Author: Publisher: ULiège Library ISBN: 2870193130 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 251
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No library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. At a certain point, librarians need to pool their resources and collaborate to provide access to what they don’t have: Collaboration and partnership, centralized and shared collection storage, digitization projects, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, purchase on demand, PDA and EBA are notably key to success. The 2022 edition of the Erasmus Mobility Staff Training week organized at the University of Liège Library focused on services, projects and policies that libraries can deploy and promote to increase and ease access to materials that do not belong to their print or electronic holdings. More than 20 librarians, managers, and researchers in library science share their experiences and visions in this book.
Author: Frederick Koon Shing Leung Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030669963 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 666
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This book documents ongoing research and theorizing in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications. Mathematical modelling provides a way of conceiving and resolving problems in people’s everyday lives as well as sophisticated new problems for society at large. Mathematical tradition in China that emphasizes algorithm and computation has now seen a renaissance in mathematical modelling and applications where China has made significant progress with its economy, science and technology. In recent decades, teaching and learning of mathematical modelling as well as contests in mathematical modelling have been flourishing at different levels of education in China. Today, teachers and researchers in China become keener to learn from their colleagues from Western countries and other parts of the world in research and teaching of mathematical modelling and applications. The book provides a dialogue and communication between colleagues from across the globe with new impetus and resources for mathematical modelling education and its research in both West and East with new ideas on modelling teaching and practices, inside and outside classrooms. All authors of this book are members of the International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (ICTMA), the peak research body into researching the teaching, assessing and learning of mathematical modelling at all levels of education from the early years to tertiary education as well as in the workplace. The book is of interest to researchers, mathematics educators, teacher educators, education administrators, policy writers, curriculum developers, professional developers, in-service teachers and pre-service teachers including those interested in mathematical literacy.
Author: Ion Măndoiu Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642015506 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 350
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2009, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, in May 2009. The 26 revised full papers presented together four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including clustering and classification, gene expression analysis, gene networks, genome analysis, motif finding, pathways, protein structure prediction, protein domain interactions, phylogenetics, and software tools.
Author: Giuseppe Longo Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 1908977795 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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This book identifies the organizing concepts of physical and biological phenomena by an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and physics. Our aim is to propose a dialog between different conceptual universes and thus to provide a unification of phenomena. The role of “order” and symmetries in the foundations of mathematics is linked to the main invariants and principles, among them the geodesic principle (a consequence of symmetries), which govern and confer unity to various physical theories. Moreover, an attempt is made to understand causal structures, a central element of physical intelligibility, in terms of both symmetries and symmetry breakings. A distinction between the principles of (conceptual) construction and of proofs, both in physics and in mathematics, guides most of the work.The importance of mathematical tools is also highlighted to clarify differences in the models for physics and biology that are proposed by continuous and discrete mathematics, such as computational simulations.Since biology is particularly complex and not as well understood at a theoretical level, we propose a “unification by concepts” which in any case should precede mathematization. This constitutes an outline for unification also based on highlighting conceptual differences, complex points of passage and technical irreducibilities of one field to another. Indeed, we suppose here a very common monist point of view, namely the view that living objects are “big bags of molecules”. The main question though is to understand which “theory” can help better understand these bags of molecules. They are, indeed, rather “singular”, from the physical point of view. Technically, we express this singularity through the concept of “extended criticality”, which provides a logical extension of the critical transitions that are known in physics. The presentation is mostly kept at an informal and conceptual level./a
Author: Unesco Publisher: Unesco ISBN: 9789230038885 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 690
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This is the 32nd edition of the publication which contains over 2,500 entries giving information about post-secondary education and training opportunities in all academic and professional fields in 147 countries for years 2004 and 2005. It has a special focus on distance education, including open and distance learning (ODL) with an annotated listing of online directories and databases of ODL courses worldwide. Information is also given on courses, scholarships and financial assistance available to foreign students, recognition of studies and diplomas obtained abroad, and key issues students should consider before embarking on higher education study. The text is written in English, French and Spanish.
Author: Hermann Weyl Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400874343 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 176
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Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestations—as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental, and crystallographic. Weyl investigates the general abstract mathematical idea underlying all these special forms, using a wealth of illustrations as support. Symmetry is a work of seminal relevance that explores the great variety of applications and importance of symmetry.
Author: Bernard Cadet Publisher: Editions Publibook ISBN: 2748344308 Category : Cognition Languages : fr Pages : 301
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Etudier et discuter des possibilités de traitement de situations impliquant incertitude et prévisibilité, tel était le but que s'étaient fixés les participants au colloque international des 8 et 9 juin 2007 qui s'est tenu à la Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. B. Cadet, G. Chasseigne et G. Foliot ont réuni ici le fruit des travaux menés durant ces deux jours. Les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage ont pour caractéristique commune l'étude de situations quotidiennes ou exceptionnelles où coexistent information et incertitude, et qui requièrent la mise en œuvre de fonctions cognitives de haut niveau (jugement, évaluation, estimation, prédiction, décision, langage, raisonnement, etc.). Avec la thématique "Cognition, incertitude et prévisibilité" comme référence commune, les auteurs, relevant de disciplines différentes (linguistique, sciences de gestion, économie, microbiologie, épistémologie, robotique, sciences de l'éducation, psychologie, etc.) présentent et analysent des modes de traitement sensiblement différents qu'une perspective pluridisciplinaire propre au lecteur permet ensuite de dépasser et de synthétiser. Une telle approche permet de dégager des repères conceptuels fondamentaux comme l'existence de différentes formes d'incertitude, leurs dénominations, leurs traitements écologiques par des modèles, des procédures cognitives et / ou statistiques applicables à de tels contextes, leurs effets sur les conduites individuelles ou collectives, etc. Rédigé dans un style très clair sans pour autant sacrifier à la précision de l'analyse, l'ouvrage s'adresse aux lecteurs intéressés, aux professionnels, aux étudiants et aux chercheurs souhaitant acquérir une plus grande pertinence dans le traitement des nombreuses situations présentant incertitude et prévisibilité. Il constitue à ce jour un bilan original très actuel sur cette question.
Author: Frédéric Cazals Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 364231208X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 333
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Computational biology, mathematical biology, biology and biomedicine are currently undergoing spectacular progresses due to a synergy between technological advances and inputs from physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistics and computer science. The goal of this book is to evidence this synergy by describing selected developments in the following fields: bioinformatics, biomedicine and neuroscience. This work is unique in two respects - first, by the variety and scales of systems studied and second, by its presentation: Each chapter provides the biological or medical context, follows up with mathematical or algorithmic developments triggered by a specific problem and concludes with one or two success stories, namely new insights gained thanks to these methodological developments. It also highlights some unsolved and outstanding theoretical questions, with a potentially high impact on these disciplines. Two communities will be particularly interested in this book. The first one is the vast community of applied mathematicians and computer scientists, whose interests should be captured by the added value generated by the application of advanced concepts and algorithms to challenging biological or medical problems. The second is the equally vast community of biologists. Whether scientists or engineers, they will find in this book a clear and self-contained account of concepts and techniques from mathematics and computer science, together with success stories on their favorite systems. The variety of systems described represents a panoply of complementary conceptual tools. On a practical level, the resources listed at the end of each chapter (databases, software) offer invaluable support for getting started on a specific topic in the fields of biomedicine, bioinformatics and neuroscience.
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