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“…The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care's vision for a learning healthcare system, in which evidence is applied and generated as a natural course of care, is premised on the development of a research capacity that is structured to provide timely and accurate evidence relevant to the clinical decisions faced by patients and providers. …”

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“…Congestion, which arises due to a mismatch between the derived demand for trips and infrastructure capacity, is modeled as increased travel time along individual network links. Increased travel time impinges on the time budgets of households and reduces the ability of transportation service firms to provide trips using given levels of inputs. …”

“…"You may love XP or you may hate it, but Extreme Programming Explained will force you to take a fresh look at how you develop software."--Jacket…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- The SQ3R Method -- Survey -- Question -- Read -- Recite -- Review -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Chapter 6: Writing Skills -- The Basics of Writing -- The Process of Writing -- Pre-Writing -- Writing -- Post-Writing -- Paragraph -- Sequencing -- Instructional Writing -- Logging Instructions -- Precis Writing -- Look at the Following Example: -- Précis: -- Abstract Writing -- Difference Between an Abstract and a Summary -- Note-Taking -- Recession -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Chapter 7: Creativity and Mind-Mapping -- Creativity -- Times when we are Creative -- Thinking Up a New Idea -- Doing Something Spontaneous -- Creativity and Building Relationships -- Ways in Which You can be Creative -- Creativity Through Visioning -- Creativity Through Exploring…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Borchert oChapter 34: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Burning Question Level II oChapter 35: Peptic Ulcer Disease: Feel the Burn Level II oChapter 36: Nsaid-Induced Ulcer Disease: To Protect and Serve Level II oChapter 37: Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis/Upper GI Hemorrhage: A Bloody Good Time Level I oChapter 38: Crohn Disease: A Sense of Urgency Level II oChapter 39: Ulcerative Colitis: Seriously? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 4: Understanding the Spark Programming Model -- Hello Spark -- Prerequisites -- Common RDD transformations -- Map -- Filter -- flatMap -- mapToPair -- flatMapToPair -- union -- Intersection -- Distinct -- Cartesian -- groupByKey -- reduceByKey -- sortByKey -- Join -- CoGroup -- Common RDD actions -- isEmpty -- collect -- collectAsMap -- count -- countByKey -- countByValue -- Max -- Min -- First -- Take -- takeOrdered -- takeSample -- top -- reduce -- Fold -- aggregate -- forEach -- saveAsTextFile -- saveAsObjectFile -- RDD persistence and cache -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Working with Data and Storage -- Interaction with external storage systems -- Interaction with local filesystem -- Interaction with Amazon S3 -- Interaction with HDFS -- Interaction with Cassandra -- Working with different data formats -- Plain and specially formatted text -- Working with CSV data -- Working with JSON data -- Working with XML Data -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Spark on Cluster -- Spark application in distributed-mode -- Driver program -- Executor program -- Cluster managers -- Spark standalone -- Installation of Spark standalone cluster -- Start master -- Start slave -- Stop master and slaves -- Deploying applications on Spark standalone cluster -- Client mode -- Cluster mode -- Useful job configurations -- Useful cluster level configurations (Spark standalone) -- Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN) -- YARN client -- YARN cluster -- Useful job configuration -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Spark Programming Model - Advanced -- RDD partitioning -- Repartitioning -- How Spark calculates the partition count for transformations with shuffling (wide transformations ) -- Partitioner -- Hash Partitioner -- Range Partitioner -- Custom Partitioner -- Advanced transformations -- mapPartitions -- mapPartitionsWithIndex -- mapPartitionsToPair -- mapValues…”