Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction)
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    Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction)
    Peter L. T. Pirolli
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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.
    Social Foraging Theory
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    • Social Foraging Theory
    • Putting social back into foraging
    • The art of being complicated
    • a synthesis of foraging behavior
    Social Foraging Theory
    Luc-Alain Giraldeau , and Thomas Caraco
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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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    5 out of 5 stars Social Foraging Theory.......2002-02-24

    This is an excellent theoretical study. The mathematics seemed to explain general patters, and offered insights to the field worker. The organization was logical and the extensions of behavioral models to ecological processes suggest new directions for both theoretical and experimental work. A broad range of biological scientists should read this book.

    5 out of 5 stars Putting social back into foraging.......2001-03-01

    This is an excellent and timely book, about the behavioral ecology of foraging in animals. This is a field that lacked progress since optimal foraging theories in the 1970's, and the authors make clear why, namely that the social dimension has too often been ignored. The authors remedy this omission and provide a clear and comprehensive overview of contemporary views on foraging theory in a social context.

    1 out of 5 stars The art of being complicated.......2001-02-14

    This book is the art of writing complex and no attempt has been made to simplify the (indeed complex) field of behavioral ecology in general and foraging theory in particular. This is a book for the specialist only, certainly not for students, neither for graduates, not even for researchers working aside the very narrow field of foraging theory. The book is not very well organized, and one gets lost rapidly. If mathematics are not your strong point, or your background is weak, you will have a hard time with that book. The writing is somewhat stiff, complicated and argumentation difficult to follow. I certainly do not recommend it unless you are a very specialist of foraging theory, or want to be one.

    5 out of 5 stars a synthesis of foraging behavior.......2000-10-12

    This book brings the different components of social foraging behavior into one general comprehensive theory. For instance, this book does a great job at linking the benefits and costs of living in group. It goes through detailed, well explained, models to bring general tendencies and go beyond that in providing predictions to test for the years to come. This book is easy to read and provide the best review of social foraging to date. I recommend it to anyone interested in behavioral and population ecology.

    Aqueous Acid-base Equilibria and Titrations
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    • A New Approach to Solution Equilibria
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    Robert de Levie
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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.

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    4 out of 5 stars A New Approach to Solution Equilibria.......2003-02-25

    Teaching solution equilibria has always been a difficult task for college professors. Professor de Levie has shown how this subject can be made more palatable for students. This is most clearly demonstrated in his discussion of acid-base titrations. By using spead-sheet techniques and treating pH as an independent rather than dependent variable, titration curves are easily generated without making approximations. de Levie's approach is unique. The popular textbooks dealing with this subject still involve the "old fashioned" approach, which is a pedagogical nightmare. This book is a MUST for all those who teach solution equilibria at the freshman and sophmore levels in colleges and universities. I doubt that it would be a suitable textbook for the students in these courses because of the detail involved. However, the book is highly recommended for courses dealing with solution equilibria at the upper division level.

    4 out of 5 stars Almost finished..........2002-05-03

    This is a really good book. It teachs how to solve simple acid-base calculations from a crude sketch in the sand, to more advanced cases were you need iterative methods. It's actually more practical and directed against finding the CHEMICAL information than all simpler books I have encountered. It's not an introduction booklet in chemistry; it's more for the somewhat more advanced but still practical uses.
    But it's marred with the lack of a really thorough proofreading. If you study the text hard because you need to understand the techniques thoroughly, you will discover what must be "typing errors". And there are diagrams that show one to three curves less than what is descriebed in the text. And none of these curves are numbered, so you can't be sure which curves are overlapped with supporting lines. - This makes the book unnecessary labourous to read.
    If these errors are removed in a second edition, the book will deserve 5 stars.
    In a book of this type it would also do with a handful of excersises at the end of each chapter, with answers at the end of the book.

    4 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2000-04-13

    It is a very good book, spetially for basic analytical chemistry. It is difficult to find a book where the student can find a lot of examples very well considered. The acid base equibrium is the basis for understanding ionic equilibrium and sometimes you lose inside the mathematical aspects but forgetting the chemical aspects. I recommend this book, not only for students but also for profesors in the subject.
    Volumetric Image Analysis
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    Volumetric Image Analysis
    Gabriele Lohmann
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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: To students without prior knowledge of computer vision this book will serve as a self-contained comprehensive introduction. Experienced practitioners and researchers will find it a helpful reference and a source of high level case material.

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    5 out of 5 stars Absolute marvel.......2005-12-21

    I have worked in the field of volumetric images / medical image analysis for last 5years. This book is a bible for anyone in this field. Surprising not many in my field know about this book. I like several things about the book

    1. The author writes to the point.
    2. A very simple presentation, make it very easy to understand, even for someone who is reading about a new concept for the first time from this book
    3. Does not dwell too much into math, but explains how the why the techniques presented work
    4. Excellent collection of references
    5. A wide variety of topics are covered.

    In sum, a very easy read. Probably a high school kid will be able to understand most of the stuff in this book, but imparts enough information that you can pick up any of the 3D volumetric image analysis research papers and understand most parts of the paper. And I should also mention, unlike a lot of other books, this book is refreshingly thin

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    Instrumentation: Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning
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                      Differential Geometry with Applications to Mechanics and Physics (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
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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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                            The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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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.

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                            5 out of 5 stars Amusing.......2007-05-23

                            The book contains two of Moliere's best known works, "Tartuffe" (about a religious hypocrite) and "The Misanthrope." Clever and incisive, these works provoke commentary and poke fun at human qualities that everyone can relate to. Well worth reading for its humor and social commentary.
                            The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics)
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                            ASIN: 014044730X
                            Release Date: 2000-09-05

                            Book Description

                            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.

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                            4 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to Moliere - A Comedy of Manners, A Light-Hearted Satire.......2007-05-31

                            The Misanthrope (1666) is a short play, one that can be read in a single sitting. Moliere's humorous style has weathered the centuries quite well, and footnotes are not needed.

                            The protagonist is the misguided misanthrope, Alceste. His distaste for mankind does have one exception. He is enamored with the attractive, vivacious Celimene, but seemingly so is everyone else including Alceste's chief rival, Oronte, the two marquises, Acaste and Clitandre, and unnamed others in the background.

                            The first scene introduces Philinte, an avowed friend of Alceste, that is unsuccessfully trying to moderate Alceste's adamant refusal to adhere to any social convention, custom, or civility which involves any form of dissimulation or flattery. Philinte argues that Alceste should torment himself a little less about the vices of his period and be more lenient of human nature and foibles. Good sense avoids all extremes. And Philinte questions whether Alceste is perhaps inconsistent in that he applies a different standard to the coquettish Celimene. The more pragmatic Philinte suggests that Celimene's cousin, Eliante, is more sincere and stable, and would be a more compatible choice. With uncompromising honesty Alceste agrees: "It is true; my good sense tells me so every day; but good sense does not always rule love."

                            As the play proceeds, Moliere's misanthrope does become increasingly irritable with those about him, but I still found Alceste less mean-spirited than other misanthropes found in literature. Despite his sincere philosophical stance, Alceste remains in his awkward, humorous position relative to Celimene. It proves difficult to be a fully committed misanthrope while in love with a coquette.

                            I am reviewing a Dover Thrift edition reprint of Moliere's famous comedic satire.

                            5 out of 5 stars No comedy without truth and no truth without comedy .......2005-01-20

                            Moliere said that ' there is no comedy without truth, and no truth without comedy'. And his plays are a scathing and humorous depiction of a simplified, and stylized human nature. Whether it is religious hypocrisy in ' Tartuffe' , miserliness in 'The Miser' or misanthropy in ' The Misantrhope' Moliere often focuses on one quality in order to satirize and society and mankind in general. In the Misanthrope the main character Alceste tells the truth to everyone ( except himself) and in so doing alienates everyone. This is against the advice of his best friend Philinte. At the same time he is in love with the frivolous Celimene who he attempts to change by constantly criticizing. He begs that she retire with him away from the corruption of society but she prefers society to him. The play ends with Philinte and his fiancee trying to persuade Alceste to remain.
                            Moliere writes in a clear, simple direct language and the surface sense of his work is readily understood. His view of human nature is harsh and critical , but redeemed by a comic laughter suggesting we are wiser if we do not take ourselves all that seriously.

                            1 out of 5 stars "The Misanthrope" Review: An Annoying Play!.......2004-01-31

                            "The Misanthrope" - this is the only play I read. This play is superficial and degrades, as always, women. The woman in this play is stereotyped as a flirtatious girl with many suitors. I did not find this play at all a farce and found the rhyming childish and annoying. The play ends without a true ending and will leave you wanting the time you spent reading it back. I do not recommend.

                            5 out of 5 stars Hysterical.......2002-05-31

                            You might not think a play in verse written in the 17th century would be accessible and entertaining today, but this one's hilarious. Somehow the formal rhyming couplets make everything funnier. Get the Donald Frame translation - I've seen some others that weren't nearly as good.

                            5 out of 5 stars Very relevant.......2001-11-12

                            It is my blief that everyone should read this book. I am a high school senior and find it very insightful. In addition to that, it is also very ammusing. It is an accurate commentary on society.
                            The Misanthrope and Other French Classics (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire ; V. 3)
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                              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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                                Manufacturer: Signet : New American Library
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                                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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                                  Jean-Baptiste Moliere
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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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