Singapore Futures: Scenarios For The Next Generation

Part of series which offers critical analysis of trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development, this title focuses on the trends and possible surprises that shape the social and economic landscape of Singapore in 2030, and provides scenarios of what Singapore be like then.

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Until recently, the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator method, though powerful and simple, has been considered as a half-heuristic one. This book is devoted to a rigorous generalization of this method as well as its applications to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The well-known idea of the description of dynamical system evolution in terms of collective dynamical variables has been developed to a functional perturbation theory, which results in the master equation of any given accuracy. Examples of statistical mechanics applications of the method include a linearized transport theory and explicit expressions for transport coefficients of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous liquids, which are in good agreement with experimental data and simulation results.