04027nam 22004935 450 991035028890332120200704011310.0981-13-0547-110.1007/978-981-13-0547-4(CKB)4100000004820639(DE-He213)978-981-13-0547-4(MiAaPQ)EBC5398081(EXLCZ)99410000000482063920180516d2019 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHuman-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations /by Rongxing Guo1st ed. 2019.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2019.1 online resource (XVIII, 199 p. 13 illus.) 981-13-0546-3 Introduction -- Win-Stay, Lose-Shift: A Survival Rule -- Human Thermodynamics and Culture (I) -- Human Thermodynamics and Culture (II) -- Environment Matters, But Not the Way You Think -- Civilization as Responses to Cyclical Challenges -- Let the Floods Come More Violent -- Glossary.This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based. It also resurrects a number of common ancestral terms to help readers understand the complicated process of human and cultural evolution around the globe. Specifically, in almost all indigenous languages, the words ‘wa’ and any variants of it were originally associated with the sound of crying of – and certainly were selected as the common ancestral word with the meanings of “house, home, homeland, motherland, and so on” by – early humans living in different parts of the world. This book provides many neglected but still crucial environmental and biological clues about the rise and fall of civilizations – ones that have largely resulted from mankind’s long-lasting “Win-Stay Lose-Shift” games throughout the world. The narratives and findings presented at this book are unexpected but reasonable – and are what every student of anthropology or history needs to know and doesn't get in the usual text. “Professor Guo explores the dynamics of civilizations from the beginnings to our perplexingly complex world. There are lots of thought-provoking ideas here on the rise and decline of civilizations and nations... Anyone wishing to understand global developments should give this book serious consideration.” ----John Komlos, University of Munich, Germany, and Duke University, USA “It is interesting to see a Chinese perspective on the questions of deep history that have engaged Jared Diamond, Yuval Harari and David Christian. Guo argues that understanding cyclical threats has been the key to human progress, which is driven by the dialectic of material privation and human ingenuity.” ----Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, USA.Human geographyWorld historyHistoriographyHuman Geographyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X26000World History, Global and Transnational Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/719000Historiography and Methodhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/711000Human geography.World history.Historiography.Human Geography.World History, Global and Transnational History.Historiography and Method.304.2Guo Rongxingauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut265679BOOK9910350288903321Human-Earth System Dynamics2532002UNINA03611nam 22006975 450 991100359100332120250518130242.03-031-83143-810.1007/978-3-031-83143-0(CKB)38859246400041(DE-He213)978-3-031-83143-0(MiAaPQ)EBC32123772(Au-PeEL)EBL32123772(OCoLC)1524421568(EXLCZ)993885924640004120250518d2025 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeyond Markovian Dissipation at the Nanoscale Towards Quantum Design Rules for Bio-organic Nanodevices /by Thibaut Lacroix1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2025.1 online resource (XVII, 141 p. 62 illus., 56 illus. in color.) Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-50613-031-83142-X Background -- Introduction -- Theory of Open Quantum Systems -- Methods -- Tensor Networks -- Chain Mapping of Bosonic Environments -- Influence of the ordering of the chains modes -- Applications -- Unveilling non Markovian Signalling -- Dissipation in multi component Nanodevices -- Conclusions and Prospects.This book proposes innovative and timely modeling, as well as simulation strategies based on tensor networks, to tackle the difficult problem of describing the dynamics of open quantum systems at the molecular or nanometer scale beyond a Markovian treatment. Among the many insights it delivers, the work includes calculations of the dynamics of a quantum system coupled to a bosonic environment that can be potentially structured and/or possess spatial correlations. The relevance of these strategies is exemplified with the analysis of complex bio-inspired nanodevices. Researchers in the field will find here a clear and reliable contribution to the understanding of open quantum systems in a still little-explored regime where the reservoirs are no longer considered as simple baths but as sub-systems treated on an equal footing with the reduced system of interest. Moreover, the author discusses how to handle the situation of a system coupled to multiple baths. This is a very important and generic scenario, crucial, for instance, when discussing non-equilibrium steady states.Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-5061Quantum theoryThermodynamicsNanoelectromechanical systemsQuantum computingBiophysicsNanoscienceQuantum PhysicsThermodynamicsNanoscale DevicesQuantum InformationNanoscale BiophysicsQuantum theory.Thermodynamics.Nanoelectromechanical systems.Quantum computing.Biophysics.Nanoscience.Quantum Physics.Thermodynamics.Nanoscale Devices.Quantum Information.Nanoscale Biophysics.530.12Lacroix Thibautauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1820990MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911003591003321Beyond Markovian Dissipation at the Nanoscale4384253UNINA