This new edition of a successful, bestselling book continues to provide you with practical information on the use of statistical methods for solving real-world problems in complex industrial environments. Complete with examples from the chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory and manufacturing areas, this thoroughly updated book clearly...
Essentials of Computational Chemistry provides a balanced introduction to this dynamic subject. Suitable for both experimentalists and theorists, a wide range of samples and applications are included drawn from all key areas. The book carefully leads the reader thorough the necessary equations providing information explanations...
Continuing the success of their previous books, authors Linda Williams and Paula Hopper deliver another trend-setting edition that explores and teaches the "why" of medical/surgical nursing. Complex issues are presented in a clear and easy-to-digest way that encourages LPN students to think critically while learning real world...
Tay-Sachs disease is a rare hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme necessary for fat metabolism in nerve cells, producing central nervous system degeneration. In infants, it is characterized by progressive mental deterioration, blindness, paralysis, epileptic seizures, and death by age...
Being a parent is fantastic – but that doesn’t mean to say it’s easy. Caring
for your little bundle of joy and making sure he or she is healthy and
safe at all times is a full time job – without the holidays – and the only way
you can discover how to do this is through experience. We (Katy and Sarah)...
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...
When I was a medical student interested in physical medicine and
rehabilitation (PM&R), I found several excellent detailed texts for
PM&R and I also encountered a few good, quick reference materials.
What I felt was lacking was a comprehensive but high-yield, focused
review of the most important points that I could read...
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...
Women's health care is an ever-changing field. It relies on both quantitative and qualitative
scientific advances that must be translated into clinical skills and application against the
backdrop of current...
Database management systems are the electronic filing cabinets that help individuals
and organizations to manage the mass of information they process each day. With a
well-designed database, information can be easily stored, updated, accessed, and collated.
For example, a freight company can use a database to record...
The easy-to-use guide to SMART Board® interactive whiteboards
SMART Board interactive whiteboards—which combine the functionality of a computer with the simplicity of a whiteboard—are rapidly becoming fixtures in classrooms, boardrooms, and lecture halls everywhere. While these high tech devices are...
The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial...
