Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms

This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and specific measurements such as pressure-volume curves and esophageal pressure. Step by step, reade…

Psychology as the Science of Human Being

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-21094-0

Collation

Psikologi

Series Title

Annals of Theoretical Psychology

Call Number

150

Unpublished Manuscripts

This book presents, for the first time, the unpublished manuscripts of Lars Hörmander, written between 1951 and 2007. Hörmander himself organised the manuscripts and also wrote the notes explaining their origins, presenting the material in the form he fully intended it to be published in. As his daughter, Sofia Broström, mentions in the Foreword, towards the end of his life, Hörmander "care…

Encyclopedia of Big Data

This encyclopedia will be an essential resource for our times, reflecting the fact that we currently are living in an expanding data-driven world. Technological advancements and other related trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and exponentially increasing collection of data and information, referred to in popular vernacular as “Big Data.” Social media and c…

Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn

This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of engineering ethics and engineering practices. This volume is published about fifteen years after Peter Kroes and Anthonie Meijers published a collection of papers under the title The empirical turn in …

Arts and Humanities in Progress

The book aims to introduce a research concept called "Numanities", as one possible attempt to overcome the current scientific, social and institutional crisis of the humanities. Such crisis involves their impact on, and role within, society; their popularity among students and scholars; and their identity as producers and promoters of knowledge. The modern western world and its economic poli…

Social-Media-Marketing kompakt

Dieses Buch verdeutlicht, dass Social-Media-Marketing heute zu einem integralen Bestandteil der Online-Kommunikation geworden ist. Doch welche Ziele lassen sich damit erreichen? Welche Plattformen bieten welche Möglichkeiten? Wie kann der Erfolg einer Social-Media-Kampagne gemessen werden? Von welchen Plattformen sollte man die Finger lassen? Welche Erfolgsfaktoren zählen? Welche Social-Media…

Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems

This volume describes the application of fluorescence spectroscopy in polymer research. The first chapters outline the basic principles of the conformational and dynamic behavior of polymers and review the problems of polymer self-assembly. Subsequent chapters introduce the theoretical principles of advanced fluorescence methods and typical examples of their application in polymer science. The …

High-Performance In-Memory Genome Data Analysis

Recent achievements in hardware and software developments have enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of data, such as diagnoses, therapies, and human genome data. This book shares the latest research results of applying in-memory data management to personalized medic…

Projektmanagement

Was, warum, wie, wer und wann? Anhand dieser W-Fragen werden wichtige Methoden und Zusammenhänge zur Planung und Steuerung von Projekten vorgestellt. Das erforderliche Methodenwissen wird dabei praxisorientiert und zugleich theoretisch fundiert auf der Basis jahrelanger Lehrerfahrungen und aktueller Standards vermittelt. Eine Liste der wichtigen Begriffe in deutscher und englischer Sprache am …