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Primordial Cosmology

By: Giovanni Montani,Marco Valerio Battisti,Riccardo Benini,Giovanni Imponente

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Primordial Cosmology

By: Giovanni Montani,Marco Valerio Battisti,Riccardo Benini,Giovanni Imponente

Primordial Cosmology deals with one of the most puzzling and fascinating topics debated in modern physics — the nature of the Big Bang singularity. The authors provide a self-consistent and complete treatment of the very early Universe dynamics, passing through a concise discussion of the Standard Cosmological Model, a precise characterization of the role played by the theory of inflation, up to a detailed analysis of the anisotropic and inhomogeneous cosmological models. The most peculiar feature of this book is its uniqueness in treating advanced topics of quantum cosmology with a well-traced link to more canonical and pedagogical notions of fundamental cosmology.This book traces clearly the backward temporal evolution of the Universe, starting with the Robertson-Walker geometry and ending with the recent results of loop quantum cosmology in view of the Big Bounce. The reader is accompanied in this journey by an initial technical presentation which, thanks to the fundamental tools given earlier in the book, never seems heavy or obscure.

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World Scientific

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9814468339

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Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units

Spidergon STNoC

By: Marcello Coppola,Miltos D. Grammatikakis,Riccardo Locatelli,Giuseppe Maruccia,Lorenzo Pieralisi

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Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units

Spidergon STNoC

By: Marcello Coppola,Miltos D. Grammatikakis,Riccardo Locatelli,Giuseppe Maruccia,Lorenzo Pieralisi

Streamlined Design Solutions Specifically for NoC To solve critical network-on-chip (NoC) architecture and design problems related to structure, performance and modularity, engineers generally rely on guidance from the abundance of literature about better-understood system-level interconnection networks. However, on-chip networks present several distinct challenges that require novel and specialized solutions not found in the tried-and-true system-level techniques. A Balanced Analysis of NoC Architecture As the first detailed description of the commercial Spidergon STNoC architecture, Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units: Spidergon STNoC examines the highly regarded, cost-cutting technology that is set to replace well-known shared bus architectures, such as STBus, for demanding multiprocessor system-on-chip (SoC) applications. Employing a balanced, well-organized structure, simple teaching methods, numerous illustrations, and easy-to-understand examples, the authors explain: how the SoC and NoC technology works why developers designed it the way they did the system-level design methodology and tools used to configure the Spidergon STNoC architecture differences in cost structure between NoCs and system-level networks From professionals in computer sciences, electrical engineering, and other related fields, to semiconductor vendors and investors – all readers will appreciate the encyclopedic treatment of background NoC information ranging from CMPs to the basics of interconnection networks. The text introduces innovative system-level design methodology and tools for efficient design space exploration and topology selection. It also provides a wealth of key theoretical and practical MPSoC and NoC topics, such as technological deep sub-micron effects, homogeneous and heterogeneous processor architectures, multicore SoC, interconnect processing units, generic NoC components, and embeddings of common communication patterns.

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292

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CRC Press

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1420044729

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9781420044720

Complex Cases and Comorbidity in Eating Disorders

Assessment and Management

By: Riccardo Dalle Grave,Massimiliano Sartirana,Simona Calugi

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Complex Cases and Comorbidity in Eating Disorders

Assessment and Management

By: Riccardo Dalle Grave,Massimiliano Sartirana,Simona Calugi

In this book the authors share the strategies and procedures they use in their clinical daily practice to assess and treat complex cases of eating disorders. The strategic and pragmatic approach to the management of medical and psychiatric comorbidity coexisting with eating disorders, while relying on enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E) - an evidence-based treatment recommended for all eating disorder categories both in adults and adolescents-, can also be used by clinicians who adhere to different theoretical models. The book is divided into two main parts. Part I describes the eating disorder psychopathology and its consequences: an essential knowledge essential to understanding whether the patients have true comorbidity or spurious comorbidity. Then it gives an overview of CBT-E and how to implement it at different levels of care and in a multidisciplinary team. Part II illustrates the general strategies to address comorbidity in patients with eating disorders, and the specific strategies and procedures for managing the most common mental and general medical conditions coexisting with eating disorders. This volume is a valuable and useful tool for all clinicians - endocrinologists, nutritionists, dietitians, psychologists, psychiatrists - who deal with obesity and eating disorders.

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165

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Springer Nature

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3030693414

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9783030693411

Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment

Integrated Risk Assessment ; with 30 Tables

By: Riccardo Casale,Claudio Margottini

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Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment

Integrated Risk Assessment ; with 30 Tables

By: Riccardo Casale,Claudio Margottini

This book reviews the state of the art of natural disasters like floods and landslides, highlighting the possibility of safe and correct land planning and management by means of a global approach to territory. In fact, the events deriving from slope dynamics (gravitational phenomena) and fluvial dynamics (floods) are commonly triggered by the same factor (heavy rainfall), occur at the same time and are closely related. For this reason, this book analyses floods and slope stability phenomena as different aspects of the same dynamic system: the drainage basin.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540649816

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9783540649816

Adapted Compressed Sensing for Effective Hardware Implementations

A Design Flow for Signal-Level Optimization of Compressed Sensing Stages

By: Mauro Mangia,Fabio Pareschi,Valerio Cambareri,Riccardo Rovatti,Gianluca Setti

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Adapted Compressed Sensing for Effective Hardware Implementations

A Design Flow for Signal-Level Optimization of Compressed Sensing Stages

By: Mauro Mangia,Fabio Pareschi,Valerio Cambareri,Riccardo Rovatti,Gianluca Setti

This book describes algorithmic methods and hardware implementations that aim to help realize the promise of Compressed Sensing (CS), namely the ability to reconstruct high-dimensional signals from a properly chosen low-dimensional “portrait”. The authors describe a design flow and some low-resource physical realizations of sensing systems based on CS. They highlight the pros and cons of several design choices from a pragmatic point of view, and show how a lightweight and mild but effective form of adaptation to the target signals can be the key to consistent resource saving. The basic principle of the devised design flow can be applied to almost any CS-based sensing system, including analog-to-information converters, and has been proven to fit an extremely diverse set of applications. Many practical aspects required to put a CS-based sensing system to work are also addressed, including saturation, quantization, and leakage phenomena.

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329

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Springer

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3319613731

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A History of Italian Economic Thought

By: Riccardo Faucci

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A History of Italian Economic Thought

By: Riccardo Faucci

This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics between economic theory and political action, where the former attempts to enlighten the latter, but at the same time receives from politics the main stimulus to enlarge its field of reflection. This is particularly clear during the Enlightenment. Inside, this book insists on stressing that Galiani, Verri, and Beccaria were economists quite sensitive to practical issues, but who also were willing to attain generally valid conclusions. In this sense, "pure economics" was never performed in Italy. Even Pareto used economics (and sociology) in order to interpret and possibly steer the course of political action. Within this book it illustrates the Restoration period (1815-48). There was a slowdown of the economists' engagement, due to an adverse political situation, that prompted the economists to prefer less dangerous subjects, such as the relationship between economics, morals, and law (the main interpreter of this attitude was Romagnosi). After 1848, however, in parallel with the Risorgimento cultural climate, a new vision of the economists' task was eventually manifested. Between economics and political Liberalism a sort of alliance was established, whose prophet was F. Ferrara. While the Historical school of economics of German origin played a minor role, Pure Economics (1890-1940 approx.) had a considerable success, as regards both economic equilibrium and the theory of public finance. Consequently, the introduction of Keynes's ideas was rather troubled. Instead, Hayek had an immediate success. This book concludes with a chapter devoted to the intense relationships between economic theories, economic programmes and political action after 1945. Here, the Sraffa debate played an important role in stimulating Italian economists to a reflection on the patterns of Italian economy and the possibilities of transforming Italy's economic and social structure.

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334

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Routledge

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1317704169

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9781317704164

The Sand Against the Wind

By: Riccardo Maffey

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The Sand Against the Wind

By: Riccardo Maffey

Book Description: Churchill called it a Renaissance tragedy. Indeed, before Count Ciano's execution by Mussolini, his father-in-law, now head of the Italian Social Republic, only two women attempted his rescue. His wife, Edda, who defied her father, and a female Nazi secret agent, Frau Betz, who loved him. Between history and fiction, in the struggle for Ciano's life and his diaries, an indictment of Hitler and Ribbentrop's treacheries, is also the son of a cockney musician and a Roman noblewoman. Carlo Rufus Williams, a cavalry major, a letterato, and a broadcaster in civilian life, joins the Resistance after King Victor Emmanuel III and the Italian warlords abandon Rome to the brutality of the German forces. With sensuous, leftist, aristocratic Mirta della Rovere, he fights back until a street attack provokes a Nazi massacre in reprisal.

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iUniverse

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0595011217

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9780595011216

The ‘Camps System’ in Italy

Corruption, Inefficiencies and Practices of Resistance

By: Riccardo Armillei

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The ‘Camps System’ in Italy

Corruption, Inefficiencies and Practices of Resistance

By: Riccardo Armillei

This book deals with the social exclusion of Romanies (‘Gypsies’) in Italy. Based on interviews with Romani individuals, institutional and Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) representatives, participant observation and a broad range of secondary sources, the volume focuses on the conditions of those living in Rome’s urban slums and on the recent implementation of the so-called ‘Emergenza Nomadi’ (Nomad Emergency). The enactment of this extraordinary measure concealed the existence of a long-established institutional tradition of racism and control directed at Romanies. It was not the result of a sudden, unexpected situation which required an immediate action, as the declaration of an ‘emergency’ might imply, but rather of a precise government strategy. By providing an investigation into the interactions between Romanies, local institutions and CSOs, this book will deliver a new perspective on the Romani issue by arguing that the ‘camp’ is not only a tool for institutional control and segregation, but also for ‘resistance’, as well as a huge business in which everyone plays their part.

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3319763180

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Secrets of the Hoary Deep

A Personal History of Modern Astronomy

By: Riccardo Giacconi

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Secrets of the Hoary Deep

A Personal History of Modern Astronomy

By: Riccardo Giacconi

A Noble Prize–winning Italian astrophysicist shares his scientific autobiography and the history of the development of contemporary astronomy. The discovery of x-rays continues to have a profound effect on the field of astronomy. It has opened the cosmos to exploration in ways previously unimaginable, and fundamentally altered the methods for pursuing information about outer space. Nobel Prize–winner Riccardo Giacconi’s highly personal account of the birth and evolution of x-ray astronomy reveals the science, people, and institutional settings behind this important and influential discipline. Part history, part memoir, and part cutting-edge science, Secrets of the Hoary Deep is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also details how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy, drastically altering the face of modern space exploration. Giacconi relates the basic techniques developed at American Science and Engineering and explains how, where, and by whom the science was advanced. From the first Earth-orbiting x-ray satellite, Uhuru, to the opening of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the lift-off of the Hubble Space Telescope to the construction of the Very Large Telescope, Giaconni recounts the ways in which the management methods and scientific methodology behind successful astronomy projects came to set the standards of operations for all subsequent space- and Earth-based observatories. Along the way he spares no criticism and holds back no praise, detailing individual as well as institutional failures and successes, reflecting upon how far astronomy has come and how far it has yet to go.

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421402068

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Primordial Cosmology

By: Giovanni Montani,Marco Valerio Battisti,Riccardo Benini,Giovanni Imponente

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Primordial Cosmology

By: Giovanni Montani,Marco Valerio Battisti,Riccardo Benini,Giovanni Imponente

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Book's by Riccardo Benini

Primordial Cosmology

Primordial Cosmology

Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units

Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units

Complex Cases and Comorbidity in Eating Disorders

Complex Cases and Comorbidity in Eating Disorders

Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment

Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment

Adapted Compressed Sensing for Effective Hardware Implementations

Adapted Compressed Sensing for Effective Hardware Implementations

A History of Italian Economic Thought

A History of Italian Economic Thought

The Sand Against the Wind

The Sand Against the Wind

The ‘Camps System’ in Italy

The ‘Camps System’ in Italy

Secrets of the Hoary Deep

Secrets of the Hoary Deep

Primordial Cosmology

Primordial Cosmology

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