The book focuses on a global problem challenging the health systems. Trypanosoma cruzi infections are transmitted by cone-nosed triatomine bugs, by blood transfusion and congenitally from mothers to their offspring. The American Trypanosomiasis affects 20 million people; among them a significant parcel (& 1/3) will develop Chagas disease in the heart and digestive tract, where the immune system effector cells destroy target host cells. Genotype modifications resulting from transfer of minicircle sequence kDNA from the parasite into the hosts genome may explain the autoimmune pathogenesis of t.
Hear, in the uplifting words of the author, why Poetry With God was written. "In March 2005, I was involved in a near-fatal car accident in which I sustained a mild traumatic brain injury. I regained consciousness with migraine-like headache pain, whiplash and the sound of a male Voice, loud and clear as day, in my head. I was told to walk, write and pray. In time, that's exactly what I did. Within hours after the accident, I was placed on an opiate pain killer, told to follow the prescription, and to follow up with my primary care physician. And so the war began: a seemingly endless amount of pills and The Voice telling me to walk, write and pray. The drugs had me putting everything off until tomorrow. The Voice that now was with me day and night began to torment me, and continued to do so, until I began to walk, write and pray. In time, God revealed many voices, and now reveals the Spirit of Truth unto me. They now call me the Advocate of Truth." Perhaps in this stirring and heartfelt book, Poetry With God, you too will find the spirit to walk, write and pray.
Innovations do not have to be radical or limited to technological and product innovations. The authors successfully build upon the notion that the creativity of all employees in an organization can be harnessed to improve overall productivity and give the organization a competitive advantage. Not only, do incremental innovations in sum have an enormous impact on a company's bottom line, but they also have the power of engaging the entire workforce. The authors explore how an "horizontal innovation" strategy can transform an organizational culture into one in which employees feel empowered and are inspired to think out-of-the-box on a daily basis." (Hazel Gruenewald – Professor in ESB Business School at Reutlingen University) Horizontal Innovation is a new expression that aims to reflect a new situation in terms of innovation management. The word `horizontal` carries both the organizational aspects represented by lean structures and preferably lateral communications and an approach in which the quantity of innovations from all organization's personnel is an essential element for its characterization. This and other questions related to this new form of understanding innovations will be discussed in detail in the eight chapters of this book.
As Linux® on System z® becomes more prevalent and mainstream in the industry, the need for it to deliver higher levels of availability is increasing. IBM® supports the High Availability Linux (Linux-HA) project, which provides high availability functions to the open source community. One component of the Linux-HA project is the Heartbeat program, which runs on every known Linux platform. Heartbeat is part of the framework of the Linux-HA project. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information to help you evaluate and implement Linux-HA release 2 by using Heartbeat 2.0 on the IBM System z platform with either SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server version 10 or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5. To begin, we review the fundamentals of high availability concepts and terminology. Then we discuss the Heartbeat 2.0 architecture and its components. We examine some of the special considerations when using Heartbeat 2.0 on Linux on System z, particularly Linux on z/VM®, with logical partitions (LPARs), interguest communication by using HiperSocketsTM, and Shoot The Other Node In The Head (STONITH) by using VSMSERVE for Simple Network IPL (snIPL). By reading this book, you can examine our environment as we outline our installation and setup processes and configuration. We demonstrate an active and passive single resource scenario and a quorum scenario by using a single resource with three guests in the cluster. Finally, we demonstrate and describe sample usage scenarios.
The goal of this text is to introduce, in a very elementary way, the concept of anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to condensed matter physicists. This theory relates a gravity theory in a (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space
In the last years there have been great advances in the applications of topology and differential geometry to problems in condensed matter physics. Concepts drawn from topology and geometry have become essential to the understanding of several phenomena in the area. Physicists have been creative in producing models for actual physical phenomena which realize mathematically exotic concepts and new phases have been discovered in condensed matter in which topology plays a leading role. An important classification paradigm is the concept of topological order, where the state characterizing a system does not break any symmetry, but it defines a topological phase in the sense that certain fundamental properties change only when the system passes through a quantum phase transition. The main purpose of this book is to provide a brief, self-contained introduction to some mathematical ideas and methods from differential geometry and topology, and to show a few applications in condensed matter. It conveys to physicists the basis for many mathematical concepts, avoiding the detailed formality of most textbooks.
This book describes the most commonly used techniques in Oral Rehabilitation. It has been designed in a step-by-step manner, using study models to standardize how procedures should be performed in an ideal scenario. In this textbook, every chapter contains the description of a technique, its aim and the rationale for each step, which provides students with the tools to grasp the logical reasoning behind each procedure. The volume is divided into three parts: (1) Surgery; (2) Tooth-supported prosthodontics and (3) Implant-supported prosthodontics. This textbook is rich in photographic images and diagrams, and is highly didactic and will facilitate the route to achieving competence in the techniques described here. It was created for both dental students and qualified dentists, as one may learn thoroughly from it, as well as use it as a quick reference.
This book addresses different aspects of the research field and a wide range of topics in speech signal processing, speech recognition and language processing. The chapters are divided in three different sections: Speech Signal Modeling, Speech Recognition and Applications. The chapters in the first section cover some essential topics in speech signal processing used for building speech recognition as well as for speech synthesis systems: speech feature enhancement, speech feature vector dimensionality reduction, segmentation of speech frames into phonetic segments. The chapters of the second part cover speech recognition methods and techniques used to read speech from various speech databases and broadcast news recognition for English and non-English languages. The third section of the book presents various speech technology applications used for body conducted speech recognition, hearing impairment, multimodal interfaces and facial expression recognition.
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