Product Description: Where did we come from? What does it all mean? The world does not exist. But, that does not mean that nothing exists. With vivid examples, experiments, mental acuity and provocative spirit, the philosopher Markus Gabriel lays out the fundamental principles of our humanity.

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Product Description: The contributors to this volume include many of the distinguished researchers in this area. Many of these scholars have collaborated with Joseph McKean to develop underlying theory for these methods, obtain small sample corrections, and develop efficient algorithms for their computation...read more

Product Description: Applied Survival Analysis Using R covers the main principles of survival analysis, gives examples of how it is applied, and teaches how to put those principles to use to analyze data using R as a vehicle. Survival data, where the primary outcome is time to a specific event, arise in many areas of biomedical research, including clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and studies of animals...read more

R ist eine objektorientierte und interpretierte Sprache und Programmierumgebung für Datenanalyse und Grafik. Ausführlich führt der Autor in die Grundlagen ein und vermittelt eingängig die Struktur der Sprache. So ermöglicht er Lesern den leichten Einstieg: eigene Methoden umsetzen, Objektklassen definieren und Pakete aus Funktionen und zugehöriger Dokumentation zusammenstellen. Detailliert beschreibt er die enormen Grafikfähigkeiten von R. Für alle, die R als flexibles Werkzeug zur Datenanalyse und -visualisierung einsetzen. In 2. Auflage mit vielen Verbesserungen und Neuerungen von R-2.3.x und weiteren von Lesern gewünschten Ergänzungen.

Product Description: Fungal infections have taken a new spectrum due to the increased incidence of multi-drug resistant fungal pathogens. Freedom of choice for drugs to treat fungal infections is also narrow because of lesser probability of discovering drugs that would bypass affecting human cells and target fungal cells producing fewer side effects in patients...read more

Product Description: In this volume, the authors will describe the mechanisms of hypoxia and angiogenesis from a systems perspective. Hypoxia – defined as low oxygen – is quantitative by nature, and species dependent. Humans evolved to function in the Earth’s atmosphere of 21% O2...read more

Product Description: Biology of Oysters offers scientific insights into the structure and function of oysters. Written by an expert in the field of shellfish research, this book presents more than 50 years of empirical research literature. It provides an understanding of the edible oysters, in order to equip students and researchers with the background needed to undertake further investigations on this model marine invertebrate...read more

Product Description: Researchers in the environmental sciences are often frustrated because actors involved with practice do not follow their advice. This is the starting point of this book, which describes a new model for scientific knowledge transfer called RIU, for Research, Integration and Utilization...read more

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Product Description: High throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have conquered the genomics and epigenomics worlds. The applications of HTS methods are wide, and can be used to sequence everything from whole or partial genomes, transcriptomes, non-coding RNAs, ribosome profiling, to single-cell sequencing...read more

Product Description: This book reviews the emerging studies of synthetic immunology, including the development and regeneration of immune cells, immune organ development and artificial regeneration, and the synthetic approach towards understanding human immune system...read more

Product Description: This book is a “How To” guide for modeling population dynamics using Integral Projection Models (IPM) starting from observational data. It is written by a leading research team in this area and includes code in the R language (in the text and online) to carry out all computations...read more