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Dunson, David B., ed. Random Effect and Latent Variable Model Selection. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76721-5.

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Dougherty, Dick. Dougherty revisited: A random selection of columns. Rochester, N.Y: Dougherty Editions, 2004.

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T. S. U. De Zylva. Images of birds: A random selection of the birds of Sri Lanka. Kurunegala: Victor Hasselblad Wildlife Trust (Sri Lanka), 2000.

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Schreiber, Sebastian J. Urn models, replicator process and random genetic drift. [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2001.

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Aiyer, Ajay Subramanian. Optimal portfolio selection with fixed transaction costs in the presence of jumps and random drift. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, 1996.

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Scott, J. C. Computerized stratified random site-selection approaches for design of a ground-water-quality sampling network. Oklahoma City, Okla: Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1990.

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Feldman, Roger D. Suitability of non-random designs for PACE evaluation: Final report. [Minneapolis, Minnesota?]: University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1990.

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Beth, Allen. Continuous random selections from the equilibrium correspondence. Louvain-la-Neuve: CORE, 1985.

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Paratiyar. Petals of beauty: Random selections from Bharati's poems. Madras: Manivachagar Pathipagam, 1994.

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Pāratiyār. Petals of beauty: Random selections from Bharati's poems. Madras: Manivachagar Pathipagam, 1994.

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Cao, Bing-Yuan. Optimal Models and Methods with Fuzzy Quantities. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

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Fridman, Yuriy, and Aleksandr Korzhenevich. Learning to solve problems in physics: preparing for the Unified State Exam. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/995926.

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If you are holding this textbook in your hands, it means that you understand the need to solve problems when studying a physics course at school. Indeed, it is difficult to overestimate the effect that the solution of problems in the study of physics gives. The textbook contains about 800 problems for the high school physics course. The tasks are based on the examination materials of various universities, including the Republic of Crimea, data from the magazines "Kvant", "Physics at School", information received from correspondence physics and mathematics schools of the Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov, National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI", Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University). We also used the problem books that were released in various years to help those entering universities. The number of problems and their selection are not random and allow, according to the compilers, to demonstrate the types of problems that are often found in the high school physics course, the most rational methods, general approaches and ideas for solving them, and also help to acquire certain skills in solving problems. Can be useful for use in secondary schools when working with students for whom physics is of interest, optional, if you prepare for the entrance exams for physics, a specialized school with advanced study of physics, as well as anyone who wants to learn how to solve problems in physics.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Nomination of Randal K. Quarles: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on the nomination of Randal K. Quarles, nominee to be Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Department of the Treasury, March 21, 2002. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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Finance, United States Congress Senate Committee on. Nominations of Robert M. Kimmitt , Randal Quarles, Sandra L. Pack, and Kevin I. Fromer: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on the nominations of Robert M. Kimmitt, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Randal Quarles, to be Under Secretary of the Treasury, Domestic Finance; Sandra L. Pack, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Management; and Kevin I. Fromer, to be Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury, Legislative Affairs, July 20, 2005. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2005.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Nomination of Randal K. Quarles: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on the nomination of Randal K. Quarles, nominee to be Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Department of the Treasury, March 21, 2002. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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Nichols, Eve K. Expanding access to investigational therapies for HIV infection and AIDS: March 12-13, 1990, conference summary. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 1991.

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Random Selection in Politics. Praeger Publishers, 1999.

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B, Dunson David, ed. Random effect and latent variable model selection. New York: Springer, 2008.

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Cui, Zhihua. Social Emotional Optimization Algorithm with Random Emotional Selection Strategy. INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2012.

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Against All Odds: A novel. Random House Large Print, 2017.

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Dowlen, Oliver. Political Potential of Sortition: A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office. Imprint Academic, 2009.

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Escamilla-Guerrero, David, and Moroamay Lopez-Alonso. Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907. UNU-WIDER, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2019/657-9.

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Laver, Michael, and Ernest Sergenti. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Decision Rule Selection. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691139036.003.0008.

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This chapter extends the survival-of-the-fittest evolutionary environment to consider the possibility that new political parties, when they first come into existence, do not pick decision rules at random but instead choose rules that have a track record of past success. This is done by adding replicator-mutator dynamics to the model, according to which the probability that each rule is selected by a new party is an evolving but noisy function of that rule's past performance. Estimating characteristic outputs when this type of positive feedback enters the dynamic model creates new methodological challenges. The simulation results show that it is very rare for one decision rule to drive out all others over the long run. While the diversity of decision rules used by party leaders is drastically reduced with such positive feedback in the party system, and while some particular decision rule is typically prominent over a certain period of time, party systems in which party leaders use different decision rules are sustained over substantial periods.
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The political potential of sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office / Oliver Dowlen. Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA, 2008.

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Dowlen, Oliver. The political potential of sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office / Oliver Dowlen. Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA, 2008.

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Burlingame, C. Charles. Shakespeare Psychiatry: A Random Selection Of Mind-Matters From The Bard Of Stratford-On-Avon, With Some Personal Comments. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. Tax administration: IRS' use of random selection in choosing tax returns for audit : report to the Honorable Paul Coverdell, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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(Firm), Daniel Shackleton, ed. Random Scots: A selection from our stock of pictures pertaining to the history of the Scotish nation : Edinburgh Festival 1988. Edinburgh: Daniel Shackleton, 1988.

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Tax administration: IRS' use of random selection in choosing tax returns for audit : report to the Honorable Paul Coverdell, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Slack, Jonathan. 6. Genes in evolution. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199676507.003.0006.

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‘Genes in evolution’ illustrates that a great deal of change in the primary sequence of DNA was not adaptive at all. It was not natural selection, but ‘neutral evolution’, consisting of an accumulation of mutations of no selective consequence that spread through the population by the effects of random sampling of variants from one generation to the next. In natural selection, generally what is good for the organism is good for the propagation of the gene variants it carries. But sometimes, as for sex and altruism, maximizing inheritance of gene variants that bring them about seems at first sight to be of advantage to the group, but of disadvantage for the individual.
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Boudreau, Joseph F., and Eric S. Swanson. Monte Carlo methods. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198708636.003.0007.

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Monte Carlo methods are those designed to obtain numerical answers with the use of random numbers . This chapter discusses random engines, which provide a pseudo-random pattern of bits, and their use in for sampling a variety of nonuniform distributions, for both continuous and discrete variables. A wide selection of uniform and nonuniform variate generators from the C++ standard library are reviewed, and common techniques for generating custom nonuniform variates are discussed. The chapter presents the uses of Monte Carlo to evaluate integrals, particularly multidimensional integrals, and then introduces the important method of Markov chain Monte Carlo, suitable for solving a wide range of scientific problems that require the sampling of complicated multivariate distributions. Relevant topics in probability and statistics are also introduced in this chapter. Finally, the topics of thermalization, autocorrelation, multimodality, and Gibbs sampling are presented.
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Comer, Jonathan S., and Laura J. Bry. Research Methodology in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Edited by Thomas H. Ollendick, Susan W. White, and Bradley A. White. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634841.013.8.

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To continue to move the field of clinical child and adolescent psychology forward, researchers must systematically rely on research strategies that achieve favorable balances between scientific rigor and clinical relevance. This chapter presents an overview of modern methods and considerations that maximize both rigor and relevance in the evaluation of child and adolescent treatments. This research methodology chapter is organized around the four stages of a clinical trial: (a) planning a clinical trial; (b) conducting a clinical trial; (c) analyzing trial outcomes, and (d) reporting results. Sample selection, random assignment, control condition selection, treatment integrity, missing data, clinical significance, treatment mechanisms, and consolidated standards for communicating study findings to the scientific community are addressed. Collectively, the methods and design considerations detail modern research strategies for the continually evolving science of clinical child and adolescent psychology.
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Cao, Bing-Yuan. Optimal Models and Methods with Fuzzy Quantities. Springer, 2010.

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Vigdor, Steven E. Randomness and Complexity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814825.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 describes the fundamental role of randomness in quantum mechanics, in generating the first biomolecules, and in biological evolution. Experiments testing the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox have demonstrated, via Bell’s inequalities, that no local hidden variable theory can provide a viable alternative to quantum mechanics, with its fundamental randomness built in. Randomness presumably plays an equally important role in the chemical assembly of a wide array of polymer molecules to be sampled for their ability to store genetic information and self-replicate, fueling the sort of abiogenesis assumed in the RNA world hypothesis of life’s beginnings. Evidence for random mutations in biological evolution, microevolution of both bacteria and antibodies and macroevolution of the species, is briefly reviewed. The importance of natural selection in guiding the adaptation of species to changing environments is emphasized. A speculative role of cosmological natural selection for black-hole fecundity in the evolution of universes is discussed.
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Pocheville, Arnaud, and Étienne Danchin. Genetic Assimilation and the Paradox of Blind Variation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199377176.003.0003.

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This chapter confronts the neo-Darwinian core tenet of blind variation, or random mutation, with classical and recent models of genetic assimilation. We first argue that all the mechanisms proposed so far rely on blind genetic variation fueling natural selection. Then, we examine a new hypothetical mechanism of genetic assimilation, relying on nonblind genetic variation. Yet, we show that such a model still relies on blind variation of some sort to explain adaptation. Last, we discuss the very meaning of the tenet of blind variation. We propose a formal characterization of the tenet and argue that it should not be understood solely as an empirical claim, but also as a core explanatory principle.
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Keating, Jon P. Random matrices and number theory: some recent themes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797319.003.0008.

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The aim of this chapter is to motivate and describe some recent developments concerning the applications of random matrix theory to problems in number theory. The first section provides a brief and rather selective introduction to the theory of the Riemann zeta function, in particular to those parts needed to understand the connections with random matrix theory. The second section focuses on the value distribution of the zeta function on its critical line, specifically on recent progress in understanding the extreme value statistics gained through a conjectural link to log–correlated Gaussian random fields and the statistical mechanics of glasses. The third section outlines some number-theoretic problems that can be resolved in function fields using random matrix methods. In this latter case, random matrix theory provides the only route we currently have for calculating certain important arithmetic statistics rigorously and unconditionally.
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Farrukhi, Asif. People All Around You. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0002.

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This chapter by Asif Farrukhi pays tribute to the Karachi-based poet Azra Abbas. Farrukhi presents a poignant selection of eleven of Abbas’ poems. These poems address experiences of fear, loneliness, grief, death and shock, in ways that political and random acts of violence insinuate themselves into domestic, commonplace experiences of “ordinary” everyday life in Karachi. Farrukhi shows how, in moving away from the traditional ghazal form of Urdu poetry, Abbas carved out a distinctive, unconventional style of gritty resistance. His relationship to Abbas’ work, and to the poems themselves, raise broader questions around how to articulate suffering in words, what languages are appropriate to capture pain, and how poetic forms may capture a fiery expression of outrage and resistance to violence.
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Hogh-Olesen, Henrik. Summing Up the Aesthetic Impulse. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927929.003.0010.

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In Chapter 9, the threads from the different investigations are gathered, and the evolutionary functions and conditions behind the aesthetic impulse are outlined in a synthesizing model. One of the main discussions in the aesthetic field concerns whether artistic behavior should be considered a biological adaptation in its own right and thus an innate behavioral repertoire with direct consequence to our survival and reproduction, which has been passed down the genetic line through evolutionary selection. Or should this behavior rather be considered a random by-product that may hold certain advantages for us, but which is a side effect of other adaptive processes? The chapter argues for the author’s stand in the adaptation/by-product opposition and shows how the viewpoints presented throughout the book best can be contained within the adaptation theory.
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Hankin, David, Michael S. Mohr, and Kenneth B. Newman. Sampling Theory. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815792.001.0001.

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We present a rigorous but understandable introduction to the field of sampling theory for ecologists and natural resource scientists. Sampling theory concerns itself with development of procedures for random selection of a subset of units, a sample, from a larger finite population, and with how to best use sample data to make scientifically and statistically sound inferences about the population as a whole. The inferences fall into two broad categories: (a) estimation of simple descriptive population parameters, such as means, totals, or proportions, for variables of interest, and (b) estimation of uncertainty associated with estimated parameter values. Although the targets of estimation are few and simple, estimates of means, totals, or proportions see important and often controversial uses in management of natural resources and in fundamental ecological research, but few ecologists or natural resource scientists have formal training in sampling theory. We emphasize the classical design-based approach to sampling in which variable values associated with units are regarded as fixed and uncertainty of estimation arises via various randomization strategies that may be used to select samples. In addition to covering standard topics such as simple random, systematic, cluster, unequal probability (stressing the generality of Horvitz–Thompson estimation), multi-stage, and multi-phase sampling, we also consider adaptive sampling, spatially balanced sampling, and sampling through time, three areas of special importance for ecologists and natural resource scientists. The text is directed to undergraduate seniors, graduate students, and practicing professionals. Problems emphasize application of the theory and R programming in ecological and natural resource settings.
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Briggs, Andrew, Hans Halvorson, and Andrew Steane. This is the story of life on Earth. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808282.003.0013.

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The story of Earth’s biosphere is looked at in the round, with a view to understanding correctly terminology such as ‘survival of the fittest’, and getting sound metaphors to underpin our understanding of genetics and natural selection. There is no need to pick Machiavellian metaphors when other less loaded ones will do. The evolutionary process has proved to be creative; it involves a rather lovely use of humble materials to improvise new structures and thus gain access to deeper and richer forms of existence. It is an open-handed process; its random element is a positive promoter of its freedom. Within this same process is the pain and tragedy of all life. None of this denies the truths of arithmetic or engineering; neither does it deny the truths of moral insight and social existence. Our meaning before God and each other is worked out within this tapestry.
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Stoltzfus, Arlin. Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844457.001.0001.

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Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution presents a new understanding of how the course of evolution may reflect biases in variation and unites key concerns of molecular and microbial evolution, evo-devo, evolvability, and self-organization by placing these concerns on a solid theoretical and empirical foundation. It situates them within a broader movement away from externalism and towards a focus on the internal details of living systems, including their evolutionary causes and their predictable evolutionary consequences. In the neo-Darwinian theory, by contrast, selection is the potter and variation is the clay: external selection does the important work of evolution, and gets all the credit, while variation merely supplies an abundance of random raw materials. Indeed, one of the meanings of the randomness doctrine is that any peculiarities or tendencies of mutation are ultimately irrelevant. The theory that the course of evolution is determined externally, without any dispositional role for internal factors, was particularly attractive before the molecular revolution, when biologists had little systematic knowledge of internal factors. Today, scientists are deeply immersed in the molecular, genetic, and developmental details of life. The potential for a new understanding of the role of these internal factors rests on the recognition that the introduction process is a distinctive kind of cause, not the same thing (conceptually, historically, or theoretically) as the classical “force” of mutation, but with different implications, including the ability to impose biases on adaptive evolution. This predicted influence is verified by recent evidence from episodes of adaptation traced to the molecular level.
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Rand, Ayn. The Early Ayn Rand: Revised Edition: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction. Signet, 2005.

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Desmarais, Bruce A., and Skyler J. Cranmer. Statistical Inference in Political Networks Research. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.8.

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Researchers interested in statistically modeling network data have a well-established and quickly growing set of approaches from which to choose. Several of these methods have been regularly applied in research on political networks, while others have yet to permeate the field. This chapter reviews the most prominent methods of inferential network analysis for both cross-sectionally and longitudinally observed networks, including (temporal) exponential random graph models, latent space models, the quadratic assignment procedure, and stochastic actor oriented models. For each method, the chapter summarizes its analytic form, identifies prominent published applications in political science, and discusses computational considerations. It concludes with a set of guidelines for selecting a method for a given application.
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Tiwari, Sandip. Semiconductor Physics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759867.001.0001.

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A graduate-level text, Semiconductor physics: Principles, theory and nanoscale covers the central topics of the field, together with advanced topics related to the nanoscale and to quantum confinement, and integrates the understanding of important attributes that go beyond the conventional solid-state and statistical expositions. Topics include the behavior of electrons, phonons and photons; the energy and entropic foundations; bandstructures and their calculation; the behavior at surfaces and interfaces, including those of heterostructures and their heterojunctions; deep and shallow point perturbations; scattering and transport, including mesoscale behavior, using the evolution and dynamics of classical and quantum ensembles from a probabilistic viewpoint; energy transformations; light-matter interactions; the role of causality; the connections between the quantum and the macroscale that lead to linear responses and Onsager relationships; fluctuations and their connections to dissipation, noise and other attributes; stress and strain effects in semiconductors; properties of high permittivity dielectrics; and remote interaction processes. The final chapter discusses the special consequences of the principles to the variety of properties (consequences of selection rules, for example) under quantum-confined conditions and in monolayer semiconductor systems. The text also bring together short appendices discussing transform theorems integral to this study, the nature of random processes, oscillator strength, A and B coefficients and other topics important for understanding semiconductor behavior. The text brings the study of semiconductor physics to the same level as that of the advanced texts of solid state by focusing exclusively on the equilibrium and off-equilibrium behaviors important in semiconductors.
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Joyner, Alexandra, ed. Gene Targeting. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199637928.001.0001.

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Since the publication of the first edition of Gene Targeting: A Practical Approach in 1993 there have been many advances in gene targeting and this new edition has been thoroughly updated and rewritten to include all the major new techniques. It provides not only tried-and-tested practical protocols but detailed guidance on their use and applications. As with the previous edition Gene Targeting: A Practical Approach 2e concentrates on gene targeting in mouse ES cells, but the techniques described can be easily adapted to applications in tissue culture including those for human cells. The first chapter covers the design of gene targeting vectors for mammalian cells and describes how to distinguish random integrations from homologous recombination. It is followed by a chapter on extending conventional gene targeting manipulations by using site-specific recombination using the Cre-loxP and Flp-FRT systems to produce 'clean' germline mutations and conditionally (in)activating genes. Chapter 3 describes methods for introducing DNA into ES cells for homologous recombination, selection and screening procedures for identifying and recovering targeted cell clones, and a simple method for establishing new ES cell lines. Chapter 4 discusses the pros and cons or aggregation versus blastocyst injection to create chimeras, focusing on the technical aspects of generating aggregation chimeras and then describes some of the uses of chimeras. The next topic covered is gene trap strategies; the structure, components, design, and modification of GT vectors, the various types of GT screens, and the molecular analysis of GT integrations. The final chapter explains the use of classical genetics in gene targeting and phenotype interpretation to create mutations and elucidate gene functions. Gene Targeting: A Practical Approach 2e will therefore be of great value to all researchers studying gene function.
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West-Eberhard, Mary Jane. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195122343.001.0001.

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The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes," but also behavioral development and physiological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning. The book shows how the universal qualities of phenotypes--modular organization and plasticity--facilitate both integration and change. Here you will learn why it is wrong to describe organisms as genetically programmed; why environmental induction is likely to be more important in evolution than random mutation; and why it is crucial to consider both selection and developmental mechanism in explanations of adaptive evolution. This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Using an immense compendium of examples on many kinds of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to higher plants and animals, it shows how the phenotype is reorganized during evolution to produce novelties, and how alternative phenotypes occupy a pivotal role as a phase of evolution that fosters diversification and speeds change. The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology, as shown in chapters on gradualism, homology, environmental induction, speciation, radiation, macroevolution, punctuation, and the maintenance of sex. No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is designed for biologists interested in the development and evolution of behavior, life-history patterns, ecology, physiology, morphology and speciation. It will also appeal to evolutionary paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and teachers of general biology.
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McCleary, Richard, David McDowall, and Bradley J. Bartos. Internal Validity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190661557.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 begins with an outline and description of five threats to internal validity common to time series designs: history, maturation, instrumentation, regression, and selection. Given the fundamental role of prediction in the modern scientific method, scientific hypotheses are necessarily causal. After an outline of the evolving definition of “causality” in the social sciences, contemporary Rubin causality or counterfactual causality is introduced. Under the assumption that subjects were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups, Rubin’s causal model allows one to estimate the unobserved causal parameter from observed data. Control time series are chosen so as to render plausible threats to internal validity implausible. An appropriate control time series may not exist, however, an ideal time series may be possible to construct. Synthetic control group models construct a control time series that optimally recreates the treated unit’s preintervention trend using a combination of untreated donor pool units.
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Marsh, Ken. Caught in a draft: A xerographic edition incorporating The June poems, selections from Random excess, the first canto of The century of the king & c : ... & stuff (facsimile of 1st edition) : Poetry. North American Editions, 1989.

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US GOVERNMENT. Nominations of Robert M. Kimmitt, Randal Quarles, Sandra L. Pack, and Kevin I. Fromer: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate,. Government Printing Office, 2005.

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Expanding Access to Investigational Therapies for HIV Infection and AIDS. National Academies Press, 1991.

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