Deep brain stimulation : techniques and practices

Table of Contents: “…5.6 Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy with MR Thermography5.7 MR-guided Focused Ultrasound; 5.8 Conclusion; References; 6 Computational Modeling and Tractography for DBS Targeting; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Computational Modeling Techniques; 6.2.1 Volume of Tissue Activated; 6.2.2 Whole-Brain Network Models; 6.2.3 Beyond Conventional Stimulation; 6.3 Advanced Imaging Techniques; 6.3.1 Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and Tractography; 6.3.2 Advancements in Anatomic Imaging; 6.4 Future Applications of Computational Modeling and Advanced Imaging; References…”
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Win/loss reviews : a new knowledge model for competitive intelligence by Marcet, Rick

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Mastering PHP Design Patterns. by Ali, Junade

Table of Contents: “…Perfectly staged migrationsTester-Driven Development; Bloated optimization; Analysis paralysis; Bikeshedding; Premature optimization; Uneducated manager syndrome; Wrong rocky foundations; Long methods; Magic numbers; Summary; Chapter 3: Creational Design Patterns; Software design process; Simple Factory; Factory Method; Abstract Factory pattern; Lazy initialization; Builder pattern; Prototype pattern; Summary; Chapter 4: Structural Design Patterns; Agile software architecture; Decorator; Adapter; Class Adapter; Object Adapter; FlyWeight; Composite; Bridge; Proxy pattern; Facade; Summary.…”
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How to Write Essays and Dissertations : a Guide for English Literature Students. by Durant, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Assembling a description or commentaryClassification; Presenting alternative arguments; Experimenting; Providing contexts for texts; Comparing texts; Building an argument around a word; UNIT 9: WEIGHTING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN YOUR ARGUMENT; Asserting, justifying and presupposing; Generalising; Giving examples; Signalling attitude to your own argument; UNIT 10: THE VOICE TO WRITE IN; Your register and your voice; Mode of address; Reacting to voices outside your adopted register; Incorporating expressions from outside your adopted register; Expressing taste and value.…”
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Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation and Outcome Prediction Third Challenge, HECKTOR 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 22, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the HECKTOR Challenge at MICCAI 2022: Automatic Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation and Outcome Prediction in PET/CT 1 -- Automated head and neck tumor segmentation from 3D PET/CT HECKTOR 2022 challenge report -- A Coarse-to-Fine Ensembling Framework for Head and Neck Tumor and Lymph Segmentation in CT and PET Images -- A General Web-based Platform for Automatic Delineation of Head and Neck Gross Tumor Volumes in PET/CT Images -- Octree Boundary Transfiner: Effcient Transformers for Tumor Segmentation Refinement -- Head and Neck Primary Tumor and Lymph Node Auto-Segmentation for PET/CT Scans -- Fusion-based Automated Segmentation in Head and Neck Cancer via Advance Deep Learning Techniques -- Stacking Feature Maps of Multi-Scaled Medical Images in U-Net for 3D Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation -- A fine-tuned 3D U-net for primary tumor and affected lymph nodes segmentation in fused multimodal images of oropharyngeal cancer -- A U-Net convolutional neural network with multiclass Dice loss for automated segmentation of tumors and lymph nodes from head and neck cancer PET/CT images -- Multi-Scale Fusion Methodologies for Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation -- Swin UNETR for tumor and lymph node delineation of multicentre oropharyngeal cancer patients with PET/CT imaging -- Simplicity is All You Need: Out-of-the-Box nnUNet followed by Binary-Weighted Radiomic Model for Segmentation and Outcome Prediction in Head and Neck PET/CT -- Radiomics-enhanced Deep Multi-task Learning for Outcome Prediction in Head and Neck Cancer -- Recurrence-free Survival Prediction under the Guidance of Automatic Gross Tumor Volume Segmentation for Head and Neck Cancers -- Joint nnU-Net and Radiomics Approaches for Segmentation and Prognosis of Head and Neck Cancers with PET/CT images -- LC at HECKTOR 2022: The Effect and Importance of Training Data when Analyzing Cases of Head and Neck Tumors using Machine Learning -- Towards Tumour Graph Learning for Survival Prediction in Head Neck Cancer Patients -- Combining nnUNet and AutoML for Automatic Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation and Recurrence-Free Survival Prediction in PET/CT Images -- Head and neck cancer localization with Retina Unet for automated segmentation and time-to-event prognosis from PET/CT images -- HNT-AI: An Automatic Segmentation Framework for Head and Neck Primary Tumors and Lymph Nodes in FDG-PET/CT images -- Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation with 3D UNet and Survival Prediction with Multiple Instance Neural Network -- Deep Learning and Machine Learning Techniques for Automated PET/CT Segmentation and Survival Prediction in Head and Neck Cancer -- Deep learning and radiomics based PET/CT image feature extraction from auto segmented tumor volumes for recurrence-free survival prediction in oropharyngeal cancer patients.…”
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New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics Proceedings of the First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019), Volume III

Table of Contents: “…Part A: Smart materials, metamaterials, composite and nanocomposite materials and structures -- Tunable Bleustein-Gulyaev permittivity sensors -- Nonlinear metamaterials with multiple local mechanical resonators: analytical and numerical analyses -- Nonlinear vibration analysis of metamaterial honeycomb sandwich structures with negative Poisson's ratio -- Wave propagation phenomena in nonlinear elastic metamaterials -- Numerical simulations in nonlinear elastic metamaterials with nonlocal interaction -- Nonlinear dynamic response of nanocomposite cantilever beams -- A numerical strategy for multi-stable nanocomposite shells -- Parametric vibrations of functionally graded sandwich plates with complex form -- Nonlinear oscillation of a FG cylindrical shell on a discontinuous elastic foundation -- Nonlinear fracture dynamic analysis of double cantilever beam sandwich specimens -- Nonlinear vibration analysis of a sandwich beam and assessment of the dynamic behavior -- Dynamic buckling of FGM cylindrical shells under torsional impact loads -- Part B: MEMS/NEMS and energy harvesters -- Nonlinear dynamic modeling for high temperature superconductivity in nanocluster topological structures on solid surface -- Nonlinear dynamic processes in laser-induced transitions to low dimensional carbon nanostructures in bulk graphite unit -- Electro-mechanical characterization of an electrospun piezoelectric microfiber -- On modeling of Springless Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters -- Part C: Nonlinear phenomena in bio- and eco-systems dynamics -- Critical behaviors of regular pattern selection in neuronal networks with chemical synapses -- Dynamics of a homeostatically regulated neural system with delayed connectivity -- Autapse-induced complicated oscillations of a ring FHN neuronal network with multiple delayed couplings -- A time-delay nonlinear model of dopamine-modulated prefrontal-limbic interactions in schizophrenia -- Wilson-Cowan neuronal interaction models with distributed delays -- Nonlinear hydrodynamics and numerical analysis for a series of catastrophic floods/debris (2011-2017): the tectonic wave processes possible impact on surface water and groundwater flows -- Refined weighted-permutation entropy: A complexity measure for human gait and physiologic signals with outliers and noise -- Simultaneous multi-parametric analysis of bone cell population model -- Nonlinear dynamics of RRc Lyrae stars -- Part D: Chaos in electronic systems -- Multijump resonance with Chua’s circuit -- Experimental observation of robust chaos in a 3D electronic circuit -- Homogenous multistability in memristive system -- Part E: Fractional order systems -- Numerical study of nonlinear vibrations of fractionally damped cylindrical shells under the additive combinational internal resonance -- Stability of Caputo-type fractional variable-order biquadratic difference equations -- Stability of systems of fractional-order difference equations and applications to a Rulkov-type neuronal model -- Independent fractional type modes of free and forced vibrations of discrete continuum hybrid systems of fractional type with multi-deformable bodies -- Non-smooth bifurcation in two fractional-order memristive circuits -- Index.…”
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Functional Analysis in Interdisciplinary Applications—II ICAAM, Lefkosa, Cyprus, September 6–9, 2018

Table of Contents: “…Bakanov, Investigation of Finite-Difference Analogue of the Integral Geometry Problem with a Weight Function -- A. Auwalu and A. Denker, Cone Rectangular Metric Spaces over Banach Algebras and Fixed Point Results of T-contraction Mappings -- F. …”
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Mayo clinic guide to fertility and conception by Jensen, Jani R.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- PART 1 Getting Ready for Pregnancy -- Chapter 1 Adjusting your lifestyle -- Weight -- Exercise -- Stress -- Sleep -- Alcohol, tobacco and other toxins -- Diet -- Dawn's story -- Chapter 2 Eating to conceive -- Carbohydrates: Natural, not processed -- Dietary fats: Go for good fats -- Protein: Eat more beans and nuts -- Dairy products: Creamier is better -- Caffeine and conception -- Focus on your health -- Chapter 3 Additional preparations -- Going off birth control -- Medications and supplements -- Prenatal vitamins -- Vaccinations…”
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Iaeng transactions on electrical engineering. Vol. 1, Special issue of the International Multiconference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2012

Table of Contents: “…Pawar -- Web services for chronic pain monitoring / Nuno Goncalo Coelho Costa Pombo, Pedro Jose Guerra de Araujo and Joaquim Manuel Vieira da Silva Viana -- Parallel binomial American option pricing on CPU-GPU hybrid platform / Nan Zhang, Chi-Un Lei and Ka Lok Man -- The subsystem grouping scheme using use case dependency graph and domain-specific semantic model for large complex systems / Nanchaya Khrueahong and Wiwat Vatanawood -- MOBM: a methodology for building practical domain ontologies from database information / Minyoung Ra [and others] -- A trial of the dynamic weighted sum method for multi-objective optimization / Hong Zhang -- A multi-agent platform to manage distributed and heterogeneous knowledge by using semantic web / Inaya Lahoud [and others] -- An intelligent train marshaling based on the processing time considering group layout of freight cars / Yoichi Hirashima -- A web-based multilingual intelligent tutor system based on Jackson's learning styles profiler and expert systems / H. …”
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Sustainable Development Practices Using Geoinformatics. by Kanga, Shruti

Table of Contents: “…Land Suitability Appraisal for the Growth of Potato Cultivation: A Study of Sagar Island, India -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Study Area -- 7.3 Materials and Method -- 7.3.1 Data Source -- 7.3.2 Generation of Different Thematic Layers for Land Suitability Evaluation of Potato Cultivation -- 7.3.3 Assigning Weight of Parameters and MCE -- 7.3.4 Generation of Land Suitability Map (LSM) and Overlaid With LULC Map -- 7.4 Results and Discussion…”
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The big problem of small change by Sargent, Thomas J., Velde, François R.

Table of Contents: “…A Theory; Valuation by weight or tale; A basic one-denomination theory; Multiple denominations; Supply; Demand; Interactions of supply and demand; Economics of interval alignments; Perverse dynamics.…”
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Pharmacology in anesthesia practice

Table of Contents: “…9 Antiemetics10 Gastric Medications; 11 Steroids and Antihistamines; 11.1 Steroids; 11.2 Antihistamines; 12 Narcotic and Benzodiazepine Reversal Agents; 13 Hematologic Agents; 13.1 Dipyridamole; 13.2 Adenosine Diphosphate Inhibitors; 13.3 Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH); 13.4 Miscellaneous Anticoagulants; 13.5 Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA); 13.6 Heparin and Argatroban; 13.7 Procoagulants; 14 Obstetrics; 14.1 Prostaglandins (Carboprost, Misoprostol, Alprostadil); 14.2 Ergots (Methylergonovine Maleate); 14.3 Oxytocin (Pitocin); 14.4 Magnesium.…”
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Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision 4th International Conference, SSVM 2013, Schloss Seggau, Leibnitz, Austria, June 2-6, 2013. Proceedings by Kuijper, Arjan

Table of Contents: “…-- Generalised Perspective Shape from Shading in Spherical Coordinates -- Weighted Patch-Based Reconstruction: Linking (Multi-view) Stereo to Scale Space -- Optical Flow on Evolving Surfaces with an Application to the Analysis of 4D Microscopy Data -- Perspective Photometric Stereo with Shadows -- Solving the Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo Problem Using Total Variation -- Minimizing TGV-Based Variational Models with Non-convex Data Terms -- A Mathematically Justified Algorithm for Shape from Texture -- Scale Space and Partial Differential Equations Multi Scale Shape Index for 3D Object Recognition -- Compression of Depth Maps with Segment-Based Homogeneous Diffusion -- Scale Space Operators on Hierarchies of Segmentations -- Discrete Deep Structure -- Image Matching Using Generalized Scale-Space Interest Points -- A Fully Discrete Theory for Linear Osmosis Filtering -- L2-Stable Nonstandard Finite Differences for Anisotropic Diffusion -- Relations between Amoeba Median Algorithms and Curvature-Based PDEs -- Image and Shape Analysis, Segmentation Scale and Edge Detection with Topological Derivatives -- Active Contours for Multi-region Image Segmentation with a Single Level Set Function -- Regularized Discrete Optimal Transport -- Variational Method for Computing Average Images of Biological Organs -- A Hierarchical Approach to Optimal Transport -- Layered Mean Shift Methods -- Partial Optimality via Iterative Pruning for the Potts Model -- Wimmelbild Analysis with Approximate Curvature Coding Distance Images -- Defect Classification on Specular Surfaces Using Wavelets.…”
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Algebra, Arithmetic, and Geometry Volume I: In Honor of Yu. I. Manin by Tschinkel, Yuri

Table of Contents: “…Berkovich, A non-Archimedean interpretation of the weight zero subspaces of limit mixed Hodge structures -- J.…”
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Jews in Byzantium : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. by Bonfil, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought"Historiography among Byzantine Jews: The Case of Sefer Yosippon; Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts; Index of Names; Index of Places.…”
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Spirit, Qi, and the multitude : a comparative theology for the democracy of creation by Lee, Hyo-Dong

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The Bounty from the beach : cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary essays

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Clinical Vision Science A Concise Guide to Numbers, Laws, and Formulas by Schmidtmann, Gunnar

Table of Contents: “…Basics -- Trigonometry -- Angular Measures -- Degree to Radians -- Radians to Degree -- The Metric System -- International System of Units -- Important Units -- Physical Optics -- Nature of Light -- Reflection -- Reflection on plane surfaces -- Reflection on curved surfaces -- Important equations -- Refraction -- Refractive Index -- Snell’s Law -- Total Internal Reflection -- Refraction by Prisms -- Refraction on curved surfaces -- Important equations -- Step along method -- The power of a lens system -- Thick Lenses -- Photometry -- Flat angles -- Solid angles -- Inverse Square Law -- Cosine Law -- Optical Instruments -- Camera -- Magnification - The Simple Magnifier -- Entrance and Exit Pupils -- Visual Optics & Ophthalmic Lenses -- Calculating the Sag -- Lens meter equation -- Toric Transposition -- Astigmatism & Cylindrical Lenses -- Toric Lenses -- Oblique Crossed Cylinders -- Accommodation & Vergence -- Accommodation -- Vergence -- Prisms -- Prism Dioptre -- Prism Notation -- Prentice Rule -- The prismatic effect of a sphero-cylindrical lens -- Ophthalmic Lenses -- Types of Lenses -- Lens Materials -- Dispersion and Abbe Number -- Transverse Chromatic Aberration -- Eye Models -- Gullstrand’s Reduced Schematic Eye -- Gullstrand’s Simplified Schematic Eye -- Gullstrand’s Exact Schematic Eye -- Retinal Blur Circle -- Spectacle Magnification -- Visual Perception -- Visual Acuity -- Contrast -- Weber Contrast -- Michelson Contrast -- Root Mean Square (RMS) Contrast -- Sensation & Perception -- Weber’s Law -- Fechner’s Law -- Steven’s Power Law -- Ricco’s Law -- Bloch’s Law -- Piper’s Law -- Ocular Anatomy -- The Anatomy of the Orbit -- The Anatomy of the Eye -- The external Eye & Eye Muscles -- The internal Eye & Retina -- Ocular Diseases & Ocular Pharmacology -- Summary of Common Ocular Diseases -- List of Common Drugs, Dosages, Indications & Contraindications -- Clinical Procedures -- Direct Ophthalmoscopy -- Retinoscopy -- Subjective Refraction -- Fan & Block -- Jackson Cross Cylinder Technique -- Near Vision & Accommodation -- Distance and Near Acuity Chart -- Binocular Vision & Orthoptics -- Definitions: Eso, Exo, Hypo, Hyper -- Phoria vs Tropia -- Extraocular Muscles -- Directions of maximal action for Extrocular Muscles -- Primary and secondary actions -- Adduction -- Abduction -- Incyclo -- Excyclo -- Hering’s Law -- Sherrington’s Law -- Sheard’s Criterion -- Cranial Nerves and Eye Muscles -- Cover-Uncover & Alternate Cover Test -- Hess Chart interpretation -- Difference between Concomitance and Incomitance -- Order of Muscle Sequelae -- Assessment of Motor Fusion -- Prism Corrections -- Crossed and Uncrossed Diplopia -- Bielschowsky Head Tilt Test -- Diagnostic Techniques -- Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy -- Diffuse Illumination -- Sclerotic Scatter -- Direct Illumination -- Indirect Illumination -- Retro Illumination -- Specular Reflection -- Mire Reverse -- Van Herick’s Technique -- Gonioscopy -- Keratometry -- Tonometry -- Perimetry -- Contact Lenses -- Keratometry and Contact lenses -- Contact Lens Materials -- Calculations -- Base Curve -- Diameter -- Back Vertex Power -- Fitting & Assessment of Contact Lenses -- Low Vision -- Assessment of Visual Function -- Assessment of Function Vision -- Magnification -- Field of View.…”
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Debating our destiny 40 years of presidential debates

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