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R is a freely available, open-source statistical programming environment which provides powerful statistical analysis tools and graphics outputs. R is now used by a very wide range of people; biologists (the primary audience of this book), but also all other scientists and engineers, economists, market researchers and medical professionals. R users with expertise are constantly adding new associated packages, and the range already available is immense.This text works through a set of studies that collectively represent almost all the R operations that biology students need in order to analyse their own data. The material is designed to serve students from first year undergraduates through to those beginning post graduate levels. Chapters are organized around topics such as graphing, classical statistical tests, statistical modelling, mapping, and text parsing. Examples are based on real scientific studies, and each one covers the use of more R functions than those simply necessary to get a p-value or plot.The book walks the reader through the data analysis process, starting with very simple plots, and continuing through more complex analyses and programming. It shows how to deal with issues such as error messages that can be confronting for beginners, in order to set students up for a successful scientific career using R.Collectively the authors have a vast amount of teaching experience which they apply here to make the passage into R programming as gentle and easy as possible, whilst guiding the reader to tackle quite complicated programming. Table of contents 1: How to Use this Book 2: Installing and Running R 3: Very Basic R Syntax 4: First Simple Programs and Graphics 5: The Dataframe Concept 6: Plotting Biological Data in Various Ways 7: The Grammar of Graphics Family of Packages 8: Sets and Venn diagrams 9: Statistics: Choosing the Right Test 10: Commonly Used Measures and Statistical Tests 11: Regression and Correlation Analyses 12: Count Data as Response Variable 13: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 14: Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) 15: More Generalised Linear Modelling 16: Monte Carlo Tests and Randomisation 17: Principal Components Analysis 18: Species Abundance, Accumulation and Diversity Data 19: Survivorship 20: Dates and Julian Dates 21: Mapping and Parsing Text Input for Data 22: More on Manipulating Text 23: Phylogenies and Trees 24: Working with DNA Sequences and other character data 25: Spacing in Two Dimensions 26: Population Modelling Including Spatially Explicit Models 27: More on “apply” Family of Functions – Avoid Loops to get More Speed 28: Food webs and simple graphics 29: Adding Photographs 30: Standard Distributions in R 31: Reading and Writing Data to and from Files
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Es ist die Frage, die uns alle jedes Jahr aufs Neue umtreibt: Was ist das perfekte Geschenk? Die kleine Maus in Palmer Browns Geschichte ist auf der Suche nach etwas Besonderem für ihre Mutter. Doch was könnte sie, die nur so wenig zur Verfügung hat, verschenken, um ihrer großen Liebe Ausdruck zu verleihen? Ihr fehlt der Samt für ein Nadelkissen, die Rosinen für den Früchtekuchen. Doch schließlich bemerkt sie, dass man für das perfekte Geschenk gar nicht so viel braucht. Mit seiner bezaubernden Geschichte von 1958, die kürzlich in der renommierten New York Review Children’s Collection wieder veröffentlicht wurde, schenkt Palmer Brown uns etwas ganz Besonderes – für Weihnachten oder jeden Tag.
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Nach seinen sprachphilosophischen Arbeiten ('Sprechakte', stw 458; 'Ausdruck und Bedeutung', stw 349) hat John R. Searle mit 'Intentionalität' eine Untersuchung zu einem Kernstück der Philosophie des Geistes vorgelegt, die in einem engen thematischen Zusammenhang mit den früheren Arbeiten steht. Intentionalität ist nach Searles Auffassung die Basis sprachlicher Bedeutung. In seiner Theorie der Intentionalität geht es um die begrifflichen Eigenschaften intentionaler Zustände (auf die Frage nach ihrem ontologischen Status geht er ausführlicher ein in 'Geist, Hirn und Wissenschaft', stw 591). Zwei Aspekte stehen dabei im Vordergrund der Untersuchung: die Logik der Repräsentation und der Kausalität intentionaler Zustände. Doch Searle entwickelt in dieser Arbeit nicht nur eine Theorie der Intentionalität und des Zusammenhangs zwischen sprachlichem und geistigem Inhalt. In einem vornehmlich kritischen Teil setzt er sich ausführlich mit konkurrierenden Auffassungen aus dem Bereich der analytischen Philosophie auseinander, insbesondere mit derzeit sehr einflußreichen 'nicht-deskriptivistischen' Theorien des Bezugs, wie sie von S. Kripke, H. Putnam, K. Donnellan, T. Burge und D. Kaplan vertreten und angeregt wurden.
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Fiona simply doesn’t know what she should do first: Leo, the owner of the farm, is very depressed, and even the funny tricks of Sunny, the sparkling pony, can’t cheer her up. What’s more, the mysterious island on Lake Sparkle is to be sold, and that would be a disaster! There are so many sparkling tasks to be performed that Fiona almost overlooks a vital clue. But fortunately, her sparkling pony Sunny is still there. Just like the black horse Opal and his friend Jana, who together show that with the right amount of sparkling magic, all problems finally disappear…
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Group B streptococcus is a type of bacteria that mostly affects infants, the elderly, and those with immune systems compromised due to other diseases. It can cause severe infection and meningitis. Approximately 19,000 cases occur annually in the United States, and it's the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns. This informative book enhances readers' understanding of this disease by examining how this type of bacteria lives and is transmitted, and explaining how it can be prevented and treated. Chapters include: History of Group B Streptococcal (GBS) Disease Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Diagnosis and Treatment Group B Streptococcus (GBS) with Pregnancy and Other Conditions Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Infection in Animals Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Virulence Factors Vaccine Prospects for Group B Strepotococcus (GBS)
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Despite the abundance and quality of recent historical writing on consumerism, it cannot be said that the modern Co-operative movement (Co-op) has been well served. It has also been by-passed in studies that locate Britons' identity in their consumption. The reasons for this can be found in the widely perceived decline of the Co-op since the 1950s, but also in various historiographical agendas that have resulted in its relative invisibility in modern British history. This book, by demonstrating the variety of broader issues that can be addressed through the Co-op and the vibrancy of new historical research into consumption, seeks to remedy this. Taking stock, both of the Co-op in a broader context and of new approaches to the history of consumption, combines the work of leading authorities on the Co-op with recent scholarly research. It explores the Co-op's distinctive interface between everyday issues and grander idealistic concerns. The chapters intersect to examine a broad range of themes, notably: the politics of consumerism including consumer protection, ethical and fair trading and alternatives to corporate commerce; design and advertising; the Co-op's relations with other components of the labour movement; and its ideology, image and memory. The collection looks at the Co-operative movement locally (through specific case studies), nationally and also in comparison to the European movement. This collection will appeal to academics, researchers, teachers and students of the economic, cultural and political history of twentieth-century Britain. It will also be of interest to academics and students of business studies, and co-operative members themselves. ;
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Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as conspirators and terrorists, putting them into one convenient basket, than to seek to understand and disentangle the complex motivations of opponents. So it is not surprising to see that just when the French Revolution was creating the modern political world, a constant obsession with conspiracies lay at the heart of the revolutionary conception of politics. The book considers the nature and development of the conspiracy obsession from the end of the old regime to the Directory. Chapters focus on conspiracy and fears of conspiracy in the old regime; in the Constituent Assembly; by the king and Marie Antoinette; amongst the people of Paris; on attitudes towards the peasantry and conspiracy; on Jacobin politics of the Year II and the 'foreign plot'; on counter-revolutionary plots and imaginary plots; on Babeuf and the 'conspiracy of equals'; and finally on fear of conspiracy as an intellectual impasse in the revolutionary mentality. Inspired by recent debates, this book is a comprehensive survey of the nature of conspiracy in the French Revolution, with each chapter written by a leading historian on the question. Each chapter is an original contribution to the topic, written however to include the wider issues for the area concerned. There is an emphasis throughout on clarity and accessibility, making the volume suitable for a wide readership as well as undergraduates and advanced researchers ;
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The four friends Fiona, Aurelia, Jana and Leni thoroughly enjoy their friendship with their sparkling ponies and they’re looking forward to the festival that’s about to take place at Funfield Pony Farm. But there’s a lot to be done first. Only Aurelia can’t really enjoy the prospect because the problem she has to solve with the mare Luna is really giving her a tough time. Suddenly Fiona and Sunny are also given a tricky task. And when the secret of the sparkling ponies is then in danger of being exposed, everything goes topsy-turvy. Will the friends end up enjoying the pony festival or not?
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Whilst the actual reduction of nitrogen gas (dinitrogen) to ammonia would appear to be a well defined process, many research questions concerning nitrogen fixation remain and continue to be addressed by diverse groups of scientists. This book presents the proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in July 2001. With very broad participation and a wide range of topics, it covers the most recent findings. In fifteen sections the main topics discussed include; bacterial genomics, plant genomics, development biology, signals in the soil, nodule metabolism and applied aspects of nitrogen fixation.
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Was gibt es schöneres als die Freundschaft zu einem Funkelpony? Nichts für Fiona, Aurelia, Jana und Leni! Die vier Freundinnen erleben in Band 3 ein neues funkelig-geheimnisvolles Abenteuer mit ihren Lieblingen vom Ponyhof Funkelwiese. Ein Fest wird geplant auf dem Ponyhof Funkelwiese! Die vier Freundinnen und ihre Ponys freuen sich schon sehr darauf, doch es gibt noch mächtig viel vorzubereiten. Nur Aurelia kann sich nicht so richtig freuen, denn sie hat zusammen mit der Stute Luna eine schwere neue Funkelaufgabe. Und auch Fionas und Sunnys Funkelstein leuchtet plötzlich. Als dann auch noch das Geheimnis der Funkelponys aufzufliegen droht, geht alles drunter und drüber. Ob die Freundinnen das alles mit ihren Ponys meistern können und am Ende ein schönes Hoffest feiern? Weitere Bände der Reihe: Die Funkelponys (1) Eine Freundin für Sunny Die Funkelponys (2) Geheimnis um Stella
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Wer sich bisher nicht an Homer heranwagte, weil er sich durch die Versform oder die altertümliche Sprache der vorliegenden Übersetzungen abgeschreckt fühlte, kann in der Prosaübertragung von Karl Ferdinand Lempp die Ilias und die Odyssee als das erleben, was diese ältesten Dokumente der europäischen Literatur wirklich sind: fesselnde Romane. Die hier erstmals aus dem Nachlaß edierte Gesamtübersetzung von Karl Ferdinand Lempp befreit diese beiden zusammengehörigen Weltbücher, in denen der Krieg der Kriege und die Reise aller Reisen erzählt werden, von den Schlacken, die sich der antiken Vortragsform verdanken, und greift behutsam erklärend ein, wenn der Inhalt dem heutigen Leser nicht ohne weiteres verständlich ist. Ohne sprachliche Anbiederung präsentiert Lempp einen modernen und temporeichen Text, der den Zorn des Achill und die Irrfahrten des Odysseus so unmittelbar vor Augen führt, als wäre alles erst gestern geschehen.
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Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion and across geographic regions, with ecosystem and agricultural consequences. This book deals with large-scale impacts but also how UV-B affects plants at the molecular level is also fascinating, and the UV-B photoreceptor has only recently been characterised. While UV-B radiation can be damaging, it also has a more positive role in plant photomorphogenesis. Consequently UV-B treatments are being developed as innovative approaches to improve horticulture. This book is a timely synthesis of what we know and need to know about UV-B radiation and plants.
