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  title info:
    title: Adventure Diffusion
    sub title: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas
  name:
    name part: Vogl, Gero.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 157 p. 54 illus., 32 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas. Recently, there has been a growing interest in understanding migrations, diffusion and spreading outside the "hard" natural sciences of physics and chemistry, for example the spreading of plants introduced as a result of globalization. Another fascinating story is that of human migration in the distant past, i.e. the immigration of our ancestors who brought agriculture from the Near East, or the fast spread of the Palaeo-Indians into the Americas after the end of the Ice Age. Likewise, the spread of languages in the past, and even more so the current spread and retreat of languages will be described here in terms of diffusion. By understanding these principles, there is hope that some of the less common languages that are threatened by globalization can be saved. Another important implication discussed by the author concerns the outbreak of epidemics; these may be mitigated if we understand their spreading mechanism. Last but not least the spreading of ideas and innovations, a process which changes the world sometimes faster than we wish, can also be usefully described in this picture.
  table of contents: Laws of diffusion and how they were found by unconventionally acting and thinking scientists (Brownian motion, Fourier's theory of heat, Fick's laws, Einstein-Smoluchowski's random walk, Perrin's experiments) -- Invasion of exotic plants (chestnut leaf miner moth, ragweed) -- Wave of advance (Fisher, Luther) -- Neolithic migration (Eurasia, Americas) -- Spread of languages (Indo-European in the past, endangered languages of today) -- Spread of diseases -- Spread of innovations.
  note: by Gero Vogl.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  subject:
    topic: Computational complexity
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Data processing
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Computer programs
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
  subject:
    topic: Complex Systems
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Complex Systems
  subject:
    topic: Computational Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Migration
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 530.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030046811
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04681-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 190109
    record change date: 20191021223239.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-04681-1