Authors:Luigino Bruni, Pier Luigi Porta,
Publisher: Not Avail
Keywords: original, reference, elgar, happiness, economics, handbook
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2007-04-07
List price: $255.00
ISBN-10: 1843768267
ISBN-13: 9781843768265

`After many years of neglect, the topic of happiness is returning to the agenda of economics. This wide-ranging collection of papers considers the significance of happiness for economic theory and policy, drawing on ideas from psychology, philosophy and history as well as economics itself. In stressing the importance of sociality as a source of happiness, the authors open up new territory for social science.’ - Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia, UK This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happi

Authors:Pier Luigi Dragotti, Michael Gastpar,
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: algorithms, applications, theory, coding, source, distributed
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-02-13
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0123744857
ISBN-13: 9780123744852

The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive reference on DSC for systems designers and implementers, researchers, and graduate students.This book gives a clear understanding of the performance limits of distributed source coders for specific classes of sources and presents the design and application of practical algorithms for realistic scenarios. Material covered includes the use of standard

Authors:Pier Luigi Luisi, Pasquale Stano,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cell, functionality, origin, biophysics, minimal, compartment
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2010-11-02
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 9048199433
ISBN-13: 9789048199433

In the last ten years there has been a considerable increase of interest on the notion of the minimal cell. With this term we usually mean a cell-like structure containing the minimal and sufficient number of components to be defined as alive, or at least capable of displaying some of the fundamental functions of a living cell. In fact, when we look at extant living cells we realize that thousands of molecules are organized spatially and functionally in order to realize what we call cellular life. This fact elicits the question whether such huge complexity is a necessary condition for life, or

Authors:Pier Luigi Nimis, Christoph Scheidegger, Patricia A.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: monitoring, lichens, earth, environmental, science, nato, series
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-01-31
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 140200429X
ISBN-13: 9781402004292

Organisms are increasingly being used to assess environmental impacts on ecosystems. Lichens are among the best known, most widely used biomonitors of environmental change, with thousands of papers published on this subject in the last decades. The present book provides the most recent synthesis on this subject. It is divided into three sections: (1) Monitoring lichens as indicators of pollution; (2) monitoring lichen diversity and ecosystem function; and (3) methods for monitoring lichens. The first two sections present the state of the art in the respective fields, while the third br

Authors:Pier Luigi Nimis, Christoph Scheidegger, Patricia A.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: earth, environmental, series, science, lichens, nato, monitoring, sciences
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402004303
ISBN-13: 9781402004308

Organisms are increasingly being used to assess environmental impacts on ecosystems. Lichens are among the best known, most widely used biomonitors of environmental change, with thousands of papers published on this subject in the last decades. The present book provides the most recent synthesis on this subject. It is divided into three sections: (1) Monitoring lichens as indicators of pollution; (2) monitoring lichen diversity and ecosystem function; and (3) methods for monitoring lichens. The first two sections present the state of the art in the respective fields, while the third br

Authors:Pier, John, John Pier, Jose Angel Garcia Landa,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: narratologia, narrativity, theorizing
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-02-27
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 3110202441
ISBN-13: 9783110202441

Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternbe

Authors:Frank Allgöwer, Luigi Del Re, Luigi Glielmo, Carlos G
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, notes, lecture, information, sciences, applications, methods, model, predictive, models, automotive
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2010-03-11
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1849960704
ISBN-13: 9781849960700

The proceedings of the Automotive Model Predictive Control: Models, Methods and Applications workshop investigates whether constrained predictive control is reasonable in automotive control and what is necessary for its application. The workshop, held at the University of Linz on 9th – 10th February 2009 brought together workers from academia and industry from three key automotive branches: modeling, control and the application. The workshop included three keynote presentations, each of them contributing to the solution of an essential question.• Which problems in automotive applications n