One summer's morning Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband, only to look out onan empty bed.It's been years sinceVic moved north and left her life, but her house holds memories and part of her remains tied to a different time.
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Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, we meet the nine-year-old narrator as he flees the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown. Next he is a teenager with a growing criminal record, taking his grandparents for a Sunday drive.
'Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?' This question leads to thirty years of discoveries, extraordinary strengths and closely guarded secrets. 'To tell you the narrative concens a family whose members have superpowers is only to graze the surface of a moving and beautifully realised meditation on what it is to be an ordinary human being'Australian 'A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic... Like a cross between The Corrections and The Slap' Sydney Morning Herald SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 ENCORE AWARD
Over the past decade, there has been rapid growth in bioengineering applications in the field of spine implants. Spine Technology Handbook explains the technical foundation for understanding and expanding the field of spine implants, reviews the major established technologies related to spine implants, and provides reference material for developing and commercializing new spine implants. The editors, who have a track record of collaboration and editing technical books, provide a unified approach to this topic in the most comprehensive and useful book to date.
Managing Relationships with Industry
Steven C. Schachter; William Mandell; Scott Harshbarger; Randall Grometstein
Academic Press Inc
2008
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Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies. With reputations at stake and the risk of civil and criminal liability, it is incumbent upon doctors to protect themselves. Managing Relationships with Industry: A Physician’s Compliance Manual is an indispensable resource for doctors, professional societies, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and group practices struggling to understand the ever changing law and ethical standards on interactions with pharmaceutical and device companies. It is the first comprehensive summary of the law and ethics on physician relationships with industry written for the physician. Authored by a former state Attorney General, Harvard Medical School Professor, health care lawyer and professor of ethics, Managing Relationships approaches the topic from a balanced and reasoned perspective adding to the on-going national dialogue and debate on the proper limits to medicine’s relationship with industry.
Differential forms are a powerful mathematical technique to help students, researchers, and engineers solve problems in geometry and analysis, and their applications. They both unify and simplify results in concrete settings, and allow them to be clearly and effectively generalized to more abstract settings. Differential Forms has gained high recognition in the mathematical and scientific community as a powerful computational tool in solving research problems and simplifying very abstract problems. Differential Forms, Second Edition, is a solid resource for students and professionals needing a general understanding of the mathematical theory and to be able to apply that theory into practice.
Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems offers a systems approach to learning how to understand and address some of the major complex issues that have emerged in the food industry. The book is broad in coverage and provides a foundation for a practical understanding in food safety initiatives and safety rules, how to deal with whole-chain traceability issues, handling complex computer systems and data, foodborne pathogen detection, production and processing compliance issues, safety education, and more. Recent scientific industry developments are written by experts in the field and explained in a manner to improve awareness, education and communication of these issues.
The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: The Institutional Challenge to Improve Health and Well-Being in Healthcare’s Changing Landscape presents the direct knowledge and vision of accomplished academic leaders whose unique positions as managers of some of the most complex academic and business enterprises make them expert contributors. Users will find invaluable insights and leadership perspectives on healthcare, health professions education, and bio-medical and clinical research that systematically explores the evolving role of global academic health centers with an eye focused on the transformation necessary to be successful in challenging environments. The book is divided into five sections moving from the broad perspective of the role of academic health centers to the role of education, training, and disruptive technologies. It then addresses the discovery processes, improving funding models, and research efficiency. Subsequent sections address the coming changes in healthcare delivery and future perspectives, providing a complete picture of the needs of the growing and influential healthcare sector.
How to Validate a Pharmaceutical Process provides a “how to? approach to developing and implementing a sustainable pharmaceutical process validation program. The latest volume in the Expertise in Pharmaceutical Process Technology Series, this book illustrates the methods and reasoning behind processes and protocols. It also addresses practical problems and offers solutions to qualify and validate a pharmaceutical process. Understanding the “why? is critical to a successful and defensible process validation, making this book an essential research companion for all practitioners engaged in pharmaceutical process validation.
Data Assimilation for the Geosciences
Steven J. Fletcher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
2017
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Data Assimilation for the Geosciences: From Theory to Application brings together all of the mathematical,statistical, and probability background knowledge needed to formulate data assimilation systems in one place. It includes practical exercises for understanding theoretical formulation and presents some aspects of coding the theory with a toy problem. The book also demonstrates how data assimilation systems are implemented in larger scale fluid dynamical problems related to the atmosphere, oceans, as well as the land surface and other geophysical situations. It offers a comprehensive presentation of the subject, from basic principles to advanced methods, such as Particle Filters and Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods. Additionally, Data Assimilation for the Geosciences: From Theory to Application covers the applications of data assimilation techniques in various disciplines of the geosciences, making the book useful to students, teachers, and research scientists.
Notes in the Category C: Reflections on Laboratory Animal Care and Use addresses how to improve laboratory animal care and use, also characterizing the current state of the industry and speculating on its long-term future. It offers analysis from a professional who has spent a lot of time in the trenches, also highlighting new approaches to produce further advances in the field. As the proper care and use of lab animals is critically important to scientists and those who depend on data generated from those animals, this comprehensive book is an ideal resource on the topic. Physicians, patients and their families, consumers, federal and non-profit research funding entities, health advocacy organizations, the FDA, EPA, regulatory approval agencies, and companies that invest billions in R&D to create new diagnostics, drugs, vaccines and medical devices will find this an informative addition for their work.
Meta-Analytics: Consensus Approaches and System Patterns for Data Analysis presents an exhaustive set of patterns for data science to use on any machine learning based data analysis task. The book virtually ensures that at least one pattern will lead to better overall system behavior than the use of traditional analytics approaches. The book is ‘meta’ to analytics, covering general analytics in sufficient detail for readers to engage with, and understand, hybrid or meta- approaches. The book has relevance to machine translation, robotics, biological and social sciences, medical and healthcare informatics, economics, business and finance. Inn addition, the analytics within can be applied to predictive algorithms for everyone from police departments to sports analysts.
The Science of Animal Growth and Meat Technology
Steven M. Lonergan; David G. Topel; Dennis N. Marple
Academic Press Inc
2018
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The Science of Animal Growth and Meat Technology, Second Edition, combines fundamental science- based and applied, practical concepts relating to the prenatal and postnatal growth of cattle, sheep and pigs. It provides the necessary components to understand the production and growth of livestock for safe and quality meat products and presents an understanding of the principles of meat science and technology that is needed to understand the meat industry. Information on the slaughter process of animals, muscle structure and meat tenderness, meat quality, meat safety, and microbiology makes this a valuable self-study reference for students and professionals entering the field.
Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their Applications in Geoscience
Steven James Fletcher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
2019
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Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their Applications in Geoscience provides a much-needed resource on semi-Lagrangian theory, methods, and applications. Covering a variety of applications, the book brings together developments of the semi-Lagrangian in one place and offers a comparison of semi-Lagrangian methods with Eulerian-based approaches. It also includes a chapter dedicated to difficulties of dealing with the adjoint of semi-Lagrangian methods and illustrates the behavior of different schemes for different applications. This allows for a better understanding of which schemes are most efficient, stable, consistent, and likely to introduce the minimum model error into a given problem. Beneficial for students learning about numerical approximations to advection, researchers applying these techniques to geoscientific modeling, and practitioners looking for the best approach for modeling, Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their Applications in Geoscience fills a crucial gap in numerical modeling and data assimilation in geoscience.
Equipment Qualification in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Steven Ostrove
Academic Press Inc
2019
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Equipment Qualification in the Pharmaceutical Industry provides guidance and basic information for the preparation of a quality qualification program. It has been noted that there is a general lack of understanding in the industry, especially for those new to the industry, as to what constitutes a compliant qualification program. Even experienced professionals have felt a lack of security in reaching a compliant state. This book outlines a guideline for the preparation and execution of qualification protocols including the installation (IQ), operational (OQ), and performance (PQ) protocols. It discusses the importance of related qualification programs (e.g., quality systems, commissioning, computer system, and cleaning) and how to incorporate them into a fully compliant qualification program. Furthermore, it provides matrices of what could be included in each type of protocol for major types of process equipment. While primarily for people entering the pharmaceutical industry, those established in the field will benefit from the multiple examples and matrices as well as integration of related systems. Equipment Qualification in the Pharmaceutical Industry provides students and pharmaceutical scientists a guideline for the preparation and execution of qualification (installation, operational, and performance) protocols.
VE SIDE BY SIDE 3E PLACEM TEST VOIR 471273 027002
Steven Molinsky; Bill Bliss
Pearson Education (US)
2003
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The Side by Side Testing Program consists of a placement test and individual chapter tests, mid-book tests, and final tests for each level of the program. Side by Side Plus is a standards-based and grammar-based English language program for adult and young-adult learners, The program builds students’ general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work.
VE SIDE BY SIDE 4 3E WORKBOOK VOIR 245991 040640
Steven Molinsky; Bill Bliss
Pearson Education (US)
2006
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The Side by Side Activity and Test Prep Workbook feature: •All-skills activities reinforce learning objectives in the Student Books •GrammarRaps motivate learners and promote language mastery through entertaining practice with rhythm, stress, and intonation. •Unit Achievement Tests assess student progress and prepare students for standardized tests. Side by Side Plus is a standards-based and grammar-based English language program for adult and young-adult learners, The program builds students’ general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work.
VE SIDE BY SIDE 1 INTER WKBK A VOIR 246006 110761
Steven Molinsky; Bill Bliss
PEARSON EDUCATION (US)
2003
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Side bySide Interactive is a two-level multimedia software program designed to put students in control of their language learning through CD-ROM technology. The program combines interactive video, audio, graphics, and text to provide students with powerful learning tools and abundant exercises and activities for effective language instruction that is individualized, self-paced, easy-to-use, and fun! An innovative video player enables students to control and interact with entertaining video material, including comedy sketches, interviews, rap numbers, and music videos. A record and compare function allows students to record their own voices and then compare with the video. Video-based activities make language practice come alive as students interact with video clips in a variety of exercises. Comprehensive text-based activities offer extensive vocabulary, grammar, and reading practice. Writing activities include instant-feedback keyboarding practice, video dictations, short-answer exercises, and open-ended questions that prompt students to share their own backgrounds and ideas. Games provide motivating self-paced practice to develop students’ vocabulary. GrammarToon computer animations focus on key language structures through entertaining cartoons. Lifeskills and civics lessons integrate language competencies required by adult education curriculum standards. Check-Up tests offer students instant feedback and valuable test-prep practice. System Requirements FOR WINDOWS Intel Pentium processor-minimum 200 MHz Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP 64 MB RAM minimum CD-ROM drive (12x or faster) SVGA monitor capable of supporting 800 x 600 resolution at 16-bit Sound card/speakers/microphone QuickTime 5.0 or higher FOR MACINTOSH PowerPC processor-minimum 200 MHz Mac OS 8.1, 8.5, 9.0, 9.2 64 MB free RAM minimum CD-ROM drive (12x or faster) SVGA monitor capable of supporting 800 x 600 resolution at 16-bit Virtual memory should be turned on Microphone QuickTime 5.0 or higher
Word By Word International Student Book
Steven Molinsky; Bill Bliss
Pearson Education (US)
2006
nidottu
Program Highlights More than 4,000 vocabulary words are presented through vibrant illustrations and easy-to-use lessons. Extensive coverage of important lifeskill competencies meets standards-based curriculum objectives. A careful research-based sequence of lessons integrates development of grammar and vocabulary skills. Expanded discussion questions encourage students to share their backgrounds, experiences, and opinions. New WordSongs Music CD included with dictionary extends learning outside the classroom through motivating musical practice. New bilingual editions for speakers of Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Haitian Kreyol, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese Teacher’s Guide and Lesson Planner with CD-ROM saves countless hours of planning, with instructional support materials in two convenient formats – as reproducible masters and on a CD-ROM.