A Treatise on Comparative Embryology
| Author | : Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 1885 |
| Genre | : Embryology |
| ISBN | : |
Jan Evangelista Purkyne
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Purkinje's Vision
| Author | : Nicholas J. Wade |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2001-04-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1135656401 |
The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to function; pharmacologists view in awe his heroic experiments on self-administered drugs; forensic scientists acknowledge his role in the use of fingerprints for identification; and Czech patriots salute his awakening of pride in their nation. Yet all these achievements followed his initial enquiries into vision. It is this psychological dimension that fostered this collaboration. As the title suggests, the present volume is bifocal. In the narrow sense it refers to Purkinje's studies of vision, but in its broader view it concerns Purkinje's anticipation of neuroscience. Purkinje provided evidence to support both its cellular and its conceptual base. At the cellular level his acute vision is immortalized within our bodies. At the conceptual level, he sought to relate subjective phenomena to their objective underpinnings--to link psychology to physiology. Vision provides a bond that unites psychology and physiology, and it is this bond that was strengthened by Purkinje's enquiries. The authors have tried to provide a context in which Purkinje's descriptions of visual phenomena can be placed. In some cases this exposes clear precursors of research for which Purkinje has been credited. In others, there was nothing to suggest the phenomena that he exposed. The book translates Purkinje's initial masterpiece on subjective vision and places it in the context of emerging views of neuroscience.
Foundations of Ophthalmology
| Author | : Michael F. Marmor |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 3319596411 |
There have been books over the years discussing the history of ophthalmology, but none that focus directly on just the most critical thinkers whose insights provided the foundation for the discipline. These men and women advanced knowledge about vision, diagnosis, disease mechanisms, and therapy through innovative thinking and perseverance against old ideas. Their stories are intriguing at a personal level and for showing the complexity of advancing medical science and, therefore, should be required reading for anyone practicing ophthalmology. Foundations of Ophthalmology includes giants such as Young (the nature of color and light), Braille (a practical reading system for the blind), Helmholtz (development of the ophthalmoscope), von Graefe (defining glaucoma), Curie (discovery of radiation and the basis of radiation therapy), Gonin (demonstration how to cure retinal detachment), Ridley (serendipity that led to intraocular lenses), and Kelman (development of phacoemulsification that revolutionized cataract surgery).
Pioneers of Color Science
| Author | : Renzo Shamey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9783319308098 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and their contributions. The text comprises an extensive set of biographical essays about pioneering scientists in the field of color science, describing their most significant achievements and explaining how their findings influenced the general understanding of color. Grouped by historical period, each part is prefaced with a short introduction that sets the essays into context and helps the reader appreciate the background and the importance of the contributions made. Beginning with classical Greece and the works of Plato and Aristotle, the book goes on in the second part to describe the advances made by Islamic scholars such as Ibn al-Haytham between the 10th and 15th centuries. The third part covers contributions from Roger Bacon and Theodoric of Freiberg in the same period. Part four includes discussions on color formation and visual perception for a time period from about the 16th to the 18th centuries encompassing the Age of Enlightenment. This part addresses the works of nineteen pioneers including Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Goethe, Lambert, Purkynje, Runge, Dalton, Young and Chevreul. The final part is the largest section of the book and covers the most recent discoveries and contributions from pioneers born after 1800 and includes over 60 essays. Among the pioneers listed in this chapter are Nobel laureates, vision scientists including Helmholtz, and Hering, and many other notable color pioneers such as Munsell and Land. This part of the book also includes essays on contemporary figures in color science including Adams, Boynton, Crawford, Hardy, MacAdam, Ostwald and Wyszecki and reviews their contributions to this dynamic field. A useful reference for color scientists, science historians, artists and others, Pioneers of Color Science offers a fascinating insight into the development of color science and the nature of scientific advancement.
Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
| Author | : Thomas Hartmann |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2019-08-22 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 3030238423 |
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more – and mostly privately owned – land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
The Size of Government
| Author | : Václav Rybáček |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Austria |
| ISBN | : 9781788210102 |
Vaclav Rybacek argues that many studies have underestimated the size of government, leading to erroneous policy recommendations and an unrealistic assessment of a government's ability to meet its debts. Drawing on Austrian economic theory, the book offers a more robust methodology for the measurement of government.
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
| Author | : Henry Jerry John |
| Publisher | : Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 1959 |
| Genre | : Physiologists |
| ISBN | : |
Lecture Notes in Computational Intelligence and Decision Making
| Author | : Volodymyr Lytvynenko |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 729 |
| Release | : 2019-07-23 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3030264742 |
Information and computer technologies for data analysis and processing in various fields of data mining and machine learning generates the conditions for increasing the effectiveness of information processing by making it faster and more accurate. The book includes 49 scientific papers presenting the latest research in the fields of data mining, machine learning and decision-making. Divided into three sections: “Analysis and Modeling of Complex Systems and Processes”; “Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Decision-Making Systems”; and “Computational Intelligence and Inductive Modeling”, the book is of interest to scientists and developers in the field.
Landscape Modelling
| Author | : Jiří Anděl |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2010-04-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9048130522 |
Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing damaged ecosystems on the one hand, and finding effective ways to use the landscape on the other. The discipline has the specific goal of designing and assessing future scenarios of landscape development, while not losing sight of its past history, both ecological and socio-cultural. This book encompasses the interrelated disciplines of geography, landscape ecology and geoinformatics, and by drawing on their theories and methodologies introduces the concept of a living landscape with human action an inseparable part of its evolution. It offers researchers and decision-makers a number of ideas on how our landscape can best be utilized. The content reflects the need for sustainable landscape development, at the same time as considering long-term continuity as a major condition which enables us to maintain the diversity and multifunctionality of landscapes at regional and macro-regional scales. Employing advanced terminology and methods, this book provides specific results especially for scientists and landscape professionals.
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
| Author | : Jan Evangelista Purkyně |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Physicians |
| ISBN | : |
