Paolo Paolo: 1830 books
by Paolo Ricotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Scritto da chi ha gestito imprese ed è impegnato da sempre nella comprensione dei grandi mutamenti epocali del Global Shift, questo testo dimostra (con l’evidenza di casi concreti) come un vero e proprio Rinascimento dell’economia italiana sia concretamente praticabile per le PMI di territorio.
Securing the Global Economy
G8 Global Governance for a Post-Crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Securing the Global Economy explores how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive and complex economic-security connections. These connections are explored from an interdisciplinary perspective, with economists, political scientists and those...
The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms
Europa, Europae
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes.
Elasticity for Geotechnicians
A Modern Exposition of Kelvin, Boussinesq, Flamant, Cerruti, Melan, and Mindlin Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This book deals in a modern manner with a family of named problems from an old and mature subject, classical elasticity. These problems are formulated over either a half or the whole of a linearly elastic and isotropic two- or three-dimensional space, subject to loads concentrated at points or lines....
Innovative Tools for Business Coalitions in B2B Applications
How Negotiation, Auction and Game Theory Can Support Small- and Medium-sized Business in E-business
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The manufacturing industry is facing the challenges of shifting its operations from the traditional factory integration philosophy to a supply chain based e-factory philosophy, and of transforming the focus of companies from the local factory to global enterprise and business. Innovative Tools for...
Stochastic Dynamics of Complex Systems
From Glasses to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Dynamical evolution over long time scales is a prominent feature of all the systems we intuitively think of as complex — for example, ecosystems, the brain or the economy. In physics, the term ageing is used for this type of slow change, occurring over time scales much longer than the patience,...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
What happened and why at one of the most decisive World War II victories The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. El Alamein saw two of the greatest generals of the war pitted against each other: Rommel and Montgomery. Through key...
Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior
Between Pacifism and Realpolitik
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Italy, although it considers itself to be a middle-sized power on par with France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, has been incapable of playing an international role comparable to theirs, instead keeping a low-profile foreign policy. This has not been due to any material constraints—Italy’s...
Superradiance
Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This volume gives a unified picture of the multifaceted subject of superradiance, with a focus on recent developments in the field, ranging from fundamental physics to astrophysics.
Superradiance is a radiation enhancement process that involves dissipative systems. With a 60 year-old history,...
by Francesco Catoni, Dino Boccaletti, Roberto Cannata
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
This book provides an original introduction to the geometry of Minkowski space-time. A hundred years after the space-time formulation of special relativity by Hermann Minkowski, it is shown that the kinematical consequences of special relativity are merely a manifestation of space-time geometry.
The...
by Paolo Gandini
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
CP violation is a well-established phenomenon in particle physics, but until 2001 it was only observed in kaons. In the last decade, several matter-antimatter asymmetries have been observed in neutral B mesons in line with the expectations of the Standard Model of the weak interaction. Direct CP...
Study of Double Parton Scattering Using Four-Jet Scenarios
in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt s = 7 TeV with the CMS Experiment at the LHC
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This thesis addresses in a very new and elegant way several measurements and the extraction of so-called double parton scattering. The new and elegant way lies in the combination of measurements and a very smart extraction of double parton scattering results, which is easy to apply and overcomes many...
Relativism
With the essay Art as creative visualization
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Absolute does not exist. Nothing is everlasting, stable, final. Everything is transient, relative and surmountable. Contemporary man needs to understand that such is the reality surrounding him and that he must go with the time and adjust his life to it. Science is a powerful means of achieving such...
Building Transatlantic Italy
Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
At the end of the Second World War, America’s newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs such as the Marshall Plan- significantly altered existing transatlantic relations. In this context, Italian and American architectural cultures developed...