Wound Care

Wound Care

Author: Carrie Sussman

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 9780781774444

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Designed for health care professionals in multiple disciplines and clinical settings, this comprehensive, evidence-based wound care text provides basic and advanced information on wound healing and therapies and emphasizes clinical decision-making. The text integrates the latest scientific findings with principles of good wound care and provides a complete set of current, evidence-based practices. This edition features a new chapter on wound pain management and a chapter showing how to use negative pressure therapy on many types of hard-to-heal wounds. Technological advances covered include ultrasound for wound debridement, laser treatments, and a single-patient-use disposable device for delivering pulsed radio frequency.


How Do Cartels Operate?

How Do Cartels Operate?

Author: Joseph Emmett Harrington

Publisher: Now Publishers Inc

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1933019409

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This paper distills and organizes facts about cartels from about 20 European Commission decisions over 2000-2004. It describes the properties of a collusive outcome in terms of the setting of price and a market allocation, monitoring of agreements with respect to price but more importantly sales, punishment methods for enforcing an agreement and also the use of buy-backs to compensate cartel members, methods for responding to external disruptions from non-cartel suppliers and handling over-zealous sales representatives, and operational procedures in terms of the frequency of meetings and the cartel's organizational structure.


Copper Alloys

Copper Alloys

Author: Luca Collini

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9535101609

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Copper has been used for thousands of years. In the centuries, both handicraft and industry have taken advantage of its easy castability and remarkable ductility combined with good mechanical and corrosion resistance. Although its mechanical properties are now well known, the simple f.c.c. structure still makes copper a model material for basic studies of deformation and damage mechanism in metals. On the other hand, its increasing use in many industrial sectors stimulates the development of high-performance and high-efficiency copper-based alloys. After an introduction to classification and casting, this book presents modern techniques and trends in processing copper alloys, such as the developing of lead-free alloys and the role of severe plastic deformation in improving its tensile and fatigue strength. Finally, in a specific section, archaeometallurgy techniques are applied to ancient copper alloys. The book is addressed to engineering professionals, manufacturers and materials scientists.


Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands

Author: Agamuthu Pariatamby

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9814451738

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Solid waste management issues, technologies and challenges are dynamic. More so, in developing and transitory nations in Asia. This book, written by Asian experts in solid waste management, explores the current situation in Asian countries including Pacific Islands. There are not many technical books of this kind, especially dedicated to this region of the world. The chapters form a comprehensive, coherent investigation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management, including, definitions used, generation, sustainable waste management system, legal framework and impacts on global warming. Several case studies from Asian nations are included to exemplify the real situation experienced. Discussions on MSW policy in these countries and their impacts on waste management and minimization (if any) are indeed an eye-opener. Undoubtedly, this book would be a pioneer in revealing the latest situation in the Asian region, which includes two of the world’s most dynamic nations in the economic growth. It is greatly envisaged to form an excellent source of reference in MSW management in Asia and Pacific Islands. This book will bridge the wide gap in available information between the developed and transitory/developing nations.


How to Make it Big in the Seminar Business

How to Make it Big in the Seminar Business

Author: Paul Karasik

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2004-12-21

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0071460586

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How to Make It Big in the Seminar Business is considered must have reading among consultants, speakers, and seminar leaders. Fully updated and revised, this new edition is packed with insider tips on determining fees, marketing, scheduling, presentation technologies, and much more. It features new chapters on using the Web and other new technologies to deliver seminars; marketing on the Web; developing coaching services in conjunction with seminars; and E-mail newsletters. Readers get a fully updated and expanded directory--listing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers for hundreds of public seminar companies, corporate training companies, speakers bureaus, and seminar websites.


Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics

Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics

Author: Arpad Kelemen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-03

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 354075766X

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Medical Informatics (MI) is an emerging interdisciplinary science. This book deals with the application of computational intelligence in MI. Addressing the various issues of medical informatics using different computational intelligence approaches is the novelty of this edited volume. This volume comprises of 15 chapters selected on the basis of fundamental ideas/concepts including an introductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions and some important research challenges.


Sequences and Their Applications - SETA 2010

Sequences and Their Applications - SETA 2010

Author: Claude Carlet

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 3642158730

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This volumecontainstherefereedproceedingsoftheSixth International Conf- ence on Sequences and Their Applications (SETA 2010), held in Paris, France, September 13-17, 2010. The previous ?ve conferences were held in Singapore (RepublicofSingapore),Bergen(Norway),Seoul(SouthKorea),Beijing(China) and Lexington (USA). Topics of SETA include: – Randomness of sequences – Correlation (periodic and aperiodic types) and combinatorial aspects of - quences (di?erence sets) – Sequences with applications in coding theory and cryptography – Sequences over ?nite ?elds/rings/function ?elds – Linear and nonlinear feedback shift register sequences – Sequences for radar distance ranging, synchronization, identi?cation, and hardware testing – Sequences for wireless communication – Pseudorandom sequence generators – Boolean and vectorial functions for sequences, coding and/or cryptography – Multidimensional sequences and their correlation properties – Linear and nonlinear complexity of sequences The Technical Program Committee of SETA 2010 refereed 56 submitted - pers. Each paper was reviewed by at least 2 referees (at least 3 when an author was a TPC member) and the TPC selected 33 papers to be presented at the conference. In addition, we had 4 invited papers, byRobert Calderbank(Prin- ton University, USA), James Massey (retired from ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Jong-Seon No (Seoul National University, South Korea) and Arne Winterhof ¨ (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria). TheCo-chairsoftheTPCwereClaudeCarlet(Universit´ eParis8,France)and Alexander Pott (Otto-von-Guericke-Universit¨ at, Magdeburg, Germany). They wish to thank the other members of the ProgramCommittee: Thierry P.


List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes

List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes

Author: Venkatesan Guruswami

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-11-29

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3540240519

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This monograph is a thoroughly revised and extended version of the author's PhD thesis, which was selected as the winning thesis of the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Venkatesan Guruswami did his PhD work at the MIT with Madhu Sudan as thesis adviser. Starting with the seminal work of Shannon and Hamming, coding theory has generated a rich theory of error-correcting codes. This theory has traditionally gone hand in hand with the algorithmic theory of decoding that tackles the problem of recovering from the transmission errors efficiently. This book presents some spectacular new results in the area of decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes. Specificially, it shows how the notion of list-decoding can be applied to recover from far more errors, for a wide variety of error-correcting codes, than achievable before The style of the exposition is crisp and the enormous amount of information on combinatorial results, polynomial time list decoding algorithms, and applications is presented in well structured form.