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101. |  Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development By: Zongwei Luo Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 23-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development Trends in green and sustainable development have and will continue to influence all major economies. Identifying the risks and opportunities associated with sustainable economic development and green analysis for sustainability warrants the use and study of advanced analytics. Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development: Supply Chain Models and Financial Technologies focuses on the development of innovative techniques and tools that answer urgent questions in the global trend of sustainable economic development. This book will be useful to professionals, researchers, and...
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102. |  Trigonometric Delights (New in Paperback) By: Eli Maor Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 13-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 23-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trigonometric Delights (New in Paperback)
Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics. He presents both a survey of the main elements of trigonometry and a unique account of its vital contribution to...
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103. |  Healthcare Management and Economics By: Mika Merviö Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2013 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Healthcare Management and Economics The long-standing debate on public vs. private healthcare systems has forced an examination of these organizations, in particular whether these approaches play corresponding or conflicting roles in service to global citizens. Healthcare Management and Economics: Perspectives on Public and Private Administration discusses public and private healthcare organizations by gathering perspectives on the differences in service, management, delivery, and efficiency. Highlighting the impact of citizens and information technology in these healthcare processes, this book is a vital collection of...
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104. |  Boundedness and Self-Organized Semantics: Theory and Applications By: Maria Koleva Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Boundedness and Self-Organized Semantics: Theory and Applications With the consideration of boundedness as a principle of organization rather than a law, its leading role is to apply a chain of command to the self-organization of matter, energy, and information. An exclusive property of this theory is the established way of sustaining the functionality of hierarchy through rules that are organized in a semantic-like approach.Boundedness and Self-Organized Semantics: Theory and Applications enhances the understanding of the theoretical framework and leading principles of boundedness. Aiming to bridge the gap between biology, artificial intelligence, and...
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105. |  Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation By: Anna Szopa; Waldemar Karwowski; Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation In the ever changing scientific word, Academic entrepreneurship has emerged as a new and growing field. Referring to the creation and management of an environment for active support of knowledge exploitation and transfer, Academic entrepreneurship aims to encourage entrepreneurial behavior in the academic community. Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation: A Business Management Perspective provides a wide-ranging overview of the relationship between universities and organizations through the most recent and detailed research on university entrepreneurship. This book aims to be...
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106. |  Clinical Solutions and Medical Progress through User-Driven Healthcare By: Rakesh Biswas Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Clinical Solutions and Medical Progress through User-Driven Healthcare As medical technology advances and the number of users across different mediums increases, how do we continually shape medical education and practice to meet the needs of these users? Clinical Solutions and Medical Progress through User-Driven Healthcare provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of clinical problem solving in healthcare. The term "user" includes health professionals, as well as patients and anyone who uses the web with a user name. These "users" generate an information flow that "drives" the system's workflow (hence, the choice of the term "driven"). "User-driven...
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107. |  Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance: Methods, Models and Applications By: Ansgar Steland Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 13-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance: Methods, Models and Applications
Mathematical finance has grown into a huge area of research which requires a lot of care and a large number of sophisticated mathematical tools. Mathematically rigorous and yet accessible to advanced level practitioners and mathematicians alike, it considers various aspects of the application of statistical methods in finance and illustrates some of the many ways that statistical tools are used in financial applications.
Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance:
Provides an introduction to the basics of financial statistics and mathematical finance.
Explains the use and...
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108. |  Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction By: Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth; Thomas Luetteke; Martin Frank Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction
This book is the first to be dedicated to the bioinformatics of carbohydrates and glycoproteins. It provides an introduction to this emerging field of science both for the experimentalist working in glycobiology and glycomics, and also for the computer scientist looking for background information for the development of highly sophisticated algorithmic approaches. The book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in the field, with reviews on databases, and the tools in use for analysis, interpretation, and prediction of the structures of complex carbohydrates, and demonstrates the...
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109. |  Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications By: Quan Li Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications
The chemistry, physics, and applications of liquid crystals beyond LCDs
Liquid Crystals (LCs) combine order and mobility on a molecular and supramolecular level. But while these remarkable states of matter are most commonly associated with visual display technologies, they have important applications for a variety of other fields as well. Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications considers these, bringing together cutting-edge research from some of the most promising areas of LC science.
Featuring contributions from respected researchers from around the...
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110. |  Managing Health Programs and Projects By: Beaufort B. Longest Jr. Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Health Programs and Projects
This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects. The book explores the decision-making process, defines the process of communicating, probes the fundamentals of program planning, explains budgeting, covers staffing for programs and projects, and explains how leaders motivate participants in health programs and projects.
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111. |  Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies By: Lauren Eder Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 01-JUL-1999 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Healthcare Information Systems with Web-Enabled Technologies Healthcare organizations are undergoing major reorganizations and adjustments to meet the increasing demands of improved healthcare access and quality, as well as lowered costs. As the use of information technology to process medical data increases, much of the critical information necessary to meet these challenges is being stored in digital format. Web-enabled information technologies can provide the means for greater access and more effective integration of healthcare information from disparate computer applications and other information resources.Managing Healthcare Information Systems...
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112. |  50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do By: Tom Butler-bowdon Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 06-DEC-2006 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do
With 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do-Insight and Inspiration, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces readers to the great works that explore the very essence of what makes us who we are. Spanning fifty books and hundreds of ideas, 50 Psychology Classics examines some of the most intriguing questions regarding cognitive development and behavioral motivations, summarizing the myriad theories that psychologists have put forth to make sense of the human experience. Butler-Bowdon covers everything from humanism to psychoanalysis to the fundamental principles where theorists...
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113. |  Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery By: Louise L. Liang; Donald M. Berwick MD MPP Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 25-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 07-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery
Kaiser Permanente has implemented the largest nongovernmental electronic health record in the world, serving more than 8.6 million Kaiser Permanente members. Called KP HealthConnect, its impact on patient care outcomes, efficiency, safety, and patient engagement and satisfaction already is of intense interest throughout the health care industry. In this volume, Louise L. Liang, MD, who led the massive KP HealthConnect implementation, collects lessons learned from the organization's successful deployment strategy and highlights ways in which the new technological tools are changing and...
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114. |  E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals By: Joseph Tan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-MAY-2005 Insert Date: 05-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals
E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and...
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115. |  When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 24-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education
Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliable
Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written by a top thought leader, helps everyday teachers, administrators, and family members—who don't have years of statistics courses under their belts—separate the wheat from the chaff and determine...
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116. |  Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data, 2nd Edition By: David W. Hosmer; Stanley Lemeshow; Susanne May Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 07-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data, 2nd Edition
THE MOST PRACTICAL, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO MODELLING AND ANALYZING TIME-TO-EVENT DATA—NOW IN A VALUABLE NEW EDITION
Since publication of the first edition nearly a decade ago, analyses using time-to-event methods have increase considerably in all areas of scientific inquiry mainly as a result of model-building methods available in modern statistical software packages. However, there has been minimal coverage in the available literature to9 guide researchers, practitioners, and students who wish to apply these methods to health-related areas of study. Applied Survival Analysis, Second...
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117. |  By: Rezaul Begg; Joarder Kamruzzaman ; Ruhul Sarker Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Neural Networks in Healthcare Healthcare costs around the globe are on the rise, creating a strong need for new ways of assisting the requirements of the healthcare system. Besides applications in other areas, neural networks have naturally found many promising applications in the health and medicine areas. Neural Networks in Healthcare: Potential and Challenges presents interesting and innovative developments from leading experts and scientists working in health, biomedicine, biomedical engineering, and computing areas. This book covers many important and state-of-the-art applications in the areas of medicine and...
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118. |  Computational Intelligence for Movement Sciences By: Rezaul Begg; Marimuthu Palaniswami Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 28-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Intelligence for Movement Sciences Recent years have seen many new developments in computational intelligence (CI) techniques and, consequently, this has led to an exponential increase in the number of applications in a variety of areas, including: engineering, finance, social and biomedical. In particular, CI techniques are increasingly being used in biomedical and human movement areas because of the complexity of the biological systems as well as the limitations of the existing quantitative techniques in modelling.
Computational Intelligence for Movement Sciences: Neural Networks and Other Emerging Techniques contains...
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119. |  An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, Second Edition By: Robert Sedgewick; Philippe Flajolet Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 18-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, Second Edition Despite growing interest, basic information
on methods and models for mathematically analyzing algorithms has
rarely been directly accessible to practitioners, researchers, or
students. An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms,
Second Edition, organizes and presents that knowledge,
fully introducing primary techniques and results in the field.
Robert Sedgewick and the late Philippe
Flajolet have drawn from both classical mathematics and computer
science, integrating discrete mathematics, elementary real
analysis, combinatorics, algorithms, and data structures. They
emphasize the...
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120. |  By: Brian S. Everitt; Sabine Landau; Morven Leese; Daniel Stahl Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cluster Analysis, 5th Edition
Cluster analysis comprises a range of methods for classifying multivariate data into subgroups. By organizing multivariate data into such subgroups, clustering can help reveal the characteristics of any structure or patterns present. These techniques have proven useful in a wide range of areas such as medicine, psychology, market research and bioinformatics.
This fifth edition of the highly successful Cluster Analysis includes coverage of the latest developments in the field and a new chapter dealing with finite mixture models for structured data.
Real life examples are used throughout...
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