Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and Behavior Support Interventions that Work Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book to help me determine what treatments for autism were scientifically-based. I have not finished the book yet, but I was not disappointed. The book is very scientifically-based, and does not seem to be biased towards any particular treatment or type of treatment. The book has already given me some valuable information that I will be using in my quest to ensure that my son's school district provides him with appropriate educational programming.

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Children who have autism require comprehensive educational and treatment services. There are a myriad of approaches currently recommended to practitioners and parents, but little is known about their efficacy. Which are the most effective in teaching skills, overcoming behavior challenges, and improving quality of life? Methods must be based in research settings, but be easily extended to real world settings where children with autism live, go to school, socialize, and recreate. Identifying and validating effective practices is a complex and multi-faceted process, but an essential one for responsible research and practice. This book brings together multiple and contemporary perspectives on intervention effectiveness for autism education and behavior support. With contributors from a variety of disciplines and orientations, Effective Practices for Children with Autism presents a critical appraisal of current practice standards, emphasizing empirically supported procedures and research-to-practice applications. By bringing together a diverse group of authors, the editors have ensured that the vast field of information on interventions for children with autism is thoroughly examined, and that no topic has gone untouched. Written for practitioners, research scientists, and clinicians, the book is an essential framework for evaluating educational and treatment procedures, selecting those that are most effective, and evaluating outcomes.

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Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach Review

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(More customer reviews)This a broad and deep book on all things software architecture except the architecting process (for process, one recommended read is "Process Software Architecting" by Eeles/Cripps). Several readerships will benefit from "Just Enough Software Architecture":
- As an experienced IT architect, I do not necessarily agree with everything in the book (this does not come as a surprise, as architects have opinions). That said, I certainly learned a lot that I can apply immediately on my projects and some of the more provocative statements challenge me to leave my comfort zone (or at least consider doing so).
- Junior architects can use the book both as a tutorial and as a reference when/while growing in their profession.
- Developers with a "who needs architects" mindset (hopefully) will understand architects and modelers much better after having read this book, and appreciate the value of archtecture.
Things I liked in particular:
- Overall vision and message of pragmatism sent
- The risk-driven approach increases chances to get accepted both in agile development and in more traditional architecture communities
- There is a lot of practical advice e.g. in Chapters 10, 11 and 15
- The author is in command of a large body of relevant related work (both industra and academia) and puts them in perspective adequately
- Editorial quality: structure, figures, command of the English language (some words and expressions a bit be hard to comprehend for non-native speaker)
Some room for improvements (2nd edition?):
- Not all metaphors and analogies work internationally, e.g. not all IT people are sports fans that follow baseball or know what a rookie is
- The connection between parts 1 and 2 could be a bit stronger, even if loose coupling generally is a good thing; e.g., some more backward references
In summary, I'd say Just Enough Software Architecture is a highly recommended read for every architect in touch with development reality and every developer with a desire to build complex systems that will stand the test of time.

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This is a practical guide for software developers, and different than other software architecture books. Here's why:
It teaches risk-driven architecting. There is no need for meticulous designs when risks are small, nor any excuse for sloppy designs when risks threaten your success. This book describes a way to do just enough architecture. It avoids the one-size-fits-all process tar pit with advice on how to tune your design effort based on the risks you face.
It democratizes architecture. This book seeks to make architecture relevant to all software developers. Developers need to understand how to use constraints as guiderails that ensure desired outcomes, and how seemingly small changes can affect a system's properties.
It cultivates declarative knowledge. There is a difference between being able to hit a ball and knowing why you are able to hit it, what psychologists refer to as procedural knowledge versus declarative knowledge. This book will make you more aware of what you have been doing and provide names for the concepts.
It emphasizes the engineering. This book focuses on the technical parts of software development and what developers do to ensure the system works not job titles or processes. It shows you how to build models and analyze architectures so that you can make principled design tradeoffs. It describes the techniques software designers use to reason about medium to large sized problems and points out where you can learn specialized techniques in more detail.
It provides practical advice. Software design decisions influence the architecture and vice versa. The approach in this book embraces drill-down/pop-up behavior by describing models that have various levels of abstraction, from architecture to data structure design.

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Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (Texts in Computer Science) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been reading the drafts of this book posted on Richard Szeliski's website, [...] , for about an year now. This book is written to cover almost all state-of-the-art research areas in computer vision and provides a solid introduction and reference. Unlike other books on vision, this book is about applications. The chapters are arranged keeping in mind the different key research areas which should be learned by a computer vision student. Apart from providing an overview, every chapter has abundant key references which direct the student for in-depth understanding of a particular area. This book is a welcome addition as literary resource for the computer vision community. Even though Szeliski has kept the digital version freely accessible in his site, this book as a hardbound version with color figures is definitely indispensable for every computer vision student and researcher. After Horn's landmark book, this book is here to stay as the premier computer vision book for years to come. I have started recommending this book for all the undergraduate and graduate students in my lab and I am planning to order a hardbound version for my personal bookshelf.
I strongly recommend this book for every computer vision enthusiast and I definitely feel that this book has the best content to interest people working in different areas of computer vision either in industry or academia. This book is surely the best book to learn computer vision at this point of time.

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Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS: A User's Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)the book not only have informations about SGeMS, but also explains what is behind the algorithm.

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Applied Survey Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences) Review

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(More customer reviews)Applied Survey Data Analysis (ASDA) is a crystal-clear survey of modern techniques for analyzing complex survey data. Note the word "analyzing". This is not a text on sampling methods per se. Rather, it is a guide to using existing data sets that result from a complex survey design that employs weighting, clustering, and stratification. The authors demonstrate how a correct analysis should be undertaken. In doing so, they review descriptive statistics, categorical methods, regression analysis (linear and logistic), survival analysis, and multiple imputation. Most examples use Stata, but some are in SAS.
The level of mathematical sophistication is not high, although "theory boxes" are interspersed to add additional detail. Anyone who is challenged by the mathematical level of this book probably should not be working with survey data in the first place.
In sum, this is an important -- and very well written -- contribution to the literature on survey data analysis.

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Taking a practical approach that draws on the authors' extensive teaching, consulting, and research experiences, Applied Survey Data Analysis provides an intermediate-level statistical overview of the analysis of complex sample survey data. It emphasizes methods and worked examples using available software procedures while reinforcing the principles and theory that underlie those methods.After introducing a step-by-step process for approaching a survey analysis problem, the book presents the fundamental features of complex sample designs and shows how to integrate design characteristics into the statistical methods and software for survey estimation and inference. The authors then focus on the methods and models used in analyzing continuous, categorical, and count-dependent variables; event history; and missing data problems. Some of the techniques discussed include univariate descriptive and simple bivariate analyses, the linear regression model, generalized linear regression modeling methods, the Cox proportional hazards model, discrete time models, and the multiple imputation analysis method. The final chapter covers new developments in survey applications of advanced statistical techniques, including model-based analysis approaches.Designed for readers working in a wide array of disciplines who use survey data in their work, this book also provides a useful framework for integrating more in-depth studies of the theory and methods of survey data analysis. A guide to the applied statistical analysis and interpretation of survey data, it contains many examples and practical exercises based on major real-world survey data sets. Although the authors use Stata for most examples in the text, they offer SAS, SPSS, SUDAAN, R, WesVar, IVEware, and Mplus software code for replicating the examples on the book's website: http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/smp/asda/

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Fundamentals of Geographical Information Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)I really enjoyed this book that I used in conjunction with a university summer course. I thought it was very well written and informative. The only drawback is that it is not written for any specific GIS software (e.g. ArcGIS) so it has to be very general and unbiased in its explanation of concepts.

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Balancing Act: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Balancing Act is the story of Justin, a young man from Jamaica, and his control freak girlfriend, Tasha who goes ballistic when he decides to leave her when he discovers his true sexuality. The book is fairly short and easy to read. There's lots of telling and not much showing -- so the book definitely could have been enhanced by more action and dialogue. Nevertheless, it is an interesting read about the perils of success, love, sex, and the modeling industry, and seeing how Justin handles his desire to break away from Tasha. Admittedly, while reading the book you will probably wonder which parts are from JP's real life. And if you let your mind use its imagination, it enhances the novel and makes it seem juicy -- and somewhat fun. I didn't give it 5 stars only because we are told a lot about what's happening instead of seeing for ourselves how the characters are. Other than that, it's a good read.

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Jonathan Plummer made headlines when New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan -- whose novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back is based on their romance -- filed for divorce, claiming that Plummer hid his homosexuality in order to marry her for her money and gain U.S. citizenship. Now Plummer delivers a sexy and satisfying novel as deliciously racy as the life he lived.Justin Blakeman is living an ordinary life in Jamaica when vacationing Tasha Reynolds spots him selling sugar cane on the street. He, of course, has no idea that her modeling agency is fast becoming the hottest in the business. He plans to live the island life set out for him, stepping up to head the family sugar cane enterprise in time.In the ruthless modeling world, Tasha is a great white shark with an uncanny knack for finding blazing new talent in unusual places. She always gets what she wants and she wants Justin -- whose hazel-green eyes, offset by dark chocolate skin, make her palms sweat, a sign that she is on to something. His perfect body and defiant attitude will make him a megastar.But soon, a relationship that began as strictly business crosses the line into a complex game of sexual desire and control. Their crazy, volatile bond -- littered with dark influences from their pasts, complicated by ambition, and fueled by insatiable passion -- is as combustible as relationships can get. And when Justin discovers a hidden hunger for a male model, the stakes are higher than ever.

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Modelling Financial Times Series Review

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(More customer reviews)The first edition was published in 1986. It is EXCELLENT. Taylor rigorously studies the use of nonlinear time-series (Box-Jenkins) methods to trade a variety of financial markets, including individual stocks, stock indices, currencies, metals, and agricultural commodities, finding that there is a small trend component in most markets that can be profitably traded. Taylor performed testing of time series back in the early 1980s, when computer power and financial data was much scarcer and more expensive. I am excited to see what he has come up with, now that computers and data are a zillion times cheaper.

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Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text Review

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(More customer reviews)When Kleinbaum entitles his book "a self-learning text", this is TRUE ! I'm sure anyone can learn logistic regression with this book. It is cristal-clear, very progressive, with real-data examples... If the best teachers are those who make you feel you're intelligent, certainly the author must be a good teacher... because his book is ! I do recommend it warmly to anyone who has to teach (like me) or learn logistic regression.

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This is the second edition of this text on logistic regression methods. As in the first edition, each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in "lecture-book" format together with objectives, an outline, key formulae, practice exercises, and a test. The "lecture-book" has a sequence of illustrations and formulae in the left column of each page and a script (i.e., text) in the right column. This format allows you to read the script in conjunction with the illustrations and formulae that highlight the main points, formulae, or examples being presented. This second edition includes five new chapters and an appendix. The new chapters are: Chapter 9. Polytomous Logistic Regression Chapter 10. Ordinal Logistic Regression Chapter 11. Logistic Regression for Correlated Data Chapter 12. GEE Examples Chapter 13. Other Approaches for Analysis of Correlated Data Chapters 9 and 10 extend logistic regression to response variables that have more than two categories. Chapters 11-13 extend logistic regression to generalized estimating equations (GEE) and other methods for analyzing correlated response data. The appendix "Computer Programs for Logistic Regression" provides descriptions and examples of computer programs for carrying out the variety of logistic regression procedures described in the main text. The software packages considered are SAS Version 8.0, SPSS Version 10.0 and STATA Version 7.0.

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Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent, approachable read for any risk manager; understanding its examples requires only elementary probability, statistics and calculus, though the foundations are much deeper. The author uses direct language, and does not hesitate to declare a fashionable risk analysis technique "worse than useless." The author shows how not to do risk analysis, using simple but devastating examples to illustrate the weaknesses of prioritized investments, subject matter expert opinion, risk matrices and qualitative risk assessments, and the independence assumption. Then, case studies present constructive examples of good practice. Refreshingly, this text clearly distinguishes between threats from Mother Nature, and those posed by an intelligent adversary. There is unevenness, because this is an edited ensemble of papers originally published in a variety of technical journals; however, this is also a strength, because the appeal and scholarship underlying biological, engineering, and social science examples is broad. This is not a how-to guide, and won't help fill in a blank page risk analysis; however, this is an excellent source for the skeptical consumer of contemporary risk management advice and products, and hopefully will have some influence with policy makers who are the source of simplistic and dangerous guidance.

Gerald G. Brown
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In Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems acknowledged risk authority Tony Cox shows all risk practitioners how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can be used to improve risk management decisions and policies. It develops and illustrates QRA methods for complex and uncertain biological, engineering, and social systems - systems that have behaviors that are just too complex to be modeled accurately in detail with high confidence - and shows how they can be applied to applications including assessing and managing risks from chemical carcinogens, antibiotic resistance, mad cow disease, terrorist attacks, and accidental or deliberate failures in telecommunications network infrastructure. This book was written for a broad range of practitioners, including decision risk analysts, operations researchers and management scientists, quantitative policy analysts, economists, health and safety risk assessors, engineers, and modelers.

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Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure (Getty) Review

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(More customer reviews)What a gem this is. Wax anatomical models seem to be hugely fashionable right now, with the "Exquisite Bodies" exhibition having been held in London from June to October this year (2009), and this is THE book that contextualizes wax sculpture: whether anatomical, devotional, or for entertainment. The book is weighty and solid, making it a tactile joy to hold and read. It's printed on beautiful weight paper with lovely quality of images. All sections are lavishly footnoted for further reading. The sections are:
Compelling Presence: Wax Effigies in Renaissance Florence, by Roberta Panzanelli
Wax Fibers, Wax Bodies, and Moving Figures: Artifice and Nature in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy, by Joan B Landes
Almost Alive: The Spectacle of Verisimilitude in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, by Uta Kornmeier
On Waxes and Wombs: Eighteenth-Century Representations of the Gravid Uterus, by Lyle Massey
Wax Tokens of Libido: William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight, and the Phalli of Isernia, by Whitney Davis
Fleeting Revelations: The Demise of Duration in Medardo Rosso's Wax Sculpture, by Sharon Hecker
Viscosities and Survivals: Art History Put to the Test by the Material, by Georges Didi-Huberman
and an appendix on the history of portraiture in wax, by Julius von Schlosser (for an appendix this is large and comprehensive: 4 chapters, 143 pages)
The book contains images which the casual reader might find disturbing, particularly the chapter on anatomical representations of fetuses and wombs, but the book is never prurient or exploitative. It is a scholarly examination of the different ways wax representations of the human form have been considered by different cultures. It is also an interesting look at the reason polychromatic sculpture became "anchored in art practice for millennia yet confined to the margins of art history...'disreputable' for many scholars" (p. 1).
Recommended for anyone interested in art and art history, or just having an eclectic sense of the beautiful.

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Financial Modelling with Jump Processes (Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)A book dealing comprehensively with discontinuous asset prices has long been overdue. This is a first attempt to fill the gap in a manner both rigorous and accessible. The reason why it has taken so long for a book of this kind to appear is that price jumps give rise to a host of issues that are simply not present in continuous models such as Black-Scholes. The authors tackle most of them admirably. The book also contains valuable comprehensive bibliography.
Every pioneer can make a mistake. The authors do not shy away from very complicated questions, such as (locally) optimal hedging in the presence of jumps. I'm afraid they haven't done their homework properly in this case. They claim on page 339 "the minimal martingale measure preserves orthogonality", which happens to be true for continuous price processes but it is false in most models with jumps. Pages 340 and 341 go on to compute the locally risk minimizing hedging coefficients based on the false premise. I hope this can be fixed in the next edition.


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WINNER of a Riskbook.com Best of 2004 Book Award!During the last decade, financial models based on jump processes have acquired increasing popularity in risk management and option pricing. Much has been published on the subject, but the technical nature of most papers makes them difficult for nonspecialists to understand, and the mathematical tools required for applications can be intimidating. Potential users often get the impression that jump and Lévy processes are beyond their reach.Financial Modelling with Jump Processes shows that this is not so. It provides a self-contained overview of the theoretical, numerical, and empirical aspects involved in using jump processes in financial modelling, and it does so in terms within the grasp of nonspecialists. The introduction of new mathematical tools is motivated by their use in the modelling process, and precise mathematical statements ofresults are accompanied by intuitive explanations. Topics covered in this book include: jump-diffusion models, Lévy processes, stochastic calculus for jump processes, pricing and hedging in incomplete markets, implied volatility smiles, time-inhomogeneous jump processes and stochastic volatility models with jumps. The authors illustrate the mathematical concepts with many numerical and empirical examples and provide the details of numerical implementation of pricing and calibration algorithms. This book demonstrates that the concepts and tools necessary for understanding and implementing models with jumps can be moreintuitive that those involved in the Black Scholes and diffusion models. If you have even a basic familiarity with quantitative methods in finance, Financial Modelling with Jump Processes will give you a valuable new set of tools for modelling market fluctuations.

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Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice is a landmark text that will become an essental introduction to the discipline of software systems architecture. If you are a student, tester, manager, methodologist, developer, or simply an architect, and want a holistic understanding of what real software architects think software architecture is and why it matters, this is the place to start.
I bought this after Roy Fielding (of REST and HTTP fame) mentioned it on the rest-discuss mailing list. Roy is one of the industry's top architects, and I wasn't disappointed. The book is timely - architecture is coming to be accepted as an important activity, especially for distributed, and large scale systems. What many people don't realize is that drawing pictures, writing documents no-one reads, meta-modeling, and pontificating on "concerns" are not software architecture. Software architecture is about introducing constraints via principled, objective design to achieve particular system properties. Architecture is difficult and exhausting work, but done well can offer immense value to users and stakeholders. This book, along with Rozanski and Woods' "Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives" makes that explicit.
The book is unapologetic about software architecture's standing in the industry. SAFTAP positions architecture as the primary design activity for software - not development, not requirements analysis, not testing, not methodology, but architecture. That will make for interesting debate.
My single criticism of this book is that it does not do enough to treat user experience (Ux) and informatics as architecturally significant, but not enough to take away a star. I'm hoping a future edition will rectify that.
Some noteworthy chapters in the book (there are 17 chapters in all):
* The Big Idea: explains what architecture is and why it matters. The building metaphor (often heavily criticised in the industry, see the excellent "Software is not Bricks" by Raganwald) is dealt with calmly and then put to one side.
* Architecture in Context: explains how architecture fits into the overall lifecycle and process of software systems.
* Connectors: this is one of my favourite chapters. The concept of a connector is vital to a software system, but is rarely if ever discussed in programming or engineering texts.
* Modeling: probably not what you think. This chapter emphasizes communication, clarity and disambiguation over notations and diagrams.
* Implementation: programmers hate the quip "implementation detail", but in truth many things in a system are just that and it does not mean they are unimportant. This chapter covers those details and why they matter.
* Deployment and Mobility: good architects understand that a systems have a life well beyond initial delivery, which is where most developers, managers and stakeholders tend to focus attention. This was one of favorite sections as the running system simply doesn't get enough attention in most projects today.
* Applied architecture and Styles: covers some examples of architectural styles, notably REST and SOA, which are certainly the best known architectures in my part of the industry.
* Designing for non-functional properties: many non-functional concerns don't start to matter until the system is deployed and there isn't always agreement among technical specialists over what's truly important. If you are technical specialist this should help you articulate the cost/benefit of looking at the "unfeatures" of a system.
* Security and Trust: software is increasingly distributed, and increasingly a super-system of components interacting over the Internet and Mobile Networks. So it's good to see a text that makes security a first order concern and not just a non-functional ones.
* Domain Specific Software Engineering: I'm trained as an industrial designer where the notion of common modular components with standard interfaces acting as a platform for product development is a known Good Thing in domains such as the automotive and consumer electronics industries. This chapter gives a good overview of modular design focusing on the software product lines approach. The example given is from Philips, but it could as easily have been from Toyota.
* People, Roles and Teams: software architecture, like other architecture disciplines, has a strong social dimension. This chapter explains how the architect role fits into an organisation and where they can add value and exert influence.

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Risk Management: Approaches for Fixed Income Markets Review

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(More customer reviews)A very interesting book covering most modern issues in Fixed Income risk management. This book represents a rich experience that the authors got in finance and especially in mamanging risk of bond (and similar instruments) portfolio.
I especiallly like the expalnations of partial duration and key rate versus principal components analisys.
The book is technical and oriented towards people implementing modern risk management based on the P&L probability distribution.
I have also learned a few interesting ways of how to communicate quantative results of risk analysis to portfolio managers.
Monte Carlo methods are explained in brief and probably will not satisfy an experience user.
Various option adjusted spread methods are explained very nicely. Benchmark approach is another topic that is well expalined in this book.
I am going to use this book for teaching a Risk Management course (MBA).

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Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Statistics for Biology and Health) Review

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(More customer reviews)The authors of this text are a demographer a mathematical physicist and an internal diseases MD. none are professional statisticians but they all have a good understand of mathematics and survival analysis and more importantly each has knowledge about cancer from different perspectives. The theme of the book is that conquering cancer requires an interdisciplinary approach because cancers are complicated diseases and the understanding requires stochastic models and real data. Data on cancer come from many sources. There is the laboratory experiments on cells and animals (often mice), the genetic aspects, the epidemiologic viewpoint and more. The authors know that breakthroughs are occurring on all levels but what has held things back in the compartmentalization of study disciplines and their unique jargon. This creates poor communication and makes it difficult to share results and synthesize results. But a multidisciplinary approach where everyone sheds their jargon and works together to understand what the other person is doing is the efficient way top attain success. I believe this has been proven over and over again in times of war when efficiency becomes a necessity. The Manhattan project with the scientists from various disciplines coming together at Los Alamos under the leadership of J.Robert Oppenheimer is the reason we developed the bomb ahead of Germany and Russia and in time to end the war with Japan.
This book is a compendium of hitory and methods in the fight against cancer and it provides in one source the detailed research from multiple disciplines To model and understand the various types of cancers and their similarities and differences. This is particularly exemplified in chapter 7. Each chapter has an extensive list of references. As the publisher states this book is the first of its kind to describe the interdisciplinary approach in biomedical studies. I agree with that and hope that there will be more to come like this.


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Automatic Control Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)I had to use this book for my last semester in electrical engineering. It is really interesting, well explained and complete for a concise introduction about control engineering and design of controllers.
All you need to follow the text are basic notions in engineer's mathematics (a bit of calculus and algebra). A few chapters offer reviews of important notions (transfert functions, state variable modeling, differential equations, ...) Then, you get to the essential, control theory.
The book is well divided. First chapters cover mathematical notions you have to master in order to succeed in the next part (signal flow diagrams, block diagrams, a bit of mechanic). Then, a few chapters introduce control loops, poles and zeros interpretation (explained very well with a lot of graphs examples). A single chapter covers root loci drawing. Great explanations about controllers are complete and easy to understand. The last chapter is kept for design only with A LOT of examples for PID, phase-lag, filters, etc.
Emphasis is made on computer design with examples all along the book. The CD included offers a few useful tools to use for design with Matlab.
The author knows his subject more than anyone else. He has good experience in design and the text is well written. A must for anyone studying the subject.

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Automatic Control Systems provides engineers with a fresh new controls book that places special emphasis on mechatronics. It follows a revolutionary approach by actually including a physical lab. In addition, readers will find authoritative coverage of modern design tools and examples. Current mechatronics applications build motivation to learn the material. Extensive use of virtual lab software is also integrated throughout the chapters. Engineers will gain a strong understand of control systems with the help of modern examples and exercises.

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Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women Review

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(More customer reviews)This book does exactly what the title says, it reveals the ugly side of the modeling business. However, it is an older book so you won't hear any recent names. There is another book out there, "Shut up and Smile" that covers more recent models. But the writing from that book is no comparison to this one. This book is by someone that knows how to write and the stories are very in-depth which can only make the book better. The pictures are also better in this book.

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