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Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

A Story Told by Data

By: Elaine Fehrman,Vincent Egan,Alexander N. Gorban,Jeremy Levesley,Evgeny M. Mirkes,Awaz K. Muhammad

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Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

A Story Told by Data

By: Elaine Fehrman,Vincent Egan,Alexander N. Gorban,Jeremy Levesley,Evgeny M. Mirkes,Awaz K. Muhammad

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs. After reviewing published works on the psychological profiles of drug users and describing the data mining and machine learning methods used, it demonstrates that the personality traits (five factor model, impulsivity, and sensation seeking) together with simple demographic data make it possible to predict the risk of consumption of individual drugs with a sensitivity and specificity above 70% for most drugs. It also analyzes the correlations of use of different substances and describes the groups of drugs with correlated use, identifying significant differences in personality profiles for users of different drugs. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD students, as well as researchers and practitioners. Although no previous knowledge of machine learning, advanced data mining concepts or modern psychology of personality is assumed, familiarity with basic statistics and some experience in the use of probabilities would be helpful. For a more detailed introduction to statistical methods, the book provides recommendations for undergraduate textbooks.

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3030104427

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Thermodynamic Equilibria and Extrema

Analysis of Attainability Regions and Partial Equilibrium

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Boris M. Kaganovich,Sergey P. Filippov,Alexandre V. Keiko,Vitaly A. Shamansky,Igor A. Shirkalin

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Thermodynamic Equilibria and Extrema

Analysis of Attainability Regions and Partial Equilibrium

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Boris M. Kaganovich,Sergey P. Filippov,Alexandre V. Keiko,Vitaly A. Shamansky,Igor A. Shirkalin

Since the creation of classical equilibrium thermodynamics in the second part of the nineteenth century by Clausius, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Gibbs, and Bolzmann, its potential has increased immeasurably due to the rapid development of numerical mathematics and computers. Now models based on Gibbs's fundamental equations allow one not only to find the point of final equilibrium in a given system, but also to examine the entire area thermodynamically attainable from a given initial point. Moreover, they are capable of finding in this area the equilibrium states (partial equilibria) of interest to a researcher for their extreme values of a considered parameter such as the concentration of useful or harmful products of a chemical process. In doing so, it appears possible to take into consideration in a strict thermodynamic form (with no use of the time variable) the limitations posed by chemical reaction rates and irreversible processes of mass, energy, and impulse transfer.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038728575X

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9780387285757

Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Iliya V. Karlin

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Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Iliya V. Karlin

By bringing together various ideas and methods for extracting the slow manifolds, the authors show that it is possible to establish a more macroscopic description in nonequilibrium systems. The book treats slowness as stability. A unifying geometrical viewpoint of the thermodynamics of slow and fast motion enables the development of reduction techniques, both analytical and numerical. Examples considered in the book range from the Boltzmann kinetic equation and hydrodynamics to the Fokker-Planck equations of polymer dynamics and models of chemical kinetics describing oxidation reactions. Special chapters are devoted to model reduction in classical statistical dynamics, natural selection, and exact solutions for slow hydrodynamic manifolds. The book will be a major reference source for both theoretical and applied model reduction. Intended primarily as a postgraduate-level text in nonequilibrium kinetics and model reduction, it will also be valuable to PhD students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics and various fields of engineering.

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3540226842

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Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Iliya V. Karlin

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Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

Thermodynamic Equilibria and Extrema

Thermodynamic Equilibria and Extrema

Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

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