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 Statistics for Environmental Science and Management By Bryan F.J. Manly 2000 | 323 Pages | ISBN: 1584880295 | PDF | 2 MB The use of appropriate statistical methods is essential when working with environmental data. Yet, many environmental professionals are not statisticians. A ready reference guide to the most common methods used in environmental applications, Statistics for Environmental Science and Management introduces the statistical methods most frequently used by environmental scientists, managers, and students. Using a non-mathematical approach, the author describes techniques such as: environmental monitoring, impact assessment, assessing site reclamation, censored data, and Monte Carlo risk assessment, as well as the key topics of time series and spatial data. The book shows the strengths of different types of conclusions available from statistical analyses. It contains internet sources of information that give readers access to the latest information on specific topics.The author's easy to understand style makes the subject matter accessible to anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the basics of statistics while emphasizing how the techniques are applied in the environmental field. Clearly and copiously illustrated with line drawings and tables, Statistics for Environmental Science and Management covers all the statistical methods used with environmental applications and is suitable as a text for graduate students in the environmental science area.  Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials By Stephen Simon 2006 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0198567618 | PDF | 3 MB Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials is a lucid, well-written and entertaining text that addresses common pitfalls in evaluating medical research. Including extensive use of publications from the medical literature and a non-technical account of how to appraise the quality of evidence presented in these publications, this book is ideal for health care professionals, students in medical or nursing schools, researchers and students in statistics, and anyone needing to assess the evidence published in medical journals.  Stationen (MindTap Course List) 4th Edition by Prisca Augustyn Deutsch, English | 2020 | ISBN: 0357029941 | 484 Pages | PDF | 129 MB
 State Interest and the Sources of International Law: Doctrine, Morality, and Non-Treaty Law by Markus P. Beham English | May 2, 2018 | ISBN: 1138298786, 0367590794 | 251 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book addresses the disparity between positive non-treaty law and its scholarly assessment in the area of moral concepts, understood as altruistic as opposed to reciprocal legal obligations. It shows how scholars are generously willing to assert the existence of a rule of international law, thereby moving further away from actual state practice, not taking into account the factors of legal rhetoric and the core survival interests of the state in the formation of custom and general principles of law. The main argument is that such moral concepts can simply not manifest themselves as non-treaty sources of international law from a dogmatic perspective. The reason is the inherent connection between the formation of the non-treaty sources of international law and state interest that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to assess state practice or opinio juris in the case of altruistic obligations. The book further demonstrates this finding by looking at two cases in point: Human rights and humanitarian exceptions to
 Kate Champion, "Starting Out or Starting Over: Top 10 Tips for Runners: Advice, Injuries, & Support" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1734480629 | 106 pages | AZW3, EPUB, PDF | 5 MB Starting Out or Starting Over is dedicated to supporting and inspiring you, regardless of age or ability, as you build or re-build that running habit.Inspired by runners for runners - Starting Out or Starting Over weaves habit-building science and behavioral psychology together with lots of practical tools and advice creating a fresh, unique perspective.What can you expect?Written in sections with easy-to-follow downloadable worksheets:* Section One: Learn how to supercharge your starting energy and willpower* Section Two: Teaches you how to build and sustain your running - or walking - habit* Section Three: Hear from the pros! Tips and sage advice - about everything from shoes to safety* Section Four: The facts about injuries: prevention, what to look for, causes, and how to care for injuriesPlus! A Bonus Section: Your opportunity to get crystal clear about your goals and your whys while creating a unique action plan to keep you moving through the good - and the challenging - days.Looking for the ideal running companion? Great news! Starting Out or Starting Over is your guide - every step of the way!P.S. This book is great for walkers too...  Starting Digital Signal Processing in Telecommunication Engineering: A Laboratory-based Course (Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering) by Tomasz P. Zieliński  Speech Technologies by Ivo Ipsic English | 2011 | ISBN: n/a | ISBN: 9789533079967 | 432 pages | PDF | 25,6 MB This book addresses different aspects of the research field and a wide range of topics in speech signal processing, speech recognition and language processing. The chapters are divided in three different sections: Speech Signal Modeling, Speech Recognition and Applications.  Species. New Interdisciplinary Essays By Robert A. Wilson 1999 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0262731231 | PDF | 43 MB "This is a fresh, well-conceived collection on one of the most persistent problems in the philosophy of biology--the species problem. Unlike most anthologies, but like many species, it is cohesive and integrated." -- Robert N. Brandon, Professor of Philsophy and Zoology, Duke UniversityThe concept of species has played a central role in both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology, and has been the focus of a number of books in recent years. This book differs from other recent collections in two ways. It is more explicitly integrative and analytical, centering on issues of general significance such as pluralism and realism about species. It also draws on a broader range of disciplines and brings neglected cognitive, anthropological, and historical dimensions to philosophical debates over species.The chapters are organized around five themes: unity, integration, and pluralism; species realism; historical dimensions; cognitive underpinnings; and practical import. The contributors include prominent researchers from anthropology, botany, developmental psychology, the philosophy of biology and science, protozoology, and zoology.Contributors: Scott Atran, Richard Boyd, Kevin de Queiroz, John Dupré, Marc Ereshefsky, Paul E. Griffiths, David L. Hull, Frank C. Keil, Brent D. Mishler, David L. Nanney, Daniel C. Richardson, Kim Sterelny, Robet A. Wilson.
 Speaking, Actually:: Towards a New 'Fluid' Common-Sense Understanding of Relational Becomings by Everything is Connected Press English | October 18, 2016 | ISBN: 0993072348 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 0.488 Mb This is a philosophy book for psychotherapists, psychologists, organisational consultants and scholars who are interested in the construction of each other and our social worlds, how we make meaning together and move along with people in dialogue. It is a book written to get beyond superficial and fake talking practices. John Shotter goes further than a purely cognitive understanding of what it means to be human and shows us different ways of appreciating the nuanced movements in acts of developing relational know-how to create new ways of being - and becoming.Ann L. Cunliffe, Professor of Management, University of Bradford: "It is impossible to capture in a few words all the fine detail and nuances of this beautifully crafted book, it invites careful reading. The title brings together the key themes of John's work across time, themes that invite and challenge us to go beyond taken-for-granted ways of thinking to engage differently with our social world, our place within it, and our ways of generating knowledge. Crucially, he argues we need to develop a discursive consciousness, to make a difference that matters by 'humanifying' ourselves as practitioners and scholars."Harlene Anderson, PhD, Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute, USA: "Shotter develops his challenge of our dependence on existing theoretical perspectives and their representations suggesting these orient us to, and reinforce, the familiar, blinding us to the nuances, uniqueness, and previously unseen or ignored details of our everyday lives and the people in it. His illuminated challenge draws on his remarkable grasp and interpretation of classic philosophers such as Bakhtin, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and contemporary critical thinkers such as Barad, Bertau, and Lipari." Peter Rober, Professor of Family Therapy, KU Leuven, Nederlands: "John Shotter is a thinker. Thinking has become quite unusual in academic psychology nowadays, dominated as it is by a narrow empirical perspective, and a distrust of philosophical reflection. This book is required reading for all family therapists who are interested in the dialogical perspective. But be warned: this is far from a manual. It is food for reflection. This book of Shotter's is important, as it urges us to be careful with the language we use. The words we casually speak can keep us captive in our usual, individualistic-rationalistic-mechanistic ways of dealing with things, resulting in a world of fragmentation and separation. It is a rich book, that (not withstanding its urgency) should be savored slowly. Like a good wine." Jim Wilson, Systemic Psychotherapist & past Chair, The Family Institute, Cardiff: "Take this book, read it and ponder on how it influences your ways of meeting in social relations in your life. Shotter's strong and committed voice of dissent towards academic modernist psychology rings throughout the text. Instead of grand claims toward generalised truths, he emphasises the significance of local, proximal and familial, as the sites of fresh beginnings and new possibilities. In Shotter's eyes we can see optimism in achieving important human connections in the apparently ordinary ways of being and becoming. In this comprehensive text, he sets out to challenge the over-emphasis in the fields of modernist research that would have us believe that science will provide the necessary answers to complex matters of human livingness." Kenneth Gergen, Senior Research Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College and Taos Institute USA: "John Shotter generously shares with us his rich and illuminating conversations with a host of textual friends. Indeed, these conversations - with their flowing forms without formulations, disclosings without closings - exemplify the major thrust of this inspiring work. Life and love are to be found in sensitive, sensual, and unceasing dialogue."
 Rafael Orozco, "Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence " English | ISBN: 9027200378 | 2018 | 209 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting differences in the effects of social predictors. The book provides a window into the effects of language and dialect contact on change and serves as a model for studies comparing diasporic populations to their home speech communities. |
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