The chapters in this contributed volume showcase current theoretical approaches in the modeling of ocular fluid dynamics in health and disease. By including chapters written by experts from a variety of fields, this volume will help foster...Daugiau...
The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alche...Daugiau...
According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called powers - by means of which they are sources of change....Daugiau...
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of Americas most successful inventor, Thomas Edison....Daugiau...
This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucaults biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. It examines a wide ran...Daugiau...
This monograph explores the logical systems of early logicians in the Arabic tradition from a theoretical perspective, providing a complete panorama of early Arabic logic and centering it within an expansive historical context. By thoroughly exami...Daugiau...
This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, so...Daugiau...
Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky. Cultures spread around the world recorded their earliest efforts in artwork made directly on the natural...Daugiau...
This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, cor...Daugiau...
The volume presents in chronological order English translations of 10 papers by Ettore Majorana, most of which have never been translated into English before. Two further contributions are also included: a talk on the Thomas-Fermi Method that Majoran...Daugiau...