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This comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly manual is designed to be a practical progression of experimental protocols that an inexperienced investigator may follow when embarking on a biochemical or biotechnology project. It will also appeal to experienced researches and graduate students as a benchtop handbook which, without sacrificing scientific concepts, maintains the spirit of experimentation.
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Practical Book.......2007-02-10
Practical book with very easy to follow and concise protocols about protein purification
If you have to purify and analyze proteins but you re not an expert this is the book for you.
excellent and clearly presented.......1999-03-08
This is a model for all protocol lab manuals. It is clear, precise, and well done. Incorporates the experiences of the authors, which are used to perfect the assays and protocols and minimize insufficient results and data. Troubleshooting tips are useful and original. Truly a necessary benchtop reference for the serious researcher.
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A Mechanical String Model of Adiabatic Chemical Reactions (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)
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The main subjects are: - a comprehensive mathematical description of molecular systems, - a new reaction path concept, - an algorithm for following the reaction path. The reaction path's tangent is determined by an excitation vector and the saddle points surrounding a minimizer can be localized without further information. A procedure appropriate to trace these reaction paths is presented.
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Markov random field (MRF) theory provides a basis for modeling contextual constraints in visual processing and interpretation. It enables us to develop optimal vision algorithms systematically when used with optimization principles. This book presents a comprehensive study on the use of MRFs for solving computer vision problems. The book covers the following parts essential to the subject: introduction to fundamental theories, formulations of MRF vision models, MRF parameter estimation, and optimization algorithms. Various vision models are presented in a unified framework, including image restoration and reconstruction, edge and region segmentation, texture, stereo and motion, object matching and recognition, and pose estimation. This second edition includes the most important progress in Markov modeling in image analysis in recent years such as Markov modeling of images with "macro" patterns (e.g. the FRAME model), Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, reversible jump MCMC. This book is an excellent reference for researchers working in computer vision, image processing, statistical pattern recognition and applications of MRFs. It is also suitable as a text for advanced courses in these areas.
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Replete with easy-to-understand examples ranging from the prediction of home runs in baseball using an hierarchical Bayesian statistics model to estimating the expected return at blackjack using control variables, this text functions as a complete consideration of simulation. Sheldon Ross provides broad yet thorough coverage of the subject, presenting the development of a simulation study to analyze models, and demonstrates that by using random variables and the concept of discrete events, it is possible to generate the behavior of a stochastic model over time. Also discussed are questions concerning when to stop a simulation, how much confidence can be placed in the results, and extensive new information on the presentation of the alias method for generating discrete random variables material not found in any other text. Students, practitioners, and researchers alike will find this text to have an important place in their research libraries.
* Presents the statistics needed to analyze simulated data as well as those needed for validating the simulation model
* Stresses variance reduction, including control variables and their relation to regression analysis
* Includes a chapter on Markov chain monte carlo methods
* Emphasizes the use of computers throughout the text
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Excellent review of simulation techniques at an intermediate level........2007-08-21
According to the books I have consulted by S. M. Ross, I consider him to
be a tremendous author, with this book being my absolute favourite. It
is inspirational, clear, creative and (most of all) fun to read.
Starting off from the very basics regarding probability, random numbers
and generation of random variables, Professor Ross steadily guides the
reader through, for instance, simulation with respect to some queueing
systems, validation techniques (e.g. goodness-of-fit tests;
Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests), the standard MCMC-methods and various variance
reduction techniques. The latter chapter is the one that I found most
enlightening including, for instance, a certainly rewarding section on
importance sampling (weighted simulation). Throughout, a lot of
well-chosen examples enhance students/readers understanding and interest
of the subject.
One might note that this is by no means the most advanced or complete book
on Monte Carlo simulation out there, see e.g.
Monte Carlo Statistical Methods (Springer Texts in Statistics)
or
Stochastic Simulation: Algorithms and Analysis (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability),
rather it evolves at an intermediate level covering a few more advanced
concepts as, for example, coupling from the past. But, having this in
mind, this is the book to get. Pure concentrated fun (xiii+274 pages).
Final note: In 2006 the fourth edition was launched. [Simulation, Fourth Edition]
A reader from Saudi Arabia.......1999-08-22
This is an excelent textbook explaining what simulation means and how to deepen your knowalge. You have to be a good programmer in order to use this book (and simulation generally)and the author should have added an andex for such a language and how its connection with simualtion ( C or C++) although my experience would elect MATLAB as prefernce!! This text does not requir any prior experience regarding simulatin although taking a course in statistics and probability would be advantageous!!
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This book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of randomness and how to use these to model random systems.
Material on probability, statistics, and random processes are presented in the context of developing useful models for systems involving randomness. This book also instructs the reader on how to recognize that a model is possible in a real-life situation, craft an appropriate model, do the math, and interpret the results in practical realities.
For anyone seeking to learn the art of modeling systems with random aspects.
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Many interesting examples for engineers..........2006-09-20
This book contains many interesting examples for engineers and scientists that I have not seen in other elementary probability textbooks, such as the expected distance between points in a two-dimensional spatial Poisson process ("distance between wildflowers in a field" example) which I find useful to model IC defects and in many other applications. The level of mathematical rigor is perhaps low for mathematics students, but I think is fine for most engineer and science students. The book is quite readable. There are many worked examples, as well as answers to many problems. I think it is a mistake to integrate the text so much with Mathematica, since the text is unique enough to stand alone. There is a one chapter on statistics including hypothesis testing which is a reasonable although brief introduction, but I do not think fits in well with the rest of the book. The book is biased toward EE applications.
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This digital document is a journal article from Cognitive Systems Research, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Random variables and probabilistic decision making are important elements in most theories of reading eye movements, but they tend to receive little theoretical attention. This paper attempts to address this problem by introducing the Stochastic, Hierarchical Architecture for Reading Eye-movements (SHARE). The SHARE framework formalizes reading eye movements as observable outcomes of a latent stochastic process. By modeling eye movements as time-series random variables, the goal of the model is to uncover statistical regularities in the data, which help to identify conditions and constraints the underlying mechanism must satisfy. In the univariate analysis, it is shown that a 3-component Lognormal mixture model provides a good fit to the marginal distribution function of fixation duration, and a hierarchical model is required for modeling saccade length. As a comprehensive model of reading eye movements, SHARE was implemented as an Input-Output Hidden Markov model. With a few simple hypotheses, SHARE is able to capture reading eye-movement patterns of beginning readers and proficient adults, and to reproduce well-known psycholinguistic effects. The rationale of the model, its relations with other modeling endeavors, and its implications are discussed.
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Allometric relationships between total and individual tree compartment (stem, root, branch, and foliage) biomass were investigated for intensively managed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations in the Lower Coastal Plain and Piedmont of Georgia. It was found that the percent of stem biomass increases with age while the inverse relationship was found for foliage and branches. Cultural treatments also impacted the proportional allocation among various tree compartments. Specifically, this investigation showed that compared with unfertilized trees, annually fertilized trees in the Lower Coastal Plain had a larger proportional biomass allocation to the stem relative to root, branch, and foliage compartments. A system of related compartment biomass models was developed that reproduces observed relationships in the raw data. This system of models uses total tree biomass to obtain estimates of biomass for other tree compartments. The flexibility of the system of biomass prediction models allows users to estimate biomass for the various compartments as a function of another known compartment biomass.
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Divided into three sections: An Authoritative Text, Henry James and The Novel and Criticism. The text in this Norton Critical Edition is one of James' most important novels is that of the NY Edition (1908) . It can be said though that there are two separate Portraits - the first edition of 1880-81, and the detailed revision that James made for the New York Edition. Readers of the Norton Critical Edition can read both versions, with the addition of the editor's detailed textual notes - one by a young successful author in his thirties, and the other by the master in his sixties. 755 pages
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previous review is factually inaccurate.......2006-08-05
A wonderfully engrossing book for students and amateur fans of the comedy of manners genre.
I must say that the previous commentator gets so many simple "diegetic" facts wrong I wonder why they bothered summarizing the book in the first place. Simple things like the fact that Isabel's Aunt does not live at Gardencourt, but in Florence; she merely visits the former annually. Likewise Ed Rosier is not a lover of Isabel's, but a childhood friend from the states; he "makes love" to Pansy Osmond, Isabel's step-daughter, making for a nice contrast of "true" affection with Isabel's husband's mere seemings in that regard.
Finally the idea that "her need to be independent makes her marriage a disaster" is a gross mischaracterization that makes James sound like some kind of male-chauvanist reactionary. Not that there's anything with that, it's just not the case in the most basic terms of the novel.
Why? First of all, Isabel, bright as she is, enters into marriage knowing full well that it will mean some curtailing of the freedom of her maidenhood, she says as much in a crucial dialogue about her impending marriage with Ralph Touchett, who's Cassandra-like in his unheeded prevision of disaster. (See chapter 34 for the exact lines.) When she says she's ready to gratify her very particular husband's wishes Ralph retorts that she was meant for more than catering to the sensibilities of a "sterile dilettante". This exactly incapsulates why the marriage is a failure: Osmond's sterility is not a simple matter of his not being an active gentleman with a noble/haute bourgeois occupation --- as with Lord Warburton or the senior Touchett --- more importantly, it involves his inability to love a women as vibrant as Isabel (Pansy, of course, is not a problem). This is what Isabel feels acutely shortly into the marriage: not that her husband denies her freedom of movement, but that he denies her the right to a psychological existence of her own. He grows to hate her for precisely what makes her so beautiful --- her wit, her genius, her spirit.
I'm often saddened by the policy of anyone posting reviews on this site. It amounts to the total of most peoples interaction with literary criticism, and it is generally a poor showing.
"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.".......2006-05-11
When Isabel Archer, a bright and independent young American, makes her first trip to Europe in the company of her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, who lives outside of London in a 400-year-old estate, she discovers a totally different world, one which does not encourage her independent thinking or behavior and which is governed by rigid social codes. This contrast between American and European values, vividly dramatized here, is a consistent theme in James's novels, one based on his own experiences living in the US and England. In prose that is filled with rich observations about places, customs, and attitudes, James portrays Isabel's European coming-of-age, as she discovers that she must curb her intellect and independence if she is to fit into the social scheme in which she now finds herself.
Isabel Archer, one of James's most fully drawn characters, has postponed a marriage in America for a year of travel abroad, only to discover upon her precipitate and ill-considered marriage to an American living in Florence, that it is her need to be independent that makes her marriage a disaster. Gilbert Osmond, an American art collector living in Florence, marries Isabel for the fortune she has inherited from her uncle, treating her like an object d'art which he expects to remain "on the shelf." Madame Serena Merle, his long-time lover, is, like Osmond, an American whose venality and lack of scruples have been encouraged, if not developed, by the European milieu in which they live.
James packs more information into one paragraph than many writers do into an entire chapter. Distanced and formal, he presents psychologically realistic characters whose behavior is a direct outgrowth of their upbringing, with their conflicts resulting from the differences between their expectations and the reality of their changed settings. The subordinate characters, Ralph Touchett, Pansy Osmond, her suitor Edward Rosier, American journalist Henrietta Stackpole, Isabel's former suitor Caspar Stackpole, and Lord Warburton, whose love of Isabel leads him to court Pansy, are as fascinating psychologically and as much a product of their own upbringing as is Isabel.
As the setting moves from America to England, Paris, Florence, and Rome, James develops his themes, and as Isabel's life becomes more complex, her increasingly difficult and emotionally affecting choices about her life make her increasingly fascinating to the reader. James's trenchant observations about the relationship between individuals and society and about the effects of one's setting on one's behavior are enhanced by the elegance and density of his prose, making this a novel one must read slowly--and savor. Mary Whipple
A reader.......2003-12-30
Otra interesante historia destrozada por Henry James. Páginas y páginas de descripción que no llevan a ninguna parte. Si te gusta el arte de escribir no lo leas. Lo que puede decirse en una frase James lo dirá en dos (por lo menos) y siempre una de ellas será la absurda repetición de la primera con otras palabras. Las descripciones no son nunca concretas, co evocan nada en la mente del lector, carecen de inmediatez.
Los personajes interesantes, pero se nos habla demasiado de ellos, se intenta que los veamos con los ojos del escritor sin que su punto de vista se nos justifique. Por ejemplo, no entiendo por que la protagonista es considerada tan inteligente por el narrador, lo unico que hace es heredar una fortuna y dedicarse a viajar por Europa, como tantas otras jovenes adineradas de su epoca. Pero no parece que se haya dado demasiada cuenta de lo que ha visto, no pasan de ser visitas turisticas. Por lo demas a los malos del cuento se les ve venir de lejos y ella parece ser la unica en no darse cuenta.
Ultima queja: los dialogos de Henry James no son mas que preguntas y respuestas ingeniosas, pero tan artificiales que en seguida te das cuenta de que cada pregunta no es mas que una posibilidad de que otro persunaje luzca su ingenio en su respuesta.
En conjunto una novela interesante, sobre todo en cuanto a como esta estructurada y en cuanto a la historia que plantea.
Essential Henry James.......2003-09-20
I've come back to this novel after reading it in graduate school thirty years ago, and I remain awed by James's genius. His ability to depict the nuance of social interaction is unparalleled. His psychological understanding of his characters is almost uncanny. Add to that perhaps the most complex, devious, sociopathic villains in literature -- Madame Merle and Gilbert Osmond -- and you have a gripping story of greed, deception, and innocence lost. "The Portrait of a Lady" represents the true epitome of the 19th-century English novel.
A fabulous novel that is a must read for book lovers.......1999-08-02
An incredibly well-written, engrossing and provocative story about a woman's choices in love, friendship, marriage and duty. Isabel transitions from one who prized freedom above all else, and this is precisely what she ultimately gives up to instead fulfill the appearance of a happy marriage
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