Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. Invention requires casting off many anchors and conventions inherited from the last 50 years of computer science and traditional design and...
Have you ever been in a hurry and pounded in a nail using something other than a
hammer? Or perhaps settled an argument concerning distances with “the length of my
arm is about 20 inches, and that’s about two arm lengths...”? You might not be willing
to fall for such obviously flawed shortcuts, but...
Microsoft has introduced a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies have being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. The introduction of...
In this book, Dan Zambonini hasn’t written a silver bullet. What
he’s written – through years of research, commercial success and
failures – is a manual to help you know what’s involved. He’s been
there and done it. Learnt the mistakes, recorded them here so we
can benefit. If you’re a...
James Michael Goldsmith, a millionaire living in Paris in the late
1950s, had everything going for him-he was the head of a
successful pharmaceuticals company, Laboratoires Cassene,
which in the three years since its inception had become one of
France's greatest success stories; he had eloped with the beautiful
heiress...
This book is organized into 4 sections, each looking at the question of outcome prediction in cancer from a different angle. The first section describes the clinical problem and some of the predicaments that clinicians face in dealing with cancer. Amongst issues discussed in this section are the TNM staging, accepted methods for survival...
After more than a quarter century as a primary care educator, I am
convinced that our graduates enter practice inadequately trained in
the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal problems and
injuries. One reason for this perceived deficiency is the relatively
short duration of primary care training—typically three...
Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of ‘travel medicine’ as a separate...
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...
Radiologists have long been interested in imaging and measuring blood fl ow and in
characterising the structure of blood vessels within pathological tissues. In 1927 Egas
Moniz described the technique of cerebral angiography using injection of radio-opaque
contrast agent combined with conventional radiology. His earlier published...
A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons
This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence, and even aliens....
