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The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of linear mixed models for continuous longitudinal data. Next to model formulation, this edition puts major emphasis on exploratory data analysis for all aspects of the model, such as the marginal model, subject-specific profiles, and residual covariance structure.

What does game theory tell us about rational behavior? In this fascinating book, renowned Hungarian economist Laszlo Mero shows how game theory provides insight into such aspects of human psychology as altruism, competition, and politics, as well as its relevance to disparate fields such as physics and evolutionary biology.

Numerous exercises, some of which require nontrivial algebraic manipulations and computer work, convey the important analytical underpinnings of problems in dynamical systems and help readers develop an intuitive feel for the properties involved.

Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and extinction of many species.

The text illustrates the physical background and motivation for some constructions used in recent mathematical and numerical work on the Navier- Stokes equations and on hyperbolic systems, so as to interest students in this at once beautiful and difficult subject.

The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises.

An introduction to complex analysis for students with some knowledge of complex numbers from high school. Topics studied include Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, Dirichlet series and the prime number theorem, and the uniformization theorem for Riemann surfaces, with emphasis placed on the three geometries: spherical, euclidean, and hyperbolic.

Using the proof of the non-trisectability of an arbitrary angle as a final goal, the author develops in an easy conversational style the basics of rings, fields, and vector spaces.

Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity as essentially a new geometric structure for spacetime. This book looks at the ideas of both Einstein and Minkowski, and then introduces the theory of frames, surfaces and intrinsic geometry, developing the main implications of Einstein's general relativity theory.

This book is designed to introduce the reader to the theory of semisimple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, with emphasis on representations.

Notable for its coherent explanation of the diversity of processes as much as for its exposure of the gaps in our knowledge, this volume outlines a new paradigm for understanding diabetes based on Darwinian medical precepts of the disease's evolution.

This book reviews signaling pathways in the regulation of circulatory and respiratory function, integrating biology, chemistry, and physics for a multidisciplinary view of physiological flows. It describes ion and molecular carriers and receptors.

This book examines the value of open spaces and how they can lead to possible territorial restructuring. It demonstrates a method of urbanistic intervention together with possible project strategies and territorial ordering.

This book provides an invaluable primer on the techniques utilized in the design of low power digital semiconductor devices. It offers a hands-on approach which starts from the ground-up and explains concepts with basic examples.

This updated edition of Gesser's classic textbook has undergone a full revision and now has the latest material, including new chapters on semiconductors and nanotechnology. It includes a supplementary laboratory section with stepwise experimental protocols.

An essential read for mathematicians, this volume looks beyond the syntax and semantics of Mathematica and other programs. It focuses on why they are necessary tools for anyone who engages in mathematics, as well as showing how to create better proofs.

Presenting a fresh approach to the fuzzy modeling of dynamic processes in systems science research, this book's coverage of both theory and key applications incorporates time as a source of fuzziness and treats applied EFD systems such as software libraries.

This book is about graph energy. The authors have included many of the important results on graph energy, such as the complete solution to the conjecture on maximal energy of unicyclic graphs, the Wagner-Heuberger's result on the energy of trees, the energy of random graphs or the approach to energy using singular values.

Text Mining with MATLAB provides a comprehensive introduction to text mining using MATLAB. It's designed to help text mining practitioners, as well as those with little-to-no experience with text mining in general, familiarize themselves with MATLAB and its complex applications.

First published in 1804, Nicholas-Theodore de Saussure's Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation is presented here in its first English edition. A seminal work in the understanding of photosynthesis, it has been called the first modern work on plant nutrition.

Here is a new neuropsychology of the autism spectrum, reviewing brain organization and relating specific symptoms to specific regions and structures. Describes deficiencies in left hemisphere areas associated with self and identity, and their role in autism.

A superb introduction to the physics of enhancement cavities, this volume shares new insights in attosecond physics and frequency-comb spectroscopy, covering key research questions such as increasing the accuracy of attempts to measure cavity parameters.

This book uses a plain-English style to show non-statistician researchers how to employ modern missing data procedures in their work. A supplementary web site offers free downloads of statistical software, sample empirical data sets and practical exercises.

Rooted in classical mechanics, this book explores mechanical and electromagnetic processes occurring in Mechatronics, emphasizing theory, modeling, analysis, and control of gyroscopic devices, including advanced military applications.

The revised 2nd edition of this book explores NMR development and applications in biological systems. The coverage includes improvements in NMR hardware and methodology, instrument setup, data acquisition and data processing using offline programs.

This book shows that strong interaction forces, which keep hadrons and nuclei together, are relativistic gravitational forces exerted between very small particles in the mass range of neutrinos. Discusses implications for unification of forces and much more.

Here is a comprehensive review of the fundamental conditions for optimality for finite-dimensional, deterministic, optimal control problems. Includes worked examples ranging from minimum surfaces of revolution to cancer treatment for novel therapy approaches.

This book offers comprehensive information on bioavailability and mechanism of action of phytochemicals in the brain, and traces the molecular mechanism associated with beneficial effects of phytochemicals in neurotraumatic and neurodegenerative diseases.

Its discovery has frequently been deemed the mathematical equivalent of finding Beethoven's tenth symphony. This volume is the third of five volumes that the authors plan to write on Ramanujan's lost notebook and other manuscripts and fragments found in The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, published by Narosa in 1988.