Barnett, Analytic Trigonometry is a text that students can actually read, understand, and apply. Concept development moves from the concrete to abstract to engage the student. Almost every concept is illustrated by an example followed by a matching problem allowing students to practice knowledge precisely when they acquire it. To gain student...

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade...

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...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2012, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2012 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2012. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 initial submissions: 56 out of 231 in track design...

• Understand functional programming patterns by comparing them with the traditional object-oriented design patterns
• Write robust, safer, and better code using the declarative programming paradigm
• An...

• Use Elixir to solve common problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability
• From command line to external API interaction, experience the joy...

In today's fast-moving workplace, time has never had greater value--or been in shorter supply. Time Management provides you with the tools and techniques you need to make each minute count. Filled with...

• Explore various advanced algorithms and learn how they are used to address many real-world computing challenges
• Construct elegant solutions using impressive techniques including zippers, parsing,...