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Modeling and Simulation of Everyday Things

By: Michael W. Roth

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Modeling and Simulation of Everyday Things

By: Michael W. Roth

How can computer modeling and simulation tools be used to understand and analyze common situations and everyday problems? Readers will find here an easy-to-follow, enjoyable introduction for anyone even with little background training. Examples are incorporated throughout to stimulate interest and engage the reader. Build the necessary skillsets with operating systems, editing, languages, commands, and visualization. Obtain hands-on examples from sports, accidents, and disease to problems of heat transfer, fluid flow, waves, and groundwater flow. Includes discussion of parallel computing and graphics processing units. This introductory, practical guide is suitable for students at any level up to professionals looking to use modeling and simulation to help solve basic to more advanced problems. Michael W. Roth, PhD, serves as Dean of the School of STEM and Business at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa. He was most recently Chair for three years at Northern Kentucky University's Department of Physics, Geology and Engineering Technology, and holds several awards for teaching excellence.

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CRC Press

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1351067745

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Visuomotor Coordination

Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots

By: Jorg Peter Ewert,Michael A. Arbib

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Visuomotor Coordination

Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots

By: Jorg Peter Ewert,Michael A. Arbib

Various brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian brain may thus be regarded as a kind of "microcosm" of the highly complex primate brain, as far as certain homologous structures, sensory functions, and assigned ballistic (pre-planned and pre-pro grammed) motor and behavioral processes are concerned. A variety of fundamental operations that underlie perception, cognition, sensorimotor transformation and its modulation appear to proceed in primate's brain in a way understandable in terms of basic principles which can be investigated more easily by experiments in amphibians. We have learned that progress in the quantitative description and evaluation of these principles can be obtained with guidance from theory. Modeling - supported by simulation - is a process of transforming abstract theory derived from data into testable structures. Where empirical data are lacking or are difficult to obtain because of structural constraints, the modeler makes assumptions and approximations that, by themselves, are a source of hypotheses. If a neural model is then tied to empirical data, it can be used to predict results and hence again to become subject to experimental tests whose resulting data in tum will lead to further improvements of the model. By means of our present models of visuomotor coordination and its modulation by state-dependent inputs, we are just beginning to simulate and analyze how external information is represented within different brain structures and how these structures use these operations to control adaptive behavior.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489908978

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The Physics of Evolution

By: Michael W. Roth

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The Physics of Evolution

By: Michael W. Roth

This book provides an introduction to the significant role of physics in evolution, based on the ideas of matter and energy resource flow, organism self-copying, and ecological change. The text employs these ideas to create quantitative models for important evolutionary processes. Many fields of science and engineering have come up against the problem of complex design—when details become so numerous that computer power alone cannot make progress. Nature solved the complex-design problem using evolution, yet how it did so has been a mystery. Both laboratory experiments and computer-simulation attempts eventually stopped evolving. Something more than Darwin’s ideas of heredity, variation, and selection was needed. The solution is that there is a fourth element to evolution: ecological change. When a new variation is selected, this can change the ecology, and the new ecology can create new opportunities for even more new variations to be selected. Through this endless cycle, complexity can grow automatically. This book uses the physics of resource flow to describe this process in detail, developing quantitative models for many evolutionary processes, including selection, multicellularity, coevolution, sexual reproduction, and the Serengeti Rules. The text demonstrates that these models are in conceptual agreement with numerous examples of biological phenomena, and reveals, through physics, how complex design can arise naturally. This will serve as a key text on the part physics plays in evolution, and will be of great interest to students at the university level and above studying biophysics, physics, systems biology, and related fields.

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1000890546

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Reading Instruction That Works

By: Tim Pressley,Richard L. Allington,Michael Pressley

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Reading Instruction That Works

By: Tim Pressley,Richard L. Allington,Michael Pressley

Now in a revised and updated fifth edition, this gold-standard text and K–8 practitioner resource provides a roadmap for comprehensive literacy instruction informed by the science of reading. Rather than advocating one best approach, the book shows how to balance skills- and meaning-focused instruction to support all students' success. Chapters describe specific ways to build word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, especially for learners who are struggling. The book explains the conceptual underpinnings of recommended strategies and techniques and shows how exemplary teachers actually put them into practice. New to This Edition *Updated throughout with new coauthor Tim Pressley; incorporates the latest research about reading development and difficulties. *Chapter on instruction for emergent bilingual learners (EBs), plus an appendix on selecting texts for EBs. *Expanded discussions of dyslexia and the role of executive function in reading. *Application tables that translate key concepts into recommended classroom strategies.

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Guilford Publications

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146255184X

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Wisdom, You Are My Sister

Studies in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

By: Michael Barré SS

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Wisdom, You Are My Sister

Studies in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday

By: Michael Barré SS

This book is made up of 14 studies on wisdom-related issues, dedicated to a fine wisdom scholar, Roland Murphy.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666786675

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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith,Jerry March

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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith,Jerry March

The Sixth Edition of a classic in organic chemistry continues its tradition of excellence Now in its sixth edition, March's Advanced Organic Chemistry remains the gold standard in organic chemistry. Throughout its six editions, students and chemists from around the world have relied on it as an essential resource for planning and executing synthetic reactions. The Sixth Edition brings the text completely current with the most recent organic reactions. In addition, the references have been updated to enable readers to find the latest primary and review literature with ease. New features include: More than 25,000 references to the literature to facilitate further research Revised mechanisms, where required, that explain concepts in clear modern terms Revisions and updates to each chapter to bring them all fully up to date with the latest reactions and discoveries A revised Appendix B to facilitate correlating chapter sections with synthetic transformations

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470084944

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Organic Synthesis

By: Michael Smith

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Organic Synthesis

By: Michael Smith

The first two chapters provide an introduction to functional groups; these are followed by chapters reviewing basic organic transformations (e.g. oxidation, reduction). The book then looks at carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and ways to 'disconnect' a bigger molecule into simpler building blocks. Most chapters include an extensive list of questions to test the reader's understanding. There is also a new chapter outlining full retrosynthetic analyses of complex molecules which highlights common problems made by scientists.

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Academic Press

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1890661406

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The Future of the Body

Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature

By: Michael Murphy

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The Future of the Body

Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature

By: Michael Murphy

In the oral and written histories of every culture, there are countless records of men and women who have displayed extraordinary physical, mental, and spiritual capacities. In modern times, those records have been supplemented by scientific studies of exceptional functioning. Are the limits of human growth fixed? Are extraordinary abilities latent within everyone? Is there evidence that humanity has unrealized capacities for self-transcendence? Are there specific practices through which ordinary people can develop these abilities? Michael Murphy has studied these questions for over thirty years. In The Future of the Body, he presents evidence for metanormal perception, cognition, movement, vitality, and spiritual development from more than 3,000 sources. Surveying ancient and modern records in medical science, sports, anthropology, the arts, psychical research, comparative religious studies, and dozens of other disciplines, Murphy has created an encyclopedia of exceptional functioning of body, mind, and spirit. He paints a broad and convincing picture of the possibilities of further evolutionary development of human attributes. By studying metanormal abilities under a wide range of conditions, Murphy suggests that we can identify those activities that typically evoke these capacities and assemble them into a coherent program of transformative practice. A few of Murphy's central observations and proposal include: The observation that cultural conditioning powerfully shapes (or extinguishes) metanormal capacities. The proposition that we cannot comprehend our potentials for extraordinary life without an empirical approach that involves many fields of inquiry and different kinds of knowing. The notion that a widespread realization of extraordinary capacities would constitute an evolutionary transcendence analogous to the rise of humankind from its primal ancestry. The proposal that all or most instances of significant human development are produced by a limited number of identifiable activities such as disciplined self-observation, visualization of desired capacities, and caring for others. The idea that a balanced development of our various capacities is possible through integrated practices. In The Future Of The Body, Murphy states that such practices can carry forward Earth's evolutionary adventure and lead humanity to the next step in its development.

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Penguin

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0874777305

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Diversity and Education

A Critical Multicultural Approach

By: Michael Vavrus

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Diversity and Education

A Critical Multicultural Approach

By: Michael Vavrus

In his new book, Michael Vavrus helps readers better understand why issues of diversity and difference are so highly contested in the United States and across the globe. Vavrus incorporates specific education examples throughout the text to examine six contested areas: race and ethnicity; socioeconomic class and culture; multicultural and ethnic studies; language; religion; and sexuality and gender. In each of these areas, the author explores how contrasting worldviews found in social conservatism, liberal multiculturalism, and critical multiculturalism influence our understandings about difference and diversity and the education policies we develop as a result. Diversity and Education is designed to help educators move beyond the “how can they believe that?” knee-jerk reaction toward a more informed, strategic understanding of belief systems and political affiliations. Book Features: Brings a contemporary, 21st–century perspective to differing political orientations toward diversity and education. Examines outcomes of diversity debates on children of color, the poor, immigrants, women, and sexual and religious minorities. Uses critical pedagogy with a historical and political economy lens to explain current diversity issues in education. Critiques the diversity stance of new national teacher education standards from the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation. “Diversity and Education can not only help us have conversations about racism, institutionalizedoppression, and cultural fear, it can also offer an intervention that can movereaders towards a deeper critical consciousness about diversity and multicultural education in their own lives.” —From the Foreword by Wayne Au, associate professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, and an editor for Rethinking Schools “Few education scholars have offered as potent and cogent a political and economic analysis of multicultural education and diversity as Professor Michael Vavrus has in his new book. His critique of neoliberalism via critical pedagogy and his advocacy of social justice education are timely and praiseworthy.” —Ramin Farahmandpur, professor, Graduate School of Education, Portland State University “Diversity and Education is a must-read for anyone concerned about why so many policies claiming to ‘help’ diverse students fail, and what alternatives exist. Vavrus clearly believes in the power of teachers who are well-educated critical thinkers. In this lucid and compelling text, he skillfully applies a highly useful framework to unpack historical and contemporary debates about core concepts underlying multiple struggles for education and rights.” —Christine Sleeter, professor emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay

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Teachers College Press

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0807773433

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Psychosocial Aspects of Disability

Insider Perspectives and Strategies for Counselors

By: Dr. Irmo Marini,Noreen M. Glover-Graf,Michael Jay Millington

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Psychosocial Aspects of Disability

Insider Perspectives and Strategies for Counselors

By: Dr. Irmo Marini,Noreen M. Glover-Graf,Michael Jay Millington

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826106021

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Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

By: Joseph E. Pizzorno,Michael T. Murray

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Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

By: Joseph E. Pizzorno,Michael T. Murray

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Complementary & Integrative Health**

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0323523803

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9780323523806

Lebesgue and Sobolev Spaces with Variable Exponents

By: Lars Diening,Petteri Harjulehto,Peter Hästö,Michael Ruzicka

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Lebesgue and Sobolev Spaces with Variable Exponents

By: Lars Diening,Petteri Harjulehto,Peter Hästö,Michael Ruzicka

The field of variable exponent function spaces has witnessed an explosive growth in recent years. The standard reference article for basic properties is already 20 years old. Thus this self-contained monograph collecting all the basic properties of variable exponent Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces is timely and provides a much-needed accessible reference work utilizing consistent notation and terminology. Many results are also provided with new and improved proofs. The book also presents a number of applications to PDE and fluid dynamics.

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Springer

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3642183638

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How to Demolish Racism

Lessons from the State of Hawai'i

By: Michael Haas

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How to Demolish Racism

Lessons from the State of Hawai'i

By: Michael Haas

This book describes racist rule in Hawai’i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformation. Based on a multicultural ethos, top political power shifted from Whites to Japanese and later to other racial groups. Racism was eliminated in the economy, environmental policies were modified, government operations became more multicultural, and the desires of Native Hawaiians to recover what had been lost from the days of the Kingdom of Hawai‛i were placed on legal and political agendas. Even before statehood, Hawai‛i’s example of school integration gave birth to the movement resulting in Brown v Board of Education. Afterward, the Aloha State was the first to adopt many reforms: unrestricted abortion, universal health care insurance, an Equal Rights Amendment, a State Ombudsman, neighborhood boards, classifying Whites as a “minority” in affirmative action, banning strip searches of females, and dozens of other innovative reforms that have been adopted elsewhere. Hawai‛i remains the only state that is officially bilingual, has required mediation before foreclosures, celebrates an Islam Day, prohibits discrimination based on credit history and breastfeeding, bans smoking until the age of 21, disallows plastic bags, has declared an end to the use of fossil fuels by 2045, and has adopted many other measures that lead the world. This book explains how developments in the Aloha State, which have provided leadership to the United States, may be copied elsewhere, primarily based on the technique of reverse cultural engineering, which is the unrecognized basis for legal systems around the world.

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Lexington Books

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1498543219

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Ideological Dilemmas

A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking

By: Michael Billig

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Ideological Dilemmas

A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking

By: Michael Billig

A major contribution to the social scientific understanding of how people make sense of their lives, Ideological Dilemmas presents an illuminating new approach to the study of everyday thinking. Contradictory strands abound within both ideology and common sense. In contrast to many modern theorists, the authors see these dilemmas of ideology as enabling, rather than inhibiting: thinking about them helps people to think meaningfully about themselves and the world. The dilemmas within ideology and their effects on thinking are explored through the analysis of what people say in specific key situations: education, medical care, race and gender. The authors identify common ideological themes running through the common-sense discourses they analyse. They highlight the tensions between themes of equality and authority, freedom and necessity, individuality and collectivity. Time and again, the contradictions between these ideological themes crop up as respondents argue and puzzle over their social worlds. Written with refreshing clarity, the discussion cuts across the boundary which often separates sociology from social psychology. Sociologists are reminded that the reproduction of ideology involves individual processes of thinking; social psychologists are urged to recognize the ideological nature of thought.

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Sage Publications (CA)

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0803980965

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Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds in the Gas State

By: Michael Frenkel,G J Kabo,K N Marsh,G N Roganov,R C Wilhoit

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Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds in the Gas State

By: Michael Frenkel,G J Kabo,K N Marsh,G N Roganov,R C Wilhoit

Volume II of two, from the Thermodymaics Research Centre, this includes Thermodynamic Functions of the Substances in the Ideal Gas State; and Empirical Functions for Thermodynamical Properties of Ideal Gases.

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188340004X

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Book's by Michael W. Roth

Modeling and Simulation of Everyday Things

Modeling and Simulation of Everyday Things

Visuomotor Coordination

Visuomotor Coordination

The Physics of Evolution

The Physics of Evolution

Reading Instruction That Works

Reading Instruction That Works

Wisdom, You Are My Sister

Wisdom, You Are My Sister

March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Organic Synthesis

Organic Synthesis

The Future of the Body

The Future of the Body

Diversity and Education

Diversity and Education

Psychosocial Aspects of Disability

Psychosocial Aspects of Disability

Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

Lebesgue and Sobolev Spaces with Variable Exponents

Lebesgue and Sobolev Spaces with Variable Exponents

How to Demolish Racism

How to Demolish Racism

Ideological Dilemmas

Ideological Dilemmas

Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds in the Gas State

Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds in the Gas State

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