“…All of these elements are reshaping the various activities such as workflow and processes of hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and patient analytics, including hot spotting, risk stratification, and treatment effectiveness. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Feedback Is Always Personal -- 3 Receiving Feedback: Tough Skin, Tough Love, or Tough -- Face Your Anxieties -- Learn the Levels of Feedback -- Manage Feedback Before You Burn Out -- 4 Giving Feedback -- Polish the Idea to Make It Shine -- Improve through Process -- Editing Is Not Creating -- Take a Hot Minute and Reflect -- 5 Taste Is an Unconscious Bias -- Feedback Is a Personal Opinion of Quality -- Risk Avoidance Can Be an Unconscious Bias -- Use Taste to Be Inclusive -- 6 Feedback Styles -- The Eight Review Styles -- When Styles Meet -- It's Part of Who You Are -- 7 Kind Collaborator -- Attributes of the Kind Collaborator -- How to Manage a Kind Collaborator -- How to Become a Kind Collaborator -- 8 Perfect Pass‐Through -- Attributes of a Perfect Pass‐Through -- Why a Perfect Pass‐Through Is Dangerous -- How to Manage a Perfect Pass‐Through -- What to Do If You Are a Perfect Pass‐Through -- 9 Vague Vocalist -- Attributes of the Vague Vocalist -- Why the Vague Vocalist Is Dangerous -- How to Manage a Vague Vocalist -- What to Do If You Are a Vague Vocalist -- 10 Land Mine -- Attributes of a Land Mine -- Why a Land Mine Is Dangerous -- How to Manage a Land Mine -- What to Do If You Are a Land Mine -- 11 Silent but Deadly -- Attributes of a Silent but Deadly -- Why a Silent but Deadly Is Dangerous -- How to Manage a Silent but Deadly -- What to Do If You Are a Silent but Deadly…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Preamble; 1.2 Nanofibres; 1.3 Key concepts in drug delivery; 1.3.1 The therapeutic window and bioavailability; 1.3.2 Modified-release systems; 1.3.3 Dissolution, solubility and permeability; 1.3.4 Physical form; 1.4 Nanofibre characterisation; 1.4.1 Electron microscopy; 1.4.2 X-ray diffraction; 1.4.3 Thermal methods; 1.4.4 Infrared spectroscopy; 1.4.5 Functional performance; 1.4.5.1 Dissolution and permeability testing; 1.4.5.2 API quantification 1.4.6 Stability studies1.5 An overview of contemporary pharmaceutical technology; 1.5.1 Hot melt extrusion; 1.5.2 Spray drying; 1.5.3 Freeze drying; 1.5.4 Nanofibre manufacturing; 1.6 Summary; References; 2 Electrospinning fundamentals; 2.1 Background; 2.2 A brief history of electrospinning; 2.3 EHD fundamentals; 2.4 Understanding the electrospinning process; 2.4.1 Jet initiation; 2.4.2 Electrospinning vs. electrospraying; 2.4.3 Jet elongation: bending and whipping; 2.4.4 Jet solidification; 2.5 The parameters affecting electrospinning; 2.5.1 Solution parameters; 2.5.2 Processing parameters 2.5.3 Environmental parameters2.5.4 Solvent and polymer selection; 2.6 The experimental set-up; 2.6.1 Basics; 2.6.2 The power supply and syringe pump; 2.6.3 The spinneret; 2.6.4 The collector; 2.6.5 Other considerations; 2.6.6 Establishing and troubleshooting an electrospinning process; 2.7 Fibre properties; 2.8 Characterisation; 2.9 Summary; References; 3 Monoaxial electrospinning; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Experimental considerations; 3.2.1 Solution parameters; 3.2.2 Processing parameters; 3.2.3 The spinneret; 3.2.4 Polymer choice; 3.2.5 Starting experimental work; 3.3 Fibre properties 3.4 Some typical results3.5 Fast-dissolving drug delivery systems; 3.5.1 Electrospun fast-dissolving drug delivery systems; 3.5.2 Caveats; 3.5.3 Multicomponent formulations; 3.5.4 Stability; 3.6 Extended-release systems; 3.6.1 Applications; 3.6.2 Drawbacks and release mechanisms; 3.7 pH-controlled delivery; 3.7.1 Oral administration; 3.7.2 Anticancer applications; 3.8 Pulsatile release; 3.9 Multilayer materials; 3.10 Thermoresponsive systems; 3.11 Emulsion and suspension electrospinning; 3.11.1 Emulsions; 3.11.2 Suspensions; 3.12 Tissue-engineering applications 3.13 Using fibres as sacrificial templates3.14 Conclusions; References; 4 Coaxial and multi-axial electrospinning; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Experimental considerations; 4.2.1 Handling two liquids; 4.2.2 The spinneret and electrodes; 4.2.3 Establishing a coaxial process; 4.3 Extended-release systems; 4.3.1 Preventing burst release; 4.3.2 Biphasic release; 4.4 Targeted drug delivery; 4.5 Multifunctional materials; 4.6 Other applications; 4.7 Protein delivery systems; 4.8 Cell electrospinning; 4.9 Modified coaxial spinning; 4.10 Triaxial and quad-axial systems; 4.11 Conclusions; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.8 Tensor metadata: Size, offset, and stride -- 3.8.1 Views of another tensor's storage -- 3.8.2 Transposing without copying -- 3.8.3 Transposing in higher dimensions -- 3.8.4 Contiguous tensors -- 3.9 Moving tensors to the GPU -- 3.9.1 Managing a tensor's device attribute -- 3.10 NumPy interoperability -- 3.11 Generalized tensors are tensors, too -- 3.12 Serializing tensors -- 3.12.1 Serializing to HDF5 with h5py -- 3.13 Conclusion -- 3.14 Exercises -- 3.15 Summary -- 4 Real-world data representation using tensors -- 4.1 Working with images -- 4.1.1 Adding color channels -- 4.1.2 Loading an image file -- 4.1.3 Changing the layout -- 4.1.4 Normalizing the data -- 4.2 3D images: Volumetric data -- 4.2.1 Loading a specialized format -- 4.3 Representing tabular data -- 4.3.1 Using a real-world dataset -- 4.3.2 Loading a wine data tensor -- 4.3.3 Representing scores -- 4.3.4 One-hot encoding -- 4.3.5 When to categorize -- 4.3.6 Finding thresholds -- 4.4 Working with time series -- 4.4.1 Adding a time dimension -- 4.4.2 Shaping the data by time period -- 4.4.3 Ready for training -- 4.5 Representing text -- 4.5.1 Converting text to numbers -- 4.5.2 One-hot-encoding characters -- 4.5.3 One-hot encoding whole words -- 4.5.4 Text embeddings -- 4.5.5 Text embeddings as a blueprint -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 Exercises -- 4.8 Summary -- 5 The mechanics of learning -- 5.1 A timeless lesson in modeling -- 5.2 Learning is just parameter estimation -- 5.2.1 A hot problem -- 5.2.2 Gathering some data -- 5.2.3 Visualizing the data -- 5.2.4 Choosing a linear model as a first try -- 5.3 Less loss is what we want -- 5.3.1 From problem back to PyTorch -- 5.4 Down along the gradient -- 5.4.1 Decreasing loss -- 5.4.2 Getting analytical -- 5.4.3 Iterating to fit the model -- 5.4.4 Normalizing inputs -- 5.4.5 Visualizing (again)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Table of Contents -- PLANAR FAULTING -- Diffraction analysis of layer disorder / Peculiarities of the X-ray diffraction of oxygen-deficient perovskite-related materials with partial vacancy ordering / NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS -- Interference phenomena in nanocrystalline materials and their application in the microstructure analysis / Optimisation of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging at ultrabright synchrotron sources / Capacitor discharge sintering of nanocrystalline copper / Microstructure study on BN nanocomposites using XRD and HRTEM / PLASTIC DEFORMATION -- Impact of dislocation cell elastic strain variations on line profiles from deformed copper / Determination of stored elastic energy in plastically deformed copper / Structural studies of submicrocrystalline copper and copper composites by different methods / Grain stresses and elastic energy in ferritic steel under uniaxial load / Stress and hardness in surface layers of shot-peened steels / LINE BROADENING ANALYSIS; DETERMINATION OF CRYSTALLITE SIZE AND MICROSTRAIN -- The "state of the art" of the diffraction analysis of crystallite size and lattice strain / Recent advancements in Whole Powder Pattern Modelling / On the simulation of the anisotropic peak broadening in powder diffraction / XRD and FTIR characterization of nanocrystalline YVO4: Eu derived by coprecipitation process / Cumulants and moments in the line profile analysis / X-ray line-broadening analysis of dislocations in a single crystal of Zr / XRD line profile analysis of calcite powders produced by high energy milling / Refining real structure parameters of disordered layer structures within the Rietveld method / Microstructural characterisation of Cr-Al-N nanocomposites deposited by cathodic arc evaporation / MATERIALS MICROSTRUCTURE -- Characterization of hot wall grown N-9-anthracenylidene-1-anthramine films / Structural and optical properties of AgInSe2 films / In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of formation mechanism of Rh0.33Re0.67 nanoalloy powder upon thermal decomposition of complex precursor / Crystallite size and micro- and macrostrain changes during layer exchange upon annealing amorphous/crystalline aluminium / Structural state of Eu2(MoO4)3 single crystal after different thermobaric treatments / Anomalous structure of nanocrystallites of rare-earth compounds produced by sol-gel methods / Refinement of extinction-affected X-ray reflection profile of textures / STRESSES AND STRAINS -- Diffraction analysis of elastic strains in micro- and nanostructures / Determination of residual stress at weld interruptions by neutron diffraction / Residual stress and elastic anisotropy in the Ti-Al-(Si-)N and Cr-Al-(Si-)N nanocomposites deposited by cathodic arc evaporation / In-situ X-ray diffraction investigations of thin films: Determination of thermoelastic constants / THIN FILMS -- Profiling of fibre texture gradients in thin films by anomalous X-ray diffraction / X-ray residual stress analysis in CVD multilayer systems: Influence of steep gradients on the line profile shape and - symmetry / Magnetron deposited TiO2 thin films - crystallization and temperature dependence of microstructure and phase composition / Influence of reactive plasmas on thin nickel films / Author Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Definition -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tiny Noticeable Things -- TNTs - The Difference -- TNTs Shared -- 1 Customer -- Old Friend -- We're Open -- Service with a Smile -- Hot Chocolate Inspiration -- Good Service x 2 -- Favourite Room -- Caring at Invicta Court Care Home -- Growing Customers -- Happy Shoppers -- Out of the Hat -- Salt 'n' Pepper -- Pterodactyl Postal Service -- Fender Surprise -- Saw You Coming -- What, No Macaroons! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Setting up PyPy -- Running a particle simulator in PyPy -- Other interesting projects -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Implementing Concurrency -- Asynchronous programming -- Waiting for I/O -- Concurrency -- Callbacks -- Futures -- Event loops -- The asyncio framework -- Coroutines -- Converting blocking code into non-blocking code -- Reactive programming -- Observables -- Useful operators -- Hot and cold observables -- Building a CPU monitor -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Parallel Processing -- Introduction to parallel programming -- Graphic processing units -- Using multiple processes -- The Process and Pool classes -- The Executor interface -- Monte Carlo approximation of pi -- Synchronization and locks -- Parallel Cython with OpenMP -- Automatic parallelism -- Getting started with Theano -- Profiling Theano -- Tensorflow -- Running code on a GPU -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Distributed Processing -- Introduction to distributed computing -- An introduction to MapReduce -- Dask -- Directed Acyclic Graphs -- Dask arrays -- Dask Bag and DataFrame -- Dask distributed -- Manual cluster setup -- Using PySpark -- Setting up Spark and PySpark -- Spark architecture -- Resilient Distributed Datasets -- Spark DataFrame -- Scientific computing with mpi4py -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Designing for High Performance -- Choosing a suitable strategy -- Generic applications -- Numerical code -- Big data -- Organizing your source code -- Isolation, virtual environments, and containers -- Using conda environments -- Virtualization and Containers -- Creating docker images -- Continuous integration -- Summary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Appreciating Node; Understanding Node's unique design; Concurrency; Parallelism and threads; Concurrency and processes; Events; The event loop; The implications of Node's design on system architects; Building large systems out of small systems; Streams; Using full-stack JavaScript to maximum effect; Hot code; Browserify; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing and Virtualizing Node Servers; Getting a basic Node server up and running; Hello world; Making HTTP requests…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…IF testsLoops; Functions; Objects and Object-Oriented Programming; Summary; Chapter 4: Electronics at 100 MPH; Basic Electricity Concepts; Required Tools for Robotics; Screwdrivers; Pliers and Wire Strippers; Wire Cutters; Files; Magnifying Light; Hot Glue Gun; Assorted Glues; Multimeter; Power Supplies; Breadboard; Power Strip; Soldering Iron; General Safety Rules; Working with Heat; Working With Sharp Objects; Wear Safety Glasses; Fire Extinguishers at the Ready; Keep a First-Aid Kit Handy; Work in a Ventilated Area; Organizing Your Workplace; Bonus: Soldering Techniques; Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: Creating a Business ModelEvolution of Business Models; Business Models Are a Hot Topic; Who Needs a Business Model?; Common Aspects of All Business Models; Business Models in Their Simplest Form; Examples of Business Models; Finding Success with a Business Model; Chapter 4: Finding Your Target Market; Gauging the Target Market; Determining Industry Attractiveness; Looking for Niche Attractiveness; Checking Out Customer Attractiveness; Finding Your Place on the Industry Value Chain; Chapter 5: Considering a Franchise; So What Is a Franchise, Anyway?…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Browse All VersionsVersions; Summary; Chapter 5: Controlling Your Mac: Launchpad; Opening Launchpad; Navigating Launchpad; Launching anApplication; Organizing Launchpad; Rearrange Your Icons; Folders in Launchpad; Adding New Applications; The Mac App Store; Without the Mac App Store; Deleting Applications; What Launchpad Doesn't Do; Summary; Chapter 6: Using Mission Control, Spaces, Expose, and Dashboard; Launching Mission Control; Gesture; The Application; Dashboard Key; Hot Corner; Mission Control and Spaces; How It Looks; Navigating Between Desktops; Adding a New Desktop…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Deploying Servlet and JSP Web Applications in TomcatHosts; The Host Manager Webapp; Layout of a Web Application; Deploying Servlets and JavaServer Pages; Deploying an Unpacked Webapp Directory; server.xml Context Deployment; Context XML Fragment File Deployment; Deploying a WAR File; server.xml Context Deployment; Context XML Fragment File Deployment; Hot Deployment; Working with WAR Files; The Manager Webapp; Automation with Apache Ant; Building a JAR/WAR; Deployment via Ant; Copying the WAR file or webapp directory; Accessing the Manager webapp; The Tomcat standalone deployer…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building a CD Catalog; 10. Project 7: Hot News Sheet; 10.2. Gathering the News; 11. Project 8: Automatic Daily Discussions; 11.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Plastic Wrap; Blood and gore, no sweat; Getting hot and sticky; I'm forever blowing bubbles…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Oracle DBA Pocket Guide; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Oracle Architecture; Database Versus Instance; Background Processes; System Global Area; Database buffer cache; Shared pool; Redo log buffer; Large pool; Files; Parameter files; Control file; Datafiles; Redo log files; Logical Database Structures; Software Options; Base Product; Licensing; Version Numbers; Configuration Planning; Availability; Replication; Hot standby database; Real Application Clusters (RAC); Backup and Recovery; Performance; Memory; Disk layout; Installation; Planning…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Profiling ToolsMeasurements and Timings; Garbage Collection; Using -verbosegc to Analyze Garbage Collection; Tools for Analyzing -verbosegc Output; Method Calls; Profiling Methodology; Java 2 cpu=samples Profile Output; HotSpot and 1.3 -Xprof Profile Output; JDK 1.1.x -prof and Java 2 cpu=old ProfileOutput; Java 2 -Xhprof Option; Java 2 -Xaprof option; Object-Creation Profiling; Monitoring Gross Memory Usage; Client/Server Communications; Replacing Sockets; Performance Checklist; Chapter 3. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Answers to Review QuestionsChapter 10: Redundancy Protocols; Client Redundancy Issues; Introducing Redundancy Protocols; Hot Standby Router Protocol; Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol; Gateway Load Balancing Protocol; Summary; Review Questions; Answers to Review Questions; Chapter 11: WAN and Teleworker Connections; Introduction to the Campus Edge; Enterprise Teleworker; Enterprise WAN; MPLS; Summary; Review Questions; Answers to Review Questions; Chapter 12: Virtual Private Networks; Introduction to Virtual Private Networks; VPN Operation; Cisco Easy VPN; Summary; Review Questions…”