One way to formally introduce counting principles is through countable sets, the cardinality of these sets, operations among sets, mappings between these sets and formal power series. We follow a high-level approach (also adopted in most introductory textbooks in Discrete Mathematics) as long it is well understood how we can technically formalize the arguments. Working from basic principles and...

We begin with a review of the basic molecules responsible for the functioning of all organisms’ cells. Much of the material here comes from the introductory textbooks by Drlica [4], Lewin [7], and Watson et al. [10]. Good short primers have been written by Hunter [6] and Brāzma et al. [2]. What sorts of molecules perform the required functions of the cells of organisms? Cells have a basic tensi...

the classroom and the laboratory. Reflecting the changing nature of the field, the appendices have been updated with input from students and professors, ensuring that they reflect current knowledge. Overall, Janeway’s Immunobiology remains the standard-bearer for introductory immunology textbooks. It continues its predecessors’ broad coverage of the subject and contains updated figures and appe...

There are a good number of introductory-level textbooks on data warehousing and OLAP technology, including Kimball and Ross [KR02], Imhoff, Galemmo and Geiger [IGG03], Inmon [Inm96], Berson and Smith [BS97], and Thomsen [Tho97]. Chaudhuri and Dayal [CD97] provide a general overview of data warehousing and OLAP technology. A set of research papers on materialized views and data warehouse impleme...

Finding an appropriate textbook for an introductory course on syntactic theory has become difficult. Since most attempt to portray a more or less current version of generative transforma-tional theory (TG), they tend to become obsolete fairly rapidly and the trace-per-morpheme average in phrase structure representations rises dramatically as a function of up-to-dateness. Given that the trace-he...

Abramson’s (2015) article confirmed what I have come to realize in several years of teaching: many psychology students have a general lack of enthusiasm for studying animals. In my department, the consequence is that courses in animal behavior and cognition have been offered on an infrequent basis, canceled due to low enrollment, or given more human content to widen their appeal. For example, a...

This document provides a tutorial introduction to the zipfR package (Evert and Baroni, 2007) for Large-Number-of-Rare-Events (LNRE) modeling of lexical distributions (Baayen, 2001). We assume that R is installed on your computer and that you have basic familiarity with it. If this is not the case, please start by visiting the R page at http://www.r-project.org/. The page provides links to downl...