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The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer
Publisher: Humana Press | 2007-05-23 | ISBN:089603996X | Pages:526 | PDF | 15 Mb
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The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer presents a broad yet focused treatment of central topics in the field of clinical neurophysiology. This volume was inspired by the clinical neurophysiology lecture series at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Rhode Island Hospital, where faculty and trainees at these renowned teaching hospitals participate in a lecture series over the course of the academic year. Much like the lecture series, The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer is designed to acquaint trainees with the essential elements of clinical neurophysiology.
Each chapter in this four-part volume is written by leading and respected clinical neurophysiologists. Part I presents introductory considerations such as basic electronics, basic CNS physiology, and volume conduction for clinical neurophysiology. Parts II and III attend to all aspects of electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG), respectively. In Part IV, topics in fields related to clinical neurophysiology are emphasized, including autonomic testing, evoked potentials, sleep studies, and their applications. Fellows engaged in neurophysiology training, those pursuing more focused training in those areas, and neurology residents will all find this volume to be an indispensable reference. A standalone CD-ROM version of this title is also available (ISBN: 1-934115-09-6).
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Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Second Edition (Food Science and Technology)
Publisher: CRC | 2002-04-17 | ISBN 0824707494 | Pages: 1040 | PDF | 4.5 Mb
Highlighting the role of dietary fats in foods, human health, and disease, this book offers comprehensive presentations of lipids in food. Furnishing a solid background in lipid nomenclature and classification, it contains over 3600 bibliographic citations for more in-depth exploration of specific topics and over 530 illustrations, tables, and equations to help clarify study. With contributions of more than 40 internationally renowned experts, the book covers conjugated linoleic acids in health, and food applications of lipids. Topics include lipid oxidation in foods and tissues; the chemistry and mechanisms of lipid and antioxidant reactions; lipid biotechnology and genetic engineering; and more.
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Richard Blum, “PostgreSQL 8 for Windows”
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN: 0071485627 | 1 edition (March 22, 2007) | PDF | 400 pages | 3 Mb
Get up-and-running on PostgreSQL quickly using this hands-on guide. Filled with real-world examples, PostgreSQL 8 for Windows offers you practical, step-by-step details on installing, configuring, and using PostgreSQL 8–the full-featured, open-source database management system–on Windows platforms. You’ll learn to administer, secure, and tune your database and use SQL. You’ll also discover how to interface Microsoft Access, Microsoft .NET, Visual C++, and Java with the PostgreSQL database.
* Install and configure PostgreSQL 8 on Windows
* Customize your system using the configuration files
* Work with the utilities
* Administer your database from the pgAdmin III graphical interface
* Use the psql command line program to manually execute SQL commands
* Take advantage of built-in functions or create your own stored procedures and triggers
* Implement tested security measures
* Maintain optimal database performance
* Access a PostgreSQL database from a Microsoft Access application and migrate Access databases to PostgreSQL
* Create .NET, Visual C++, and Java applications that interface with your PostgreSQL server
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Bulgaria (Oxford History of Modern Europe) by R.J. Crampton
Oxford University Press | ISBN-10: 0198205147 | 2007 | PDF | 536 pages | 1.7 Mb
Tracing the evolution of the Bulgarian state and its people, from the beginning of the Bulgarian national revival in the middle of the nineteenth century to the entry of the country into the European Union, Richard Crampton examines key political, social, and economic developments, revealing the history of a country which evolved from a backward and troublesome Balkan state to become a modern European nation. The formation of the first modern Bulgarian state in 1878 played a major role in Bulgaria’s evolution, determining its stance in the two World Wars. Seeing the collapse as well as the establishment and evolution of communist rule, Bulgaria survived an often painful journey from monolithic authoritarianism to representative democracy and the market system. This book follows this journey, and analyses the development of Bulgaria’s political culture, examining the emergence of radical movements, both agrarian and socialist, as well as looking at the role of religion and the position of minorities. Crampton highlights the problems and dilemmas created by the country’s position situated between east and west, problems which might not be entirely solved by the country’s admission to the EU.
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John L. Bell, “Set Theory : Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs”
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA | Pages: 232 | ISBN: 0198568525 | PDF | 10 Mb
This monograph is a follow up to the author’s classic text iBoolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory/i, providing an exposition of some of the most important results in set theory obtained in the 20th century–the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice. Aimed at research students and academics in mathematics, mathematical logic, philosophy, and computer science, the text has been extensively updated with expanded introductory material, new chapters, and a new appendix on category theory, and includes recent developments in the field. Numerous exercises, along with the enlarged and entirely updated background material, make this an ideal text for students in logic and set theory.
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Catherine Q. Howe, Dale Purves, “Perceiving Geometry: Geometrical Illusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics”
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 126 | ISBN: 0387254870 | ODF | 14.1 Mb
During the last few centuries, natural philosophers, and more recently vision scientists, have recognized that a fundamental problem in biological vision is that the sources underlying visual stimuli are unknowable in any direct sense, because of the inherent ambiguity of the stimuli that impinge on sensory receptors. The light that reaches the eye from any scene conflates the contributions of reflectance, illumination, transmittance, and subsidiary factors that affect these primary physical parameters. Spatial properties such as the size, distance and orientation of physical objects are also conflated in light stimuli. As a result, the provenance of light reaching the eye at any moment is uncertain. This quandary is referred to as the inverse optics problem. This book considers the evidence that the human visual system solves this problem by incorporating past human experience of what retinal images have typically corresponded to in the real world.
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Jing-Song Huang, Pavle Pandzic, “Dirac Operators in Representation Theory ”
Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (July 27, 2006) | ISBN 0817632182 | 199 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Dirac operators are widely used in physics, differential geometry, and group-theoretic settings (particularly, the geometric construction of discrete series representations). The related concept of Dirac cohomology, which is defined using Dirac operators, is a far-reaching generalization that connects index theory in differential geometry to representation theory. Using Dirac operators as a unifying theme, the authors demonstrate how some of the most important results in representation theory fit together when viewed from this perspective.
Key topics covered include:
* Proof of Vogan’s conjecture on Dirac cohomology
* Simple proofs of many classical theorems, such as the Bott–Borel–Weil theorem and the Atiyah–Schmid theorem
* Dirac cohomology, defined by Kostant’s cubic Dirac operator, along with other closely related kinds of cohomology, such as n-cohomology and (g,K)-cohomology
* Cohomological parabolic induction and $A_q(lambda)$ modules
* Discrete series theory, characters, existence and exhaustion
* Sharpening of the Langlands formula on multiplicity of automorphic forms, with applications
* Dirac cohomology for Lie superalgebras
An excellent contribution to the mathematical literature of representation theory, this self-contained exposition offers a systematic examination and panoramic view of the subject. The material will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in representation theory, differential geometry, and physics.
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Sorin Dragomir, Giuseppe Tomassini, “Differential Geometry and Analysis on CR Manifolds”
Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (March 17, 2006) | ISBN: 0817643885 | 487 pages | PDF | 2,6 Mb
The study of CR manifolds lies at the intersection of three main mathematical disciplines: partial differential equations, complex analysis in several complex variables, and differential geometry. While the PDE and complex analytic aspects have been intensely studied in the last fifty years, much effort has recently been made to understand the differential geometric side of the subject.
This monograph provides a unified presentation of several differential geometric aspects in the theory of CR manifolds and tangential Cauchy–Riemann equations. It presents the major differential geometric acheivements in the theory of CR manifolds, such as the Tanaka–Webster connection, Fefferman’s metric, pseudo-Einstein structures and the Lee conjecture, CR immersions, subelliptic harmonic maps as a local manifestation of pseudoharmonic maps from a CR manifold, Yang–Mills fields on CR manifolds, to name a few. It also aims at explaining how certain results from analysis are employed in CR geometry.
Motivated by clear exposition, many examples, explicitly worked-out geometric results, and stimulating unproved statements and comments referring to the most recent aspects of the theory, this monograph is suitable for researchers and graduate students in differential geometry, complex analysis, and PDEs.
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Posted: October 28th, 2007, 4:43pm CET by Swat
Efstathios Vassiliou, ” Geometry of Principal Sheaves ”
Springer; 1 edition (2005) | ISBN: 1402034156 | 444 pages | PDF | 8,2 Mb
The book provides a detailed introduction to the theory of connections on principal sheaves in the framework of Abstract Differential Geometry (ADG). This is a new approach to differential geometry based on sheaf theoretic methods, without use of ordinary calculus. This point of view complies with the demand of contemporary physics to cope with non-smooth models of physical phenomena and spaces with singularities.
Starting with a brief survey of the required sheaf theory and cohomology, the exposition then moves on to differential triads (the abstraction of smooth manifolds) and Lie sheaves of groups (the abstraction of Lie groups). Having laid the groundwork, the main part of the book is devoted to the theory of connections on principal sheaves, incorporating connections on vector and associated sheaves. Topics such as the moduli sheaf of connections, classification of principal sheaves, curvature, flat connections and flat sheaves, Chern-Weil theory, are also treated.
The study brings to light fundamental notions and tools of the standard differential geometry which are susceptible of the present abstraction, and whose role remains unexploited in the classical context, because of the abundance of means therein. However, most of the latter are nonsensical in ADG.
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Tom Roeper “The Prism of Grammar: How Child Language Illuminates Humanism”
MIT Press (April 2007) | ISBN 0262182521 | 372 Pages | PDF | 2.2 Mb
Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of information to different domains of mind–memory, vision, emotions, intentions. In The Prism of Grammar, Tom Roeper brings the abstract principles behind modern grammar to life by exploring the astonishing intricacies of child language. Adult expressions provide endless puzzles for the child to solve. The individual child’s solutions (”Don’t uncomfortable the cat” is one example) may amuse adults but they also reveal the complexity of language and the challenges of mastering it. The tiniest utterances, says Roeper, reflect the whole mind and engage the child’s free will and sense of dignity.
He offers numerous and novel “explorations”–many at the cutting edge of current work–that anyone can try, even in conversation around the dinner table. They elicit how the child confronts “recursion”–the heartbeat of grammar–through endless possessives (”John’s mother’s friend’s car”), mysterious plurals, contradictory adjectives, the marvels of ellipsis, and the deep obscurity of reference (”there it is, right here”). They are not tests of skill; they are tools for discovery and delight, not diagnosis. Each chapter on acquisition begins with a commonsense look at how structures work–moving from the simple to the complex–and then turns to the literary and human dimensions of grammar. One important human dimension is the role of dialect in society and in the lives of children. Roeper devotes three chapters to the structure of African-American English and the challenge of responding to linguistic prejudice.
Written in a lively style, accessible and gently provocative, The Prism of Grammar is for parents and teachers as well as students–for everyone who wants to understand how children gain and use language–and anyone interested in the social, philosophical, and ethical implications of how we see the growing mind emerge.
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Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers
publisher Oxford University Press | 16 November, 2001 | ISBN:0195131754 | CHM | 224 Pages | 2 Mb
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Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century. Over his long career he published a dozen books, including classics such as Childhood and Society; Identity, Youth, and Crisis; and Young Man Luther . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1970 for his biography Gandhi’s Truth. It was also in 1970, when he retired from Harvard University, that Erikson began to rethink his earlier theories of development. He became increasingly occupied with the conflicts and challenges of adulthood–a shift from his earlier writings on the “identity crises� of adolescence. For the past twenty years, Carol Hoare has written extensively on various aspects of Erikson’s work. She has been aided by access to Erikson’s unpublished papers at Harvard, as well as cooperation with Joan Erikson, the psychologist’s wife and longtime collaborator. By reconstructing Erikson’s theory of adulthood from his unpublished papers, Hoare provides not only a much-needed revision of Erikson’s work, but also a glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century’s most profound thinkers.
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Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, “Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media”
Sage Publications, Inc (December 14, 2006) | ISBN: 1412905303 | 1104 pages | 9,5 Mb
*Starred Review* As media of all kinds become more pervasive, their effect on children and adolescents is much discussed and debated. This encyclopedia pulls together research on topics related to young people’s daily media experience. Editor Arnett is a research professor at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts, and the author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties (2004). More than 400 contributors from universities and organizations, primarily from the U.S., supplied the 463 entries. Broad areas of coverage (as outlined in the Reader’s Guide) include advertising; advocacy groups; computers and electronic media; gender and sexuality; movies, music, and television; public policy; and violence and aggression, among others. Although some entries discuss benefits, the weight of opinion in the entries in the encyclopedia is decidedly in the direction of the concerns and potential negative effects of media. Examples of entries include Cigarette use in television and movies; Gender roles in music; Internet use, psychological effects of; Manga (Japanese comic books); and Viral marketing. The relationship between food advertising and obesity; the portrayal of women in hip-hop; the cognitive effects of electronic games; the sexual information available in teen magazines; and media use in Asia, Europe, and Latin American are all the subjects of entries. A number of entries provide historical perspective, showing how comic strips or children’s television programming, for example, have evolved over the years. Others discuss academic theories such as mean world syndrome and the super peer. Each signed entry is from one to several pages in length and offers a list of further readings and cross-references. The index, more than 70 pages long and repeated in each volume, is invaluable for locating information on Dawson’s Creek, Grand Theft Auto, Madonna, and MySpace. A decision was made to exclude specific characters, performers, and media products as topics for entries in part because they come and go, and entries on them would already seem dated by the time the encyclopedia was published. Although the cost is substantial, this resource should be valuable at both academic institutions and large public libraries since there is no other like it. Libraries with online book collections should watch for it as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Highly recommended. Shonrock, Diana
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Karen Christensen, David Levinson , “Encyclopedia of Community : From the Village to the Virtual World”
SAGE Publications; 1 edition (June 23, 2003) | ISBN: 0761925988 | 2000 pages | PDF | 18,2 Mb
Subject encyclopedias generally cover a well-defined academic area, historical period, or topic. The Encyclopedia of Community focuses on the hard-to-define concept of community and works to explore and position that concept within many disciplines and contexts. Entries such as Apartheid, Blogs, County fairs, Eugenics, Gangs, Shtetls, Social Darwinism, and Third places display the wide scope that the editors and contributors give to the notion of community.
Experienced reference book editors Christensen and Levinson (Encyclopedia of Modern Asia [Scribner, 2002] and Encyclopedia of World Sport [Oxford, 1999], among others) have assembled an international group of scholars to produce a set containing 500 signed entries, arranged in alphabetical order, with bibliographies and cross-references where appropriate. Some 266 of the entries are supplemented with sidebars that contain additional information, much of which comes from primary sources. An example is Emma Goldman’s address to the jury during her trial as a sidebar to the entry Anarchism. The encyclopedia opens with lists of entries, sidebars, and contributors. A “Reader’s Guide” groups the entries into 20 general categories, offering a thematic alternative to the alphabetical arrangement.
There are four potentially useful appendixes. “Resource Guides” offers 21 broad subject areas (not the same as those in the “Reader’s Guide” mentioned above), each with a definition, list of applicable entries, books and Web sites for further research, journals, and organizations. “Libraries Build Community” is designed to assist librarians by describing different kinds of outreach activities. “Community in Popular Culture” lists books, movies, television programs, and other resources on the theme of community, and the “Master Bibliography of Community” compiles most of the works cited in the articles. The entries themselves are clearly written and intended for a general researcher.
In spite of all the positive aspects of this work, it is necessary to question how essential it might be to a general academic or public collection. As most of the topics can be found in other subject encyclopedias, unless the focus on “community” matches a specific need, this may not be worth the price. For collections supporting community studies programs, as well as for comprehensive collections in sociology, urban planning, and the like, it is a good choice.
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Teodor Danciu, Lucian Chirita, “The Definitive Guide to JasperReports”
Apress (August 24, 2007) | ISBN: 1590599276 | 223 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb
JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports. This definitive, authoritative covers the following:
Shows the power this open source Java reporting tool has and the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer, or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files
Demonstrates how JasperReports can be used in a variety of Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or web applications, to generate dynamic content
Teaches you how to create page-oriented, ready-to-print documents in a simple and flexible manner
What you’ll learn
Enable the embeddable Java reporting library, which you can embed in any host application to let you plug in Java and Groovy code.
Handle complex reports, subreports with highly complex layouts, pixel-perfect page-oriented output for the Web or print, and crosstabbing, and output reports in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF, or TXT.
Create integrated charting with comprehensive chat types.
Use multilanguage Unicode and other native encodings, dynamic text localization, and localized date, number, and currency formatting.
Scale with high-performance report generation with no limit to report size.
Extend easily with built-in expressions and plug-ins for Java and Groovy code; integrate iReport visual report designer; and extend to other Eclipse or Swing-based designers.
Access data flexibly with JasperReport’s built-in support for JDBC, EJB, POJO, Hibernate, XML, and more.
Who is this book for?
This book is for business intelligence reporting tool users and developers who have a background primarily in Java and Java EE.
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Carol Hamer, “Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone ”
Apress (August 13, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598806 | 415 pages | PDF | 4,8 Mb
Creating Mobile Games: Using Javaâ„¢ ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:
Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
Covers the new MIDP3
What you’ll learn
Start using the MIDP2 and MIDP3 in the newly open sourced Java ME Games API.
Add a truly professional look-and-feel to your Java ME games.
Use threads, tones, and other media.
Store and retrieve data and enable networking.
Create advanced interactive messaging with optional APIs for multiplayer gaming.
Explore a complete business model for independent developers (distributing their own games) as well as for larger companies.
Who is this book for?
Software engineers with some knowledge of Java who would like to switch to MicroEdition programming, particularly games
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Donald Bales , “Beginning PL/SQL: From Novice to Professional ”
Apress (August 24, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598822 | 476 pages | PDF | 5,5 Mb
Get started with PL/SQL, the built-in language that every Oracle developer and database administrator must know, in Beginning PL/SQL, a fast-paced and example-filled tutorial. Learn from author Don Bales’ extensive experience to discover the most commonly used aspects of PL/SQL without wasting time with obscure and obsolete features.
Author Don Bales takes his 20+ years of experience and a wealth of statistics he’s gathered on PL/SQL usage over those years and applies the 80/20 rule — cover what’s most needed and used by PL/SQL professionals and avoid what’s not necessary! The result is a book that covers all the key features of PL/SQL without wasting your time discussing esoteric and obsolete parts of the language. Learn what really matters, so that you can get to work feeling confident with what you know about PL/SQL.
Discover the 20% of PL/SQL that gives you 80% of the bang–key topics covered include variables and datatypes, executing statements, working with cursors, real-world objects, debugging, testing, and more.
Learn how to write production-level, object-oriented PL/SQL–you’ll explore relational PL/SQL, but unlike most other books on the subject, Don Bales emphasizes the use of PL/SQL’s object-oriented features as well.
Work through real examples of using of PL/SQL–you’ll learn PL/SQL by applying it to real-world business problems, not by heavy theory.
What you’ll learn
How important SQL is in PL/SQL
How to use PL/SQL in both a relational and object-relational setting
How to create maintainable, modular, and reusable PL/SQL program units
The importance of testing as you go, and of building a permanent test plan for each module
The importance of building debugging capabilities into your code and building a permanent debug facility for each module
The importance of documenting as you go, and in the process building a permanent documentation set for your reusable modules
How to apply modular PL/SQL to solve real-world problems
Who is this book for?
Anyone who wants to learn how to create stored procedures against an Oracle database using PL/SQL. Programmers developing applications to be deployed against an Oracle database will need PL/SQL to take full advantage of the power Oracle has to offer. Database administrators who wish to implement functionality exposed only via PL/SQL package interfaces will also find this book useful.
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Jeffrey Sambells, Aaron Gustafson , “AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques ”
friends of ED (July 23, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598563 | 570 pages | PDF | 11.5 Mb
As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality and improving the user experience. You’ve got a reasonable understanding of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further. This book is all you need to do soit shows you how to add essential functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more.
Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes.
Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end
Written by “Beginning Google Maps” author Jeffrey Sambells, and includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson.
What you’ll learn
A quick recap of the HTML and CSS DOM, methods, and events.
Shows you the basics of how to add dynamic effects and respond to user actions to your web sites using CSS and JavaScript.
Introduces Ajax to the mix, showing you how to use it, and when not to use it.
Learn best practices (such as graceful degredation) and productivity improvement via code reuse (libraries and APIs)
Create Mashups using search, photo and mapping APIs.
Build better, more dynamic user experiences using libraries such as Prototype and Scriptaculous.
Who is this book for?
This book is for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers who already have a reasonable to good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Marian V. Iordache, Panos J. Antsaklis, “Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach”
Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (June 9, 2006) | ISBN: 0817643575 | 281 pages | PDF | 2,4 Mb
Increasing complexity in engineering projects raises difficult challenges in industry and requires effective tools for correct-by-construction design or design verification. This book addresses the design of such tools for correct-by-construction synthesis of supervisors for systems and specifications represented in the discrete-event framework. The approach employed uses Petri nets as discrete-event models and structural methods for the synthesis of supervisors, and may lead to significant computational benefits.
Highlighting recent progress in the design of supervisors by structural methods, the book represents a novel contribution to the field. One of the main features of the presentation is the demonstration that structural methods can address a variety of supervisor specifications under diverse supervision settings.
Additional features of the text:
* Applications of the methods presented are emphasized by considering various concurrency assumptions as well as types of system uncontrollability and unobservability.
* Treatment of the supervision problem for decentralized settings and hybrid dynamical systems.
* A focus on both theory and practice: formal proofs are provided in a sound mathematical setting to guarantee performance and correctness; at the same time, the authors have worked out the relevant details to ensure the methods are ready to implement in software.
* Many of the presented methods have been realized in software as functions of a MATLAB toolbox, which have been used to solve many of the examples of the book.
The work is self-contained and includes necessary background on Petri nets and supervision. Requiring only basic knowledge of undergraduate-level discrete mathematics, the text is accessible to a broad audience. Researchers and developers from various engineering fields may find effective means to reduce the complexity of design problems in the discrete-event setting. Graduate students may use the work as a self-study reference, and portions of the text may be used in advanced courses on discrete-event systems.
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Tracheostomy:A Multi-Professional Handbook
Cambridge University Press | 0521688981 | Edition - 2004-02-01 | PDF | 392 pages | 4.21 MB |
Tracheostomy: A Multi-Professional Handbook is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors to give a unique perspective of this increasingly widely-used technique and which will support research-based care and management and deliver patient-focused rehabilitation. It covers everything from the basics of tracheostomy, through the indications for tracheostomy and all aspects of pre-, peri- and postoperative care of the patient. The latter forms a large part of the book, and focuses on issues of importance to a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals, such as how patient communication is affected by the technique and how optimum wound care during tracheostomy is best achieved, as well as the practical aspects and problems encountered with speech, swallowing and general rehabilitation, nutrition, weaning and decannulation, long-term tracheostomy, tracheostomy in children, and an important chapter on emergency tracheostomy techniques.
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Toby Segaran, “Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications”
O’Reilly Media, Inc. | ISBN-10: 0596529325 | August 16, 2007 | 360 pages | PDF | 2.5MB
Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you’ve found it.
Programming Collective Intelligence takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions about user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavior in general — all from information that you and others collect every day. Each algorithm is described clearly and concisely with code that can immediately be used on your web site, blog, Wiki, or specialized application.
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Vicenç Torra, Yasuo Narukawa, “Modeling Decisions: Information Fusion and Aggregation Operators ”
Springer; 1 edition (June 11, 2007) | ISBN:3540687890 | 284 pages | PDF | 2 Mb
Information fusion techniques and aggregation operators produce the most comprehensive, specific datum about an entity using data supplied from different sources, thus enabling us to reduce noise, increase accuracy, summarize and extract information, and make decisions. These techniques are applied in fields such as economics, biology and education, while in computer science they are particularly used in fields such as knowledge-based systems, robotics, and data mining.
This book covers the underlying science and application issues related to aggregation operators, focusing on tools used in practical applications that involve numerical information. Starting with detailed introductions to information fusion and integration, measurement and probability theory, fuzzy sets, and functional equations, the authors then cover the following topics in detail: synthesis of judgements, fuzzy measures, weighted means and fuzzy integrals, indices and evaluation methods, model selection, and parameter extraction. The methods are illustrated with representative examples throughout, and there are extensive bibliographies and reading suggestions.
The book is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners such as engineers, computer scientists, statisticians and economists who use decision models and aggregation operators. The reader is assumed to have a nonspecialized background in mathematics.
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Carlo Devito, “The Encyclopedia Of International Organized Crime”
Facts on File (July 6, 2005) | ISBN:0816048487 | 386 pages | PDF | 4,4 Mb
In the U.S., organized crime has largely been associated with the Mafia. What this encyclopedia attempts to do is provide a definitive reference source that reveals the depth and breadth of all organized criminal activity around the world. In 450 entries, it covers all of the major criminal groups, detailing their origins and operations and showing their interconnectedness.
According to the book’s introduction, the definition of organized crime by Interpol, the organization set up to enhance international police cooperation, is “any enterprise or group of persons engaged in a continuing illegal activity which has as its primary purpose the generation of profits irrespective of national boundaries.” With this definition in mind, the encyclopedia includes entries on crime bosses as well as gangs, nationalities, drug cartels, activities, and crime-fighting laws and groups. Examples include Bonanno crime family, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Human trafficking, Jamaican Posse, Motorcycle gangs, Tongs, and Triads. Why do motorcycle gangs rate an entry? Because “they pose a general threat to society and law enforcement through their possession of sophisticated weapons and intricate intelligence network.” One also reads about the POBOB, or Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington, a group of bikers who attended a rally held in Hollister, California, the weekend of July 4, 1946, which legend holds to be the genesis of the outlaw gangs. POBOB later became known as the Hell’s Angels. This is just one of the interesting its of information that make the encyclopedia so readable.
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Leonardo Messinese, “The Problem of God in Modern Philosophy”
The Davies Group Publishers | ISBN:1888570822 | 96 pages | PDF | 9,6 Mb
Messinese examines the ideas of God at work within modern philosophy, including Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel, and demonstrates their contemporary significance for thinking about God. Ultimately, Hegel’s thought is the site of greatest opportunity for understanding the relationship and the difference between philosophy and theology. For Hegel, God is understood as “immanent transcendence,” and this is the highest achievement of modern philosophy, in contrast to a theology that sees God as pure transcendence in faith.
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Karl F. Doerner, Michel Gendreau , Peter Greistorfer and oth., “Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization ”
Springer; 1 edition (August 23, 2007) | ISBN:0387719199 | 410 pages | PDF | 7 Mb
Metaheuristics has grown and continues to grow steadily. Seen both from the technical point of view and from the application-oriented side, these optimization tools have established their value in a remarkable story of success. Researchers have demonstrated the ability of these methods to solve hard combinatorial problems of practical sizes within reasonable computational time.
Highlighted in METAHEURISTICS: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization are the recent developments made in the area of Simulated Annealing, Path Relinking, Scatter Search, Tabu Search, Variable Neighborhood Search, Hyper-heuristics, Constraint Programming, Iterated Local Search, GRASP, bio-inspired algorithms like Genetic Algorithms, Memetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization or Swarm Intelligence, and several other paradigms. In addition, a series of tutorials on developing areas in Metaheuristics are presented in the volume. Giving these tutorials are some of the top researchers in Metaheuristics: Edmund Burke, Reuven Rubinstein, Eric Taillard, Gilles Pesant, Pierre Hansen, and Stefan Voß.
Applications addressed are anticipated to include production planning, machine and project scheduling, the traveling salesman and vehicle routing, packing, knapsack and location problems with layout design, portfolio selection, network-design, health care, energy and environmental planning, data mining, pattern classification and biotechnology, among others.
The aim of this book is to provide several different kinds of information: a delineation of general Metaheuristics methods, a number of state-of-the-art articles from a variety of well-known classical application areas as well as an outlook to modern computational methods in promising new areas. Therefore, this book may equally serve as a textbook in graduate courses for students, as a reference book for people interested in engineering or social sciences, and as a collection of new and promising avenues for researchers working in this field.
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Nanotechnology For Dummies
Publisher: Wiley | Language: English | ISBN: 0764583689 | 384 pages | Data: 2005 | PDF | 7.7 Mb
Description: This title demystifies the topic for investors, business executives, and anyone interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes can transform our lives. Along with dispelling common myths, it covers nanotechnology’s origins, how it will affect various industries, and the limitations it can overcome. This handy book also presents numerous applications such as scratch-proof glass, corrosion resistant paints, stain-free clothing, glare-reducing eyeglass coatings, drug delivery systems, medical diagnostic tools, burn and wound dressings, sugar-cube-sized computers, mini-portable power generators, even longer-lasting tennis balls, and more. Nanotechnology is the science of matter at the scale of one-billionth of a meter or 1/75,000th the size of a human hair Written in the accessible, humorous For Dummies style, this book demystifies nanotechnology for investors, business people, and anyone else interested in how molecule-sized machines and processes will soon transform our lives Investment in nanotechnology is exploding, with $3.7 billion in nanotechnology R&D spending authorized by the U.S. government in 2003 and international investment reported at over $2 billion
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From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914
Duke University Press | ISBN 082232766X | 2002 Edition | PDF | 277 Pages | 1.4 MB
“Paul B. Miller has made a very important contribution to our understanding of the antimilitarism and antiwar activism of the labor movement in France. . . . Its key contributions are a careful examination of the relationship between antimilitarist and antipatriotic movements, a meticulous account of how these groups delivered their appeals, and most important, an exacting evaluation of the actual strengths and weaknesses of antimilitarists. . . . Miller’s conclusion will inspire much debate, but even those who disagree will find that his work greatly advances their own.”
“This is an interesting and solidly researched study that contributes to an important ongoing debate within European labor history.”
–Michael Hanagan, American Historical Review
“Miller’s argument is convincing and important on many accounts. He is at his most persuasive when pointing to the yawning gap between reality and the perception of antimilitarism in France during the decade and a half before the outbreak of World War I.”
–Mona L. Siegel, Canadian Journal of History
“Miller has written a compelling study of antimilitarism in France that will no doubt rank as an important contribution to the field. The style of writing is clear, and the compelling narrative kept this reviewer anxiously turning pages, a rare feat in a scholarly monograph.”
–Lawrence H. Davis, Labour/Le Travail
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Michael Lopp, “Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager”
Apress (June 12, 2007) | ISBN:159059844X | 209 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp’s web site, Rands In Repose. Drawing on Lopp’s management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account. Whether you’re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you. You will learn:
What to do when people start yelling at each other
How to perform a diving save when the best engineer insists on resigning
How to say “No” to the person who signs your paycheck
Among fans of Michael Lopp is the incomparable Joel Spolsky, cofounder and CEO of Fog Creek Software:
“What you’re holding in your hands in by far the most brilliant book about managing software teams you’re ever going to find”.
This book is designed for managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bites for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture
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Yihong Gong, Wei Xu, ” Machine Learning for Multimedia Content Analysis ”
Springer; 1 edition (October 1, 2007) | ISBN:0387699384 | 293 pages | PDF | 8,9 Mb
Challenges in complexity and variability of multimedia data have led to revolutions in machine learning techniques. Multimedia data, such as digital images, audio streams and motion video programs, exhibit richer structures than simple, isolated data items. A number of pixels in a digital image collectively conveys certain visual content to viewers. A TV video program consists of both audio and image streams that unfold the underlying story. To recognize the visual content of a digital image, or to understand the underlying story of a video program, we may need to label sets of pixels or groups of image and audio frames jointly.
Machine Learning for Multimedia Content Analysis introduces machine learning techniques that are particularly powerful and effective for modeling spatial, temporal structures of multimedia data and for accomplishing common tasks of multimedia content analysis. This book systematically covers these techniques in an intuitive fashion and demonstrates their applications through case studies. This volume uses a large number of figures to illustrate and visualize complex concepts, and provides insights into the characteristics of many algorithms through examinations of their loss functions and straightforward comparisons.
Machine Learning for Multimedia Content Analysis is designed for an academic and professional audience. Researchers will find this book an invaluable tool for applying machine learning techniques to multimedia content analysis. This volume is also suitable for practitioners in industry.
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Jared L Antevil , Lorne H Blackbourne, Christopher Moore , “Anatomy Recall ”
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2 edition | ISBN:078179885X | 384 pages | PDF | 13,3 Mb
Anatomy Recall, Second Edition is a concise, affordable, pocket-sized review of the fundamentals of human anatomy. As part of the popular Recall Series, it utilizes a two-column, question-and-answer format that facilitates quick learning of human anatomic facts through repetition. While not intended as a comprehensive anatomy reference, Anatomy Recall highlights the most important anatomic principles, which are complemented by a wealth of illustrations and anatomic correlations to clinical problems. It is an ideal study guide for medical students in their pre-clinical coursework, undergraduate or nursing anatomy study, clinical rotations, and board review. New to this Edition: / Updated by expert authors, including anatomists, medical students, and surgeons / Expanded coverage now includes embryology highlights, summarizing the key anatomic principles of human embryology / Clinical Pearls emphasize important clinical correlations to anatomic principles / Surgical Anatomy Pearls help third- and fourth-year medical students to prepare quickly for the most common intraoperative anatomy questions / Power Review sections help focus last-minute review of the most commonly tested anatomy points / Numerous effective illustrations allow correlation of factual information with key anatomical relationships Anatomy Recall, Second Edition has everything you need for fast learning and recall–and nothing you don’t. You won’t find a better, more efficient or effective way to master the basics of anatomy.
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Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, Second Edition
John Wiley & Sons | 0471656046 | Edition - 2004 | PDF | 168 pages | 6.9 MB
Written for biologists and medical researchers who don’t have any special training in data analysis and statistics, Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, Second Edition begins where DNA array equipment leaves off: the image produced by the microarray. The text deals with the questions that arise starting at this point, providing an introduction to microarray technology, then moving on to image analysis, data analysis, cluster analysis, and beyond.
With all chapters rewritten, updated, and expanded to include the latest generation of technology and methods, Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, Second Edition offers practitioners reliable information using concrete examples and a clear, comprehensible style. This Second Edition features entirely new chapters on:
* Image analysis
* Experiment design
* Automated analysis, integrated analysis, and systems biology
* Interpretation of results
Intended for readers seeking practical applications, this text covers a broad spectrum of proven approaches in this rapidly growing technology. Additional features include further reading suggestions for each chapter, as well as a thorough review of available analysis software.
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Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols
CRC Press; 1 edition | ISBN: 0849318238 | 360 pages | August 26, 2003 | CHM | 8 Mb
Because they provide practical machine-to-machine communication at a very low cost, the popularity of wireless sensor networks is expected to skyrocket in the next few years, duplicating the recent explosion of wireless LANs. Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols describes how to build these networks, from the layers of the communication protocol through the design of network nodes. This overview summarizes the multiple applications of wireless sensor networks, then discusses network device design and the requirements that foster the successful performance of these applications. The book discusses factors affecting network design, including the partitioning of node functions into integrated circuits, low power system design, power sources, and the interaction between antenna selection and product design. It presents design techniques that improve electromagnetic compatibility and reduce damage from electrostatic discharge. The text also describes the design features of the wireless devices themselves, presenting a thorough analysis of the technology that engineers and students need to design and build the many future applications that will incorporate wireless sensor networks.
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Title: Dept of Army - M16A2 Rifle and M4 Carbine Operator
176 pages | August 1986 | PDF | 2.4 Mb
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“MY RIFLE�
The creed of a United States Marine
by
Maj. Gen. W. H. Rupertus, USMC
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My rifle, without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot
straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will…
My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our
burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit . . .
My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its
weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights, and its barrel. I will ever guard it
against the ravages of weather and damage. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am
clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will …
Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the
masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but Peace!
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Treatment of the Obese Patient (Contemporary Endocrinology) by Robert F. Kushner, Daniel H. Bessesen
Humana Press | 2007-05-08 | 1588297357 | PDF | 444 p | 7.2 Mb
Treatment of the Obese Patient is a timely and informative text for all health care providers challenged with helping patients manage weight. This volume includes insight into recent scientific advances in obesity research and provides the most up-to-date reviews of current treatment issues and strategies.
The volume is divided into two parts. Part I covers new discoveries in the physiological control of body weight, as well as the pathophysiology of obesity. Expert authors discuss pathways that control food intake, energy expenditure, and peripheral nutrient metabolism, including a look at the emerging evidence of the role of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ. Part 2 covers issues central to clinical management. Authors in this section discuss polycystic ovarian syndrome, diabetes, energy density, glycemic index, low-carbohydrate diets, the role of physical activity, and novel approaches to pharmacotherapy, surgery, and management of micronutrient deficiencies in the postbariatric patient. An essential, practical text that sorts, synthesizes, and interprets the latest information on obesity-related topics, Treatment of the Obese Patient is an essential volume for clinical endocrinologists and other health care providers.
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Growing Bone by James F. Whitfield
Institute for Biological Sciences of Canada | ISBN: 9781587061561 | 2007-10-1 | PDF | 273 p | 3 Mb
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Strontium, Calcium’s Big Brother
James F. Whitfield
Strontium (Sr) has been very recently hyped as the latest “paradigm-changingâ€Â? thing in the treatmen of osteoporosis as indicated by the title of a paper by Reginster et al (2003)â€â€?“Strontium Ranelate: A New paradigm for the treatment of Osteoporosisâ€Â?. When two atoms of strontium combine with ranelic …
Surface Signaling Steroids�Real Anabolics or Pseudo-Anabolics?
James F. Whitfield
In 1998 Sicinski et al reported the synthesis of new 1a, 25-(OH)2-19-nor-vitamin D3 analogs such as 2MD (2-methylene-19-nor-(20S)-1a,25(OH)2D3) which are super-potent derivatives of the natural 1a, 25-(OH)2-vitamin D3. Four years later Shevde et al. (2002) reported that 2MD is a far more potent stim…
The Statins
James F. Whitfield
While the PTHs are by far the leading anabolic agents for treating osteoporosis and mending fractures, another family of drugs has been trying to challenge them but with very mixed results (Mundy, 2000; Whitfield, 2001, 2002a). These now old drugs were discovered by Endo and colleagues during a sear…
OGP�The Osteogenic Growth Peptide
James F. Whitfield
Scooping out the marrow or driving a nail into the marrow cavity of a bone such as the tibia, like a fracture, causes the marrow cavity to fill with a blood clot and releases a shower of osteogenic signalers such as b2-microglobulin, IGF-I, PDGF, TGF-bs, and VEGF from platelets, shocked bone-lining …
The Clinical Prospects of the Invincible PTHs
James F. Whitfield
The osteoporosis market is a rapidly growing “marketer’sâ€Â? dream. And several years ago there was no known bone-growing drugâ€â€?only the ever-worrisome (for cancerophobics) estrogens and the other antiresorptives. So the marketeers at Eli Lilly decided that the old hPTH-(1-34) would be the ideal drug wi…
How Might PTHs Stimulate Bone Growth?
James F. Whitfield
To tackle the formidable job of understanding how the PTHs stimulate bone growth in humans, rodents and other animals (Fig. 17) we must know where and how things start. What signals do they send into their target cells via the PTHR1 receptors to trigger osteogenesis? However, before going on I must…
The Amazing Bone-Anabolic PTHs
James F. Whitfield
Clearly the antiresorptives are far from being the ‘Holy Grails’ of osteoporosis therapy although they do break the vicious cyle of escalating remodeling and microdamage (Fig. 10). Since by the time of their first fracture, the bones of osteoporotic postmenopausal women have undergone considerable m…
Menopause and Bone Loss
James F. Whitfield
So far it has seemed that estrogen is the primus inter pares of an ever-growing number of agents that control bone growth and strength in both women and, perhaps surprisingly, men (Baylink et al, 1999; Klein, 1999; Stevenson and Lindsay, 1999; Vanderschueren et al., 2000). Now it appears that bones …
BMUS�The Microcrack Fixers
James F. Whitfield
At first sight bones are inert, rock-like things that store 99% of the body’s calcium and consist of a hard shell, the cortex, that encloses a deceptively delicate lattice of struts and plates (Jee, 2001) (Fig. 1).The cortex is made of hard, 5%-10% porous, calcified armor plate with embedded cells c…
What Is Osteoporosis?
James F. Whitfield
Osteoporotic postmenopausal women don’t need to fall or hit something to break their fragile bones. Their, hips, ribs, wrists and especially vertebrae are apt to be broken or crushed by bending spines, muscle pullings and the low-impact bumps of ordinary daily activities. In fact the greatest bone b…
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Interleukin-10
Landes Bioscience, Inc | 1587062852 | Edition - 2006-01-26 | PDF | 206 pages | 2.4 MB
Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is regarded as an immune suppressant cytokine. This reputation is due to the experimental observation that IL-10 decreases the function of antigen presenting cells and T helper 1 type immune responses. Surprisingly, however, IL-10 has potent anti-cancer effects since most experimental models demonstrate immune-mediated anti-tumor effects whether IL-10 is locally (tumor transfectant models) or systemically (transgenic models, administration of soluble cytokine) provided. In addition, recent work has suggested that polymorphisms of the promoter region of IL-10 may segregate propulsions in high and low producers. Surprisingly, high IL-10 producers may be more predisposed to acquire cancer and other diseases. Finally, human observations demonstrate that systemic administration of IL-10 to normal volunteers is associated with very little toxicity and pro-inflammatory properties mediated through activation of effector cells of the innate immune response. Thus, the role that interleukin-10 plays in vivo in physiological or pathological conditions remains controversial. Thus, there exists a compelling need to summarize in a book the state of the science of this important cytokine. With the assistance of several experts in this field, Interleukin-10 has attempted this endeavor.
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Massimo Salzano, Alan Kirman, “Economics: Complex Windows (New Economic Windows)”
Springer; 1 edition (December 22, 2005) | ISBN: 8847002796 | 217 pages | PDF | 1.9 MB
This volume contains papers that provide an analysis of topics in the following areas: Agent Based Models, Non-linear Time Series Analysis, Financial Market Dynamics, Econo-physics, Deterministic Chaos, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Economics: Complex Windows, does not present contributions to the sterile debate as to the merits of the different grand, or potentially grand paradigms of economics. Rather it offers a balanced collection of methodological advances which can be applied to concrete economic problems. Starting with a presentation of the “complexity approach” to economics, it goes on to provide a collection of applications to areas such as the analysis of market imperfections, risk assessment, non-linear dynamics, forecasting and highly irregular fluctuations. The tools used help to provide a clearer understanding and a more accurate analysis of these areas of economics. They also highlight the gulf which exists between current economic theory and real economic practice. The basic idea is to encourage economic researchers to embrace a more open and pragmatic approach to economics rather than to reluctantly move in this direction as if it were somehow a betrayal of established dogma. We hope, in this way, to open up avenues which will lead to progress beyond the “holy trinity”, (rationality, equilibrium and greed) of modern economics.
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Aaron R. Bradley, Zohar Manna, “The Calculus of Computation Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification”
Springer; 1 edition (October 2007) | ISBN: 3540741127 | 366 pages | PDF | 2.1 MB
Computational logic is a fast-growing field with applications in artificial intelligence, constraint solving, and the design and verification of software and hardware systems. Written with graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mind, this textbook introduces computational logic from the foundations of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision procedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combination theories.
This textbook also presents a logical approach to engineering correct software. The increasing ubiquity of computers makes implementing correct systems more important than ever. Verification exercises develop the reader’s facility in specifying and verifying software using logic. The treatment of verification concludes with an introduction to the static analysis of software, an important component of modern verification systems.
For readers interested in learning more about computational logic, decision procedures, verification, and other areas of formal methods, the final chapter outlines courses of further study.
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T.R. Pauketat, D.D. Loren, North American Archaeology
Blackwell Publishing | ISBN 0631231846 | 2001 | PDF | 7 Mb | 415 Pages
Lacking the grand-scale, pre-Columbian alterations to landscapes brought about by the repeated rise and fall of states and empires, the focus of North American archaeologists has been on native foragers and villagers. Since the quincentennial of Columbus’s voyage, North America has also become a hotbed for studies of culture contact, transculturation, and ethnogenesis. These recent developments have reshaped North American archaeology–bridging the divide between history and prehistory and between the practices of everyday life and global cultural change.
North American Archaeology offers readers a rich and informative text organized around central topics and debates within the discipline that are illustrated by case studies from different regions and time periods. Based on the lives of real people and the historical changes that they experienced in the past, these case studies emphasize human agency, cultural practice, the body, issues of inequality, and the politics of archaeological practice. By highlighting current understandings of cultural and historical processes in North America and situating these understandings within a global perspective, this volume will inspire not only students and scholars of North American archaeology but will undoubtedly spark the imaginations of the many individuals interested in the rich history and cultures of North American peoples.
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Virology: Principles and Applications
John Wiley & Sons | 0470023872 | Edition - 2007 | PDF | 358 pages | 20 MB
Virology: Principles and Applications is a clear and accessible introduction to this fast-moving field, providing a comprehensive resource enabling the reader to understand the key concepts surrounding this exciting subject. The reader is introduced to the principles of virus structure, replication and genetics, along with the theories behind the origins of viruses and how they are evolving. Taking a modern approach to the subject, the relevance of virology to everyday life is clearly emphasised and discussions of emerging viruses, cancer, vaccines, anti-viral drugs and gene vectors are included. To enhance student understanding, learning outcomes, sources of further information and ‘at-a-glance’ sections are integrated into in each chapter, reinforcing key concepts.
Illustrated in full colour throughout, extensive use is made of clear diagrams that include standard colour coding for different types of molecule, enabling students to grasp difficult concepts and deal with the level of detail in the subject.
An invaluable text for students of biology, microbiology, molecular biology and biomedical sciences taking courses in virology. The book is also a useful resource for MSc level students looking for an accessible introduction to the subject.
* a student-friendly introduction to the fast-moving subject of virology
* introduces the relevance of virology to the modern world including latest developments in the field
* looks at topical viruses such as HIV and influenza virus
* illustrated in full colour throughout with diagrams labelled clearly to enhance student understanding
* provides a comprehensive Virologists’ Vocabulary
* The companion web site www.wiley.com/go/carter provides self-assessment questions and answers, additional reference sources and links to various virology web sites
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Human Blood Groups
Blackwell Publishing | 0632056460 | Edition -
