Tag: Behavior

Free Download Dragonfly Behavior: Discovering the Dynamic Life of an Ancient Order of Insects
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3662702339 | 242 Pages | PDF (True) | 207 MB
This book is the first to allow you to experience the details of the ultra-fast lives of dragonflies, these large, beautiful flying insects, through an abundance of unique snapshots and image sequences. Dragonflies are world champions of flight, bionic wonders; they reveal much about the mysteries of evolution. We witness their social interaction, and appreciate their success over three hundred million years. Dragonflies – what an evocative name! – are easy to observe, even for beginners. About 80 species live in Germany, and every body of water is home to a few. They are not shy, do not sting and often come very close. Perhaps you will fall in love with dragonflies – just like the two authors who have been studying them for over 30 years. With the knowledge in this book, you will look at dragonflies in a completely novel way.

Free Download Peter K. Levison, "Substance Abuse, Habitual Behavior, And Selfcontrol"
English | ISBN: 0367304600 | 2021 | 190 pages | EPUB | 1172 KB
This collection of original essays by members of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior offers innovative perspectives on self-control over the use of habituating substances and related types of behavior. The authors review the powerful social-psychological influences of normative rules and interpersonal circumstances in developing individual capacities for self-control in, for example, the use of heroin. They also look at experimental contingencies under which animals engage in self-harming behavior; the induction of exaggerated consumption behavior, such as massive fluid drinking by laboratory rats; and studies of environmental and genetic influences on neurophysiological sensitivity to and preference for alcohol in laboratory mouse strains. The concluding chapter presents an unorthodox perspective on ways of self-governing the consumption of cigarettes and other substances, recognizing the peculiarities of the processes of human choice. In his introduction, volume editor Peter Levison contrasts the diverse approaches reflected in the book with the common-sense notion of self-control.

Free Download Olga E. Martin, "Rainfall: Behavior, Forecasting and Distribution "
English | ISBN: 1620815516 | 2013 | 193 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the behaviour, forecasting and distribution of rainfall variability. Topics discussed in this compilation include coping strategies in relation to local rainfall variability in Tanzania; rainfall variability and changes in Bangladesh; non-parametric methods for forecasting time series from cumulative monthly rainfall; long term and interannual rainfall variability in the Argentinean Chaco plain region; study of wet scavenging of atmospheric aerosols using decay products in rainwater; spatial variability of rain and its erosivity in a tropical semi-arid area in Kenya; potential of the piezoelectric transducer for direct rainfall kinetic energy measurement and erosivity evaluation; climatology and rainfall in north-east Brazil; and the Kalman Filtering approach in the calibration of radar rainfall data.

Free Download Rachel M. Williams, "Monkeys: Biology, Behavior and Disorders "
English | ISBN: 1612099114 | 2011 | 211 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book focuses on the biology, behaviours and disorders of monkeys. Topics discussed include the use of non-human primates in biogerontology; cognitive correlates of communication in primates; effects of the adverse rearing experience on the organisation of the brain and behaviour among non-human primates; parent-infant relationships in Marmosets; planning abilities of monkeys; neuropeptides in the monkey brainstem; and, developmental neuronal toxicity and the Rhesus monkey.

Free Download Machine Learning in Farm Animal Behavior using Python
by Natasa Kleanthous and Abir Hussain
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032628634 | 394 Pages | ePUB | 11.6 MB

Free Download A. A. Cahler, "Deer: Habitat, Behavior and Conservation "
English | ISBN: 162100676X | 2012 | 196 pages | PDF | 12 MB

Free Download Temperature Behavior of Bridges
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032764708 | 282 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 64 MB
Bridges are subject to daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations. The temperature variations can affect bridge materials and structural integrity, often interacting with other loads and masking their effects. Understanding temperature behaviors is crucial for accurate load assessment and bridge performance evaluation.

Free Download Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming By Alberto Amato, Vincenzo Di Lecce, Vincenzo Piuri (auth.)
2013 | 108 Pages | ISBN: 1461454859 | PDF | 4 MB
Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behaviour in Video Streaming investigates the semantic analysis of the human behaviour captured by video streaming, and introduces both theoretical and technological points of view. Video analysis based on the semantic content is in fact still an open issue for the computer vision research community, especially when real-time analysis of complex scenes is concerned.This book explores an innovative, original approach to human behaviour analysis and understanding by using the syntactical symbolic analysis of images and video streaming described by means of strings of symbols. A symbol is associated to each area of the analyzed scene. When a moving object enters an area, the corresponding symbol is appended to the string describing the motion. This approach allows for characterizing the motion of a moving object with a word composed by symbols. By studying and classifying these words we can categorize and understand the various behaviours. The main advantage of this approach lies in the simplicity of the scene and motion descriptions so that the behaviour analysis will have limited computational complexity due to the intrinsic nature both of the representations and the related operations used to manipulate them. Besides, the structure of the representations is well suited for possible parallel processing, thus allowing for speeding up the analysis when appropriate hardware architectures are used. A new methodology for design systems for hierarchical high semantic level analysis of video streaming in narrow domains is also proposed. Guidelines to design your own system are provided in this book.Designed for practitioners, computer scientists and engineers working within the fields of human computer interaction, surveillance, image processing and computer vision, this book can also be used as secondary text book for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering.

Free Download Rheology, Physical and Mechanical Behavior of Materials 3:
Rigidity and Resistance of Materials, Sizings, Pieces and Structures
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1786309726 | 387 Pages | PDF | 41 MB

Free Download Timothy P. Ehlers, "Polymer Phase Behavior "
English | ISBN: 1613243367 | 2012 | 316 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book examines the phase behavior of polymers. The authors present topical research in this field. Topics discussed include the phase behavior of PVP as compared with that of poly(N-vinylcaprolactam); the applicability of lattice cluster theory to the calculation of miscibility; Raman study of the pressure and temperature induced transformations in crystalline polymers of C60; polymer phase behavior in nanocomposites; phase inverting polymer systems in drug delivery medicine and the correlation between stereochemistry and phase behavior.