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Brain Renaissance

From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience

By: Marco Catani,Stefano Sandrone

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Brain Renaissance

From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience

By: Marco Catani,Stefano Sandrone

Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience is published on the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated those Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a milestone in the history of neuroscience. Many chapters are accompanied by a commentary tracking the discoveries that paved the way to our modern understanding of the brain - from the pineal gland that regulates sleep, the fornix and mammillary bodies for memory, the colliculi for auditory and visual perception, and the cerebellum for motor control, to the corpus callosum for interhemispheric cross-talk, the neural correlates of senses, and the methods for dissections. The chapters constitute a primer for those interested in the brain and history of neuroscience. The translation, written with modern anatomical terminology in mind, provides direct access to Vesalius' original work on the brain. Those interested in reading the words of the Renaissance master will find the book an invaluable addition to their Vesalian collection. Brain Renaissance pays a tribute to the work of the pioneers of neuroscience and to the lives of those with brain disorders, through whose suffering most discoveries are made. It's an unforgettable journey inspired by the work of the great anatomist, whose words still resonate today.

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Oxford University Press

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0199383847

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9780199383849

Clusters, Networks and Innovation

By: Stefano Breschi,Franco Malerba

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Clusters, Networks and Innovation

By: Stefano Breschi,Franco Malerba

Examining the role of the much-vaunted concepts of regional clusters in the prosperity and economic expansion of countries, this work looks at the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei.

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Oxford University Press

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0199275556

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9780199275557

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

By: Stefano Ugolini

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The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

By: Stefano Ugolini

This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. It radically rethinks previous attempts at a history of monetary institutions by avoiding institutional approach and shifting the focus away from the Anglo-American experience. Previous histories have been hamstrung by the linear, teleological assessment of the evolution of central banks. Free from such assumptions, Ugolini’s work offers bankers and policymakers valuable and profound insights into their institutions. Using a functional approach, Ugolini charts an historical trajectory longer and broader than any other attempted on the subject. Moving away from the Anglo-American perspective, the book allows for a richer (and less biased) analysis of long-term trends. The book is ideal for researchers looking to better understand the evolution of the institutions that underlie the global economy.

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339

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Springer

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1137485256

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9781137485250

The Biology of Hover Wasps

By: Stefano Turillazzi

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The Biology of Hover Wasps

By: Stefano Turillazzi

This book represents the culmination of the author’s lifetime work on a single fascinating group of insects, the hover wasps, Stenogastrinae. The author explores the biology of these little-known wasps at the threshold of sociality, presenting an ambitious survey of ideas about their evolution and an assessment of the current standing of controversial concepts. Following taxonomic and morphological descriptions, the behaviour, colonial dynamics, social communication and especially the remarkably diverse nests of wasps are discussed. Compared to the better-known species of paper wasps, hornets and yellow jackets, the hover wasps show various peculiarities, such as characteristics of immature brood rearing, nest defence and mating systems. The nest architecture probably presents the most variable solutions in social wasps and is characterized by an astonishing level of camouflage, making these insects an interesting example of special adaptation to forest environments.

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285

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642326803

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9783642326806

Networks on Networks

The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry

By: Allen G. Hunt,Stefano Manzoni

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Networks on Networks

The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry

By: Allen G. Hunt,Stefano Manzoni

Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how much physics has to change in order to address the complexity of biology. Phil Anderson, a physics Nobel laureate, contributed to popularizing a new notion of the end of “reductionism.” In this view, it is necessary to abandon the quest of reducing complex behavior to known physical results, and to identify emergent behaviors and principles. In the present book, however, we have sought physical rules that can underlie the behavior of biota as well as the geochemistry of soil development. We looked for fundamental principles, such as the dominance of water flow paths with the least cumulative resistance, that could maintain their relevance across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, together with the appropriate description of solute transport associated with such flow paths. Thus, ultimately, we address both nutrient and water transport limitations of processes from chemical weathering to vascular plant growth. The physical principles guiding our effort are established in different, but related concepts and fields of research, so that in fact our book applies reductionist techniques guided by analogy. The fact that fundamental traits extend across biotic and abiotic processes, i.e., the same fluid flow rate is relevant to both, but that distinctions in topology of the connected paths lead to dramatic differences in growth rates, helps unite the study of these nominally different disciplines of geochemistry and geobiology within the same framework. It has been our goal in writing this book to share the excitement of learning, and one of the most exciting portions to us has been the ability to bring some order to the question of the extent to which soils can facilitate plant growth, and what limitations on plant sizes, metabolism, occurrence, and correlations can be formulated thereby. While we bring order to the soil constraints on growth , we also generate some uncertainties in the scaling relationships of plant growth and metabolism. Although we have made an first attempt to incorporate edaphic constraints into allometric scaling, this is but an initial foray into the forest.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1681740958

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9781681740959

Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease

By: Liana Bolis,Julio Licinio,Stefano Govoni

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Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease

By: Liana Bolis,Julio Licinio,Stefano Govoni

Examines the role of the ANS in the maintenance and control of bodily homeostasis, as well as in the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of disorders such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, arrhythmia, diabetes, ischemia, myocardial infarction, urinary retention, and depression.

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CRC Press

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0203908899

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9780203908891

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

By: Stefano Ugolini

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By: Stefano Ugolini

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Book's by Stefano Ugolini

Brain Renaissance

Brain Renaissance

Clusters, Networks and Innovation

Clusters, Networks and Innovation

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

The Biology of Hover Wasps

The Biology of Hover Wasps

Networks on Networks

Networks on Networks

Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease

Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

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