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Distillation control an engineering perspective / by Smith, Cecil L.

Table of Contents: “…Principles 1.1 Separation Processes 1.2 Total Material Balance 1.3 Reflux and Boilup Ratios 1.4 Total Material Balance Around Condenser 1.5 Total Material Balance Around Reboiler 1.6 Component Material Balances 1.7 Energy and the Separation Factor 1.8 Multicomponent Distillation 1.9 Stage-by-Stage Separation Model 1.10 Formulation of the Control Problem 1.11 Tower Internals 1.12 Flooding 1.13 Tray Hydraulics 1.14 Inverse Response in Bottoms Level 1.15 Composition Dynamics Chapter 2. …”
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A companion to early cinema

Table of Contents: “…The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema / André Gaudreault -- Toward A History Of Peep Practice / Erkki Huhtamo -- "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image / Tom Gunning -- The Féerie between Stage and Screen / Frank Kessler -- The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? …”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Rose -- Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne -- Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward Harris -- The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall -- Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask -- Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie -- Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman -- Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King / Laura McClure -- Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson -- Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King -- Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby -- Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. …”
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The archaeological imagination by Shanks, Michael

Table of Contents: “…We are all Archaeologists Now -- Debateable Lands -- A Northern Stage -- Relics and Witnesses -- Durat Opus Vatum -- The Antiquary -- Roman Boots -- Itinerary and Natural History -- The Living and the Dead -- Media, Representation, and Mise-en-Scène -- Topology and Time -- Collectors and Conservators -- An Archaeological Narratology -- The Archaeological Imagination.…”
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Clinical psycho-oncology an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Stuber and Elizabeth M. Strom -- A life-stage approach to psycho-oncology / Peter Fitzgerald, Rinat Nissim, and Gary Rodin --…”
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The fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique by Etchegoyen, R. Horacio, 1919-

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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /

Table of Contents: “…English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz -- Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig -- Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock -- Encounters on stage. Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel -- Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? …”
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Augustine beyond the book intermediality, transmediality, and reception /

Table of Contents: “…Dramatizing Augustine on stage -- pt. 3. Augustine in confessionalized contexts of spirituality and devotion -- pt. 4. …”
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ABC of HIV and AIDS

Table of Contents: “…Adler -- Immunology of HIV1 infection / Mahdad Noursadeghi and Deenan Pillay -- Viral assays used in the diagnosis and management of HIV infection / Anna Maria Geretti and Paola Vitiello -- HIV testing: strategies to prevent late diagnosis / Adrian Palfreeman and Emma Fox -- Clinical staging and natural history of untreated HIV infection / Melinda Tenant-Flowers and Adrian Mindel -- Routine assessment and follow-up of the newly diagnosed HIV-positive individual / Laura Waters and David Asboe -- Tumours in HIV / Mark Bower -- The lung and HIV / Sarah Doffman and Robert F. …”
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How to present at meetings

Table of Contents: “…Sedgwick -- Data projection software: the hard facts / William Harrop-Griffiths -- How to appear on stage / Alan Maryon-Davis -- How to sell a message / Martin Godfrey -- How to present a talk / Charlotte Green -- How to deal with questions / Sir Alexander Macara -- How not to give a presentation / Richard Smith -- How to chair a session / Roger Horton.…”
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Managing nonprofit organizations by Tschirhart, Mary, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Overview; Chapter 1: Understanding Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship; Chapter 2: Challenges of Effective and Ethical Organizational Design and Management; Chapter 3: Managing in a Dynamic Stakeholder Environment; Part II: Organizational Stages: Design and Start-up to Closure; Chapter 4: The Founding Impulse; Chapter 5: The Nonprofit Business Case; Chapter 6: Innovation, Change and Growth; Chapter 7: Nonprofit Closure, Conversion and Merger; Part III. …”
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Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope a guide for patients, families, and health care providers / by Frank, Richard C., MD

Table of Contents: “…Understanding cancer -- Diagnosis, staging, curability -- Understanding specific cancers -- Why cancer develops -- How cancer grows : the basis of cancer treatments -- Cancer treatments revolve around metastasis -- Cancer treatments at work -- Get prepared to survive.…”
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Back to the future in the caves of Kaua'i a scientist's adventures in the dark / by Burney, David A., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Time's most important moment -- Proverbial tracks -- Constructing a "poor man's time machine" -- Owl omens -- Opening ancient doors -- Characters and a stage, but no script -- Fishponds -- A snails' tale -- Mauka marshes -- So what happened, anyway? …”
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What ever happened to modernism? by Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940-

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Statistical disclosure control

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Concepts and Definitions 2 1.1.1 Disclosure 2 1.1.2 Statistical disclosure control 2 1.1.3 Tabular data 3 1.1.4 Microdata 3 1.1.5 Risk and utility 4 1.2 An approach to Statistical Disclosure Control 6 1.3 The chapters of the handbook 8 2 Ethics, Principles, Guidelines and Regulations, a general background 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Ethical codes and the new ISI code 9 2.2.1 ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.2 New ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.3 European Statistics Code of Practice 14 2.3 UNECE Principles and guidelines 14 2.4 Laws 17 2.4.1 Committee on Statistical Confidentiality 18 2.4.2 European Statistical System Committee 18 3 Microdata 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Microdata Concepts 22 3.2.1 Stage 1: Assess need for confidentiality protection 22 3.2.2 Stage 2: Key characteristics and uses of microdata 24 3.2.3 Stage 3: Disclosure risk 27 3.2.4 Stage 4: Protection methods 29 3.2.5 Stage 5: Implementation 30 3.3 Definitions of disclosure 32 3.3.1 Definitions of disclosure scenarios 33 3.4 Definitions of Disclosure Risk 34 3.4.1 Disclosure risk for categorical quasi-identifiers 35 3.4.2 Disclosure risk for continuous quasi-identifiers 37 3.5 Estimating Re-identification Risk 39 3.5.1 Individual risk based on the sample: threshold rule 39 3.5.2 Estimating individual risk using sampling weights 39 3.5.3 Estimating individual risk by Poisson model 42 3.5.4 Further models that borrow information from other sources 43 3.5.5 Estimating per record risk via heuristics 44 3.5.6 Assessing risk via record linkage 45 3.6 Non-Perturbative Microdata Masking 45 3.6.1 Sampling 46 3.6.2 Global recoding 46 3.6.3 Top and bottom coding 47 3.6.4 Local suppression 47 3.7 Perturbative Microdata Masking 48 3.7.1 Additive noise masking 48 3.7.2 Multiplicative noise masking 52 3.7.3 Microaggregation 54 3.7.4 Data swapping and rank swapping 66 3.7.5 Data shuffling 66 3.7.6 Rounding 67 3.7.7 Resampling 67 3.7.8 PRAM 67 3.7.9 MASSC 71 3.8 Synthetic and Hybrid Data 71 3.8.1 Fully synthetic data 72 3.8.2 Partially synthetic data 77 3.8.3 Hybrid data 79 3.8.4 Pros and cons of synthetic and hybrid data 88 3.9 Information Loss in Microdata 91 3.9.1 Information loss measures for continuous data 92 3.9.2 Information loss measures for categorical data 99 3.10 Release of multiple files from the same microdata set 101 3.11 Software 102 3.11.1 _-ARGUS 102 3.11.2 sdcMicro 103 3.11.3 IVEware 106 3.12 Case Studies 106 3.12.1 Microdata files at Statistics Netherlands 106 3.12.2 The European Labour Force Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 108 3.12.3 The European Structure of Earnings Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 111 3.12.4 NHIS Linked Mortality Data Public Use File, USA 117 3.12.5 Other real case instances 119 4 Magnitude tabular data 121 4.1 Introduction 121 4.1.1 Magnitude Tabular Data: Basic Terminology 121 4.1.2 Complex tabular data structures: hierarchical and linked tables 122 4.1.3 Risk Concepts 124 4.1.4 Protection Concepts 127 4.1.5 Information Loss Concepts 127 4.1.6 Implementation: Software, Guidelines and Case Study 127 4.2 Disclosure Risk Assessment I: Primary Sensitive Cells 128 4.2.1 Intruder Scenarios 128 4.2.2 Sensitivity rules 129 4.3 Disclosure Risk Assessment II: Secondary risk assessment 140 4.3.1 Feasibility Interval 141 4.3.2 Protection Level 142 4.3.3 Singleton and multi cell disclosure 143 4.3.4 Risk models for hierarchical and linked tables 144 4.4 Non-Perturbative Protection Methods 145 4.4.1 Global Recoding 145 4.4.2 The Concept of Cell Suppression 145 4.4.3 Algorithms for Secondary Cell Suppression 146 4.4.4 Secondary Cell Suppression in Hierarchical and Linked Tables 149 4.5 Perturbative Protection Methods 151 4.5.1 A pre-tabular method: Multiplicative Noise 152 4.5.2 A Post-tabular Method: Controlled Tabular Adjustment 153 4.6 Information Loss Measures for Tabular Data 153 4.6.1 Cell Costs for Cell Suppression 153 4.6.2 Cell Costs for CTA 154 4.6.3 Information Loss Measures to Evaluate the Outcome of Table Protection 155 4.7 Software for Tabular Data Protection 155 4.7.1 Empirical comparison of cell suppression algorithms 156 4.8 Guidelines: Setting up an efficient table model systematically 160 4.8.1 Defining Spanning Variables 161 4.8.2 Response Variables and Mapping Rules 162 4.9 Case Studies 164 4.9.1 Response Variables and Mapping Rules of the Case Study 164 4.9.2 Spanning Variables of the Case Study 165 4.9.3 Analysing the Tables of the Case Study 165 4.9.4 Software Issues of the Case Study 167 5 Frequency tables 169 5.1 Introduction 169 5.2 Disclosure risks 169 5.3 Methods 176 5.4 Post-tabular methods 178 5.4.1 Cell Suppression 178 5.4.2 ABS Cell Perturbation 179 5.4.3 Rounding 179 5.5 Information loss 184 5.6 Software 186 5.6.1 Introduction 186 5.7 Case Studies 188 5.7.1 UK Census 188 5.7.2 Australian and New Zealand Censuses 190 6 Data Access Issues 193 6.1 Introduction 193 6.2 Research Data Centres 193 6.3 Remote Execution 194 6.4 Remote Access 195 6.5 Licensing 196 6.6 Guidelines on output checking 196 6.6.1 Introduction 196 6.6.2 General approach 197 6.6.3 Rules for output checking 199 6.6.4 Organizational/procedural aspects of output checking 208 6.6.5 Researcher training 215 6.7 Additional issues concerning data access 218 6.7.1 Examples of disclaimers 218 6.7.2 Output description 218 6.8 Case Studies 219 6.8.1 The U.S. …”
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Aquaculture pond fertilization impacts of nutrient input on production /

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Vaccinology principles and practice /

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Weight management a practitioner's guide / by Pearson, Dympna

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Statistical methods in healthcare

Table of Contents: “…Statistical aspects in ICH guidelines / Sampson and Kenett -- Statistical methods in clinical trials / Telba Irony -- Pharmacikinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacometrics / Serge Guzy -- Virtual clinical trials for streamlining drug development / Zvia Agur -- Stage wise clinical trial experiments in phase I, II and III / S. …”
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Growing pains transitioning from a entrepreneurship to a professionally managed firm / by Flamholtz, Eric

Table of Contents: “…The authors -- A framework for developing successful organizations -- How to build successful companies: the pyramid of organizational development -- Identifying and surviving the first four stages of organizational growth -- Recognizing growing pains and assessing the need for change -- Management strategies for each stage of organizational growth -- The new venture and expansion stages -- The professionalizing stage: transitioning from entrepreneurship to professional management -- The consolidation stage: managing the corporate culture -- Mastering the tools of professional management -- Strategic planning -- Organizational structure -- Management development -- Organizational control systems -- Effective leadership -- Corporate culture management -- Advanced aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company -- Advanced strategic planning -- Managing to advanced stages of growth: a preview of future challenges -- Making the transition to a public company -- The personal aspects of organizational transitions in a growing and changing company -- The special case of managing family business transitions -- The transition CEOs must make to survive beyond the entrepreneurial stage -- List of tables, figures, and exhibits.…”
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