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Chi-Squared Data Analysis and Model Testing for Beginners - Carey (preceptor In Physics Witkov - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Chi-Squared Data Analysis and Model Testing for Beginners - Carey (preceptor In Physics Witkov - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Recent groundbreaking discoveries in physics, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and gravitational waves, have relied on chi-squared analysis and model testing, a data analysis method. This is the first book to make chi-squared model testing accessible to students in introductory physics lab courses and others who need to learn this method, such as beginning researchers in astrophysics and particle physics, beginners in data science, and lab students in other experimental sciences. For over a decade, Harvard University''s introductory physics lab sequence has made chi-squared model testing its central theme. Written by two faculty members, the book is based on years of experience teaching students learn how to think like scientists by testing their models using chi-squared analysis. By including uncertainties in the curve fitting technique, chi-squared data analysis improves on the centuries old ordinary least squares and linear regression methods and combines best fit parameter estimation and model testing in one method. A toolkit of essential statistical and experimental concepts is developed from the ground up with novel features to interest even those familiar with the material. The presentation of one and two parameter chi-squared model testing, requiring only elementary probability and algebra, is followed by case studies that apply the methods to simple introductory physics lab experiments. More challenging topics requiring calculus are addressed in an advanced topic chapter.This self-contained and student-friendly introduction includes a glossary, end of chapter problems with complete solutions, and software scripts available in several popular programming languages that the reader can use for chi-squared model testing.

DKK 285.00
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Blackstone's Police Q&A's 2024 Volume 1: Crime - Paul Connor - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Blackstone's Police Q&A's 2024 Volume 1: Crime - Paul Connor - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Blackstone''s Police Q&As 2024 are the essential revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. They are created to follow Blackstone''s Police Manuals, the only study guides endorsed by the College of Policing, providing the most authoritative means of self-testing outside of the promotion examinations.Blackstone''s Police Q&A Volume 1: Crime 2024 contains hundreds of multiple-choice questions designed to reinforce knowledge and understanding of the Crime Manual. Each question, presented in the ''Type A'' format, has a detailed and comprehensive answer that highlights not only the correct response, but also the reasoning so that you understand the law and how it should be applied in practice and, as importantly, why the incorrect responses are wrong. This is essential for building your understanding of the syllabus and how it will be examined and also allows candidates to highlight any gaps or weaknesses in their knowledge. Each Q&A includes full cross-references to the relevant Manual paragraphs, while a question checklist helps you track your progress.The 2024 editions of this popular series contain important updates, reflecting changes to the 2024 versions of the Blackstone''s Police Manuals and the NPPF Syllabus 2023. This edition of Crime includes new questions from across the 2024 syllabus, in line with legislative and case law updates. Other titles in the series include Evidence and Procedure Q&A 2024 and General Police Duties Q&A 2024.Blackstone''s Police Q&As are also available as part of our online Blackstone''s Police Manuals and Q&As service: http://www.blackstonespoliceservice.comThis product is not endorsed by the College of Policing.

DKK 335.00
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Tactics for Listening: Basic: Student Book - Jack C. Richards - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Tactics for Listening: Basic: Student Book - Jack C. Richards - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Tactics for Listening Third Edition is a practical three level listening skills course for upper secondary, college and university students. You can use it independently, or alongside other skills courses. Packed full of listening activities on every page, the course provides practice in conversation and listening across a wide range of subjects and situations. High-interest topics use practical, everyday language and lots of manageable listening tasks to engage students and keep them motivated. Each unit outlines specific listening skills, and pronunciation and conversation topics, within the context of a topical subject. Short, manageable chunks make for easy teaching – and easy learning. Task-based activities in the Tactics for Testing sections provide practice in test-taking techniques, related to several units. The Teacher’s Testing Program and Resource CD-ROM supplements your teaching with unit quizzes and worksheets. These further develop students’ confidence and their listening and exam techniques. For students, access to downloadable audio MP3 files, from the new Audio Download Center, encourages study ‘on the go’ and supplements their out of class learning. You and your students can keep track of vocabulary development with the new vocabulary index. Listed by unit, it provides a useful tool for exam preparation and testing.

DKK 329.00
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Prenatal Tests and Ultrasound - Elizabeth Crabtree Burton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Prenatal Tests and Ultrasound - Elizabeth Crabtree Burton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

You''ve discovered that you or someone you care about is pregnant. After that initial rush of excitement, you start to have a lot of questions. Is the baby healthy? Is he or she growing well? From the moment a woman suspects that she is pregnant, the testing begins, and so do the questions. Can she trust the home pregnancy test kits? When is it time to go to the doctor or midwife? After coming to terms with the fact that pregnancy has occurred, the next step is often to worry about whether everything is progressing normally. With this book, expectant parents will find a clear timeline and explanation of all the tests they can expect to receive at each stage of pregnancy, as well as how and why they are performed, and the risks involved. This book clarifies the pros and cons of each type of test, enabling parents to choose the testing options with which they are most comfortable. It does this in a positive, factual way so as not to exacerbate fears or implant worries in parents'' minds of all the worst-case scenarios. Prenatal Tests and Ultrasound: The Facts is an invaluable source of information for expectant parents and their friends and families, and will also be of interest to professionals in general practice, obstetrics and gynaecology, and midwifery.

DKK 155.00
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The 'Third' United Nations - Thomas G. Weiss - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The 'Third' United Nations - Thomas G. Weiss - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the Second UN (staff members of international secretariats) to formulate and refine ideas and decision-making at key junctures in policy processes. Some advocate for particular ideas, others help analyze or operationalize their testing and implementation; many thus help the UN ''think''. While think tanks, knowledge brokers, and epistemic communities are phenomena that have entered both the academic and policy lexicons, their intellectual role remains marginal to analyses of such intergovernmental organizations as the United Nations.

DKK 328.00
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine - Alister E. Mcgrath - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Nature of Christian Doctrine - Alister E. Mcgrath - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A groundbreaking account of the origins, development, and enduring significance of Christian doctrine, explaining why it remains essential to the life of Christian communities. Noting important parallels between the development of scientific theories and Christian doctrine, Alister E. McGrath examines the growing view of early Christianity as a ''theological laboratory''. We can think of doctrinal formulations as proposals submitted for testing across the Christian world, rather than as static accounts of orthodoxy. This approach fits the available evidence much better than theories of suppressed early orthodoxies and reinforces the importance of debate within the churches as a vital means of testing doctrinal formulations. McGrath offers a robust critique of George Lindbeck''s still-influential Nature of Doctrine (1984), raising significant concerns about its reductionist approach. He instead provides a more reliable account of the myriad functions of doctrine, utilising Mary Midgley''s concept of ''mapping'' as a means of coordinating the multiple aspects of complex phenomena. McGrath''s approach also employs Karl Popper''s ''Three Worlds'', allowing the theoretical, objective, and subjective aspects of doctrine to be seen as essential and interconnected. We see how Christian doctrine offers ontological disclosure about the nature of reality, while at the same time providing a coordinating framework which ensures that its various aspects are seen as parts of a greater whole. Doctrine provides a framework, or standpoint, that allows theological reality to be seen and experienced in a new manner; it safeguards and articulates the core vision of reality that is essential for the proper functioning and future flourishing of Christian communities.

DKK 335.00
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Wittgenstein's Private Language - Stephen Mulhall - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein's Private Language - Stephen Mulhall - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein''s Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on ''private language''. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell''s interpretations of these remarks; and relates disputes about how to interpret this aspect of Wittgenstein''s later philosophy to a recent, highly influential controversy about how to interpret Wittgenstein''s early text, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by drawing and testing out a distinction between resolute and substantial understandings of the related notions of grammar, nonsense and the imagination. The book is concerned throughout to elucidate Wittgenstein''s philosophical method, and to establish the importance of the form or style of his writing to the proper application of this method.

DKK 348.00
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Are Dolphins Really Smart? - Justin Gregg - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Are Dolphins Really Smart? - Justin Gregg - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How intelligent are dolphins? Is their communication system really as complex as human language? And are they as friendly and peaceful as they are made out to be? The Western world has had an enduring love affair with dolphins since the early 1960s, with fanciful claims of their ''healing powers'' and ''super intelligence''. Myths and pseudoscience abound on the subject. Justin Gregg weighs up the claims made about dolphin intelligence and separates scientific fact from fiction. He puts our knowledge about dolphin behaviour and intelligence into perspective, with comparisons to scientific studies of other animals, especially the crow family and great apes. He gives fascinating accounts of the challenges of testing what an animal with flippers and no facial expressions might be animal behaviour, Gregg challenges many of the widespread beliefs about dolphins, while also inspiring the reader with the remarkable abilities common to many of the less glamorized animals around us - such as chickens.

DKK 180.00
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Human-Centered AI - Ben (professor Shneiderman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Human-Centered AI - Ben (professor Shneiderman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design choices that give humans control over technology.In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist''s guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans'' lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to offer a road map for successful, reliable systems. Digital cameras, communications services, and navigation apps are just the beginning. Shneiderman shows how future applications will support health and wellness, improve education, accelerate business, and connect people in reliable, safe, and trustworthy ways that respect human values, rights, justice, and dignity.

DKK 269.00
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Measurements and their Uncertainties - Ifan (department Of Physics Hughes - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Measurements and their Uncertainties - Ifan (department Of Physics Hughes - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This hands-on guide is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences and engineering. It assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. It introduces the necessary concepts where needed, with key points illustrated with worked examples and graphic illustrations. In contrast to traditional mathematical treatments it uses a combination of spreadsheet and calculus-based approaches, suitable as a quick and easy on-the-spot reference. The emphasis throughout is on practical strategies to be adopted in the laboratory. Error analysis is introduced at a level accessible to school leavers, and carried through to research level. Error calculation and propagation is presented though a series of rules-of-thumb, look-up tables and approaches amenable to computer analysis. The general approach uses the chi-square statistic extensively. Particular attention is given to hypothesis testing and extraction of parameters and their uncertainties by fitting mathematical models to experimental data. Routines implemented by most contemporary data analysis packages are analysed and explained. The book finishes with a discussion of advanced fitting strategies and an introduction to Bayesian analysis.

DKK 302.00
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Researching Religion - Steve (professor Of Sociology Bruce - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Researching Religion - Steve (professor Of Sociology Bruce - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic disciplines, there are very many ways of viewing religion. Certain kinds of questions about religion can only be answered by the methods and approaches of social science: if one is interested in the social causes and consequences of religious belief and behaviour, then one has to do social science. Steve Bruce underlines the value of quantitative social research. He shows that while detailed ethnographies have enormous value in helping us get ''inside'' religious belief and behaviour, they are severely limited by problems of scale and representativeness in their value for generating and testing explanations. While the primary focus is social research, the examples are drawn from studies of religious belief and behaviour, so it also presents a very large number of important observations about the nature of religion in the modern world. This book is an informative, concise reference for students trying to unpick quantitative religious research. It shows how to gather valuable research and avoid pitfalls.

DKK 368.00
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Planting Clues - David J. (distinguished Professor Of Plant Biology Gibson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Planting Clues - David J. (distinguished Professor Of Plant Biology Gibson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Discover the extraordinary role of plants in modern forensics, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching. We are all familliar with the role of blood spatters or fingerprints in solving crimes, from stories in the media of DNA testing or other biological evidence being used as the clinching evidence to incriminate a killer. This book lifts the lid on the equally important evidence from plants at a crime scene, from the incriminating presence of freshwater plants in the lungs of a drowning victim, to rare botanical poisons in the evening gin and tonic, to exotic trafficked flowers and drugs. In Planting Clues, David Gibson explores how plants can help to solve crimes, as well as how plant crimes are themselves solved. He discusses the botanical evidence that proved important in bringing a number of high-profile murderers such as Ian Huntley (the 2002 Shoham Murders), and Bruno Hauptman (the 1932 Baby Lindbergh kidnapping) to trial, from leaf fragments and wood anatomy to pollen and spores. Throughout he traces the evolution of forensic botany, and shares the fascinating stories that advanced its progress.

DKK 206.00
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Surnames, DNA, and Family History - Turi King - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Surnames, DNA, and Family History - Turi King - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and show the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago. In the process the book casts fresh light on the ancient peopling of the British Isles. The authors consider why some names die out, and how others have spread across the globe. They use recent advances in DNA testing to discover whether particular surnames have a single, dual or multiple origins and whether various forms of a name have a common origin. They show how information from DNA can be combined with historical evidence and techniques to distinguish between individuals with the same name and different names with similar spellings and to identify the name of the same individual or family spelt in various ways in different times and places.Clearly written and illustrated with hundreds of examples, this book will be welcomed by all those engaged in genealogical research, including everyone seeking to discover the histories of their names and families.

DKK 321.00
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Surnames, DNA, and Family History - George (freelance Historian) Redmonds - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Surnames, DNA, and Family History - George (freelance Historian) Redmonds - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago. In the process the book casts fresh light on the ancient peopling of the British Isles. The authors consider why some names die out while others spread across the globe. They use recent advances in DNA testing to investigate whether particular surnames have single, dual, or multiple origins, and to find out if the various forms of a single name have a common origin. They show how information from DNA can be combined with historical evidence and techniques to distinguish between individuals with the same name and different names with similar spellings, and to identifty the name of the same individual or family spelt in various ways in different times and places.The final chapter of this paperback edition, looking at the use of genetics in historical research, has been updated to include new work on the DNA of Richard III.

DKK 237.00
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How to request a test: A clinician's guide to the interpretation and evaluation of medical tests - Tom Boyles - Bog - Oxford University Press -

How to request a test: A clinician's guide to the interpretation and evaluation of medical tests - Tom Boyles - Bog - Oxford University Press -

Medical tests consume considerable resources and yet making requests is often left to the most junior members of the team. Medical schools often under prepare junior doctors for these tasks so they tend to request large numbers of tests to make sure ''all bases are covered'' by the time a more senior colleague attends to the patient.Beginning with naïve questions such as ''what is a medical test?'' and ''why do we perform tests?'', the book also covers the evaluation of tests from a public health perspective and helps the readers to determine whether a test should be introduced into clinical care. By describing the basics of medical decision making based on probability thresholds, students will learn how to avoid unnecessary testing when results are unlikely to influence patient relevant decisions, and the pros and cons of using metrics such as sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values. Illustrated throughout with real life examples from multiple medical and surgical specialties, it concludes with a novel checklist for doctors to consider every time they think of requesting a test.Written by a clinician for clinicians, this book is ideal for medical students and junior doctors. It provides everything they need to know to become experts at requesting tests. It will support them in requesting the most appropriate and effective tests, and inform them on how to interpret results, improving patients'' outcomes.

DKK 241.00
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Cheats and Deceits - Martin Stevens - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Cheats and Deceits - Martin Stevens - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host''s own clutch. Harmless butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous butterfly to avoid being eaten. The deep-sea angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure in front of its mouth to draw the attention of potential prey, while some male fish alter their appearance to look like females in order to sneak past rivals in mating. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays. In this book, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of such adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved, and become increasingly perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite. He explores the work of naturalists and biologists from Alfred Russel Wallace to current research, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviours and colourings on the animals it is meant to fool, as opposed to our human perceptions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.

DKK 229.00
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Expression in Speech - Katherine Morton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Expression in Speech - Katherine Morton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is about the nature of expression in speech. It is a comprehensive exploration of how such expression is produced and understood, and of how the emotional content of spoken words may be analysed, modelled, tested, and synthesized. Listeners can interpret tone-of-voice, assess emotional pitch, and effortlessly detect the finest modulations of speaker attitude; yet these processes present almost intractable difficulties to the researchers seeking to identify and understand them. In seeking to explain the production and perception of emotive content Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton review the potential of biological and cognitive models. They examine how the features that make up the speech production and perception systems have been studied by biologists, psychologists, and linguists, and assess how far biological, behavioural, and linguistic models generate hypotheses that provide insights into the nature of expressive speech.The authors use recent techniques in speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition as a test bed for models of expression in speech. Acknowledging that such testing presupposes a comprehensive computational model of speech production, they put forward original proposals for its foundations and show how the relevant data structures may be modelled within its framework.This pioneering book will be of central interest to researchers in linguistics and in speech science, pathology, and technology. It will also be valuable for behavioural and cognitive scientists wanting to know more about this vital and elusive aspect of human behaviour.

DKK 325.00
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