1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019714203321

Titolo

Managing science : management for R&D Laboratories / / Claude Geles ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim ; ; New York, : Wiley, 2004, c2000

ISBN

9786611764340

9781281764348

1281764345

9783527617296

3527617299

9783527617302

3527617302

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in beam physics and accelerator technology

Altri autori (Persone)

GelesClaude

Disciplina

506.8

507.2

Soggetti

Laboratories - Management

Research - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Managing Science Management for R&D Laboratories; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Management Structures; 1 Raisons d'Être; 2 Institutions and Decision-Making Systems; 3 Organization and Communication; 4 Policy Implementation; 5 Project Methodology and Management; 6 Infrastructure; 7 Human Resources Management; 8 Financial Statements; 9 Cost Assessment and Management; 10 logistics; 11 General Services; 12 Supply Chain; Part II The Human Drama; 13 The Psychosocial life; Case Study: The Failure Mode; 14 Performance; 15 Knowledge; 16 Money; 17 Judgment

Case Study: Planning and Serendipity18 Epilogue: A Summary of the Nature of the Origins of Stagnation and Failure; Selected References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A unique ""how-to"" manual for the management of scientific laboratoriesThis book presents a complete set of tools for the



management of research and development laboratories and projects. With an emphasis on knowledge rather than profit as a measure of output and performance, the authors apply standard management principles and techniques to the needs of high-flux, open-ended, separately funded science and technology enterprises. They also propose the novel idea that failure, and incipient failure, is an important measure of an organization's potential.From the management of c

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953882603321

Autore

Vedral Vlatko

Titolo

Introduction to quantum information science / / Vlatko Vedral

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-19-967348-9

1-280-75839-2

0-19-152698-3

1-4294-7034-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Oxford graduate texts

Disciplina

004.1

530.12

539

Soggetti

Quantum communication

Quantum theory

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; PART I: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM INFORMATION; 1 Classical information; 1.1 Information and physics; 1.2 Quantifying information; 1.3 Data compression; 1.4 Related measures of information; 1.5 Capacity of a noisy channel; 1.6 Summary; 2 Quantum mechanics; 2.1 Dirac notation; 2.2 The qubit, higher dimensions, and the inner product; 2.3 Hilbert spaces; 2.4 Projective measurements and operations; 2.5 Unitary operations; 2.6 Eigenvectors and eigenvalues; 2.7 Spectral decomposition; 2.8 Applications of the spectral theorem;



2.9 Dirac notation shorthands; 2.10 The Mach-Zehnder interferometer

2.11 The postulates of quantum mechanics2.12 Mixed states; 2.13 Entanglement; 2.14 Summary; 3 Quantum information-the basics; 3.1 No cloning of quantum bits; 3.2 Quantum cryptography; 3.3 The trace and partial-trace operations; 3.4 Hilbert space extension; 3.5 The Schmidt decomposition; 3.6 Generalized measurements; 3.7 CP-maps and positive operator-valued measurements; 3.8 The postulates of quantum mechanics revisited; 3.9 Summary; 4 Quantum communication with entanglement; 4.1 Pure state entanglement and Pauli matrices; 4.2 Dense coding; 4.3 Teleportation; 4.4 Entanglement swapping

4.5 No instantaneous transfer of information4.6 The extended-Hilbert-space view; 4.7 Summary; 5 Quantum information I; 5.1 Fidelity; 5.2 Helstrom's discrimination; 5.3 Quantum data compression; 5.4 Entropy of observation; 5.5 Conditional entropy and mutual information; 5.6 Relative entropy; 5.7 Statistical interpretation of relative entropy; 5.8 Summary; 6 Quantum information II; 6.1 Equalities and inequalities related to entropy; 6.2 The Holevo bound; 6.3 Capacity of a bosonic channel; 6.4 Information gained through measurements; 6.5 Relative entropy and thermodynamics

6.6 Entropy increase due to erasure6.7 Landauer's erasure and data compression; 6.8 Summary; PART II: QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; 7 Quantum entanglement-introduction; 7.1 The historical background of entanglement; 7.2 Bell's inequalities; 7.3 Separable states; 7.4 Pure states and Bell's inequalities; 7.5 Mixed states and Bell's inequalities; 7.6 Entanglement in second quantization; 7.7 Summary; 8 Witnessing quantum entanglement; 8.1 Entanglement witnesses; 8.2 The Jamiolkowski isomorphism; 8.3 The Peres-Horodecki criterion; 8.4 More examples of entanglement witnesses; 8.5 Summary

9 Quantum entanglement in practice9.1 Measurements with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer; 9.2 Interferometric implementation of Peres-Horodecki criterion; 9.3 Measuring the .delity between [omitted] and σ; 9.4 Summary; 10 Measures of entanglement; 10.1 Distillation of multiple copies of a pure state; 10.2 Analogy with the Carnot Cycle; 10.3 Properties of entanglement measures; 10.4 Entanglement of pure states; 10.5 Entanglement of mixed states; 10.6 Measures of entanglement derived from relative entropy; 10.7 Classical information and entanglement; 10.8 Entanglement and thermodynamics

10.9 Summary

Sommario/riassunto

Making smaller and faster computers is one of the main goals of current technological progress, and is determined by the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics allows us to encode and manipulate information in ways much more efficient than with exisiting (classical) computers. The book is an introduction to this exciting subject. - ;This book offers a concise and up-to-date introduction to the popular field of quantum information. It has originated in a series of invited lecture courses at various universities in different countries. This is reflected in its informal style of exposition and presen



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910510559503321

Autore

McKibbin Molly Littlewood

Titolo

Rethinking Rachel Doležal and Transracial Theory / / by Molly Littlewood McKibbin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030862787

303086278X

9783030862770

3030862771

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

305.8

305.80973

Soggetti

Ethnology - America

Culture

African Americans

Race

American Culture

African American Culture

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a deeply informed stance on the possibilities that arise when taking seriously the fissures in race and racial identity, McKibbin does not mince words when it comes to advocating for a more complex assessment of race. This book is indispensable for the contemporary moment. - Marquis Bey, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, Northwestern University McKibbin is a courageous thinker. She takes on a fraught topic about which advocates and opponents are screaming past each other, and deals with it carefully, calmly, methodically. - Paul Spickard, Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Asian American Studies, University of



California, Santa Barbara Stimulating and provocative. This is an important work that deserves attention. - Joseph L. Graves Jr, author of The Emperor’s New Clothes (2001); The Race Myth (2005); Racism, Not Race (2021, co-author) Race remains a site for struggle and liberation as this book so clearly demonstrates. - Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom Using real-life examples, this book asks readers to reflect on how we—as an academic community—think and talk about race and racial identity in twenty-first-century America. One of these examples, Rachel Doležal, provides a springboard for an examination of the state of our discourse around changeable racial identity and the potential for “transracialism”. An analysis of how we are theorizing transracial identity (as opposed to an argument for/against it), this study detects some omissions and problems that are becoming evident as we establish transracial theory and suggests ways to further develop our thinking and avoid missteps. Intended for academics and thinkers familiar with conversations about identity and/or race, Rethinking Rachel Doležal and Transracial Theory helps shape the theorization of “transracialism” in its formative stages. Molly Littlewood McKibbin, PhD, specializes in Black Literatures and Critical Race Theory. She is the author of Shades of Gray: Writing the New American Multiracialism and work published in African American Review, Callaloo, the Journal of Black Studies, and the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies.