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Natural Resources Biometrics by Kiernan, Diane

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Descriptive Statistics and the Normal Distribution -- Chapter 2: Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals -- Chapter 3: Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 4: Inferences about the Differences of Two Populations -- Chapter 5: One-way Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 6: Two-way Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 7: Correlation and Simple Linear Regression -- Chapter 8: Multiple Linear Regression -- Chapter 9: Modeling Growth, Yield, and Site Index -- Chapter 10: Quantitative Measures of Diversity, Site Similarity, and Habitat Suitability…”
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Inferring and Explaining by Johnson, Jeffery L.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Valuing Truth -- Chapter 2: Skepticism -- Chapter 3: The Concept of Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Arguments -- Chapter 5: Inference to the Best Explanation -- Chapter 6: New Data and Experimentation -- Chapter 7: Semmelweis and Childbed Fever -- Chapter 8: Darwin and Common Descent -- Chapter 9: Testimony -- Chapter 10: Textual Interpretation -- Chapter 11: Statistics -- Chapter 12: Correlations and Causes -- Chapter 13: Capital Punishment and the Constitution -- Chapter 14: Evidence, Explanation, and Narrative -- Chapter 15: Explanatory Virtue and Truth…”
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Community interventions in obesity-related chronic diseases by Cirignano, Sherri M., Elnakib, Sara A., Ensle, Karen, Zellers, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Definition of Obesity: Current Trends and Statistics -- Chapter Two: Measuring Obesity and Balancing Calories -- Chapter Three: Intro to the Consequences of Obesity -- Chapter Four: Dietary Interventions for Obesity Prevention -- Chapter Five: Physical Activity Interventions for Obesity Prevention -- Chapter Six: Community Interventions in Obesity Prevention -- Chapter Seven: Community Intervention in Childhood Obesity -- Chapter Eight: Cancer and its Relationship to Obesity -- Chapter Nine: A Health Equity Lens in Obesity Related Chronic Disease Prevention Programs…”
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Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling With Applications for the Social Sciences / by Silverman, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Part I Agent-Based Models: 1 Introduction -- 2 Simulation and Artificial Life -- 3 Making the Artificial Real -- 4 Modelling in Population Biology -- Part II Modelling Social Systems: 5 Modelling for the Social Sciences -- 6 Analysis: Frameworks and Theories -- 7 Schelling: A Success for Simplicity -- 8 Conclusions Part III Case Study: Simulation in Demography -- 9 Modelling in Demography: From Statistics to Simulations -- 10 Model-Based Demography in Practice: I -- 11 Model-Based Demography in Practice: II -- 12 Conclusions. .…”
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Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Synergy of Predictive Policing and Community Policing Paradigms -- Advances in Criminological Research Using Smart Phone Applications to Gather Data -- 1996 Initiatives to Integrate Technology into Community Policing: 20 Years Later -- Serious Games: An Attractive Approach to Improve Crime Awareness -- Statistical Analysis of Suspended Terrorism-Related Content on Social Media -- Next Generation of Community Policing: The Unity IT Toolkit -- Community Outreach and Officer Performance Assessment Using Visual Analytics -- Can Technology Build Trust? …”
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods by Harmon, Luke J.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 - A Macroevolutionary Research Program -- Chapter 2 - Fitting Statistical Models to Data -- Chapter 3 - Introduction to Brownian Motion -- Chapter 4 - Fitting Brownian Motion -- Chapter 5 - Multivariate Brownian Motion -- Chapter 6 - Beyond Brownian Motion -- Chapter 7 - Models of discrete character evolution -- Chapter 8 - Fitting models of discrete character evolution -- Chapter 9 - Beyond the Mk model -- Chapter 10 - Introduction to birth-death models -- Chapter 11 - Fitting birth-death models -- Chapter 12 - Beyond birth-death models -- Chapter 13 - Characters and diversification rates -- Chapter 14 - Summary…”
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Workplace Software and Skills by Bolling, Tammie, Mitchell, Angela, Scott, Tanya, Wheeler, Nyrobi, Lepore, Bridget, Walton, Janine, Burgoyne, Timothy, Arguello, Rick, Falduto, Valeree

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1 - Technology in Everyday Life and Business -- Chapter 2 - Essentials of Software Applications for Business -- Chapter 3 - Creating and Working in Documents -- Chapter 4 - Document Preparation -- Chapter 5 - Advanced Document Preparation -- Chapter 6 - Preparing Presentations -- Chapter 7 - Advanced Presentation Skills -- Chapter 8 - Content Management Systems and Social Media in Business -- Chapter 9 - Working with Spreadsheets -- Chapter 10 - Advanced Excel Formulas, Functions, and Techniques -- Chapter 11 - Advanced Excel Spreadsheets: Statistical and Data Analysis -- Chapter 12 - Using Excel in Accounting and Financial Reporting -- Chapter 13 - Understanding and Using Databases -- Chapter 14 - Advanced Database Use -- Chapter 15 - Integrating Applications -- Index…”
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Data Science for Economics and Finance Methodologies and Applications /

Table of Contents: “…Data Science Technologies in Economics and Finance: A Gentle Walk-In -- Supervised Learning for the Prediction of Firm Dynamics -- Opening the Black Box: Machine Learning Interpretability and Inference Tools with an Application to Economic Forecasting -- Machine Learning for Financial Stability -- Sharpening the Accuracy of Credit Scoring Models with Machine Learning Algorithms -- Classifying Counterparty Sector in EMIR Data -- Massive Data Analytics for Macroeconomic Nowcasting -- New Data Sources for Central Banks -- Sentiment Analysis of Financial News: Mechanics and Statistics -- Semi-supervised Text Mining for Monitoring the News About the ESG Performance of Companies -- Extraction and Representation of Financial Entities from Text -- Quantifying News Narratives to Predict Movements in Market Risk -- Do the Hype of the Benefits from Using New Data Science Tools Extend to Forecasting Extremely Volatile Assets? …”
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Information Strategies for Communicators by Hansen, Kathleen A., Paul, Nora

Table of Contents: “…Information Resources: Data and Statistics -- Lesson 15. Information Resources: Polls and Surveys -- Lesson 16. …”
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A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology) by Rahman, Susan, Sunder, Prateek, Jackson, Dahmitra

Table of Contents: “…Licensing -- 1: Introduction -- 2: A Look at Structural Racism by Discipline -- Administration of Justice -- Anthropology -- Architecture -- Art- Dance -- Art- Drama -- Art- Visual -- Art History -- Astronomy -- Biology -- Business -- Career Counseling -- Career Technology Education (CTE) -- CTE -Fire Technology -- CTE- Graphic Design -- CTE - Multimedia Studies -- Chemistry -- Communication/Film/Speech -- Computer Science -- Early Childhood Education -- Economics -- Engineering -- English -- English as Second Language -- Environmental Science -- Ethnic Studies -- Geography -- Geology -- Health Education -- History -- Human Sexuality -- Languages -- Library and Information Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematics- Statistics -- Music -- Music/Musical Performance/ers -- Philosophy -- Physics -- Physics- Astrophysics -- Political Science -- Psychology -- Sociology -- Zoology -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Reflections from the Authors -- A List of Resources for Further Exploration -- References…”
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Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research Health in Context / by Leyland, Alastair H., Groenewegen, Peter P.

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 4: Multilevel data structures -- Part II: Statistical background -- Chapter 5: Graphs and equations -- Chapter 6: Apportioning variation in multilevel models -- Part III: The modelling process and presentation of research -- Chapter 7: Context, composition and how their influences vary -- Chapter 8: Ecometrics: Using MLA to construct contextual variables from individual data -- Chapter 9: Modelling strategies -- Chapter 10: Reading and writing -- Part IV: Tutorials with example datasets -- Chapter 11: Multilevel linear regression using MLwiN: Mortality in England and Wales, 1979-1992 -- Chapter 12. …”
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A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

Table of Contents: “…Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (Stephen M. Stigler) -- 6. …”
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Bruno Touschek 100 Years Memorial Symposium 2021 /

Table of Contents: “…The path to electron-positron collisions -- AdA at Orsay -- Bruno Touschek and Statistical Mechanics -- Role of Bruno Touschek in the Realization of the Particle-Antiparticle Colliders -- Adone, Asymptotic Freedom and QCD -- The Standard Theory and Theoretical Physics in Roma -- Detectors and Experiments at the Laboratory for Electro-strong Physics: a personal view -- From the hadronic string to quantum gravity and back -- QCD and Supercomputers -- Bruno Touschek and the physics at Frascati at the time of AdA and ADONE -- Accelerators at LNF: From AdA to EuPRAXIA -- Accelerator Physics at IJCLab-ORSAY -- Technical challenges for future accelerators -- The making of AdA: Bruno Touschek's journey from Widerøe's betatron to storage rings -- The Making of ADONE -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics -- String Theory -- Multi-Messenger Astronomy -- High Energy Physics and the European Strategy -- Circular Colliders in China -- Linear Colliders -- Remembering Bruno Touschek.…”
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice o...

Table of Contents: “…Concurrent and Distributed Systems -- Computing the concurrency threshold of sound free-choice workflow nets -- Fine-Grained Complexity of Safety Verification -- Parameterized verification of synchronization in constrained reconfigurable broadcast networks -- EMME: a formal tool for the ECMAScript Memory Model Evaluation -- SAT and SMT II -- What a Difference a Variable Makes -- Abstraction Refinement for Emptiness Checking of Alternating Data Automata -- Revisiting Enumerative Instantiation -- An Non-linear Arithmetic Procedure for Control-Command Software Verification -- Security and Reactive Systems -- Approximate Reduction of Finite Automata for High-Speed Network Intrusion Detection -- Validity-Guided Synthesis of Reactive Systems from Assume-Guarantee Contracts -- RVHyper: A Runtime Verification Tool for Temporal Hyperproperties -- The Refinement Calculus of Reactive Systems Toolset -- Static and Dynamic Program Analysis -- TESTOR: A Modular Tool for On-the-Fly Conformance Test Case Generation -- Optimal Dynamic Partial Order Reduction with Observers -- Structurally Defined Conditional Data-flow Static Analysis -- Geometric Nontermination Arguments -- Hybrid and Stochastic Systems -- Efficient dynamic error reduction for hybrid systems reachability analysis -- AMT2.0: Qualitative and Quantitative Trace Analysis with Extended Signal Temporal Logic -- Multi-Cost Bounded Reachability in MDPs -- A Statistical Model Checker for Nondeterminism and Rare Events -- Temporal logic and mu-calculus -- Permutation Games for the Weakly Aconjunctive mu-Calculus -- Symmetry Reduction for the Local Mu-Calculus -- Bayesian Statistical Parameter Synthesis for Linear Temporal Properties of Stochastic Models -- 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) -- 2LS: Memory Safety and Non-Termination (Competition contribution) -- Yogar-CBMC: CBMC with Scheduling Constraint Based Abstraction Refinement (Competition Contribution) -- CPA-BAM-Slicing: Block-Abstraction Memorization and Slicing with Region-BasedDependency Analysis (Competition Contribution) -- InterpChecker: Reducing State Space via Interpolations (Competition Contribution) -- Map2Check using LLVM and KLEE (Competition Contribution) -- Symbiotic 5: Boosted Instrumentation (Competition Contribution) -- Ultimate Automizer and the Search for Perfect Interpolants (Competition Contribution) -- Ultimate Taipan with Dynamic Block Encoding (Competition Contribution) -- VeriAbs : Verification by Abstraction and Test Generation (Competition Contribution).…”
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Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter /

Table of Contents: “…-- Part I Philosophy Chapter 1 Dispositions and the Single Patient -- Chapter 2 Probability for the Clinic -- Chapter 3 When a Cause Cannot be Found -- Chapter 4 Reductionism and the Biomedical Model -- Chapter 5 The Guidelines Challenge -- Part II Practice Chapter 6 Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical Decisions and Shared Decision Making -- Chapter 7 The Complexity of Persistent Pain - A Patient's Perspective -- Chapter 8 Causality and Dispositionality for Diagnosis in Medical Practice -- Chapter 9 Lessons from a Clinic for Patients with Severe Obesity -- Chapter 10 Reflections on the Clinician's Role in the Clinical Encounter -- Chapter 11 Psychotherapy in a Conditional World - A Plea for Causal Dispositionalism -- Chapter 12 Evidence-Based Healthcare and dispositionalism -- Chapter 13 The Practice of Whole Person Centred Healthcare -- Chapter 14 A Broken Child, a Diseased Woman -- Conclusion Toward a New Paradigm.…”
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Brain-Inspired Computing 4th International Workshop, BrainComp 2019, Cetraro, Italy, July 15-19, 2019, Revised Selected Papers /

Table of Contents: “…-- Usage and scaling of an open-source spiking multi-area model of the monkey cortex -- Exascale compute and data infrastructures for neuroscience and applications -- Modular supercomputing for neuroscience -- Fenix: Distributed e-Infrastructure Services for EBRAINS -- Independent component analysis for noise and artifact removal in three-dimensional Polarized Light Imaging -- Exascale artificial and natural neural architectures -- Brain-inspired algorithms for processing of visual data -- An hybrid attention-based system for the prediction of facial attributes -- The statistical physics of learning revisited: Typical learning curves in model scenarios -- Emotion mining: from unimodal to multimodal approaches -- .…”
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Particle Physics Reference Library Volume 2: Detectors for Particles and Radiation /

Table of Contents: “…Distributed Computing -- Chapter 15. Statistical Issues in Particle Physics -- Chapter 16. …”
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Particle Accelerator Physics by Wiedemann, Helmut

Table of Contents: “…Part I Introduction -- Introduction to Accelerator Physics -- Linear Accelerators -- Circular Accelerators -- Part II Tools we need -- Elements of Classical Mechanics -- Particle Dynamics in Electromagnetic Fields -- Electromagnetic Fields -- Part III Beam Dynamics -- Single Particle Dynamics -- Particle Beams and Phase Space -- Longitudinal Beam Dynamics -- Periodic Focusing Systems -- Part IV Beam Parameters -- Vlasov and Fokker-Planck Equations -- Equilibrium Particle Distribution -- Beam Emittance and Lattice Design -- Part V Perturbations -- Perturbations in Beam Dynamics -- Hamiltonian Resonance Theory -- Hamiltonian Nonlinear Beam Dynamics -- Part VI Acceleration -- Charged Particle Acceleration -- Beam-Cavity Interaction -- Part VII Coupled Motion -- Dynamics of Coupled Motion -- Part VIII Intense Beams -- Statistical and Collective Effects -- Wake Fields and Instabilities -- Part IX Synchrotron Radiation -- Fundamental Processes -- Overview of Synchrotron Radiation -- Theory of Synchrotron Radiation -- Insertion Device Radiation -- Free Electron Lasers -- Part X Appendices -- Useful Mathematical Formulae -- Physical Formulae and Parameters -- References -- Index.…”
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by Van Cleave, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.2 Propositional logic and the four basic truth functional connectives -- 2.3 Negation and disjunction -- 2.4 Using parentheses to translate complex sentences -- 2.5 “Not both” and “neither nor” -- 2.6 The truth table test of validity -- 2.7 Conditionals -- 2.8 “Unless” -- 2.9 Material equivalence -- 2.10 Tautologies, contradictions, and contingent statements -- 2.11 Proofs and the 8 valid forms of inference -- 2.12 How to construct proofs -- 2.13 Short review of propositional logic -- 2.14 Categorical logic -- 2.15 The Venn test of validity for immediate categorical inferences -- 2.16 Universal statements and existential commitment -- 2.17 Venn validity for categorical syllogisms -- Chapter 3: Evaluating inductive arguments and probabilistic and statistical fallacies -- 3.1 Inductive arguments and statistical generalizations -- 3.2 Inference to the best explanation and the seven explanatory virtues -- 3.3 Analogical arguments -- 3.4 Causal arguments -- 3.5 Probability -- 3.6 The conjunction fallacy -- 3.7 The base rate fallacy -- 3.8 The small numbers fallacy -- 3.9 Regression to the mean fallacy -- 3.10 Gambler's fallacy -- Chapter 4: Informal fallacies -- 4.1 Formal vs. informal fallacies -- 4.1.1 Composition fallacy -- 4.1.2 Division fallacy -- 4.1.3 Begging the question fallacy -- 4.1.4 False dichotomy -- 4.1.5 Equivocation -- 4.2 Slippery slope fallacies -- 4.2.1 Conceptual slippery slope -- 4.2.2 Causal slippery slope -- 4.3 Fallacies of relevance -- 4.3.1 Ad hominem -- 4.3.2 Straw man -- 4.3.3 Tu quoque -- 4.3.4 Genetic -- 4.3.5 Appeal to consequences -- 4.3.6 Appeal to authority -- Answers to exercisesGlossary/Index…”
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Science of Societal Safety Living at Times of Risks and Disasters /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Human Societies and Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 1 What are Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 2 Advancement of Scientific Technologies and Human Societies -- Chapter 3 Contemporary Societies and Risk -- Chapter 4 Modern Societies and Establishment of Academia -- Part II Events that Threaten Human and its Societies -- Chapter 5 Human, Nature, and Artificial Products -- Chapter 6 Natural Disasters, Safety, and Security -- Chapter 7 Angles of Social Disasters and Damages -- Chapter 8 Environmental Risks -- Chapter 9 Wars, Crimes, and Terrorism -- Part III Basic Statistics of Risk Analysis -- Chapter 10 Methods in Risk Analysis -- Chapter 11 Risk Management -- Chapter 12 Risk Communication and Disaster Information -- Chapter 13 Crisis Management -- IV Social Mechanisms of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization -- Chapter 14 Public Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, andMinimization -- Chapter 15 Government Activities in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation -- Chapter 16 Civil Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization -- Chapter 17 Supporting disaster victims -- Part V For Advancement of Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 18 Governance and Forming Agreement for Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 19 For Deepening Societal Safety Sciences.…”
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