This authoritative work comprehensively examines all aspects of addictive disorders and their treatment. Leading researchers and practitioners identify best practices in assessment and diagnosis and provide tools for working with users of specific substances. Issues in working...
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Epilepsy is no respecter of age. It most commonly presents
in childhood and tends to be seen at its most severe during the
childhood years. It remains a uniquely frightening, stigmatising
and misunderstood disorder. For all these reasons, the impact of
epilepsy in a child on all the family members can be enormous.
Having worked with kidney patients for over 25 years, I have seen many
changes and improvements in treatment. However, this book is not a com
prehensive guide to the medical and nursing aspects of illness and treat
ment. These are mentioned briefly where it is necessary to explain the
effects of the illness and treatment on daily...
Over the last ten years, there has been an increasing realization of the importance of information. Much of this can be related to the increased availability of Internet information sources throughout society, along with the ease by which material can be located and used. The impact of the Internet can also been seen in this book. The first...
Entry Inhibitors in HIV Therapy details the current status of this relatively new and very dynamic class of inhibitors. A unique overview of obstacles and accomplishments is presented. The impact of viral sequence diversity on this class of inhibitors is discussed, and a connection between basic research and clinical studies is shown. The...
Our goal in writing this book was to combine a strong emphasis on problem solving and software design with the study of data structures. To this end, we discuss applications of each data structure to motivate its study. After providing the specification (interface) and the implementation (a Java class), we then cover case studies that use the...
As the ratio of DBAs to supported instances and supported databases continues to drop, DBAs must look
to automation, to allow them to continue to improve or, in some cases, even offer the same level of service
to the business as they have historically. This book attempts to give DBAs the tools they need to implement
strategic...
As other complex systems in social and natural sciences as well as in engineering, the Internet is hard to understand from a technical point of view. Packet switched networks defy analytical modeling. The Internet is an outstanding and challenging case because of its fast development, unparalleled heterogeneity and the inherent lack of...
PHP Objects Patterns and Practice, Fourth Edition is revised and updated throughout.
The book begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. These provide the fundamentals of the PHP's support for objects. It also...
