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.

Microscope Image Processing, Second Edition, introduces the basic fundamentals of image formation in microscopy including the importance of image digitization and display, which are key to quality visualization. Image processing and analysis are discussed in detail to provide readers with the tools necessary to improve the visual quality of images, and to extract quantitative information. Basic techniques such as image enhancement, filtering, segmentation, object measurement, and pattern recognition cover concepts integral to image processing. In addition, chapters on specific modern microscopy techniques such as fluorescence imaging, multispectral imaging, three-dimensional imaging and time-lapse imaging, introduce these key areas with emphasis on the differences among the various techniques. The new edition discusses recent developments in microscopy such as light sheet microscopy, digital microscopy, whole slide imaging, and the use of deep learning techniques for image segmentation and analysis with big data image informatics and management. Microscope Image Processing, Second Edition, is suitable for engineers, scientists, clinicians, post-graduate fellows and graduate students working in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and related fields, who use microscopes in their work and would like to understand the methodologies and capabilities of the latest digital image processing techniques or desire to develop their own image processing algorithms and software for specific applications.

Gottingen ist mit den Aufgaben und Zielen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fUr Medizinische Dokumentation, Informatik und Statistik (GMDS) nicht nur durch die yom 3. - 5. Oktober 1977 stattgefundene 22. Jahrestagung verbunden. Schon durch den Mathematiker Felix B ern s t e i n, dem anlaBlich seines 100. Geburtstages eine Diplomarbeit aus dem Mathe- matisch-Statistischen Institut der Universitat Gotting n gewidmet worden ist, wurden bereits vor dem ersten Weltkrieg und in den darauf- folgenden Jahren grundlegende mathematisch-statistische Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet des Versicherungswesens und der Humangenetik durchgefUhrt. Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg hat H 0 s e man n in Gottingen die Ver- fahren der maschinellen Lochkartendokumentation zur Datensammlung als Grundlage statistischer Verfahren fUr die Universitats-Frauenklinik eingesetzt. Ein Teil seiner Entwicklungen, besonders auf dem Gebiet der Erfassung und Standardisierung der gynakologischen Karzinome werden heute noch verwendet. Ende 1952 und 1954 war Gottingen Tagungsort der Untergruppe Medizin der Deutschen Gesellschaft fUr Dokumentation (DGD) und nach GrUndung des "ArbeitsausschuB Medizin" in der DGD, dem direkten Vorlaufer unserer Gesellschaft, wurde die e r s t e Jahrestagung in Gottingen mit dem Thema: "Lochkarten und Randlochkarten im klinischen Gebrauch" durchgefUhrt.

The Global Lab tells the story of a group of organizations and corporations using low-income countries as a laboratory. It reveals experiments with untested technologies, biometric humanitarian solutions, and radical methodologies for social change. The book maps out the political, institutional, and ethical coordinates of emergent transnational practices of experimentation, asking where and how this movement works, while unfolding the human, philosophical, and political consequences of its ideas and interventions. The book takes the reader through Silicon Valley, Africa, and Asia to understand the tangible and transformative implications of contemporary human experimentation. It follows a set of main protagonists, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to experimental economists known as the randomistas, to humanitarian organizations and pharmaceutical companies. These actors form a movement inspired by the logic of Silicon Valley about the need for fast-paced radical change and societal disruption, technological innovation as progress, and the privatization and commercialization of the human mind and body. Ultimately, the book examines the inequality of experimentation that is found in the erection of walls between us and them, and the imagined universal and often unquestioned value of scientific and technological progress.

Related Title: Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: A Practical Training MethodThis book pushes back the boundaries of Scientific Glassblowing, emphasizing the possibilities of the material.In addition to the author's own chapters, he has invited Scientific Glassblowers from around the world to describe advanced glassblowing techniques in addition to the historical background of its development.