Biology

Would you like to use TK or TKTD modelling to answer (applied) scientific questions, but lack the background in modelling and/or statistics? Then this is the book for you. This book provides a small selection of the tools from math and stats, along with some elements from philosophy of science, to get you up to speed.

The hardest part of stats is understanding how it all fits together. If you want a book that takes you from the very basics all the way through to the most advanced concepts, this is for you!

Biological Data Science with R covers data manipulation with dplyr, visualization with ggplot2, essential statistics, survival analysis, RNA-seq analysis, phylogenetic trees, predictive modeling and infectious disease forecasting, text mining and natural language processing, and more.

Survival is a relevant endpoint for many questions related to the effects of chemicals in the environment. Making sense of mortality, as a process over time, requires mechanism-based models, known as toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) models. All published TKTD models for survival can now be viewed as members of an over-arching framework: GUTS.

Are you confident your statistical results are correct? To answer this, you need to know the concepts behind statistics. This book, and R code, focus on data with correlated errors that arise in mixed models and phylogenetic models. It will hopefully give you confidence to judge statistical methods and the results they produce. The book is free!

Off Lagos, Greg is surrounded by the Atlantic and still cannot get three artificial intelligences to see the ocean. Somewhere else, the Council returns. Wave 4 goes looking for what everyone has been missing.

From our earliest genetic responses to the rising age of artificial intelligence, what does it truly mean to be well? The Blueprint of Life bridges complex science and the human experience, revealing that health is fundamentally about identity, dignity, and hope.

What if cognitive development is not only about learning to navigate an existing space of possibilities, but also about changing the architecture of that space itself?The Architecture of the Brain explores the human brain as a developing, multi-level system in which physical structure, neural dynamics, plasticity, cognition, consciousness, selfhood, and agency are deeply interconnected.

How chemostat bacterial systems grow, wash out, or stabilize, modelled from first principles through stability analysis to optimal harvest calculus.

We live inside Time: sometimes wishing it would pass faster, sometimes praying for more, and often trying to conquer it. Wave 2 proposes a different quest: to look more deeply at Time’s nature, so we may better understand who we are, where we belong, and how our becoming may find its purpose.

When you buy this book, you will get access to the Companion Resource Library, which includes:High-resolution versions of all figures featured in this volume.Curated educational videos from leading universities, research organizations, and trusted science communicators that complement the topics covered in this book.Additional companion resources and updates as they become available.

How epidemics travel as waves, from Fisher-KPP wave existence and minimum speed derived via phase-plane analysis, and then tied to disease spread and persistence.