Table of Contents: “…Contributions to the Mathematical Technology Transfer with Finite Volume Methods -- 1 Environmental Shallow Water Flows -- 2 Low Mach Number Flows -- 3 Gas Flow in Transport Networks -- References -- An Easy Control of the Artificial Numerical Viscosity to Get Discrete Entropy Inequalities When Approximating Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws -- 1 Main Motivations -- 2 Godunov-type Scheme with Artificial Viscosity -- 3 Discrete Entropy Inequality -- 4 Numerical Results -- References -- Development of the Matrix Spectrum Dichotomy Method…”
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Table of Contents: “…Shikano) -- Self-Similarity, Conservation of Entropy/Bits and the Black Hole Information Puzzle (D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Lost Days -- Romantic Behaviour -- Mr Hyde at Home (The Musical) -- In the Criminal's Cabinet, Sherlock Holmes Discovers Himself -- The Fruit Man -- Men of Letters -- Genealogy -- The Leaf -- Flowers -- Stem -- Root -- Stones -- Moss -- Clouds -- Lines Left -- First and Last Stanzas From Poems Found in The Worm's Kitchen: A Pantry of Light Verse for Dark Evenings, Edited by Sir Jasper Evans Campbell -- Why I Am Not a Modernist -- Telempathus -- Two Limericks -- Queen Victoria -- Animal Slippers -- The Worms of Saint Peter's -- Fudge in Entropy…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Languages as adaptive systems -- Language change and population structure -- Lexical diversity across languages of the world -- Descriptive factors : language "internal" effects -- Explanatory factors : language "external" effects -- Grouping factors : language families and areas -- Predicting lexical diversity : statistical models -- Explaining diversity : multiple factors interacting -- Further problems and caveats -- Conclusions: Universality and diversity -- Appendix A: Advanced entropy estimators -- Appendix B: Multiple regression assumptions -- Appendix C: Mixed-effects regression assumptions.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- An encore song for Molly -- Entropy -- A letter to my fellow quantum mechanics.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Why: biology by the numbers -- What and where: construction plans for cells and organisms -- When: stopwatches at many scales -- Who: "bless the little beasties" -- Mechanical and chemical equilibrium in the living cell -- Entropy rules! -- Two-state systems: from ion channels to cooperative binding -- Random walks and the structure of macromolecules -- Electrostatics for salty solutions -- Beam theory: architecture for cells and skeletons -- Biological membranes: life in two dimensions -- The mathematics of water -- A statistical view of biological dynamics -- Life in crowded and disordered environments -- Rate equations and dynamics in the cell -- Dynamics of molecular motors -- Biological electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley model -- Sequences, specificity, and evolution -- Network organization in space and time -- Whither physical biology?…”

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Table of Contents: “…Definitions and Basic Principles -- Properties of Pure Substances -- Mixture -- Work and Heat -- First Law of Thermodynamics -- The Kinetic Theory of Gases -- Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Reversible Work, Irreversibility, and Exergy (Availability) -- Gas Kinetic Theory of Entropy -- Thermodynamic Relations -- Combustion -- Heat Transfer -- Heat Exchangers -- Gas Power Cycles -- Vapor Power Cycles -- Circulating Water Systems -- Electrical System -- Nuclear Power Plants -- Nuclear Fuel Cycle -- The Economic Future of Nuclear Power -- Safety, Waste Disposal, Containment, and Accidents.…”
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Table of Contents: “…; 3 Alien Phenomenology; 4 Machinic Assemblages and Entropy; Part 2 Worlds; 5 The Structure of Worlds; 6 Topologies of Space and Time; 7 Gravity; 8 Earth, Maps, and Practices; References; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Classifiers in General and in Decision Systems -- Methodologies for Granular Reflections -- Covering Strategies -- Layered Granulation -- Naive Bayes Classifier on Granular Reflections -- The Case of Concept-Dependent Granulation -- Granular Computing in the Problem of Missing Values -- Granular Classifiers Based on Weak Rough Inclusions -- Effects of Granulation on Entropy and Noise in Data. - Conclusions -- Appendix. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Hesitant Fuzzy Set and Its Extensions -- 2 Novel Correlation and Entropy Measures for Hesitant Fuzzy Set -- 3 Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Hesitant Fuzzy Hybrid Weighted Aggregation Operators -- 4 Hesitant Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Complete Weight Information -- 5 Hesitant Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making with Incomplete Weights -- 6 Decision Making with Hesitant Fuzzy Preference Relation.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Education and entropy in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- José Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gómez-Peña : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sustainable Development vs Sustainable Ecosystem -- 2 Economics and Ecology as Discourses -- 3 Ancient Syntheses -- 4 Shattering the Synthesis: Hobbes, Smith, and Neoclassicism -- 5 Environmental vs Ecological Economics -- 6 Information, Entropy, and Infinite Earth -- 7 Conclusion -- Glossary -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L…”
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Table of Contents: “…Empirical Evaluation of Agricultural Sustainability Using Entropy and FAHP Methods -- 5. Weather Risk Management: The Application of Vine Copula Approach -- 6. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chance -- Mathematics and physics -- Probabilities -- Lotteries and horoscopes -- Classical determinism -- Games -- Sensitive dependence on initial condition -- Hadamard, Duhem, and Poincaré -- Turbulence : modes -- Turbulence : strange attractors -- Chaos : a new paradigm -- Chaos : consequences -- Economics -- Historical evolutions -- Quanta : conseptual framework -- Quanta : counting states -- Entropy -- Irreversibility -- Equilibrium statistical mechanics -- Boiling water and the gates of hell -- Information -- Complexity and algorithmic -- Complexity and Gödel's theorem -- True meaning of sex -- Intelligence.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Newton gets it completely wrong -- I believe -- Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong -- The second law -- Predicting catastrophe -- From Newton to De Sade: the partial triumph of reason -- From Rousseau to Blake : the revolt against reason -- Lodestone, amber, and lightning -- Belief and action -- The demise of alchemy -- The nineteenth century -- The material trinity : the atom -- The stuff of existence -- Scipio's dream -- Making waves -- The ubiquity of motion -- Energy -- Entropy : intimations of mortality -- Chaos -- The slow birth of biology -- In a monastery garden -- Evolution -- The descent of man -- The gene machine -- The lords of nature? …”

Table of Contents: “…The second law of thermodynamics -- 6. Entropy -- 7. Exergy -- 8. Power cycles -- 9. Refrigeration and heat pump cycles -- 10. …”

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