When we wrote Introductory Microbiology some very hard decisions had to be
made concerning the contents of the book. We were constrained by the style
of the Studies in Biology series to write a book of no more than 200 pages. In
the end, we decided that students needed a description of what microorganisms
were and how they can...
Based on in-memory technology with write-back capabilities for What-if scenario planning, Cognos Insight gives spreadsheets the rich visual appeal for better analysis and planning. Leverage the collaborative features to seamlessly publish the personal analysis workspaces to an enterprise-wide Cognos Business Intelligence solution.
Produced by a world-renowned team of trauma specialists, this source reviews initial management considerations beginning in the pre-hospital phase, continues through the primary and secondary surveys of the hospital-based evaluation process, and proceeds to the perioperative management of trauma, burns, and associated conditions. This...
"Classic Problems of Probability" is the winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Mathematics from The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.
"A great book, one that I will certainly add to my personal library." --Paul J. Nahin, Professor Emeritus of Electrical...
Clinical decisions in modern medical practice are increasingly influenced by ethical and legal issues, but few doctors have been formally trained in medical law and ethics, and are unsure of potential sources of accessible information, which leaves them exposed to public criticism and the threat of legal action. Perioperative medicine and...
In both industrialized and developing countries, childhood immunization has become one
of the most important and cost-effective public health interventions. National immunization
programs have prevented millions of deaths since WHO initiated the ‘Expanded
Program on Immunization’ in 1974. Smallpox was eradicated in 1979,...
This book was written to provide students, engineers, and scientists
involved in pattern recognition, digital image processing, and artificial
intelligence with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and tech-
niques of syntactic pattern recognition.
Syntactic pattern recognition is concerned with the...
Accounting has become known as the language of business. This new edition is written to meet the needs of those students who will not be accountants but who do need to understand accounting to learn the key language that embarks us in the business world. Marshall, the leading text in the Survey market, takes readers through the basics: what...
This book is the result of more than five years of intensive research in collaboration with a
large number of people. Since the beginning, our goal has been to understand at a deeper
level how information-theoretic security ideas can help build more secure networks and
communication systems. Back in 2008, the actual planwas to...
In recent years, the commercialization of the American health care industry has challenged medicine across the breadth of its traditional roles and responsibilities. This trend is growing, and the greater emphasis on the commercialization and secularization of medicine has generated in medical professionals a passionate desire...
Beginning C for Arduino is written for those who have no prior experience with microcontrollers or programming but would like to experiment and learn both. This book introduces you to the C programming language, reinforcing each programming structure with a simple demonstration of how you can use C to control the Arduino...
When you’re a grammarian, people react to you in interesting — and
sometimes downright strange — ways. When the first edition of
English Grammar For Dummies came out in 2001, an elderly man asked
me about something that had puzzled him for eight decades: Why did his
church, St. Paul’s, include an...
