<p></p> <p>How did science rise up to so dramatically change our world, and where will it take us in the future? This book gives a unique and broad overview. A brief history reveals the major phases and turning points in the rise of science from the earliest civilizations to the present: How was science ‘discovered’? Why did it disappear a few times? When did it become ‘modern’? A critical assessment examines how science actually ‘happens’: the triumphs, the struggles, the mistakes and the luck. </p> <p>Science today is endlessly fascinating, and this book explores the current exponential growth, curiosity-driven vs. goal-oriented research, big and small science, the support of science, the relation of science to society, philosophy and religion, and the benefits and dangers of science. </p> <p>Finally a glimpse into the future: Will the current pace of science continue? Will we ever go backwards (again)? What remains to be discovered? Can science ever be complete? What can we imagine for the distant future? </p> <p> </p> <p>This book will be of wide interest to the general reader as well as to students and working scientists.</p> <p><br></p> <p><i>This book provides a fresh, unique and insightful coverage of the processes of science, its impact on society and our understanding of the world, based on the author’s experience gained from a lifetime in science.<br></i>Ron Ekers, FRS, CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science, former President of the International Astronomical Union</p> <p><i>Peter Shaver's comprehensive and lively survey deserves a wide readership. Scientific discoveries are part of our global culture and heritage, and they underpin our lives. It's fascinating to learn how they were made, and how they fit into the grand scheme. This book isn't just for scientists - it's written for all of us.<br></i>Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge</p> <p><i>This book offers a wonderfully concise and accessible insight into science – its history, breadth and future prospects. Peter Shaver gives a feeling for what it actually means to be a practicing scientist.<br></i>Stephen Simpson, FRS, Academic Director, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney</p> <p></p>
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<div> <div> <div> This book presents the results of seismic data analysis and interpretation based on nearly one million seismic events. This seismicity was induced by the caving process in four copper mines, each located on a different continent. The book not only serves as an interpretation guide, it also illustrates the benefits of evaluating data from different mines: </div> <div> <ul> <li>How to establish which seismic data base is faulty and why<br></li> <li>The formation of a universal seismic response to the caving process<br></li> <li>Indisputable evidence that hydro-fracturing improves underground safety <br></li> </ul> </div> <div> This book invites discussion on more general aspects of research, such as: <br> </div> <div> <ul> <li>Basic research, applied research and implementation<br></li> <li>Predicting mine-induced seismic events<br></li> <li>Quantitative versus qualitative seismology<br></li> <li>Research versus pseudo-research<br></li> <li>What is genuine research?<br></li> </ul> </div> <div> <br> </div> </div> <div> <i>[In the Parlabora Mine] Stefan has demonstrated that [the] use of the seismic system was a very practical means of monitoring the progression of the cave up to and beyond break through into the open pit above. The seismic system was vital in drawing up the undercutting and seismic protocols and determining the maximum potential seismic hazard level. </i> <b>Peter Townsend Retired Mine Manager and Consultant</b> <br> </div> <div> <div> <p><i>I consider Stefan the pioneer of using microseismic data to provide understanding of the mechanism and progress of cave mining. Science has advanced considerably since the use of less than reliable extensometers to monitor the cave back position and Stefan was leading this advance. (…)This book provides a lot of useful insight[s] in how we can best understand the data that we (…) gather and how to change this data into useful information. </i><b>Neil Hepworth C. Eng, MIMMM, Geomin Consultorio – Brazil. Consultant Mining and Geotechnics</b><br></p> </div> <div> <p><i>Stefan mine seismology trilogy is (…) a comprehensive tutoring on how to analyse and interpret mine induced seismicity. This coaching is based on multiple practical examples (…) presented from the problem to be solved [with] input data tests followed by analysis and interpretation. This last is presented with many details that explain the whole process. </i><b>Mahdi Bayuargo, ST, MAScPT. Duaem Gada Bayuagus Managing Director</b><br></p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <b><br></b> </div>
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<div> This book offers a critical review of contemporary literature on the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Its goal is to highlight the shortcomings of the methods that have been used to date to analyse the underlying causes that have led to a stalemate in the negotiation process. Further, it pursues an approach that considers the multiple factors that can influence the outcomes of the negotiation process. The book represents a substantial academic contribution to the field of conflict resolution by broadening the scope of the analytical framework that is needed to analyse the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for researchers and students interested in political theory, Middle Eastern studies, international relations, conflict resolution studies, political science, negotiation theory, and contemporary Arab studies and Israeli studies.  <br> </div>
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<p>In this text, modern applied mathematics and physical insight are used to construct the simplest and first nonlinear dynamical model for the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), i.e. the stochastic skeleton model. This model captures the fundamental features of the MJO and offers a theoretical prediction of its structure, leading to new detailed methods to identify it in observational data. The text contributes to understanding and predicting intraseasonal variability, which remains a challenging task in contemporary climate, atmospheric, and oceanic science. In the tropics, the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is the dominant component of intraseasonal variability.</p> <p>One of the strengths of this text is demonstrating how a blend of modern applied mathematical tools, including linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), simple stochastic modeling, and numerical algorithms, have been used in conjunction with physical insight to create the model. These tools are also applied in developing several extensions of the model in order to capture additional features of the MJO, including its refined vertical structure and its interactions with the extratropics.</p> <p>This book is of interest to graduate students, postdocs, and senior researchers in pure and applied mathematics, physics, engineering, and climate, atmospheric, and oceanic science interested in turbulent dynamical systems as well as other complex systems.<br></p> <p></p>
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<p>This book reviews the HL-LHC experiments and the fourth-generation photon science experiments, discussing the latest radiation hardening techniques, optimization of device & process parameters using TCAD  simulation tools, and the experimental characterization required to develop rad-hard Si detectors for x-ray induced surface damage and bulk damage by hadronic irradiation.</p> <p>Consisting of eleven chapters, it introduces various types of strip and pixel detector designs for the current upgrade, radiation, and dynamic range requirement of the experiments, and presents an overview of radiation detectors, especially Si detectors. It also describes the design of pixel detectors, experiments and characterization of Si detectors.<br></p>The book is intended for researchers and master’s level students with an understanding of radiation detector physics. It provides a concept that uses TCAD simulation to optimize the electrical performance of the devices used in the harsh radiation environment of the colliders and at XFEL. <br> <p></p> <div> <br> </div>
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This book gathers the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Science and Technology 2019 (ICCST2019), held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, on 29–30 August 2019. The respective contributions offer practitioners and researchers a range of new computational techniques and solutions, identify emerging issues, and outline future research directions, while also showing them how to apply the latest large-scale, high-performance computational methods.
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<div> <p>Treat yourself to a lively, intuitive, and easy-to-follow introduction to computer programming in Python. The book was written specifically for biologists with little or no prior experience of writing code - with the goal of giving them not only a foundation in Python programming, but also the confidence and inspiration to start using Python in their own research.<br> <br> Virtually all of the examples in the book are drawn from across a wide spectrum of life science research, from simple biochemical calculations and sequence analysis, to modeling the dynamic interactions of genes and proteins in cells, or the drift of genes in an evolving population.<br> <br> Best of all, <i>Python for the Life Sciences</i> shows you how to implement all of these projects in Python, one of the most popular programming languages for scientific computing.<b> </b>If you are a life scientist interested in learning Python to jump-start your research, this is the book for you<b>.</b></p> <div> <br> </div> <div> <b>What You'll Learn </b> </div> <div> <b><br></b> </div> <div> Write Python scripts to automate your lab calculations </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> Search for important motifs in genome sequences </div> <div> <br>Use object-oriented programming with Python </div> <div> <br>Study mining interaction network data for patterns </div> <div> <br>Review dynamic modeling of biochemical switches </div> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <p><b>Who This Book Is For</b></p> Life scientists with little or no programming experience, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers in academia and industry, medical professionals, and teachers/lecturers. <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <strong><i>“A comprehensive introduction to using Python for computational biology... A lovely book with humor and perspective”</i></strong> <p> -- John Novembre, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, University of Chicago and MacArthur Fellow</p> <strong><i>“Fun, entertaining, witty and darn useful. A magical portal to the big data revolution”</i></strong> -- Sandro Santagata, Assistant Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School <p></p> <strong><i>“Alex and Gordon’s enthusiasm for Python is contagious”</i></strong> <p>-- Glenys Thomson Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley</p> </div>
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<p>Business users familiar with Base SAS programming can now learn Python by example. You will learn via examples that map SAS programming constructs and coding patterns into their Python equivalents. Your primary focus will be on pandas and data management issues related to analysis of data.</p> <p>It is estimated that there are three million or more SAS users worldwide today. As the data science landscape shifts from using SAS to open source software such as Python, many users will feel the need to update their skills. Most users are not formally trained in computer science and have likely acquired their skills programming SAS as part of their job.</p> As a result, the current documentation and plethora of books and websites for learning Python are technical and not geared for most SAS users.  <i><b>Python for SAS Users</b></i> provides the most comprehensive set of examples currently available. It contains over 200 Python scripts and approximately 75 SAS programs that are analogs to the Python scripts. The first chapters are more Python-centric, while the remaining chapters illustrate SAS and corresponding Python examples to solve common data analysis tasks such as reading multiple input sources, missing value detection, imputation, merging/combining data, and producing output. This book is an indispensable guide for integrating SAS and Python workflows. <p><b></b></p> <p><b><br></b></p> <p><b>What You’ll Learn</b></p> <p></p> <ul> <li>Quickly master Python for data analysis without using a trial-and-error approach<br></li> <li>Understand the similarities and differences between Base SAS and Python<br></li> <li>Better determine which language to use, depending on your needs<br></li> <li>Obtain quick results<br></li> </ul> <p></p> <p><b><br></b></p> <p><b>Who This Book Is For</b><br></p> <p>SAS users, SAS programmers, data scientists, data scientist leaders, and Python users who need to work with SAS</p>
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As Tolkien puts it in A Secret Vice, the making of language and mythology are related functions. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as A Secret Vice in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkiens art of inventing languages.
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