Dr. John Henderson (JWH) is 93 years old, very much alive, very much alert although only recently starting to slow down. This author (JAG) has had the distinct privilege of working closely with JWH for the past 20 years. This fourth edition of ...
Primary care physicians and other healthcare providers, residents, and students often face the challenge of diagnosing conditions for patients on the basis of undifferentiated presenting complaints or concerns. Pressures from payers of medical care to increase clinical efficiency while maintaining high-quality care has made the...
Light field is one of the most representative image-based rendering techniques that generate novel virtual views from images instead of 3D models. The light field capture and rendering process can be considered as a procedure of sampling the light rays in the space and interpolating those in novel views. As a result, light field can be studied as a...
"Preparing such a mammoth book must have been a massive task. Two editors, 35 section editors and over 500 contributors … all took part. … All-in-all, this encyclopedia is an outstandingly useful resource for clinicians and scientists. … this book could be equally recommended to major...
You can benefit from reading this book if you are interested in supplementing pre-calculus math studies with a secondary book or seeking a non-traditional approach to introductory studies of mathematics. This book is suitable for game developers because it provides a playful approach to learning math. Its use of Visual Formula provides a ready way...
Evaluating Impact: Evaluation and Continual Improvement for Performance Improvement Practitioners by Ingrid Guerra-López, Ph.D. Evaluation takes enormous time, money and resources. So, why do we go through all the trouble? Because the ultimate goal is to create positive change and that s where this practical book comes in....
This book discusses six major principles of relevance to environmental issues and uses them to evaluate a set of environmental policies. The principles chosen include three that are specific to environmental matters – ecological sustainability, the polluter pays principle and the precautionary principle – and three more that have...
The Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) standards and guideline publications,
of which the document contained herein is one, are developed through a voluntary
consensus standards development process. This process brings together volunteers
and/or seeks out the views of persons who have an interest in the topic covered by
this...
This really is the golden age of Mathematics. It has been said that half
the Mathematics ever created has been in the last 100 years and that half
the mathematicians who have ever lived are alive today. We have seen such
achievements as the resolution of the four-colour problem and Fermat's
last theorem, with the latter being...
Guide to modern techniques in all fields of management; ideal companion for professional managers, as well as an essential reference book for business and management students. Includes over 100 systematic and analytical methods used to assist in decision-making and to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Written by an international group of master interventionists, this volume is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to coronary and non-coronary endovascular techniques. After a review of vascular pathoanatomy, vascular pathophysiology, and peri-interventional diagnostics, the book details the principles and techniques of endovascular...
How to turn company values into competitive advantage
We are inclined, for whatever reason, to treat values like works of art. We view them as nice to hang on the wall, and beautiful to look at, but we don’t act as though they truly mean much to us in the real world. In fact, the opposite is true. The best...
