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Our ability to generate and collect data has been increasing rapidly. Not only are all of our business, scientific, and government transactions now computerized, but the widespread use of digital cameras, publication tools, and bar codes also generate data. On the collection side, scanned text and image platforms, satellite remote sensing systems, and the World Wide Web have flooded us with a tremendous amount of data. This explosive growth has generated an even more urgent need for new techniques and automated tools that can help us transform this data into useful information and knowledge. Like the first edition, voted the most popular data mining book by KD Nuggets readers, this book explores concepts and techniques for the discovery of patterns hidden in large data sets, focusing on issues relating to their feasibility, usefulness, effectiveness, and scalability. However, since the publication of the first edition, great progress has been made in the development of new data mining methods, systems, and applications. This new edition substantially enhances the first edition, and new chapters have been added to address recent developments on mining complex types of data — including stream data, sequence data, graph structured data, social network data, and multi-relational data. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a new student of data mining, this book has much to offer you: * A comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to know to get the most out of real business data. * Updates that incorporate input from readers, changes in the field, and more material on statistics and machine learning. * Dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in easily understood pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects.

The information in this Pocketbook and PDA CD-ROM will help the student and junior doctor move from a presenting problem to a diagnosis. The content covers 100 common presenting problems which occur in both medicine and surgery. Each problem is dealt with in a standard manner: a brief definition of the problem; a reference table of possible diagnoses ordered by body system; a step-by-step guide to the history and examination of the patient with a view to making a final positive diagnosis; and a list of general instructions which could be carried out, followed by appropriate specific investigations. This package provides the user with this essential diagnostic content in both a handy pocketbook format but also for loading onto a PDA from the enclosed CD-ROM.

Many novice writers and directors forego the huge creative resource of the film medium, defaulting instead to dialogue and narration to tell their film story. Yet most films are carried by sound and picture. This book contains 100 non-dialogue techniques used by professionals to tell the story.

This magnificent workcovers the gamut of dermatopathology NEJM. The most complete, in-depth coverage of the field available today in one source! It focuses particularly on etiology and pathogenesis, disease mechanisms and includes all of the appropriate recent genetic, molecular and basic science data. More than 5,400 illustrations provide diagnostic assistance of clinical variants to support clinicopathological correlation and differential diagnoses. The 3rd Edition has been completely reorganized and redesigned to better meet the diagnostic challenges faced in everyday practice. Histologic and diagnostic pitfalls are highlighted throughout and include detailed references for all relevant conditions. Details all of the histological variations of any skin condition, integrating dermatopathology, clinical correlations, and clinical photographs. Uses tables to highlight key clinical and diagnostic points. Provides differential diagnosis tables to facilitate at-a-glance comparison. All relevant genetic and molecular material is included. CD-ROM contains over 5,400 illustrations that are downloadable for presentations. Every conceivable variant is illustrated. Offers six brand-new chapters covering hair, drug reactions, oral mucosa, diseases of the vulva, and the physical effects of skin/photosensitivity, and reorganizes the chapter on inflammatory dermatoses into three chapters. Emphasizes diagnosis with diagnostic pitfalls described in at-a-glance tables, where appropriate, with page references to the relevant conditions. Every indexed topic comprehensively discussed and illustrated. Includes 70% new, high quality histologic illustrations. Presentsthe key clinical features for each entity in bulleted format for ease of reference.

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas Of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling «Atlas Of Human Anatomy, Third Edition» have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling «Atlas Of Human Anatomy, Third Edition» have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas Of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

In a clear and readable style, Bill Bolton addresses the basic principles of modern instrumentation and control systems, including examples of the latest devices, techniques and applications. Unlike the majority of books in this field, only a minimal prior knowledge of mathematical methods is assumed. The book focuses on providing a comprehensive introduction to the subject, with Laplace presented in a simple and easily accessible form, complimented by an outline of the mathematics that would be required to progress to more advanced levels of study. Taking a highly practical approach, Bill Bolton combines underpinning theory with numerous case studies and applications throughout, to enable the reader to apply the content directly to real-world engineering contexts. Coverage includes smart instrumentation, DAQ, crucial health and safety considerations, and practical issues such as noise reduction, maintenance and testing. An introduction to PLCs and ladder programming is incorporated in the text, as well as new information introducing the various software programmes used for simulation. The overall approach of this book makes it an ideal text for all introductory level undergraduate courses in control engineering and instrumentation. It is fully in line with latest syllabus requirements, and also covers, in full, the requirements of the Instrumentation & Control Principles and Control Systems & Automation units of the new Higher National Engineering syllabus from Edexcel. * Assumes minimal prior mathematical knowledge, creating a highly accessible student-centred text * Problems, case studies and applications included throughout, with a full set of answers at the back of the book, to aid student learning, and place theory in real-world engineering contexts * Manual website for lecturers only featuring supporting notes, multiple-choice tests, lecturer handouts further assignments and solutions

This book gives a comprehensive collection of photographs of anatomical (gross) pathology. The majority of photographs are of unfixed specimens as seen at autopsy. For this new third edition some imaging, clinical photographs and endoscopic photographs has been introduced to set the pathology in clinical context.

Incomparable accuracy and clarity of Netter medical illustrations found in Netter's best-selling Atlas Of Human Anatomy, Third Edition have now been 'super-sized' for accelerated learning in a wide range of health science programs, from pre-med to exercise science to massage therapy to medical assisting and more!

Foundry Technology brings together basic metal casting phenomena, foundry techniques and product characteristics in a single work of reference. Peter Beeley was a foundry manager before he became a senior lecturer in metallurgy, and subsequently maintained continuous links with the castings industry and associated research activities and publications. His book is designed to serve as a bridge between the study of the basic principles of metal founding and their application in the producing and user industries. A particular aim of Foundry Technology is to assist engineers and engineering students in appreciating the role of castings in design and materials selection. Orthodox and specialized casting processes, and both ferrous and non-ferrous founding are considered on a comparative basis, and the place of castings in design is critically examined and related to other products. The revised edition takes account of the main changes in casting processes and products since the publication of the original edition in 1972. While retaining treatments of basic aspects of molding, solidification, cast structures and feeding, newer developments in modeling and rapid prototyping are reviewed, together with quality, environmental, health and other issues of growing importance. New edition of well-known book. Fully updated with latest technology.

This Second Edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology is completely updated and revised to reflect the vast changes in the field in the fifteen years since publication of the First Edition. This book is a usefulprimer for geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum engineers in the oil industry who wish to expand their knowledge beyond their specialized area. It is also an excellent introductory text for a university course in petroleum geoscience. Elements of Petroleum Geology begins with an account of the physical and chemical properties of petroleum, reviewing methods of petroleum exploration and production. These methods include drilling, geophysical exploration techniques, wireline logging, and subsurface geological mapping. After describing the temperatures and pressures of the subsurface environment and the hydrodynamics of connate fluids, Selley examines the generation and migration of petroleum, reservoir rocks and trapping mechanisms, and the habit of petroleum in sedimentary basins. The book contains an account of the composition and formation of tar sands and oil shales, and concludes with a brief review of prospect risk analysis, reserve estimation, and other economic topics. * Updates the First Edition completely * Reviews the concepts and methodology of petroleum exploration and production * Written by a preeminent petroleum geologist and sedimentologist with 30 years of petroleum exploration in remote corners of the world * Contains information pertinent to geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum reservoir engineers

The aim of this volume is to provide an introduction and selective overview of the rapidly emerging field of computational economics. Computational economics provides an important set of tools that an increasing number of economists will need to acquire in order to understand and do state-of-the-art research in virtually all areas of economics. Articles in the volume range from very applied, policy oriented applications of computational methods, to highly theoretical and mathematically complex analyses of algorithms and numerical methods. The book emphasizes the unique contributions of computational methods in economics, and focuses on problems for which well developed solutions are not already available from the literature in operations research, numerical methods, and computer science. As well as covering relatively mature areas in the field, a number of chapters are included which cover more speculative «frontier topics», in particular recently discovered computational innovations and research results.