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Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

By: Esra Bas

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Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

By: Esra Bas

This textbook explores probability and stochastic processes at a level that does not require any prior knowledge except basic calculus. It presents the fundamental concepts in a step-by-step manner, and offers remarks and warnings for deeper insights. The chapters include basic examples, which are revisited as the new concepts are introduced. To aid learning, figures and diagrams are used to help readers grasp the concepts, and the solutions to the exercises and problems. Further, a table format is also used where relevant for better comparison of the ideas and formulae. The first part of the book introduces readers to the essentials of probability, including combinatorial analysis, conditional probability, and discrete and continuous random variable. The second part then covers fundamental stochastic processes, including point, counting, renewal and regenerative processes, the Poisson process, Markov chains, queuing models and reliability theory. Primarily intended for undergraduate engineering students, it is also useful for graduate-level students wanting to refresh their knowledge of the basics of probability and stochastic processes.

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Springer Nature

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3030323234

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9783030323233

Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World

By: Esra Akın

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Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World

By: Esra Akın

The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli’s (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli’s biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.

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600

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BRILL

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9047441079

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9789047441076

Being German, Becoming Muslim

Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe

By: Esra Özyürek

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Being German, Becoming Muslim

Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe

By: Esra Özyürek

Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts—a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today’s Europe. Esra Özyürek looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment. Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.

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187

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Princeton University Press

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1400852714

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9781400852710

Rna Silencing

By: Esra Galun

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Rna Silencing

By: Esra Galun

This book focuses on an emerging, central issue in molecular genetics and the development of eukaryotes: the control of gene expression by small species of RNA. As an exciting new field of endeavor, it is the first book by a single author to deal comprehensively with RNA silencing.The book provides the historical background of the field preceding the seminal work by Fire and associates in 1998 on the impact of small double-stranded RNA on the expression of nematode genes, which is considered the beginning of RNA silencing research. RNA silencing is described in a wide range of plants and animals including protozoa, simple metazoa, insects, non-mammalian vertebrates, and mammals. In each case the experimental results are provided with the accompanying background and with illustrations. There is also an appendix on the prospective use of RNA silencing in gene therapy, which is intended as a guide for investigators wishing to explore this possibility.

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469

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813106476

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9789813106475

Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy

History, Theory, and Aesthetics

By: Esra Akın-Kıvanç

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Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy

History, Theory, and Aesthetics

By: Esra Akın-Kıvanç

Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirror image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. This style elaborates on various scripts such as Kufic, naskh, and muhaqqaq through compositional arrangements, including doubling, superimposing, and stacking. Muthanna is found in diverse media, ranging from architecture, textiles, and tiles to paper, metalwork, and woodwork. Yet despite its centuries-old history and popularity in countries from Iran to Spain, scholarship on the form has remained limited and flawed. Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy provides a comprehensive study of the text and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation. Author Esra Akın-Kıvanc explores muthanna's relationship to similar forms of writing in Judaic and Christian contexts, as well as the specifically Islamic contexts within which symmetrically mirrored compositions reached full fruition, were assigned new meanings, and transformed into more complex visual forms. Throughout, Akın-Kıvanc imaginatively plays on the implicit relationship between subject and object in muthanna by examining the point of view of the artist, the viewer, and the work of art. In doing so, this study elaborates on the vital links between outward form and inner meaning in Islamic calligraphy.

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350

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Indiana University Press

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0253049237

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9780253049230

Shakespeare's Demonology

A Dictionary

By: Marion Gibson,Jo Ann Esra

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Shakespeare's Demonology

A Dictionary

By: Marion Gibson,Jo Ann Esra

This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.

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252

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A&C Black

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1472500318

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9781472500311

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

By: Esra Çizmeci

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Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

By: Esra Çizmeci

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey. Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders maintain, adapt, mobilise, and empower their beliefs and values through embodied acts of their Sufi followers. Using an ethnographic methodology and theories derived from performance studies, Esra Çizmeci examines the multiple ways in which the post-tariqa Mevlevi and Rifai practice is formed in present-day Turkey, such as through the authority of the spiritual teacher; the individual and collective performance of Sufi rituals; nefs (self) training; and, most importantly, the practice of Sufi doctrines in everyday life through the production of sacred spaces. Drawing on the theories of performance, she examines how the Sufi way of living and spaces are created anew in the process of each devotee’s embodied action. This book is informed by theories in performance studies, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies and places current Sufi practices in a historical perspective.

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221

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Taylor & Francis

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1000998622

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9781000998627

Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

By: Esra Bas

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Book's by Esra Bas

Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists

Being German, Becoming Muslim

Being German, Becoming Muslim

Rna Silencing

Rna Silencing

Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy

Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy

Shakespeare's Demonology

Shakespeare's Demonology

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes

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