Books: 'Discrete complexes'

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service), SpringerLink (Online, ed. Discrete Integrable Systems: QRT Maps and Elliptic Surfaces. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010.

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Barg, Alexander, and O. R. Musin. Discrete geometry and algebraic combinatorics. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2014.

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1975-, Panov Taras E., ed. Toric topology. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2015.

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Andersson, Mats. Complex Convexity and Analytic Functionals. Basel: Birkhäuser Basel, 2004.

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Shoikhet, David. Semigroups in Geometrical Function Theory. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001.

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Gong, Sheng. Convex and Starlike Mappings in Several Complex Variables. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998.

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Aravinda, C. S. Geometry, groups and dynamics: ICTS program, groups, geometry and dynamics, December 3-16, 2012, CEMS, Kumaun University, Almora, India. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2015.

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Kirk, William A. Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001.

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Bader, David A., 1969- editor of compilation, Meyerhenke, Henning, 1978- editor of compilation, Sanders, Peter, editor of compilation, and Wagner, Dorothea, 1957- editor of compilation, eds. Graph partitioning and graph clustering: 10th DIMACS Implementation Challenge Workshop, February 13-14, 2012, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2013.

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Southeast Geometry Seminar (15th 2009 University of Alabama at Birmingham). Geometric analysis, mathematical relativity, and nonlinear partial differential equations: Southeast Geometry Seminars Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Tennessee, 2009-2011. Edited by Ghomi Mohammad 1969-. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2013.

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Saliola, Franco, Benjamin Steinberg, and Stuart Margolis. Cell Complexes, Poset Topology and the Representation Theory of Algebras Arising in Algebraic Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry. American Mathematical Society, 2021.

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Jones, Michael, Norman Qureshi, and Kim Rajappan. Ventricular tachyarrhythmias: Ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0118.

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Ventricular tachyarrhythmias are abnormal patterns of electrical activity arising from the ventricular tissue (myocardium and conduction tissue). Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an abnormal rapid heart rhythm originating from the ventricles. The rhythm may arise from the ventricular myocardium and/or from the distal conduction system. The normal heart rate is usually regular, between 60 and 100 bpm, and there is synchronized atrial and ventricular contraction. In VT, the ventricles contract at a rate greater than 120 bpm and typically from 150 to 300 bpm, and are no longer coordinated with the atria. There is still organized contraction of the ventricles in VT, with discrete QRS complexes. It is a potentially life-threatening arrhythmia, with the risk of degenerating into ventricular fibrillation and resulting in sudden cardiac death. It is characterized by a broad-complex tachycardia on ECG.

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Gianfranco, Ciardo, and Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering., eds. Discrete deterministic and stochastic Petri nets. Hampton, VA: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, 1996.

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Modica, Giuseppe, and Mariano Giaquinta. Mathematical Analysis: Approximation and Discrete Processes. Birkhauser Verlag, 2012.

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Joshua, Gluckman, Nicol David, and Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering., eds. Distributed state-space generation of discrete-state stochastic models. Hampton, VA: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, 1995.

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Joshua, Gluckman, Nicol David, and Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering., eds. Distributed state-space generation of discrete-state stochastic models. Hampton, VA: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, 1995.

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Joshua, Gluckman, Nicol David, and Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering., eds. Distributed state-space generation of discrete-state stochastic models. Hampton, VA: Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, 1995.

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Analytic Combinatorics In Several Variables. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Pemantle, Robin, and Mark C. Wilson. Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Quadratic Forms over a ∈ Local Field. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0007.

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This chapter presents various results about quadratic forms over a field complete with respect to a discrete valuation. The discussion is based on the assumption that K is a field of arbitrary characteristic which is complete with respect to a discrete valuation ν‎ and uses the usual convention that ν‎(0) = infinity. The chapter starts with a notation regarding the ring of integers of K and the natural map from it to the residue field, followed by a number of propositions regarding an anisotropic quadratic space. These include an anisotropic quadratic space with residual quadratic spaces, an unramified quadratic space of finite dimension, unramified finite-dimensional anisotropic quadratic forms over K, unramified anisotropic quadratic forms and a bilinear form, and a round quadratic space over K. The chapter concludes with a theorem that there exists an anisotropic quadratic form over K, unique up to isometry, and is non-singular.

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Venner, Anne, and Patrick M. Fuller. An overview of sleep–wake circuitry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778240.003.0005.

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How and when we wake and sleep are under the control of incredibly complex neural circuitry, consisting of neuronal populations (or nodes), neurotransmitters, and pathways that form orchestrated wake- or sleep-promoting networks. When any aspect of this neural circuitry is impaired (e.g. disease) or altered by external factors (e.g. stress), sleep and wake can be disrupted, sometimes quite profoundly. As one example, selective loss of orexin neurons in the lateral hypothalamus results in the sleep disorder narcolepsy. While our understanding of how discrete circuit elements in the brain work together to regulate wake and sleep remains incomplete, the relatively recent development of genetically driven tools and techniques has enabled a far more detailed understanding of the functional and structural basis of this circuitry. In this chapter, we review the current state of our understanding of the brain circuitry regulating sleep and wake, including how disruption of discrete circuit elements underlies a myriad of sleep- and wake-disorders.

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González Gálvez, Marcelo, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, and Giovanna Bacchiddu, eds. Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800733299.

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Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift, demonstrating the continued importance of ethnographic diversity. Most importantly, this volume asserts that comparative ethnographic research can help illustrate complex questions surrounding relations vis-à-vis the homogenizing effects of modern coloniality.

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Husak, Douglas. Courses of Conduct. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190683450.003.0009.

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This chapter begins with an argument nearly everyone will reject as unsound. The chapter rejects it too. What is far less obvious, however, is exactly what is wrong with the argument. Despite skeptical challenges from both sides, the chapter tentatively concludes that the best solution to this problem consists in construing some instances of behavior as a course of conduct rather than as a discrete set of acts and omissions. When behavior consists in a course of conduct, it is a complex that consists in both acts and omissions. Attempts to pigeon-hole such behavior as either an act or an omission without regard to the complex in which both play a part are bound to produce philosophical distortion and normative confusion.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Unramified Quadrangles of Type E6, E7 and E8. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0011.

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This chapter deals with the case that the building at infinity of the Bruhat-Tits building Ξ‎ is a Moufang quadrangle of type E⁶, E₇, and E₈. It begins with a hypothesis that takes into account a quadratic space of type Eℓ for ℓ = 6, 7 or 8, K which is complete with respect to a discrete valuation, the two residues of Ξ‎, and the two root group sequences of a Moufang polygon. It then considers the case that Ξ‎ is an unramified quadrangle if the proposition δ‎Ψ‎ = 2 holds. It also explains two other propositions: Ξ‎ is a semi-ramified quadrangle if δ‎Λ‎ = 1 and δ‎Ψ‎ = 2 holds, and a ramified quadrangle if δ‎Λ‎ = δ‎Ψ‎ = 1 holds.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. The Other Bruhat-Tits Buildings. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0018.

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This chapter summarizes the results about the residues of Bruhat-Tits buildings other than those associated with the exceptional Moufang quadrangles examined in previous chapters. It first considers cases, for which it assumes that Λ‎ is complete with respect to a discrete valuation in an appropriate sense. It then presents the Coxeter diagram of Ξ‎ and the vertex set S of such diagram, along with the J-residue of the building Ξ‎, which is called a gem if J is the complement in the S of a special vertex. The chapter also discusses the structure of the gems of Ξ‎ as well as cases in which the pseudo-quadratic space is defined to be ramified or unramified.

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Stark, David, ed. The Performance Complex. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861669.001.0001.

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What’s valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. Unlike organized competitions, such systems are ceaseless and without formal entry. Instead of producing resolutions, their scorings create addictions. To understand these developments, this book explores discrete contests (architectural competitions, international music competitions, and world press photo competitions); shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings ranging from the pedagogy of performance in business schools to struggling musicians coping with new performance metrics in online platforms. In the performance society, networks of observation—in which all are performing and keeping score—are entangled with a system of emotionally charged preoccupations with one’s positioning within the rankings. From the bedroom to the boardroom, pharmaceutical companies and management consultants promise enhanced performance. This assemblage of metrics, networks, and their attendant emotional pathologies is herein regarded as the performance complex.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Residues. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0010.

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This chapter deals with the residues of a Bruhat-Tits building whose building at infinity is an exceptional quadrangle. It begins with the remark that if Λ‎ is an arbitrary quadratic space of type Eℓ for ℓ = 6, 7 or 8 or of typeF₄ over a field K that is complete with respect to a discrete valuation, and if in the F4-case the subfield F is closed with respect to this valuation and if Δ‎ is the corresponding Moufang quadrangle of type Eℓ or F₄, then there always exists a unique affine building Ξ‎ such that Δ‎ is the building at infinity of Ξ‎ with respect to its complete system of apartments. The chapter also considers the standard embedding of the apartment A in the Euclidean plane which takes the intersection of A and R to the set of eight triangles containing the origin. Finally, it describes a Moufang polygon with two root group sequences.

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Baudouin, Simon, and Steve Ball. Normal physiology of the endocrine system. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0249.

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The endocrine system describes an array of chemical signals (hormones). Working in concert with the nervous system, the endocrine system forms a complex neurohumoral network, communicating changes in the environment to facilitate adaptive responses and serving to integrate those responses in a coherent, coordinated manner. The endocrine system has inherent rhythmicity, which has important implications for the integration and coordination of metabolism, and how we measure endocrine signals in clinical settings. At a cellular level, hormone action is mediated through a series of discrete, but interacting signal transduction pathways. This chapter outlines a functional design approach to endocrinology; providing a framework covering the principles of hormone regulation and hormone action—critical for understanding the role of the endocrine system in physiology and pathophysiology.

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Gelfand, Alan, and Sujit K. Sahu. Models for demography of plant populations. Edited by Anthony O'Hagan and Mike West. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703174.013.17.

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This article discusses the use of Bayesian analysis and methods to analyse the demography of plant populations, and more specifically to estimate the demographic rates of trees and how they respond to environmental variation. It examines data from individual (tree) measurements over an eighteen-year period, including diameter, crown area, maturation status, and survival, and from seed traps, which provide indirect information on fecundity. The multiple data sets are synthesized with a process model where each individual is represented by a multivariate state-space submodel for both continuous (fecundity potential, growth rate, mortality risk, maturation probability) and discrete states (maturation status). The results from plant population demography analysis demonstrate the utility of hierarchical modelling as a mechanism for the synthesis of complex information and interactions.

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O'Callaghan, Claire, and Muireann Irish. Candidate Mechanisms of Spontaneous Cognition as Revealed by Dementia Syndromes. Edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C. R. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.6.

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The capacity to engage in spontaneous self-generated thought is fundamental to the human experience, yet surprisingly little is known regarding the neurocognitive mechanisms that support this complex ability. Dementia syndromes offer a unique opportunity to study how the breakdown of large-scale functional brain networks impacts spontaneous cognition. Indeed, many of the characteristic cognitive changes in dementia reflect the breakdown of foundational processes essential for discrete aspects of self-generated thought. This chapter discusses how disease-specific alterations in memory-based/construction and mentalizing processes likely disrupt specific aspects of spontaneous, self-generated thought. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive overview of the neurocognitive architecture of spontaneous cognition, paying specific attention to how this sophisticated endeavor is compromised in dementia.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Quadrangles of Type F4. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0017.

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This chapter deals with the case that the building at infinity Λ‎ of the Bruhat-Tits building Ξ‎ is a Moufang quadrangle of type F₄. It begins with the hypothesis stating that Λ‎ = (K, L, q) is a quadratic space of type F₄, K is complete with respect to a discrete valuation ν‎ and F is closed with respect to ν‎, Λ‎ is the Moufang quadrangle corresponding to a root group sequence, and R₀ and R₁ as the two residues of Ξ‎. The chapter also considers the theorem supposing that Λ‎ is of type F₄ and that R₀ and R₁ are not both indifferent, and claims that both cases really occur. Finally, it presents the proposition that R₀ and R₁ are both indifferent if and only if q is totally wild.

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Garrison, Alysia. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0014.

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Though more studies have been dedicated to the place of Kant in Agamben’s oeuvre, Hegel – that other major Enlightenment philosopher indispensable to modernity – holds an equally formative, if perhaps more subtle, place in his work. From the very earliest to the latest texts, Agamben’s work seeks to surpass the horizon of Western metaphysics through a philological engagement with the negative, formed in large part through a complex confrontation with Hegel. Agamben’s grappling with the dialectic in search of its idling is not merely strategic, but as he puts it, ‘one of the most urgent tasks today’ for a Marxist philosophy shored on its wreckage (IH 39). In ‘The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic’, Antonio Negri claims that the work of Agamben enables a ‘discreet dialectical rediscovery’ typifying left Hegelianism and the young Marx, resulting not in ‘the triumph of the Aufhebung‘, but in ‘the heroism of the negative’.1 Rather than valorising the negative, however, as Agamben painstakingly argues in his early text Language and Death, it is precisely the negative structure of the Voice, or, in Hegel’s terms, the ‘bad infinity’ predicted on division, that Agamben’s thought seeks to absolve (LD 100).

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Storm, Mary. Hindu Ascetic Death. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656485.003.0008.

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Voluntary death as a religious ascetic ritual has had a long and complex history in India. At discrete moments of India’s religious history, suicide was condemned, while at other historical moments, self-chosen death was elevated to an ideal of devotion. Seeking death was considered both an ascetic exercise and a heroic enterprise. In the past, heroes were those individuals who vowed to live exceptional lives dedicated to sacred exploration and conquest. Those heroes who sought death hoped to conquer the fear of uncertainty and the dichotomy of life and death. They wished to find the release of mokṣa and liberation from duality. The evidence for voluntary death as a form of devotional expression may be found in historical narratives, literary references, religious texts, on-site inscriptional materials, and numerous sculptural memorials.

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Arora, Manish, Paul Curtin, Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, Alessandro Giuliani, and Linda S. Birnbaum. Environmental Biodynamics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197582947.001.0001.

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The book provides a new conceptual framework to explain the interaction of complex systems, specifically humans and their environment. It proposes that human physiology and the environment do not “connect” with each other in a direct, unidirectional manner, like a beaker pouring water into a cup. Rather, the authors propose the Biodynamic Interface Conjecture with the central axiom that complex systems cannot interact directly or exist in isolation due to temporally embedded functional interdependencies within and between systems. The authors propose that human physiology and the environment contribute to the formation of an interface, and by doing so they give rise to an intermediary that guides the interaction by letting some influences pass between the systems while restricting others. This proposition counters many structural approaches that assume that complex systems, such as the environment and humans, can transfer information directly between them while remaining discrete entities. Although developed for environmental health sciences, the conjecture has broader implications for the study of complex system interactions across various levels of organization, and the central role of time and temporal dynamics in system-to-system information exchange. This conjecture also argues against causal paradigms that (incorrectly) assume that systems are distinct entities interacting directly and ignore boundary conditions, and organizational levels, and complexity inherent in biological and environmental systems.

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Camras, Linda A., Vanessa L. Castro, Amy G. Halberstadt, and Michael M. Shuster. Spontaneously Produced Facial Expressions in Infants and Children. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0015.

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This chapter explores the question of whether infants and children produce prototypic emotional facial expressions in emotion-eliciting situations. Investigations of both infants and children are described. These include a natural observation study of a single infant during routine caregiving activities, a systematic experiment in which infants were presented with elicitors of fear and anger, a seminaturalistic experiment during which mothers and children discuss a topic of disagreement, and a study of children’s responses to a fear stimulus presented in the context of an Internet prank. Together these studies show that prototypic expressions are sometimes produced when it is unlikely that the corresponding emotion is experienced and often are not produced when the corresponding emotional experience seems likely. Overall findings suggest that the relationship between emotion and facial expression is more complex than portrayed within contemporary discrete emotion theories.

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Beaty, Roger E., and Rex E. Jung. Interacting Brain Networks Underlying Creative Cognition and Artistic Performance. Edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C. R. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.10.

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Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to address the potential interaction of brain networks supporting creativity by employing new methods in brain network science. Network methods offer a significant advance compared to individual region of interest studies due to their ability to account for the complex and dynamic interactions among discrete brain regions. As this chapter demonstrates, several recent studies have reported a remarkably similar pattern of brain network connectivity across a range of creative tasks and domains. In general, such work suggests that creative thought may involve dynamic interactions, primarily between the default and control networks, providing key insights into the roles of spontaneous and controlled processes in creative cognition. The chapter summarizes this emerging body of research and proposes a framework designed to account for the joint influence of controlled and spontaneous thought processes in creativity.

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Turkheimer, Eric. The hard question in psychiatric nosology. Edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198796022.003.0005.

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Nosology is primarily an exercise in grouping like with like: an empirical, quantitative, and theoretical exercise referred to as taxonomy or cladistics. Consideration of the formal process of making decisions about taxonomy reveals some of the choices that must be made in adopting any particular conceptual system for a complex domain such as psychiatric symptomatology. The psychometrician Louis Guttman and the psychopathologist Paul Meehl made key contributions to our understanding of how multivariate phenomena can be codified. Their contributions clarified the role played by empirical data in nosology, and show that human descriptive convenience also plays a substantial role. Whether psychopathology is best understood as a system of continuous dimensions or discrete categories is underdetermined by data. The hypothesis that psychopathology has a deep structure that can be reflected in a nosological system is an empirical hypothesis that has generally been disconfirmed for most aspects of psychopathology.

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Senior, Jane, Adrian Hayes, and Jenny Shaw. UK health policy in relation to mentally disordered offenders in the community. Edited by Alec Buchanan and Lisa Wootton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198738664.003.0002.

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The majority of mentally disordered offenders are never treated within forensic mental health services. Instead, they remain within the criminal justice system, where care and treatment for complex and co-morbid mental health, substance-misuse, and personality disorder issues remain secondary to justice and punishment. In this chapter, we explore the policy, practice, and legislative drivers influencing healthcare delivery throughout the criminal justice pathway. Firstly, we consider the current liaison and diversion programme in England, which aims to identify people with mental health issues at the point of entry into the criminal justice system. Secondly, we review the state of mental healthcare in prisons, a quarter of a century after the clinical improvement partnership between the National Health Service and HM Prison Service. Thirdly, we discuss issues around court mandated mental health treatment in the community. Finally, we consider initiatives designed to meet the discrete needs of offenders with personality disorders.

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Breckling, Molly M. Mining the Past for New Expressions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199316090.003.0002.

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Of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn songs, eighteen possess the characteristics traditionally associated with the ballad as defined by Goethe: telling a story that passes through time with a discrete beginning, middle, and end that uses any combination of epic, dramatic, and lyrical narrative voices, excepting the purely lyrical. Mahler utilised numerous poetic and musical methods to bring these stories to life in his ballads, one of the most unique being the use of traditional song forms as a device to convey the overarching narrative. At his most complex, Mahler was forced to abandon the traditional formal models, creating ballads that unfold like miniature scenas to best convey the narrative material at hand. With his ballads from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Mahler refashioned tools that song composers had used for over a century, as a further layer of narrative reinforcement, tangling the old with the new, and modernising by way of nostalgia.

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Brazier, John, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, and Aki Tsuchiya. Modelling health state valuation data. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725923.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the technical issues in modelling health state valuation data. Most measures of health define too many states to directly value all of them (e.g. SF-6D defines 18,000 health states). The solution has been to value a subset and by using modelling to predict the values of all states. This chapter reviews two approaches to modelling: one using multiattribute utility theory to determine health values given an assumed functional form; and the other is using statistical modelling of SF-6D preference data that are skewed, bimodal, and clustered by respondents. This chapter examines the selection of health states for valuation, data preparation, model specification, and techniques for modelling the data starting with ordinary least squares (OLS) and moving on to more complex techniques including Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric approaches, and a hybrid approach that combines cardinal preference data with the results of paired data from a discrete choice experiment.

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Herzog, Tamar. Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0028.

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We tend to think about the inhabitants of the Atlantic world as members of discrete groups. We thus argue that ‘Spaniards’ had encountered ‘Indians’, ‘Europeans’ competed with one another, and ‘Africans’ were imported as slaves. Although these categories may be meaningful to us, like all identities and processes of identification, they were dynamic constructions in constant flux. Having gradually emerged during the early modern period and to a great extent because of the engagement with the Atlantic world, their creation involved both confrontation and dialogue and it allowed for competing interpretations. Not only were these identities and processes of identification highly complex, other group solidarities that were just as important — such as the division between people of different religions, nobles and commoners, local citizens and foreigners — mediated between them, on occasions breaking them apart. This article discusses identities and processes of identification in the Atlantic world. It also examines how people inhabiting the Atlantic world are differentiated according to religion.

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Thomas, Shenique S., and Johnna Christian. Betwixt and Between. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810087.003.0018.

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This chapter draws from a qualitative study of incarcerated men to investigate the social processes and interactions between both correctional authorities and family members that inform their sense of belonging and legitimacy. It reveals that prison visitation rooms present a complex environment in which incarcerated men have access to discreet periods of visibility and relevance to their family members and the broader community. There are, however, several precarious aspects to these processes. The family members who are central to enhancing men’s visibility and legitimacy are primarily women from economically disadvantaged, racial, and ethnic minority groups, resulting in their own marginalization, which is compounded within prison spaces. By illuminating both the challenges and opportunities of familial connections, this chapter informs a social justice framework for understanding the experiences of both incarcerated men and their family members.

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Jahanbegloo, Ramin, and Dipankar Gupta. Talking Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489374.001.0001.

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A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and works and his contribution to Indian sociology. In this book of conversations, he shares insights into the key areas of Indian sociology, such as the problem of social stratification, citizenship and democracy, and the caste system and ethnic groups in India. In his view, once we understand the discrete nature of caste identity we begin to appreciate the energy behind caste mobilization and, indeed, of the obduracy of this institution itself. It also discusses the influence of prominent thinkers on Gupta’s works, such as Claude Lévi Strauss, Talcott Parsons, André Beteille, and John Rawls. The ninth in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with the prominent intellectuals who have made a significant impact in shaping the modern Indian thought, this book discusses Gupta’s array of work and its redefinition and reconstruction of the central concepts of sociology, taking it beyond its disciplinary boundaries.

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Anderson, Greg. Missing Objects. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886646.003.0004.

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The standard “democratic Athens” account becomes still more problematic when the terms of its construction are themselves questioned. As described in chapter one, this account takes for granted a modern, universalist template or model of social being. This theoretical template would have us presume the presence in antiquity of various complex societal phenomena, like discrete realms of nature and culture, sacred and secular, public and private, etc. It would have us presume the prevalence in the polis of specific social objects, like state, society, economy, religion, and the natural, pre-social individual. And it would have us presume the imaginability in Athens of modern-style, proto-liberal forms of equality, rights, and citizenship. Yet there is no explicit evidence that supports any of these presumptions. There is no evidence at all for any close correspondence between our modern theoretical model and ancient lived experience. Indeed, the evidence that we do have indicates quite unequivocally that our model’s various master categories would have made no sense at all to the classical Athenians as self-evidently real phenomena.

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Stephen, Jagusch, and Triantafilou Epaminontas E. 10 London. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199655717.003.0011.

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This chapter summarizes the key aspects of the English legal system with respect to the role of courts in arbitrations seated in England and Wales. First, it highlights the key provisions of relevant English legislation, mainly of the English Arbitration Act of 1996 and the principal court decisions arising under that legislation. Second, it describes the manner in which English law as the law of the seat affects the role of English courts in the course of three discrete stages: before the award, after the award, and during recognition and enforcement. In the process and where necessary, it addresses and ultimately rejects recently articulated concerns questioning the supremacy of England and Wales as an arbitration seat. The chapter concludes that England and Wales possesses a comprehensive and clearly articulated legal framework governing arbitration, and a sophisticated, impartial judiciary with ample experience in complex arbitral disputes and the collateral issues they raise under both English law and foreign laws and regulations. The jurisdiction is distinctly arbitration-friendly, with a keen understanding of the benefits arbitration aims to confer on parties, and the policy considerations such benefits entail.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Existence. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0016.

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This chapter proves that Bruhat-Tits buildings exist. It begins with a few definitions and simple observations about quadratic forms, including a 1-fold Pfister form, followed by a discussion of the existence part of the Structure Theorem for complete discretely valued fields due to H. Hasse and F. K. Schmidt. It then considers the generic unramified cases; the generic semi-ramified cases, the generic ramified cases, the wild unramified cases, the wild semi-ramified cases, and the wild ramified cases. These cases range from a unique unramified quadratic space to an unramified separable quadratic extension, a tamely ramified division algebra, a ramified separable quadratic extension, and a unique unramified quaternion division algebra. The chapter also describes ramified quaternion division algebras D₁, D₂, and D₃ over K containing a common subfield E such that E/K is a ramified separable extension.

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Baxter, Katherine Isobel. Imagined States. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420839.001.0001.

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Imagined States examines the significance of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about Nigeria between 1900 and 1966. The book argues that in the discrete period of the final half-century of British colonialism in Nigeria through into the early years of independence prior to the Biafran War, the law provided a key site for fiction’s negotiations with the increasingly complex realities of the colonial project. Attending to the representation of the law in that fiction provides important insights not only into the realities of the historical period but, equally importantly, into the dominant and emergent discourses and ideologies that shaped those realities. Imagined States explores a range of texts including popular, middle-brow and acclaimed postcolonial novels, as well as newspaper stories and memoirs, by both British and Nigerian authors (including Chinua Achebe, Joyce Carey, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace), focusing in particular on how the state of exception and ideas of civilisation were negotiated imaginatively in the law and fiction. These explorations are organised chronologically and thematically, moving from the law ‘upcountry’ (focusing on pre- and inter-war British representations of the District Commissioner), through the law in the city (focusing on late colonial and early postcolonial Nigerian fiction), to law and politics (focusing on postcolonial Nigerian representations of treason and violence).

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Doherty, Michael, Johannes Bijlsma, Nigel Arden, David J. Hunter, and Nicola Dalbeth. Introduction: what is osteoarthritis? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199668847.003.0001.

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This brief introductory chapter summarizes some of the key clinical and structural features of osteoarthritis (OA) and highlights some general observations and concepts concerning the nature of OA. General observations include the preservation of OA throughout human evolution; the occurrence of OA in many other animals; the dynamic, metabolically active nature of OA pathophysiology; the fact that most OA never associates with symptoms or functional impairment; and the good outcome in many cases of symptomatic OA. Such observations support the concept of OA as the inherent repair process of synovial joints, which can be triggered by a range of diverse insults and in which all the joint tissues are involved. Aetiologically, OA is a common complex disorder with recognized genetic, constitutional, and environmental risk factors, and these may combine in multiple ways to cause marked variation in phenotypic presentation and in some instances ‘joint failure’ with associated symptoms and disability. Within the spectrum of OA are some discrete subsets, the best defined being nodal generalized OA. However, in many people OA does not fit neatly into one type and its phenotypic characteristics may change as it evolves. Two striking associations of OA are with ageing and with crystal deposition, especially calcium crystals but also urate crystals, and there are a number of possible mechanisms to explain these.

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Townshend, Dale. Gothic Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845669.001.0001.

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This book seeks to provide the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction, poetry, drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the literature/architecture relation is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains no monograph-length study of the intriguing interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only cursory treatment in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. Addressing this gap in scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of texts. In turn, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its ‘survivalist’ and ‘revivalist’ forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was much more than a matter of style. Incarnating the memory of a vanished ‘Gothic’ age in the enlightened present, Gothic architecture, whether ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation’s past—a notable ‘visionary’ turn in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. Through initiating a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, the book argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.

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Bažant, Zdenek P., Jia-Liang Le, and Marco Salviato. Quasibrittle Fracture Mechanics and Size Effect. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846242.001.0001.

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Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous (a.k.a. quasibrittle) materials. These materials include concrete (an archetype), composites, tough ceramics, rocks, cold asphalt mixtures, and many brittle materials at the microscale. Understanding the failure behavior of these materials is of paramount importance for improving the resilience and sustainability of various engineering structures including civil infrastructure, aircraft, ships, military armors, and microelectronic devices. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of quasibrittle fracture mechanics. It first presents a concise but rigorous and complete treatment of the linear elastic fracture mechanics, which is the foundation of all fracture mechanics. The topics covered include energy balance analysis of fracture, analysis of near-tip field and stress intensity factors, Irwin's relationship, J-integral, calculation of compliance function and deflection, and analysis of interfacial crack. Built upon the content of linear elastic fracture mechanics, the book presents various fundamental concepts of nonlinear fracture mechanics, which include estimation of inelastic zone size, cohesive crack model, equivalent linear elastic fracture mechanics model, R-curve, and crack band model. The book also discusses some more advanced concepts such as the effects of the triaxial stress state in the fracture process zone, nonlocal continuum models, and discrete computational model. The significant part of the book is devoted to the discussion of the energetic and statistical size effects, which is a salient feature of quasibrittle fracture. The book also presents probabilistic fracture mechanics, and its consequent reliability-based structural analysis and design of quasibrittle structures. Finally, the book provides an extensive review of various practical applications of quasibrittle fracture mechanics.

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