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  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Observers for Linear Systems

    • 1 Edición
    • John O'Reilly
    • Inglés
    My aim, in writing this monograph, has been to remedy this omission by presenting a comprehensive and unified theory of observers for continuous-time and discrete -time linear systems. The book is intended for post-graduate students and researchers specializing in control systems, now a core subject in a number of disciplines. Forming, as it does, a self-contained volume it should also be of service to control engineers primarily interested in applications, and to mathematicians with some exposure to control problems.

  • Acoustic Communication in Birds

    Production, Perception and Design Features of Sounds
    • 1 Edición
    • Kroodsma
    • Inglés
    Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 1: Production, Perception, and Design Features of Sounds presents the scientific study of bird vocalizations. This book discusses the relations between the physical structure of bird vocalization and their quality as perceived by the recipient. Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the first sound recording of bird sound. This text then outlines some of the complex processes and events between sound production and behavior response to sound. Other chapters consider the study of neural control of vocalizations in birds. This book discusses as well the acoustic information transmitted through the wide range of habitats plays a crucial role in different avian behaviors, including individual and species recognition, territorial defense, mate selection, and song learning. The final chapter deals with a more detailed functional interpretation of a particular sound. This book is a valuable resource for ornithologists, ethologists, and research workers.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • Inglés
    Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to provide scholarly technical articles that serve as reference material and provide a forum for scholarly speculation. In these documented critical reviews, recent advances in the field are summarized and integrated; complexities are exposed; and fresh viewpoints are offered. They should be useful not only to the expert in the area but also to the general reader.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Introductory Dynamical Oceanography

    • 2 Edición
    • Stephen Pond + 1 más
    • Inglés
    'Introductory Dynamical Oceanography' 2nd ed provides an introduction to Dynamical Physical Oceanography at a level suitable for senior year undergraduate students in the sciences and for graduate students entering oceanography. It aims to present the basic objectives, procedures and successes and to state some of the present limitations of dynamical oceanography and its relations to descriptive physical oceanography. The first edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and the new work includes reference to the Practical Salinity Scale 1978, the International Equation of State 1980 and the beta-spiral technique for calculating absolute currents from the density distribution. In addition the description of mixed-layer models has been updated and the chapters on Waves and on Tides have been substantially revised and enlarged, with emphasis on internal waves in the Waves chapter. While the text is self-contained readers are recommended to acquaint themselves with the general aspects of descriptive (synoptic) oceanography in order to be aware of the character of the ocean which the dynamical oceanographer is attempting to explain by referring to Pickard and Emery's 'Descriptive Physical Oceanography' 4th edition.

  • Religious Studies

    Made Simple
    • 1 Edición
    • David Stent
    • Inglés
    Religious Studies Made Simple discusses the historical background, beliefs, and practices of religions that influence the world, particular Christianity. The text reviews the development of religion from Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The Hindu religion is over 3,000 years old and teaches that there are different gods. The author traces the roots of Judaism to Abraham—this is the first religion to teach monotheism. Siddhartha Gautama is the founder of Buddhism, a religion that teaches compassion to all living beings. The author explains that Christianity started as an answer to some Jewish expectation of a messiah. For Christians, Jesus Christ is regarded as the savior. The author discusses the Christian approach to issues such as responsibilities to self, to family, to society, and the Christian attitude to war. The author also addresses the ethical problems that medical developments have presented to Christian, as well as discrimination issues such as apartheid. This book is intended for candidates pursuing an A level course in Religious Studies, and students or academicians interested in philosophy, divinity or social studies.

  • The Biology of Crustacea

    Volume 1: Systematics, The Fossil Record, And Biogeography
    • 1 Edición
    • Bozzano G Luisa
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 16
    • Inglés

  • The Enzymes

    • 3 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • The Enzymes

    • 3 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Handbook of Mathematical Economics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 2
    • M.D. Intriligator + 1 más
    • Inglés
    The Handbook of Mathematical Economics aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970's the state of the art of mathematical economics. This is a constantly developing field and all authors were invited to review and to appraise the current status and recent developments in their presentations. In addition to its use as a reference, it is intended that this Handbook will assist researchers and students working in one branch of mathematical economics to become acquainted with other branches of this field.Volume 2 elaborates on Mathematical Approaches to Microeconomic Theory, including consumer, producer, oligopoly, and duality theory, as well as Mathematical Approaches to Competitive Equilibrium including such aspects of competitive equilibrium as existence, stability, uncertainty, the computation of equilibrium prices, and the core of an economy.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

  • Studies in Transitivity

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1 Edición
    • Paul J. Hopper + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 15: Studies in Transitivity provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the study of transitivity. This book discusses how to present events and situations with respect to their participants, and the grammatical consequences of such decisions. Organized into 21 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the grammar and pragmatics of actions and their participants. This text then examines one aspect of the syntactic resolution of clause-internal coreference. Other chapters consider that clauses with more highly transitive components are more likely to be coded as transitive than those with fewer transitive components. This book discusses as well the assumption that French causative sentences may receive either an active or a passive interpretation. The final chapter deals with two types of two-argument sentences in Japanese. This book is a valuable resource for linguists and scholars pursuing questions of discourse, language topology, universal grammar, semantics, and grammatical description and theory.

  • The Cognitive Representation of Speech

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 7
    • T. Myers + 2 más
    • Inglés
    The 32 main papers, taken together, provide a comprehensive review of speech research by scientists who have made leading contributions to our understanding of the topics discussed. The papers are assembled within a coherent, problem-oriented structure.

  • Stochastic Methods in Economics and Finance

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • A.G. Malliaris + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Theory and application of a variety of mathematical techniques in economics are presented in this volume. Topics discussed include: martingale methods, stochastic processes, optimal stopping, the modeling of uncertainty using a Wiener process, Itô's Lemma as a tool of stochastic calculus, and basic facts about stochastic differential equations. The notion of stochastic ability and the methods of stochastic control are discussed, and their use in economic theory and finance is illustrated with numerous applications. The applications covered include: futures, pricing, job search, stochastic capital theory, stochastic economic growth, the rational expectations hypothesis, a stochastic macroeconomic model, competitive firm under price uncertainty, the Black-Scholes option pricing theory, optimum consumption and portfolio rules, demand for index bonds, term structure of interest rates, the market risk adjustment in project valuation, demand for cash balances and an asset pricing model.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 11
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

  • Cognition and Memory

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 5
    • F. Klix + 1 más
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 14
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • Inglés

  • Intelligence

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 3
    • P.A. Vroon
    • Inglés
    Presenting a philosophical and psychological overview of the history of the concept of intelligence, this controversial text does not aim to supply yet another opinion on, or interpretation of the concept of intelligence, but rather attempts to find out how to approach this concept on a scientific level.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 9
    • Inglés

  • Personality and Adaptation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 2
    • Inglés

  • Discourse and Syntax

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1 Edición
    • Talmy Givón
    • Inglés
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 12: Discourse and Syntax provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the study of the syntax of isolated sentences. This book discusses the relationship between the discourse notion topic and the syntactic notion subject. Organized into five parts encompassing 20 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the discourse-function definition of so-called movement transformations. This text then presents the argument against the existence of an independent structural level called syntax as far as it can go, suggesting that all syntactic behavior within a given range of data can be predicted from functional considerations. Other chapters consider syntax as a mode of the automatic processing of speech. This book discusses as well the integration of the speaker's goals with communicative strategies in the structure and flow of personal narratives. The final chapter deals with discourse-pragmatic governance of so-called syntactic phenomena. This book is a valuable resource for linguists.

  • Presupposition

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1 Edición
    • Choon-Kyu Oh + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 11: Presupposition is a collection of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Kansas in April, 1977. The book contains 16 papers dealing with presupposition, contributed by linguists, philosophers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. The first paper proposes formal criteria for distinguishing among various distinct phenomena indiscriminately called "presupposition" in recent literature. The paper also provides excellent and authoritative background information. A set of papers attempts to differentiate diverse phenomena lumped together under the cover term "presupposition" and to supply some sort of strategy for justifying the classification of each of these phenomena. The text closes with a paper that elucidates context and contextual domain. The parallel he drawn between the two is especially fruitful in that it is able to resolve the problem of discourse reference on independently justified grounds. Linguists and language experts will find the book very interesting.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 8
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 11
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • Inglés

  • Statistical Methods for Social Scientists

    • 1 Edición
    • Eric A. Hanushek + 1 más
    • Peter H. Rossi
    • Inglés
    The aspects of this text which we believe are novel, at least in degree, include: an effort to motivate different sections with practical examples and an empirical orientation; an effort to intersperse several easily motivated examples throughout the book and to maintain some continuity in these examples; and the extensive use of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate particular aspects of the problems and estimators being considered. In terms of material being presented, the unique aspects include the first chapter which attempts to address the use of empirical methods in the social sciences, the seventh chapter which considers models with discrete dependent variables and unobserved variables. Clearly these last two topics in particular are quite advanced--more advanced than material that is currently available on the subject. These last two topics are also currently experiencing rapid development and are not adequately described in most other texts.

  • Estimator's General Construction Manhour Manual

    • 2 Edición
    • John S. Page
    • Inglés
    This manual provides the reader with an accurate and convenient method for estimatig direct labor for general contrsuction work for any given system, plant, or location. Though this book, the reader has a reliable process of obtaining and streamlining an efficent model of operation.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 11
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 7
    • Inglés

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • Inglés

  • The Enzymes

    • 3 Edición
    • Volumen 13
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 22
    • Inglés

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 6
    • Inglés

  • Basic Spanish for Elementary Teachers

    • 1 Edición
    • M. R. Seymann
    • Inglés
    A manual to provide elementary teachers of Spanish-speaking students with a knowledge of the Spanish language so that they may be able to function better in the classroom

  • The Enzymes

    • 3 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 9
    • Inglés

  • Protein Crystallography

    • 1 Edición
    • T. L. Blundell + 1 más
    • Inglés

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