1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996308839103316

Autore

Selchow Sabine

Titolo

Negotiations of the »New World« : The Omnipresence of »Global« as a Political Phenomenon / / Sabine Selchow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , [2017]

©2016

ISBN

3-8394-2896-3

Edizione

[1. Aufl.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

Global Studies

Disciplina

327.1

Soggetti

Globalization - Political aspects

Globalization - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: 'It's Difficult' -- 2. The Contemporary Adjective Global I: Popular & Free, and Disputedly Undisputed -- 3. The Contemporary Adjective Global II: Enmeshed with the 'Globalisation'-Discourse -- 4. The 'Globalisation'-Discourse and the 'New World' -- 5. The Proclamation of the 'New World' -- 6. The Omnipresence of Global as a Political Phenomenon and 'Unconventional' Object of Study -- 7. For Example: The Web of Meanings 'New World' in US President Obama's Public Papers 2013 -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. References -- Tables and figures

Sommario/riassunto

»Global« is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective »global« across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term?Written from within the political studies and International Relations disciplines, and with a particular interest in the US, this book demonstrates that the widespread use of »global« is more than a linguistic curiosity. It constitutes a distinct political phenomenon of major importance: the negotiation and reproduction of the »new world«. As such, the analysis of the use of »global« provides fascinating insights into an influential and politically loaded aspect of contemporary imaginations of the world.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910616380203321

Autore

Schwarz Wolf

Titolo

Random Walk and Diffusion Models : An Introduction for Life and Behavioral Scientists / / by Wolf Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031121005

9783031120992

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Collana

Mathematics and Statistics Series

Disciplina

570.15195

570.1519282

Soggetti

Probabilities

Biomathematics

Biometry

Probability Theory

Mathematical and Computational Biology

Biostatistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Discrete random Walks -- The Correlated Random Walk -- The Diffusion Limit -- The Wiener process -- More general Diffusion Processes -- Differential Equations for Probabilities -- Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an accessible introduction to random walk and diffusion models at a level consistent with the typical background of students in the life sciences. In recent decades these models have become widely used in areas far beyond their traditional origins in physics, for example, in studies of animal behavior, ecology, sociology, sports science, population genetics, public health applications, and human decision making. Developing the main formal concepts, the book provides detailed and intuitive step-by-step explanations, and moves smoothly from simple to more complex models. Finally, in the last chapter, some successful and original applications of random walk and diffusion models in the life and behavioral sciences are illustrated in detail. The treatment of basic techniques and models is consolidated



and extended throughout by a set of carefully chosen exercises.