Sajeesh Kumar • Helen Snooks (Editors) 2011 Developments in telenursing are progressing at a great speed. As a consequence, there is a need for a broad overview of the field. This first ever book on telenursing is presented in such a way that it should make it accessible to anyone, independent of their knowledge of technology.

Mark J. van der Laan • Sherri Rose 2011 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data The statistics profession is at a unique point in history. The need for valid statistical tools is greater than ever; data sets are massive, often measuring hundreds of thousands of measurements for a single subject. The field is ready for a revolution, […]

Marco Loog LodewykWessels Marcel J.T. Reinders Dick de Ridder (Eds.) 2011 6th IAPR International Conference In modern biology, high-throughput measurement devices allow life scientists to gather data at unprecedented rates. To make sense of these data, computational biologists and system biologists construct quantitative models, many of which depend on pattern recognition techniques.

Edited by Ronald Ross Watson Joe K. Gerald Victor R. Preedy 2011 Food and nutrition are vital keys to controlling morbidity and mortality from many chronic diseases affecting humankind. For millennia the relationship between famine and subsequent death due to disease has been known. Clearly food can be a key preventative agent for such dietary insufficiency–induced diseases.

Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D. Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Ph.D. Editors 2011 Our major objective and driving force in developing Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Health and Disease is to consolidate all the key research and knowledge in one volume in order to establish a framework based on the totality of evidence for nitrite and nitrate and the effects of […]

Prakash M. Nadkarni 2011 Designing Systems that can adapt to Changing Knowledge Metadata-driven software – a system that relies on detailed, structured description of a problem domain to facilitate automation, extensibility, and maintainability – represents an evolutionary advance in the design and implementation of systems that have a large number of interlocking parts.

George Christakos 2011 Let me say at the very outset that readers who are convinced that they are right about all matters of human inquiry, having no doubts whatsoever, probably do not need to read this book. They should, nevertheless, be reminded of Albert Camus’ quote: “Those who claim to know everything and to settle everything end up […]