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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"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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 nation's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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.

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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• 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.

• 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.

"A devastating exploration of how the collapse in insect populations around the world threatens everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From the ants scurrying under leaf litter to the bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are seemingly everywhere. Three out of four of the planet's known species are insects, but a torrent of recent evidence suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. Oliver Milman delves into why insect numbers are plummeting and outlines the dire consequences of losing the tiny empires that hold life aloft on Earth. Along the way, readers encounter a researcher who collects insect guts from the windshields of cars, the bees sent on long-haul truck journeys to prop up our food supply, and a desperate attempt to move trees up mountains to save an iconic butterfly. The mounting losses threaten to unpick the web of life we rely upon. Illuminating and inspiring, The Insect Crisis is a wake-up call for all of us"-- 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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• 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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• 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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"Birds are capable of detecting scents, and those scents and the microbiome that creates them are pivotal drivers of avian evolution. The author explains how birds produce complex chemical signals that are important to their social and reproductive behavior"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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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