John Mordechai Gottman

Rebecca Tyson

Kristin R. Swanson

James D. Murray

Catherine Swanson

Dynamic Nonlinear Models (Bradford Books)

The Mathematics of Marriage

William VanRyper

A book and CD-ROM package provides a Mosaic navigating browser and a collection of hard-to-find resources from such vendors as Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Silicon Graphics, as well as test images and code examples. Original. (Advanced).

Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats

Too few Windows NT system administrators, security administrators, and developers have the in-depth knowledge of the NT event logs they need to troubleshoot their systems and protect the security of those systems. This book fills the gap by explaining what's in the logs and how you can use them to best advantage. In the event logs you'll find: Troubleshooting information-You can use the logs to determine whether a system or network is experiencing problems-and why. For example, the logs may show a disk drive or swap file filling to capacity, the failure of a power supply, or a device driver failing to load properly. Resource tracking information-You can use the logs to track the capacity and usage of system resources (e.g., disk space crossing a threshold, print spooler activity, the duration of specific applications, etc.). Security information-The logs are key to NT system security. You can select the security-relevant events you want audited (e.g., users logging on and off, changes to system security and user privileges, and attempts to access files, directories, and other objects). And you can track and analyze events stored in the logs as a way of determining if unauthorized users are trying to get into your system or if authorized users are exceeding their authority. This book contains extensive examples of reading, writing to, and maintaining the event logs using C, C++, Microsoft Foundation Classes, Visual Basic 5, Microsoft J++, and Perl 5 for Win32. It comes with a CD-ROM containing a wealth of sample code and third-party software tools and demos.

Windows NT Event Logging

Mathematics has always benefited from its involvement with developing sciences. Each successive interaction revitalises and enhances the field. Biomedical science is clearly the premier science of the foreseeable future. For the continuing health of their subject mathematicians must become involved with biology. With the example of how mathematics has benefited from and influenced physics, it is clear that if mathematicians do not become involved in the biosciences they will simply not be a part of what are likely to be the most important and exciting scientific discoveries of all time. Mathematical biology is a fast growing, well recognised, albeit not clearly defined, subject and is, to my mind, the most exciting modern application of mathematics. The increasing use of mathematics in biology is inevitable as biol ogy becomes more quantitative. The complexity of the biological sciences makes interdisciplinary involvement essential. For the mathematician, biology opens up new and exciting branches while for the biologist mathematical modelling offers another research tool commmensurate with a new powerful laboratory technique but only if used appropriately and its limitations recognised. However, the use of esoteric mathematics arrogantly applied to biological problems by mathemati cians who know little about the real biology, together with unsubstantiated claims as to how important such theories are, does little to promote the interdisciplinary involvement which is so essential. Mathematical biology research, to be useful and interesting, must be relevant biologically.

Mathematical Biology

John M. Gottman

Catherine C. Swanson

Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage provides the foundation for a scientific theory of marital relations. The book does not rely on metaphors, but develops and applies a mathematical model using difference equations. The work is the fulfillment of the goal to build a mathematical framework for the general system theory of families first suggested by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in the 1960s.The book also presents a complete introduction to the mathematics involved in theory building and testing, and details the development of experiments and models. In one "marriage experiment," for example, the authors explored the effects of lowering or raising a couple's heart rates. Armed with their mathematical model, they were able to do real experiments to determine which processes were affected by their interventions. Applying ideas such as phase space, null clines, influence functions, inertia, and uninfluenced and influenced stable steady states (attractors), the authors show how other researchers can use the methods to weigh their own data with positive and negative weights. While the focus is on modeling marriage, the techniques can be applied to other types of psychological phenomena as well.

James D. Murray

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