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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Robert M. Sapolsky [Sapolsky, Robert M.]

Slow and Fast: The Separate Problems of “Me Versus Us” and “Us Versus Them” The contrast between rapid, automatic moral intuitionism and conscious, deliberative moral reasoning plays out in another ...
( Category: Biology May 5,2017 )
Introduction to Mathematical Biology by Ching Shan Chou & Avner Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Ching Shan Chou & Avner Friedman

7.1.2 Bisection Method The idea of the bisection method comes from the intermediate value theorem: continuous function f must have at least one root in the interval (a, b) if ...
( Category: Molecular Biology April 26,2017 )
The Urban Naturalist by Steven D. Garber
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:Steven D. Garber

PAINTED TURTLES The painted turtle is probably one of the most numerous turtles in North America. This turtle thrives in conditions where few other animals survive. Four subspecies in the ...
( Category: Natural History April 10,2017 )
Applied Predictive Modeling by Max Kuhn & Kjell Johnson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Max Kuhn & Kjell Johnson

Observed class Successful Unsuccessful Successful 490 220 Unsuccessful 80 767 This model had an overall accuracy of 80.7 %, a sensitivity of 86 %, and a specificity of 77.7 %. ...
( Category: Neural Networks April 8,2017 )
Your Brain Is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Dean Buonomano

9:00: THE SPATIALIZATION OF TIME IN PHYSICS For us believing physicists, the division into past, present and future has merely the meaning of an albeit obstinate illusion. —ALBERT EINSTEIN1 One ...
( Category: Neurology April 6,2017 )
Brain Bytes by Eric Chudler
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Eric Chudler

References Farahany, N.A., Neuroscience and behavioral genetics in US criminal law: an empirical analysis, Journal of Law and Biosciences, 1–25, 2016, doi:10.1093/jilb/lsv09. Hu, X., Bergström, Z.M., Bodenhausen, G.V., and Rosenfeld, ...
( Category: Neurology April 5,2017 )
The Body Builders by Adam Piore
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Adam Piore

Cohn was aware of all these efforts. But he wanted to go further. Cohn wasn’t interested in building a device to enhance performance in the field—he wanted a device or ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering April 4,2017 )
Evolutionary Ecology by Eric R. Pianka
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eric R. Pianka

Figure 13. 1. Niche relationships among members of competitive communities are usually modeled with bell-shaped utilization curves along a resource spectrum such as height above ground or prey size. Among ...
( Category: Organic March 28,2017 )
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Maurice Maeterlinck [Maeterlinck, Maurice]

62 And whom does the queen-bee obey! She is ruled by nourishment given her; for she does not take her own food, but is fed like a child by the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 22,2017 )
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Lisa Feldman Barrett [Barrett, Lisa Feldman]

12 Is a Growling Dog Angry? * * * I don’t have a dog, but several friends’ dogs are part of my extended family. One of my favorites is Rowdy, ...
( Category: Emotions March 19,2017 )
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Egan

THE DNA EVIDENCE THAT ASIAN CARP ARE SWIMMING IN LAKE Michigan has mounted in recent years. It turned up some 200 miles north of Chicago in the waters of Wisconsin’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2017 )
Meta-Analysis with R by Guido Schwarzer James R. Carpenter & Gerta Rücker
epub |eng | | Author:Guido Schwarzer, James R. Carpenter & Gerta Rücker

> c2 <- copas(ms1, gamma0.range=c(-1,2), gamma1.range=c(0,1)) > plot(c2) The resulting plot is shown in Fig. 5.11. We find that the range of γ 0 and γ 1 in the contour ...
( Category: Statistics February 26,2017 )
Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human (SHARLA SORGE's Library) by Andy Walker & Kay Svela Walker & Sean Carruthers
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Andy Walker & Kay Svela Walker & Sean Carruthers

* * * Talk Your Way Into Mental Health In 1853, English psychiatrist Walter Cooper Dendy introduced a revolutionary noninvasive therapy that physicians could use to help treat patients with ...
( Category: Molecular Biology February 24,2017 )
Cannibalism by Bill Schutt
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Bill Schutt

He continued, quiet and calm. “And it would make that tree you’re sitting under the real George Donner Tree.” The Donner detectives smiled wry smiles, sensing my momentary confusion as ...
( Category: Cultural February 24,2017 )
Living Zen Remindfully by James H. Austin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:James H. Austin

13 Revisiting Kensho, March 1982 It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently. It is as though the spatial act of seeing were changed by ...
( Category: Philosophy February 24,2017 )

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