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• Introduction Operations on sets and set systems Theorems on traces The Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem via shifting Katona's circle The Kurskal-Katona theorem Kleitman theorem for no $s$ pairwise disjoint sets The Hilton-Milner theorem The Erdos matching conjecture The Ahswede-Khachatrian theorem Pushing-pulling method Uniform measure versus product measure Kleitman's correlation inequality $r$-cross union families Random walk method $L$-systems Exponent of $(10, \{0,1,3,6\})$-system The Deza-Erdos-Frankl theorem Furedi's structure theorem Rodl's packing theorem Upper bounds using multilinear polynomials Application to discrete geometry Upper bounds using inclusion matrices Some algebraic constructions for $L$-systems Oddtown and eventown problems Tensor product method The ratio bound Measures of cross independent sets Application of semidefinite programming A cross intersection problem with measures Capsets and sunflowers Challenging open problems Bibliography Index.
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One of the great appeals of Extremal Set Theory as a subject is that the statements are easily accessible without a lot of mathematical background, yet the proofs and ideas have applications in a wide range of fields including combinatorics, number theory, and probability theory. Written by two of the leading researchers in the subject, this book is aimed at mathematically mature undergraduates, and highlights the elegance and power of this field of study. The first half of the book provides classic results with some new proofs including a complete proof of the Ahlswede-Khachatrian theorem as well as some recent progress on the Erdos matching conjecture. The second half presents some combinatorial structural results and linear algebra methods including the Deza-Erdos-Frankl theorem, application of Rodl's packing theorem, application of semidefinite programming, and very recent progress (obtained in 2016) on the Erdos-Szemeredi sunflower conjecture and capset problem. The book concludes with a collection of challenging open problems.
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• The edge of the world
• Part one. Europe
• The great embassy
• The first Kamchatka expedition
• The best-laid plans
• Part two. Asia
• St. Petersburg to Siberia
• Quarreling factions
• Phantom islands
• Part three. America
• Bolshaya Zemlya, the great land
• Curious encounters
• The scourge of the sea
• Part four. Nowhere
• Island of the blue foxes
• Death and playing cards
• A new St. Peter
• Russian America.

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.".
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• The way of the wind
• How the grid got its wires
• The consolidation of power
• The cardigan path
• Things fall apart
• Two birds, one stone
• A tale of two storms
• In search of the Holy Grail
• American zeitgeist
• Afterword: Contemplating death in the afternoon.

"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining, perceptive, and deeply researched fashion, cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke uses the history of an increasingly outdated infrastructure to show how the United States has gone from seemingly infinite technological prowess to a land of structural instability. She brings humor and a bright eye to contemporary solutions and to the often surprising ways in which these succeed or fail. And the consequences of failure are significant. Our national electrical grid grew during an era when monopoly, centralization and standardization meant strength. Yet as we've increasingly become a nation that caters to local needs, and as a plethora of new, renewable energy sources comes on line, our massive system is dangerously out of step. Charting the history of our electrical grid, Bakke helps us see what we all take for granted, shows it as central to our culture and identity as a people, and reveals it to be the linchpin in our aspirations for a clean energy future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Bioinformatics and genomic data: investigating a complex genetic disease
• Computational manipulation of DNA: genetic screening for disease alleles
• Sequence alignment: investigating an influenza outbreak
• Database searching and multiple alignment: investigating antibiotic resistance
• Substitution matrices and protein alignments: virulence factors in e. coli
• Distance measurement in molecular phylogenetics: evolution of mammals
• Tree building in molecular phylogenetics: the three domains of life
• DNA sequencing: identification of novel viral pathogens
• Sequence-based gene prediction: annotation of a resistance plasmid.

Thoroughly revised and updated, Exploring Bioinformatics: A Project-Based Approach, Second Edition is intended for an introductory course in bioinformatics at the undergraduate level. Through hands-on projects, students are introduced to current biological problems and then explore and develop bioinformatic solutions to these issues. Each chapter presents a key problem, provides basic biological concepts, introduces computational techniques to address the problem, and guides students through the use of existing web-based tools and software solutions. This progression prepares students to tackle the On-Your-Own Project, where they develop their own software solutions. Topics such as antibiotic resistance, genetic disease, and genome sequencing provide context and relevance to capture student interest. With a focus on developing students' problem-solving skills, the Second Edition of Exploring Bioinformatics: A Project-Based Approach is a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field. New to the thoroughly updated Second Edition: *Offers a flexible approach to understanding key bioinformatics algorithms with exercises that can be used with or without programming. *For programming courses, pseudocode allows students to implement algorithms in any desired programming language. *Includes more substantive web-based projects for a more comprehensive, hands-on introduction to bioinformatics in non-programming courses. *Contains updated material reflecting changes in how bioinformatics is used: next-generation sequencing, metagenomic analysis, statistical methods, etc. *Contains more instructive and relevant case studies as well as more cohesive connections between the case studies and the exercises.
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• Genetics: The Study of Biological Information
• Mendel's Principles of Heredity
• Extensions to Mendel's Laws
• The Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
• Linkage, Recombination, and the Mapping of Genes on Chromosomes
• DNA Structure, Replication, and Recombination
• Anatomy and Function of a Gene: Dissection Through Mutation
• Gene Expression: The Flow of Information from DNA to RNA to Protein
• Digital Analysis of DNA
• Genomes and Proteomes
• Genome-Wide Variation and Trait Analysis
• The Eukaryotic Chromosome
• Chromosomal Rearrangements and Changes in Chromosome Number
• Prokaryotic and Organelle Genetics
• Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes
• Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
• Somatic Mutation and the Genetics of Cancer
• Using Genetics to Study Development
• Variation and Selection in Populations
• Evolution at the Molecular Level
• Systems Biology and the Future of Medicine

• Preface-- About the authors--
• 1. A grand tour of the heavens--
• 2. Light, matter and energy: powering the Universe--
• 3. Light and telescopes: extending our senses--
• 4. Observing the stars and planets: clockwork of the Universe--
• 5. Gravitation and motion: the early history of astronomy--
• 6. The terrestrial planets: Earth, Moon, and their relatives--
• 7. The Jovian planets: windswept giants--
• 8. Pluto, comets, and space debris--
• 9. Our Solar System and others--
• 10. Our star: the Sun--
• 11. Stars: distant suns--
• 12. How the stars shine: cosmic furnaces--
• 13. The death of stars: recycling--
• 14. Black holes: the end of space and time--
• 15. The Milky Way: our home in the Universe--
• 16. A Universe of galaxies--
• 17. Quasars and active galaxies--
• 18. Cosmology: the birth and life of the cosmos--
• 19. In the beginning--
• 20. Life in the Universe-- Epilogue-- Appendices-- Selected readings-- Glossary-- Index.
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An exciting introduction to astronomy, the fourth edition of this book uses recent discoveries and stunning photography to inspire non-science majors about the Universe. Written by two highly experienced and engaging instructors, each chapter has been fully updated, with more than 200 new images throughout, including recent images from space missions and the world's best observatories. The newly redesigned text is organized as a series of stories, each presenting the history of the field, the observations made and how they fit within the process of science, our current understanding and what future observations are planned. Math is provided in boxes and easily read around, making the book suitable for courses taking either mathematical or qualitative approaches. New discussion questions encourage students to think widely about astronomy and the role science plays in our everyday lives and podcasts for each chapter aid studying and comprehension.
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• Me and you and evolution, too
• The great creationism debate
• Creation and the second law of thermodynamics
• Bottom-up design
• A deep dive into deep time
• On the origin of evolution
• Lamarck and his not-acquired traits
• My prom and sexual selection
• The tale of the red queen
• Dogs are all dogs
• The tree of life-or is it a bush?
• Biodiversity comes in the territory
• Fossil records and explosions
• Mass extinction and you
• Ancient dinosaurs and the asteroid test
• Punctuated equilibrium
• Contingency, bottlenecking, and founding
• Mosquitos in the tube
• Convergence, analog, and homology
• What good is half a wing?
• Human bodies are walking, talking, and good-enough
• Evolution is why we don't believe in evolution
• Micro or macro- it's all evolution
• Michael Faraday and the joy of discovery
• Medicine and you- evolution at the doctor's office
• Antibiotic drug resistance- evolution strikes back
• The irresistible urge of altruism
• Games species play
• Costly signals
• genetically modified foods: what the GMF?
• Human cloning- not cool
• Our skin colors
• Is the human species still evolving?
• Astrobiologically speaking : is anyone there?
• The sparks that started it all
• A second genesis-of life?
• Life's cosmic imperative.

Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life, including aliens right here on Earth. With infectious enthusiasm, Bill Nye shows that evolution is much more than a rebuttal to creationism; it is an essential way to understand how nature works -- and to change the world. It might also help you get a date on a Saturday night.

• Global windstorm
• Relativistic baseball
• Spent fuel pool
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #1
• New York-style time machine
• Soul mates
• Laser pointer
• Periodical wall of the elements
• Everybody jump
• A mole of moles
• Hair dryer
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #2
• The last human light
• Machine-gun jetpack
• Rising steadily
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #3
• Orbital submarine
• Short-answer section
• Lightning
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #4
• Human computer
• Little planet
• Steak drop
• Hockey puck
• Common cold
• Glass half empty
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #5
• Alien astronomers
• No more DNA
• Interplanetary Cessna
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #6
• Yoda
• Flyover states
• Falling with helium
• Everybody out
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #7
• Self-fertilization
• High throw
• Lethal neutrinos
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #8
• Speed bump
• Lost immortals
• Orbital speed
• FedEx bandwidth
• Free fall
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #9
• Sparta
• Drain the oceans
• Drain the oceans : part II
• Twitter
• Lego bridge
• Longest sunset
• Random sneeze call
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #10
• Expanding Earth
• Weightless arrow
• Sunless Earth
• Updating a printed Wikipedia
• Facebook of the dead
• Sunset on the British Empire
• Stirring tea
• All the lightning
• Loneliest human
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #11
• Raindrop
• SAT guessing
• Neutron bullet
• Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #12
• Richter 15.

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website.

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. This engaging book tells the rich and engaging story of a tree that people saved from extinction-a story that offers hope for other botanical biographies that are still being written. Inspired by the historic ginkgo that has thrived in London's Kew Gardens since the 1760s, renowned botanist Peter Crane explores the history of the ginkgo from its mysterious origin through its proliferation, drastic decline, and ultimate resurgence. Crane also highlights the cultural and social significance of the ginkgo: its medicinal and nutritional uses, its power as a source of artistic and religious inspiration, and its importance as one of the world's most popular street trees. Readers of this book will be drawn to the nearest ginkgo, where they can experience firsthand the timeless beauty of the oldest tree on Earth.
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• Preface-- Notation--
• 1. Historical introduction--
• 2. Particle states in a central potential--
• 3. General principles of quantum mechanics--
• 4. Spin--
• 5. Approximations for energy eigenstates--
• 6. Approximations for time-dependent problems--
• 7. Potential scattering--
• 8. General scattering theory--
• 9. The canonical formalism--
• 10. Charged particles in electromagnetic fields--
• 11. The quantum theory of radiation--
• 12. Entanglement-- Index.
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Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg combines his exceptional physical insight with his gift for clear exposition to provide a concise introduction to modern quantum mechanics. Ideally suited to a one-year graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Readers are introduced to the subject through a review of the history of quantum mechanics and an account of classic solutions of the Schrodinger equation, before quantum mechanics is developed in a modern Hilbert space approach. The textbook covers many topics not often found in other books on the subject, including alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation, Bloch waves and band structure, the Wigner-Eckart theorem, magic numbers, isospin symmetry, the Dirac theory of constrained canonical systems, general scattering theory, the optical theorem, the 'in-in' formalism, the Berry phase, Landau levels, entanglement and quantum computing. Problems are included at the ends of chapters, with solutions available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107028722.
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• Cavemen in condos
• Are we stuck?
• Crickets, sparrows, and Darwins- or, evolution before our eyes
• The perfect paleofantasy diet : milk
• The perfect paleofantasy diet : meat, grains, and cooking
• Exercising the paleofantasy
• Paleofantasy love
• The paleofantasy family
• Paleofantasy, in sickness and in health
• Are we still evolving? : a tale of genes, altitude, and earwax.

We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football-or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple. Popular theories about how our ancestors lived-and why we should emulate them-are often based on speculation, not scientific evidence. Armed with a razor-sharp wit and brilliant, eye-opening research, Zuk takes us to the cutting edge of biology to show that evolution can work much faster than was previously realized, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Contrary to what the glossy magazines would have us believe, we do not enjoy potato chips because they crunch just like the insects our forebears snacked on. And women don't go into shoe-shopping frenzies because their prehistoric foremothers gathered resources for their clans. As Zuk compellingly argues, such beliefs incorrectly assume that we're stuck-finished evolving-and have been for tens of thousands of years. She draws on fascinating evidence that examines everything from adults' ability to drink milk to the texture of our ear wax to show that we've actually never stopped evolving. Our nostalgic visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate, lived, and reproduced as we were "meant to" fail to recognize that we were never perfectly suited to our environment. Evolution is about change, and every organism is full of trade-offs. From debunking the caveman diet to unraveling gender stereotypes, Zuk delivers an engrossing analysis of widespread paleofantasies and the scientific evidence that undermines them, all the while broadening our understanding of our origins and what they can really tell us about our present and our future.
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• Foreword
• Introduction
• History
• Botanical Background
• The Plant
• Botanical Description
• Distribution, Habitat, Ecology
• Ethnic Uses & Conservation
• Evolutionary history --Cultivation
• Where to find Welwitschia?
• Questions: Fact or Fallacy? Welwitschia mirabilis
• Epilogue
• Art & Welwitschia
• Bibliography
• Glossary.

• Biochemistry: an evolving science
• Protein composition and structure
• Exploring proteins and proteomes
• DNA, RNA, and the flow of genetic information
• Exploring genes and genomes
• Exploring evolution and bioinformatics
• Hemoglobin: portrait of a protein in action
• Enzymes: basic concepts and kinetics
• Catalytic strategies
• Regulatory strategies
• Carbohydrates
• Lipids and cell membranes
• Membrane channels and pumps
• Signal-transduction pathways
• Metabolism: basic concepts and design
• Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis
• The citric acid cycle
• Oxidative phosphorylation
• The light reactions of photosynthesis
• The calvin cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway
• Glycogen metabolism
• Fatty acid metabolism
• Protein turnover and amino acid catabolism
• The biosynthesis of amino acids
• Nucleotide biosynthesis
• The biosynthesis of membrane lipids and steroids
• The integration of metabolism
• DNA replication, repair, and recombination
• RNA synthesis and processing
• Protein synthesis
• The control of gene expression in prokaryotes
• The control of gene expression in eukaryotes
• Sensory systems
• The immune system
• Molecular motors
• Drug development.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Data in Biology
• 3. Computers and Data Analysis
• 4. Descriptive Statistics
• 5. Introduction to Probability Distributions: Binomial and Poisson
• 6. The Normal Probability Distribution
• 7. Hypothesis Testing and Interval Estimation
• 8. Introduction to Analysis of Variance
• 9. Single-Classification Analysis of Variance
• 10. Nested Analysis of Variance
• 11. Two-Way and Multiway Analysis of Variance
• 12. Statistical Power and Sample Size in the Analysis of Variance
• 13. Assumptions of Analysis of Variance
• 14. Linear Regression
• 15. Correlation
• 16. Multiple and Curvilinear Regression
• 17. Analysis of Frequencies
• 18. Meta-Analysis and Miscellaneous Methods Mathematical Appendix.
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This easily understood but rigorous introduction to biological statistics is a standard text and valuable reference for anyone doing scientific research. The fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated using computer calculations and the authors have expanded on important modern topics.
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