Paola M.V. Rancoita, STOCHASTIC METHODS IN CANCER RESERCH. APPLICATIONS TO GENOMICS AND ANGIOGENESIS

In this thesis, I study three stochastic methods that can be applied for the analysis of data in cancer research and, in particular, to cancer genomic data and to images of angiogenic processes. Cancer is a multistep process where the accumulation of genomic lesions alters cell biology. The latter is under control of several pathways and thus, cancer can arise via different mechanisms affecting different pathways. Due to the general complexity of this disease and the different types of tumors, the efforts of cancer research cover several research areas such as, for example, immunology, genetics, cell biology, angiogenesis.




Matteo Bianchi, ON SOME AXIOMATIC EXTENSIONS OF THE MONOIDAL T-NORM BASED LOGIC MTL: AN ANALYSIS IN THE PROPOSITIONAL AND IN THE FIRST-ORDER CASE

The scientific area this thesis belongs to is many-valued logics: this means logics in which, from the semantical point of view, we have “intermediate” truth-values,  between 0 and 1 (which in turns are designated to represent, respectively, the “false” and the “true”).
The classical logic (propositional, for simplicity) is based on the fact that every statement is true or false: this is reflected by the excluded middle law, that is a theorem of this logic. However, there are many reasons that suggest to reject this law: for example, intuitionistic logic does not satisfy it, since this logic reflects a “constructive” conception of mathematics (see [Hey71, Tro69]).




Marco Maggis, On quasiconvex conditional maps

Quasiconvex analysis has important applications in several optimization problems in science, economics and in finance, where convexity may be lost due to absence of global risk aversion, as for example in Prospect Theory [57].

Our interest in quasiconvex analysis was triggered by the recent paper [11] on quasiconvex risk measures, where the authors show that it is reasonable to weaken the convexity axiom in the theory of convex risk measures, introduced in [31] and [36]. This allows to maintain a good control of the risk, if one also replaces cash additivity by cash subadditivity [25].




Stefano Zampini, NON-OVERLAPPING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC REACTION-DIFFUSION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS

Recent advances in biotechnology and the availability of ever more powerful computers have led to the formulation of increasingly complex models at all levels of life sciences, in particular of cardiac electrophysiology. Multiscale modeling of the bioelectric activity of the heart, taking into account macroscopic (fiber architecture and anisotropy) and microscopic (cellular) features of the tissue, aim to develop predictive tools for future drug design and patient-specific therapies, using detailed and efficient three-dimensional solvers for the governing equations of tissue electrophysiology.




APRITI STANDARD!

Da molti anni si sente parlare di software libero e di tecnologie aperte e dei vari aspetti etici, filosofici, giuridici ed economici connessi a questo particolare modo di approcciare l’informatica. Spesso si è sottolineata l’importanza di poter disporre di strumenti software che fossero distribuiti in modalità libera dai tradizionali vincoli della proprietà industriale e il messaggio sembra ormai arrivato anche ai grandi player del settore ICT. Quello che non tutti sanno (o che trovano più comodo non sapere) è invece che poco conta il poter disporre di software libero e open source se il mercato e con lui le prassi comuni degli utenti sono irrigiditi su meccanismi viziosi da cui è sempre difficile allontanarsi. Quale magra consolazione è usare software libero sul nostro computer se poi vediamo costantemente che la gran parte delle informazioni presenti in rete circolano in forme e modi del tutto chiusi, proprietari, non trasparenti!
Questo libro intende, una volta per tutte, spostare l’attenzione del dibattito scientifico e della relativa opera di divulgazione non tanto sugli strumenti con cui si producono informazioni ma sulle informazioni stesse e sugli standard con cui esse sono codificate, rappresentate, comunicate, memorizzate. Interoperabilità e neutralità tecnologica diventano quindi categorie e valori ancora più centrali di libertà e apertura, o quantomeno diventano i prerequisiti fondamentali per l’effettiva realizzazione di un ecosistema digitale libero, aperto, trasparente… ma soprattutto efficiente ed equo. Rivolto a tutti coloro che producono e trasmettono informazioni in ambiente digitale e che vogliono sapere con chiarezza le regole del gioco a cui partecipano.
Data di pubblicazione: Ottobre 2010




CREATIVE COMMONS: A USER GUIDE

Here is an operational manual which guides creators step by step in the world of Creative Commons licenses, the most famous and popular licenses for free distribution of intellectual products. Without neglecting useful conceptual clarifications, the author goes into technical details of the tools offered by Creative Commons, thus making them also understandable for total neophytes. This is a fundamental book for all those who are interested in the opencontent and copyleft world.
The official webpage of this book is www.aliprandi.org/cc-user-guide and there you can find additional contents and updating.




THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOPHYSICAL MODELING

 

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Authors: Andrea Villa
Series: Mathematical sciences
Format: Paperback (also pdf edition available)
Pages: 148
Published in: September 2010
ISBN paper: 9788895994147
Price paper: 22.00 €