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When the activating button for a nuclear launch is lost at sea, it
is up to James Bond to retrieve it before it falls into the wrong
hands. Roger Moore once again plays 007 in this, the 12th Bond
outing, director John Glen's first Bond film and the first without
an Ian Fleming credit. Highlights include a climb up a sheer
rock-face; a car chase down a steep, winding mountain road; an
underwater battle; and what might be the greatest of all Bond's
celebrated ski chase sequences.
Selling your CTO on the merits of OpenShift and Kubernetes is only
the beginning. When it comes to operating and scaling OpenShift,
you need to understand how to manage and expose resources to
application teams and how to continuously deliver changes to
applications running in these environments. With this practical
book, new and experienced developers and operators will learn
specific techniques and examples for operationalizing OpenShift and
Kubernetes in the enterprise. Industry experts Michael Elder, Jake
Kitchener, and Brad Topol show you how to run OpenShift and
Kubernetes in production and deliver your applications to a highly
available, secure, and scalable platform. You'll learn how to build
a strong foundation in advanced cluster operational topics, such as
tenancy management, scheduling and capacity management, cost
management, continuous delivery, and more. This book shows you how
to: Manage multiple teams in their use of OpenShift and Kubernetes
Promote the efficient use of data center resources Deliver highly
available applications and services Manage application tenancy
throughout the enterprise Provide multicluster management and high
availability Apply continuous updates to OpenShift and Kubernetes
Devise and deliver disaster recovery strategies
With detailed contributions from 45 renowned international
authorities, this Third Edition stands alone as the most
comprehensive, contemporary view of the biology, physiology, and
management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS)-offering 32 chapters
that span the state-of-the science in the field and provide
intriguing discussions on CRP and other disease markers,
microcirculation, stem cell therapy, and the development of
specialized centers for ACS treatment.
A visit to a physician these days is cold: physicians spend most of
their time typing at computers, making minimal eye contact.
Appointments generally last only a few minutes, with scarce time
for the doctor to connect to a patient's story, or explain how and
why different procedures and treatments might be undertaken. As a
result, errors abound: indeed, misdiagnosis is the fourth-leading
cause of death in the United States, trailing only heart disease,
cancer, and stroke. This is because, despite having access to more
resources than ever, doctors are vulnerable not just to the
economic demand to see more patients, but to distraction, burnout,
data overload, and their own intrinsic biases. Physicians are
simply overmatched. As Eric Topol argues in Deep Medicine,
artificial intelligence can help. Natural-language processing could
automatically record notes from our doctor visits; virtual
psychiatrists could better predict the risk of suicide or other
mental health issues for vulnerable patients; deep-learning
software will make every physician a master diagnostician; and we
could even use smartphone apps to take our own medical "selfies"
for skin exams and receive immediate analysis. . On top of that,
the virtual smartphone assistants of today--Alexa, Siri,
Cortana--could analyze our daily health data to reduce the need for
doctor visits and trips to the emergency room, and support for
people suffering from asthma, epilepsy, and heart disease. By
integrating tools like these into their daily medical practice,
doctors would be able to spend less time collecting and cataloging
information, and more time providing thorough, intimate, and
meaningful care for their patients, as no machine can. Artificial
intelligence can also help remedy the debilitating cost of
healthcare, both for individuals and the economy writ large. The
medical sector now absorbs 20 percent of the US gross domestic
product--it is largest sector by dollars and jobs. And it's very
inefficient. Take the cost of medical scans: There are over 20
million medical scans performed in the US every day, and an MRI,
for example, costs hundreds to thousands of dollars. AI could
process 260 million medical scans (more than 2 weeks' worth) in
less than 24 hours for a cost of only $1000. We pay billions and
billions of dollars for the same work today. The American health
care system needs a serious reboot, and artificial intelligence is
just the thing to press the restart button. As innovative as it is
hopeful, Deep Medicine ultimately shows us how we can leverage
artificial intelligence for better care at lower costs with more
empathy, for the benefit of patients and physicians alike.
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make
an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several
hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now",but only for
fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the
results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate
further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably
prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill
will be astronomical.In The Patient Will See You Now , Eric Topol,
one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not
have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get
rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs
both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm
to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a
small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system.
The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg
moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands
of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for
medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With
smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and
paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has
been digitized, Topol argues now it will be democratized. Computers
will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science
will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will
give us new means to attack conditions that have long been
incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are
done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable
real-time, real-world research on massive populations. There's no
doubt the path forward will be complicated: the medical
establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine
inevitably raises serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless,
the result,better, cheaper, and more human health care,will be
worth it.Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now
is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better
health care. That is, for all of us.
Process tabular data and build high-performance query engines on
modern CPUs and GPUs using Apache Arrow, a standardized
language-independent memory format, for optimal performance Key
Features Learn about Apache Arrow's data types and interoperability
with pandas and Parquet Work with Apache Arrow Flight RPC, Compute,
and Dataset APIs to produce and consume tabular data Reviewed,
contributed, and supported by Dremio, the co-creator of Apache
Arrow Book DescriptionApache Arrow is designed to accelerate
analytics and allow the exchange of data across big data systems
easily. In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow begins with a quick
overview of the Apache Arrow format, before moving on to helping
you to understand Arrow's versatility and benefits as you walk
through a variety of real-world use cases. You'll cover key tasks
such as enhancing data science workflows with Arrow, using Arrow
and Apache Parquet with Apache Spark and Jupyter for better
performance and hassle-free data translation, as well as working
with Perspective, an open source interactive graphical and tabular
analysis tool for browsers. As you advance, you'll explore the
different data interchange and storage formats and become
well-versed with the relationships between Arrow, Parquet, Feather,
Protobuf, Flatbuffers, JSON, and CSV. In addition to understanding
the basic structure of the Arrow Flight and Flight SQL protocols,
you'll learn about Dremio's usage of Apache Arrow to enhance SQL
analytics and discover how Arrow can be used in web-based browser
apps. Finally, you'll get to grips with the upcoming features of
Arrow to help you stay ahead of the curve. By the end of this book,
you will have all the building blocks to create useful, efficient,
and powerful analytical services and utilities with Apache Arrow.
What you will learn Use Apache Arrow libraries to access data files
both locally and in the cloud Understand the zero-copy elements of
the Apache Arrow format Improve read performance by memory-mapping
files with Apache Arrow Produce or consume Apache Arrow data
efficiently using a C API Use the Apache Arrow Compute APIs to
perform complex operations Create Arrow Flight servers and clients
for transferring data quickly Build the Arrow libraries locally and
contribute back to the community Who this book is forThis book is
for developers, data analysts, and data scientists looking to
explore the capabilities of Apache Arrow from the ground up. This
book will also be useful for any engineers who are working on
building utilities for data analytics and query engines, or
otherwise working with tabular data, regardless of the programming
language. Some familiarity with basic concepts of data analysis
will help you to get the most out of this book but isn't required.
Code examples are provided in the C++, Go, and Python programming
languages.
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Let Patients Help! (Paperback)
Danny Sands; Introduction by Eric J. Topol MD; "E-Patient Dave" Debronkart
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A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and
survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author Tab, an
itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit
with his partner, Sona, and their two young sons, attending
festivals and performing plays. Confronted with growing resentment
toward foreigners, Tab decides to return home to the banks of the
Sazava River, southeast of Prague. As soon as they arrive, Tab
finds himself falsely accused of a terrible crime and forced to go
on the run with his sons. Over the course of their journey, dodging
authorities by car, foot, and raft, they encounter a motley cast of
allies and enemies. The effects of Tab's sudden reappearance and
just-as-sudden disappearance ripple through the community,
catalyzing a chaotic chain of events that reaches a final, raucous
crescendo. Hailed as "a picaresque romp of black humor and fantasy"
(Times Literary Supplement), this is an unforgettable novel about
discovering sparks of humanity even in the bleakest of places, in
which love or the longing to find it lies around every bend.
Now with a new postscript covering the unfolding health care
revolutionMobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal
genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability
of technologies that can provide wireless, personalized health care
at lower cost, the medical community has resisted change. In The
Creative Destruction of Medicine , Eric Topol,one of the nation's
top physicians,calls for consumer activism to demand innovation and
the democratization of medical care. The Creative Destruction of
Medicine is the definitive account of the coming disruption of
medicine, written by the field's leading voice.
Angioplasty has completely transformed the treatment of coronary
artery disease and is widely used, with more than 800,000
procedures performed worldwide per year. However, the enthusiasm
for angioplasty is shadowed by restenosis, which remains a critical
problem after the procedure, resulting in clinical recurrence in
over a third of patients. Recently, the mechanisms of restenosis
have been completely reappraised with an enriched understanding
that the original concept of neointimal hyperplasia may not be
accounting for the bulk of the problem. There is a desperate need
to heighten understanding of the remodeling process at the
molecular, cellular, and arterial level. Vascular remodeling is a
well established concept in the field of atherosclerosis and
hypertension, but only in recent years has its applicability to the
field of restenosis become pivotal. Accordingly, the editors
perceived the need to assemble the first book dedicated to the
concept of coronary artery remodeling in restenosis, in order to
clearly review the experiments leading to the remodeling hypothesis
and integrate this with the neointimal hyperplasia (tumor) model
for the development of the restenotic lesion. The authors of this
book present their experience to facilitate the understanding of
the mechanisms for coronary restenosis and remodeling. The various
experimental models, clinical issues, and basic mechanisms are
reviewed in detail, resulting in a fresh approach to a vexing
clinical problem. Arterial Remodeling: A Critical Factor in
Restenosis will be useful to the physician and trainee who have an
interest in restenosis, and specifically in the major
pathophysiologic process which determines the fate of arterial
healing in patients following percutaneous coronary
revascularization. It is hoped that this book will lay the
foundation for more effective therapies that will reduce the chance
of constrictive remodeling and improve the long-term efficacy of
non-surgical coronary revascularization in the future.
Angioplasty has completely transformed the treatment of coronary
artery disease and is widely used, with more than 800,000
procedures performed worldwide per year. However, the enthusiasm
for angioplasty is shadowed by restenosis, which remains a critical
problem after the procedure, resulting in clinical recurrence in
over a third of patients. Recently, the mechanisms of restenosis
have been completely reappraised with an enriched understanding
that the original concept of neointimal hyperplasia may not be
accounting for the bulk of the problem. There is a desperate need
to heighten understanding of the remodeling process at the
molecular, cellular, and arterial level. Vascular remodeling is a
well established concept in the field of atherosclerosis and
hypertension, but only in recent years has its applicability to the
field of restenosis become pivotal. Accordingly, the editors
perceived the need to assemble the first book dedicated to the
concept of coronary artery remodeling in restenosis, in order to
clearly review the experiments leading to the remodeling hypothesis
and integrate this with the neointimal hyperplasia (tumor) model
for the development of the restenotic lesion. The authors of this
book present their experience to facilitate the understanding of
the mechanisms for coronary restenosis and remodeling. The various
experimental models, clinical issues, and basic mechanisms are
reviewed in detail, resulting in a fresh approach to a vexing
clinical problem. Arterial Remodeling: A Critical Factor in
Restenosis will be useful to the physician and trainee who have an
interest in restenosis, and specifically in the major
pathophysiologic process which determines the fate of arterial
healing in patients following percutaneous coronary
revascularization. It is hoped that this book will lay the
foundation for more effective therapies that will reduce the chance
of constrictive remodeling and improve the long-term efficacy of
non-surgical coronary revascularization in the future.
Not even Tolstoy would dare use the eyebrow-raising Russian you'll
find in this wickedly humorous language guide by one of Russia's
bestselling novelists today. Whether you're traveling to Russia for
the first time or you are a student of the language, this
indispensable book is your entree to the real and new Russian that
has never been taught. You'll be armored with triple-decker curses
and insults, endearments and expressions for situations ranging
from high-level business meetings to cocktail parties to sexual
encounters. Filled with words, idioms, and vulgarisms you won't
learn in a classroom, plus twenty hilarious line drawings and a
complete index to vital expletives, Dermo! will provide you with
the uncensored answers to the questions you always wanted to
know...but no translator would ever tell you!
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Angel Station (Paperback)
Jachym Topol; Translated by Alex Zucker
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Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the
Prague district of Smichov. Until the gentrification of the late
1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a
sizeable Roma and Vietnamese population. Topol's novel, in sparse
yet poetic language-agilely brought into English by the author's
longtime translator Alex Zucker-weaves together the brutal and
disturbing fates of an addict, a shopkeeper, and a religious
fanatic as they each follow the path they hope will lead them to
serenity: drugs, money, and faith.
Keystone-OpenStack's Identity service-provides secure controlled
access to a cloud's resources. In OpenStack environments, Keystone
performs many vital functions, such as authenticating users and
determining what resources users are authorized to access. Whether
the cloud is private, public, or dedicated, access to cloud
resources and security is essential. This practical guide to using
Keystone provides detailed, step-by-step guidance to creating a
secure cloud environment at the Infrastructure-as-a-Service
layer-as well as key practices for safeguarding your cloud's
ongoing security. Learn about Keystone's fundamental capabilities
for providing Identity, Authentication, and Access Management
Perform basic Keystone operations, using concrete examples and the
latest version (v3) of Keystone's Identity API Understand
Keystone's unique support for multiple token formats, including how
it has evolved over time Get an in-depth explanation of Keystone's
LDAP support and how to configure Keystone to integrate with LDAP
Learn about one of Keystone's most sought-after features-support
for federated identity
When both his moms take an offer for a year of employment in
Europe, fifteen-year-old David Martin has no choice but to head to
Connecticut to stay with his dad and his dad's partner. Not only is
he leaving behind the life he loves in New York City, he's unsure
how he feels about staying with a father he barely knows, one who
has been far from supportive during David's life. If he doesn't
have enough on his plate, David is also confused and wrestling with
his burgeoning sexual feelings… toward other boys. Running with
his dad's partner takes the edge off, but training with the
hot—and openly gay—track team captain, Kevin Ringer, produces a
different kind of rush. An assault on David and Kevin in the locker
room gives David a new perspective on his own identity, his
feelings for Kevin, and his relationship with his dad. Life is very
different from what David is used to, but he's determined to carve
out a place for himself.
Razones claras, consejos y metodos para involucrar a los pacientes
en su salud de una manera efectiva. El tercer libro del ePaciente
Dave. Superviviente de de un cancer, bloguero y conferenciante
internacional. Defensor de la participacion del paciente,
co-fundador y ex presidente de la "Society for Participatory
Medicine." www.ePatientDave.com/about-dave La web del libro: http:
//epatientdave.com/let-patients-help
Kontseptsiya gisto-gematicheskikh bar'erov s razvitiem meditsiny
priobretaet vse bol'shee znachenie v teoreticheskom i prakticheskom
aspektakh. Biologicheskiy smysl i fiziologicheskoe
funktsionirovanie gisto-gematicheskikh bar'erov v organakh i
tkanyakh cheloveka svyazany s podderzhaniem gomeostaza zhiznenno
vazhnykh organov. Eto unikal'nyy mekhanizm zashchity ot negativnykh
faktorov vnutri organizma cheloveka. Naibolee polno izucheny
mekhanizmy funktsionirovaniya gemato-entsefalicheskogo bar'era.
Men'shee kolichestvo nauchnykh issledovaniy posvyashcheno
funktsiyam gemato-platsentarnogo, gemato-oftal'micheskogo,
gemato-labirintnogo, gemato-testikulyarnogo bar'erov. Izucheniyu
funktsionirovaniya gemato-salivarnogo bar'era (GSB) posvyashcheno
krayne maloe chislo rabot. Funktsionirovanie GSB imeet vazhnoe
znachenie v etiologii, patogeneze, diagnostike, profilaktike i
patogeneticheski obosnovannom lechenii mnogikh stomatologicheskikh
zabolevaniy. Dannaya monografiya posvyashchena nekotorym aspektam
funktsionirovaniya gemato-entsefalicheskogo (GEB) i
gematosalivarnogo (GSB) bar'erov pri stomatologicheskikh i
somaticheskikh zabolevaniyakh.
Rasshcheliny verkhney guby i neba zanimayut vtoroe mesto po
chastote v strukture vrozhdennykh porokov i otnosyatsya k naibolee
tyazhelym porokam razvitiya litsa i chelyustey, privodyashchim k
znachitel'nym anatomicheskim, funktsional'nym i kosmeticheskim
narusheniyam. Imeetsya tendentsiya k uvelicheniyu dannogo
pokazatelya, odnoy iz prichin kotoroy yavlyaetsya rezkoe
ukhudshenie ekologii. V rezul'tate etogo poyavlyaetsya mnozhestvo
dopolnitel'nykh endogennykh faktorov, sposobstvuyushchikh
vozniknoveniyu vrozhdyennykh anomaliy. Avtorami monografii izucheny
etiologiya, patogenez, klinika, diagnostika vrozhdennoy
rasshcheliny guby i nyeba, razrabotany novye metody profilaktiki i
lecheniya v usloviyakh neblagopriyatnykh ekologicheskikh faktorov
okruzhayushchey sredy.
Do nastoyashchego vremeni vopros vybora plasticheskogo materiala i
metodiki zameshcheniya postrezektsionnykh defektov anatomicheskikh
struktur grudnoy kletki ostaetsya diskussionnym. V knige
predstavleny original'nye sposoby zameshcheniya postrezektsionnykh
defektov perikarda, diafragmy, grudnoy stenki s ispol'zovaniem
biosovmestimykh implantatov na osnove nikelida titana i osobennosti
ikh integratsii s prilezhashchimi tkanyami. Pokazano, chto v
oblasti zameshchennogo defekta formiruetsya edinyy tkanevoy
regenerata, kotoryy ne zatrudnyaet rabotu serdtsa, ekskursiyu
diafragmy i grudnoy stenki, obespechivaet anatomo-fiziologicheskoe
vosstanovlenie dannoy oblasti. Opisany klinicheskie primery i
posleoperatsionnoe vedenie bol'nykh posle plasticheskogo
zameshcheniya defektov grudnoy kletki.Kniga predstavlyaet interes
dlya torakal'nykh i plasticheskikh khirurgov, onkologov, a takzhe
dlya nauchnykh rabotnikov, zanimayushchikhsya voprosami
biosovmestimosti materialov.
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