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This accessible, jargon-free guide to uveitis for non-specialists
explains in practical, easy-to-understand language how to diagnose
and manage inflammatory eye disease. Describing in simple terms how
to differentiate between the various inflammatory eye diseases,
which investigations to choose, how to interpret the results and
how best to manage immunosuppression in these patients, this book
makes this fascinating subject accessible to the non-uveitis
specialist for the first time.
This handbook is designed to help shape the thought processes of
the eye clinician or trainee and guide them toward the right
decision-making pathway in emergency ophthalmology situations.
Chapters are titled by the way cases present to eye casualty rather
than condition, along with an algorithmic approach on what clinical
and laboratory investigations to carry out. There is also guidance
on how to perform simple procedures. It is aimed at trainees,
general ophthalmologists and those with an interest from allied
specialties (including specialist nurses) and professions such as
optometrists and emergency medicine doctors. Key Features Stresses
safe and practical navigation of common eye symptoms presented in
an emergency setting. Provides guidance on differential diagnosis
and includes useful decision-making flowcharts. Emphasizes "how to"
approach the eye casualty patient. Shows what can be expected at
each stage of the eye injury patient encounter. Presents
information appropriate for the entire multi-disciplinary eye
casualty team
With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the
field, Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents
current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the
following areas. Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the
art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for
monitoring and measuring performance and managing large quantities
of data Performance analysis: Discusses modern approaches to
computer performance benchmarking and presents results that offer
valuable insight into these studies Performance modeling: Explains
how researchers deduce accurate performance models from raw
performance data or from other high-level characteristics of a
scientific computation Automatic performance tuning: Explores
ongoing research into automatic and semi-automatic techniques for
optimizing computer programs to achieve superior performance on any
computer platform Application tuning: Provides examples that show
how the appropriate analysis of performance and some deft changes
have resulted in extremely high performance Performance analysis
has grown into a full-fledged, sophisticated field of empirical
science. Describing useful research in modern performance science
and engineering, this book helps real-world users of parallel
computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries
arising in scientific applications and the practical means for
improving performance. Read about the book on HPCwire and insideHPC
This accessible, jargon-free guide to uveitis for non-specialists
explains in practical, easy-to-understand language how to diagnose
and manage inflammatory eye disease. Describing in simple terms how
to differentiate between the various inflammatory eye diseases,
which investigations to choose, how to interpret the results and
how best to manage immunosuppression in these patients, this book
makes this fascinating subject accessible to the non-uveitis
specialist for the first time.
This handbook is designed to help shape the thought processes of
the eye clinician or trainee and guide them toward the right
decision-making pathway in emergency ophthalmology situations.
Chapters are titled by the way cases present to eye casualty rather
than condition, along with an algorithmic approach on what clinical
and laboratory investigations to carry out. There is also guidance
on how to perform simple procedures. It is aimed at trainees,
general ophthalmologists and those with an interest from allied
specialties (including specialist nurses) and professions such as
optometrists and emergency medicine doctors. Key Features Stresses
safe and practical navigation of common eye symptoms presented in
an emergency setting. Provides guidance on differential diagnosis
and includes useful decision-making flowcharts. Emphasizes "how to"
approach the eye casualty patient. Shows what can be expected at
each stage of the eye injury patient encounter. Presents
information appropriate for the entire multi-disciplinary eye
casualty team
With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the
field, Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents
current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the
following areas. Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the
art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for
monitoring and measuring performance and managing large quantities
of data Performance analysis: Discusses modern approaches to
computer performance benchmarking and presents results that offer
valuable insight into these studies Performance modeling: Explains
how researchers deduce accurate performance models from raw
performance data or from other high-level characteristics of a
scientific computation Automatic performance tuning: Explores
ongoing research into automatic and semi-automatic techniques for
optimizing computer programs to achieve superior performance on any
computer platform Application tuning: Provides examples that show
how the appropriate analysis of performance and some deft changes
have resulted in extremely high performance Performance analysis
has grown into a full-fledged, sophisticated field of empirical
science. Describing useful research in modern performance science
and engineering, this book helps real-world users of parallel
computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries
arising in scientific applications and the practical means for
improving performance. Read about the book on HPCwire and insideHPC
Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic
thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of
the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first
time those lectures have been published.
Lord Robbins (1898-1984) was a remarkably accomplished thinker,
writer, and public figure. He made important contributions to
economic theory, methodology, and policy analysis, directed the
economic section of Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, and served as
chairman of the "Financial Times." As a historian of economic
ideas, he ranks with Joseph Schumpeter and Jacob Viner as one of
the foremost scholars of the century. These lectures, delivered at
the London School of Economics between 1979 and 1981 and
tape-recorded by Robbins's grandson, display his mastery of the
intellectual history of economics, his infectious enthusiasm for
the subject, and his eloquence and incisive wit. They cover a broad
chronological range, beginning with Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas,
focusing extensively on Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and the
classicals, and finishing with a discussion of moderns and
marginalists from Marx to Alfred Marshall. Robbins takes a varied
and inclusive approach to intellectual history. As he says in his
first lecture: "I shall go my own sweet way--sometimes talk about
doctrine, sometimes talk about persons, sometimes talk about
periods." The lectures are united by Robbins's conviction that it
is impossible to understand adequately contemporary institutions
and social sciences without understanding the ideas behind their
development.
Authoritative yet accessible, combining the immediacy of the
spoken word with Robbins's exceptional talent for clear,
well-organized exposition, this volume will be welcomed by anyone
interested in the intellectual origins of the modern world.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback, New Ed)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Norman Page; Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, George Cattermole, Hablot K Browne, …
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‘Alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay, and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber’ Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the loathsome Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens’s portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality. Yet alongside the story’s pathos are some of Dickens’s greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne’er-do’well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved ‘Marchioness’ and the lustful, demonic Quilp himself. This edition, based on the original text of 1841, contains an introduction discussing the various contrasting themes of the novel and its roots in Dickens’s own personal tragedy, with prefaces to the 1841 and 1848 editions, a chronology, notes and the original illustrations produced for the serial version.
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