To know and cooperate with the laws of health in order to retain, or regain, health is most important. The study of disease takes a secondary place to the study of the laws of life. To know how to employ every rational means at our disposal in order to avert sickness should be our constant study and goal. Life’s activities are centered in the home. Parents should be an example of good h…
One important premise of Hicks’s theoretical framework is the distinction between the structure of reality and the purpose-oriented arrangement of human actions. There are reasons to believe that, at an early stage of his development as an economist, Hicks came across the distinction between an ‘order of being’ and an ‘order of doing,’ as discussed by Maffeo Pantaleoni (Pantaleoni, 19…
Text editing is one of the most common tasks on any computer system, and vi is one of the most useful standard text editors on a system. With vi you can create new files or edit any existing text-only file. vi, like many of the classic utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for being hard to navigate. Bram Moolenaar’s enhanced clone, Vim (“vi Improved”), has …
Learning Redis is meant to be a guide and handbook for developers, architects, solution providers, consultants, engineers, and anyone planning to learn, design, and architect an Enterprise Solution and looking for an in-memory datastore that is agile and fast and extends its capabilities beyond just storing data. This book starts with an introduction to the evolving landscape of NoSQL, explor…
A Fluid-Structure Interaction model is studied for aortic flow, based on Koiter’s shell model for the structure, Navier–Stokes equations for the fluid and transpiration for the coupling. It accounts for wall deformation while yet working on a fixed geometry. The model is established first. Then a numerical approximation is proposed and some tests are given. The model is also used for optima…
The library is written in C and C++ and runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Th ere is active development on interfaces for Python, Ruby, Matlab, and other languages. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real- time applications. OpenCV is written in optimized C and can take advantage of multicore processors. If you desire further automatic optimization…
This book is not just one of the many introductions to Human Resource Management that are published, year after year, for use in HRM classes. Authors of those introduc- tions face many challenges, such as the need to produce something that is both theoreti- cally sound and practically valuable, or to find a way to integrate discussions on a vari- ety of topics into one comprehensible teaching t…
MySQL (pronounced “My Ess Cue Ell”) is more than just “the world’s most popular open source database,” as the developers at the MySQL AB corporation (http://www .mysql.com) claim. This modest-sized database has introduced millions of everyday computer users and amateur researchers to the world of powerful information systems. MySQL is a relatively recent entrant into the well-establis…