important feature of the book is that all its essential conclusions are elucidated with the help of representative examples from theoretical, molecular and solid state physics. All young physicists as well as physics teachers will find here valuable insights into the philosophy and tools of their trade.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910485020203321

Titolo

Mathematics and Computation in Music : 5th International Conference, MCM 2015, London, UK, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings / / edited by Tom Collins, David Meredith, Anja Volk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-20603-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 392 p. 147 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 9110

Disciplina

780.0519

Soggetti

Digital humanities

Music

Algebra

Computer science - Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Artificial intelligence - Data processing

Digital Humanities

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Data Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

A Structural Theory of Rhythm Notation Based on Tree Representations and Term Rewriting -- Renotation from Optical Music Recognition -- Foundations for Reliable and Flexible Interactive Multimedia Scores -- Genetic Algorithms Based on the Principles of Grundgestalt and Developing Variation -- Describing Global Musical Structures by Integer Programming on Musical Patterns -- Improved Iterative Random Walk for Four-Part Harmonization -- Location Constraints for Repetition-Based Segmentation of Melodies -- Modeling Musical Structure with Parametric Grammars -- Perfect Balance: A Novel Principle for the Construction of Musical Scales and Meters -- Characteristics of Polyphonic Music Style and Markov Model of Pitch-Class Intervals -- A Corpus-Sensitive Algorithm for Automated Tonal Analysis -- Finding Optimal Triadic Transformational Spaces with Dijkstra’s Shortest Path



Algorithm -- A Probabilistic Approach to Determining Bass Voice Leading in Melodic Harmonisation -- Hypergestures in Complex Time: Creative Performance Between Symbolic and Physical Reality -- Generating Fingerings for Polyphonic Piano Music with a Tabu Search Algorithm -- Logistic Modeling of Note Transitions -- Evaluating Singer Consistency and Uniqueness in Vocal Performances -- A Change-Point Approach Towards Representing Musical Dynamics -- Structural Similarity Based on Time-Span Sub-Trees -- Cross Entropy as a Measure of Musical Contrast -- Symbolic Music Similarity Using Neuronal Periodicity and Dynamic Programming -- Applications of DFT to the Theory of Twentieth-Century Harmony -- Utilizing Computer Programming to Analyze Post-Tonal Music: Contour Analysis of Four Works for Solo Flute -- A Statistical Approach to the Global Structure of John Cage’s Number Piece Five⁵ -- Exact Cover Problem in Milton Babbitt’s All-Partition Array -- Constructing Geometrical Spaces from Acoustical Representations -- Geometry, Iterated Quantization and Filtered Voice-Leading Spaces -- Using Fundamental Groups and Groupoids of ChordSpaces to Model Voice Leading -- All-Interval Structures -- Unifying Tone System Definitions: Ordering Chromas -- A Categorical Generalization of Klumpenhouwer Networks -- The Spinnen-Tonnetz: New Musical Dimensions in the 2D Network for Tonal Music Analysis: Using Polarization and Tonal Regions in a Dynamic Environment -- Probabilistic Segmentation of Musical Sequences Using Restricted Boltzmann Machines -- ¿El Caballo Viejo? Latin Genre Recognition with Deep Learning and Spectral Periodicity -- Can a Musical Scale Have 14 Generators? -- On the Step-Patterns of Generated Scales That are Not Well-Formed -- Triads as Modes within Scales as Modes -- Greek Ethnic Modal Names vs. Alia Musica’s Nomenclature.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2015, held in London, UK, in June 2015. The 24 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers feature research that combines mathematics or computation with music theory, music analysis, composition, and performance. They are organized in topical sections on notation and representation, music generation, patterns, performance, similarity and contrast, post-tonal music analysis, geometric approaches, deep learning, and scales.