Autore	Avery John <1933->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (339 p.)
Disciplina	333.7915
Collana	World Scientific series on energy and resource economics
Soggetto topico	Energy policy Energy development Power resources - Forecasting
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91857-1 9786611918576 981-270-874-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; 1. THE IDEA OF PROGRESS; 1.1 Cultural evolution; The agricultural revolution; Early forms of writing; 1.2 Condorcet; 1.3 Godwin; 1.4 Adam Smith; Suggestions for Further Reading; 2. THE DISMAL SCIENCE; 2.1 Malthus; 2.2 Ricardo and the Iron Law of Wages; Suggestions for Further Reading; 3. DARK SATANIC MILLS; 3.1 Development of the steam engine; The discovery of atmospheric pressure; Steam engines using atmospheric pressure; 3.2 Working conditions; 3.3 The slow acceptance of birth control in England; Suggestions for further reading; 4. HOBSON'S THEORY; 4.1 The colonial era 4.2 Hobson's explanation4.3 The neocolonial era?; Suggestions for further reading; 5. MAINSTREAM INDUSTRIALISM; 5.1 Trade unions and minimum wage laws; Robert Owen and social reform; Rusting of the Iron Law; 5.2 Rising standards of living .; 5.3 Robber barons and philanthropists; "Hain't I got the power?"; Carnegie's philanthropies; 5.4 The conict between capitalism and communism; The Russian Revolution; The First Red Scare; McCarthyism; the Cold War; Capitalism triumphant; 5.5 Globalization; 5.6 Say's law; Suburbia; Keeping up appearances; Suggestions for further reading 6. VEBLEN, GANDHI AND THE GREENS6.1 Veblen; economics as anthropology; 6.2 Gandhi as an economist; 6.3 Thoreau; 6.4 The counter-culture; 6.5 The Brundtland Report; 6.6 The Earth Summit at Rio; Suggestions for further reading; 7. GROWTH AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES; 7.1 Biology and economics; 7.2 The Club of Rome; 7.3 Global energy resources; 7.4 Hubbert peaks for oil and gas; 7.5 Oilsands, tarsands and heavy oil; 7.6 Coal; 7.7 Climate change; 7.8 Metals; 7.9 Groundwater; 7.10 Topsoil; Suggestions for further reading; 8. RENEWABLE ENERGY; 8.1 Beyond the fossil fuel era; 8.2 Biomass 8.3 Solar energySolar thermal power plants; Solar designs in architecture; Solar systems for heating water and cooking; 8.4 Wind energy; 8.5 Hydroelectric power; 8.6 Energy from the ocean; Tidal power; Wave energy; Ocean thermal energy conversion; Methane clatherates; 8.7 Geothermal energy; 8.8 Hydrogen technologies; Hydrogen fuel cells; 8.9 Some concluding remarks; Suggestions for further reading; 9. ECONOMICS WITHOUT GROWTH; 9.1 The transition from growth to a steady state - minimizing the trauma; 9.2 Keynesian economics; 9.3 The transition to a sustainable economy 9.4 Population and goods per capitaSuggestions for further reading; 10. OPTIMUM GLOBAL POPULATION; 10.1 The Green Revolution; 10.2 Energy inputs of agriculture; 10.3 Limitations on cropland; Optimum population in the long-term future; 10.4 The demographic transition; 10.5 Urbanization; 10.6 Achieving economic equality .; 10.7 The need for new values; Suggestions for further reading; 11. THE PROBLEM OF WAR; 11.1 The passions of mankind; The explosion of human knowledge; Tribal emotions and nationalism; Formation of group identity in modern nations; 11.2 Modern weapons; Hiroshima and Nagasaki The postwar nuclear arms race
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Autore	Avery John <1933->
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (277 p.)
Disciplina	576.8
Soggetto topico	Evolution (Biology) Information theory in biology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-60366-X 9786613784353 981-4401-24-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; 1. PIONEERS OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT; Aristotle; Averroes; The mystery of fossils; Condorcet; Linnaeus; Erasmus Darwin; Lamarck; The debates between Cuvier and Geoffroy St. Hilaire; Suggestions for further reading; 2. CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE AND WORK; Family background and early life; Aboard the Beagle; Work in London and Down; The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals ethology; Suggestions for further reading; 3. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION; Classical genetics; The structure of DNA; Protein structure; RNA and ribosomes The genetic codeGenetic engineering; The Polymerase Chain Reaction; Theories of chemical evolution towards the origin of life; Molecular evidence establishing family trees in evolution; Symbiosis; Suggestions for further reading; 4. STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND INFORMATION; The second law of thermodynamics; Maxwell's demon; Statistical mechanics; Information theory Shannon's formula; Entropy expressed as missing information; Cybernetic information compared with thermodynamic information; The information content of Gibbs free energy; What is life?; Suggestions for further reading 5. INFORMATION FLOW IN BIOLOGYCybernetic (or semiotic) information codes and languages; The language of molecular complementarity; The flow of information between and within cells; Nervous systems; Animal languages; Suggestions for further reading; 6. CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND INFORMATION; The coevolution of human language, culture, and intelligence; Y-chromosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam; Exodus: Out of Africa; Acceleration of human cultural evolution; Early forms of writing; The invention of paper, ink, and printing; The information explosion Information-driven human cultural evolution as part of biological evolutionSuggestions for further reading; 7. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; The first computers; Electronic digital computers; Cybernetics; Microelectronics; The history of the Internet and World Wide Web; Self-reinforcing information accumulation; Suggestions for further reading; 8. BIO-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; The merging of information technology and biotechnology; Self-assembly of supramolecular structures Nanoscience; Molecular switches; bacteriorhodopsin; Neural networks, biological and artificial; Genetic algorithms Artificial lifeSuggestions for further reading; 9. LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE; Tensions created by the rapidity of technological change; Can information-driven society achieve stability?; Respect for natural evolution; Construction versus destruction; Suggestions for further reading; Appendix A ENTROPY AND INFORMATION; Appendix B BIOSEMIOTICS; Suggestions for further reading; Appendix C ENTROPY AND ECONOMICS; Human society as a superorganism, with the global economy as its digestive system; Frederick Soddy; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen; Limits to Growth A steady-state economy Biological carrying capacity and economics
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462556403321

Autore	Avery John <1933->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina	530.1 539.725
Altri autori (Persone)	RettrupSten AveryJames
Soggetto topico	Symmetry (Physics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	981-4350-47-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; 1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; 1.1 The need for symmetry-adapted basis functions; 1.2 Fundamental concepts; 1.3 Definition of invariant blocks; 1.4 Diagonalization of the invariant blocks; 1.5 Transformation of the large matrix to block-diagonal form; 1.6 Summary of the method; 2. EXAMPLES FROM ATOMIC PHYSICS; 2.1 The Hartree-Fock-Roothaan method for calculating atomic orbitals; 2.2 Automatic generation of symmetry-adapted configurations; 2.3 Russell-Saunders states; 2.4 Some illustrative examples; 2.5 The Slater-Condon rules 2.6 Diagonalization of invariant blocks using the Slater-Condon rules3. EXAMPLES FROM QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; 3.1 The Hartree-Fock-Roothaan method applied to molecules; 3.2 Construction of invariant subsets; 3.3 The trigonal group C3v; the NH3 molecule; 4. GENERALIZED STURMIANS APPLIED TO ATOMS; 4.1 Goscinskian configurations; 4.2 Relativistic corrections; 4.3 The large-Z approximation: Restriction of the basis set to an R-block; 4.4 Electronic potential at the nucleus in the large-Z approximation; 4.5 Core ionization energies; 4.6 Advantages and disadvantages of Goscinskian configurations 4.7 R-blocks, invariant subsets and invariant blocks4.8 Invariant subsets based on subshells; Classification according to ML and Ms; 4.9 An atom surrounded by point charges; 5. MOLECULAR ORBITALS BASED ON STURMIANS; 5.1 The one-electron secular equation; 5.2 Shibuya-Wulfman integrals and Sturmian overlap integrals evaluated in terms of hyperpherical harmonics; 5.3 Molecular calculations using the isoenergetic configurations; 5.4 Building Tvv(N) and vv(N) from 1-electron components; 5.5 Interelectron repulsion integrals for molecular Sturmians from hyperspherical harmonics 5.6 Many-center integrals treated by Gaussian expansions (Appendix E)5.7 A pilot calculation; 5.8 Automatic generation of symmetry-adapted basis functions; 6. AN EXAMPLE FROM ACOUSTICS; 6.1 The Helmholtz equation for a non-uniform medium; 6.2 Homogeneous boundary conditions at the surface of a cube; 6.3 Spherical symmetry of v(x); nonseparability of the Helmholtz equation; 6.4 Diagonalization of invariant blocks; 7. AN EXAMPLE FROM HEAT CONDUCTION; 7.1 Inhomogeneous media; 7.2 A 1-dimensional example; 7.3 Heat conduction in a 3-dimensional inhomogeneous medium 8. SYMMETRY-ADAPTED SOLUTIONS BY ITERATION8.1 Conservation of symmetry under Fourier transformation; 8.2 The operator - + p2k and its Green's function; 8.3 Conservation of symmetry under iteration of the Schrodinger equation; 8.4 Evaluation of the integrals; 8.5 Generation of symmetry-adapted basis functions by iteration; 8.6 A simple example; 8.7 An alternative expansion of the Green's function that applies to the Hamiltonian formulation of physics; Appendix A REPRESENTATION THEORY OF FINITE GROUPS; A.1 Basic definitions; A.2 Representations of geometrical symmetry groups A.3 Similarity transformations
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457823103321

Autore	Avery John <1933->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina	530.1 539.725
Altri autori (Persone)	RettrupSten AveryJames
Soggetto topico	Symmetry (Physics)
ISBN	981-4350-47-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; 1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; 1.1 The need for symmetry-adapted basis functions; 1.2 Fundamental concepts; 1.3 Definition of invariant blocks; 1.4 Diagonalization of the invariant blocks; 1.5 Transformation of the large matrix to block-diagonal form; 1.6 Summary of the method; 2. EXAMPLES FROM ATOMIC PHYSICS; 2.1 The Hartree-Fock-Roothaan method for calculating atomic orbitals; 2.2 Automatic generation of symmetry-adapted configurations; 2.3 Russell-Saunders states; 2.4 Some illustrative examples; 2.5 The Slater-Condon rules 2.6 Diagonalization of invariant blocks using the Slater-Condon rules3. EXAMPLES FROM QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; 3.1 The Hartree-Fock-Roothaan method applied to molecules; 3.2 Construction of invariant subsets; 3.3 The trigonal group C3v; the NH3 molecule; 4. GENERALIZED STURMIANS APPLIED TO ATOMS; 4.1 Goscinskian configurations; 4.2 Relativistic corrections; 4.3 The large-Z approximation: Restriction of the basis set to an R-block; 4.4 Electronic potential at the nucleus in the large-Z approximation; 4.5 Core ionization energies; 4.6 Advantages and disadvantages of Goscinskian configurations 4.7 R-blocks, invariant subsets and invariant blocks4.8 Invariant subsets based on subshells; Classification according to ML and Ms; 4.9 An atom surrounded by point charges; 5. MOLECULAR ORBITALS BASED ON STURMIANS; 5.1 The one-electron secular equation; 5.2 Shibuya-Wulfman integrals and Sturmian overlap integrals evaluated in terms of hyperpherical harmonics; 5.3 Molecular calculations using the isoenergetic configurations; 5.4 Building Tvv(N) and vv(N) from 1-electron components; 5.5 Interelectron repulsion integrals for molecular Sturmians from hyperspherical harmonics 5.6 Many-center integrals treated by Gaussian expansions (Appendix E)5.7 A pilot calculation; 5.8 Automatic generation of symmetry-adapted basis functions; 6. AN EXAMPLE FROM ACOUSTICS; 6.1 The Helmholtz equation for a non-uniform medium; 6.2 Homogeneous boundary conditions at the surface of a cube; 6.3 Spherical symmetry of v(x); nonseparability of the Helmholtz equation; 6.4 Diagonalization of invariant blocks; 7. AN EXAMPLE FROM HEAT CONDUCTION; 7.1 Inhomogeneous media; 7.2 A 1-dimensional example; 7.3 Heat conduction in a 3-dimensional inhomogeneous medium 8. SYMMETRY-ADAPTED SOLUTIONS BY ITERATION8.1 Conservation of symmetry under Fourier transformation; 8.2 The operator - + p2k and its Green's function; 8.3 Conservation of symmetry under iteration of the Schrodinger equation; 8.4 Evaluation of the integrals; 8.5 Generation of symmetry-adapted basis functions by iteration; 8.6 A simple example; 8.7 An alternative expansion of the Green's function that applies to the Hamiltonian formulation of physics; Appendix A REPRESENTATION THEORY OF FINITE GROUPS; A.1 Basic definitions; A.2 Representations of geometrical symmetry groups A.3 Similarity transformations
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910779055503321