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241. |  Wonderful Life with the Elements By: Bunpei Yorifuji Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 07-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 15-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Wonderful Life with the Elements From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face....
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242. |  Bioinformatics and Biomarker Discovery: "Omic" Data Analysis for Personalized Medicine By: Francisco Azuaje Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 16-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics and Biomarker Discovery: "Omic" Data Analysis for Personalized Medicine
This book is designed to introduce biologists, clinicians and computational researchers to fundamental data analysis principles, techniques and tools for supporting the discovery of biomarkers and the implementation of diagnostic/prognostic systems.
The focus of the book is on how fundamental statistical and data mining approaches can support biomarker discovery and evaluation, emphasising applications based on different types of "omic" data. The book also discusses design factors, requirements and techniques for disease screening, diagnostic and prognostic applications.
Readers are...
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243. |  Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth By: Bernard Fong; A.C.M. Fong; C.K. Li Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 11-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth
This book brings together a broad range of topics demonstrating how information and wireless technologies can be used in healthcare
In this book, the authors focus on how medical information can be reliably transmitted through wireless communication networks. It explains how they can be optimized to carry medical information in various situations by utilizing readily available traditional wireless local area network (WLAN) and broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. In addition, the authors discuss consumer healthcare technology, which is becoming more popular as reduction in...
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244. |  Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition By: Jenny Gu; Philip E. Bourne Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 16-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition
Structural Bioinformatics was the first major effort to show the application of the principles and basic knowledge of the larger field of bioinformatics to questions focusing on macromolecular structure, such as the prediction of protein structure and how proteins carry out cellular functions, and how the application of bioinformatics to these life science issues can improve healthcare by accelerating drug discovery and development. Designed primarily as a reference, the first edition nevertheless saw widespread use as a textbook in graduate and undergraduate university courses dealing...
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245. |  Computational Intelligence and Pattern Analysis in Biological Informatics By: Ujjwal Maulik; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay; Jason T. Wang Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Intelligence and Pattern Analysis in Biological Informatics
An invaluable tool in Bioinformatics, this unique volume provides both theoretical and experimental results, and describes basic principles of computational intelligence and pattern analysis while deepening the reader's understanding of the ways in which these principles can be used for analyzing biological data in an efficient manner.
This book synthesizes current research in the integration of computational intelligence and pattern analysis techniques, either individually or in a hybridized manner. The purpose is to analyze biological data and enable extraction of more meaningful...
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246. |  Transforming Public Health Practice: Leadership and Management Essentials By: Bernard J. Healey; Cheryll D. Lesneski Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transforming Public Health Practice: Leadership and Management Essentials
This text provides students a foundation in public health practice and management, focusing on developing the knowledge and skills required by the real world of public health. The authors of Transforming Public Health Practice explain the drivers of change in public health practice, key success factors for public health programs, dealing with the chronic disease burden, the impact of national health policy on public health practice, and tools for understanding and managing population health.
Transforming Public Health Practice covers core leadership and management skills, covering areas...
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247. |  The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement By: Lloyd P Provost; Sandra Murray Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes.
Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating...
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248. |  Value Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Value Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality
Value-Based Health Care
Linking Finance and Quality
Yosef D. Dlugacz
Value-Based Health Care?
Value-Based Health Care?concisely explains the mandate to successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter health care management or for practicing health care leaders and professionals, this book is a vital guide...
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249. |  JMP 10 Modeling and Multivariate Methods By: SAS Institute Publisher: SAS Institute Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 03-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JMP 10 Modeling and Multivariate Methods
JMP 10 Modeling and Multivariate Methods begins by showing you how to take advantage of classic modeling techniques such as linear, nonlinear, and mixed models. The book continues with discussions on neural networking, time series analysis, multivariate techniques, and stepwise regression along with many other JMP modeling and multivariate methods. Examples guide you through each analysis, and statistical references and algorithms are included.
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250. |  Anticiper pour s'adapter: Le nouvel enjeu du changement climatique By: Laurence Tubiana; François Gemenne; Alexandre Magnan Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 02-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Anticiper pour s'adapter: Le nouvel enjeu du changement climatique
Accroissement des températures, vagues de sécheresse, hausse du niveau de la mer... De nombreux scientifiques estiment que le siècle prochain verra l'un des plus grands bouleversements climatiques que la vie sur Terre ait connu. Partant du constat que ce changement s'effectue à une rapidité inédite dans l'histoire de l'humanité – certaines de ses conséquences étant déjà irréversibles – Laurence Tubiana, François Gemenne et Alexandre Magnan plaident en faveur d'une politique d'adaptation proactive qu'il revient à chaque État de mettre en place, parallèlement aux mesures déjà existantes pour...
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251. |  Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, 5th Edition By: Douglas C. Montgomery; Elizabeth A. Peck; G. Geoffrey Vining Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 01-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, 5th Edition
Praise for the Fourth Edition
"As with previous editions, the authors have produced a leading textbook on regression."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamentals of regression analysis
Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, Fifth Edition continues to present both the conventional and less common uses of linear regression in today's cutting-edge scientific research. The authors blend both theory and application to equip readers with an understanding of the basic principles needed to apply regression...
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252. |  Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care By: Wallace J. Hopp Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care By one estimate, the U.S. wastes $480
billion annually on healthcare expenditures that don’t
improve care. Worse, because of faulty systems – not
personnel – up to 98,000 people die every year due to
preventable medical errors – and that doesn’t count
non-terminal events such as hospital-acquired infections. In
Hospital Operations, two leading operations management
experts and four senior physicians demonstrate how to apply new OM
advances to substantially improve any hospital’s operational,
clinical, and financial performance. Replete with examples, this
bookshows how to diagram hospital...
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253. |  Affective Computing and Interaction By: Didem Gökçay; Gülsen Yildirim Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Affective Computing and Interaction Since interactions may occur between animals, humans, or computational agents, an interdisciplinary approach which investigates foundations of affective communication in a variety of platforms is indispensable. In the field of affective computing, a collection of research, merging decades of research on emotions in psychology, cognition and neuroscience will inspire creative future research projects and contribute to the prosperity of this emerging field.Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives examines the current state and the future...
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254. |  How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, Second Edition By: Daniel J. Velleman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 16-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 29-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, Second Edition
Many students have trouble the first time they take a mathematics course in which proofs play a significant role. This new edition of Velleman's successful text will prepare students to make the transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs. The book begins with the basic concepts of logic and set theory, to familiarize students with the language of mathematics and how it is interpreted. These concepts are used as the basis for a step-by-step breakdown of the most important techniques used in constructing proofs....
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255. |  Reversibility and Stochastic Networks By: F. P. Kelly Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 30-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Reversibility and Stochastic Networks
This classic in stochastic network modelling broke new ground when it was published in 1979, and it remains a superb introduction to reversibility and its applications. The book concerns behaviour in equilibrium of vector stochastic processes or stochastic networks. When a stochastic network is reversible its analysis is greatly simplified, and the first chapter is devoted to a discussion of the concept of reversibility. The rest of the book focuses on the various applications of reversibility and the extent to which the assumption of reversibility can be relaxed without destroying the...
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256. |  By: Ron Roth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 23-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Coding Theory
Error-correcting codes constitute one of the key ingredients in achieving the high degree of reliability required in modern data transmission and storage systems. This 2006 book introduces the reader to the theoretical foundations of error-correcting codes, with an emphasis on Reed-Solomon codes and their derivative codes. After reviewing linear codes and finite fields, the author describes Reed-Solomon codes and various decoding algorithms. Cyclic codes are presented, as are MDS codes, graph codes, and codes in the Lee metric. Concatenated, trellis, and convolutional codes are also...
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257. |  Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks By: David C. M. Dickson; Mary R. Hardy; Howard R. Waters Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 26-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
This must-have manual provides solutions to all exercises in Dickson, Hardy and Waters' Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, the groundbreaking text on the modern mathematics of life insurance that is the required reading for the SOA Exam MLC and also covers more or less the whole syllabus for the UK Subject CT5 exam. The more than 150 exercises are designed to teach skills in simulation and projection through computational practice, and the solutions are written to give insight as well as exam preparation. Companion spreadsheets are available for free download to show...
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258. |  Discrete Models of Financial Markets By: Marek Capi ski; Ekkehard Kopp Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 23-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Discrete Models of Financial Markets
This book explains in simple settings the fundamental ideas of financial market modelling and derivative pricing, using the no-arbitrage principle. Relatively elementary mathematics leads to powerful notions and techniques - such as viability, completeness, self-financing and replicating strategies, arbitrage and equivalent martingale measures - which are directly applicable in practice. The general methods are applied in detail to pricing and hedging European and American options within the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein (CRR) binomial tree model. A simple approach to discrete interest rate models...
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259. |  Introduction to Orthogonal Transforms By: Ruye Wang Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 08-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Orthogonal Transforms
A systematic, unified treatment of orthogonal transform methods for signal processing, data analysis and communications, this book guides the reader from mathematical theory to problem solving in practice. It examines each transform method in depth, emphasizing the common mathematical principles and essential properties of each method in terms of signal decorrelation and energy compaction. The different forms of Fourier transform, as well as the Laplace, Z-, WalshHadamard, Slant, Haar, KarhunenLove and wavelet transforms, are all covered, with discussion of how each transform method can...
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260. |  Probability, Random Processes, and Statistical Analysis By: Hisashi Kobayashi; Brian L. Mark; William Turin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 15-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Probability, Random Processes, and Statistical Analysis
Together with the fundamentals of probability, random processes and statistical analysis, this insightful book also presents a broad range of advanced topics and applications. There is extensive coverage of Bayesian vs. frequentist statistics, time series and spectral representation, inequalities, bound and approximation, maximum-likelihood estimation and the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, geometric Brownian motion and Itv process. Applications such as hidden Markov models (HMM), the Viterbi, BCJR, and BaumWelch algorithms, algorithms for machine learning, Wiener and Kalman...
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