Outcome Unknown A Visualized Novel with Story Choices Part of the Space Empire Universe


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A Visualized Novel with Story Choices Part of the Space Empire Universe Mark and Michele Connors want to preserve the Space Empire's historic religious and personal freedom but Earth interference and imperial corruption threaten their way of life. Mark's cousin Daniel means to launch a gas collecting mission to Titan to strike a blow for energy independence. Espionage and sabotage dog the mission as well as media smears and intimidation tactics. Everyone must make choices as the mission proceeds and these can spell success or disaster at every turn as the launch window approaches and time and resources go critical.







Distributed Computing


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DISC, the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, is an annual forum for presentation of research on all aspects of distributed computing, - cluding the theory, design, implementation and applications of distributed - gorithms, systems and networks. The 22nd edition of DISC was held during September 22-24, 2008, in Arcachon, France. There were 101 submissions submitted to DISC this year and this volume contains 33 15-page-long regular papers selected by the Program Committee among these submissions. Every submitted paper was read and evaluated by ProgramCommittee membersassistedby externalreviewers.The ?nal decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of each paper were made during the electronic Program Committee meeting held during June 2008. Revised and expanded versions of a few best selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal Distributed Computing. The Program Committee selected Robert Danek and Wojciech Golab as the recipientsofthis year'sBestPaperAwardfortheir paper “Closingthe Compl- ity Gap Between FCFS Mutual Exclusion and Mutual Exclusion.”The Program Committee selected Wojciech Wawrzyniak as the recipient of this year's Best Student Paper Award for the paper “Fast Distributed Approximations in P- nar Graphs” coauthored with Andrzej Czygrinow and Michal Han´ ´ckowiak.




Trading in the Zone


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Trading in the Zone introduces a whole new mental dimension to getting an edge on the market. Use it to leverage the power of the “zone” for unprecedented profit. Mark Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.













Practical Fairness


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Fairness is an increasingly important topic as machine learning and AI more generally take over the world. While this is an active area of research, many realistic best practices are emerging at all steps along the data pipeline, from data selection and preprocessing to blackbox model audits. This book will guide you through the technical, legal, and ethical aspects of making your code fair and secure while highlighting cutting edge academic research and ongoing legal developments related to fairness and algorithms. There is mounting evidence that the widespread deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence in business and government is reproducing the same biases we are trying to fight in the real world. For this reason, fairness is an increasingly important consideration for the data scientist. Yet discussions of what fairness means in terms of actual code are few and far between. This code will show you how to code fairly as well as cover basic concerns related to data security and privacy from a fairness perspective.




Asthma, Allergic and Immunologic Diseases During Pregnancy


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With insight and research from world-renowned experts, this book provides specific approaches to diagnosis and treatment, addressing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management. Specific conditions examined include asthma, rhinitis and sinusitis, anaphylaxis, atopic and contact dermatitis, urticaria and angioedema, hereditary angioedema, drug allergies, and primary immune deficiency. An overview of obstetric management of the high risk asthmatic and allergic patient is provided, and the book concludes with a discussion of the prevention of asthma and allergic diseases during childhood.




Monitoring Pathophysiology in the Injured Brain


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Pathophysiological processes in brain-injured patients can be assessed with an array of methods, with a goal to identify potentially deleterious events, guide treatments and avoid further deterioration. This eBook provides an in-depth exploration into different aspects of neuro-critical care monitoring and how new tools and strategies may be utilized to improve patient outcomes.