A Lehman, Layman Genealogy Handbook

A Lehman, Layman Genealogy Handbook
Author: Earl R. Layman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

A comprehensive summary of all known early Lehman families, including their European origins, by all spellings, with known descendants to at or about the advent of the 20th Century, authenticated by DNA tests.

Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans

Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans
Author: H. Carl Gerhardt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2002-07-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780226288321

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls produced? What messages are encoded within the sounds, and how do their intended recipients receive and decode these signals? How does acoustic communication affect and reflect behavioral and evolutionary factors such as sexual selection and predator avoidance? H. Carl Gerhardt and Franz Huber address these questions among many others, drawing on research from bioacoustics, behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology to present the first integrated approach to the study of acoustic communication in insects and anurans. They highlight both the common solutions that these very different groups have evolved to shared challenges, such as small size, ectothermy (cold-bloodedness), and noisy environments, as well as the divergences that reflect the many differences in evolutionary history between the groups. Throughout the book Gerhardt and Huber also provide helpful suggestions for future research.

Forensic Biology

Forensic Biology
Author: Richard Li
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2015-03-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1439889724

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology laboratories. Using schematic illustrations to clarify concepts, this second edition explores the latest DNA profiling tools, contains three new chapters, and provides 200 new images. It also includes new tables for many chapters. Covering the full scope of forensic biology, the book uses an accessible style designed to enhance students education and training so they are prepared, both in the laboratory and in the field.

The Species-Area Relationship

The Species-Area Relationship
Author: Thomas J. Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1108477070

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species-area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Sports Data Mining

Sports Data Mining
Author: Robert P. Schumaker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-09-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1441967303

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data, and it’s commonly used in business, bioinformatics, counter-terrorism, and, increasingly, in professional sports. First popularized in Michael Lewis’ best-selling Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game, it is has become an intrinsic part of all professional sports the world over, from baseball to cricket to soccer. While an industry has developed based on statistical analysis services for any given sport, or even for betting behavior analysis on these sports, no research-level book has considered the subject in any detail until now. Sports Data Mining brings together in one place the state of the art as it concerns an international array of sports: baseball, football, basketball, soccer, greyhound racing are all covered, and the authors (including Hsinchun Chen, one of the most esteemed and well-known experts in data mining in the world) present the latest research, developments, software available, and applications for each sport. They even examine the hidden patterns in gaming and wagering, along with the most common systems for wager analysis.

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher: Walters Art Gallery
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2012
Genre: Africans in art
ISBN: 9780911886788

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
Author: Jordi Catalan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3319559826

This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of mountain ranges surrounded by highly populated lowland areas also being considered. The introductory and closing chapters will summarise the main challenges that nature conservation may face in mountain areas under the environmental shifting conditions. Further chapters put forward approaches from environmental geography, functional ecology, biogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Organisms from microbes to large carnivores, and ecosystems from lakes to forest will be considered. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to researchers in mountain ecosystems, students and nature professionals. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

To Grasp the Essence of Life

To Grasp the Essence of Life
Author: R. Hausmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401735409

50 years of DNA double helix; what was before, and afterwards The present book, although written mainly for science students and research scientists, is also aimed at those readers who look at science, not for its own sake, but in search of a better understanding of our world in general. What were the fundamental questions asked by the early pioneers of molecular biology? What made them tick for decades, trying to elucidate the basic mechanisms of heredity and life itself? In each chapter, the development of a particular aspect of modern biology is described in a historical and logical context, not missing to take into account human aspects of the protagonists of the story. At the end of each chapter, there are some excursus with additional information, technical and otherwise, which can be read separately. The book is enriched with many illustrations, including facsimile reproductions from the original descriptions of key experiments.