Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment (Built Environment Series of Textbooks)

Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine (Oxford Core Texts)

Oxford University Press, 2006

A sound understanding of physiology underpins good medical practice. This established textbook provides medical students and others in health-related disciplines with the essential information and learning tools necessary to understand human physiology. The book adopts a student-friendly style with an emphasis on clarity, explanation and...

Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that drive results. It goes beyond prescribing typical best practices – instead focusing on what it really takes to implement performance management effectively....

Brachytherapy: Applications and Techniques

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Brachytherapy is the clinical use of radioactive isotopes to provide a highly conformal image-guided radiation therapy that takes advantage of the steep fall off dose characteristics and different energetic emanations to improve the therapeutic ratio. Historically it was the first mode of radiation therapy. The last...

Bayesian Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications (Statistics in Practice)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis.

This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks,...

IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core

Addison Wesley, 2003

"For those considering network storage consolidation, Straight to the Core walks the reader through both the how and why of IP and Ethernet's flexibility." Larry Boucher, CEO Alacritech

"A forward-looking work with excellent technical content. Orenstein knows his stuff. ...enough technical meat to satisfy the engineers and...

A First Course in Statistical Programming with R

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This text began as notes for a course in statistical computing for second year actuarial and statistical students at the University of Western Ontario. Both authors are interested in statistical computing, both as support for our other research and for its own sake. However, we have found that our students were not learning the right sort of...