Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD)
has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality,
morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has
profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...
There have been many books written, guides published, and free
advice given by many people on what to do in order to have what you
want in the music business. This is the first guide to the music
business ever written that completes the true formula for success by
explaining not only what you have to do, but also who you have...
It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight?
Written by Daniel Nettle--author of the popular book Happiness--this brief volume takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of...
The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...
Highcharts is a popular web charting software that produces stunning and smooth animated JavaScript and HTML5 SVG graphs. It is among the leading web charting software in the market and has been used in many different sectors — from financial to social websites. Although it is built on top of jQuery, it is so simple to construct that...
Introduced 160 years ago as an attempt to generalize complex numbers to higher dimensions, quaternions are now recognized as one of the most important concepts in modern computer graphics. They offer a powerful way to represent rotations and compared to rotation matrices they use less memory, compose faster, and are naturally suited for...
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....
This revised and extensively expanded edition of Computability and Complexity Theory comprises essential materials that are core knowledge in the theory of computation. The book is self-contained, with a preliminary chapter describing key mathematical concepts and notations. Subsequent chapters move from the qualitative aspects of...
Creatine and creatine phosphate (CP, also called phosphocreatine, PCr) are
important metabolites in high-energy phosphorus metabolism. They rank
with dietary carbohydrates fats, proteins and other compounds as central
components of the metabolic system involved in the provision of energy for
work and exercise performance....
The topic of the second volume of the series in "Essentials in Ophthalmology" is cataract and refractive surgery, a realm of ophthalmic care that has undergone revolutionary changes in the past 10 years. Worldwide, the removal of the opaque crystalline lens is the most frequently performed surgical intervention in the human body,...
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a modern graphical display system for Windows. It’s a radical change
from the technologies that came before it, with innovative features such as built-in hardware acceleration and
resolution independence, both of which you’ll explore in this chapter.
This book presents theoretical and practical results of information theoretic methods
used in the context of statistical learning. Its major goal is to advocate and promote
the importance and usefulness of information theoretic concepts for understanding
and developing the sophisticated machine learning methods necessary not only...
