Advances in Behavioral Based Safety Proceedings of HSFEA 2020

Table of Contents: “…Industrial fire hazards and its control -- Chapter 4. Fire in high rise building -- Chapter 5. …”
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The criminological imagination in Hong Kong : its origins and possibilities

Table of Contents: “…Cover; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Taking stock: the establishment of a distinctive criminological tradition; Thirty years of criminology at HKU: themes and trends in crime and its control; Criminology in a controlled climate: reflections on learning and teaching in Hong Kong; Piece by piece: understanding graffiti-writing in Hong Kong; Victimization of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong; Parallel trading and its implications for policing the border…”
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Creativity in Intelligent Technologies and Data Science Third Conference, CIT&DS 2019, Volgograd, Russia, September 16–19, 2019, Proceedings, Part II

Table of Contents: “…Computer Vision and Knowledge-Based Control -- Intelligent Technologies in Social Engineering. …”
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Flex Solutions Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers by Casario, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Flex Basics -- Flex Components -- Working with Data models and the value object -- Validating and Formatting Data -- Managing Complex Data -- Working with remote data -- Displaying Data with List-Based Controls -- Compiling and Deploying -- Flex Look and Feel -- Flex Security -- Flex Builder Tips and Tricks -- Miscellaneous -- Working with ColdFusion, Java, Rails, and PHP.…”
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The research process in the human services : behind the scenes

Table of Contents: “…Section I: human service experiments, quasi-experiments, and meta-analysis -- Randomized experiments -- Quasi experiments -- Meta-analysis -- Section II: correlational/observational designs -- Cross-sectional -- Longitudinal/cohort -- Case control designs -- Section III: qualitative methods -- Intensive interviews -- Focus groups -- Ethnographic methods -- Section IV: mixed methods -- Section V: use of available data.…”


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Interpreting the medical literature by Gehlbach, Stephen H.

Table of Contents: “…Tasting an article -- Study design: general considerations -- Study design: the case-control approach -- Study design: the cross-sectional and follow-up approaches -- Study design: the experimental approach -- Study design: variations -- Making measurements -- Analysis: statistical significance -- Analysis: some statistical tests -- Interpretation: sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value -- Interpretation: risk -- Interpretation: causes -- Cases series, editorials, and reviews -- A final word.…”

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Epidemiology for public health practice by Friis, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…History and scope of epidemiology -- Practical applications of epidemiology -- Measures of morbidity and mortality -- Descriptive epidemiology : person, place, time -- Sources of data for use in epidemiology -- Study designs : ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control -- Study designs : cohort studies -- Experimental study designs -- Measures of effect -- Data interpretation issues -- Screening for disease in the community -- Epidemiology of infectious diseases -- Epidemiologic aspects of work and the environment -- Molecular and genetic epidemiology -- Social, behavioral, and psychosocial epidemiology -- Epidemiology as a profession.…”


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Essentials of epidemiology in public health by Aschengrau, Ann

Table of Contents: “…The approach and evolution of epidemiology -- Measures of disease frequency -- Comparing disease frequencies -- Sources of public health data -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Overview of epidemiologic study designs -- Experimental studies -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Bias -- Confounding -- Random error -- Effect measure modification -- Critical review of epidemiologic studies -- The epidemiologic approach to causation -- Screening in public health practice -- Ethics in research involving human participants -- Answers to chapter questions.…”


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A study guide to epidemiology and biostatistics by Hebel, J. Richard (John Richard), 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Investigation of an epidemic -- Measures of mortality -- Incidence and prevalence -- Measures of risk -- Biological variability -- Probability -- Screening -- Sampling -- Statistical significance -- Correlation -- Multiple regression -- Case-control (retrospective) studies -- Cohort (prospective) studies -- Randomized clinical trials -- Survival analysis -- Association and causation -- Keys to understanding articles on epidemiologic studies.…”
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Essentials of epidemiology in public health by Aschengrau, Ann, Seage, George R., III

Table of Contents: “…Cohort Studies -- Chapter 9. Case-Control Studies -- Chapter 10. Bias -- Chapter 11. …”


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Quantitative methods for health research : a practical interactive guide to epidemiology and statistics by Bruce, Nigel, 1955-, Pope, Daniel, 1969-, Stanistreet, Debbi, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy of science and introduction to epidemiology -- Routine data sources and descriptive epidemiology -- Standardisation -- Surveys -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Intervention studies -- Life tables, survival analysis and cox regression -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Prevention strategies and evaluation of screening -- Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and Bayesian methods.…”
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Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering by Tango, Toshiro

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Clustering and clusters -- Disease mapping: Visualization of spatial clustering -- Tests for temporal clustering -- General tests for spatial clustering: Regional count data -- General tests for spatial clustering: Case-control point data -- Tests for space-time clustering -- Focused tests for spatial clustering -- Space-time scan statistics.…”
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Our intelligent bodies by Merrill, Gary F.

Table of Contents: “…Cardiovascular Hemodynamics -- Chapter 7. Respiration and Its Control -- Chapter 8. Kidneys and Body Water -- Chapter 9. …”
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Principles of hydraulic systems design by Chapple, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Hydraulic power transmission and its control -- 2. Hydrostatic pumps and motors -- 3. …”
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Industrial Electrochemistry by Pletcher, Derek

Table of Contents: “…1 Fundamental concepts -- 2 Electrochemical engineering -- 3 The chlor-alkali industry -- 4 The extraction, refining and production of metal -- 5 Other inorganic electrolytic processes -- 6 Organic electrosynthesis -- 7 Water purification, effluent treatment and recycling ofindustrial process streams -- 8 Metal finishing -- 9 Metals and materials processing -- 10 Corrosion and its control -- 11 Batteries and fuel cells -- 12 Electrochemical sensors and monitoring techniques.…”
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Indoor Air Pollution

Table of Contents: “…Release of Organic Compounds and Particulate Matter from Products, Materials, and Electrical Devices in the Indoor Environment -- Indoor Particles, Combusion Products and Fibres -- Volatile Organic Compounds In Indoor Environments -- The shift in human health from infection related diseases to chronic illnesses and the importance of indoor chemical exposure -- Household air pollution related to solid cookfuel use: The exposure and health situation in developing countries -- Indoor Air Pollution and Its Control in China.…”
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Stability Enhancement Methods of Inverters Based on Lyapunov Function, Predictive Control, and Reinforcement Learning by Zhang, Xin, He, Jinsong, Ma, Hao, Ma, Zhixun, Ge, Xiaohai

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Adaptive backstepping current control of single-phase LCL-grid-connected inverters to improve its large-signal stability in the presence of parasitic resistance uncertainty -- An adaptive dual-loop Lyapunov-based control scheme for a single-phase stand-alone inverter to improve its large-signal stability -- Lyapunov-based control of three-phase stand-alone inverters to improve its large-signal stability with inherent dual control loops and load disturbance adaptivity -- An ellipse-optimized composite backstepping control strategy for a point-of-load inverter to improve its large-signal stability under load disturbance in the shipboard power system -- Stability constraining dichotomy solution based model predictive control for the three phase inverter cascaded with input EMI filter in the MEA -- Composite-bisection predictive control to stabilize the three phase inverter cascaded with input EMI filter in the SPS -- Reinforcement learning based weighting factors’ real-time updating scheme for the FCS model predictive control to improve the large-signal stability of inverters.…”
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Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control Theory and Applications by Brogliato, Bernard, Lozano, Rogelio, Maschke, Bernhard, Egeland, Olav

Table of Contents: “…Dissipative Physical Systems -- Chapter 7. Passivity-based Control -- Chapter 8. Adaptive Control -- Chapter 9. …”
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Analysis and Design of Markov Jump Discrete Systems by Kao, Yonggui, Zhang, Panpan, Wang, Changhong, Xia, Hongwei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sliding mode H ∞ control for Markov jump discrete systems under packet losses -- Finite-time boundedness -- Passivity and control synthesis -- Hidden Markov model-based control -- Sliding mode fault-tolerant control -- Bumpless transfer control -- semi-Markov jump systems -- Adaptive fault-tolerant control -- Conclusion and future research direction.…”
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A concise guide to observational studies in healthcare by Hackshaw, Allan K.

Table of Contents: “…Fundamental concepts -- Outcome measures, risk factors, and causality -- Effect sizes and regression methods -- Studies based on patient medical records -- Cross-sectional studies -- Case-control studies -- Cohort studies -- Quality of care studies -- Prognostic markers for predicting outcomes -- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses -- Conducting and reporting observational studies.…”
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