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Behind Closed Doors (DVD)
Robert Gerdisch, Selma Blair, Sophi Bairley, Casey Tutton, Andrew Rothenberg, …
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Drama based on the teenage years of writer and director Lori Petty.
Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence) is the oldest of three daughters who
finds herself caring for her younger siblings when her single
mother (Selma Blair) turns to prostitution, drugs and alcohol after
meeting a pimp named Duval (Bokeem Woodbine), who seems to have a
fondness for Agnes. With their house overrun by gamblers, criminals
and other seedy characters the girls struggle to lead a normal
life. Cammie (Chloë Grace Moretz) escapes the chaos of the house
only to sit in bars and Bee (Sophi Bairley) wants nothing more than
to run away and be adopted, while Agnes tries to earn enough money
to support her family and manage the expectations of being a star
basketball player.
Another feature-length adventure following the Mystery Incorporated
team. This time the gang investigate at the Mega Mondo Pop
Cartoon-a-Con where the villainous Mr. Hyde (voice of John
DiMaggio) releases a horde of evil creatures. Shaggy (Matthew
Lillard) and Scooby (Frank Welker) take inspiration from their
favourite superheroes Blue Falcon and Dynomutt as they attempt to
put a stop to Mr. Hyde's wicked ways and save the convention.
The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone
facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast
amount of medical information online, this advice is often
unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A.
Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted the first step-by-step guide
aimed at helping people with this life-defining disease grasp
what's happening to them while coping physically and emotionally
with cancer treatment. An empathetic resource full of relatable
patient stories, this book teaches patients and caregivers how to
ask the right questions to get the best possible care-beginning at
the moment of diagnosis. Drs. Jackson and Ryan explain how to work
with a team of doctors and nurse practitioners to minimize symptoms
and side effects while living as fully as possible in the face of
cancer. They relay important information about understanding
prognosis, and they translate what doctors mean when they describe
tests, treatments, and medical procedures. Finally, they discuss
hospice care and answer questions about continuing treatment and
managing the final phase of life. Based on new research and a
groundbreaking program in which patients are treated with
palliative care-along with the best cancer care-during the course
of their illness, this honest and caring book provides the right
advice to use at the right time throughout a journey with cancer.
It allows a person with cancer to concentrate on living the best
life possible, despite an uncertain future. Patients at every stage
will find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and
accessible guide for navigating the illness and its treatment.
The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone
facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast
amount of medical information online, this advice is often
unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A.
Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted the first step-by-step guide
aimed at helping people with this life-defining disease grasp
what's happening to them while coping physically and emotionally
with cancer treatment. An empathetic resource full of relatable
patient stories, this book teaches patients and caregivers how to
ask the right questions to get the best possible care-beginning at
the moment of diagnosis. Drs. Jackson and Ryan explain how to work
with a team of doctors and nurse practitioners to minimize symptoms
and side effects while living as fully as possible in the face of
cancer. They relay important information about understanding
prognosis, and they translate what doctors mean when they describe
tests, treatments, and medical procedures. Finally, they discuss
hospice care and answer questions about continuing treatment and
managing the final phase of life. Based on new research and a
groundbreaking program in which patients are treated with
palliative care-along with the best cancer care-during the course
of their illness, this honest and caring book provides the right
advice to use at the right time throughout a journey with cancer.
It allows a person with cancer to concentrate on living the best
life possible, despite an uncertain future. Patients at every stage
will find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and
accessible guide for navigating the illness and its treatment.
This handbook offers a comprehensive treatise on Grammatical
Evolution (GE), a grammar-based Evolutionary Algorithm that employs
a function to map binary strings into higher-level structures such
as programs. GE's simplicity and modular nature make it a very
flexible tool. Since its introduction almost twenty years ago,
researchers have applied it to a vast range of problem domains,
including financial modelling, parallel programming and genetics.
Similarly, much work has been conducted to exploit and understand
the nature of its mapping scheme, triggering additional research on
everything from different grammars to alternative mappers to
initialization. The book first introduces GE to the novice,
providing a thorough description of GE along with historical key
advances. Two sections follow, each composed of chapters from
international leading researchers in the field. The first section
concentrates on analysis of GE and its operation, giving valuable
insight into set up and deployment. The second section consists of
seven chapters describing radically different applications of GE.
The contributions in this volume are beneficial to both novices and
experts alike, as they detail the results and researcher
experiences of applying GE to large scale and difficult problems.
Topics include: * Grammar design * Bias in GE * Mapping in GE *
Theory of disruption in GE * Structured GE * Geometric semantic GE
* GE and semantics * Multi- and Many-core heterogeneous parallel GE
* Comparing methods to creating constants in GE * Financial
modelling with GE * Synthesis of parallel programs on multi-cores *
Design, architecture and engineering with GE * Computational
creativity and GE * GE in the prediction of glucose for diabetes *
GE approaches to bioinformatics and system genomics * GE with
coevolutionary algorithms in cybersecurity * Evolving behaviour
trees with GE for platform games * Business analytics and GE for
the prediction of patient recruitment in multicentre clinical
trials
This book covers the normal anatomy of the human body as seen in
the entire gamut of medical imaging. It does so by an initial
traditional anatomical description of each organ or system followed
by the radiological anatomy of that part of the body using all the
relevant imaging modalities. The third edition addresses the
anatomy of new imaging techniques including three-dimensional CT,
cardiac CT, and CT and MR angiography as well as the anatomy of
therapeutic interventional radiological techniques guided by
fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT and MR. The text has been completely
revised and over 140 new images, including some in colour, have
been added. A series of 'imaging pearls' have been included with
most sections to emphasise clinically and radiologically important
points. The book is primarily aimed at those training in radiology
and preparing for the FRCR examinations, but will be of use to all
radiologists and radiographers both in training and in practice,
and to medical students, physicians and surgeons and all who use
imaging as a vital part of patient care. The third edition brings
the basics of radiological anatomy to a new generation of
radiologists in an ever-changing world of imaging. This book covers
the normal anatomy of the human body as seen in the entire gamut of
medical imaging. It does so by an initial traditional anatomical
description of each organ or system followed by the radiological
anatomy of that part of the body using all the relevant imaging
modalities. The third edition addresses the anatomy of new imaging
techniques including three-dimensional CT, cardiac CT, and CT and
MR angiography as well as the anatomy of therapeutic interventional
radiological techniques guided by fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT and
MR. The text has been completely revised and over 140 new images,
including some in colour, have been added. A series of 'imaging
pearls' have been included with most sections to emphasise
clinically and radiologically important points. The book is
primarily aimed at those training in radiology, but will be of use
to all radiologists and radiographers both in training and in
practice, and to medical students, physicians and surgeons and all
who use imaging as a vital part of patient care. The third edition
brings the basics of radiological anatomy to a new generation of
radiologists in an ever-changing world of imaging. Anatomy of new
radiological techniques and anatomy relevant to new staging or
treatment regimens is emphasised. 'Imaging Pearls' that emphasise
clinically and radiologically important points have been added
throughout. The text has been revised to reflect advances in
imaging since previous edition. Over 100 additional images have
been added.
This handbook offers a comprehensive treatise on Grammatical
Evolution (GE), a grammar-based Evolutionary Algorithm that employs
a function to map binary strings into higher-level structures such
as programs. GE's simplicity and modular nature make it a very
flexible tool. Since its introduction almost twenty years ago,
researchers have applied it to a vast range of problem domains,
including financial modelling, parallel programming and genetics.
Similarly, much work has been conducted to exploit and understand
the nature of its mapping scheme, triggering additional research on
everything from different grammars to alternative mappers to
initialization. The book first introduces GE to the novice,
providing a thorough description of GE along with historical key
advances. Two sections follow, each composed of chapters from
international leading researchers in the field. The first section
concentrates on analysis of GE and its operation, giving valuable
insight into set up and deployment. The second section consists of
seven chapters describing radically different applications of GE.
The contributions in this volume are beneficial to both novices and
experts alike, as they detail the results and researcher
experiences of applying GE to large scale and difficult problems.
Topics include: * Grammar design * Bias in GE * Mapping in GE *
Theory of disruption in GE * Structured GE * Geometric semantic GE
* GE and semantics * Multi- and Many-core heterogeneous parallel GE
* Comparing methods to creating constants in GE * Financial
modelling with GE * Synthesis of parallel programs on multi-cores *
Design, architecture and engineering with GE * Computational
creativity and GE * GE in the prediction of glucose for diabetes *
GE approaches to bioinformatics and system genomics * GE with
coevolutionary algorithms in cybersecurity * Evolving behaviour
trees with GE for platform games * Business analytics and GE for
the prediction of patient recruitment in multicentre clinical
trials
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