1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001037819707536

Autore

Muci, Domenico

Titolo

Ioni pesanti-diffusione elastica. Tesi di laurea / laureando Domenico Muci ; relatore Luigi Taffara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lecce : Università degli Studi. Facoltà di Scienze. Corso di laurea in Fisica, a.a. 1976-77

Descrizione fisica

58 p. ; 30 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Taffara, Luigi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162752603321

Autore

Silver Nate

Titolo

The Signal and the Noise : Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't / / Nate Silver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2012

East Rutherford : , : Penguin Publishing Group, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-101-97966-6

1-101-59595-7

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (634 pages)

Classificazione

BUS086000MAT029000POL008000

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamberlainMike

Disciplina

519.5/42

Soggetti

Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better



predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling       One of  The Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of the Year       “Could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.”— The New York Times Book Review   Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work in sports and politics, Nate Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how to seek truth from data. In  The Signal and the Noise , Silver visits innovative forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He discovers that what the most accurate ones have in common is a superior command of probability—as well as a healthy dose of humility. With everything from the global economy to the fight against disease hanging on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910879579503321

Autore

Nogales Delgado Sergio

Titolo

Biolubricants Based on Vegetable Oils : From Raw Materials to Specific Uses / / by Sergio Nogales Delgado, Carmen María Álvez Medina, Juan Félix González González

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-65644-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, , 2191-5318

Disciplina

621.89

Soggetti

Tribology

Fluid mechanics

Chemistry, Organic

Bioorganic chemistry

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Organic Chemistry

Bioorganic Chemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: History of lubrication and why we need biolubricants -- Advantages and disadvantages (or challenges) of biolubricants -- Main raw materials, and the role of waste cooking oil -- Chemical routes to produce biolubricants. The role of biorefineries -- Biolubricant characterization. What is important to consider our product a good biolubricant? How do we measure it? -- Uses of biolubricants -- Cuƫng edge research about biolubricants -- Conclusions and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a book about biolubricants. It provides a general overview of these useful products, paying attention to their contribution to green and sustainable chemistry or the circular economy through the implementation of biorefineries. But also, it is a book about General Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, etc., as this specific subject could act as a cornerstone for many multidisciplinary fields. The book’s chapters include several exercises and questions to track reader’s learning and give general and specific idea of how biolubricants are not just a promising research topic, but also a practical reality. The main ideas



covered in this work are the following: history, origin and use of biolubricants, main chemical routes to produce them and their quality assessment.