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Essays on fundamental and applied environmental topics /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hauppauge, N.Y. :
Nova Science Publisher's, Inc.,
©2012
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ESSAYS ON FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS ; ESSAYS ON FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND MODELING ASPECTS ; TWO MAPS SERVING THE INTERCELULAR EXCHANGE OF BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCES AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR IN THE PRESENCE OF FLUCTUATIONS ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. A SIMPLE MODEL OF INTERCELLULAR EXCHANGE ; 2.1. Empirical Background ; 2.2. Model Philosophy ; 3. ANALYSIS OF THE COUPLED MAPS REPRESENTING THE INTERCELLULAR EXCHANGE OF SUBSTANCES USING METHODS OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICS.
- 3.1. Lyapunov Exponent of the Coupled Maps (6) for Constant Logistic Parameters 3.2. The Lyapunov Exponent of the Coupled Maps (6) when All System Parameters Are Changeable ; 3.3. Entropy of the System of the Coupled Maps (6) ; 4. EFFECT OF FLUCTUATIONS ; CONCLUSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; REFERENCES ; FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS AND CATEGORY THEORY IN MODELING INTERACTIONS OF LIVING SYSTEMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS IN MODELING THE INTERACTION OF LIVING SYSTEMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS ; 2.1. Concept Lattices.
- 2.2. The Fundamental Theorem of Concept Lattices 2.3. The Context of Animals: An Example ; 2.4. Use of FCA to Construct Subjective Interface between Biological Systems and their Environments ; 3. CATEGORIES IN OUR STORIES ; 3.1. General Remarks; 3.2. Fundamentals of Category Theory in a Condensed Form ; 3.3. Category Theory in Ecological Modeling ; CONCLUSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; REFERENCES ; GENERATION OF INFORMATION IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: A SHORT EPISTEMOLOGICAL ESSAY ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION AND THE SEMANTICS OF INFORMATION.
- 3. BIOSEMIOTICS AND SEMIOTIC-RELATED CONCEPTS 4. THE EMERGENCE OF SEMANTICS IN INFORMATION PROCESSING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ; CONCLUSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; REFERENCES ; MONTE CARLO RAY-TRACING METHOD FOR USE IN THE CALCULATION OF THE ALBEDO FOR DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. SHORT REVIEW OF THE AGGREGATION OF THE ALBEDO OVER THE HETEROGENEOUS SURFACES ; 2.1. Theoretical Approach ; 2.2. The MCRT Method Calculation of the Grid-Cell Albedo ; 3. CALCULATION OF THE LOSS COEFFICIENT ; 3.1. The "Trilateral Prism" and "Slope" Geometries ; 3.2. The "Canyon" Geometry.
- 4. INFLUENCE OF THE ALBEDO CALCULATION ON THE EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURES OF HETEROGENEOUS GRID-CELLS CONSISTING OF DIFFERENT NATURAL COVERS 4.1. The "Trilateral Prism" and "Slope" Geometries ; 4.2. The "Canyon" Geometry ; CONCLUSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; REFERENCES ; LIMITATIONS AND UNCERTAINTIES IN THE LOGARITHMIC WIND PROFILE ABOVE VERY ROUGH SURFACES ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. LIMITATIONS OF THE LOGARITHMIC WIND PROFILE ; 3. SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY IN DETERMINATION OF THE LOGARITHMIC WIND PROFILE ; 4. SENSITIVITY TESTS ; CONCLUSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; REFERENCES.