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Provides a review of some of the problematic infections of the century. This title presents issues and ideas for preventing and controlling infectious diseases.
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In survival analysis there has long been a need for models that goes beyond the Cox model as the proportional hazards assumption often fails in practice.
This second edition of the Manual of Clinical Dialysis is a concise and well-illustrated guide to all aspects of dialysis. All chapters have been revised and present a... Læs mere
Brazil’s public policy response to the AIDS epidemic preceded those of many developing countries. During my tenure as President, in 1996, Brazil adopted a law guaranteeing free and universal access to AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS.
This new edition has been made more user-friendly through organization into more concise chapters. It addresses the mathematical needs of sophomores and juniors in physics, engineering and other related fields. An entirely new section covers Probability.
This comprehensive text uses a consistent, logical format to offer readers: (1) A spectrum of topics affecting maternal and infant health: reproductive health concerns, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, and gestation and fetal growth.
The aim of the School on Rheology of Complex fluids is to bring together young researchers and teachers from educational and R&D institutions, and expose them to the basic... Læs mere
This greatly expanded new edition includes recent research on stochastic, multivariate and group majorization, Lorenz order, and applications in physics and chemistry, in economics and political science, in matrix inequalities, and in probability and statistics.
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