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Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible....
by R.F. Klein, R.B. Schiffer, R.C. Sider
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
One of the fascinations of psychiatry is that it is amenable to many different approaches. In seeking to account for mental disorder, for example, it is pos sible to explore the meaning and significance of symptoms in the psychody namic sense, to examine the social determinants of illness, or...
I Don't Know What It Is But I Don't Think It's Serious
Confidence and decisiveness in primary care
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
I Don’t Know What It Is but I Don’t Think It’s Serious provides a broad analysis of the issues behind medical confidence and decision making. It looks at how the GP role is seen and the status that backs it, and explores the issues patients and others bring to the consultation. The book also...
Mathematical Tools for Data Mining
Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Data mining essentially relies on several mathematical disciplines, many of which are presented in this second edition of this book. Topics include partially ordered sets, combinatorics, general topology, metric spaces, linear spaces, graph theory. To motivate the reader a significant number of applications...
by Bob Terence
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
There has never been a GPRS Guide like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of GPRS. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the past decade, a number of different research communities within the computational sciences have studied learning in networks, starting from a number of different points of view. There has been substantial progress in these different communities and surprising convergence has developed between...
by William B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How well can you tackle medical problems as they affect the elderly? These questions, derived from the regular 'Brainscan' feature of the journal Geriatric Medicine, are designed to help you find out. The medical care of the older patient must cover a much wider range of issues than simply the diagnosis...
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development
Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Product design and development (PDD) is an area of increasing importance to industrial competitiveness. In a global market, the competitive advantage of companies lies not only in mastering existing processes and methodologies, but also on their ability to pursue different directions, providing increased...
by Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology serves as the definitive authoritative reference on the care of the patient with a critical neurologic disorder at risk of deterioration and in need of immediate attention. This work is an expanded new edition of the book on the management of patients...
Analyzing Evolutionary Algorithms
The Computer Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Evolutionary algorithms is a class of randomized heuristics inspired by natural evolution. They are applied in many different contexts, in particular in optimization, and analysis of such algorithms has seen tremendous advances in recent years.
In this book the author provides an...
Data Protection and Privacy
The Age of Intelligent Machines
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming enforceable in May 2018.
This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices...
Physics and Mathematical Tools
Methods and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book presents mathematical methods and tools which are useful for physicists and engineers: response functions, Kramers–Kronig relations, Green's functions, saddle point approximation. The derivations emphasize the underlying physical arguments and interpretations without any loss of rigor....
by Mokhtar Hassaine, Jorge Zanelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book grew out of a set of lecture notes on gravitational Chern–Simons (CS) theories developed over the past decade for several schools and different audiences including graduate students and researchers.
CS theories are gauge-invariant theories that can include gravity consistently....
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
With this book, Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm, together with further contributors, introduce the reader to various facets of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). They provide a selected collection of state-of-the-art findings, which combines research from information systems, artificial intelligence,...