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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Complex Survey Data Analysis with SAS (R) is an invaluable resource
for applied researchers analyzing data generated from a sample
design involving any combination of stratification, clustering,
unequal weights, or finite population correction factors. After
clearly explaining how the presence of these features can
invalidate the assumptions underlying most traditional statistical
techniques, this book equips readers with the knowledge to
confidently account for them during the estimation and inference
process by employing the SURVEY family of SAS/STAT (R) procedures.
The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential
topics, including: Drawing random samples Descriptive statistics
for continuous and categorical variables Fitting and interpreting
linear and logistic regression models Survival analysis Domain
estimation Replication variance estimation methods Weight
adjustment and imputation methods for handling missing data The
easy-to-follow examples are drawn from real-world survey data sets
spanning multiple disciplines, all of which can be downloaded for
free along with syntax files from the author's website:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tlewis18/. While other books may touch on
some of the same issues and nuances of complex survey data
analysis, none features SAS exclusively and as exhaustively.
Another unique aspect of this book is its abundance of handy
workarounds for certain techniques not yet supported as of SAS
Version 9.4, such as the ratio estimator for a total and the
bootstrap for variance estimation. Taylor H. Lewis is a PhD
graduate of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the
University of Maryland, College Park, and an adjunct professor in
the George Mason University Department of Statistics. An avid SAS
user for 15 years, he is a SAS Certified Advanced programmer and a
nationally recognized SAS educator who has produced dozens of
papers and workshops illustrating how to efficiently and
effectively conduct statistical analyses using SAS.
Zac is busy doing his chores when three Jobkins accidentally fall
out of their spaceship and into his garden. The Jobkins are small
furry creatures just right for cuddling, but there is much more to
them than meets the eye ... Jobkins is a fun story for
5-7+-year-olds about helpful aliens who find solutions to
engineering and construction problems. Sir Tim Rice, Lyricist and
Author
Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health
Security reminds us of the continued vulnerability of the world to
contagious infections. The book presents examples of disease
surveillance systems and evaluates promising advances as well as
opportunities for new systems. It also explains how newer
technologies can allow countries to comply with the International
Health Regulations established by the World Health Organization.
The book covers various topics including international health
regulations policy, challenges surrounding system deployment and
implementation, data visualization techniques, the strengths and
weaknesses of open source software, and legal considerations
surrounding such software. This book will show you how new
reporting requirements, combined with new technologies, big data
sources, and sophisticated analytic approaches now enable the
public health community to identify potential outbreaks and
initiate a response earlier than at any other time in history.
The return to New York in 2002 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower
Drum Song - with a totally new book by playwright David Henry Hwang
- was considered the most revolutionary chapter in the history of
Broadway revivals. Why? The musical, a clear hit when it was
originally produced in 1958, had later acquired a debatable
reputation for quaint, racially offensive Asian stereotypes. Yet
Hwang's controversial rewrite - driven at least in part by concerns
about such offenses - was a box-office failure. Drawing upon fresh
interviews with members of both the original and the revival casts,
whose first-hand accounts enliven the narrative with surprising
candor, David H. Lewis charts in detail the checkered production
history of Flower Drum Song. He explores the forces that turned
against the original show; the arguably inferior movie version
(upon which its most outspoken critics would base their discontent
and public resistance); rising criticism from within the Asian
American community fueled by ethnic-studies programs that swept
across college campuses in the 1970s; and, ultimately, the
indifference of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, itself
caught up in its own quest to update the works of two musical
theatre giants and keep their names blazing on theatre marquees.
This well-illustrated story of the two Flower Drum Songs is replete
with fascinating anecdotes by turns colorful, humorous and sad. The
shared memories of the cast offer an eye-opening look at the often
chaotic journey of a musical along the precarious path to opening
night. The author addresses the value of preserving the rich and
revered legacy of Broadway's greatest team. What price a crack at
revival fame?
Strong, colorful personalities who impose their will upon laws,
constitutions, courts, and congresses are an enduring feature of
Latin American politics, beginning with the violent regional bosses
(caudillos) of the early nineteenth century and continuing with the
'hyper-presidential' systems of today. Paul Lewis explores the
origins of the region's authoritarian culture and the different
types of regimes that have exhibited it. Taking a student-friendly
chronological approach, this thoughtful and accessible text begins
with a brief overview of Latin America's Iberian heritage, then
describes the general breakdown of order and the rise of the
caudillos following independence. Lewis shows how the internal
dynamics of caudillo politics have produced, in one country after
another, either strong personalistic dictatorships or oligarchies
that ruthlessly imposed order on their societies. Order made
economic growth and urbanization possible, yet created great social
injustices that spurred the development of mass politics. The
author describes the twentieth-century upheavals that brought the
people into the political arena, resulting in a variety of
revolutionary and counter-revolutionary regimes that borrow their
inspiration from fascism and communism. Balanced yet cautious about
the future of democracy in the region, this accessible book will be
invaluable for courses on contemporary Latin America.
As a Holocaust survivor, neurologist and psychiatrist Dr Viktor E.
Frankl had a personal stake in the effectiveness of his approach to
psychology: he lived the suffering about which he wrote. With this
new reading of the Book of Job, Lewis further develops Frankl's
concept of Logotherapy as a literary hermeneutic, presenting
readers with the opportunity to discover unique meanings and
clarify their attitudes toward pain, guilt, and death. Key issues
emerge from the discussion of three different movements, which
address Frankl's concept of the feeling of meaninglessness and his
rejection of reductionism and nihilism, the dual nature of meaning,
and his ideas of ultimate meaning and self-transcendence.
Discovering meaning through participation with the text enables us
to see that Job's final response can become a site for transcending
suffering.
Complex Survey Data Analysis with SAS (R) is an invaluable resource
for applied researchers analyzing data generated from a sample
design involving any combination of stratification, clustering,
unequal weights, or finite population correction factors. After
clearly explaining how the presence of these features can
invalidate the assumptions underlying most traditional statistical
techniques, this book equips readers with the knowledge to
confidently account for them during the estimation and inference
process by employing the SURVEY family of SAS/STAT (R) procedures.
The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential
topics, including: Drawing random samples Descriptive statistics
for continuous and categorical variables Fitting and interpreting
linear and logistic regression models Survival analysis Domain
estimation Replication variance estimation methods Weight
adjustment and imputation methods for handling missing data The
easy-to-follow examples are drawn from real-world survey data sets
spanning multiple disciplines, all of which can be downloaded for
free along with syntax files from the author's website:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tlewis18/. While other books may touch on
some of the same issues and nuances of complex survey data
analysis, none features SAS exclusively and as exhaustively.
Another unique aspect of this book is its abundance of handy
workarounds for certain techniques not yet supported as of SAS
Version 9.4, such as the ratio estimator for a total and the
bootstrap for variance estimation. Taylor H. Lewis is a PhD
graduate of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the
University of Maryland, College Park, and an adjunct professor in
the George Mason University Department of Statistics. An avid SAS
user for 15 years, he is a SAS Certified Advanced programmer and a
nationally recognized SAS educator who has produced dozens of
papers and workshops illustrating how to efficiently and
effectively conduct statistical analyses using SAS.
This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine
numerical and symbolic algorithms. Hybrid algorithm research is
currently one of the most promising directions in the context of
geosciences mathematics and computer mathematics in general. One
important topic addressed here with a broad range of applications
is the solution of multivariate polynomial systems by means of
resultants and Groebner bases. But that's barely the beginning, as
the authors proceed to discuss genetic algorithms, integer
programming, symbolic regression, parallel computing, and many
other topics. The book is strictly goal-oriented, focusing on the
solution of fundamental problems in the geosciences, such as
positioning and point cloud problems. As such, at no point does it
discuss purely theoretical mathematics. "The book delivers hybrid
symbolic-numeric solutions, which are a large and growing area at
the boundary of mathematics and computer science." Dr. Daniel Li
chtbau
When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first
begin to become involved in clinical decision making, they soon
find that more than the technical data they had so carefully
learned is involved. Prior to that time, of course, they were aware
that more than technology was involved in practicing medicine, but
here, for the first time, the reality is forcefully brought home.
It may be on the medical ward, when a patient or a patient's
relatives ask that no further treatment be given and that the
patient be allowed to die; it may be in ob/gyn, when a 4- or
5-month pregnant lady with two other children and just deserted by
her husband pleads for an abortion; it may be in the outpatient
setting, where patients unable to afford enough to eat cannot
afford to buy antibiotics for their sick child or provide him or
her with the recom mended diet. Whatever the setting, students soon
find themselv. es con fronted with problems in which an answer is
not given by the technical possibilities alone; indeed, students
may have to face situations in which, all things considered, the
use of these technical possibilities seems ill-advised. But choices
need to be made. Some of us may choose to hide behind a mastery of
technology."
In the spring of 1987, nearly 350 individuals gathered in a hotel
in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D. C. , to
participate in a two-day medical symposium devoted to the topic of
liver diseases. A small minority of this group had been attracted
by what promised to be an outstanding Continuing Medical Education
course. The remainder, however, although obviously interested in
the content of the symposium, had come primarily to honor a man
who, over the years, had profoundly touched them, personally or
professionally, for the course had been conceived as a tribute to
an exceptional man of medicine, a man with remarkable scholarly and
personal attributes: Hyman J. Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman, referred to
affectionately by all as Hy, was born in 1914 in Rochester, New
York, the city in which he received both his early schooling and
his undergraduate education. In the late 1930s, he moved to Palo
Alto to begin his medical education at Stanford University, from
which he graduated cum laude in 1942, having spent an additional
year acquiring a masters degree and as World War II in
bacteriology. Almost immediately thereafter, he entered military
service, was in progress, was assigned to duty in France. Soon
after his arrival, he was made chief of an Army field hospital. A
major medical problem plaguing U. S. troops at the time was viral
hepatitis, which resulted in a deluge of patients admitted to his
hospital.
Polyploidy as a dramatic mutational event in the process of
evolution has wide implications in nature and for the generation of
new and improved crops. The three day Conference on POLYPLOIDY:
BIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE focused on three aspects of this natural
phenomenon: the first emphasized the characteristics of polyploidy,
the second described the occurrence of polyploidy among plants and
animals, and the third considered past and future areas of both
fundamental and pragmatic research that involve polyploidy. New
information relative to origin, cytogenetics, ecology, physiology,
biochemistry, and populational studies stress the need to reexamine
current views on the origins of polyploidy and its significance
among both plants and animals. There are major differences in the
occurrence of polyploidy between. plant groups and it is proving a
much more common event among bisexual vertebrates than heretofore
considered possible. Crop development and improvement must utilize
approaches based fundamentally on more natural systems; in fact
future research should focus more on polyploidy as a natural
phenomenon that needs study at all levels of endeavor from
field-oriented populational aspects to sophisticated molecular
analyses and genome manipulations. This volume provides a summary
of current knowledge of polyploidy pertinent to botanists,
zoologists, and agriculturists who are interested in the evolution
o natural systems and who are concerned with the contribution that
crop improvement can make to human well-being. Walter H. Lewis St.
Louis, Missouri October, 1979 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Host Committee
thanks all speakers and moderators for their generous contribution
to the Conference and to this volume.
The author examines hemostasis in animals from all seven major
vertebrate classes. Her research provides unique insights into the
phylogenetic development of the various phases and components of
hemostasis. This monograph is a valuable reference for students,
researchers, and teachers of biology, zoology, veterinary science,
and human medicine.
Wonder and imagination are at the heart of this story of a
friendship between a boy from New York City and the boy king,
Tutankhamun A boy and his stuffed bunny gaze at a star-lit New York
cityscape. The great Sphinx of Egypt sleeps. A child swings
joyously across a river. This book offers a tantalizing glimpse of
the adventures of Arthur and his imaginary friend, Bun-Bun.
Together they travel through the Temple of Dendur at the
Metropolitan Museum to another time and place and befriend the
lonely boy king, Tutankhamun.
When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first
begin to become involved in clinical decision making, they soon
find that more than the technical data they had so carefully
learned is involved. Prior to that time, of course, they were aware
that more than technology was involved in practicing medicine, but
here, for the first time, the reality is forcefully brought home.
It may be on the medical ward, when a patient or a patient's
relatives ask that no further treatment be given and that the
patient be allowed to die; it may be in ob/gyn, when a 4- or
5-month pregnant lady with two other children and just deserted by
her husband pleads for an abortion; it may be in the outpatient
setting, where patients unable to afford enough to eat cannot
afford to buy antibiotics for their sick child or provide him or
her with the recom mended diet. Whatever the setting, students soon
find themselv. es con fronted with problems in which an answer is
not given by the technical possibilities alone; indeed, students
may have to face situations in which, all things considered, the
use of these technical possibilities seems ill-advised. But choices
need to be made. Some of us may choose to hide behind a mastery of
technology."
Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health
Security reminds us of the continued vulnerability of the world to
contagious infections. The book presents examples of disease
surveillance systems and evaluates promising advances as well as
opportunities for new systems. It also explains how newer
technologies can allow countries to comply with the International
Health Regulations established by the World Health Organization.
The book covers various topics including international health
regulations policy, challenges surrounding system deployment and
implementation, data visualization techniques, the strengths and
weaknesses of open source software, and legal considerations
surrounding such software. This book will show you how new
reporting requirements, combined with new technologies, big data
sources, and sophisticated analytic approaches now enable the
public health community to identify potential outbreaks and
initiate a response earlier than at any other time in history.
Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years,
and nowhere have they been more loved and celebrated than Broadway,
the theater capital of the world. The music of such composers as
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, Lerner and
Loewe, Steven Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber continues to run
through peoples minds, and such productions as South Pacific, Cats,
My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls, Rent, and
West Side Story remain at the top of Broadways most popular
productions. This book is a survey of Broadway musicals all through
the 20th century, from the Tin Pan Alley-driven comedy works of the
early part of the century, to the integrated musical plays that
flourished in the heyday years of midcentury, and to the rock era,
concept musicals, and the arrival of British playwrights and
musicals late in the century. It also profiles some of the theater
world's leading composers, writers, and directors, considers some
of the most unforgettable and forgettable shows (but not forgetting
the forgettable ones), illustrates the elusive fragility of the
libretto, explains the compensating nature of production elements,
and examines representative shows from every decade. An extensive
discography offers a brief critique of over 300 show cast albums.
The author examines hemostasis in animals from all seven major
vertebrate classes. Her research provides unique insights into the
phylogenetic development of the various phases and components of
hemostasis. This monograph is a valuable reference for students,
researchers, and teachers of biology, zoology, veterinary science,
and human medicine.
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