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Applied Statistics I: Basic Bivariate Techniques has been created from the first half of Rebecca M. Warner's popular Applied Statistics: From Bivariate Through Multivariate Techniques. The author's contemporary approach differs from some of the well-worn texts in the market, and reflects current thinking in the field. It spends less time on statistical significance testing, and moves in the direction of the "new statistics" by focusing more on confidence intervals and effect size. Instructors of upper undergraduate or beginning graduate level courses will find that the greater focus on basic concepts such as partition of variance and effect size is more useful to students, particularly as preparation for more advanced courses. Spending less time on statistical significance testing allows for more time to be devoted to more interesting and useful statistics that students will see in journal articles (such as correlation and regression). This introductory statistics text includes examples in SPSS, together with datasets on an accompanying website. A companion study guide reproducing the exercises and examples in R will also be available.
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Rebecca M. Warner's bestselling Applied Statistics: From Bivariate Through Multivariate Techniques has been split into two volumes for ease of use over a two-course sequence. This new multivariate statistics text, Applied Statistics II: Multivariable and Multivariate Techniques, Third Edition is based on chapters from the second half of original book, but with much additional material. This text now provides a distinctive bridge between earlier courses and advanced topics through extensive discussion of statistical control (adding a third variable), a new chapter on the "new statistics", a new chapter on outliers and missing values, and a final chapter that provides an introduction to structural equation modeling. This text provides a solid introduction to concepts such as statistical control, mediation, moderation, and path modeling necessary to students taking intermediate and advanced statistics courses across the social sciences. Examples are provided in SPSS with datasets available on an accompanying website. A companion study guide reproducing the exercises and examples in R will also be available.
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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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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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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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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"This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which ecology is an important component. It contains 500 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced"-- Provided by publisher.

"A new approach to identifying mushrooms, based on five key features that can be observed while in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1. Plant-Microbes Interaction: Current Developments and Future Challenges.-
• Chapter 2. Rhizospheric Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Current Advancement, and Potential Biotechnological Application.-
• Chapter 3. Endophytic Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Current Status, and Potential Agricultural Applications.-
• Chapter 4. Culturable Plant-Associated Endophytic Microbial Communities from Leguminous and Non-Leguminous Crops.-
• Chapter 5. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Abundance, Interaction with Plants and Potential Biological Application.-
• Chapter 6. Endophytic Microbiomes and their Plant Growth Promoting Attributes for Plant Health.-
• Chapter 7. Diversity and Biotechnological Potential of Culturable Rhizospheric Actinomicrobiota.-
• Chapter 8. Bacillus and Endomicrobiome: Biodiversity and potential Applications in Agriculture.-
• Chapter 9. Role of Microbes in Improving Plant Growth and Soil Health for Sustainable Agriculture.-
• Chapter 10. Biofertilizers and Biopesticides: Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture.
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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature, and plant-microbe interactions are a key strategy for colonizing diverse habitats. The plant microbiome (epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric) plays an important role in plant growth and development and soil health. Further, rhizospheric soil is a valuable natural resource, hosting hotspots of microbes, and is vital in the maintenance of global nutrient balance and ecosystem function. The term endophytic microbes refers to those microorganisms that colonize the interior the plants. The phyllosphere is a common niche for synergism between microbes and plants and includes the leaf surface. The diverse group of microbes are key components of soil-plant systems, and where they are engaged in an extensive network of interactions in the rhizosphere/endophytic/phyllospheric they have emerged as an important and promising tool for sustainable agriculture. Plant microbiomes help to directly or indirectly promote plant growth using plant growth promoting attributes, and could potentially be used as biofertilizers/bioinoculants in place of chemical fertilizers. This book allows readers to gain an understanding of microbial diversity associated with plant systems and their role in plant growth, and soil health. Offering an overview of the state of the art in plant microbiomes and their potential biotechnological applications in agriculture and allied sectors, it is a valuable resource for scientists, researchers and students in the field of microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology, environmental biology and related subjects.
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• Chapter 1. Phosphorus Solubilization and Mobilization: Mechanisms, Current Developments and Future Challenge.-
• Chapter 2. Potassium Solubilization and Mobilization: Functional Impact on Plant Growth for Sustainable Agriculture.-
• Chapter 3. Zinc Solubilization and Mobilization: A Promising Approach for Cereals Biofortification.-
• Chapter 4. Microbial ACC-deaminase attributes: perspectives and applications in stress agriculture.-
• Chapter 5. Plant Microbiomes with Phytohormones Attribute for Plant Growth and Adaptation under the Stress Conditions.-
• Chapter 6. Mechanisms of Plant Growth Promotion and Functional Annotation in Mitigation of Abiotic Stress.-
• Chapter 7. Microbiomes Associated with Plant Growing Under the Hypersaline Habitats and Mitigation of Salt Stress.-
• Chapter 8. Alleviation of Cold Stress by Psychrotrophic Microbes.-
• Chapter 9. Microbes-Mediated Mitigation of Drought Stress in Plants: Recent Trends and Future Challenges.-
• Chapter 10. Microbial Consortium with Multifunctional Plant Growth Promoting Attributes: Future Perspective in Agriculture.-
• Chapter 11. Cyanobacteria as Biofertilizers: Current Research, Commercial Aspects, and Future Challenges.
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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature, and plant-microbe interactions are a key strategy for colonizing diverse habitats. The plant microbiome (epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric) plays an important role in plant growth and development and soil health. Further, rhizospheric soil is a valuable natural resource, hosting hotspots of microbes, and is vital in the maintenance of global nutrient balance and ecosystem function. The term endophytic microbes refers to those microorganisms that colonize the interior the plants. The phyllosphere is a common niche for synergism between microbes and plants and includes the leaf surface. The diverse group of microbes are key components of soil-plant systems, and where they are engaged in an extensive network of interactions in the rhizosphere/endophytic/phyllospheric they have emerged as an important and promising tool for sustainable agriculture. Plant microbiomes help to directly or indirectly promote plant growth using plant growth promoting attributes, and could potentially be used as biofertilizers/bioinoculants in place of chemical fertilizers. This book allows readers to gain an understanding of microbial diversity associated with plant systems and their role in plant growth, and soil health. Offering an overview of the state of the art in plant microbiomes and their potential biotechnological applications in agriculture and allied sectors, it is a valuable resource for scientists, researchers and students in the field of microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology, environmental biology and related subjects.
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• Constructions in affine type A
• Lattice presentation of affine flag varieties of type C
• Multiplication formulas for Chevalley generators
• Coideal algebra type structures of Schur algebras and Lusztig algebras
• Realization of the idempotented coideal subalgebra Uc/n of U(sln)
• A second coideal subalgebra of quantum affine sln
• More variants of coideal subalgebras of quantum affine sln
• The stabilization algebra Kc/n arising from Schur algebras
• Stabilization algebras arising from other Schur algebras

The quantum groups of finite and affine type $A$ admit geometric realizations in terms of partial flag varieties of finite and affine type $A$. Recently, the quantum group associated to partial flag varieties of finite type $B/C$ is shown to be a coideal subalgebra of the quantum group of finite type $A$. In this paper the authors study the structures of Schur algebras and Lusztig algebras associated to (four variants of) partial flag varieties of affine type $C$. The authors show that the quantum groups arising from Lusztig algebras and Schur algebras via stabilization procedures are (idempotented) coideal subalgebras of quantum groups of affine $\mathfrak{sl}$ and $\mathfrak{gl}$ types, respectively. In this way, the authors provide geometric realizations of eight quantum symmetric pairs of affine types. They construct monomial and canonical bases of all these quantum (Schur, Lusztig, and coideal) algebras. For the idempotented coideal algebras of affine $\mathfrak{sl}$ type, the authors establish the positivity properties of the canonical basis with respect to multiplication, comultiplication and a bilinear pairing. In particular, the authors obtain a new and geometric construction of the idempotented quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}$ and its canonical basis.
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• Foreword / Yuri I. Manin
• Feynman integrals in mathematics and physics / Spencer Bloch
• Feynman integrals and periods in configuration spaces / Özgür Ceyhan and Matilde Marcolli
• Introductory course on l-adic sheaves and their ramification theory on curves / Lars Kindler and Kay Rülling

This is the first volume of the lectures presented at the Clay Mathematics Institute 2014 Summer School, "Periods and Motives: Feynman amplitudes in the 21st century", which took place at the Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas-ICMAT (Institute of Mathematical Sciences) in Madrid, Spain. It covers the presentations by S. Bloch, by M. Marcolli and by L. Kindler and K. Rulling. The main topics of these lectures are Feynman integrals and ramification theory. On the Feynman integrals side, their relation with Hodge structures and heights as well as their monodromy are explained in Bloch's lectures. Two constructions of Feynman integrals on configuration spaces are presented in Ceyhan and Marcolli's notes. On the ramification theory side an introduction to the theory of l -adic sheaves with emphasis on their ramification theory is given. These notes will equip the reader with the necessary background knowledge to read current literature on these subjects.
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The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are-intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish "sing" underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour of the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. They show readers what they can do in their everyday lives to ensure that the animal world is protected from needless harm. Whether it's medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to sausage and milk to marshmallows, reap the benefits of medical research that no longer requires monkeys to be caged in laboratories, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind is a fascinating study of why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and moreover, the steps every reader can take to put this new understanding into action.
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• Elimination theory Numerical algebraic geometry Geometric modeling Rigidity theory Chemical reaction networks Illustration credits Bibliography Index.
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Systems of polynomial equations can be used to model an astonishing variety of phenomena. This book explores the geometry and algebra of such systems and includes numerous applications. The book begins with elimination theory from Newton to the twenty-first century and then discusses the interaction between algebraic geometry and numerical computations, a subject now called numerical algebraic geometry. The final three chapters discuss applications to geometric modeling, rigidity theory, and chemical reaction networks in detail. Each chapter ends with a section written by a leading expert. Examples in the book include oil wells, HIV infection, phylogenetic models, four-bar mechanisms, border rank, font design, Stewart-Gough platforms, rigidity of edge graphs, Gaussian graphical models, geometric constraint systems, and enzymatic cascades. The reader will encounter geometric objects such as Bezier patches, Cayley-Menger varieties, and toric varieties; and algebraic objects such as resultants, Rees algebras, approximation complexes, matroids, and toric ideals. Two important subthemes that appear in multiple chapters are toric varieties and algebraic statistics. The book also discusses the history of elimination theory, including its near elimination in the middle of the twentieth century. The main goal is to inspire the reader to learn about the topics covered in the book. With this in mind, the book has an extensive bibliography containing over 350 books and papers.
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• Preface--
• 1. Real-world passive components--
• 2. Advanced BJT topics--
• 3. Advanced FET topics--
• 4. Advanced topics in operational amplifiers--
• 5. Advanced topics in power control-- Subject index.
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The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters expands on topics introduced in the best-selling third edition of The Art of Electronics, completing the broad discussions begun in the latter. In addition to covering more advanced materials relevant to its companion, The x-Chapters also includes extensive treatment of many topics in electronics that are particularly novel, important, or just exotic and intriguing. Think of The x-Chapters as the missing pieces of The Art of Electronics, to be used either as its complement, or as a direct route to exploring some of the most exciting and oft-overlooked topics in advanced electronic engineering. This enticing spread of electronics wisdom and expertise will be an invaluable addition to the library of any student, researcher, or practitioner with even a passing interest in the design and analysis of electronic circuits and instruments. You'll find here techniques and circuits that are available nowhere else.
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• Autonomous theory: Semigroups and global attractors Upper and lower semicontinuity Topological structural stability of attractors Neighborhood of a critical element Morse-Smale semigroups Non-autonomous theory: Non-autonomous dynamical systems and their attractors Upper and lower semicontinuity Topological structural stability Neighborhood of a global hyperbolic solution Non-autonomous Morse-Smale dynamical systems Bibliography List of figures Index.
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This book provides a comprehensive study of how attractors behave under perturbations for both autonomous and non-autonomous problems. Furthermore, the forward asymptotics of non-autonomous dynamical systems is presented here for the first time in a unified manner. When modelling real world phenomena imprecisions are unavoidable. On the other hand, it is paramount that mathematical models reflect the modelled phenomenon, in spite of unimportant neglectable influences discounted by simplifications, small errors introduced by empirical laws or measurements, among others. The authors deal with this issue by investigating the permanence of dynamical structures and continuity properties of the attractor. This is done in both the autonomous (time independent) and non-autonomous (time dependent) framework in four distinct levels of approximation: the upper semicontinuity, lower semicontinuity, topological structural stability and geometrical structural stability. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers interested in dissipative dynamical systems and stability theory, and requires only a basic background in metric spaces, functional analysis and, for the applications, techniques of ordinary and partial differential equations.
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