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Pages : 68

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Author: Ray Hilborn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400847311
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different hypotheses? How do we deal with time series (in which data are linked from one measurement to the next) or put multiple sources of data into one inferential framework? These are the kinds of questions asked and answered by The Ecological Detective. Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel investigate ecological data much as a detective would investigate a crime scene by trying different hypotheses until a coherent picture emerges. The book is not a set of pat statistical procedures but rather an approach. The Ecological Detective makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models. The authors' attitude is one of exploration, both statistical and graphical. The background required is minimal, so that students with an undergraduate course in statistics and ecology can profitably add this work to their tool-kit for solving ecological problems.

Author: H. J. SAVAGE
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ISBN: 9781033928912
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Julia Miller Vick
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812209443
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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For more than 15 years, The Academic Job Search Handbook has assisted job seekers in all academic disciplines in their search for faculty positions. The guide includes information on aspects of the search that are common to all levels, with invaluable tips for those seeking their first or second faculty position. This new edition provides updated advice and addresses hot topics in the competitive job market of today, including the challenges faced by dual-career couples, job search issues for pregnant candidates, and advice on how to deal with gaps in a CV. The chapter on alternatives to academic jobs has been expanded, and sample resumes from individuals seeking nonfaculty positions are included. The book begins with an overview of the hiring process and a timetable for applying for academic positions. It then gives detailed information on application materials, interviewing, negotiating job offers, and starting the new job. Guidance throughout is aimed at all candidates, with frequent reference to the specifics of job searches in scientific and technical fields as well as those in the humanities and social sciences. Advice on seeking postdoctoral opportunities is also included. Perhaps the most significant contribution is the inclusion of sample vitas. The Academic Job Search Handbook describes the organization and content of the vita and includes samples from a variety of fields. In addition to CVs and research statements, new in this edition are a sample interview itinerary, a teaching portfolio, and a sample offer letter. The job search correspondence section has also been updated, and there is current information on Internet search methods and useful websites.

Author: Tufts College
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266996286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Excerpt from The Tufts College Graduate, Vol. 19: March-May, 1921 As far back as literature runs, the fate of prophets and prophecies has been all but universally the same, the one unheeded, the other only partly true or even altogether false. He is doubly rash, therefore, who ventures to predict the future that must lie beyond so complex a situa tion as that which Europe and America now face, when, even to state fully and clearly the problem that confronts us, is a task of major diffi culty. And yet, there are certain facts involved in the present European crises which stand out clearly upon careful examination, facts which we are all too prone to overlook or undervalue, because they seem either too complex to render understanding possible or too terrible to be true. It is a practice beloved of certain types of writers to date back the genesis of a particular set of phenomena to some definite point of origin, and to say: Here the present situation began, and from this event has it been derived. Unfortunately, investigation usually reveals that there is no one definite and specific origin for any intricate grouping of events, and so it is with the present situation in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Kareem Khubchandani
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Ishtyle follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of nightlife cultures through performance. Kareem Khubchandani develops the notion of “ishtyle” to name this accented style, while also showing how brown bodies inadvertently become accents themselves, ornamental inclusions in the racialized grammar of desire. Ishtyle allows us to reimagine a global class perpetually represented as docile and desexualized workers caught in the web of global capitalism. The book highlights a different kind of labor, the embodied work these men do to feel queer and sexy together. Engaging major themes in queer studies, Khubchandani explains how his interlocutors’ performances stage relationships between: colonial law and public sexuality; film divas and queer fans; and race, caste, and desire. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the unlikely site of nightlife can be a productive venue for the study of global politics and its institutional hierarchies.

Author: Tufts College Alumni Association
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359014122
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: H. J. Savage
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260013927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Excerpt from The Tufts College Graduate, Vol. 9: Alumni Clubs and Associations; April, 1911 In the event of a plurality, the two highest candidates alone shall be balloted for subsequently at the meeting. Art. V. The executive committee shall select suitable persons, members of the Association, for the performance of such exercises at the annual meeting, as they shall think proper, and they may cause a dinner to be provided for the Association, and make such other arrangements for its happy celebration, as shall seem to them advisable. Art. VI. The president, and in his absence, the senior vice-president, and if all of them be absent, the oldest graduate among the directors shall preside at all meetings of the com mirtee and of the Association. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Tufts College
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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Author: Jean Herbert
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595500463
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Nearly 400 adult students have graduated from Tufts University since 1970. In this book you will learn about their experiences as non-traditional students at a selective university through interviews and essays. In creating this book, we explored the impact of the R.E.A.L. program on Tufts as well as on the lives of the students. We found three major points of impact: diversity, resiliency, and legacy. In each section of the book you will read about students from diverse backgrounds who overcame many obstacles to succeed at Tufts. Many of them have created a legacy, not only by what they accomplished at Tufts, but also by inspiring others in their families to further their education.