New Releases by David J Smith

We are bombarded with statistical data each and every day, and healthcare professionals are no exception. All segments of healthcare rely on data provided by insurance companies, consultants, research firms, and the federal government to help them make a host of decisions regarding the delivery of medical services. But while these health professionals rely on data, do they really make the best use of the information? Not if they fail to understand whether the assumptions behind the formulas generating the numbers make sense. Not if they don't understand that the world of healthcare is flooded with inaccurate, misleading, and even dangerous statistics. The purpose of this book is to provide members of the medical community and other professions, including scientists and engineers, with a basic understanding of statistics and probability together with an explanation and worked examples of the techniques. It does not seek to confuse the reader with in-depth mathematics but provides basic methods for interpreting data and making inferences. The worked examples are medically based, but the principles apply to the analysis of any numerical data.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years. For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples and case studies add new insight and assistance. The author uses his 40 years of experience to create a comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, also providing an excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts. The book is organized into five parts. Part One covers reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology, presenting a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part Two deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part Three focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk. Part Four discusses design and assurance techniques, review and testing techniques, reliability growth modeling, field data collection and feedback, predicting and demonstrating repair times, quantified reliability maintenance, and systematic failures, while Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation. - Additional chapter on helicopter and aviation safety record - Coverage of models for partial valve stroke test, fault tree logic and quantification difficulties - More detail on use of tools such as FMEDA and programming standards like MISRA

This book guides college and high school students exploring peacebuilding careers, featuring 30 stories from young professionals. It emphasizes that any career can be a peacebuilding career with creativity and passion, offering strategies for advancing in the field.

Tentativo di spiegare semplicemente e proporzionalmente le grandi idee e i grandi numeri.

The case of the European Union's (EU) Clean Sky initiative and its sustainable and green engine programme focuses on a sector where the implications of climate change are likely to be keenly felt in the coming decades, namely air transport. It is a sector where to date there have been few green or eco innovations. The case focuses on a current EU-funded initiative designed to limit the impact of air transport on climate change. The initiative aims to foster innovation through the introduction of open rotor technology to power the next generation of short-/medium-haul airliners. This technology could potentially cut carbon dioxide emissions from commercial aircraft by 100 million tonnes per year. However, it may also prove to be a disruptive technology rendering existing aircraft and possibly some of the firms that produce them, obsolete. As well as introducing some of the features of disruptive technologies, the case highlights both the drivers for and barriers to the successful adoption of green innovations. Another important aspect of the case is that it also highlights the value of appropriate business strategies, such as the use of technology demonstrator programmes, in supporting and facilitating the adoption and diffusion of green innovations.

Comparing the world population to a village of 100 persons, the author reveals such facts as the languages of the village, how much each earns, if the person is literate, has a television and has enough to eat.

The team behind If the World Were a Village returns with a revealing glimpse into the lives of children around the world. This Child, Every Child uses statistics and stories to draw kids into the world beyond their own borders and provide a window into the lives of fellow children.

This important book teaches children all about the large, diverse country of America - past, present and future - using a simple metaphor of a village of just 100 people.

The United States is being infiltrated and undermined by illegal aliens & the introduction of drug cartels, crime, and international communism. The Council on Foreign Relations, the ACLU and certain secret societies are communist-backed groups that are working to establish a world government and destroy the Christian-American way of life.

Estonia's rapid progress towards membership of the EU has rested not least on its ability to contain latent tensions occasioned by the Soviet nationalities policy. This volume examines why Estonia has been able to avoid overt ethnic conflicts.

A spirited account of God at work in the life of a missionary to West Africa¿in both the dramatic and mundane events of life. Designed to encourage you to see God at work in your own life.

Details the hobby of aircraft 'wreck-hunting' with charts of the major mountain crash sites and descriptions of the remains to be found there.

A new book dealing with the fundamentals of legal writing and research. Each chapter focuses only on the essential skills needed for success in the paralegal field. Topics include primary law, secondary sources, computers and other technology, citation, legal analysis and more. The text first describes the tools needed to conduct legal research, then shows how they're applied. Review charts, concrete examples, paralegal practice situations, tips from practicing paralegals, and chapter review questions and problems are included.ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDERInstructor's Manual, ISBN: 0-8273-6356-7Computerized Test Bank (1996), ISBN: 0-8273-7979-X

"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange, indeed, if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State, for these lesser sacrifices, in order to prevent our being swamped by incompetence. It is better for all the world, if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent their propagation by medical means in the first place. Three generations of imbeciles are enough". This opinion upheld the involuntary sterilization law in the State of Virginia, and was written and delivered by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In reality, the Virginia statute was one among many. Since 1907, twenty-nine states passed laws mandating sterilization, racial registration, and restricting miscegenation. Some were still on the books as recently as a decade ago. In this extraordinary book, J. David Smith chronicles the events leading to the enactment of this body of laws, as well as their execution over the years. It is a chilling account of myriad personal tragedies. The issue of eugenics as potential genocide is even today not dead. Proposals for compulsory sterilization through the use of Norplant is evidence of that. This is an important book, and should be on top of the reading list for every person concerned with civil liberties and the Bill of Rights.