Self-Organizing Maps by Teuvo Kohonen

By Teuvo Kohonen

Self-Organizing Maps deals with the most well-liked man made neural-network set of rules of the unsupervised-learning type, viz. the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). As this booklet is the most monograph at the topic, it discusses all of the suitable facets starting from the historical past, motivation, basics, concept, editions, advances, and purposes, to the of SOMs. an intensive literature survey of over 2000 modern experiences is integrated. hence, solutions to the main commonly asked questions with regards to this subject are available during this quantity. the topic is gifted in a didactive demeanour and just a basic theoretical heritage is needed. The reader should be guided via the various case stories to the very frontier of contemporary study during this zone.

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Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone

By Gerald M. Carbone

While the progressive conflict all started, Nathanael Greene used to be a personal within the military, the bottom rank attainable, but he emerged from the warfare with a name as George Washington's such a lot proficient and constant officer--celebrated as considered one of 3 most vital generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern military in 1780, Nathanael Greene used to be passed troops that consisted of 1,500 ravenous, approximately bare males. Gerald Carbone explains how inside a year, the small tired military ran the British troops out of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and into the final trap at Yorktown. regardless of his large army successes and tactical genius Greene's tale has a gloomy side. Gerald Carbone drew on 25 years of reporting and studying adventure to create his chronicle of Greene's not going upward push to good fortune and his fall into debt and anonymity.

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Symbiosis: Mechanisms and Model Systems (Cellular Origin, by Joseph Seckbach

By Joseph Seckbach

Symbiosis is the fourth quantity within the sequence mobile foundation and existence in severe Habitats (COLE). Fifty specialists, from over a dozen nations, overview their present experiences on assorted techniques to those phenomena. The chapters current quite a few features of symbiosis from gene move, morphological beneficial properties, and biodiversity to person organisms sharing mutual mobile habitats. The foundation of the eukaryotic section is mentioned with emphasis on cyanelles, H syntrophy, N2 fixation, and S-based symbiosis (as good because the foundation of mitochondrion, chloroplast, and nucleus). All participants of the 3 domain names of existence are awarded for sharing symbiotic institutions. This quantity brings the idea that of dwelling jointly as `One plus One (plus One) equals One.' the aim of this ebook is to introduce the trainer, researcher, pupil, and scholar in addition to the open-minded and science-oriented reader to the worldwide value of this organization.

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The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions by Serge Morand

By Serge Morand

Biogeography has renewed its options and strategies following very important fresh advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic info platforms. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the pursuits of diverse reviews facing life-history qualities evolution, neighborhood ecology, and evolutionary epidemiology. The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions is the 1st booklet to combine those fields, utilizing examples from quite a few host-parasite institutions in a number of areas, and throughout either ecological and evolutionary timescales. along with a powerful theoretical part, there's a bias in the direction of functions, particularly within the fields of biogeography, palaeontology, phylogeography, panorama epidemiology, invasion biology, conservation biology, human evolution, and wellbeing and fitness ecology. a specific emphasis matters rising and re-emerging infectious ailments associated with worldwide alterations.

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Die Biographie - Zur Grundlegung ihrer Theorie by Bernhard Fetz, Wihelm W. Hemecker

By Bernhard Fetz, Wihelm W. Hemecker

The 1st quantity makes use of case experiences as exemplars to light up the ancient improvement of the style, whereas the second one quantity provides chapters on a idea of biography focussing on valuable elements resembling the relationship among biography, archive and cultural reminiscence, biography and mediality (writing, movie, photography), biography and psychoanalysis, biography and gender, and on questions of intercultural communique via biographies. The paintings is edited by way of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the heritage and conception of Biography in Vienna.

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Arthropod Diversity and Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity by David L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull

By David L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull

This choice of greater than 30 peer-reviewed papers specializes in the range and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit nearly each recess and aircraft – and have in nearly each nutrition net – in the world. Highlighting concerns starting from large-scale disturbance to neighborhood administration, from spatial heterogeneity to temporal styles, those papers replicate intriguing new study – and take the reader to a couple of the main biodiverse corners of the planet.

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Flüchten oder Bleiben? Rekonstruktion biographischer by Sylke Bartmann

By Sylke Bartmann

Sylke Bartmann zeigt anhand der Rekonstruktion biographischer Verläufe von Emigranten unterschiedliche Umgehensweisen mit dem Nationalsozialismus und damit verbundene Repressalien und Bedrohungen auf. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf den Einzelnen als Akteur und Gestalter seines eigenen Lebens. Es wird die Frage beantwortet, inwieweit in den Prozessen der Biographisierung Ressourcen zum Ausdruck kommen, die das Leben im Nationalsozialismus (weiterhin) als zusammenhängend und sinnvoll erscheinen lassen - auch wenn dem einzelnen Menschen die Welt manchmal sinnentleert gegenüberzustehen scheint. Die Autorin trägt insgesamt zum Verständnis der subjektiven Wahrnehmung und des individuellen Umgangs des Einzelnen mit dem Nationalsozialismus bei.

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The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited by Jonathan B. Losos, Robert E. Ricklefs

By Jonathan B. Losos, Robert E. Ricklefs

Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's the speculation of Island Biogeography, first released by way of Princeton in 1967, is likely one of the such a lot influential books on ecology and evolution to seem long ago part century. by means of constructing a normal mathematical thought to provide an explanation for an important ecological problem--the rules of species range in island populations--the publication remodeled the technology of biogeography and ecology as an entire. within the concept of Island Biogeography Revisited, a few of trendy such a lot renowned biologists determine the ongoing influence of MacArthur and Wilson's publication 4 a long time after its booklet. Following a gap bankruptcy during which Wilson displays on island biogeography within the Sixties, fifteen chapters overview and display how the sector has prolonged and confirmed--as good as challenged and modified--MacArthur and Wilson's unique rules. offering a wide photo of the elemental ways that the technological know-how of island biogeography has been formed through MacArthur and Wilson's landmark paintings, the speculation of Island Biogeography Revisited additionally issues the way in which towards fascinating destiny learn.

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