New Releases by Abhay Joshi

Fundamentals of Pharmacovigilance: Principles, Practice and Case Management is a comprehensive and practice-oriented guide designed for students, healthcare professionals, and beginners entering the field of drug safety. The book offers a clear and structured journey through the core concepts of pharmacovigilance, beginning with the foundational principles that define the science and its role in safeguarding public health. It then moves into the practical aspects of case processing and management, exploring event seriousness, causality assessment, labeling concepts, and the nuances of dechallenge–rechallenge. Readers are introduced to essential regulatory constructs such as Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), SUSARs, and special-situation scenarios commonly encountered in industry practice. The book also explains global regulatory authorities, submission timelines, and the use of standardized medical terminologies, including MedDRA and WHO-Drug Dictionary, ensuring readers understand how consistent coding drives high-quality safety data. With its blend of theory, real-world relevance, and systematic chapter organization, this book serves as a valuable resource for learning, training, and applying pharmacovigilance principles in professional settings.

'Notes from underground' is a book about what it feels to experience the loss of love in one's life. it aims to give voice to those emotions often left in the shadows because those are the ones that we feel stronger than everything else. This book is a companion for anyone who knows the feeling to lose love after experiencing it. The 'underground' refers to the depths of the narrator's mind as, when he looks at it he feels every memory as if it was yesterday. The loss of loving hurts more than not being loved. Love fills a part of us that we didn't know existed, but when it is taken back nothing else can fill it again. Love makes us human.

This book has a philosophy, two stories and a song. The images are reflections of Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy The Divine Cinema Story Pharaoh and the Führer Story Noah's Arc: The Celestial Genesis Song Love At First Sight

About this bookIn this book, we are going to focus on the "Pen" feature of the popular Snap! programming language. Henceforth we will refer to "Snap!" simply as "Snap".It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic features of Snap, such as, motion commands and looping. There is a lot of material on Snap Programming on the Internet, including videos, online courses, Snap projects, and so on. We highly recommend the book "Learn CS Concepts with Snap" by one of the authors, if you are a complete newcomer to Snap, or if you wish to brush up on your concepts.However, as you will discover, you can become an accomplished "Pen Artist" (or "Turtle Programmer") without having to be an expert Snap programmer. We have explained relevant Snap commands and concepts wherever required.Who this book is for: This book is expected to allow anyone to experience the magic of Turtle programming. You can read and understand the concepts presented, try out sample programs, and exercise your creativity by trying out the exercises. There are plenty of examples presented along with their results.The book is meant for CS students of all ages, teachers, parents, and really anyone who wants to get the wonderful taste of the entertaining and creative aspect of Computer Programming.Why learn programming: The idea of using computer programming as a medium for learning is rapidly gaining acceptance. The benefits of learning programming and computer science concepts well before college - even in elementary grades - are well-understood. Here is a list of some of the amazing things that happen when children and young adults engage in computer programming: - They become active and creative learners, because they explore ideas through a hands-on activity with an infinitely powerful tool.- They learn to think about and analyze their own thinking, because that is the only way to program computers.- They learn to solve complex problems by breaking them into smaller sub-problems.- They learn a new way of thinking (called "computational" thinking).- In the world of programming, answers are not simply "right" or "wrong"; this prepares a student's mindset for real-life problems.- The learning process is transformed from acquiring facts to thinking creatively and analytically.How the book is organized: The book is organized as a series of chapters - each containing a bunch of concepts and associated programming activities. Every chapter includes review questions and several programming assignments that will help you practice all the concepts learnt till then. Answers to all "review questions" and links to working programs for most of the programming exercises in the book are available online.

The main focus of research in computer vision in the past has been on polyhedral objects that give rise to viewpoint-independent edges in the image. This thesis focuses on smooth curved objects that give rise to viewpoint-dependent edges. The research presented primarily focuses on the problems of structure and motion estimation and object recognition. In the first part of the thesis, the structure and motion of a smooth object are estimated from its silhouettes observed by a trinocular stereo rig over time. First, a model is constructed for the local structure along the silhouette for each frame in the temporal sequence. The local models are then integrated into a global surface description by estimating the motion between successive frames. The algorithm tracks certain surface features (parabolic points) and image features (silhouette inflections and frontier points) that are used to bootstrap the motion estimation process. Points on the entire silhouette, along with the reconstructed local structures, are then used to refine the initial motion estimate. The proposed approach is implemented and results obtained on real images are presented. The second part of the thesis presents a new algorithm for recognition of curved 3D objects from 2D images. The algorithm is based on a representation composed of a discrete set of HOT curves at which the surface admits High Order Tangents. A method is presented to automatically construct two of the HOT curves (the parabolic and limiting bitangent curves) using the results of the above structure and motion estimation algorithm. There is a natural correspondence between these two HOT curves and certain silhouette features: the inflections and the bitangents. The recognition approach uses these silhouette features to compute a set of scale-independent image observables that serve as indices in a database of models. This database is used for pose estimation and model identification. Hypotheses formed through indexing are verified through pose estimation. The results obtained on real images are presented.

dynamic states, and the response of all the aforementioned cell parameters to environmental perturbation. Most importantly, this model is used to study the basic physiology, i.e., to elucidate the relationship between the metabolic dynamic structure and overall physiological function.