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Trapping of Small Organisms Moving Randomly
This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes—both verbally and mathematically--the underlying principles that determine and define trap-organism interactions. More important, it goes on to explain and illustrate how these principles and relationships can be used to estimate absolute population densities i…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12994-5
- Collation
- XVIII, 114
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Ecology
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JavaScript Object Programming
This brief book explains the advantages of the object model, inheritance, both classical and prototypical, and shows how these concepts can be implemented in JavaScript. It also shows how object programming (OP) opens a new world of design possibilities that go far beyond inheritance. This book will help the intermediate JavaScript programmer learn to use both types of inheritance. For clas…
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- 978-1-4842-1787-0
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Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy
This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy ever written. Composed in the early 13th century, this introductory textbook played a crucial role in the teaching, dissemination, and institutional instruction of Islamic astronomy well …
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- 978-3-319-31993-3
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Ethylene in Plants
This book focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the signal transduction pathway of ethylene, its interaction with other hormones and its roles in biological processes. It discusses at which point plants could have acquired ethylene signaling from an evolutionary perspective. Ethylene was the first gaseous hormone to be identified and triggers various responses in higher plants. Our…
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- 978-94-017-9484-8
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
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Swift Recipes
Swift Recipes provides a problem solution approach for dealing with key aspects of the Swift programming language (covering version 1.2), ensuring you have the indispensable reference you need to successfully execute common programming tasks. You’ll learn how to use the unique features of the Swift programming language as well as its use with Cocoa and Cocoa touch frameworks and libraries.
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- -
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- 978-1-4842-0418-4
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- XXXIII, 344
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- -
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Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners
Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners is your step-by-step guide to learning how to code using Swift, Apple's hottest new programming language. This book will not only teach complete programming novices how to write OS X programs, but it can also help experienced programmers moving to the Macintosh for the first time. You will learn to understand the principles of programming, how to us…
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- 978-1-4842-1233-2
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- XXVI, 544
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Swift 2 for Absolute Beginners
Swift 2 for Absolute Beginners is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school, and it is now updated for Swift 2.
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- 978-1-4842-1488-6
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- XXVIII, 330
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Investigating the A-Type Stars Using Kepler Data
Simon Murphy's thesis has significant impact on the wide use of the revolutionary Kepler Mission data, leading to a new understanding in stellar astrophysics. It first provides a deep characterisation and comparison of the Kepler long cadence and short cadence data, with particular insight into the Kepler reduction pipeline. It then brings together modern reviews of rotation and peculiarities i…
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- 978-3-319-09417-5
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Real-Time Visual Effects for Game Programming
This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers of…
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- 978-981-287-487-0
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- -
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- 006.3
A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python
The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book teaches "Matlab-style" and procedural programming as well as object-oriented programming. High sc…
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- Ed. 5
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-49887-3
- Collation
- XXXI, 922
- Series Title
- Texts in Computational Science and Engineering
- Call Number
- 005.642 LAN p
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