A narrative description of the context of natural history study and collecting in later 17th century England It is constructed around the biography of the central figure of Robert Plot but with his activities placed in a broader European context

Game data science defined as the practice of deriving insights from game data has created a revolution in the multibillion dollar games industry informing and enhancing production design and development processes Almost all game companies and academics have now adopted some type of game data science every tool utilized by game developers allows collecting data from games yet there has been no definitive resource for academics and professionals in this rapidly developing sector until now Games Data Science delivers an excellent introduction to this new domain and provides the definitive guide to methods and practices of computer science analytics and data science as applied to video games It is the ideal resource for academic students and professional learners seeking to understand how data science is used within the game development and production cycle as well as within the interdisciplinary field of games research Organized into chapters that integrate laboratory and game data examples this book provides a unique resource to train and educate both industry professionals and academics about the use of game data science with practical exercises and examples on how such processes are implemented and used in academia and industry interweaving theoretical

Miles, Huberman, and Saldañas Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook is the authoritative text for analyzing and displaying qualitative research data. The Fourth Edition maintains the analytic rigor of previous editions while showcasing a variety of new visual display models for qualitative inquiry. Graphics are added to the now-classic matrix and network illustrations of the original co-authors. Five chapters have been substantially revised, and the appendixs annotated bibliography includes new titles in research methods. Graduate students and established scholars from all disciplines will find this resource an innovative compendium of ideas for the representation and presentation of qualitative data. As the authors demonstrate, when researchers think display, their analyses of social life capture the complex and vivid processes of the people and institutions studied.

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology with career and investment opportunities Notions of photons have evolved from the energy packet crowds of Planck and Einstein the later field modes of Dirac the seeming conflict of wave and particle photons to the ubiquitous laser photons of today Readers who take interest in contemporary technology will benefit from learning what photons are now considered to be and how our views of photons have changed in learning about the various operational definitions that have been used for photons and their association with a variety of quantum state manipulations that include Quantum Information astronomical sources and crowds of photons the boxed fields of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and single photons on demand the photons of Feynman and Glauber and the photon constituents of the Standard Model of Particle Physics The narrative points to contemporary photons as causers of change to atoms as carriers of messages and as subject to controllable creation and alteration a considerable diversity of photons not just one kind Our Changing Views of Photons A Tutorial Memoir pres

"This comprehensive, practical, user-friendly book provides a wealth of data analysis strategies that are essential for any qualitative research. It is a must-have tool book for moving from data anal

Game data science defined as the practice of deriving insights from game data has created a revolution in the multibillion dollar games industry informing and enhancing production design and development processes Almost all game companies and academics have now adopted some type of game data science every tool utilized by game developers allows collecting data from games yet there has been no definitive resource for academics and professionals in this rapidly developing sector until now Games Data Science delivers an excellent introduction to this new domain and provides the definitive guide to methods and practices of computer science analytics and data science as applied to video games It is the ideal resource for academic students and professional learners seeking to understand how data science is used within the game development and production cycle as well as within the interdisciplinary field of games research Organized into chapters that integrate laboratory and game data examples this book provides a unique resource to train and educate both industry professionals and academics about the use of game data science with practical exercises and examples on how such processes are implemented and used in academia and industry interweaving theoretical

La figura de Charles Darwin (1809-1882) destaca por la genialidad y originalidad de su pensamiento. Un pensamiento que podemos ver evolucionar a lo largo de las numerosas cartas que escribió a sus compañeros cientificos, para cotejar con ellos sus ideas y visiones, buscar los puntos debiles de sus teorias y solicitar informacion adicional o ejemplares tanto de plantas como de animales. Son cartas que nos muestran tambien a un Darwin cercano y familiar, enamorado de su mujer y temeroso de su salud y de la de sus hijos, asi como preocupado por el bienestar de sus amigos y compañeros, tratando siempre de ayudar a los mas desfavorecidos. Por vez primera se publican en castellano los dos tomos adicionales de cartas que su hijo Francis y a A. C. Seward editaron bajo el titulo More Letters of Charles Darwin en 1903, dedicados a la evolucion, la distribucion geografica, los caminos paralelos de Glen Roy y la viviseccion, entre otros muchos temas. Todas, piezas de un puzle que nos dejan entrever la mente de Darwin y el desarrollo de sus ideas.

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability To answer that question this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems It makes a socio technical analysis of transport systems exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers local and national governments citizens car drivers transport planners and civil society Two guiding questions are Will we see a greening of cars based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car based system Or is something more radical desirable and likely such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant

Un libro ilustrado y educativo, que pone de relieve las contribuciones de cincuenta mujeres notables a los campos de la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas desde el antiguo hasta el mundo moderno. Esta fascinante coleccion tambien contiene infografias sobre temas relevantes como equipos de laboratorio, tasas de mujeres que trabajan actualmente en campos relativos a la ciencia y un glosario cientifico ilustrado. Entre las pioneras incluidas en esta obra estan figuras conocidas como la primatologa Jane Goodall, asi como otras menos conocidas como Katherine Johnson, la fisica y matematica afroamericana que calculo la trayectoria dela mision Apolo XI de 1969 a la luna.

El relato autobiográfico de Cajal en Mi infancia y juventud (1901) nos lleva del humilde pueblo de Navarra donde pasó su niñez a los años de formación en Zaragoza y su acceso a la cátedra universitaria en 1884. Sus padres, maestros y profesores, sus aficiones por la naturaleza, la pintura y la gimnasia, su profundo sentido patriotico y otros avatares forman buena parte de este ameno recorrido vital, con las campañas carlistas en Cataluña o la guerra en Cuba como telon de fondo. Una narracion que nos permite ver como el joven se va convirtiendo en hombre.En Los tonicos de la voluntad (1899), apasionante ensayo basado en su discurso de ingreso en Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Cajal pretende orientar al investigador principiante y, como buen positivista, advertirle sobre la necesidad de apoyar sus trabajos en la observacion, la experimentacion y el razonamiento inductivo y deductivo. Su formacion autodidacta le lleva a comprometerse con las nuevas generaciones, a las que trata de animar en su servicio a la comunidad. Sus reflexiones abordan la necesidad de fortalecer la fe en uno mismo o revalorizan la filosofia como excelente ejercicio para el hombre de laboratorio. Un camino, el del investigador a comienzos del XX, solitario y casi epico, en el que cada logro suponia un reconocimiento social desconocido hasta entonces. Asimismo, delibera sobre el patriotismo propio del espiritu noventayochista, para concluir desarrollando unas estimulantes propuestas que remedien las deficiencias de la ciencia española y señalando las responsabilidades que debe asumir el Estado con la investigacion cientifica.En 1934, cinco meses antes de su muerte, don Santiago publica El mundo visto a los ochenta años. “La vejez ahora, apunta Antonio Campos en su ameno prologo, es el futuro cierto de una gran mayoria de seres humanos”, de ahi la pertinencia de esta obra en nuestros dias. Un ensayo en el que Cajal aborda tanto las tribulaciones fisicas del anciano (el insomnio, la arteriosclerosis, las alteraciones de la memoria…) como los consuelos que le proporcionan la escritura, el retorno a la naturaleza o la lectura de los clasicos. La curiosidad y el ansia de renovacion apunta el sabio en cierto momento, retrasan las metaforicas arrugas del cerebro. De esta manera, sigue manteniendo su fe insobornable en la ciencia positiva que fundamenta la biologia de la vejez, y nos revela su regeneracionismo militante y una honda preocupacion por la patria. Ademas, recomienda que el octogenario mantenga una dieta higienica (“el cerebro y el estomago son dos competidores egoistas”) y esquive los debates politicos. Una invitacion para que el lector contemporaneo descubra el camino de su propia vejez.

Harrison Decoded Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison s extraordinary pendulum clock system Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one hundred times the stability of those made by his contemporaries However his final publication which promised to describe the system was a chaotic jumble of information much of which had nothing to do with clockwork One contemporary reviewer of Harrison s book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison s superannuated dotage The focus of this book centres on the making adjusting and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory Greenwich The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system Clock B s performance the methods of data gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison s clockmaking that of his contemporaries and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence AI that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful technologies

Modern information technology permeates and transforms our world far more intensely than most of us realize It highlights major development lines and explains concepts such as artificial intelligenc

In this lively and entertaining book Donald R Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made cruc

Poques històries de grans homes ofereixen tant d'interés i tants misteris com la vida de Charles Darwin, el científic més significatiu del segle XIX, les idees del qual encara inspiren descobriments