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Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction)
Peter L. T. Pirolli Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0195173325 |
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Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated. This wealth of information provides resources for adapting to the problems posed by our increasingly complex world, but the simple availability of more information does not guarantee its successful transformation into valuable knowledge that shapes, guides, and improves our activity. When faced with something like the analysis of sense-making behavior on the web, traditional research models tell us a lot about learning and performance with browser operations, but very little about how people will actively navigate and search through information structures, what information they will choose to consume, and what conceptual models they will induce about the landscape of cyberspace. Thus, it is fortunate that a new field of research, Adaptive Information Interaction (AII), is becoming possible. AII centers on the problems of understanding and improving human-information interaction. It is about how people will best shape themselves to their information environments, and how information environments can best be shaped to people. Its roots lie in human-computer interaction (HCI), information retrieval, and the behavioral and social sciences. This book is about Information Foraging Theory (IFT), a new theory in Adaptive Information Interaction that is one example of a recent flourish of theories in adaptationist psychology that draw upon evolutionary-ecological theory in biology. IFT assumes that people (indeed, all organisms) are ecologically rational, and that human information-seeking mechanisms and strategies adapt the structure of the information environments in which they operate. Its main aim is to create technology that is better shaped to users. Information Foraging Theory will be of interest to student and professional researchers in HCI and cognitive psychology.
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Social Foraging Theory
Luc-Alain Giraldeau , and Thomas Caraco Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0691048770 |
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Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups--has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by providing both a synthesis of the existing literature and a new theory of social foraging. Giraldeau and Caraco develop models informed by game theory that offer a new framework for analysis. Social Foraging Theory contains the most comprehensive theoretical approach to its subject, coupled with quantitative methods that will underpin future work in the field. The new models and approaches that are outlined here will encourage new research directions and applications.
To date, the analysis of social foraging has lacked unifying themes, clear recognition of the problems inherent in the study of social foraging, and consistent interaction between theory and experiments. This book identifies social foraging as an economic interaction between the actions of individuals and those of other foragers. This interdependence raises complex questions about the size of foraging groups, the diversity of resources used, and the propensity of group members to exploit each other or forage cooperatively. The models developed in the book will allow researchers to test their own approaches and predictions. Many years in development, Social Foraging Theory will interest researchers and graduate students in such areas as behavioral ecology, population ecology, evolutionary biology, and wildlife management.
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Social Foraging Theory.......2002-02-24
Putting social back into foraging.......2001-03-01
The art of being complicated.......2001-02-14
a synthesis of foraging behavior.......2000-10-12
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Aqueous Acid-base Equilibria and Titrations
Robert de Levie Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198506171 |
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This book will give students a thorough grounding in pH and associated equilibria, material absolutely fundamental to the understanding of many aspects of chemistry. It is, in addition, a fresh and modern approach to a topic all too often taught in an out-moded way. This book uses new theoretical developments which have led to more generalized approaches to equilibrium problems; these approaches are often simpler than the approximations which they replace. Acid-base problems are readily addressed in terms of the proton condition, a convenient amalgam of the mass and charge constraints of the chemical system considered. The graphical approach of Bjerrum, Hagg, and Sillen is used to illustrate the orders of magnitude of the concentrations of the various species involved in chemical equilibria. Based on these concentrations, the proton condition can usually be simplified, often leading directly to the value of the pH. In the description of acid-base titrations a general master equation is developed. It provides a continuous and complete description of the entire titration curve, which can then be used for computer-based comparison with experimental data. Graphical estimates of the steepness of titration curves are also developed, from which the practicality of a given titration can be anticipated. Activity effects are described in detail, including their effect on titration curves. The discussion emphasizes the distinction between equilibrium constants and electrometric pH measurements, which are subject to activity corrections, and balance equations and spectroscopic pH measurements, which are not. Finally, an entire chapter is devoted to what the pH meter measures, and to the experimental and theoretical uncertainties involved.Customer Reviews:
A New Approach to Solution Equilibria.......2003-02-25
Almost finished..........2002-05-03
Amazing.......2000-04-13
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Volumetric Image Analysis
Gabriele Lohmann Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471967858 |
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Volumetric, or three-dimensional, digital imaging now plays a vital role in many areas of research such as medicine and geology. Medical images acquired by tomographic scanners for instance are often given as a stack of cross-sectional image slices. Such images are called volumetric because they depict objects in their entire three-dimensional extent rather than just as a projection onto a two-dimensional image plane. Since huge amounts of volumetric data are continually being produced in many places around the world, techniques for their automatic analysis become ever more important. Written by a computer vision specialist, this clear, detailed account of volumetric image analysis techniques provides a practical approach to the field including the following topics:Customer Reviews:
Absolute marvel.......2005-12-21
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Instrumentation: Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning
Graham Currell , and Norman B. Chapman Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471913693 |
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Analytical applications of diamino-ethane-tetra-acetic acid,
T. S West Manufacturer: British Drug Houses ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007JISQ2 |
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Automatic Methods in Volumetric Analysis
D.C.M. Squirrell Manufacturer: Hilger ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0852740492 |
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AUTOMATIC METHODS IN VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS.
D. C. M. Squirrell Manufacturer: D. Van Nostrand Company, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O196I2 |
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Classical Methods (Analytical Chemistry By Open Learning)
Derek Cooper , Chris Doran , and Norman B. Chapman Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471913634 |
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The colorimetric and potentiometric determination of pH: Outline of electrometric titrations,
I. M Kolthoff Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000861XK2 |
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The determination of thiamine hydrochloride by titration in non-aqueous solvents
Carol A Rausch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007K13TA |
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THE ESSENTIALS OF VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS
JOHN LAMBERT Manufacturer: HEINEMANN ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S37AE8 |
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Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Physics
Robert H. Wasserman Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198510594 |
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This book is a new edition of "Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Mechanics and Relativity" which was published in 1992. It is based on courses taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics and physics, giving an introduction to the expanse of modern mathematics and its application in modern physics. It aims to fill the gap between the basic courses and the highly technical and specialised courses which both mathematics and physics students require in their advanced training, while simultaneously trying to promote, at an early stage, a better appreciation and understanding of each other's discipline. The book sets forth the basic principles of tensors and manifolds, describing how the mathematics underlies elegant geometrical models of classical mechanics, relativity and elementary particle physics. The existing material from the first edition has been reworked and extended in some sections to provide extra clarity, as well as additional problems. Four new chapters on Lie groups and fibre bundles have been included, leading to an exposition of gauge theory and the standard model of elementary particle physics. Mathematical rigour combined with an informal style makes this a very accessible book and will provide the reader with an enjoyable panorama of interesting mathematics and physics.
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Differential Geometry with Applications to Mechanics and Physics (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Yves Talpaert Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824703855 |
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An introduction to differential geometry with applications to mechanics and physics. It covers topology and differential calculus in banach spaces; differentiable manifold and mapping submanifolds; tangent vector space; tangent bundle, vector field on manifold, Lie algebra structure, and one-parameter group of diffeomorphisms; exterior differential forms; Lie derivative and Lie algebra; n-form integration on n-manifold; Riemann geometry; and more. It includes 133 solved exercises.
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Differential Geometry: With Applications to Mechanics and Physics, Vol. 237
Yves Talpaert Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUQ99Y |
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Schrodinger Operators, With Applications to Quantum Mechanics and Global Geometry (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
H.L. Cycon , R.G. Froese , W. Kirsch , and B. Simon Manufacturer: Springer Verlag ProductGroup: Book Binding: Textbook Binding ASIN: 0387167595 |
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
Moliere Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0192833413 |
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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists, adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play. The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece. In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles. Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays.Customer Reviews:
Amusing.......2007-05-23
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
Jean-Baptiste Moliere Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 014044730X Release Date: 2000-09-05 |
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The Misanthrope, Moliere's richly sophisticated comic drama is accompanied in this volume by The Would--be Gentleman, another tale of a dangerously deluded and obsessive hero. Tartuffe dares to take on the subject of religious hypocrisy. Also included are Such Foolish Affected Ladies and Those Learned Ladies, both newly translated for this edition. Finally, The Doctor Despite Himself is a hilarious example of Moliere's long-standing vendetta against the medical profession.Customer Reviews:
Good Introduction to Moliere - A Comedy of Manners, A Light-Hearted Satire.......2007-05-31
No comedy without truth and no truth without comedy .......2005-01-20
"The Misanthrope" Review: An Annoying Play!.......2004-01-31
Hysterical.......2002-05-31
Very relevant.......2001-11-12
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The Misanthrope and Other French Classics (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire ; V. 3)
Eric Bentley Manufacturer: Applause Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0936839198 |
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The complete play scripts to: The Misanthrope by Moliere, English version by Richard Wilbur; Phaedra by Racine, English version by Robert Lowell; The Cid by Corneille, English version by James Schevill; and Figaro's Marriage by Beaumarchais, English version by Jacques Barzun.
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The Misanthrope: and other plays
Manufacturer: Signet : New American Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000BKRK5W |
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A compilation of Moliere plays including: The Misanthrope, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Learned Woman, and The Imaginary Invalid.
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Signet Classics)
Jean-Baptiste Moliere Manufacturer: Signet Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0451529871 |
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Including The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Woman, and The Imaginary Invalid, this collection highlights perhaps France's greatest playwright of all time.
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THE MISANTHROPE AND OTHER PLAYS
Manufacturer: Penguin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I10FLA |
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The Misanthrope And Other Plays
Wood Manufacturer: Penguin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JF5FME |
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THE MISANTHROPE AND OTHER PLAYS
MOLIERE Manufacturer: PENGUIN BOOKS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S9411C |
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays
Jean-Baptiste Moliere Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JLO4E8 |
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays
Moliere Manufacturer: Penguin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NHWNKA |
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