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Quantum Mechanics: Classical Results, Modern Systems, and Visualized Examples is a comprehensive introduction to non-relativistic quantum mechanics for advanced undergraduate students in physics and related fields. It provides students with a strong conceptual background in the most important theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics, extensive experience with the mathematical tools required to solve problems, the opportunity to use quantum ideas to confront modern experimental realizations of quantum systems, and numerous visualizations of quantum concepts and phenomena. Changes from the First Edition include many new discussions of modern quantum systems (such as Bose-Einstein condensates, the quantum Hall effect, and wave packet revivals) all in the context of familiar textbook level examples. The book continues to emphasize the many connections to classical mechanics and wave physics to help students use their existing intuition to better learn new quantum concepts.

Compila y sistematiza los principios y los fundamentos de la especialidad en 194 capítulos distribuidos en siete secciones: I. Ecología y sus generalidades; II. Respuesta inmune; III. Virología; IV. Bacteriologia; V. Micologia; VI. Parasitologia; y VII. Artropodologia. Analiza de forma individual cada familia de virus, bacterias, hongos y parasitos. Ademas, se describen los conceptos microbiologicos (familias, generos, especies, subespecies, serotipos), fisiologicos, geneticos y epidemiologicos, asi como las presentaciones clinicas, el diagnostico, y el tratamiento. Tambien se pueden encontrar las estrategias de prevencion y control. Incorpora nuevos capitulos que abordan, entre otros, temas como epidemia, pandemia y sindemia; sanitizacion y proteccion; complejo principal de histocompatibilidad, y la familia Coronaviridae: SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV y SARS-CoV-2. Asimismo, se actualizaron con profundidad todos los capitulos de la edicion pasada. Incluye recursos pedagogicos que llevan al lector, de manera progresiva y sencilla, del conocimiento basico a la comprension de la interaccion biologica y la aplicacion practica. La estructura pedagogica de cada capitulo permite acceder de forma organizada y practica al contenido a traves de: objetivos de aprendizaje; caso clinico; introduccion; desarrollo del tema; sintesis conceptual, y vocablos. Incluye herramientas pedagogicas como los textos destacados ?Repaso? y ?Conceptos clave?, asi como ?Casos clinicos?, los cuales incluyen preguntas para la reflexion y contextualizan la informacion microbiologica en la practica clinica. Presenta materiales complementarios en la web como bibliografia; autoevaluacion para revisar los temas aprendidos; preguntas de repaso para comprobar el logro de los objetivos de aprendizaje, y un glosario completo que contiene las palabras mas utilizadas en la especialidad. La quinta edicion contiene el conocimiento de las enfermedades infecciosas y la relacion huesped ? agente infeccioso. El texto aborda el conocimiento biologico de las patologias infecciosas de los agentes patogenos en su estructura y funcion, con la ayuda de recursos pedagogicos que lleva al lector de manera progresiva y sencilla del conocimiento basico a la comprension de la interaccion biologica y la aplicacion practica. Es una obra de gran utilidad para los estudiantes de medicina, los medicos que se preparan para acceder a una especialidad medica, quienes esten formandose en microbiologia clinica o salud publica, el personal de enfermeria, los estudiantes de ciencias ambientales y salud, los biomedicos y los odontologos, entre otros.

For more than two decades the concept of phenotypic plasticity has allowed researchers to go beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy to gain deeper insights into how organisms are shaped by the interaction of genetic and ecological factors. Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture is the first work to synthesize the burgeoning area of plasticity studies, providing a conceptual overview as well as a technical treatment of its major components. Phenotypic plasticity integrates the insights of ecological genetics, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory. Plasticity research asks foundational questions about how living organisms are capable of variation in their genetic makeup and in their responses to environmental factors. For instance, how do novel adaptive phenotypes originate? How do organisms detect and respond to stressful environments? What is the balance between genetic or natural constraints (such as gravity) and natural selection? The author begins by defining phenotypic plasticity and detailing its history, including important experiments and methods of statistical and graphical analysis. He then provides extended examples of the molecular basis of plasticity, the plasticity of development, the ecology of plastic responses, and the role of costs and constraints in the evolution of plasticity. A brief epilogue looks at how plasticity studies shed light on the nature/nurture debate in the popular media. Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture thoroughly reviews more than two decades of research, and thus will be of interest to both students and professionals in evolutionary biology, ecology, and genetics.

ECOLOGY: THE ECONOMY OF NATURE

The first edition of this book has established itself as one of the leading references on generalized additive models (GAMs), and the only book on the topic to be introductory in nature with a wealth of practical examples and software implementation. It is self-contained, providing the necessary background in linear models, linear mixed models, and generalized linear models (GLMs), before presenting a balanced treatment of the theory and applications of GAMs and related models. The author bases his approach on a framework of penalized regression splines, and while firmly focused on the practical aspects of GAMs, discussions include fairly full explanations of the theory underlying the methods. Use of R software helps explain the theory and illustrates the practical application of the methodology. Each chapter contains an extensive set of exercises, with solutions in an appendix or in the books R data package gamair, to enable use as a course text or for self-study.

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is a comprehensive, well-organized and engaging text covering every major area of modern astrophysics, from the solar system and stellar astronomy to galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, and cosmology. Designed to provide students with a working knowledge of modern astrophysics, this textbook is suitable for astronomy and physics majors who have had a first-year introductory physics course with calculus. Featuring a brief summary of the main scientific discoveries that have led to our current understanding of the universe; worked examples to facilitate the understanding of the concepts presented in the book; end-of-chapter problems to practice the skills acquired; and computational exercises to numerically model astronomical systems, the second edition of An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is the go-to textbook for learning the core astrophysics curriculum as well as the many advances in the field.

Aiming to demystify the approach it explains how to parameterize and compare models while accounting for uncertainties in data model parameters and model structures The literature offers a bewildering variety of techniques Bayesian calibration data assimilation Kalman filtering model data fusion