Search Results - "SETI"

Civilizations beyond earth extraterrestrial life and society /

Table of Contents: “…Can SETI fulfill the value agenda of cultural anthropology? …”
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Econometric modeling perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- An overview of the literature -- Models without diffusion -- Technology, diffusion, and growth: a key trinomial -- Models with exogenous diffusion -- Models with endogenous diffusion -- An alternative approach: the advantages of continuous-time quantitative methods -- Econometric estimation -- Towards a dynamic model of growth and technology -- The modified model: endogenising human capital -- Technology diffusion: the SETI model -- Continuous-time econometric models of regional convergence and the role of spatial interactions -- Conclusion.…”
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Alien life imagined communicating the science and culture of astrobiology / by Brake, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Kosmos : aliens in ancient Greece : Kosmos / Mark Brake -- The world turned upside down : Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery : voyages / Mark Brake -- In Newton's train : pluralism and the system of the world : Newton's train / Mark Brake -- Extraterrestrials in the early machine age / Mark Brake -- After Darwin : the War of the worlds : Darwin--WOTW / Mark Brake -- Einstein's sky : life in the new universe : Einstein's sky / Mark Brake -- Ever since SETI : astrobiology in the Space Age / Mark Brake.…”
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