Numerical Ecology with R (Use R!)

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Edition: 2011
Release: 2011-01-14
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1441979751
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Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical overviews, the authors accompany the users through the exploration of the methods by means of applied and extensively commented examples. Users are invited to use this book as a teaching companion at the computer. The travel starts with exploratory approaches, proceeds with the construction of association matrices, then addresses three families of methods: clustering, unconstrained and canonical ordination, and spatial analysis. All the necessary data files, the scripts used in the chapters, as well as the extra R functions and packages written by the authors, can be downloaded from a web page accessible through the Springer web site(http://adn.biol.umontreal.ca/~numericalecology/numecolR/). This book is aimed at professional researchers, practitioners, graduate students and teachers in ecology, environmen Download Numerical Ecology with R (Use R!) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Download The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-08-31
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0199211132
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RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses) represent a major threat to public health. However, while the study of viral evolution has developed rapidly in the last 30 years, relatively little attention has been directed toward linking work on the mechanisms of viral evolution within cells or individual hosts, to the epidemiological outcomes of these processes. This novel book fills this gap by considering the patterns and processes of viral evolution across their entire range of spatial and temporal scales.

The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses provides a comprehensive overview of RNA virus evolution. This is the first book to link mechanisms of viral evolution to epidemiological outcomes, incorporating case studies in RNA virus emergence and evolution us Download The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-12-05
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0262662035
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Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change Download Contagion and Chaos for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Ecology of Mycobacteria: Impact on Animal's and Human's Health

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Edition: 2009
Release: 2009-08-12
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1402094124
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The Ecology of Mycobacteria principally emphasizes the ecological characteristics of the environmental mycobacteria. It is now well understood that the incidence and prevalence of potentially pathogenic mycobacteria is increasing in humans and animals. Further, proof that mycobacteria are normal inhabitants of drinking water distribution systems and household water systems, indicates that humans and animals are surrounded by mycobacteria and thus at risk. It is anticipated that the emphasis on ecology and routes of infection will result in a text of widespread use for clinicians and for research scientists in medicine, academia, and industry. In addition to identifying habitats and thereby sources of mycobacteria infecting humans and animals, the text identifies those mycobacterial characteristics that determine its range of habitats. Additionally, the text comments critically on the available methods to identify those protocols with values in mycobacterial research. In that manner, al Download The Ecology of Mycobacteria for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Download Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape Pdf

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Release: 2000-02-26
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0415923727
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Unhealthy Places pdf
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This text focuses on issues of health in today's cities. By arguing that "place matters" in relation to the population's health, Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory make a convincing argument about the general unhealthiness of urban environments and thus, of the urban dweller. The authors offer a place-oriented approach to health and cover such topics as: the ecology of everyday urban life; the sociology of health, needs and risks of the socially disadvantaged; needs and risks of children and the elderly in cities; and strategies for better health services in urban environments. Download Unhealthy Places for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Genomics Applications for the Developing World (Advances in Microbial Ecology)

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Edition: 2012
Release: 2012-05-11
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1461421810
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This book evolved from the editors strong belief that the information and new developments that were evolving from the rapidly growing field of genomics and that are happening primarily in the developed world have not happened at a parallel rate in the developing world. One would have hoped that by now the technologies and approaches would have been adapted on a far greater scale. In addition to this, the associated information is not always easily accessible, and is not disseminated in a format that can become a useful reference for scientists, students and others who reside in developing countries. Download Genomics Applications for the Developing World (Advances in Microbial Ecology) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Ecology of Wildlife Diseases Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2002-03-14
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0198506198
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Recent outbreaks of disease in domestic animals, humans and wildlife illustrate the relative importance of infectious diseases and the vulnerability of susceptible animals. Why do such diseases emerge? What are the factors that lead to dramatic epidemics? How can we apply our knowledge to improve the methods of control? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, which seeks to develop and apply an ecological approach to an understanding of epidemiology in wild animal populations.

The development of mathematical models in the dynamics of infectious diseases is a field that has seen rapid growth over the last decade. There is now a need to challenge these models with the data and to bring vets and field workers closer to the disease issues. This book was conceived to identify the exciting questions and set the future research agenda. 50 of the most active workers met in Trento, northern Italy, to brainstorm the issues, and from this the editors have moulded a syn Download The Ecology of Wildlife Diseases for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System Pdf

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Release: 2012-06-12
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN/ASIN: 0199928479
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Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure to these pathogens, we must understand which species are involved, what regulates their abundance, and how they interact.

Lyme disease affects the lives of millions of people in the US, Europe, and Asia. It is the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the United States; About 20,000 cases have been reported each year over the past five years, and tens of thousands more go unrecognized and unreported. Despite the epidemiological importance of understanding variable LD risk, such pursuit has been slow, indirect, and only partially successful, due in part to an overemphasis on identifying the small subset of 'key players' that contribute to Lyme disease risk, as well as a general misunderstanding of effecti Download Lyme Disease for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2005-11-03
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195169271
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AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty pdf
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AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on a wealth of scientific evidence, Stillwaggon demonstrates that HIV/AIDS cannot be stopped without understanding the ecology of poverty. Her message is optimistic, with pragmatic solutions to the health problems that promote the spread of HIV/AIDS. Download AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-12-31
Publisher: Academic Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0123704669
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Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology, training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.

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