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Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention

Springer, 2005

An authoritative work that provides a detailed review of the current status of practice and research in cancer prevention and control – an essential reference guide and tool for primary care physicians, the research community and students.

Written as a collaborative work by the faculty of the nationally-renowned Cancer...

Street Art and Democracy in Latin America (Studies of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they...

Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (Acting with Technology)

MIT Press, 2006

The promise of globally networked computers to usher in a new age of universal
learning and sharing of human knowledge remains a distant dream; the software and
social practices needed have yet to be conceived, designed, and adopted. To support
online collaboration, our technology and culture have to be reconfigured to meet a...

Rape Investigation Handbook

Academic Press, 2004

"This book is easy to read and follows a logical progression from the initial call to the courts. Anyone involved in dealing with sexual assault cases in any capacity would benefit from having this book in their library of reference texts." - www.crimeandclues.com

An unprecedented collaborative work -- the first...

Dependability of Self-Optimizing Mechatronic Systems (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

Springer, 2014

Intelligent technical systems, which combine mechanical, electrical and software engineering with methods from control engineering and advanced mathematics, go far beyond the state of the art in mechatronics and open up fascinating perspectives. Among these systems are so-called self-optimizing systems, which are able to adapt their behavior...

Apache Spark 2.x Cookbook: Cloud-ready recipes for analytics and data science

Packt Publishing, 2017

Key Features

This book contains recipes on how to use Apache Spark as a unified compute engine
Cover how to connect various source systems to Apache Spark
Covers various parts of machine learning including supervised/unsupervised learning & recommendation engines

Book...

Geophysical Approach to Marine Coastal Ecology: The Case of Iriomote Island, Japan (Springer Oceanography)

Springer, 2019

This book presents recent results of collaborative studies in geophysics and ecology, focusing on the relationship between the physical environment and the distribution of the marine coastal ecosystems. The study area, the Sakiyamawan–Amitoriwan nature conservation area in Iriomote Island of Japan, is the only oceanic nature...

Clinical Data-Mining: Integrating Practice and Research (Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) involves the conceptualization, extraction, analysis, and interpretation of available clinical data for practice knowledge-building, clinical decision-making and practitioner reflection. Depending upon the type of data mined, CDM can be qualitative or quantitative; it is generally retrospective, but may be...

Prevention of Allergy and Allergic Asthma (Chemical Immunology and Allergy)

Karger, 2004

In the western world, the prevalence of allergy and asthma has increased two- to threefold over the last 40 years and has reached epidemic proportions. This book represents the first complete document containing recommendations on the prevention of allergy and allergic asthma based on the current understanding of the immunological mechanisms...

Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation: From Impairment to Participation (Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series)

CRC Press, 2012

"MS is always in the back of your mind. If there is something you want to do, you always wonder if the MS will allow you do to it."
—Darlene, living with MS for 22 years

Living with multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging and multidimensional. MS pervades all aspects of life: one’s body becomes...

Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything

O'Reilly, 2013

Big data has more disruptive potential than any information technology developed in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this revealing book, big data can provide unprecedented visibility into the operational efficiency of enterprises and agencies.

Disruptive Possibilities provides an...

Java Distributed Computing (O'Reilly Java)

O'Reilly, 1998

Java Distributed Computing discusses how to design and write distributed applications in Java. It covers Java's RMI (Remote Method Invocation) facility and CORBA, but it doesn't stop there; it tells you how to design your own protocols to build message-passing systems, discusses how to use Java's security facilities, how to write multithreaded...

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