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Rogue Waves in the Ocean (Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics)

Springer, 2009

The book is written for specialists in the fields of fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, nonlinear physics, physical oceanography and geophysics, and also for students learning these subjects. It includes a wide range of observational data on rogue (or freak) waves in the seas and coastal waters, as well as presenting a basic statistical...

Robust Statistical Procedures (CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics)

SIAM, 1987

When SIAM contacted me about the preparation of a second edition of this booklet, it became clear almost immediately that any attempt to rewrite the booklet would invite the danger of spoiling its purpose. The booklet had served me well as a skeleton and draft outline for my subsequent book Robust Statistics (Wiley, 1981). I...

Cancer, Culture and Communication

Springer, 2003

The importance of the cultural context to health outcomes has only recently become a central concern and a part of the biomedical literature.1-3 A medical encounter is an interpersonal interaction occurring in and influenced by one or more cultural contexts. Ideally, this communication is the seed from which the relationship between the...

Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013

The way people work is changing; users need to access their resources anywhere, on any device. Citrix XenDesktop gives you this flexibility. In this Cookbook, you will learn how Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and related products are powerful and flexible enough for you to publish your resources - Desktops, Applications and contents - wherever and on...

Brachytherapy: Applications and Techniques

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Brachytherapy is the clinical use of radioactive isotopes to provide a highly conformal image-guided radiation therapy that takes advantage of the steep fall off dose characteristics and different energetic emanations to improve the therapeutic ratio. Historically it was the first mode of radiation therapy. The last...

Congestive Heart Failure

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Having first decided to organize and edit a book on heart failure in 1992 (with a 1994 publication date), we have been astounded at the changes in the field over a relatively brief 14-year period. It is with some amusement that we now look back at our first edition and note a combined chapter of beta agonists and...

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Contemporary Cardiology)

Humana Press, 2007

Since the successful invention of the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system by Damadian et al. for cancer diagnosis three decades ago, the medical use of MRI has developed rapidly applicable to a wide range of diseases. Since the first attempt to image the heart with MRI in the early 1980s, extensive hardware and software...

Pedestrian Dynamics: Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation (Understanding Complex Systems)

Springer, 2008

The importance of controlling pedestrian flow especially during emergencies is being understood by researchers to be a very important research area. Currently, the use of static emergency routes is not efficient, since during emergencies, the preferred routes might be congested, or worse yet might not even exist. Hence, it is...

Guide to Scientific Computing in C++ (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Many books have been written on the C++ programming language, varying across a spectrum from the very practical to the very theoretical. This book certainly lies at the practical end of this spectrum, and has a particular focus for the practical treatment of this language: scientific computing.

Traditionally,...

Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Significantly revised and updated, this second edition of Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists is vital reading for all students of any of these subjects hoping to make it in the real world.

Increasingly, students of engineering, science and technology subjects are finding that their success...

Business Finance: Theory and Practice

Prentice Hall, 2009

This book attempts to deal with financing and investment decision making, with particular focus on the private sector of the UK economy. Its approach is to set out the theories that surround each area of financial decision making and relate these to what appears to happen in practice. Where theory and practice diverge, the book...

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

Organizations find that it's the business process that constitutes the heart of an enterprise and is a differentiating factor. They've found that it's the processes that make or break an enterprise. Operational efficiency is a differentiating factor, and research shows that it's the processes that provide operational...

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