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Hydrocephalus: A Guide for Patients, Families & Friends (Patient Centered Guides)

O'Reilly, 1999

Hydrocephalus, often referred to as "water on the brain," is a potentially life-threatening condition that affects one in a thousand babies born in the U.S. Hydrocephalus is now generally treated with surgical placement of a shunt system that drains excess fluid around the brain to another part of the body where it can be...

Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"In the near future, someone will build a better Enron–a legitimate company with the means and integrity to revolutionize markets. That person will want to use Corporate Aftershock as his business manual and had better hope that government regulators are reading it as well."

–Ross M. Miller, author, Paving Wall...

Current Practice in Environmental Reporting: The Chemicals Industry

Woodhead Publishing, 2001

Environmental reporting is still in its infancy, having emerged only in the latter part of the 1980s. Companies are under increasing pressure to be transparent and accountable in the whole spectrum of their business. In recent years, a number of companies have seen the need to introduce environmental reporting, placing environmental...

Phase Transformations: Examples from Titanium and Zirconium Alloys (Pergamon Materials Series)

Elsevier Limited, 2005

Covers phase transformations and phase reactions with examples from titanium and zirconium based systems

The terms phase transitions and phase transformations are often used in an interchangeable manner in the metallurgical literature.

In this book, transformations driven by pressure changes,...

Algorithmic Adventures: From Knowledge to Magic

Springer, 2009

The public image of computer science does not reflect its true nature. The general public and especially high school students identify computer science with a computer driving license. They think that studying computer science is not a challenge, and that anybody can learn it. Computer science is not considered a scientific discipline but a...

Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology

F. A. Davis Company, 2006

Describes and illustrates the important aspects of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology.

Afifth edition of Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology is very gratifying, and again we have the pleasure of thanking all of our colleagues in teaching who continue to use our textbook and of welcoming new teachers and students. ...

C Programming for the PIC Microcontroller: Demystify Coding with Embedded Programming

Apress, 2019

Go beyond the jigsaw approach of just using blocks of code you don’t understand and become a programmer who really understands how your code works.

Starting with the fundamentals on C programming, this book walks you through where the C language fits with microcontrollers. Next, you'll see how to...

Information and Communications Technology for Competitive Intelligence

Idea Group Publishing, 2003

Competitive Intelligence can be described as producing and processing information about the environment of an organization for strategic purposes. To formulate a strategy, an organization needs to collect and process information about its environment—about, for instance, competitors, customers, suppliers, governments, technological trends or...

Air Power and Freight: The View from the European Union and China (SpringerBriefs in Energy)

Springer, 2019

This book addresses the challenges of planning sustainable freight transport systems (road and air) in a time when the industry faces increasing pressure from environmental limits, climate change, carbon emission targets, bottlenecks in oil supply, infrastructure shortages and urban congestion. The author examines sustainable...

The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive...

Telecommunications Challenges In Developing Countries: Asymmetric Interconnection Charges For Rural Areas

World Bank Publications, 2004

Telecommunications Challenges in Developing Countries addresses an important aspect of interconnection—the settings of call termination charges. In rural telecommunications, network costs are known to be high. The traditional consensus has been that many rural areas cannot be connected without subsidies. This paper investigates the...

Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption

Apress, 2009

Every day organizations large and small fall victim to attacks on their data. Encryption provides a shield to help defend against intruders. Because of increasing pressure from government regulators, consumers, and the business community at large, the job descriptions of SQL DBAs and developers are expanding to include encryption. Expert SQL...

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