Biostatistik: Eine Einführung für Biologen und Mediziner

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Das Lehrbuch vermittelt praxisorientiert das statistische Grundwissen für Biologen, Mediziner und Ernährungswissenschafter vom Studenten bis zum Forscher. Dabei wird besonderes Gewicht auf die statistische Modellbildung, die richtige Methodenauswahl und die Ergebnisinterpretation gelegt. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und in praxisrelevante Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen folgt der Einstieg in die Parameterschätzung. Ausführlich wird das Testen von Hypothesen mit den wichtigsten Verfahren für Ein- und Zweistichprobenvergleiche einschließlich Anpassungstests und Äquivalenzprüfungen behandelt. Zwei weitere Kapitel beinhalten die gängigen Korrelationsmaße und Regressionsmodelle für Zusammenhangs- bzw. Abhängigkeitsanalysen sowie grundlegende varianzanalytische Modelle für die Planung von Versuchen. Ein abschließendes Kapitel über rechenintensive Verfahren vermittelt die Grundideen der klassischen multivariaten Methoden mit computerunterstützten Problemlösungen auf der Basis des Datenanalysesystems SPSS. Vorausgesetzt werden nur Kenntnisse der Schulmathematik. Zahlreiche, vollständig durchgerechnete Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben mit ausführlichem Lösungsteil machen die "Biostatistik" zum praktischen Arbeitsbuch, das sich auch zum Selbststudium eignet.

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This highly successful review of techniques for studying the Earth's landforms has been thoroughly updated. Retaining the five-part structure of the first edition, the specialist contributors to Geomorphological Techniques have augmented their original, authoritative coverage with critical evaluations of recent major improvements in this field. As before, Part One is concerned with investigation methods and process determination; Part Two, with geomorphology and mapping, and Part Three, with the properties and measurements of materials. Part Four examines processes, and Part Five covers the history and evolution of landforms. A new chapter on neotectonics reflects the impact of developments in tectonic theory, and heavily revised sections deal with advances in remote sensing, image analysis, radiometric dating, geomorphometry, data loggers, radioactive tracers, and the determination of pore water pressure and the rates of denudation. With additional new illustrations, and the recent profusion of literature reflected in an extensive bibliography of more than a thousand references, the second edition of Geomorphological techniques will prove an invaluable manual for geomorphologists from undergraduate to consultant level, and will be of interest to researchers in the related fields of hydrology, physical geology, civil engineering and soil science.

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Geomorphological Techniques

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Geomorphological Techniques
T. Burt
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Electrochemical and fluorometric tracer techniques for streamflow measurements (Technical bulletin / British Geomorphological Research Group)

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Electrochemical and fluorometric tracer techniques for streamflow measurements (Technical bulletin / British Geomorphological Research Group)
Michael Church
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Geomorphological Techniques
Andrew S. Goudie
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Geomorphological watershed analysis: A conceptual framework and review of techniques

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Geomorphological watershed analysis: A conceptual framework and review of techniques
Lee Benda
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Review of geographic processing techniques applicable to regional analysis

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Review of geographic processing techniques applicable to regional analysis
R. C Durfee
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Shorter technical methods (Technical bulletin - British Geomorphological Research Group ; no. 17)

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Shorter technical methods (Technical bulletin - British Geomorphological Research Group ; no. 17)

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Utilization of remote sensing techniques as a mapping tool in the southern counties of the Mississippi Black Warrior Basin (Report of investigations)

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Utilization of remote sensing techniques as a mapping tool in the southern counties of the Mississippi Black Warrior Basin (Report of investigations)
Velon H Minshew
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Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany. Using a wealth of information from state and university archives, private correspondence, and a survey of lecture offerings in German universities, Lindenfeld examines the original group of learned disciplines which originated in eighteenth-century Germany as a curriculum to train state officials in the administration and reform of society and which included economics, statistics, politics, public administration, finance, and state law, as well as agriculture, forestry, and mining. He explores the ways in which some systems of knowledge became extinct, and how new ones came into existence, while other migrated to different subject areas.

Lindenfeld argues that these sciences of state developed a technique of deliberation on practical issues such as tax policy and welfare, that serves as a model for contemporary administrations.

Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Republican Political Thought

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Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Republican Political Thought
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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In this innovative study of French political culture, the author re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the writings and political practices of five key nineteenth-century intellectuals: Jules Barni, Charles Dupont-White, Emile Littre, Eugene Pelletan, and Etienne Vacherot. Drawing on a range of archival and published sources this study explores the transformation of republican ideology, and stresses the continuing influences of Saint-Simonism, socialism, doctrinaire liberalism, and neo-Kantianism on republican thinking during this period. The book sheds new light on French republican conceptions of good citizenship, the meaning of patriotism, the role of the state, the value of individual liberty, and the place of education and religion in public and private life. Offering challenging insights into modern French politics as well as the history of political thought, Intellectual Founders of the Republic opens up new perspectives on republican ideology and political practice.

The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France

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The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France
Phillip Nord
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France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord asks, did France effect a successful transition from Louis-Napoleon's authoritarian Second Empire to a functioning republic based on universal suffrage and governed by middle-class parliamentarians? How did French civic activism take this democratic turn?

Nord provides the answers in a multidimensional narrative that encompasses not only history and politics but also religion, philosophy, art, literature, and gender. He traces the advance of democratic sentiment and the consolidation of political dissent at its strategic institutional sites: the lodges of Freemasonry, the University, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Protestant and Jewish consistories, the Paris bar, and the arts. It was the particular character and unfolding of these struggles, Nord demonstrates, that made an awakening middle class receptive to democratic politics. The new republican elite was armed with a specific vision that rallied rural France--a vision of solidarity and civic-mindedness, of moral improvement, and of a socioeconomic order anchored in family enterprise.

Nord's trenchant analysis explains how and why the Third Republic (1870-1940) endured longer than any other regime since the 1789 revolution. The convergence of republican currents at midcentury bequeathed to the French nation a mature civil society, a political elite highly trained in the arts of democratic politics, and an agenda that encompassed not only constitutional reform but also a reformation of private life and public culture.

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When was the Republican "Moment" ?.......2002-05-11

In a carefully organized work of intellectual history centered on republican political culture titled The Republican Moment, Philip Nord outlines the social pillars of the Third Republic. Nord offers the striking conclusion that democracy was cemented in France not by the Revolution or the inspiring words of Rousseau, but from the long and gradual struggles of freemasons, liberal Protestants, Jews, and young lawyers during the authoritarian Second Empire. Consequently, there emerges a plausible trajectory leading up to the installation of republican democracy that endured from the late 1870's until it began to slowly wither from 1914 to 1940. However, the explosive and rapturous insinuation of the title remains illusory and fails to come forth in the text.
After reviewing democratic transition theory, Philip Nord lays out the reasonably convincing argument that republicanism was able to construct a democracy in France because it possessed a pre-existing political culture during the imperial dictatorship that was anchored in autonomous social institutions, buoyed by its lure as a liberating alternative. Although not terribly profound, Nord demonstrates his thesis well with a plethora of archival documents from the period, memoirs, contemporary journals, and appropriate references from literature and art. He also builds from the secondary work of Eugen Weber whose notion that rural France was slow to join republican France is congruent with Nord's conclusions.
From a wider perspective, The Republican Moment advances historical knowledge by recasting the Third Republic as an important success in French political history and not the failure that many historians have labeled it. The republican regime has often been viewed from the vantage point of June 1940 as weak in executive power and unable to sustain France internationally. Although Nord concedes the Third Republic stumbled in the twentieth-century era of "fast-paced industrial modernity," it delivered France from World War I and more importantly, it left a legacy of representative government and democratic political culture. Despite the prolific legislation and structural changes undertaken by the Third Republic, Nord asserts its lasting contribution to the French identity was its revolutionary culture of rituals and ceremonies: La Marseillaise, le quatorze juillet, the Panthéon, civil matrimony and burial, statues, print culture, and the cult of Voltaire (216).
The road to the ascendancy of republican political culture in the 1880's began in divergent public and social spheres. The link between freemasonry and republicanism dated from the ancien régime and regained momentum during the Second Empire. In the 1860's, the freemasons embraced liberalism, secularization, and positivism along with currents of early feminism, anti-clericalism and universal education. Consequently, it is no surprise that the lodges supplied the Republic with both enthusiastic public servants and unshakeable support. The second social pillar of republicanism according to Nord was the university and its "cult of science." The universitaires were attracted by republicanism's adherence to the principles of free thought, secularization, the experimental method and the sciences humaines. Together, Nord argues that freemasonry and the Latin Quarter comprised the core support for the fledgling republican spirit in France.
Nord locates key bastions of republican support among liberal Protestants, Jews, young lawyers, and the impressionist painters. Protestants attacked dynastic aristocracy and advocated their faith as exemplary of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Similar to liberal Protestants, French Jewry favored republicanism's secular inclinations as a means of eliminating the stifling grasp of Catholicism over French society. Jews viewed their synagogues as "minirepublics" and they spoke in the language of a common human brotherhood. On the other hand, the new generation of lawyers that matured under Louis-Napoléon strived for the restoration of personal liberties and open political sphere. These men idolized Voltaire and classical virtue as central to the republican mission. The impressionists aligned with the republican cause out of their frustration for being consistently excluded from the state manipulated venues for their works. Although their aims were generally one-dimensional and apolitical, the impressionists repaid the Republic for terminating the old jury system by donating numerous works to the state, many of which became part of the lasting republican culture in France.
Despite the differences among these groups, they all shared the common experience of internal struggles with the state to achieve self-governing autonomy. Therefore, their members possessed the prerequisite skills for participating in an open political system and representative government.
It is clear from The Republican Moment that rural France, Catholics, notables, and even labor fell outside the development of republicanism. Nord implies that French democracy can be attributed to a small minority of influential social groups and not the masses. Democratic political culture in France came from the social margins and not the will of the people. Consequently, it is not surprising that the Third Republic found itself politically threatened on a regular basis and few people mourned its passing in 1940. For Nord, the initial popularity of Pétain's National Revolution revealed that republicanism and participatory government came not from the mainstream, but from groups which were often cast outside the notion of Frenchness.
Although interesting to read, The Republican Moment leaves doubts at the same time. If the Third Republic was truly the creation of a small proportion of Frenchmen, how was it able to last longer than any other post-revolutionary regime, survive the devastation of the First World War, or expand the French empire to its farthest limits? Clearly, part of the social glue is missing from this interpretation. The accomplishments of the Third Republic constitute a long list and would not have been possible without broader public support than that offered by numerically limited groups such as the freemasons, liberal Protestants, or Jews. However, Nord is right to claim that these groups acted as facilitators for the permanent installation of republican democracy in France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the defeat of MacMahon's seize mai coup.
In the end, French democracy and the historical trajectory of the Third Republic appear less like a culminating moment than a gradual process that grew out of leadership struggles within small group structures that were subjected to the Second Empire's repressive manipulation. Following the defeat of the Second Empire, the men who had been active in intra-group politics possessed the skills necessary for success in national politics and carried with them their republican proclivities. Therefore, the Protestant and Jewish consistories, freemason lodges, and a youthful Paris bar association functioned as springboards to modern democracy in France.

A History of the Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century

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A History of the Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century
T. M. Charlton
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The spectacular structures of today, such as large suspension bridges, are the result of scientific principles established during the new iron age of the nineteenth century. The book is concerned with a detailed and critical account of the development and application of those principles (including statics and elasticity) by people of remarkable talent in applied mathematics and engineering. They were, of course, mainly motivated by the demands of the railway, construction boom. Among the outstanding examples chosen by the author is Robert Stephenson’s use of novel principles for the design and erection of the Britannia tubular iron bridge over the Menai Straits. A History of the Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century is a uniquely comprehensive account of a century of the development of the theory; an account which skilfully blends the personalities and the great works and which is enlivened by little-known accounts of friendship and controversy.

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The spectacular structures of today, such as large suspension bridges, are the result of scientific principles established during the new iron age of the nineteenth century. The book is concerned with a detailed and critical account of the development and application of those principles (including statics and elasticity) by people of remarkable talent in applied mathematics and engineering. They were, of course, mainly motivated by the demands of the railway, construction boom. Among the outstanding examples chosen by the author is Robert Stephenson's use of novel principles for the design and erection of the Britannia tubular iron bridge over the Menai Straits. A History of the Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century is a uniquely comprehensive account of a century of the development of the theory; an account which skilfully blends the personalities and the great works and which is enlivened by little-known accounts of friendship and controversy.

Crystals and Compounds: Molecular Structure and Composition in Nineteenth-Century French Science (Amer Phil Soc New Series, Vol 66, Part 3, 1976)

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Crystals and Compounds: Molecular Structure and Composition in Nineteenth-Century French Science (Amer Phil Soc New Series, Vol 66, Part 3, 1976)
Seymour H. Mauskopf
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Some Hope marks the U.S. debut of Edward St. Aubyn, highly acclaimed in the United Kingdom as one of the most original, intelligent, and acerbically witty voices of our time. From Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father and an alcoholic mother, to a young adulthood fraught with dissolute behavior, we follow Patrick Melrose's search for redemption amid a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs. At once hilarious and deeply moving, Some Hope — originally published in England as three separate novels — is a stunningly authentic depiction of a man's journey to and from the farthest limits of the human gamut.

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don't read this unless you're highly literate.......2007-05-01

I truly don't understand the reviewers of this book who maunder on about how it was well written, but that they
couldn't really get into it because the characters weren't likable. My God, have they never read "Madame
Bovary"? I read a book for fascination, not necessarily to meet sweet people with darling personalities.

This book is harrowing and wildly funny. It is the single best descrption of drug addiction I've ever read. The
novel is beautifully structured. Yes, the main character (and others, too) are smart-mouthed and funny.
I liked this well enough that I followed up and read "Mother's Milk," which was good, but not as good as this
book. Read this is you are smart. Don't read it if you're looking to hang out with delicate, polite people.

I'm Very Impressed .......2007-02-02

SOME HOPE is made up of three novellas, each featuring the experiences of Patrick Melrose during a 24-hour (±) ordeal. In each, St. Aubyn explores Patrick's relationship with David Melrose, his snobby, controlling, and repellent father.

The first novella, NEVER MIND, shows Patrick as a wee boy as he suffers loneliness, neglect, and physical abuse. The second, BAD NEWS, follows Patrick in his early twenties on a hilarious and Herculean drug binge in New York City. The third, SOME HOPE, shows Patrick near thirty and free of addictions. At a party honoring Princess Margaret, he gets a stronger grip on his monstrous father's legacy and the allure of his snobbish world.

The writing throughout these three novellas is absolutely sensational. If a good writer allows a reader to experience the life, aspirations, and psychology of his/her characters, St. Aubyn is a GREAT writer in this book. To a degree, this is due to his breathtaking metaphors and similes, which go beyond deft phrases to actually capture and define a moment or effect. Here are four that I like, two from BAD NEWS and two from SOME HOPE.

o The heroin followed in a soft rain of felt hammers playing up his spine and rumbling into his skull.
o Patrick sprung up the steps of the Key Club with unaccustomed eagerness, his nerves squirming like a bed of maggots whose protective stone has been flicked aside.

o ...a couple of years earlier, he had started to realize what it must be like to be lucid all the time, an unpunctuated stretch of consciousness, a white tunnel, hollow and dim, like a bone with the marrow sucked out.
o The two men fell silent and stared at the throng that struggled... with the same frantic but restricted motion of bacteria multiplying under microscope.

This book is highly recommended. But I quibble on one point: Cabbies traveling from Kennedy don't use the Williamsburg Bridge and The Avenue of the Americas to reach the Pierre. Instead, they take the Triborough Bridge and FDR Drive. Otherwise, fantastic!

Giving Amis a run for his money.......2006-04-21

This book which is a compilation of three novellas is in equal parts harrowing and hilarious, with each novella describing a single day in the life of Patrick Melrose. My habit of taking notes after finishing a book held me in good stead in this case, since some of the funniest passages, taken out of context were even funnier, and the characture of Princess Margaret in the final third of the book is lough out loud funny ("The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn't know how she'd cope without Buckingham Palace.") Patrick Melrose, unwanted and abused from his very conception, nevertheless manages to survive. The central story, the least funny but the best written of the three, is a harrowing description of addiction.

A 21st Century Jane Austen?.......2006-03-19

St. Aubyn is undoubtedly one of the two or three English writers today whose works are worth reading again and again. Much like Alan Hollinghurst, whose latest work, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker in 2004, Edward St. Aubyn spent much time earning a living as a deputy editor of the [London] Times Literary Supplement after taking a degree (or two) from Cambridge. St. Aubyn has the capability of literally piling you up with sentences repleat with sardonic, pithy, and astute observations that one tends to forget that the protagnoist, Patrick Melrose, is undergoing a rather unsual upbringing at the 'hands' of his father. Composed of three novellas that chronicle Patrick's entry into twentysomethinghood, the first novella is good; the second is quite riviting; and the third offers a more or less lucid (if not altogehter happy) avenue into adulthood with its various fiscal, personal, and prescriptive requirements. St. Aubyn has a writing style that is smooth, exquisitely colorful, and fluid. It is not very often, in the process of reading a modern author, that one retreats to the Oxford English Dictionary for elucidation and edification of a bon mot unencountered in the past. These novellas are an excellent introduction to his work; On the Edge and A Clue to the Exit are his follow on books which are, unfortuantely, not available in the United States; his latest work, Mother's Milk (2006), takes up again with Patrick Melrose who is now in his later forties or early fifties; has a family and an erasible mother. There is an extensive review of St. Aubyn's work in the Times Literary Supplement of 8 September 2000.

Excellent Writing Marred By Loathsome Characters.......2004-07-21

The trilogy the title refers to, revolves around Patrick Melrose at three points in his life. The first is at five when he's raped by his sadistic father. The second is in his late twenties as a a drug addict who has come to claim his father's ashes. The final section is a glimpse at Patrick as a recovered addict, navigating life while trying to put the demon of his father to rest. The technical writing is great. Beautiful witty prose, descriptive and vivid characters and smart witty dialogue. Yet I found it increasingly difficult to hang in there when I detested nearly everyone in the pages of this book. Sneering snobs, and drug addicts. Not my idea of an enjoyable read.

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