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"This volume is one of six that together comprise the text materials for Six Ideas That Shaped Physics, a unique approach to the two- or three-semester calculusbased introductory physics course. I have designed this curriculum (for which these volumes only serve as the text component) to support an introductory course that combines three elements: Inclusion of 20th-century physics topics, A thoroughly 21st-century perspective on even classical topics, and Support for a student-centered and active-learning-based classroom"-- Provided by publisher

• Distributions and Analyticity in Euclidean Space
• Functions and Differential Operators in Euclidean Space
• Basic Notation and Terminology
• Smooth, Real-analytic, Holomorphic Functions
• Differential Operators with Smooth Coefficients
• Distributions in Euclidean Space
• Basics on Distributions in Euclidean Space
• Sobolev Spaces
• Distribution Kernels
• Fundamental Solutions, Parametrix, Hypoelliptic PDOs
• Analytic Tools in Distribution Theory
• Analytic Parametrices, Analytic Hypoellipticity
• Ehrenpreisʼ Cutoffs and Analytic Regularity of Distributions
• Distribution Boundary Values of Holomorphic Functions
• The FBI Transform of Distributions : An Introduction
• The Analytic Wave-Front Set of a Distribution
• Analyticity of Solutions of Linear PDEs : Basic Results
• Analyticity of Solutions of Elliptic Linear PDEs
• Degenerate Elliptic Equations : Influence of Lower Order Terms
• A Generalization of the Harmonic Oscillator
• Appendix : Hermite's Functions and the Schwartz Space
• The Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem
• A Nonlinear Ovsyannikov Theorem
• Application : the Nonlinear Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem
• Applications to Linear PDE
• Application to Integrodifferential Cauchy Problems
• Hyperfunctions in Euclidean Space
• Analytic Functionals in Euclidean Space
• Analytic Functionals in Complex Domains
• Analytic Functionals in Cn
• Analytic Functionals in Rn as Cohomology Classes
• Hyperfunctions in Euclidean Space
• The Sheaf of Hyperfunctions in Euclidean Space
• Boundary values of holomorphic functions in wedges
• The FBI Transform of Analytic Functionals
• Analytic Wave-front Set of a Hyperfunction
• Edge of the Wedge
• Microfunctions in Euclidean space
• Hyperdifferential Operators
• Action on Holomorphic Functions and on Hyperfunctions
• Local Representation of Hyperfunctions
• Elliptic Hyperdifferential Operators
• Solvability of Constant Coefficients Hyperdifferential Equations
• Geometric Background
• Elements of Differential Geometry
• Regular Manifolds
• Fibre Bundles, Vector Bundles
• Tangent and Cotangent Bundles of a Manifold
• Differential Complexes and Grassman Algebras
• A Primer on Sheaf Cohomology
• Basics on Sheaf Cohomology
• Fine Sheaves and Fine Resolutions
• Relative Sheaf Cohomology
• Edge of the Wedge in (Co)homological Terms
• Distributions and Hyperfunctions on a Manifold
• Distributions and Currents on a Manifold
• Plurisubharmonic functions and pseudoconvex domains
• Hyperfunctions and Microfunctions in an Analytic Manifold
• Lie Algebras of Vector Fields
• The Lie Algebra of Smooth Vector Fields
• Integral Manifolds : Frobeniusʼ Theorem
• Local Flow of a Regular Vector Field
• Foliations Defined By Analytic Vector Fields
• Systems of Vector Fields Generating Special Lie Algebras
• Elements of Symplectic Geometry
• Elements of Symplectic Algebra
• The Metaplectic Group
• Symplectic Manifolds
• Involutive Systems of Functions of Principal Type
• Real and Imaginary Symplectic Structures in C2n
• Real and Imaginary Symplectic Structures on Complex Manifolds
• Stratification of Analytic Varieties and Division of Distributions by Analytic Functions
• Analytic Stratifications
• Analytic Stratifications and Stratifiable Sets
• Analytic Subvarieties
• The Weierstrass Theorems
• Local Partitions of a Complex Hypersurface
• Local Stratifications of a Real-Analytic Variety
• Semianalytic Sets
• Division of Distributions by Analytic Functions
• The Lojasiewicz Inequality
• Division of Distributions by Analytic Functions
• Desingularization and Applications
• Appendix
• Analytic Pseudodifferential Operators and Fourier Integral Operators
• Elementary Pseudodifferential Calculus in the ... Class
• Standard Pseudodifferential Operators
• Symbolic Calculus
• Classical symbols and classical pseudodifferential operators
• The Weyl Calculus in Euclidean Space
• Analytic Pseudodifferential Calculus
• Analytic Pseudodifferential Operators
• Symbolic Calculus
• Analytic Microlocalization In Distribution Theory
• Action on Singularity Hyperfunctions
• Microdifferential Operators
• Fourier Integral Operators
• Fourier Distribution Kernels in Euclidean Space
• The Lagrangian Manifold Associated to a Phase-function
• Fourier Integral Operators : Basics
• Reduction of the Fiber Variables
• Composition and Continuity of Fourier Integral Operators
• Globally Defined Fourier Integral Operators
• Principles of Analytic Fourier Integral Operators
• Appendix : Stationary Phase Formal Expansion
• Complex Microlocal Analysis
• Classical Analytic Formalism
• Formal Analytic Series
• Classical Analytic Differential Operators of Infinite Order
• The Complex Stationary Phase Formula
• Symbolic Calculus and the KdV Hierarchy
• Germ Fourier Integral Operators in Complex Space
• Analytic Symbols
• Contours and Function Spaces
• Sjöstrand Pairs
• Germ Fourier-like Transforms
• Sjöstrand Triads and Germ Fourier Integral Operators
• Germ Pseudodifferential Operators in Complex Space
• Germ Pseudodifferential Operators
• Classical Germ Pseudodifferential Operators
• Action on distributions
• Action on Hyperfunctions and Microfunctions
• Germ FBI Transforms
• Germ FBI Transforms
• Germ FBI Transforms of Distributions
• The Equivalence Theorem for Distributions
• Analytic Pseudodifferential Operators of Principal Type
• Analytic PDEs of Principal Type : Local Solvability
• Pseudodifferential Operators of Principal Type
• Local Solvability of Analytic PDEs of Principal Type
• Analytic PDEs of Principal Type : Regularity of the Solutions
• A New Concept : Subellipticity
• Statement of the Main Theorem
• Hypoellipticity Implies (Q)
• Property (Q) Implies Subellipticity
• Analytic Hypoellipticity Implies (Q)
• Property (Q) Implies Analytic Hypoellipticity
• The ... Situation
• Propagation of Analytic Singularities
• Appendix : Properties of Real Polynomials in a Single Variable
• Appendix : Analytic Estimates of Exponential Amplitudes
• Solvability of Constant Vector Fields of Type (1,0)
• C-Convexity and Global Solvability
• Local Solvability at the Boundary : First Steps
• Local Solvability at the Boundary : Final Characterization
• The Differential Complex : Generalities
• Appendix : Minima of Families of Plurisubharmonic Functions
• Pseudodifferential Solvability and Property (...)
• Solvability : the Difference between Differential and Pseudodifferential
• Property (...)
• Microlocal Solvability in Distributions
• Pseudodifferential Complexes in Tube Structures
• Pseudodifferential Complexes of Principal Type
• Tube Pseudodifferential Complexes
• Phase-function and Amplitude
• Approximate Homotopy Formulas
• Homotopy Formulas
• Poincaré Lemmas
• References
• Notation Index
• Index

This book provides a coherent, self-contained introduction to central topics of Analytic Partial Differential Equations in the natural geometric setting. The main themes are the analysis in phase-space of analytic PDEs and the Fourier-Bros-Iagolnitzer (FBI) transform of distributions and hyperfunctions, with application to existence and regularity questions. The book begins by establishing the fundamental properties of analytic partial differential equations, starting with the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem, before presenting an integrated overview of the approach to hyperfunctions via analytic functionals, first in Euclidean space and, once the geometric background has been laid out, on analytic manifolds. Further topics include the proof of the Lojaciewicz inequality and the division of distributions by analytic functions, a detailed description of the Frobenius and Nagano foliations, and the Hamilton-Jacobi solutions of involutive systems of eikonal equations. The reader then enters the realm of microlocal analysis, through pseudodifferential calculus, introduced at a basic level, followed by Fourier integral operators, including those with complex phase-functions (a la Sjoestrand). This culminates in an in-depth discussion of the existence and regularity of (distribution or hyperfunction) solutions of analytic differential (and later, pseudodifferential) equations of principal type, exemplifying the usefulness of all the concepts and tools previously introduced. The final three chapters touch on the possible extension of the results to systems of over- (or under-) determined systems of these equations-a cornucopia of open problems.This book provides a unified presentation of a wealth of material that was previously restricted to research articles. In contrast to existing monographs, the approach of the book is analytic rather than algebraic, and tools such as sheaf cohomology, stratification theory of analytic varieties and symplectic geometry are used sparingly and introduced as required. The first half of the book is mainly pedagogical in intent, accessible to advanced graduate students and postdocs, while the second, more specialized part is intended as a reference for researchers.
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• Preface Part I Fundamentals of Physiology
• Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
• Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
• Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
• Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics
• Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water Part II Food, Energy, and Temperature
• Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
• Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism
• Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
• Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
• Chapter 10 Thermal Relations
• Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places Part III Integrating Systems
• Chapter 12 Neurons
• Chapter 13 Synapses
• Chapter 14 Sensory Processes
• Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
• Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
• Chapter 17 Reproduction
• Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation Part IV Movement and Muscle
• Chapter 19 Control of Movement
• Chapter 20 Muscle
• Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse Part V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport
• Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology
• Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
• Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology)
• Chapter 25 Circulation
• Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion
• Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
• Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
• Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
• Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas Appendix A The Systeme International and Other Units of Measure Appendix B Prefixes Indicating Orders of Magnitude Appendix C Gases at Standard Temperature and Pressure Appendix D Logarithms Appendix E Exponential and Allometric Equations Appendix F Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts Appendix G The Standard Amino Acids Appendix H Basic Physics Terms Appendix I Summary of Major Bloodborne Hormones in Mammals E-book/online only: Appendix J Fitting Lines to Data Appendix K Mitosis and Meiosis Glossary Index.
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Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology addresses this challenge by providing ecological and evolutionary context to the study of physiology at all levels of organization: genome, molecular biology, biochemistry, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Hill's inclusion of ecology and evolution helps readers gain a holistic perspective on animal function and sets Animal Physiology apart from texts that focus more narrowly on physiology. Hill's Animal Physiology is trusted by instructors and students because of its authoritative, current, engaging, and lavishly illustrated presentation.
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• The sky from home
• The moon
• The solar system
• Stars
• Stellar deaths
• Galaxies
• The universe.

"Looking up at the night sky, we see not only stars twinkling in their constellations and planets caught mid-orbit but our cosmic family tree. We are here on Earth because billions of years ago the Big Bang created the atoms that, over unimaginable periods of time, formed the stars and galaxies. Generations of stars that burned, exploded, or collided long before our planet was formed created the carbon of our bodies and the iron in our blood. In Astroquizzical, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder takes readers on a curiosity-driven journey through outer space, traveling back in time from Earth to the stars and galaxies to the cosmic explosions of the Big Bang. Scudder proceeds--astroquizzically--question by question, answering and explaining such queries as "What color is the universe?, " "Do all planets spin the same way?, " and "How many galaxies are there?" Along the way, she proposes a series of thought experiments, including "What would happen if we split the sun in half?" and "What happens to time dilation at the speed of light?" She covers meteors, the aurora, and the Moon (Earth's cosmic companion); Jupiter's stripes and Pluto's mountains; red dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and white dwarfs; the deaths of stars and the abundance of galaxies; and much more. Striking color images illustrate astrophysical marvels." -- Back Cover.

• Introduction: Haliaeetus Leucocephalus: the species
• Part One: A bird for a new nation
• Part Two: Predator, symbol, and divine messenger
• Part Three: New science and new attitudes
• Part Four: Restoration
• Epilogue: Reconciliation

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble" yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the United States' founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers and the lives of bald eagles themselves-monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world's finest parents-The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird's wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
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• 1. What is behavioral neuroscience?
• Part I. Neural foundations of behavior: the basic equipment
• 2. Communication within the nervous system
• 3. The organization and functions of the nervous system
• 4. The methods and ethics of research
• Part II. Motivation and emotion: what makes us go
• 5. Drugs, addiction, and reward
• 6. Motivation and the regulation of internal states
• 7. The biology of sex and gender
• 8. Emotion and health
• Part III. Interacting with the world
• 9. Hearing and language
• 10. Vision and visual perception
• 11. The body senses and movement
• Part IV. Complex behavior
• 12. Learning and memory
• 13. Intelligence and cognitive functioning
• 14. Psychological disorders
• 15. Sleep and consciousness

• Publishers Note
• Introduction
• Profiles: Agricultural Engineer
• Agricultural/Food Science Technician
• Agricultural/Food Scientist
• Anthropologist/Archeologist
• Biochemist/Biophysicist
• Bioengineer/Biomedical Engineer
• Biological Technician
• Chemical Engineer
• Chemist/Materials Scientist
• Clinical Laboratory Technologist/Technician
• Conservation Scientist/Forester
• Dietitian/Nutritionist
• Environmental Engineer
• Environmental Engineering Technologist/Technician
• Environmental Science/Protection Technician
• Environmental Scientist/Specialist
• Epidemiologist
• Exercise Physiologist
• Forensic Science Technician
• Forest/Conservation Worker
• Genetic Counselor
• Mathematician/Statistician
• Medical Scientist
• Microbiologist
• Natural Sciences Manager
• Physician/Surgeon
• Postsecondary Teacher
• Radiologic/MRI Technologist
• Registered Nurse
• Veterinarian
• Zoologist/Wildlife Biologist
• Appendix A: Holland Code
• Appendix B: General Bibliography
• Appendix C: List of Organizations and Resources
• Index

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms. A career in biology can mean the study of evolution, the study of health and disease, the study of the preservation of the natural environment, the study of pollen, or the study of animal behavior, to name a few. Biologists can work in a classroom, in a laboratory, on a farm, or under the ocean, so someone who is interested in a career in this field has many options to choose from.
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A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistence Coexistence is the central concept in community ecology, but an understanding of this concept requires that we study the actual mechanisms of species interactions. Coexistence in Ecology examines the major features of these mechanisms for species that coexist at different positions in complex food webs, and derives empirical tests from model predictions. Exploring the various challenges species face, Mark McPeek systematically builds a model food web, beginning with an ecosystem devoid of life and then adding one species at a time. With the introduction of each new species, he evaluates the properties it must possess to invade a community and quantifies the changes in the abundances of other species that result from a successful invasion. McPeek continues this process until he achieves a multitrophic level food web with many species coexisting at each trophic level, from omnivores, mutualists, and pathogens to herbivores, carnivores, and basic plants. He then describes the observational and experimental empirical studies that can test the theoretical predictions resulting from the model analyses. Synthesizing decades of theoretical research in community ecology, Coexistence in Ecology offers new perspectives on how to develop an empirical program of study rooted in the natural histories of species and the mechanisms by which they actually interact with one another.
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"Ecohydrology is the study of the two-way interaction between the hydrological cycle and ecosystems. More broadly, it is the science of the linkages between life and water on Earth. On the one hand, the space and time variability of the hydrological cycle controls the water availability for ecosystems; on the other hand, ecosystems, especially through transpiration by vegetation, control the main pathway by which water returns to the atmosphere from land. The terrestrial water cycle also drives some of the dynamics of soil organic matter, 7 8 CHAPTER INTRO DUCTION Abiotic processes (water and energy cycles) Biotic processes (carbon and nutrient cycles, vegetation and soil microbes) 2-way interaction Society Agroecosystems (60% of rainfall goes in transpiration in agricultural land Rule of thumb: 1 kg of bread requires 1 m3 of water) 2-way interaction Figure 1.1: Ecohydrology is characterized by the feedbacks between hydrological and ecological processes, involving numerous biotic and abiotic components, as well as by the growing interactions with the social components, especially ftwowayg through agroecosystems. microbial biomass, and the related nutrient cycling. These in turn not only a ect the vegetation dynamics but also impact the hydraulic and thermodynamic properties of soil, thereby directly acting on the partitioning of water and energy uxes at the land-atmosphere interface. The interaction between water balance and plants is responsible for some of the fundamental di erences among biomes (e.g., forests, grasslands, savannas) and for the developments of their space-time patterns. Thus one of the rst objectives of ecohydrology is to understand the intertwined dynamics of climate, soil, and vegetation. This interaction is especially interesting in water-limited ecosystems, where water is a limiting factor not only because of its scarcity but also because of its intermittent and unpredictable appearance. Many important practical issues depend on the quantitative understanding of the ecohydrological processes, including environmental preservation and proper management of soil and water resources. A solid scientic foundation of sustainable development and eco-agriculture must take into account the two-way interaction between biosphere and hydrosphere, as well as include a quantitative description of the human interference with these processes (see Fig. 1.1)"-- Provided by publisher.

• The main construction and outline of the proof
• Preliminary estimates
• The nonlinearities N^h/[infinity][beta] and n^[psi]
• Improved energy estimates
• Improved profile bounds
• The main theorems

A definitive proof of global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space-time as a solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations This book provides a definitive proof of global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space-time as a solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations of general relativity. Along the way, a novel robust analytical framework is developed, which extends to more general matter models. Alexandru Ionescu and Benoit Pausader prove global regularity at an appropriate level of generality of the initial data, and then prove several important asymptotic properties of the resulting space-time, such as future geodesic completeness, peeling estimates of the Riemann curvature tensor, conservation laws for the ADM tensor, and Bondi energy identities and inequalities. The book is self-contained, providing complete proofs and precise statements, which develop a refined theory for solutions of quasilinear Klein-Gordon and wave equations, including novel linear and bilinear estimates. Only mild decay assumptions are made on the scalar field and the initial metric is allowed to have nonisotropic decay consistent with the positive mass theorem. The framework incorporates analysis both in physical and Fourier space, and is compatible with previous results on other physical models such as water waves and plasma physics.
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"In this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptions--what he calls 'myths'--that too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the evolutionary orthodox. His convivial tour begins with the idea that evolution is boundless in the kinds of biological systems it can produce. Not true, he says. The process is highly circumscribed and delimited. Nor is it random. This popular notion holds that evolution proceeds blindly, with no endgame. But Conway Morris suggests otherwise, pointing to evidence that the processes of evolution are "seeded with inevitabilities." If that is so, then what about mass extinctions? Don't they steer the development of life in radically new directions? Rather the reverse, claims Conway Morris. Such cataclysms simply accelerate evolutionary developments that were going to happen anyway. And what about that other evolutionary canard: the "missing link"? Plenty to choose from in the fossil record but what is persistently over-looked is that in any group there is not one but a phalanx of "missing links". Once again we under-score the near-inevitability of evolutionary outcomes. Turning from fossils to minds, Conway Morris critically examines the popular tenet that the intelligences of humans and animals basically are the same thing, a difference of degree not kind. A closer scrutiny of our minds shows that in reality an unbridgeable gulf separates us from even the chimpanzees, so begging questions of consciousness and Mind. Finally, Conway Morris tackles the question of extraterrestrials. Surely, the size and scale of the universe suggest that alien life must exist somewhere beyond Earth and our tiny siloed solar system? After all, evolutionary convergence more than hints that human-like forms are universal. But Dr. Conway Morris has serious doubts. The famous Fermi Paradox ("Where are they?") appears to hold: Alone in the cosmos--and unique, but not quite in the way one might expect." -- from publisher's website.

• Part One : Origin
• Saying No to Bad Genes : The Birth of the Genesis Machine
• A Race to the Starting Line
• The Bricks of Life
• God, a Church, and a (Mostly) Woolly Mammoth
• Part Two : The Bioeconomy
• The Biological Age
• Nine Risks
• The Story of Golden Rice
• Part Three: Futures
• Exploring the Recently Plausible
• Scenario One : Creating Your Child with Wellspring
• Scenario Two : What Happened When We Canceled Aging
• Scenario Three : Akira Gold's "Where to Eat"
• Scenario Four : The Underground
• Scenario Five : The Memo
• Part Four : The Way Forward
• A New Beginning
• Epilogue

Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created revolutionary, groundbreaking solutions such as the mRNA COVID vaccines, IVF, and lab-grown hamburger that tastes like the real thing. It gives us options to deal with existential threats: climate change, food insecurity, and access to fuel. But there are significant risks. Who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? What cyber-biological risks are looming? Could a future biological war, using engineered organisms, cause a mass extinction event? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon.
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• Part I. Change over time. Introducing difference equations; Duckweed on a pond : exponential growth; Throwing shade I : logistic growth; Throwing shade II : Lotka-Volterra competition; Rabies removal : SIR models
• Part II. Understanding uncertainty. Introducing probability; A bird in the cam I : single-variable probability; A bird in the cam II: two-variable probability; Picking ticks : Bayes's rule; Rabbit rates : probability distributions
• Part III. Modeling multiple states. Introducing matrix models; Imagine all the beetles : age-structured models; The road to succession : transition matrices; a pair of populations : absorption; Fish finders : diffusion
• Part IV. Explaining data. Introducing statistics; Seedling counts I : maximum likelihood; Seedling counts II : model selection; Flattened frogs I : generalized linear models; Flattened frogs II : hypothesis testing
• Part V. Expanding the toolbox. Other techniques ; Bird islands : graphical thinking; Max Plant Institute : optimization; Bears with me : stochastic simulation; Natives in the neighborhood : cellular automata.

"Students and other researchers entering the fields of ecology and conservation biology often come with little computational or mathematics training, leaving them feeling unprepared to participate in the quantitative aspects of research in these fields. In this "low threshold, high ceiling" introduction to the subject, Justin Kitzes, an ecologist who has taught students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, aims to remedy this situation. He argues that anyone with the ability and interest to study ecology can learn the basics of the most widely used methods in quantitative ecology. Specifically, Kitzes shows readers how to translate common biological questions into mathematical models, doing so using only basic algebra and the use of spreadsheets, without requiring any background in advanced mathematics or programming skills. Students and practicing conservation biologists who are mathematically out-of-practice or uncomfortable will find this book a useful and necessary resource"-- Provided by publisher.

• Fourier Series Fourier Transforms on $\mathbb{R}^d$ Singular Integrals Riesz Transforms on $\mathbb{R}^d$ Sobolev Spaces Hardy Spaces Bounded Mean Oscillation Elliptic PDEs Banach Algebras and Wiener's Theorem Compact Groups Representations of Two Compact Groups References Index.
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Harmonic Analysis is an important tool that plays a vital role in many areas of mathematics as well as applications. It studies functions by decomposing them into components that are special functions. A prime example is decomposing a periodic function into a linear combination of sines and cosines. The subject is vast, and this book covers only the selection of topics that was dealt with in the course given at the Courant Institute in 2000 and 2019. These include standard topics like Fourier series and Fourier transforms of functions, as well as issues of convergence of Abel, Feier, and Poisson sums. At a slightly more advanced level the book studies convolutions with singular integrals, fractional derivatives, Sobolev spaces, embedding theorems, Hardy spaces, and BMO. Applications to elliptic partial differential equations and prediction theory are explored. Some space is devoted to harmonic analysis on compact non-Abelian groups and their representations, including some details about two groups: the permutation group and SO(3). The text contains exercises at the end of most chapters and is suitable for advanced undergraduate students as well as first- or second-year graduate students specializing in the areas of analysis, PDE, probability or applied mathematics.
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• Prologue
• An intricate dance
• Winners and losers
• "Zero insect days"
• The peak of the pesticide
• In the teeth of the climate emergency
• The labor of honeybees
• A monarch's journey
• The inaction plan
• A human emergency

From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet's known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. What is causing the collapse of the insect world? Why does this alarming decline pose such a threat to us? And what can be done to stem the loss of the miniature empires that hold aloft life as we know it? With urgency and great clarity, Milman explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. He joins the scientists tracking the decline of insect populations across the globe, including the soaring mountains of Mexico that host an epic, yet dwindling, migration of monarch butterflies; the verdant countryside of England that has been emptied of insect life; the gargantuan fields of U.S. agriculture that have proved a killing ground for bees; and an offbeat experiment in Denmark that shows there aren't that many bugs splattering into your car windshield these days. These losses not only further tear at the tapestry of life on our degraded planet; they imperil everything we hold dear, from the food on our supermarket shelves to the medicines in our cabinets to the riot of nature that thrills and enlivens us. Even insects we may dread, including the hated cockroach, or the stinging wasp, play crucial ecological roles, and their decline would profoundly shape our own story. By connecting butterfly and bee, moth and beetle from across the globe, the full scope of loss renders a portrait of a crisis that threatens to upend the workings of our collective history. Part warning, part celebration of the incredible variety of insects, The Insect Crisis is a wake-up call for us all.
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• Everyone's a Scientist: Students, Industry, and Partners in Space
• Working in the Space Environment
• Safety, Science, and Operational Medicine: Shuttle and Station in the 1980s and 1990s
• Science and Scientists: Peer Review, EDOMP, Neurolab, and a Station Centrifuge
• Organizing in the 1980s-90s: Ethics, Institutes, and Biological Modeling
• Radiation and the Science of Risk Reduction
• Design and Redesign: The Many Space Stations of NASA
• The Cold War and Its Aftermath: Scientific Exchange, Social Change
• More People, Less Science, Less NASA?: International Participants, Centrifuge, and NGOs
• The Vision for Space Exploration

"This book explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency"-- Provided by publisher

• Maxwellʼs Equations
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Jump and Boundary Conditions
• Two Fundamental Polarizations
• References
• Diffraction Grating Theory
• Perfectly Conducting Gratings
• Dielectric Gratings
• Biperiodic Gratings
• Perfect Electric Conductors
• Dielectric Media
• References
• Variational Formulations
• The Dirichlet Problem
• The Transmission Problem
• Biperiodic Structures
• Function Spaces
• The Transparent Boundary Condition
• The Variational Problem
• References
• Finite Element Methods
• The Finite Element Method
• Finite Element Analysis for TE Polarization
• Finite Element Analysis for TM Polarization
• Adaptive Finite Element PML Method
• The PML Formulation
• Transparent Boundary Condition for the PML Problem
• Error Estimate of the PML Solution
• The Discrete Problem
• Error Representation Formula
• A Posteriori Error Analysis
• Numerical Results
• Adaptive Finite Element DtN Method
• The Discrete Problem
• A Posteriori Error Analysis
• TM Polarization
• Numerical Results
• Adaptive Finite Element PML Method for Biperiodic Structures
• The PML Formulation
• Transparent Boundary Condition for the PML Problem
• Convergence of the PML Solution
• The Discrete Problem
• A Posteriori Error Analysis
• Numerical Results
• References
• Inverse Diffraction Grating
• Uniqueness Theorems
• The Helmholtz Equation
• Maxwellʼs Equations
• Local Stability
• The Helmholtz Equation
• Maxwellʼs Equations
• Numerical Methods
• References
• Near-Field Imaging
• Near-Field Data
• The Variational Problem
• An Analytic Solution
• Convergence of the Power Series
• The Reconstruction Formula
• Error Estimates
• Numerical Results
• Far-Field Data
• The Reduced Problem
• Transformed Field Expansion
• The Reconstruction Formula
• A Nonlinear Correction Scheme
• Numerical Results
• Maxwellʼs Equations
• The Reduced Model Problem
• Transformed Field Expansion
• The Zerolh Order Term
• The First Order Term
• The Reconstruction Formula
• Numerical Results
• References
• Related Topics
• Method of Boundary Integral Equations
• Model Problems
• Quasi-periodic Greenʼs Function
• Boundary Integral Operators
• Boundary Integral Equations
• Integral Formulas for Rayleighʼs Coefficients
• Time-Domain Problems
• Problem Formulation
• Time-Domain Transparent Boundary Condition
• The Reduced Problem
• A Priori Estimates
• Nonlinear Gratings
• SHG Model
• TE-TE Polarization
• TM-TE Polarization
• Optimal Design Problems
• The Model Problem
• The Optimal Design Problem
• Homogenization of the Design Problem
• The Relaxed Problem
• References
• Appendices
• Index

This book addresses recent developments in mathematical analysis and computational methods for solving direct and inverse problems for Maxwell's equations in periodic structures. The fundamental importance of the fields is clear, since they are related to technology with significant applications in optics and electromagnetics. The book provides both introductory materials and in-depth discussion to the areas in diffractive optics that offer rich and challenging mathematical problems. It is also intended to convey up-to-date results to students and researchers in applied and computational mathematics, and engineering disciplines as well.
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This book honors the remarkable science and life of Shoucheng Zhang, a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, spintronics, superconductivity, and other fields. It contains the contributions displayed at the Shoucheng Zhang Memorial Workshop held on May 2-4, 2019 at Stanford University.
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• How to Use This Book
• Introduction
• Ecoregions of Texas
• Native Host Plant Species Accounts
• Wildflowers
• Trees
• Shrubs
• Vines
• Ferns and Grasses
• Appendix: Texas Moth and Native Host Plant Associations
• Glossary of Botanical Terms
• References
• Native Host Plant Index
• Moth Index

While day-flying butterflies have long captured the attention of nature enthusiasts, moth species outnumber butterfly species by about fifteen to one, with many being overlooked due to their mostly nocturnal habits. Although they are far less noticeable to us, moths are essential to many other species, including the plants they pollinate and the animals they nourish. In their caterpillar or larval form they provide a primary source of sustenance for birds, and as adults they feed everything from tiny bats to large mammals.Native plants are of utmost importance for moths, as they evolved alongside them, and they are the principal factor for dictating moth species range and distribution. Like butterflies, moths require native plant species they recognize in order to lay their eggs. This user-friendly, heavily illustrated follow-up to Lynne and Jim Weber's highly successful Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies describes over 100 native, larval host plants for moths in Texas. More than 150 moth species are illustrated in the book, both larval and adult phases, with one to two species for each of the larval host plants. Today there are about 4,700 species of moths recognized in Texas, with new species and their host plant associations still being discovered. Native Host Plants for Texas Moths will prove to be an informative introduction to this less widely known world of moths and their host plants, providing a better understanding of how to discover, support, and protect these important insects.
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"Optical nonlinearity emerges from nonlinear interaction of light with matter. In this chapter, the basic concept and formulation of light-matter interaction are discussed through a semiclassical approach. In this semiclassical treatment of the interaction between an optical field and a material, the behavior of the optical field is classically described by Maxwell's equations, but the state of the material is quantum mechanically described by a wave function that is governed by the Hamiltonian of the material"-- Provided by publisher.

• S. Bartels, S. Hertzog, Error Bounds for Discretized Optimal Transport and its Reliable Efficient Numerical Solution.- H. G. Bock, E. Kostina, M. Sauter, J. P. Schloeder, M. Schloeder, Numerical Methods for Diagnosis and Therapy Design of Cerebral Palsy by Bilevel Optimal Control of Constrained Biomechanical Multi-Body Systems.- S. Banholzer, B. Gebken, M. Dellnitz, S. Peitz, S. Volkwein, ROM-Based Multiobjective Optimization of Elliptic PDEs via Numerical Continuation.- S. Dempe, F. Harder, P. Mehlitz, G. Wachsmuth, Analysis and Solution Methods for Bilevel Optimal Control Problems.- M. Herrmann, R. Herzog, S. Schmidt, J. Vidal-Nunez, A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems.- R. Herzog, D. Knees, C. Meyer, M. Sievers, A. Stoetzner, S. Thomas, Rate-Independent Systems and Their Viscous Regularizations: Analysis, Simulation, and Optimal Control.- D. Ganhururu, M. Hintermuller, S.-M. Stengl, T. M. Surowiec, Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems with Partial Differential Operators: Theory, Algorithms, and Risk Aversion.- A. Alphonse, M. Hintermuller, C. N. Rautenberg, Stability and Sensitivity Analysis for Quasi-Variational Inequalities.- C. Grassle, M. Hintermuller, M.Hinze, T. Keil, Simulation and Control of a Nonsmooth Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes System with Variable Fluid Densities.- C. Kanzow, V. Karl, D.Steck, D. Wachsmuth, Safeguarded Augmented Lagrangian Methods in Banach Spaces.- M. Hahn, C. Kirches, P. Manns, S. Sager, C. Zeile, Decomposition and Approximation for PDE-Constrained Mixed-Integer Optimal Control.- C. Christof, C. Meyer, B. Schweizer, S. Turek, Strong Stationarity for Optimal Control of Variational Inequalities of the Second Kind.- A. Hehl, M. Mohammadi, I. Neitzel, W. Wollner, Optimizing Fracture Propagation Using a Phase-Field Approach.- A. Schiela, M. Stoecklein, Algorithms for Optimal Control of Elastic Contact Problems with Finite Strain.- O. Weiss, A. Walther, S.Schmidt, Algorithms based on Abs-Linearization for Nonsmooth Optimization with PDE Constraints.- V. Schulz, K.Welker, Shape Optimization for Variational Inequalities of Obstacle Type: Regularized and Unregularized Computational Approaches.- J. Becker, A.Schwartz, S.Steffensen, A. Thunen, Extensions of Nash Games in Finite and Infinite Dimensions with Applications.
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Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems. This edited volume aims to establish a theoretical and numerical foundation and develop new algorithmic paradigms for the treatment of non-smooth phenomena and associated parameter influences. Other goals include the realization and further advancement of these concepts in the context of robust and hierarchical optimization, partial differential games, and nonlinear partial differential complementarity problems, as well as their validation in the context of complex applications. Areas for which applications are considered include optimal control of multiphase fluids and of superconductors, image processing, thermoforming, and the formation of rivers and networks. Chapters are written by leading researchers and present results obtained in the first funding phase of the DFG Special Priority Program on Nonsmooth and Complementarity Based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization that ran from 2016 to 2019.
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"This textbook describes the equipment, observational techniques, and analysis used in the investigation of stellar photospheres. Now in its fourth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated and revised to be more accessible to students. New figures have been added to illustrate key concepts, while diagrams have been redrawn and refreshed throughout. The first half of the book develops the tools of analysis and the second half demonstrates how they can be applied. Topics covered include radiation transfer, models of stellar photospheres, spectroscopic equipment, how to observe stellar spectra, and techniques for measuring stellar temperatures, radii, surface gravities, chemical composition, velocity fields, and rotation rates. Up-to-date results for real stars are included. This textbook is for starting graduate students or advanced undergraduates; in addition to its use on university courses, it includes a wealth of reference material useful to researchers"-- Provided by publisher.

• Why quantum field theory?
• Quanta
• Developing free field theory
• Interactions
• Feynman rules
• Calculating
• Introduction to renormalization
• Path integrals
• A short guide to the rest of the story

A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to quantum field theory Quantum field theory is a powerful framework that extends quantum mechanics in ways that are essential in many modern applications. While it is the fundamental formalism for the study of many areas of physics, quantum field theory requires a different way of thinking, and many newcomers to the subject struggle with the transition from quantum mechanics. A Prelude to Quantum Field Theory introduces the key concepts of quantum field theory in a brief and accessible manner while never sacrificing mathematical rigor. The result is an easy-to-use textbook that distills the most general properties of the theory without overwhelming beginning students with more advanced applications. Bridges quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, emphasizing analogies and differences Emphasizes a "quantum field theoretical mindset" while maintaining mathematical rigor Obtains quantum fields as the continuum limit of a quantized system of many particles Highlights the correspondence between wave function-fundamental in quantum mechanics-and the formalism of second quantization used in quantum field theory Provides a step-by-step derivation of Feynman rules for the perturbative study of interacting theories Introduces students to renormalization, path integrals techniques, and more Discusses more modern topics like effective field theories Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students Proven in the classroom.
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Microbiology is the study of the invisible world of microorganisms, organisms so small that microscopes and other special equipment are needed to directly observe them. They play a crucial role in maintaining the Earth's atmosphere and help decompose organic matter. Microbiology plays a role in a great variety of areas, including optimizing soil for agriculture, developing preservatives and pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering, and developing climate change models. The discovery of microbes was instrumental in controlling infectious disease outbreaks that had, for centuries, wiped out entire populations.
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• Volume I. Préface
• Introduction
• Résumés section par section
• Réflexions Mathématiques
• Pursuing Stacks
• The Modelizing Story
• I. The take-off
• II. Test categories
• III. Homotopy structures
• IV. Asphericity structures
• Définition des principales notations
• Index des notations
• Index des principaux thèmes
• Index terminologie
• Index des personnes citées par Grothendieck
• Commentaires
• Glossaire des principaux termes
• Bibliographie.

• Prologue: Once upon a time in physics
• Information theory: Of passwords and probabilities
• Quantum physics: Everything at once, or, one thing at a time?
• Quantum computation: Everything at once
• Thermodynamics: "May I drive?"
• A fine merger: Thermodynamics, information theory, and quantum physics
• The physics of yesterday's tomorrow: The landscape of quantum steampunk
• Pedal to the metal: Quantum thermal machines
• Tick tock: Quantum clocks
• Unsteady as she goes: Fluctuation relations
• Entropy, energy, and a tiny possibility: One-shot thermodynamics
• Resource theories: A ha'penny of a quantum state
• The unseen kingdom: When quantum observables don't cooperate
• All over the map: Rounding out our tour
• Stepping off the map: Quantum steampunk crosses borders
• Epilogue: Where to next?: The future of quantum steampunk.

"The science-fiction genre known as steampunk juxtaposes futuristic technologies with Victorian settings. This fantasy is becoming reality at the intersection of two scientific fields-twenty-first-century quantum physics and nineteenth-century thermodynamics, or the study of energy-in a discipline known as quantum steampunk"-- Provided by publisher.

• A probabilistic averaging technique
• First constructions of Epsilon-nets
• Refining random samples
• Complexity of set systems
• Packings of set systems
• Epsilon-nets: combinatorial bounds
• Epsilon-nets: an algorithm
• Epsilon-nets: weighted case
• Epsilon-nets: convex sets
• VC-dimension of k-fold unions: basic case
• VC-dimension of k-fold unions: general case
• Epsilon-approximations: first bounds
• Epsilon-approximations: improved bounds
• Epsilon-approximations: relative case
• Epsilon-approximations: functional case
• A summary of known bounds

Understanding the behavior of basic sampling techniques and intrinsic geometric attributes of data is an invaluable skill that is in high demand for both graduate students and researchers in mathematics, machine learning, and theoretical computer science. The last ten years have seen significant progress in this area, with many open problems having been resolved during this time. These include optimal lower bounds for epsilon-nets for many geometric set systems, the use of shallow-cell complexity to unify proofs, simpler and more efficient algorithms, and the use of epsilon-approximations for construction of coresets, to name a few. This book presents a thorough treatment of these probabilistic, combinatorial, and geometric methods, as well as their combinatorial and algorithmic applications. It also revisits classical results, but with new and more elegant proofs. While mathematical maturity will certainly help in appreciating the ideas presented here, only a basic familiarity with discrete mathematics, probability, and combinatorics is required to understand the material.
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• Preface. Follow Your Nose
• Chapter 1. The Most Ancient and Fundamental Sense
• Chapter 2. Following the Bird's Nose
• Chapter 3. Deciphering the Secrets of Smells
• Chapter 4. What Does Sexy Smell Like?
• Chapter 5. Making Scents of Bacteria
• Chapter 6. Thanks for Sharing
• Chapter 7. MHC: Magical Happiness Controller?
• Chapter 8. Girl Power Afterword. A Breath of Fresh Air Acknowledgments Glossary References Index.
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The untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world. The puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar but widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell irked evolutionary biologist Danielle Whittaker. Exploring the science behind the myth led her on an unexpected quest investigating mysteries from how juncos win a fight to why cowbirds smell like cookies. In The Secret Perfume of Birds-part science, part intellectual history, and part memoir-Whittaker blends humor, clear writing, and a compelling narrative to describe how scent is important not just for birds but for all animals, including humans. Whittaker engagingly describes how emerging research has uncovered birds' ability to produce complex chemical signals that influence their behavior, including where they build nests, when they pick a fight, and why they fly away. Mate choice, or sexual selection-a still enigmatic aspect of many animals' lives-appears to be particularly influenced by smell. Whittaker's pioneering studies suggest that birds' sexy (and scary) signals are produced by symbiotic bacteria that manufacture scents in the oil that birds stroke on their feathers when preening. From tangerine-scented auklets to her beloved juncos, redolent of moss, birds from across the world feature in Whittaker's stories, but she also examines the smelly chemicals of all kinds of creatures, from iguanas and bees to monkeys and humans. Readers will enjoy a rare opportunity to witness the twisting roads scientific research can take, especially the challenging, hilarious, and occasionally dangerous realities of ornithology in the wild. The Secret Perfume of Birds will interest anyone looking to learn more about birds, about how animals and humans use our senses, and about why it can sometimes take a rebel scientist to change what we think we know for sure about the world-and ourselves.
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• Part I: Background.- Sequence Analysis.- The SeqAn library (version 1 & 2).- Modern C++.- Part II: SeqAn3.- The design of SeqAn3.- Library structure and small modules.- The Alphabet module.- The Range module.- The Input/Output module.- The Search module.- The Alignment module.- Part III: Lambda.- Lambda: an application built with SeqAn.- Part IV: Conclusion and appendix.- Conclusion.- Appendix.- References.
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This is a book about software engineering, bioinformatics, the C++ programming language and the SeqAn library. In the broadest sense, it will help the reader create better, faster and more reliable software by deepening their understanding of available tools, language features, techniques and design patterns. Every developer who previously worked with C++ will enjoy the in-depth chapter on important changes in the language from C++11 up to and including C++20. In contrast to many resources on Modern C++ that present new features only in small isolated examples, this book represents a more holistic approach: readers will understand the relevance of new features and how they interact in the context of a large software project and not just within a "toy example". Previous experience in creating software with C++ is highly recommended to fully appreciate these aspects. SeqAn3 is a new, re-designed software library. The conception and implementation process is detailed in this book, including a critical reflection on the previous versions of the library. This is particularly helpful to readers who are about to create a large software project themselves, or who are planning a major overhaul of an existing library or framework. While the focus of the book is clearly on software development and design, it also touches on various organisational and administrative aspects like licensing, dependency management and quality control.
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'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague being engulfed in a "gargantuan cetacean bum detonation" is a real gift to science communication ... thought-provoking' Guardian Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals for departed family members. Pinyon jays run collective creches. Rats will go out of their way to help a cold, wet stranger. Other lifestyles can seem intensely alien. Take locusts, surging over the land in their millions, unable to slow down for a moment because the hungry ranks behind will literally bite their legs off if they don't stay one step ahead (actually, you might know a few people like that). But no matter how offputting an animal might be, behavioural scientist Ashley Ward can usually find something worth celebrating. Travelling the world from the Serengeti to the frozen Antarctic ocean, with stops in the muddy fields and streams of his native northern Yorkshire, he brings his curious eye and infectious humour right down to their level. The result is a world-expanding, myth-busting tour of some of nature's greatest marvels, in delightfully broad-minded company.
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• The stardust revolution
• A star's fingerprint
• The origin of the elements
• The atoms of life
• Dust to diamonds
• The cosmos goes green
• Catching stardust
• Other worlds
• Darwin and the cosmos

Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined us with the rest of the cosmos as one planet among many orbiting the Sun. Three centuries later came the second great scientific revolution: the Darwinian Revolution. It removed us from a distinct, divine biological status to place us wholly in the ebb and flow of all terrestrial life. This book describes how we're in the midst of a third great scientific revolution, five centuries in the making: the Stardust Revolution. It is the merging of the once-disparate realms of astronomy and evolutionary biology, and of the Copernican and Darwinian Revolutions, placing life in a cosmic context. The Stardust Revolutiontakes readers on a grand journey that begins on the summit of California's Mount Wilson, where astronomers first realized that the universe is both expanding and evolving, to a radio telescope used to identify how organic molecules-the building blocks of life-are made by stars. It's an epic story told through a scientific cast that includes some of the twentieth century's greatest minds-including Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who discovered cosmic water-as well as the most ambitious scientific explorers of the twenty-first century, those racing to find another living planet. Today, an entirely new breed of scientists-astrobiologists and astrochemists-are taking the study of life into the space age. Astrobiologists study the origins, evolution, and distribution of life, not just on Earth, but in the universe. Stardust science is filling in the missing links in our evolutionary story, ones that extend our family tree back to the stars.
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"This compact yet informative Guide presents an accessible route through Special Relativity, taking a modern axiomatic and geometrical approach. It begins by explaining key concepts and introducing Einstein's postulates. The consequences of the postulates - length contraction and time dilation - are unravelled qualitatively and then quantitatively. These strands are then tied together using the mathematical framework of the Lorentz transformation, before applying these ideas to kinematics and dynamics. This volume demonstrates the essential simplicity of the core ideas of Special Relativity, while acknowledging the challenges of developing new intuitions and dealing with the apparent paradoxes that arise. A valuable supplementary resource for intermediate undergraduates, as well as independent learners with some technical background, the Guide includes numerous exercises with hints and notes provided online. It lays the foundations for further study in General Relativity, which is introduced briefly in an appendix"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A framework for human-wildlife coexistence in the Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 2: The ecohistory of the Maasai Ecosystem
• The human dimension of conservation
• Chapter 3: Spatial conservation and social-ecological systems: changes to local livelihoods, tenure, and wildlife conservation in Tanzania's Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 4: Political ecology of the Tarangire Chapter 5: A conservationist political ecology of the Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 6: Human livelihoods in a changing climate Chapter 7: Well-being and the Maasai of Simanjiro Chapter 8: Community attitudes towards conservation areas in the Maasai Steppe
• The wildlife dimension of conservation
• Chapter 9: Ungulate population dynamics in the Tarangire Chapter 10: Metapopulation dynamics of giraffes in the Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 11: The history of the Tarangire elephant Chapter 12: Large carnivores in the Tarangire Ecosystem
• Human-wildlife coexistence
• Chapter 13: Wildlife movements and landscape connectivity in the Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 14: Effects of roads on the distribution of wildlife, livestock, settlements and pollution Chapter 15: Human-carnivore conflicts and coexistence in the Tarangire Ecosystem Chapter 16: Funding conservation in the Anthropocene - Investing in nature-based climate solutions in Makame Wildlife Management Area Chapter 17: Education as a tool to live in harmony with natur Synthesis
• Chapter 18: Shaping human-wildlife coexistence: a synthesis .
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This edited volume summarizes multidisciplinary work on wildlife conservation in the Tarangire Ecosystem of northern Tanzania. By drawing together human-centered, wildlife-centered, and interdisciplinary research, this book contributes to furthering our understanding of the often complex mechanisms underlying human-wildlife interactions in dynamic landscapes. By synthesizing the wealth of knowledge generated by anthropologists, ecologists, conservationists, entrepreneurs, geographers, sociologists, and zoologists over the last decades, this book also highlights practicable and locally adapted solutions for shaping human-wildlife interactions towards coexistence. Readers will discover the reciprocal and often unexpected direct and indirect dynamics between people and wildlife. While boundaries (e.g. between people and wildlife, between protected and un-protected areas, and between different groups of people) are a common theme throughout the different chapters, this book stresses the commonalities, links, and synergies between seemingly disparate disciplines, opinions, and conservation approaches. The chapters are divided into clear sections, such as the human dimension, the wildlife dimension and human-wildlife interactions, representing a detailed summary of anthropological, ecological, and interdisciplinary research projects that have been conducted in the Tarangire Ecosystem over the last decades. Beyond, this work contributes to the debate about land-sharing versus land-sparing and provides an in-depth case study for understanding the complexities associated with human-wildlife coexistence in one of the few remaining ecosystems that supports migratory populations of large mammals. The topic of this book is particularly relevant for students, scholars, and practitioners who are interested in reconciling the needs of human populations with those of the environment in general and large mammal populations in particular. .
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• Notes on illustrations
• Vegetal transmutation / Eduardo Navarro & Michael Marder
• Before roots / Merlin Sheldrake
• Self-portrait as a mushroom in the damp and leafy forest / Abi Palmer
• Strange soil / Rebecca Tamás
• Plants know / Emanuele Coccia
• Wilder flowers / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
• Bitter barks: legacies and futures of the famous fever tree / Kim Walker & Nataly Allasi Canales
• How to study the mosses / Jessica J. Lee
• A planet without flowers / Surmana Roy
• Eco revenge / Susie Orbach
• Nature as health / Araceli Camargo
• What the wind can bring / Amanda Thomson
• Upirngasaq (Arctic spring) / Sheila Watt-Cloutier
• Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Acknowledgements
• About the authors
• Rooted Beings.

"We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But it's time to change our minds. New research shows that plants can think, plan - and may even have memories. We share our planet with beings whose potential we have only glimpsed. Featuring the writing of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Susie Orbach and Merlin Sheldrake, 'This Book is a Plant' will be your handbook to the new reality: showing you a pathway to completely reimagine your relationship with a different kind of natural world. Delve into a world of moss and fungi: Sheila Watt-Cloutier transports us to the Arctic Spring, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan discovers the pleasures of painting trees, and Rebecca Tam̀s puts roots down through earth and soil. 'This Book is a Plant' is made from paper: it was once part of a tree. But it's also a seed: the first shoots of a radical new way of seeing the world around you."--From Wellcome Collection's website. https://wellcomecollection.org/books/Ye6WiRAAAJMQXT6N

• Introduction: why protect nature?
• The myth of wild nature : bison vs. Siberian larch (and human interventions from reefs to pigeons)
• The beauties and the beast : bees vs. wasps (and the joys of parasites, microbes and marine sediment)
• New arrivals : nile tilapia vs. yabbies (and tales of tortoises, parakeets and other 'invasives')
• Noah's Ark : ko'ko' birds vs. the Guam Rail louse (and a look at seedbanks and modified chestnuts)
• Animal welfare : floreana mockingbird vs. rats (and a debate on culling, rewilding and kangaroos)
• A human landscape : yellowhammer vs. Scottish crossbill (and setting aside hadl the planet for nature)
• Fortress conservation : oceanic whitetip sharks vs. whitetip reef sharks (and the virtues of protected areas)
• Winners and losers : salmon vs. seals (and tales of trophy kills, badgers and spotted owls)
• Epilogue: shaping our future : reasons to be cheerful.

"A popular science title about conservation. What should we conserve and why in this age of extinctions? Who should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. As a society, we face choices which will determine the fate of Earth's estimated 8.7 million species, including humans. As wildlife declines, conservation needs to make trade-offs. But what should we conserve and why? Are we wrong to love bees and hate wasps? Are native species more valuable than newcomers (aka invasives)? Should some animals be culled to protect others, and what do we want the 'natural world' to look like? There are many surprising answers in Rebecca Nesbit's lively, stimulating book, which sows the seeds of a debate we urgently need to have"--Publisher's description.

"Description: The tallgrass prairie once stretched from Indiana to Kansas to Minnesota. Most of this land is now growing corn and soybeans. In To Find a Pasqueflower, Greg Hoch shows us that the tallgrass prairie is the most endangered ecosystem on the continent, but it's also an ecosystem that people can play an active role in and help restore. This book is written in the same style and voice as Hoch's three previous books on bird species. He blends history, culture, and science into a unified narrative of the tallgrass prairie, with an emphasis on humans' participation in its development and destruction. Over the last century and a half, people have driven the tallgrass prairie toward extinction. However, for millennia before that, the tallgrass prairie was largely maintained and expanded by people, primarily through their use of fire. Without fire and people, the tallgrass prairie would be forest. Indeed, because the ecosystem is so young, there never was a time when people weren't playing a strong role in managing both the vegetation and wildlife. There is no such thing as a "presettlement" prairie, Hoch reminds us. Tomorrow's prairies, both restorations and native remnants, will depend on the care and nurturing of conservationists and laypeople. The audience for this book is anyone who is interested in prairies, prairie restoration, or the history of science and ecology in the context of the tallgrass prairie. Hoch's is the book you read on winter evenings to get some perspective on and historical/scientific context for plans for the upcoming growing season. It gives the reader background and philosophical principles to think about before they decide on their next land management actions. Between each chapter is a short vignette that gives a more personal account of Hoch's experiences with the prairie and prairie conservation efforts. He reminds us that people and the prairie have always been intertwined, and helps us reimagine the role humans play in the natural world"-- Provided by publisher

• On risk
• On replication
• On going viral
• On private writing
• On HIV and Truvada
• On war / with Patrick Nathan
• On mentors
• On whiteness
• On activism and the archives
• On endings
• On evolution.

"A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish-with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings readers under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and to examine how viruses like HIV and COVID-19 have redefined daily life. Osmundson's buoyant prose builds on the work of the activists and thinkers at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS crisis and critical scholars like José Esteban Muñoz to navigate the intricacies of risk reduction, draw parallels between queer theory and hard science, and define what it really means to "go viral." This dazzling multidisciplinary collection offers novel insights on illness, sex, and collective responsibility. Virology is a critical warning, a necessary reflection, and a call for a better future"-- Provided by publisher.

"If you go out and simply look up, everything - from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way - appears to be pasted on the two-dimensional surface of the dome of the sky. Yet, the story of astronomy as a science is how, over time, astronomers have discovered the cosmos in depth. It is the story of the measurement of position and distance, and how our 2D view of the sky above us evolved into a more sophisticated comprehension of the real 3D depths of space. The distances to the stars were first measured using the parallax effect - that is, by comparing the view from opposite sides of the Earth's orbit. This is the same effect that your brain uses (comparing the views from your left and right eyes) to effortlessly give you depth perception. In this book, the authors present the most spectacular stereo images available in astronomy. (Stereo images are pairs of images of the same object, taken 6 months apart - which, as the Earth turns, means viewed from opposite sides of the Earth's orbit.) Each pair of stereo images, when viewed with a special stereo viewer (to be contained in the book itself), portrays the object in 3D. Each striking 3D picture is accompanied by a caption on the facing page, which tells the story and significance of the image in a mini-essay and points out its interesting features. Rather than a random assortment of astronomical wonders, the pictures are arranged in order of their distance from Earth. The book starts out with the Moon and moves outward through planets, stars, and galaxies, finally reaching the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the most distant thing we can see. The distances of objects are given in light travel times - from 1.3 light-seconds for the Moon to 13.8 billion light-years for the CMB. These distances, along with highlights of how each object was discovered and measured by astronomers, provide a framework and narrative thread for the book, which is carried forward from one caption to the next. At each stage of this outward journey, the reader will learn new and surprising facts about fascinating objects in the depths of space. The book also features an introductory Preface that outlines the story of the discovery of the universe in depth, describes the parallax effect, and provides the background and context for the forthcoming visual tour of the observable universe in 3D"-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Preface
• 1. A refresher on the integers
• 2. A first look at groups
• 3. Groups acting on sets
• 4. Basics on rings-mostly commutative
• 5. Primes and unique factorization
• 6. Algebraic field extensions
• 7. Applications of galois theory
• 8. Modules over principal ideal domains
• 9. Division algorithms
• Appendix A: Infinite sets.
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Through this book, upper undergraduate mathematics majors will master a challenging yet rewarding subject, and approach advanced studies in algebra, number theory and geometry with confidence. Groups, rings and fields are covered in depth with a strong emphasis on irreducible polynomials, a fresh approach to modules and linear algebra, a fresh take on Groebner theory, and a group theoretic treatment of Rejewski's deciphering of the Enigma machine. It includes a detailed treatment of the basics on finite groups, including Sylow theory and the structure of finite abelian groups. Galois theory and its applications to polynomial equations and geometric constructions are treated in depth. Those interested in computations will appreciate the novel treatment of division algorithms. This rigorous text 'gets to the point', focusing on concisely demonstrating the concept at hand, taking a 'definitions first, examples next' approach. Exercises reinforce the main ideas of the text and encourage students' creativity.
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• Part 1. The Adams ₂-term :
• 1. Minimal resolutions
• 2. The Davis-Mahowald spectral sequence
• 3. \Ext over (2)
• 4. \Ext with coefficients
• Part 2. The Adams differentials :
• 5. The Adams spectral sequence for \tmf
• 6. The Adams spectral sequence for \tmf/2
• 7. The Adams spectral sequence for \tmf/
• 8. The Adams spectral sequence for \tmf/
• Part 3. The abutment :
• 9. The homotopy groups of \tmf
• 10. Duality
• 11. The Adams spectral sequence for the sphere
• 12. Homotopy of some finite cell \tmf-modules
• 13. Odd primes
• Appendix A. Calculation of ᵣ(\tmf) for =3,4,5
• Appendix B. Calculation of ᵣ(\tmf/2) for =3,4,5
• Appendix C. Calculation of ᵣ(\tmf/ ) for =3,4
• Appendix D. Calculation of ᵣ(\tmf/ ) for =3,4,5

The connective topological modular forms spectrum, $tmf$, is in a sense initial among elliptic spectra, and as such is an important link between the homotopy groups of spheres and modular forms. A primary goal of this volume is to give a complete account, with full proofs, of the homotopy of $tmf$ and several $tmf$-module spectra by means of the classical Adams spectral sequence, thus verifying, correcting, and extending existing approaches. In the process, folklore results are made precise and generalized. Anderson and Brown-Comenetz duality, and the corresponding dualities in homotopy groups, are carefully proved. The volume also includes an account of the homotopy groups of spheres through degree 44, with complete proofs, except that the Adams conjecture is used without proof. Also presented are modern stable proofs of classical results which are hard to extract from the literature. Tools used in this book include a multiplicative spectral sequence generalizing a construction of Davis and Mahowald, and computer software which computes the cohomology of modules over the Steenrod algebra and products therein. Techniques from commutative algebra are used to make the calculation precise and finite. The $H$-infinity ring structure of the sphere and of $tmf$ are used to determine many differentials and relations.
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• New Horizons in Biology EssayMarjorie Grene's Essay
• Introduction
• PART 1: Adolf Portmann in the Light of History: Antecedents, Contemporaries, and Followers
• 1. Adolf Portmann (1897-1982): Life, Roots, and Thoughts
• 2. Portmann and Jung: Eranos Meetings and Discussions of the Instinct-archetyp Relations
• 3. Appearance and Self-presentation: Goethe's Influence on Adolf Portmann's View of Biology
• PART 2: Adolf Portmann as a Classic of Philosophical Anthropology
• 4. Die Grenze der Innerlichkeit. On Philosophical Background of Portmanns Theoretical Biology
• 5. Ptolemaic and Copernican Man
• PART 3: Adolf Portmann as an Inspirator for Biosemiotics
• 6. Living Form Beyond Survival: The Functional Explanation of Life and its Limits
• 7. If What is Searched for is Not There: A Mismatch of the Animals' Cognitive Schemata and Environmental Affordances
• 8. Animal Communication and Human Culture: Portmann's View on Anthropological Difference
• 9. Self-domestication as a Source of Human Neoteny: Towards a Portmannian Perspective
• PART 4: Adolf Portmann in the Light of Biological Aesthetics
• 10. Portmann's Aesthetic Morphology
• 11. Playing Appearances: Adolf Portmann's Legacy and Aesthetics.
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This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann's theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as "inwardness" and "self-presentation." Portmann's concepts of secondary altriciality and the social uterus have become foundational in philosophical anthropology, providing a benchmark of the difference between humans and animals. In its content, this book brings together two approaches: historical and philosophical analysis of Portmann's studies in the life sciences and application of Portmann's thought in the fields of biology, anthropology, and biosemiotics. Significant attention is also paid to the methodological implications of his intended reform of biology. Besides contributions from contemporary biologists, philosophers, and historians of science, this volume also includes a translation of an original essay by Portmann and a previously unpublished manuscript from his most remarkable English-speaking interpreter, philosopher Marjorie Grene. Portmann's conception of life is unique in its focus on the phenomenal appearance of organisms. Confronted with the enormous amount of scientific knowledge being produced today, it is even clearer than it was during Portmann's lifetime that although biologists employ physical and chemical methods, biology itself is not (only) physics and chemistry. These exact methods must be applied according to what has meaning for living beings. If biology seeks to understand organisms as autonomous agents, it needs to take display and the interpretation of appearances as basic characteristics of life. The topic of this book is significantly relevant to the disciplines of theoretical biology, philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and biosemiotics. The recent epigenetic turn in biology, acknowledging the interconnections between organismal development, morphology and communication, presents an opportunity to revisit Portmann's work and to reconsider and update his primary ideas in the contemporary context.
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This volume contains papers which were presented at the XV Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM) in December 2019 in Merida-Yucatan, Mexico. They represent well the wide set of topics on probability and statistics that was covered at this congress, and their high quality and variety illustrates the rich academic program of the conference.
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• 1. Evolution, adaptation, cognition, and behaviour: an introduction on minds, thought, and intelligence in animals.-
• 2. Other ways of seeing the world.-
• 3. Concept formation.-
• 4. Time and number.-
• 5. Cause and effect.-
• 6. Reasoning.-
• 7. Navigation.-
• 8. Social cognition and self-awareness.-
• 9. Social learning.-
• 10. Remembering.-
• 11. Animal communication in the wild.-
• 12. Language.-
• 13. Conclusions and comparisons.
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Thoroughly updated for its third edition with the latest research in the field, this innovative text delivers an apt and comprehensive introduction to the rich and complex world of animal behaviour and cognition. Discover pivotal case studies and experiments that have irrevocably shaped how we view the psychological and social lives of animals and discover such key cognitive topics as memory, communication and sensory perception. Projecting an insightful scope into the cognitive world of animals, from considering the use of tools in birds to the dance communication system of the honey bee, Wynne and Udell analyse and explain the importance of the observations and studies that have led to the greater understanding of how animals learn, perceive social relations, form concepts, experience time and navigate space. Written by two leading researchers in the field, including the author of the best-selling popular science book Dog is Love, this textbook is a complete resource for students of animal cognition, animal behaviour or comparative psychology.
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• Micro-Heterogeneity of Antibody Molecules / Yusuke Mimura, Radka Saldova, Yuka Mimura-Kimura, Pauline M. Rudd, and Roy Jefferis
• Analytical Methods
• Lectin and Liquid Chromatography-Based Methods for Immunoglobulin (G) Glycosylation Analysis / Tea Petrović and Irena Trbojević-Akmačić
• Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Immunoglobulin G N-Glycosylation Analysis / Siniša Habazin, Jerko Štambuk, Jelena Šimunović, Toma Keser, Genadij Razdorov, and Mislav Novokmet
• Capillary (Gel) Electrophoresis-Based Methods for Immunoglobulin (G) Glycosylation Analysis / Samanta Cajic, René Hennig, Robert Burock, and Erdmann Rapp
• Automation of Immunoglobulin Glycosylation Analysis / Jenifer L. Hendel, Richard A. Gardner, and Daniel I. R. Spencer
• Bioinformatics in Immunoglobulin Glycosylation Analysis / Frédérique Lisacek, Kathirvel Alagesan, Catherine Hayes, Steffen Lippold, and Noortje de Haan
• Biosynthesis and Regulation
• N-Glycan Biosynthesis : Basic Principles and Factors Affecting Its Outcome / Teemu Viinikangas, Elham Khosrowabadi, and Sakari Kellokumpu
• Genetic Regulation of Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation / Azra Frkatovic, Olga O. Zaytseva, and Lucija Klaric
• Epigenetics of Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation / Marija Klasić and Vlatka Zoldoš
• Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation Changes in Aging and Other Inflammatory Conditions / Fabio DallʼOlio and Nadia Malagolini
• Estrogen-Driven Changes in Immunoglobulin G Fc Glycosylation
• Kaitlyn A. Lagattuta and Peter A. Nigrovic
• Effector Functions and Diseases
• Sweet Rules : Linking Glycosylation to Antibody Function / Falk Nimmerjahn and Anja Werner
• Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation in Diseases / Marija Pezer
• Immunoglobulin A Glycosylation and Its Role in Disease / Alyssa L. Hansen, Colin Reily, Jan Novak, and Matthew B. Renfrow
• Applications
• Importance and Monitoring of Therapeutic Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation / Yusuke Mimura, Radka Saldova, Yuka Mimura-Kimura, Pauline M. Rudd, and Roy Jefferis
• Glycosylation of Plant-Produced Immunoglobulins / Kathrin Göritzer and Richard Strasser
• The Rapidly Expanding Nexus of Immunoglobulin G N-Glycomics, Suboptimal Health Status, and Precision Medicine / Alyce Russell and Wei Wang
• Glycosylation of Antigen-Specific Antibodies : Perspectives on Immunoglobulin G Glycosylation in Vaccination and Immunotherapy / Pranay Bharadwaj and Margaret E. Ackerman

This book summarizes recent advances in antibody glycosylation research. Covering major topics relevant for immunoglobulin glycosylation - analytical methods, biosynthesis and regulation, modulation of effector functions - it provides new perspectives for research and development in the field of therapeutic antibodies, biomarkers, vaccinations, and immunotherapy. Glycans attached to both variable and constant regions of antibodies are known to affect the antibody conformation, stability, and effector functions. Although it focuses on immunoglobulin G (IgG), the most explored antibody in this context, and unravels the natural phenomena resulting from the mixture of IgG glycovariants present in the human body, the book also discusses other classes of human immunoglobulins, as well as immunoglobulins produced in other species and production systems. Further, it reviews the glycoanalytical methods applied to antibodies and addresses a range of less commonly explored topics, such as automatization and bioinformatics aspects of high-throughput antibody glycosylation analysis. Lastly, the book highlights application areas ranging from the ones already benefitting from antibody glycoengineering (such as monoclonal antibody production), to those still in the research stages (such as exploration of antibody glycosylation as a clinical or biological age biomarker), and the potential use of antibody glycosylation in the optimization of vaccine production and immunization protocols. Summarizing the current knowledge on the broad topic of antibody glycosylation and its therapeutic and biomarker potential, this book will appeal to a wide biomedical readership in academia and industry alike. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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• Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle
• Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut
• Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest)
• From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America
• Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland
• One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves in the Australian rain forests
• Who ate my leaves? : tracking
• and discovering!
• Australian insects
• Dieback in the outback : juggling marriage and investigations of gum tree death in Australia's sheep country
• Hitting the glass canopy : how Strangler figs and Tall poppies taught me to survive as a woman in science
• Arbornauts for a week : citizen scientists explore the Amazon jungles
• Tiger tracks, tree leopards, and Vedippala fruits : exporting my toolkit to train arbornauts in India
• A treetop bioblitz : counting 1,659 species in Malysia's tropical forests in ten days
• Building trust between priests and arbornauts : saving the forests of Ethiopia, one church at a time
• Classrooms in the sky
• for everyone! : wheelchairs and water bears in the treetops
• Can we save our last, best forests? : promoting conservation through Mission Green

"Biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman-aka "Canopy Meg"-takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action"-- Provided by publisher
As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Lowman sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees, in order to be a better monitor. Over the years she planned one of the first treetop walkways, and helped create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. Here she launches us into the life and work of an ecologist and conservationist, and offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for actions that will make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. -- adapted from jacket

• Preface.- Regulator of hypergeometric fibrations.- Two recent p-adic approaches towards the (effective) Mordell conjecture.- The syntomic regulator for K2 of curves with arbitrary reduction.- Toric regulators.- Higher displays arising from filtered de Rham-Witt complexes.- Orbifold submersion and analytic torsions.- Analytic torsions, regulators and arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds.- A local re nement of the Adams-Riemann-Roch theorem in degree one.- Analytic torsion and dynamical flow: a survey on the Fried conjecture.- A survey of the additive dilogarithm.
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This book is an outgrowth of the conference "Regulators IV: An International Conference on Arithmetic L-functions and Differential Geometric Methods" that was held in Paris in May 2016. Gathering contributions by leading experts in the field ranging from original surveys to pure research articles, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of the front most developments in the field of regulator maps. Key topics covered are: * Additive polylogarithms * Analytic torsions * Chabauty-Kim theory * Local Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorems * Periods * Syntomic regulator The book contains contributions by M. Asakura, J. Balakrishnan, A. Besser, A. Best, F. Bianchi, O. Gregory, A. Langer, B. Lawrence, X. Ma, S. Muller, N. Otsubo, J. Raimbault, W. Raskin, D. Roessler, S. Shen, N. Triantafi llou, S. UEnver and J. Vonk.
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• Introduction
• Wave Equation in Domains with Edges
• Dirichlet Problem for the Wave Equation
• Function Spaces in a Wedge and in a Cone
• Problem in a Wedge : Problem with Parameter in a Cone : Existence of Solutions
• Weighted Combined Estimates
• Operators in the Scale of Weighted Spaces
• Asymptotics of Solutions Near the Vertex of a Cone or Near the Edge of a Wedge
• Explicit Formulas for the Coefficients in Asymptotics
• Problem in a Bounded Domain with Conical Points
• Problem in a Bounded Domain : Asymptotics of Solutions Near an Internal Point
• Neumann Problem for the Wave Equation
• Statement of the Problem : Preliminaries
• Weighted Combined Estimates for Solutions to Problem (2.138), (2.139)
• Operator of the Boundary Value Problem in a Cone
• Boundary Value Problem in a Cone in the Scale of Weighted Spaces
• Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions to the Problem in a Cone
• Problem in a Wedge
• Explicit Formulas for the Coefficients in Asymptotics
• Problem in a Bounded Domain with Conical Points
• Hyperbolic Systems in Domains with Conical Points
• Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem
• Combined Estimate for Solutions of the Problem in a Cone
• Operator of the Boundary Value Problem in a Cone : The Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions
• The Boundary Value Problem in a Cone in the Scale of Weighted Spaces
• Asymptotics of Solutions of the Problem in a Cone
• The Problem in a Wedge
• Neumann Problem
• The Model Problems in a Cone : A Strong Solution
• Weighted Estimates of Solutions of the Problem with Parameter in a Cone
• The Problem with Parameter in a Cone : A Scale of Weighted Spaces
• The Asymptotics of Solutions
• A Bounded Domain with a Conical Point
• Elastodynamics in Domains with Edges
• Introduction
• Homogeneous Energy Estimates on Solutions of Boundary Value Problems with Parameter in a Wedge
• Nonhomogeneous Energy Estimates for Solutions of Boundary Value Problems with Parameter in a Wedge
• Estimates on Solutions with Dirichlet Boundary Condition
• Estimates on Solutions with Neumann Boundary Condition
• Strong Solutions
• The Dirichlet Problem with Homogeneous Energy Estimate in a Wedge
• The Dirichlet Problem with Nonhomogeneous Energy Estimate in a Wedge
• The Neumann Problem in a Wedge
• Weighted a priori Estimates for Solutions of Boundary Value Problems with Parameter in a Wedge
• Estimates of Solutions with Dirichlet Boundary Condition
• Estimate on Solutions with Neumann Boundary Condition in the Case dimK > 2
• Estimates of Solutions with Neumann Boundary Condition for dimK=2
• Boundary Value Problem in a Cone in a Scale of Weighted Spaces
• On the Asymptotics of Solutions of Elliptic Problems in a Cone
• Strong Solutions
• The Operator of Problem (4.105), (4.106) in a Scale of Weighted Spaces
• Asymptotics of Solutions of the Problem in a Cone
• On the Time-Dependent Problem in a Wedge
• Energy Estimates on Solutions in a Bounded Domain
• Weighted Estimates in a Bounded Domain with Edge
• On Dynamic Maxwell System in Domains with Edges
• The Problems in a Cone and in a Bounded Domain with Conical Point
• Preliminaries : Statement of the Problem
• Operator Pencil
• A Global Energy Estimate
• A Combined Weighted Estimate
• The Operator of Problem in a Scale of Weighted Spaces
• The Asymptotics of Solutions
• Nonstationary Problem in the Cylinders ... and Q
• Explicit Formulas of ws, k and Ws, k for the Problem in K
• The Problem in a Wedge
• Preliminaries : Statement of the Problem
• Operator Pencil
• On Properties of the Operator A(D)
• Estimates of Solutions to Problems in a Wedge and in an Angle
• The Operators of Problems in K
• The Problem in the Cylinder T
• Explicit Formulas for the Coefficients in the Asymptotics of Solutions of the Problem in T
• Connection Between the Augmented and Non-augmented Maxwell Systems
• Schroedinger and Germain-Lagrange Equations in a Domain with Corners
• Schroedinger Equation
• Germain-Lagrange Equation with Simply Supported Boundary Conditions
• Combined Estimates
• Asymptotics of Solutions
• Germain-Lagrange Equation with Clamped Boundary Conditions
• Problem in the Wedge : Problem with Parameter in a Sector-Existence of Solutions
• Weighted Combined Estimates

• Operators in the Scale of Weighted Spaces
• Asymptotics of Solutions
• Problem in a Bounded Domain with Corners
• Asymptotics of Solutions to Wave Equation in Singularly Perturbed Domains
• Asymptotics of Solutions to Wave Equation in a Domain with Small Cavity
• Statement of Problem : Principal Term of Asymptotics
• Estimate of the Remainder
• Full Asymptotic Expansion
• Asymptotics of Solutions to Wave Equation in a Domain with "Smoothed" Conical Point
• Asymptotics of Solutions to Non-stationary Maxwell System in a Domain with Small Cavities
• Elliptic Extension of Maxwell System with Parameter ...
• Operator Pencil
• The First Limit Problem
• The Second Limit Problem
• Asymptotics Principal Term of Solution to Extended Problem
• Asymptotic Series for Solution to Extended Problem
• Asymptotics for Solutions to Non-extended Maxwell System
• Non-stationary Maxwell System
• Statement of Problem
• Preliminary Description of Asymptotics for Solutions to Extended Problem
• Principal Term of Asymptotics for Solutions to Problem (8.111), (8.112)
• Proof of Theorem 8.7.4
• Estimate of the Remainder ũ₁(·, ...) for ...
• Estimate of the Functions u(·, ...) and u₀(·, ...) for ...
• Return to Extended Hyperbolic Problem
• Return to Non-stationary Maxwell System Under Compatibility Conditions
• Asymptotic Series as ... 0 for Solutions to Hyperbolic Problem
• Estimates of Coefficients and Remainders in (8.88), (8.89)
• Estimate, Uniform with Respect to ..., of the Remainder ũN+1(·, ...) in the Expansion (8.100)
• Return to Non-extended Maxwell System (8.1) in (8.100), (8.101)
• Complete Asymptotic Expansion of Solutions to Problem (8.111), (8.112)
• Stationary Maxwell System with Impedance Boundary Conditions
• Asymptotics for Solutions to Problem (8.192), (8.193)
• Principal Term of Asymptotics
• Estimate of the Remainder
• Complete Asymptotic Expansion
• Return to the Non-extended Maxwell System
• Non-stationary Maxwell System with Impedance Boundary Conditions
• Generalization to the Case of a Domain with Several Small Cavities
• Bibliographical Sketch
• References

This book considers dynamic boundary value problems in domains with singularities of two types. The first type consists of "edges" of various dimensions on the boundary; in particular, polygons, cones, lenses, polyhedra are domains of this type. Singularities of the second type are "singularly perturbed edges" such as smoothed corners and edges and small holes. A domain with singularities of such type depends on a small parameter, whereas the boundary of the limit domain (as the parameter tends to zero) has usual edges, i.e. singularities of the first type. In the transition from the limit domain to the perturbed one, the boundary near a conical point or an edge becomes smooth, isolated singular points become small cavities, and so on. In an "irregular" domain with such singularities, problems of elastodynamics, electrodynamics and some other dynamic problems are discussed. The purpose is to describe the asymptotics of solutions near singularities of the boundary. The presented results and methods have a wide range of applications in mathematical physics and engineering. The book is addressed to specialists in mathematical physics, partial differential equations, and asymptotic methods.
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• 1. Introduction to Biological Concepts and Research. UNIT ONE: MOLECULES AND CELLS.
• 2. Life, Chemistry, and Water.
• 3. Biological Molecules: The Carbon Compounds of Life.
• 4. Cells.
• 5. Membranes and Transport.
• 6. Energy, Enzymes, and Biological Reactions.
• 7. Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical Energy.
• 8. Photosynthesis.
• 9. Cell Communication.
• 10. Cell Division and Mitosis. UNIT TWO: GENETICS.
• 11. Meiosis: The Cellular Basis of Sexual Reproduction.
• 12. Mendel, Genes, and Inheritance.
• 13. Genes, Chromosomes, and Human Genetics.
• 14. DNA Structure, Replication, and Organization.
• 15. Gene Expression: From DNA to Protein.
• 16. Regulation of Gene Expression.
• 17. Bacterial and Viral Genetics.
• 18. DNA Technology: Making and Using Genetically Altered Organisms, and Other Applications.
• 19. Genomes and Proteomes. UNIT THREE: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.
• 20. The Development of Evolutionary Thought.
• 21. Microevolution: Genetic Changes within Populations.
• 22. Speciation.
• 23. Paleobiology and Macroevolution.
• 24. Systematic Biology: Phylogeny and Classification. UNIT FOUR: BIODIVERSITY.
• 25. The Origin of Life.
• 26. Prokaryotes and Viruses.
• 27. Protists.
• 28. Seedless Plants.
• 29. Seed Plants.
• 30. Fungi.
• 31. Animal Phylogeny, Acoelomates, and Protostomes.
• 32. Deuterostomes: Vertebrates and Their Closest Relatives. UNIT FIVE: PLANT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.
• 33. The Plant Body.
• 34. Transport in Plants.
• 35. Plant Nutrition.
• 36. Reproduction and Development in Flowering Plants.
• 37. Plant Signals and Responses to the Environment. UNIT SIX: ANIMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.
• 38. Introduction to Animal Organization and Physiology.
• 39. Information Flow and the Neuron.
• 40. Nervous Systems.
• 41. Sensory Systems.
• 42. The Endocrine System.
• 43. Muscles, Bones, and Body Movements
• 44. The Circulatory System.
• 45. Defenses against Disease.
• 46. Gas Exchange: The Respiratory System.
• 47. Digestive Systems and Animal Nutrition.
• 48. Regulating the Internal Environment: Osmoregulation, Excretion, and Thermoregulation.
• 49. Animal Reproduction.
• 50. Animal Development. UNIT SEVEN: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR.
• 51. Ecology and the Biosphere.
• 52. Population Ecology.
• 53. Population Interactions and Community Ecology.
• 54. Ecosystems.
• 55. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology.
• 56. Animal Behavior.
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This updated Fifth Edition of BIOLOGY: THE DYNAMIC SCIENCE is a readable and understandable foundation for introductory biology students. Clarity of presentation, thoughtful organization, a logical and seamless flow of topics within chapters, and carefully designed illustrations are hallmarks of this text. The accompanying MindTap for Biology includes multimedia instruction, assessments, videos, personalized study tools and more. With this easy-to-read, engaging text, you'll leave your introductory biology course armed with intellectual skills that will enable you to evaluate future knowledge with a critical eye.
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• 1. Invitation to Biology. UNIT I: HOW CELLS WORK.
• 2. Molecules of Life.
• 3. Cell Structure.
• 4. Energy and Metabolism.
• 5. Photosynthesis.
• 6. Releasing Chemical Energy. UNIT II: GENETICS.
• 7. DNA Structure and Function.
• 8. Gene Expression and Control.
• 9. How Cells Reproduce.
• 10. Patterns of Inheritance.
• 11. Biotechnology. UNIT III: EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY.
• 12. Evidence of Evolution.
• 13. Processes of Evolution.
• 14. Prokaryotes, Protists, and Viruses.
• 15. Plants and Fungi.
• 16. Animal Evolution. UNIT IV: ECOLOGY.
• 17. Population Ecology.
• 18. Communities and Ecosystems.
• 19. The Biosphere and Human Effects. UNIT V: HOW ANIMALS WORK.
• 20. Animal Tissues and Organs.
• 21. How Animals Move.
• 22. Circulation and Respiration.
• 23. Immunity.
• 24. Digestion and Excretion.
• 25. Neural Control and the Senses.
• 26. Endocrine Control.
• 27. Reproduction and Development. UNITY VI: HOW PLANTS WORK.
• 28. Plant Form and Function.
• 29. Plant Reproduction and Development.
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Succeed in your biology course with this updated Sixth Edition of BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW WITH PHYSIOLOGY. Packed with real-world applications, the book offers chunked content in a clear, straightforward writing style, beautiful art and a variety of in-text learning tools. The accompanying MindTap for Biology includes multimedia instruction, assessments, videos, personalized study tools and more. With this easy-to-read, engaging text, you'll learn about biology from the perspective of issues relevant to your daily life.
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• 1. Introduction to Insect Flight.-
• 2. Flight a Retrospect a Brief Review.-
• 3. Aerodynamic Considerations.-
• 4. Flight Morphology and Flight Muscles.-
• 5. Types of Textures in Insect Wings and Classification.-
• 6. Theories on Hovering Flight of Insects-A Brief Review.-
• 7. Moment of Inertia and Mutilation Studies of Insect Wing.-
• 8. Chitinous Membranes and Analogous Materials.-
• 9. Aeroelasticity.-
• 10. Insect Migration.-
• 11. MAV Design Aspects and MEMS.
• 12. Bio-mimicking MAVs and Insect Flight.-
• 13. Navigation - A General Overview.-
• 14. WINGBEAT FREQUENCY THEORIES- A Mathematical Approach.-
• 15. Comments on Bio-physics of Insect Flight (Present and Future).- Bibliography.- Index.
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This book basically involves the study of flight parameters, wing beat frequency, moment of inertia, and wing movements for developing various aerodynamic forces which have been calculated. The book is intended for biologists, physicists, nanotechnologists, and aerospace engineers. Resilin, an elastic polymer (4 ) which is present at the base of insect, plays a major role in Neurogenic and Myogenic insect flyers and influences the physiology of flight muscles. Leading edge vortex (LEV) is a special feature of insect flight. Insect wings have stalling angle above 60 degrees as compared to a man-made aeroplane stalling angle which is 16 degree. Reynolds number, the knowledge of LEV, and detailed study of moment of inertia help in developing flapping flexible wings for micro-aerial-vehicles. This book serves as an interface between biologists and engineers interested to develop biomimicking micro-aerial-vehicles. The contents of this book is useful to researchers and professionals alike.
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• Introduction: The Genesis of Biosemiotic Criticism: How the Future "Presents" the Past
• 1. Modeling "Nature-Texts" in Literature and Literary Criticism
• 2. Evolutionary Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 3. Communicative Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 4. Hierarchical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 5. Significational Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
• 6. Analogical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism Conclusion: Hybrid Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism: A Prospectus.
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This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, "nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature" (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi's Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran's work on "modeling the environment in literature, " Edwina Taborsky's writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer's formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume. .
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• Introduction
• Biography of Egypt and the Middle East
• Migration
• How to use this book
• Glossary
• Species descriptions
• Checklist of the Birds
• References and future reading
• Index

"From the most trusted name in birding--beloved by millions, backyard enthusiast and expert alike--comes a completely new and definitive guide to the birds of North America: the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date work of its kind. Developed by the creators of the bestselling Audubon field guides, this master guide is the result of a collaboration between leading scientists, scholars, taxonomic and field experts, photo editors, and designers. An indispensable reference, it covers more than 800 species, with nearly 5,000 full-color photographs of birds in their natural habitat, often with four or five photographs for each species. For ease of use, the book includes a glossary and a robust index, and is arranged according to the American Ornithological Society's 2019 Birds of North and Middle America Checklist--with birds sorted by taxonomic orders and grouped by family, so that related species are presented together. Range maps, reflecting the impacts of climate change, accompany nearly every species, along with a physical description, information on voice, nesting, habitat, similar species, and an important new category on conservation status. Essays by leading scholars in each field provide holistic insights into the world of birds. Whether trying to determine which owl is interrupting your dinner, or tracking down all of the wood warblers that arrive in spring, readers will come to rely on this work of remarkable breadth, depth, and elegance. It is a must-have reference for the library of any birder, and is certain to become the number-one guide in the field"-- Provided by publisher

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An expert astronomer explains the phenomenon. Black holes. What even are they? In brief, a black hole is a region of spacetime so curved by gravity that even light cannot escape it. Peculiar objects, and notoriously difficult to understand, black holes are a fascinating fusion of the simple and the complex. Although the mathematics of their behavior is fiendishly difficult, we can explore the subject by starting with basic principles and straightforward thought experiments. Read on to uncover what's inside a black hole, how scientists discovered this amazing phenomenon, what to do if you find yourself falling into one, and-since no one is likely to turn up and help (you'll find out why)-what you need to do to escape! The author dispels common myths about black holes, provides guidance on how to win several Nobel prizes, and reveals the eventual fate of the Universe (maybe).

Botany: A Lab Manual, Seventh Edition is mapped to match Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition but is the perfect companion for any botany course. Packed with hands-on activities, it engages students and broadens their understanding of plant biology. Now in full color and a convenient lay-flat format, it provides detailed examination of plant structure, plant groups, genetics, classification, and more. Featuring additional case studies and image labeling activities, Botany: A Lab Manual is the clear choice for students digging into this exciting science.
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Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of plant science. No botany text better connects structure to function and does so with higher quality art and imagery. Combining strong scientific grounding with an approachable writing style, Botany teaches and engages. The essentials to a foundational understanding of plant science are all there, including structure, genetics and evolution, physiology and development, and ecology. Now in an updated seventh edition, the text continues to lead with the latest material on molecular biology, plant biotechnology, and the most recent coverage of taxonomy and phylogeny of plants to keep students on the forefront of cutting-edge botanical research. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Seventh Edition is the clear choice for students digging into this exciting science.
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• Introduction
• The Green Representation Formula
• Boundary Potentials and Calderón's Projector
• Boundary Integral Equations
• The Dirichlet Problem
• The Neumann Problem
• Exterior Problems
• The Exterior Dirichlet Problem
• The Exterior Neumann Problem
• Remarks
• Boundary Integral Equations
• The Helmholtz Equation
• Low Frequency Behaviour
• The Lamé System
• The Interior Displacement Problem
• The Interior Traction Problem
• Some Exterior Fundamental Problems
• The Incompressible Material
• The Stokes Equations
• Hydrodynamic Potentials
• The Stokes Boundary Value Problems
• The Incompressible Material : Revisited
• The Biharmonic Equation
• Calderón's Projector
• Boundary Value Problems and Boundary Integral Equations
• Remarks
• Representation Formulae
• Classical Function Spaces and Distributions
• Hadamard's Finite Part Integrals
• Local Coordinates
• Short Excursion to Elementary Differential Geometry
• Second Order Differential Operators in Divergence Form
• Distributional Derivatives and Abstract Green's Second Formula
• The Green Representation Formula
• Green's Representation Formulae in Local Coordinates
• Multilayer Potentials
• Direct Boundary Integral Equations
• Boundary Value Problems
• Transmission Problems
• Remarks
• Sobolev Spaces
• The Spaces Hs (...)
• The Trace Spaces Hs (...)
• Trace Spaces for Periodic Functions on a Smooth Curve in IR²
• Trace Spaces on Curved Polygons in IR²
• The Trace Spaces on an Open Surface
• Weighted Sobolev Spaces
• Function Spaces H ( div, ...) and H(curl, ...)
• Variational Formulations
• Partial Differential Equations of Second Order
• Interior Problems
• Exterior Problems
• Transmission Problems
• Abstract Existence Theorems for Variational Problems
• The Lax-Milgram Theorem
• The Fredholm-Nikolski Theorems
• Fredholm's Alternative
• The Riesz-Schauder and the Nikolski Theorems
• Fredholm's Alternative for Sesquilinear Forms
• Fredholm Operators
• Gårding's Inequality for Boundary Value Problems
• Gårding's Inequality for Second Order Strongly Elliptic Equations in ...
• The Stokes System
• Gårding's Inequality for Exterior Second Order Problems
• Gårding's Inequality for Second Order Transmission Problems
• Existence of Solutions to Boundary Value Problems
• Interior Boundary Value Problems
• Exterior Boundary Value Problems
• Transmission Problems
• Solution of Integral Equations via Boundary Value Problems
• The Generalized Representation Formula for Second Order Systems
• Continuity of Some Boundary Integral Operators
• Continuity Based on Finite Regions
• Continuity of Hydrodynamic Potentials
• The Equivalence Between Boundary Value Problems and Integral Equations
• Variational Formulation of Direct Boundary Integral Equations
• Positivity and Contraction of Boundary Integral Op-erators
• The Solvability of Direct Boundary Integral Equations
• Positivity of the Boundary Integral Operators of the Stokes System
• Partial Differential Equations of Higher Order
• Remarks
• Assumptions on ...
• Higher Regularity of Solutions
• Mixed Boundary Conditions and Crack Problem
• Electromagnetic Fields
• Introduction
• Maxwell Equations
• Constitutive Equations
• Time Harmonic Fields
• Plane waves
• Electromagnetic potentials
• Transmission and Boundary Conditions
• Boundary Value Problems
• Scattering problems
• Eddy current problems
• Uniqueness
• The cavity problem
• Exterior problems
• The transmission problem
• Representation Formulae
• Boundary Integral Equations for Electromagnetic fields
• The Calderon projector and the capacity operators
• Weak solutions for a fundamental problem
• Application of the Electromagnetic Potentials to Eddy Current Problems
• The ʼ(A, ...) : (A) - (...)ʼ formulation in the bounded domain
• The ʹ(A, ...) : (...)ʹ formulation in an unbounded domain
• Electric field in the dielectric domain ...
• Vector potentials : revisited
• Applications of boundary integral equations to scattering problems

• Scattering by a perfect electric conductor, EFIE and MFIE
• Scattering by a dielectric body
• Scattering by objects with impedance boundary conditions
• Introduction to Pseudodifferential Operators
• Basic Theory of Pseudodifferential Operators
• Elliptic Pseudodifferential Operators on ... IRn
• Systems of Pseudodifferential Operators
• Parametrix and Fundamental Solution
• Levi Functions for Scalar Elliptic Equations
• Levi Functions for Elliptic Systems
• Strong Ellipticity and Gårding's Inequality
• Review on Fundamental Solutions
• Local Fundamental Solutions
• Fundamental Solutions in IRn for Operators with Constant Coefficients
• Existing Fundamental Solutions in Applications
• Pseudodifferential Operators as Integral Operators
• Pseudohomogeneous Kernels
• Integral Operators as Pseudodifferential Operators of Negative Order
• Non-Negative Order Pseudodifferential Operators as Hadamard Finite Part Integral Operators
• Parity Conditions
• A Summary of the Relations between Kernels and Symbols
• Coordinate Changes and Pseudohomogeneous Kernels
• The Transformation of General Hadamard Finite Part Integral Operators under Change of Coordinates
• The Class of Invariant Hadamard Finite Part Integral Operators under Change of Coordinates
• Pseudodifferential and Boundary Integral Operators
• Pseudodifferential Operators on Boundary Manifolds
• Ellipticity on Boundary Manifolds
• Schwartz Kernels on Boundary Manifolds
• Boundary Operators Generated by Domain Pseudodifferential Operators
• Surface Potentials on the Plane IRn-1
• Pseudodifferential Operators with Symbols of Rational Type
• Surface Potentials on the Boundary Manifold ...
• Volume Potentials
• Strong Ellipticity and Fredholm Properties
• Strong Ellipticity of Boundary Problems and Integral Equations
• The Boundary Value and Transmission Problems
• The Associated Boundary Integral Equations of the First Kind
• The Transmission Problem and Gårding's inequality
• Remarks
• Integral Equations on ... IR³ Recast as Pseudodifferential Equations
• Newton Potential Operators for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
• Generalized Newton Potentials for the Helmholtz Equation
• The Newton Potential for the Lamé System
• The Newton Potential for the Stokes System
• Surface Potentials for Second Order Equations
• Strongly Elliptic Differential Equations
• Surface Potentials for the Helmholtz Equation
• Surface Potentials for the Lamé System
• Surface Potentials for the Stokes System
• Invariance of Boundary Pseudodifferential Operato
• The Hypersingular Boundary Integral Operators for the Helmholtz Equation
• The Hypersingular Operator for the Lamé System
• The Hypersingular Operator for the Stokes System
• Derivatives of Boundary Potentials
• Derivatives of the Solution to the Helmholtz Equation
• Computation of Stress and Strain on the Boundary for the Lamé System
• Remarks
• Boundary Integral Equations on Curves in IR²
• Fourier Series Representation of the Basic Operators
• The Fourier Series Representation of Periodic Operators A ...
• Ellipticity Conditions for Periodic Operators on ...
• Scalar Equations
• Systems of Equations
• Multiply Connected Domains
• Fourier Series Representation of some Particular Operators
• The Helmholtz Equation
• The Lamé System
• The Stokes System
• The Biharmonic Equation
• Remarks
• Remarks on Pseudodifferential Operators for Maxwell Equations
• Introduction
• Symbols of P and the corresponding Newton potentials
• Representation formulae
• Symbols of the Electromagnetic Boundary Potentials
• Symbols of boundary integral operators
• Symbols of the Capacity Operators
• Boundary Integral Operators for the Fundamental Boundary Value Problems
• Coerciveness and Strong Ellipticity
• Gårding's inequality for the sesquilinear form A in (6.12.23)
• Existence Theorem 6.12.6 revisited
• Concluding Remarks
• Local Coordinates
• Vector Field Identities, Integration Formulae
• References
• Index

This book is devoted to the mathematical foundation of boundary integral equations. The combination of ?nite element analysis on the boundary with these equations has led to very e?cient computational tools, the boundary element methods (see e.g., the authors [139] and Schanz and Steinbach (eds.) [267]). Although we do not deal with the boundary element discretizations in this book, the material presented here gives the mathematical foundation of these methods. In order to avoid over generalization we have con?ned ourselves to the treatment of elliptic boundary value problems. The central idea of eliminating the ?eld equations in the domain and - ducing boundary value problems to equivalent equations only on the bou- ary requires the knowledge of corresponding fundamental solutions, and this idea has a long history dating back to the work of Green [107] and Gauss [95, 96]. Today the resulting boundary integral equations still serve as a major tool for the analysis and construction of solutions to boundary value problems.
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This is the second edition of the book which has two additional new chapters on Maxwell's equations as well as a section on properties of solution spaces of Maxwell's equations and their trace spaces. These two new chapters, which summarize the most up-to-date results in the literature for the Maxwell's equations, are sufficient enough to serve as a self-contained introductory book on the modern mathematical theory of boundary integral equations in electromagnetics. The book now contains 12 chapters and is divided into two parts. The first six chapters present modern mathematical theory of boundary integral equations that arise in fundamental problems in continuum mechanics and electromagnetics based on the approach of variational formulations of the equations. The second six chapters present an introduction to basic classical theory of the pseudo-differential operators. The aforementioned corresponding boundary integral operators can now be recast as pseudo-differential operators. These serve as concrete examples that illustrate the basic ideas of how one may apply the theory of pseudo-differential operators and their calculus to obtain additional properties for the corresponding boundary integral operators. These two different approaches are complementary to each other. Both serve as the mathematical foundation of the boundary element methods, which have become extremely popular and efficient computational tools for boundary problems in applications. This book contains a wide spectrum of boundary integral equations arising in fundamental problems in continuum mechanics and electromagnetics. The book is a major scholarly contribution to the modern approaches of boundary integral equations, and should be accessible and useful to a large community of advanced graduate students and researchers in mathematics, physics, and engineering.
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• 1: Introduction
• 2: The ventral visual system
• 3: The dorsal visual system
• 4: The taste and flavour system
• 5: The olfactory system
• 6: The somatosensory system
• 7: The auditory system
• 8: The temporal cortex
• 9: The hippocampus, memory, and spatial function
• 10: The parietal cortex, spatial functions, and navigation
• 11: The orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, reward value, and emotion
• 12: The cingulate cortex
• 13: The motor cortical areas
• 14: The basal ganglia
• 15: Cerebellar cortex
• 16: The prefrontal cortex
• 17: Language and syntax in the brain
• 18: Noise in the cortex, stability, psychiatric disease, and aging
• 19: Computations by different types of brain, and by artificial neural systems Appendix A: Introduction to linear algebra for neural networks Appendix B: Neuronal network models Appendix C: Information theory, and neuronal encoding Appendix D: Simulation software for neuronal network models, and information analysis of neuronal encoding.
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In order to understand how the brain works, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems, and how those computations are performed. Brain Computations: What and How elucidates what is computed in different brain systems and describes current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systems computes. This approach has enormous potential for helping us understand ourselves better in health. Potential applications of this understanding are to the treatment of the brain in disease, as well as to artificial intelligence, which will benefit from knowledge of how the brain performs many of its extraordinarily impressive functions. Pioneering in its approach, Brain Computations: What and How will be of interest to all scientists interested in brain function and how the brain works, whether they are from neuroscience, or from medical sciences including neurology and psychiatry, or from the area of computational science including machine learning and artificial intelligence, or from areas such as theoretical physics.
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• Galois cohomology
• Quaternion algebras and conics
• Quaternions
• Conics
• The language of central simple algebras
• Central simple algebras
• Cyclic algebras
• C1-fields
• The language of Galois cohomology
• Group cohomology and Galois cohomology
• Galois descent
• Cohomological description of the Brauer group
• Cyclic algebras, cup-products and the Kummer sequence
• Galois cohomology of discretely valued fields
• Serre residue
• Extensions of rings
• Witt residue
• Compatibility of residues
• The Faddeev exact sequences
• Étale cohomology
• Topologies, sites, sheaves
• Grothendieck topologies
• Presheaves and sheaves
• Direct and inverse images
• Sheaves on the small étale site
• Cohomology
• Definition and basic properties
• Passing to the limit
• Étale and Galois cohomology
• Standard spectral sequences
• Cohomological purity
• Absolute purity with torsion coefficients
• The Gysin exact sequence
• Cohomology of henselian discrete valuation rings
• Gysin residue and functoriality
• H1 with coefficients Z and Gm
• The Picard group and the Picard scheme
• Excellent rings
• Brauer groups of schemes
• The Brauer-Azumaya group
• The Brauer Grothendieck group
• The Kummer exact sequence
• The Mayer-Vietoris exact sequence
• Passing to the reduced subscheme
• Comparing the two Brauer groups, I
• Localising elements of the Brauer group
• Going over to the generic point
• Schemes of dimension 1
• Regular schemes of dimension 1
• Singular schemes of dimension 1
• Purity for the Brauer group
• The Brauer group and finite morphisms
• Comparing the two Brauer groups, II
• The language of stacks
• Fibred categories
• Stacks
• Algebraic spaces and algebraic stacks
• Gerbes
• Twisted sheaves
• de Jong's proof of Gabber's theorem
• Varieties over a field
• The Picard group of a variety
• Picard variety
• Albanese variety and Albanese torsor
• The geometric Brauer group
• The Tate module of the Brauer group as a Galois representation
• Algebraic and transcendental Brauer groups
• The Picard group and the algebraic Brauer group
• Geometric interpretation of differentials
• Galois invariants of the geometric Brauer group
• Projective varieties with H1(X, Ox) = 0
• The Picard and Brauer groups of curves
• The Picard and Brauer groups of a product
• The Picard group of a product
• Topological Künneth formula in degrees 1 and 2
• Künneth formula for étale cohomology in degrees 1 and 2
• Birational invariance
• Affine and projective spaces
• The unramified Brauer group
• Examples of unramified classes
• Zero-cycles and the Brauer group
• Severi-Brauer varieties and hypersurfaces
• Severi-Brauer varieties
• Two applications of Severi-Brauer varieties
• Torsors for tori as birational models of Severi-Brauer varieties
• Morphisms to Severi-Brauer varieties
• Projective quadrics
• Some affine hypersurfaces
• Singular schemes and varieties
• The Brauer- Grothendieck group is not always a torsion group
• Isolated singularities
• Intersections of hypersurfaces
• Projective cones
• Singular curves and their desingularisation
• Some examples
• Varieties with a group action
• Tori
• Simply connected semisimple groups
• Theorems of Bogomolov and Saltman
• Homogeneous spaces over an arbitrary field
• Schemes over local rings and fields
• Split varieties and split fibres
• Split varieties
• Split fibres
• Quadrics over a discrete valuation ring
• Conics
• Quadric surfaces
• Schemes of dimension 2
• Smooth proper schemes over a henselian discrete valuation ring
• Varieties over a local field
• Evaluation at rational and closed points
• The index of a variety over a p-adic field
• Finiteness results for the Brauer group
• Unramified Brauer classes and evaluation at points
• Families of varieties
• The vertical Brauer group
• Families of split varieties
• Conic bundles
• Conic bundles over a curve
• Conic bundles over a complex surface
• Variations on the Artin-Mumford example
• Double covers
• The universal family of cyclic twists
• Rationality in a family
• The specialisation method
• Main theorem
• Irrational conic bundles with smooth ramification
• Quadric bundles over the complex plane
• A special quadric bundle
• Rationality is not deformation invariant
• The Brauer-Manin set and the formal lemma
• Number fields
• Primes and approximation
• Class field theory and the Brauer group
• Adeles and adelic points
• The Hasse principle and approximation
• The Brauer-Manin obstruction
• The Brauer-Manin set
• The structure of the Brauer-Manin set
• Examples of Brauer-Manin obstruction
• The Brauer-Manin set of a product
• Harari's formal lemma
• Rational points in the Brauer-Manin set
• Rationally connected varieties : a conjecture
• Schinzel's hypothesis and additive combinatorics
• Applications of Schinzel's hypothesis
• Additive combinatorics enters
• Hypothesis of Harpaz and Wittenberg
• Main steps of the proof of Theorem
• Fibrations with two non-split fibres and ramified descent
• Beyond the Brauer-Manin obstruction
• Insufficiency of the Brauer-Manin obstruction
• Quadric bundles over a curve, I
• Distinguished subsets of the adelic space
• Quadric bundles over a curve, II
• Curves, K3 surfaces, Enriques surfaces
• The Brauer-Manin obstruction for zero-cycles
• Local-to-global principles for zero-cycles
• From rational points to zero-cycles
• Salberger's method
• A fibration theorem for zero-cycles
• The Tate conjecture, abelian varieties and K3 surfaces
• Tate conjecture for divisors
• Abelian varieties
• Varieties dominated by products
• K3 surfaces
• Kuga- Satake variety
• Moduli spaces of K3 surfaces and Shimura varieties
• Tate conjecture and Brauer group of K3 surfaces
• Diagonal surfaces
• References
• Index
• List of symbols

• Galois Cohomology
• Étale Cohomology
• Brauer Groups of Schemes
• Comparison of the Two Brauer Groups, II
• Varieties Over a Field
• Birational Invariance
• Severi-Brauer Varieties and hypersurfaces
• Singular Schemes and Varieties
• Varieties with a Group Action
• Schemes Over Local Rings and Fields
• Families of Varieties
• Rationality in a Family
• The Brauer-Manin Set and the formal lemma
• Rational Points in the Brauer-Manin Set
• The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Zero-Cycles
• The Tate Conjecture, Abelian Varieties and K3 Surfaces

This monograph provides a systematic treatment of the Brauer group of schemes, from the foundational work of Grothendieck to recent applications in arithmetic and algebraic geometry. The importance of the cohomological Brauer group for applications to Diophantine equations and algebraic geometry was discovered soon after this group was introduced by Grothendieck. The Brauer-Manin obstruction plays a crucial role in the study of rational points on varieties over global fields. The birational invariance of the Brauer group was recently used in a novel way to establish the irrationality of many new classes of algebraic varieties. The book covers the vast theory underpinning these and other applications. Intended as an introduction to cohomological methods in algebraic geometry, most of the book is accessible to readers with a knowledge of algebra, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory at graduate level. Much of the more advanced material is not readily available in book form elsewhere; notably, de Jong's proof of Gabber's theorem, the specialisation method and applications of the Brauer group to rationality questions, an in-depth study of the Brauer-Manin obstruction, and proof of the finiteness theorem for the Brauer group of abelian varieties and K3 surfaces over finitely generated fields. The book surveys recent work but also gives detailed proofs of basic theorems, maintaining a balance between general theory and concrete examples. Over half a century after Grothendieck's foundational seminars on the topic, The Brauer-Grothendieck Group is a treatise that fills a longstanding gap in the literature, providing researchers, including research students, with a valuable reference on a central object of algebraic and arithmetic geometry.
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• UNIT 1:THE FOUNDATIONS OF MICROBIOLOGY
• 1. The Microbial World
• 2. Microbial Cell Structure and Function
• 3. Microbial Metabolism
• 4. Microbial Growth and Its Control
• 5. Viruses and Their Multiplication
• UNIT 2:MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
• 6. Microbial Information Flow and Protein Processing
• 7. Microbial Regulatory Systems
• 8. Molecular Aspects of Microbial Growth
• 9. Genetics of Bacteria and Archaea
• UNIT 3:GENOMICS, SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION
• 10. Microbial Genomics and Other Omics
• 11. Viral Genomics and Diversity
• 12. Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology
• 13. Microbial Evolution and Genome Dynamics
• UNIT 4:MICROBIAL DIVERSITY
• 14. Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms
• 15. Ecological Diversity of Bacteria
• 16. Phylogenetic Diversity of Bacteria
• 17. Phylogenetic Diversity of Archaea
• 18. Diversity of Microbial Eukarya
• UNIT 5:MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
• 19. Taking the Measure of Microbial Systems
• 20. Microbial Ecosystems
• 21. Nutrient Cycles
• 22. Microbiology of the Built Environment
• 23. Microbial Symbioses with Microbes, Plants, and Animals
• UNIT 6:MICROBE-HUMAN INTERACTIONS AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
• 24. Microbial Symbioses with Humans
• 25. Microbial Infection and Pathogenesis
• 26. Innate Immunity: Broadly Specific Host Defenses
• 27. Adaptive Immunity: Highly Specific Host Defenses
• 28. Immune Disorders and Antimicrobial Therapy
• UNIT 7:INFECTIOUS DISEASES
• 29. Diagnosing Infectious Diseases
• 30. Epidemiology and Public Health
• 31. Person-to-Person Bacterial and Viral Diseases
• 32. Vectorborne and Soilborne Bacterial and Viral Diseases
• 33. Waterborne and Foodborne Bacterial and Viral Diseases
• 34. Eukaryotic Pathogens: Fungi, Protozoa, and Helminths.
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Authoritative. Accurate. Accessible. Brock Biology of Microorganisms setsthe standard for accuracy, impeccable scholarship, a visually stunning art program, and the use of cutting-edge research to illustrate basic concepts. The textguides students through the six major themes of microbiology - Evolution, CellStructure and Function, Metabolic Pathways, Information Flow and Genetics, Microbial Systems, and the Impact of Microorganisms - as outlined by theAmerican Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education(ASMCUE). This robust and modern approach takes students through the genomicsrevolution and "omics" maze that has transformed microbiology and sharespowerful tools that microbiologists use to probe deeper and further into themicrobial world than ever before. The 16th Edition expands the extraordinary artprogram to ensure students experience microbiology as a visual science whileproviding an overview of the microbial world with basic principles thatstudents all need to master. Each chapter's theme focuses on a recent discoverythat connects students with the most current science and engages them withexciting, real-world topics.
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This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed. For courses in general microbiology. Authoritative. Accurate. Accessible Brock Biology of Microorganisms sets the standard for accuracy, impeccable scholarship, a visually stunning art program, and the use of cutting edge research to illustrate basic concepts. The text guides students through the six major themes of microbiology - Evolution, Cell Structure and Function, Metabolic Pathways, Information Flow and Genetics, Microbial Systems, and the Impact of Microorganisms - as outlined by the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education (ASMCUE). This robust and modern approach takes students through the genomics revolution and "omics" maze that has transformed microbiology and shares powerful tools that microbiologists use to probe deeper and further into the microbial world than ever before. The 16th Edition expands the extraordinary art program to ensure students experience microbiology as a visual science while providing an overview of the microbial world with basic principles that students all need to master. Each chapter's theme focuses on a recent discovery that connects students with the most current science and engages them with exciting, real-world topics. Now available with Modified Mastering Microbiology By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, Mastering personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Mastering Microbiology extends learning and provides students with a platform to practice, learn, and apply knowledge outside of the classroom. 0134874404 / 9780134874401 Brock Biology of Microorganisms [RENTAL EDITION], 16/e.
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• Differential equations, numerical methods and algebraic analysis
• Introduction
• Differential equations
• Examples of differential equations
• The Euler method
• Runge Kutta methods
• Multivalue methods
• B-series analysis of numerical methods
• Trees and forests
• Introduction to trees, graphs and forests
• Rooted trees and unrooted (free) trees
• Forests and trees
• Tree and forest spaces
• Functions of trees
• Trees, partitions and evolutions
• Trees and stumps
• Subtrees, supertrees and prunings
• Antipodes of trees and forests
• B-series and algebraic analysis
• Introduction
• Autonomous formulation and mappings
• Fréchet derivatives and Taylor series
• Elementary differentials and B-series
• B-series for flowh and impticith
• Elementary weights and the order of Runge-Kutta methods
• Elementary differentials based on Kronecker products
• Attainable values of elementary weights and differentials
• Composition of B-series
• Algebraic analysis and integration methods
• Introduction
• Integration methods
• Equivalence and reducibility of Runge-Kutta methods
• Equivalence and reducibility of integration methods
• Compositions of Runge-Kutta methods
• Compositions of integration methods
• The B-group and subgroups
• Linear operators on B* and B⁰
• B-series and Runge-Kutta methods
• Introduction
• Order analysis for scalar problems
• Stability of Runge-Kutta methods
• Explicit Runge-Kutta methods
• Attainable order of explicit methods
• Implicit Runge-Kutta methods
• Effective order methods
• B-series and multivalue methods
• Introduction
• Survey of linear multistep methods
• Motivations for general linear methods
• Formulation of general linear methods
• Order of general linear methods
• An algorithm for determining order
• B-series and geometric integration
• Introduction
• Hamiltonian and related problems
• Canonical and symplectic Runge-Kutta methods
• G-symplectic methods
• Derivation of a fourth order method
• Construction of a sixth order method
• Implementation
• Numerical simulations
• Energy preserving methods
• Answers to the exercises
• References
• Index

B-series, also known as Butcher series, are an algebraic tool for analysing solutions to ordinary differential equations, including approximate solutions. Through the formulation and manipulation of these series, properties of numerical methods can be assessed. Runge-Kutta methods, in particular, depend on B-series for a clean and elegant approach to the derivation of high order and efficient methods. However, the utility of B-series goes much further and opens a path to the design and construction of highly accurate and efficient multivalue methods. This book offers a self-contained introduction to B-series by a pioneer of the subject. After a preliminary chapter providing background on differential equations and numerical methods, a broad exposition of graphs and trees is presented. This is essential preparation for the third chapter, in which the main ideas of B-series are introduced and developed. In chapter four, algebraic aspects are further analysed in the context of integration methods, a generalization of Runge-Kutta methods to infinite index sets. Chapter five, on explicit and implicit Runge-Kutta methods, contrasts the B-series and classical approaches. Chapter six, on multivalue methods, gives a traditional review of linear multistep methods and expands this to general linear methods, for which the B-series approach is both natural and essential. The final chapter introduces some aspects of geometric integration, from a B-series point of view. Placing B-series at the centre of its most important applications makes this book an invaluable resource for scientists, engineers and mathematicians who depend on computational modelling, not to mention computational scientists who carry out research on numerical methods in differential equations. In addition to exercises with solutions and study notes, a number of open-ended projects are suggested. This combination makes the book ideal as a textbook for specialised courses on numerical methods for differential equations, as well as suitable for self-study.
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• Basic Notions
• Basic Definitions and Notions
• Slow-Fast Families of Vector Fields
• Examples
• Examples Where More Than One Admissible Expression Is Needed
• Normally Hyperbolic Versus Contact Points
• Local Invariants and Normal Forms
• Normal Forms Near Contact Points
• Invariants at Contact Points
• Example
• Remarks About Contact Points
• Invariants at Normally Hyperbolic Points
• The Slow Vector Field
• Definition
• Differential 1-Forms Along the Critical Curve
• Calculating Slow Vector Fields
• The Slow Vector Field Near Contact Points
• Slow Singularities
• Slow-Fast Cycles
• Definitions
• Elementary Slow-Fast Segments
• Regular Common Cycles
• Canard Cycles
• Ordinary Canard Cycles
• Transitory Cycles
• Singular Points in the Slow Vector Field : Transition to Singular Homoclinic
• Loss of Hyperbolicity on One of the Two Branches in a Layer
• Birth of Canard Cycles
• The Slow Divergence Integral
• Preliminaries
• Definition and Intrinsic Nature of Slow Divergence Integral
• Invariance of the Slow Divergence Integral Under Equivalences
• Slow Divergence Integral Near Singularities of the Slow Vector Field
• Slow Divergence Integral Near Contact Points
• Slow Divergence Integral of a Slow-Fast Cycle
• Examples
• Van der Pol
• Some Canards in Quartic Liénard Systems
• Zeros in the Slow Divergence Integral
• Breaking Mechanisms
• Normal Forms for Generic Jump Points and Generic Turning Points
• Generic Jump Breaking Mechanism
• Generic Hopf Breaking Mechanism
• Formal Power Series Methods for the Generic Hopf Breaking Mechanism
• Generic Breaking Mechanisms
• Other Breaking Mechanisms
• Examples
• Overview of Known Results
• Periodic Orbits Near Common Cycles
• Existence of Periodic Orbits Near Common Cycles
• Multiple Periodic Orbits Near Common Cycles
• Unicity of Periodic Orbits Near Unbalanced Canard Cycles
• Existence of Periodic Orbits Near Ordinary Canard Cycles
• Entry-Exit Relations
• Multiple Periodic Orbits in Layers
• Contact Points of Higher Singularity Order Or Contact Order
• Canard Cycles with Singularities in the Slow Vector Field
• Multi-Layer Canard Cycles
• Two-Layer Canard Cycles and Their Transitory Boundaries
• More Than Two Layers
• Birth of Canard Cycles
• Birth of Canards in Liénard Systems
• The Conjecture
• The Infinite Codimension Case
• Birth of Canard Cycles for the Slow-Fast Bogdanov-Takens Singularity
• Birth of Canard Cycles for More Degenerate Contact Points
• Technical Tools
• Blow-up of Contact Points
• Blow-up Procedure
• Blow-up of a Generic Jump Point
• Blow-up of Regular Contact Points
• The Saddle s
• The Saddles s
• The Semi-Hyperbolic Points
• Blow-up of a Generic Turning Point
• Blow-up of the Turning Point for ...
• Asymptotic Expansions in the Blow-up of the Hopf Point
• Global Aspects in the Blow-up of Contact Points
• Closed Form Expressions for the Orbits on the Blow-up Locus of the Generic Jump Point
• Passage Time in the Blow-up of Jump Points
• Separatrices on the Blow-up Locus of the Generic Jump Point
• Regular Splitting of Separatrices in the Blow-up of a Generic Turning Point
• Hopf Breaking Mechanism Revisited
• From the Hopf Bifurcation to the Polycycle and the Birth of Canards
• Center Manifolds
• ... Invariant Manifolds for Diffeomorphisms
• ... Invariant Manifolds for Vector Fields
• Smooth Invariant Manifolds in Slow-Fast Systems
• The Case of a Closed Critical Curve
• The Case of a Closed Critical Interval
• The Case of a Critical Semi-Hyperbolic Point
• The Case of Singularities of the Slow Vector Field
• Normal Forms
• Preliminaries
• The Path Method
• First Order Differential Equation
• Regular Points of the Critical Curve
• The Formal Solution
• The Semi-Formal Solution
• The Final Step
• Semi-Hyperbolic Points in the Blow-up Locus
• The Formal Solution
• The Semi-Formal Solution
• The Final Step
• Construction of Center Manifolds
• The Case of a Regular Interval
• The Case of a Semi-Hyperbolic Point
• Intervals Ending at a Semi-Hyperbolic Point
• Hyperbolic Saddle Points in the Blow-up Locus
• Resonant Monomial Vectors ...
• Formal Normal Form
• Reducing to a Differential Equation on Flat Functions
• Solving the Differential Equation on Flat Functions
• Smooth Functions on Admissible Monomials and More
• Admissible Monomials and Functions in Admissible Monomials
• Derivation
• Counting the Number of Roots
• Asymptotically Smooth Functions in Admissible Monomials
• Functions of Exponentially Flat Type
• Some Basic Properties of the Exponential Term
• Coherence of Definition 11.9
• Composition of Families of Diffeomorphisms of Exponentially Flat Type
• Results and Open Problems
• Local Transition Maps
• Transition Along an Arc of Regular Points of the Slow Dynamics

• Transition in a Normal Form Chart
• General Expressions for Regular Transitions
• Properties of Transitions Along Regular Arcs
• Transition Near Semi-Hyperbolic Points
• Equation for the Transition Component Z̃
• A Simple Case
• Preparing the Function G
• Estimates for the Integral I in (12.8)
• Theorems for the Transition Map
• Transitions Near Particular Semi-Hyperbolic Points
• Transition Near Hyperbolic Saddle Points
• The Transition Map in the Case p = 1
• Transition in the General Case (for ...)
• The Saddle Points of Chap. 8
• Transition at a Jump Point
• Transition Along an Attracting Sequence
• Transition Along a Hopf Attracting Sequence
• Ordinary Canard Cycles
• Introduction
• Basic Settings
• Difference Functions
• Tubular Neighborhood of the Canard Cycle
• Results of Bifurcation
• A Mild Preparation for Eq. (13.11)
• The Canard Phenomenon
• Formal Power Series Expansion of the Canard Surface for Generic Hopf Breaking Mechanisms
• Canard Explosion, Flying Canard, and Sitting Canards
• Counting the Limit Cycles over a Whole Layer Strip
• Limit Cycles and Bifurcations in a Rescaled Layer
• Limit Cycles Outside the Rescaled Layer
• Transitory Canard Cycles With Slow-fast Passage Through a Jump Point
• Statement of the Results
• Behavior of the Slow Divergence Integral
• The Slow Divergence Integrals J, K, and L
• Slow Divergence Integrals of Slow-fast Cycles
• Local Study Near the Jump Point q
• Blowing Up the Jump Point
• Transition at the Saddle Point s
• Transition at the Semi-Hyperbolic Point q1
• Transition at the Semi-Hyperbolic Point q2
• Transition Maps Outside the Jump Point q
• Cyclicity of the Transitory Canard Cycle ...
• The Displacement Function ...
• Structure of the Transition Maps Toward ...
• Covering of the Section C
• Unique Maximum Properties
• Proof of Theorem 14.1
• Limit Cycles and their Unfoldings
• Saddle-Node Bifurcation of Limit Cycles in Case I
• Proof of Theorem 14.5
• Transitory Canard Cycles with Fast-fast Passage Through a Jump Point
• Introduction
• Blow-up of the Jump Point
• Transitions Near the Singular Points of ...
• Transition at the Saddle Points ...
• Transition at the Semi-Hyperbolic Point q
• Regular Transitions for ... Along the Blow-up Locus
• Regular Transition Near the Interior of the Blow-up Locus
• Regular Transition Near the Boundary of the Blow-up Locus
• Cyclicity of the Canard Cycle
• The Displacement Function ...
• Normal Form for Transitions Toward ...
• From Global to Local Displacement Functions
• Proof of Theorem 15.2 for ...
• Proof of Theorem 15.3 for ...
• Proof of Theorem 15.3 for ...
• Proof of the Main Theorem
• Outlook and Open Problems
• Introduction
• Codimension
• Codimension of Contact Points
• Codimension of Jumps Between Contact Points
• Codimension of Singularities of the Slow Vector Field
• Codimension of a Slow-fast Unfolding
• Codimension of a Canard Cycle
• Desingularization of Unfoldings
• Generic Unfoldings
• Existence of Versal Unfoldings
• Blowing Up of Versal Unfoldings
• Analytic Slow-fast Unfoldings of Infinite Codimension
• The Question of Finite Cyclicity for Canard Cycles
• Disorienting Canard Cycles
• Recapitulation of Open Problems and Questions
• Questions About Codimension
• Questions About Versal Unfoldings and their Desingularization
• Questions About Asymptotic Properties
• Questions About Analytic Unfoldings and Canard Cycles
• Questions About the Finite Cyclicity Conjecture
• Questions About Disorienting Canard Cycles
• References
• Index

• Part I. Basic Notions. 1 Basic Definitions and Notions
• 2 Local Invariants and Normal Forms
• 3 The Slow Vector Field
• 4 Slow-Fast Cycles
• 5 The Slow Divergence Integral
• 6 Breaking Mechanisms
• 7 Overview of Known Results
• Part II. Technical Tools. 8 Blow-Up of Contact Points
• 9 Center Manifolds
• 10 Normal Forms
• 11 Smooth Functions on Admissible Monomials and More
• 12 Local Transition Maps
• Part III. Results and Open Problems. 13 Ordinary Canard Cycles
• 14 Transitory Canard Cycles with Slow-Fast Passage Through a Jump Point
• 15 Transitory Canard Cycles with Fast-Fast Passage Through a Jump Point
• 16 Outlook and Open Problems
• Index
• References

This book offers the first systematic account of canard cycles, an intriguing phenomenon in the study of ordinary differential equations. The canard cycles are treated in the general context of slow-fast families of two-dimensional vector fields. The central question of controlling the limit cycles is addressed in detail and strong results are presented with complete proofs. In particular, the book provides a detailed study of the structure of the transitions near the critical set of non-isolated singularities. This leads to precise results on the limit cycles and their bifurcations, including the so-called canard phenomenon and canard explosion. The book also provides a solid basis for the use of asymptotic techniques. It gives a clear understanding of notions like inner and outer solutions, describing their relation and precise structure. The first part of the book provides a thorough introduction to slow-fast systems, suitable for graduate students. The second and third parts will be of interest to both pure mathematicians working on theoretical questions such as Hilbert's 16th problem, as well as to a wide range of applied mathematicians looking for a detailed understanding of two-scale models found in electrical circuits, population dynamics, ecological models, cellular (FitzHugh-Nagumo) models, epidemiological models, chemical reactions, mechanical oscillators with friction, climate models, and many other models with tipping points.
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• 1: Introduction to cell signalling 2: Signals and their perception 3: Modifications to proteins that control cell signalling 4: Intracellular signals 5: Cell signalling disorders
• cancers and apoptosis 6: Stress responses and the changing cell environment 7: Future challenges and perspectives in cell signalling.
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Written primarily for students embarking on an undergraduate bioscience degree, this primer provides a clear introduction to the main aspects of cell signalling in biological systems, demystifying the subject for those new to the field. The primer provides an overview of cell signalling and highlights its importance in all organisms, before going on to describe the main components of cell signalling and examples of signal transduction pathways. The discussion then progresses on to key physiological conditions in which cell signalling has an instrumental role: cancer, apoptosis and diabetes. After getting to grips with the fundamentals of the subject, Cell Signalling opens a discussion on the future of the discipline, including how manipulation of cell signalling pathways is seen as the biggest target for the pharmaceutical industry, and how crop diseases, plant survival during stress, and post-harvest storage are all influenced by cell signalling pathways. Cell Signalling is supported by online resources and is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The online resources include: For students: - Self-test questions For registered adopters of the book: * Figures from the book, available to download.
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• A view of the endoplasmic reticulum through the calreticulin lens / Luis B. Agellon and Marek Michalak
• Structural analysis of calreticulin, an endoplasmic reticulum-resident molecular chaperone / Gunnar Houen [and 4 others]
• The role of endoplasmic reticulum chaperones in protein folding and quality control / Benjamin M. Adams [and 3 others]
• Proteins interacting with STIM1 and store-operated Ca²⁺ entry / Wen-An Wang and Nicolas Demaurex
• Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and ER-phagy / Marisa Loi, Alessandro Marazza, and Maurizio Molinari
• Defects in protein folding and/or quality control cause protein aggregation in the endoplasmic reticulum / Juthakorn Poothong, Insook Jang, and Randal J. Kaufman
• Roles of calreticulin in protein folding, immunity, calcium signaling and cell transformation / Arunkumar Venkatesan, Leslie S. Satin, and Malini Raghavan
• Impact of calreticulin and its mutants on endoplasmic reticulum function in health and disease / Najla Arshad and Peter Cresswell
• Cancer biology of the endoplasmic reticulum lectin chaperones calreticulin, calnexin and PDIA3/ERp57 / Shing Tat Theodore Lam and Chinten James Lim
• Maintenance of endoplasmic reticulum protein homeostasis in cancer: friend or foe / Mari McMahon, Afshin Samali, and Eric Chevet
• Ip3 receptor biology and endoplasmic reticulum calcium dynamics in cancer / Jan B. Parys, Geerg Bultynck, and Tim Vervliet
• Disruption of endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis in age-related nervous system disorders / Danilo B. Medinas, Younis Hazari, and Claudio Hetz
• Endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis and stress responses in caenorhabditis elegans / Sun-Kyung Lee
• Tardigrada: an emerging animal model to study the endoplasmic reticulum stress response to environmental extremes / Łukasz Kaczmarek

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the associated ER proteins, it discusses their structure, function and signaling mechanisms in the cell and their role in disease. This book also offers insights into the practical aspects of research and demonstrates the use of non-mammalian models to study the structure and function of the ER. Written by leading experts in the field, the book enables readers to gain a thorough understanding of current ER biology. It is intended for scientists and clinical researchers working on the endoplasmic reticulum in all its various roles and facets in health and disease. .
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• Basic Plant Chemistry Concepts
• The Molecular Building Blocks
• Perfumes, Volatile Plant Scents
• Colorful Plant Pigments
• Poisons and Other Plant Defenses
• Plants and People.
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Why are some plants so important to humans? The chemistry of the plants has a lot to do with it! The plant world offers a fascinating way to explore basic chemistry concepts. The spectacular variety of colors, fragrances and other characteristics of plants are driven by the seemingly subtle differences in the structure and properties of organic compounds. Well-known flowers, like daffodils and narcissus, are examples of plants that provide ample perfumes, pigments and poisons as part of their intricate and fascinating chemistry. This second edition retains it accessibility, expanding on the first edition and combining scientific concepts with colorful pictures and stories in simple, clear language. Readers will find introductory information on some chemistry and plant biology. This prepares them for the more complex chemical structures that compose plant substances, many of them of vital importance to humans. The final chapter has been expanded, in particular the sections on medicinal plants and on genetic modification. The end-of chapter references have been thoroughly updated with articles, books, and relevant websites that illustrate the topics discussed. Dr Margareta Sequin, an organic chemist and plant enthusiast, has taught popular undergraduate college level courses on plant chemistry to non-chemistry majors and has led numerous field seminars for the general public. The comments and questions from these audiences and the topics that especially captured people's interest have greatly shaped this book. The Chemistry of Plants addresses an audience with little previous chemistry knowledge, but will appeal to the expert reader looking for an understanding of more complex plant compounds. It can be used both as a text to introduce organic chemistry as it relates to plants and as a text of reference for more advanced readers.
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• Introduction. Into the breach
• Part one. The origins of life. Hilo ; The gene ; DNA ; The education of a biochemist ; The human genome ; RNA ; Twists and folds ; Berkeley
• Part two. CRISPR. Clustered repeats ; The Free Speech Movement Café ; Jumping in ; The yogurt makers ; Genentech ; The lab ; Caribou ; Emmanuelle Charpentier ; CRISPR-Cas9 ; Science, 2012 ; Dueling presentations
• Part three. Gene editing. A human tool ; The race ; Feng Zhang ; George Church ; Zhang tackles CRISPR ; Doudna joins the race ; Photo finish ; Doudna's final sprint ; Forming companies ; Mon amie ; The heroes of CRISPR ; Patents
• Part four. CRISPR in action. Therapies ; Biohacking ; DARPA and anti-CRISPR
• Part five. Public scientist. Rules of the road ; Doudna steps in
• Part six. CRISPR babies. He Jiankui ; The Hong Kong summit ; Acceptance
• Part seven. Moral questions. Red lines ; Thought experiments ; Who should decide? ; Doudna's ethical journey
• Part eight. Dispatches from the front. Quebec ; I learn to edit ; Watson revisited ; Doudna pays a visit
• Part nine. Coronavirus. Call to arms ; Testing ; The Berkeley lab ; Mammoth and Sherlock ; Coronavirus tests ; Vaccines ; CRISPR cures ; Cold Spring Harbor virtual ; The Nobel Prize

The bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children. In the spring of 2012, the Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. The development of CRISPR and the war against coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been an information-technology era, based on the microchip, the computer, and the internet. Now we are entering an even more momentous era, a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be surpassed by those who study the code of life. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses and eliminate dreaded disorders? What a wonderful boon that would be! Right? And what about preventing congenital deafness or blindness? Or being very short? Or being depressed? Hmmm...How should we think about that? Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the IQ or height or memory or muscles of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral and policy issues. Her life story illustrates that the key to innovation is connecting basic science to our everyday lives-moving discoveries from our labs to our bedsides-in ways that respect our moral values. It's a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
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The ultimate reference book for birdwatchers and bird lovers-the first single-volume book to illustrate all of the world's bird species This is a book like no other-the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages-including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet-and that will be cherished by any birder. Illustrates more than 10,700 species, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List, and including all major adult plumages for each Features more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates by some of the world's leading bird artists Presents detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages-including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution.
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This field guide features diagnostic illustrations, classification notes, selected reading and a thorough index. The book is designed to be a comprehensive yet compact and portable tool for reptile identification anywhere in Australia

• The characterization of homotopy types
• Some calculations of L-groups
• Classical surgery theory
• Topological surgery and surgery spaces
• Applications of the assembly map
• Beyond characteristic classes
• Flat and almost flat manifolds
• Other surgery theories
• Appendix A: Some background in algebraic topology
• Appendix B: Geometric preliminaries

An advanced treatment of surgery theory for graduate students and researchers Surgery theory, a subfield of geometric topology, is the study of the classifications of manifolds. A Course on Surgery Theory offers a modern look at this important mathematical discipline and some of its applications. In this book, Stanley Chang and Shmuel Weinberger explain some of the triumphs of surgery theory during the past three decades, from both an algebraic and geometric point of view. They also provide an extensive treatment of basic ideas, main theorems, active applications, and recent literature. The authors methodically cover all aspects of surgery theory, connecting it to other relevant areas of mathematics, including geometry, homotopy theory, analysis, and algebra. Later chapters are self-contained, so readers can study them directly based on topic interest. Of significant use to high-dimensional topologists and researchers in noncommutative geometry and algebraic K-theory, A Course on Surgery Theory serves as an important resource for the mathematics community.
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• Introduction An isometric action of the Cremona group on an infinite dimensional hyperbolic space Algebraic subgroups of the Cremona group Generators and relations of the Cremona group Algebraic properties of the Cremona group Finite subgroups of the Cremona group Uncountable subgroups of the Cremona group Consequences of the action of the Cremona group of an infinite dimensional hyperbolic space Big subgroups of autmorphisms ``of positive entropy'' Bibliography Index Index notations.
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The goal of this book is to present a portrait of the $n$-dimensional Cremona group with an emphasis on the 2-dimensional case. After recalling some crucial tools, the book describes a naturally defined infinite dimensional hyperbolic space on which the Cremona group acts. This space plays a fundamental role in the study of Cremona groups, as it allows one to apply tools from geometric group theory to explore properties of the subgroups of the Cremona group as well as the degree growth and dynamical behavior of birational transformations. The book describes natural topologies on the Cremona group, codifies the notion of algebraic subgroups of the Cremona groups and finishes with a chapter on the dynamics of their actions. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry who are interested in birational geometry and its interactions with geometric group theory and dynamical systems.
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• 1. Cubic Forms Over Local Fields. -
• 2. Waring's Problem for Cubes. -
• 3. Cubic Forms via Weyl Differencing. -
• 4. Norm Forms Over Number Fields. -
• 5. Diagonal Cubic Forms Over Function Fields. -
• 6. Lines on Cubic Hypersurfaces.
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The Hardy-Littlewood circle method was invented over a century ago to study integer solutions to special Diophantine equations, but it has since proven to be one of the most successful all-purpose tools available to number theorists. Not only is it capable of handling remarkably general systems of polynomial equations defined over arbitrary global fields, but it can also shed light on the space of rational curves that lie on algebraic varieties. This book, in which the arithmetic of cubic polynomials takes centre stage, is aimed at bringing beginning graduate students into contact with some of the many facets of the circle method, both classical and modern. This monograph is the winner of the 2021 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, a prestigious award for books of expository nature presenting the latest developments in an active area of research in mathematics.
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• Contents Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction jeffrey bussolini Introduction Part I. The Ethological Debates
• 1. The Theoretical Context: The Two Paradoxes of the Theory of Evolution Altruism Sexual Selection
• 2. Rituals Between Altruism and Reproductive Function Part II. The Dance of the Babbler
• 3. The Arabian Babbler
• 4. Models and Methods: Outline of a Field Study
• 5. Narratives and Metaphors
• 6. Models and Fictions Conclusions Notes.
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A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon them? The biologist Amotz Zahavi stakes the controversial claim that Arabian babblers are said to raise themselves up each day to dance and tend to one another in the early morning sun. Such a claim will provoke the interest and intellectual curiosity of a young philosopher and psychologist recognizing that the best way for her to observe the practices of scientists at work is to join them on their terrain. Embedding herself in the field alongside ethologists in the Negev desert, Vinciane Despret deftly depicts and reflects on the process by which scientists construct their theories within the milieu of the animals they study. Along the way, and not without humor, Despret analyzes a variety of theories posited by many well-known thinkers, including Zahavi, who devoted his life to the interpretation, companionship, and conservation of the Arabian babbler bird, and naturalists such as Charles Darwin and Pierre Kropotkin. .
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• Introduction Elements Planar trivalent diagrams The multi-category FA Triple arrows for FA Surfaces in 3-space Beyond surfaces Parentheses and so forth Knots in space Foams and surfaces in 4-space Higher dimensional braids Globular multi-categories Bibliography Index.
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This book is an introduction to techniques and results in diagrammatic algebra. It starts with abstract tensors and their categorifications, presents diagrammatic methods for studying Frobenius and Hopf algebras, and discusses their relations with topological quantum field theory and knot theory. The text is replete with figures, diagrams, and suggestive typography that allows the reader a glimpse into many higher dimensional processes. The penultimate chapter summarizes the previous material by demonstrating how to braid 3- and 4- dimensional manifolds into 5- and 6-dimensional spaces. The book is accessible to post-qualifier graduate students, and will also be of interest to algebraists, topologists and algebraic topologists who would like to incorporate diagrammatic techniques into their research.
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• The matrix Schroedinger equation and the characterization of the scattering data.- Direct scattering I.- Direct scattering II.- Inverse scattering.- Some explicit examples.- Mathematical preliminaries.
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Authored by two experts in the field who have been long-time collaborators, this monograph treats the scattering and inverse scattering problems for the matrix Schroedinger equation on the half line with the general selfadjoint boundary condition. The existence, uniqueness, construction, and characterization aspects are treated with mathematical rigor, and physical insight is provided to make the material accessible to mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and applied scientists with an interest in scattering and inverse scattering. The material presented is expected to be useful to beginners as well as experts in the field. The subject matter covered is expected to be interesting to a wide range of researchers including those working in quantum graphs and scattering on graphs. The theory presented is illustrated with various explicit examples to improve the understanding of scattering and inverse scattering problems. The monograph introduces a specific class of input data sets consisting of a potential and a boundary condition and a specific class of scattering data sets consisting of a scattering matrix and bound-state information. The important problem of the characterization is solved by establishing a one-to-one correspondence between the two aforementioned classes. The characterization result is formulated in various equivalent forms, providing insight and allowing a comparison of different techniques used to solve the inverse scattering problem. The past literature treated the type of boundary condition as a part of the scattering data used as input to recover the potential. This monograph provides a proper formulation of the inverse scattering problem where the type of boundary condition is no longer a part of the scattering data set, but rather both the potential and the type of boundary condition are recovered from the scattering data set.
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In the last fifty years our butterfly populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now facing the very real prospect of extinction. It is hard to remember the time when fields and meadows were full of these beautiful, delicate creatures - today we rarely catch a glimpse of the Wild Cherry Sphinx moths, Duke of Burgundy or the even once common Small Tortoiseshell butterflies. The High Brown Fritillary butterfly and the Stout Dart Moth have virtually disappeared. The eminent entomologist and award-winning author Josef H. Reichholf began studying butterflies in the late 1950s. He brings a lifetime of scientific experience and expertise to bear on one of the great environmental catastrophes of our time. He takes us on a journey into the wonderful world of butterflies - from the small nymphs that emerge from lakes in air bubbles to the trusting purple emperors drunk on toad poison - and immerses us in a world that we are in danger of losing forever. Step by step he explains the science behind this impending ecological disaster, and shows how it is linked to pesticides, over-fertilization and the intensive farming practices of the agribusiness. His book is a passionate plea for biodiversity and the protection of butterflies.
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"This fifth edition of Ecology, written for undergraduate students taking their first course in ecology, provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of fundamental ecological principles, with attention to relevant issues including climate change, spread of invasive species, and pollution. The text utilizes a variety of learning tools-such as Case Studies, Connections in Nature, Climate Change Connection vignettes, Ecological Toolkit boxes, and new Learning Objectives-to engage students, highlight critical information, and make real-world connections to the source material. Ecology 5e also expands upon its previous successful editions with increased coverage of marine ecology, microbes and microbial examples, health connections, and regional examples of concepts and case studies. The text is complemented by an enhanced ebook and an updated, user-friendly digital suite full of interactive activities, quizzes, videos, and layered figures to reinforce key concepts"-- Provided by publisher

• The entangled bank
• Cwm Idwal and the nature of the environment
• Wytham : questions about life in a deciduous woodland
• Moor house : thinking big while looking at the very small
• Windermere : and introduction to the nature of ecosystems
• Competition on the Isle of Cumbrae
• Cooperation in the Caringorms
• Can we explain Shelborne's swifts?
• Succeeding in Wicken Fen
• Wytham revisited : exploring the ecological niche
• Park grass and the hay meadow conundrum
• The view from Ringinglow bog : Britain as a microcosm of the planet

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point. The science of ecology underlies most of the key issues facing humanity, from the loss of biodiversity to sustainable agriculture, to the effects of climate change and the spread of pandemics. In this accessible and timely addition to the New Naturalist series, ecologist David M. Wilkinson introduces some of the key ideas of this science, using examples from British natural history. Extensively illustrated with photographs of the species and habitats that can be seen in the British countryside, this book shows how the observations of field naturalists link into our wider understanding of the working of the natural world. Investigating ecosystems across the British Isles, from the Scottish and Welsh mountains to the woodlands of southern England and the fens of East Anglia, Wilkinson describes the relationships between organisms and their environments. Factors such as climate and chemistry influence populations of every kind of organism, and the interactions between these organisms determine the makeup of ecological communities. Using examples from the full range of organisms on Earth - from bacteria to badgers - Wilkinson introduces the crucial ecological processes that support life, addressing how these ideas can be applied to understand our effect on the environment not just of Britain, but of the whole planet.
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• 1. The Science of Plant Ecology
• Part I. Individuals and their Environments
• 2. Photosynthesis and the Light
• 3. Water Relations and Thermal Energy Balance
• 4. Soil and Terrestrial Plant Life
• 5. Ecosystem Processes
• Part II. From Individuals to Populations
• 6. Individual Growth and Reproduction
• 7. Plant Life Histories
• 8. Population Structure, Growth, and Decline
• 9. Evolution : Processes and Change
• Part III. Population Interactions and Communities
• 10. Competition and Other Plant Interactions
• 11. Herbivory and Other Trophic Interactions
• 12. Community Diversity and Structure
• 13. Community Dynamics and Succession
• 14. Local Abundance, Diversity, and Rarity
• Part IV. From Landscapes to Planet Earth
• 15. Landscapes : Pattern and Scale
• 16. Climate, Plants, and Climate Change
• 17. Paleoecology
• 18. Biomes and Physiognomy
• 19. Global Biodiversity Patterns, Loss, and Conservation
• Glossary
• Index

"The Ecology of Plants presents a comprehensive, engaging, and plant-focused treatment of ecology. Written for undergraduate students taking courses in plant ecology, the text links ecosystem function through an understanding of physiology, ecological theory, and climate change at multiple spatiotemporal scales. It covers subjects unique to plants, such as photosynthesis, soil interactions, and the ecology of plants. This third edition is substantially reorganized to reduce repetition and to bring important conceptual and subject material together that had been scattered in the previous edition. The authors have clarified and updated material throughout and deleted material that is outdated to emphasize newer topics and to shorten the discussion of topics that are still necessary background material but are emphasized less in current thinking in the field. Overall, The Ecology of Plants provides students with fundamental knowledge in plant sciences to address pressing issues ecosystems face in the age of a rapidly changing climate"-- Provided by publisher