tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?term=forest+science&commit=VamosOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "forest science"2018-09-07T17:22:03Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png4602018-09-07T17:22:03Z2024-01-22T14:52:19ZForest Measurements: An Applied Approach<img alt="Read more about Forest Measurements: An Applied Approach" title="Forest Measurements: An Applied Approach cover image" class="cover " width="866" height="1304" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzg4LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--c601dc93f345b1846d5d0f03887655a664af48ff/0000ForMeaure.png" />This is a forest measurements textbook written for field technicians. Silvicultural applications and illustrations are provided to demonstrate the relevance of the measurements. Special “technique tips” for each skill are intended to help increase data collection accuracy and confidence. These include how to avoid common pitfalls, effective short cuts and essentials for recording field data correctly. The emphasis is on elementary skills; it is not intended to be a timber cruising guide.8852020-07-16T16:32:14Z2024-01-22T14:52:08ZStrategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries - Third Edition<img alt="Read more about Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries - Third Edition" title="Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries - Third Edition cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTI3MSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c24a1205a917542fd1831e4f8d745e2fd5ccf438/statmarkglobfor.jpg" />The forest industry is increasingly global and every marketer of forest products should have a global perspective. As a natural resource-based industry, the forest industry has an especially high profile role in environmental protection and is increasingly involved in climate change mitigation and management. Global forests are not only important because they provide a source of industrial raw material, but also because of the various other human needs they satisfy. A forest products marketer should have a basic understanding of the role that global forests play in society. Major societal trends are impacting the external environment within which the forest industry operates. We provide an overview of global forests and a brief description of the markets for the main categories of the forest industry.792018-09-07T17:21:42Z2023-11-13T14:05:25ZSocial Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices - (Revised edition)<img alt="Read more about Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices - (Revised edition)" title="Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices - (Revised edition) cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="544" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTAyNzcsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--4f06a756d50982d165fa699b63b90f1962fa458d/Open-Textbook-ProjectR33-002-350x544%20(1).jpg" />This book is designed to introduce doctoral and postgraduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioural research, and can serve as a standalone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently being used as a research text at universities in 216 countries, across six continents and has been translated into seven different languages. To receive updates on this book, including the translated versions, please follow the author on Facebook or Twitter @Anol_B.922018-09-07T17:21:42Z2024-03-11T13:00:59ZCalculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 1<img alt="Read more about Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 1" title="Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 1 cover image" class="cover " width="164" height="233" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzUsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--fdca88c088bcef8491b22e636470fbc36bbab0bd/9781467976664.png" />Our writing is based on three premises. First, life sciences students are motivated by and respond well to actual data related to real life sciences problems. Second, the ultimate goal of calculus in the life sciences primarily involves modeling living systems with difference and differential equations. Understanding the concepts of derivative and integral are crucial, but the ability to compute a large array of derivatives and integrals is of secondary importance. Third, the depth of calculus for life sciences students should be comparable to that of the traditional physics and engineering calculus course; else life sciences students will be short changed and their faculty will advise them to take the 'best' (engineering) course. In our text, mathematical modeling and difference and differential equations lead, closely follow, and extend the elements of calculus. Chapter one introduces mathematical modeling in which students write descriptions of some observed processes and from these descriptions derive first order linear difference equations whose solutions can be compared with the observed data. In chapters in which the derivatives of algebraic, exponential, or trigonometric functions are defined, biologically motivated differential equations and their solutions are included. The chapter on partial derivatives includes a section on the diffusion partial differential equation. There are two chapters on non-linear difference equations and on systems of two difference equations and two chapters on differential equations and on systems of differential equation.1202018-09-07T17:21:44Z2024-01-22T14:51:47ZCalculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 2<img alt="Read more about Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 2" title="Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume 2 cover image" class="cover " width="185" height="240" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTAzLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--680bc2a643130ef1990b3d538f7f7159ef7961a6/0000CalcLSVo2.png" />Our writing is based on three premises. First, life sciences students are motivated by and respond well to actual data related to real life sciences problems. Second, the ultimate goal of calculus in the life sciences primarily involves modeling living systems with difference and differential equations. Understanding the concepts of derivative and integral are crucial, but the ability to compute a large array of derivatives and integrals is of secondary importance. Third, the depth of calculus for life sciences students should be comparable to that of the traditional physics and engineering calculus course; else life sciences students will be short changed and their faculty will advise them to take the 'best' (engineering) course. In our text, mathematical modeling and difference and differential equations lead, closely follow, and extend the elements of calculus. Chapter one introduces mathematical modeling in which students write descriptions of some observed processes and from these descriptions derive first order linear difference equations whose solutions can be compared with the observed data. In chapters in which the derivatives of algebraic, exponential, or trigonometric functions are defined, biologically motivated differential equations and their solutions are included. The chapter on partial derivatives includes a section on the diffusion partial differential equation. There are two chapters on non-linear difference equations and on systems of two difference equations and two chapters on differential equations and on systems of differential equation.1702018-09-07T17:21:47Z2024-01-22T18:53:14ZMind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science<img alt="Read more about Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science" title="Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science cover image" class="cover " width="183" height="270" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQyLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--4f47d0602a13b883c29e3c71e9e422384fb1a5fe/9781927356173.png" />Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science. Examples, cases, and research findings taken from the wide range of phenomena studied by cognitive scientists effectively explain and explore the relationship among the three perspectives. Intended to introduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to the foundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for students of cognitive science.2292018-09-07T17:21:50Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZPsychology as a Biological Science<img alt="Read more about Psychology as a Biological Science" title="Psychology as a Biological Science cover image" class="cover " width="407" height="526" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTUzNywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--439b5625e0f5ab3a34cc189e3f5053974ba587f3/Psycho.PNG" />This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on biological aspects of psychology. This includes more content related to neuroscience methods, the brain and the nervous system. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the PDF.2302018-09-07T17:21:50Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZPsychology as a Social Science<img alt="Read more about Psychology as a Social Science" title="textbook cover placeholder image" class="cover fallback " width="247" height="326" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" />This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on social aspects of psychology. This includes expanded content related to social cognition, aggression, attraction and similar topics. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.2892018-09-07T17:21:52Z2024-01-22T14:52:16ZThink Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - 2e<img alt="Read more about Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - 2e" title="Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - 2e cover image" class="cover " width="202" height="264" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjMwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--fd7ac721e1fff0ad624a02d509ccb01fc8b77e3f/9781449314637.png" />Complexity Science is an interdisciplinary field—at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and natural science—that focuses on discrete models of physical and social systems. In particular, it focuses on complex systems, which are systems with many interacting components. Complex systems include networks and graphs, cellular automatons, agent-based models and swarms, fractals and self-organizing systems, chaotic systems and cybernetic systems. This book is primarily about complexity science, but studying complexity science gives you a chance to explore topics and ideas you might not encounter otherwise, practice programming in Python, and learn about data structures and algorithms. This book picks up where Think Python leaves off. I assume that you have read that book or have equivalent knowledge of Python. As always, I try to emphasize fundamental ideas that apply to programming in many languages, but along the way you will learn useful features that are specific to Python. The models and results in this book raise a number of questions relevant to the philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific laws, theory choice, realism and instrumentalism, holism and reductionism, and Bayesian epistemology.3932018-09-07T17:21:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZTogether: The Science of Social Psychology<img alt="Read more about Together: The Science of Social Psychology" title="Together: The Science of Social Psychology cover image" class="cover " width="324" height="447" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzI3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--87cbbb79fb0a00bb03a880b38705478c38f67d26/0000TogSciPsy.png" />This textbook presents core concepts common to introductory social psychology courses. The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs. Each module in this book is accompanied by instructor's manual, PowerPoint presentation, test items, adaptive student quiz, and reading anticipation guide.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.
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