From First, Do No Harm, Dr. L. Jan Eira catapults readers into the gripping continuance of his medical murder mystery. With the release of his new book, Seconds from Revenge, he once again engages readers with medical hero Dr. Jack Norris, whose life is put in danger once again when an old enemy returns— bent on revenge. Several heinous murders had been committed at Newton Memorial using an investigational drug, which eventually became known as ‘Rat Poison.’ This experimental agent for heart failure patients was discovered to have deadly repercussions. Blinded by its potential lucrative rewards, three terrorists proceeded to test the drug on innocent men with much loss of life. With Dr. Norris’ cooperation with the authorities, one of the executioners was killed, the other incarcerated for life, but the third villain – the mastermind known as Simon Lagrange – is still at large. Having escaped the law, Lagrange is now back and looking for vengeance—with Dr. Norris as his object of enmity. The mystery plunges as Lagrange sabotages Norris’ credibility as a doctor, taking away many innocent lives without remorse. Co-workers of Norris helplessly fall prey to Lagrange’s sinister plan; nobody can be trusted, everyone is a suspect. Soon, reality becomes a nightmare when an unexpected assault was made on Dr. Norris’ life, nine-thousand feet above the ground. It was clear that Lagrange would stop at nothing to get him. Is Dr. Norris ready for the worst when he fi nds himself Seconds from Revenge? An arresting denouement awaits readers as Eira takes them deep into the story, confounding them with unexpected twists and revelations.
Four people lie dead on the sterile floors of Newton Memorial Hospital. The shooter had been one of Dr. Jack Norris' patients. The chief of fellows is perplexed at how the sixty-three-year-old heart patient would have a gun, and why he would shoot Jack's best friend, Dr. John Connor, then turn the gun upon himself. Teaming up with local detectives and one FBI agent, a complicated network of scientists and professionals emerge as culprits in a web biological terrorism and greed. First, Do No Harm chronicles Jack Norris' attempt to diagnose a difficult heart disorder while simultaneously diagnosing Connor's murder.
Dr. Amy Sinclair is invited to be the guest speaker at Heartland Regional Hospital in Danville, Illinois. She flies to the small Midwestern city accompanied by Ben, her husband who is a police detective in Zionsville, Indiana, and their sixteen-year-old son, Billy, who has a soccer game to play. Soon after their arrival, the Sinclairs realize they were tricked into going on the trip, and what happens next is every parent's worst nightmare. Still, a medical murder mystery, is a compelling, quick-paced novel filled with exciting twists at every turn of a page. If you dare begin reading Still beware it will grip you and not let you go until the very last page. You have been warned!
Four people lie dead on the sterile floors of Newton Memorial Hospital. The shooter had been one of Dr. Jack Norris' patients. The chief of fellows is perplexed at how the sixty-three-year-old heart patient would have a gun, and why he would shoot Jack's best friend, Dr. John Connor, then turn the gun upon himself. Teaming up with local detectives and one FBI agent, a complicated network of scientists and professionals emerge as culprits in a web biological terrorism and greed. First, Do No Harm chronicles Jack Norris' attempt to diagnose a difficult heart disorder while simultaneously diagnosing Connor's murder.
Several heinous murders had been committed at Newton Memorial using an investigational drug, which eventually became known as 'Rat Poison.' This experimetnal agent for heart failure patients was discovered to have deadly repercussions. Blinded by its potential lucrative rewards, three terrorists proceeded to test the drug on innocent men with much loss of life. With Dr. Norris' cooperation with the authorities, one of the executioners was killed, the other incarcerated for life, but the third villain--the mastermind known as Simon Lagrange--is still at large. Having escapted the law, Lagrange is now back and looking for vengeance--with Dr. Norris as his object of enmity"--Page 4 of cover.
Dr. Amy Sinclair is invited to be the guest speaker at Heartland Regional Hospital in Danville, Illinois. She flies to the small Midwestern city accompanied by Ben, her husband who is a police detective in Zionsville, Indiana, and their sixteen-year-old son, Billy, who has a soccer game to play. Soon after their arrival, the Sinclairs realize they were tricked into going on the trip, and what happens next is every parent's worst nightmare. Still, a medical murder mystery, is a compelling, quick-paced novel filled with exciting twists at every turn of a page. If you dare begin reading Still beware it will grip you and not let you go until the very last page. You have been warned!
Fault-tolerant control aims at a gradual shutdown response in automated systems when faults occur. It satisfies the industrial demand for enhanced availability and safety, in contrast to traditional reactions to faults, which bring about sudden shutdowns and loss of availability. The book presents effective model-based analysis and design methods for fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. Architectural and structural models are used to analyse the propagation of the fault through the process, to test the fault detectability and to find the redundancies in the process that can be used to ensure fault tolerance. It also introduces design methods suitable for diagnostic systems and fault-tolerant controllers for continuous processes that are described by analytical models of discrete-event systems represented by automata. The book is suitable for engineering students, engineers in industry and researchers who wish to get an overview of the variety of approaches to process diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. The authors have extensive teaching experience with graduate and PhD students, as well as with industrial experts. Parts of this book have been used in courses for this audience. The authors give a comprehensive introduction to the main ideas of diagnosis and fault-tolerant control and present some of their most recent research achievements obtained together with their research groups in a close cooperation with European research projects. The third edition resulted from a major re-structuring and re-writing of the former edition, which has been used for a decade by numerous research groups. New material includes distributed diagnosis of continuous and discrete-event systems, methods for reconfigurability analysis, and extensions of the structural methods towards fault-tolerant control. The bibliographical notes at the end of all chapters have been up-dated. The chapters end with exercises to be used in lectures.
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
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