Language For Those Who Have Nothing

Language For Those Who Have Nothing: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry
2000 | 258 | ISBN: 0306465027 | PDF | 2 Mb

The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed.

The Generic Chaining: Upper and Lower Bounds of Stochastic Processes

The Generic Chaining: Upper and Lower Bounds of Stochastic Processes
2005 | 222 | ISBN: 3540245189 | PDF | 1 Mb

The fundamental question of characterizing continuity and boundedness of Gaussian processes goes back to Kolmogorov. After contributions by R. Dudley and X. Fernique, it was solved by the author. This book provides an overview of "generic chaining", a completely natural variation on the ideas of Kolmogorov. It takes the reader from the first principles to the edge of current knowledge and to the open problems that remain in this domain

Microcontinuum Field Theories I: Foundations and Solids

Microcontinuum Field Theories I: Foundations and Solids
1999 | 338 | ISBN: 0387986200 | DJVU | 3 Mb

Microcontinuum field theories extend classical field theories to microscopic spaces and short time scales. This volume is concerned with the kinematics of microcontinua. It begins with a discussion of strain, stress tensors, balance laws, and constitutive equations, and then discusses applications of the fundamental ideas to the theory of elasticity. The ideas developed here are important in modeling the fluid or elastic properties of porous media, polymers, liquid crystals, slurries, and composite materials.