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Create your own STM32 programs with ease!Get up and running programming the STM32 line of microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics using the hands-on information contained in this easy-to-follow guide. Written by an experienced electronics hobbyist and author, Programming with STM32: Getting Started with the Nucleo Board and C/C++ features start-to-finish projects that clearly demonstrate each technique. Discover how to set up a stable development toolchain, write custom programs, download your programs to the development board, and execute them. You will even learn how to work with external servos and LED displays!ΓÇóExplore the features of STM32 microcontrollers from STMicroelectonicsΓÇóConfigure your Nucleo-64 Microcontroller development boardΓÇóEstablish a toolchain and start developing interesting applications ΓÇóAdd specialized code and create cool custom functionsΓÇóAutomatically generate C code using the STM32CubeMX applicationΓÇóWork with the ARM Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard and the STM hardware abstraction layer (HAL).ΓÇóControl servos, LEDs, and other hardware using PWMΓÇóTransfer data to and from peripheral devices using DMAΓÇóGenerate waveforms and pulses through your microcontrollerΓÇÖs DAC

The all-in-one guide to mastery of Arabic grammarArabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Arabic if you are a beginner or a quick, thorough reference is you already have experience in the language. It offers a solid foundation of major verbal and grammatical concepts of the language, providing clear explanations of concepts and how they are similar, or very different, in Arabic and English.Each unit is devoted to one topic, so you can find what you need and get focused instruction immediately. Concise yet thorough, the explanations are supported by numerous examples to help you master the different concepts. And for those tricky verbs, Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar includes a Verb Index of the most common verbs, cross-referenced with the abundant verb tables appearing throughout the book.This book will give you all this:ΓùÅ Concise explanations of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and other grammar essentialsΓùÅ Examples that reflect contemporary usage and real-life situationsΓùÅ A high-frequency index to 400 Arabic verbs, cross-referenced to relevant sections in the bookNew to this edition, twelve AuthorsΓÇÖ Tutorials that will help your understanding of the system of Arabic verb roots. These recordings are available as streaming audio through the McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app.

The acclaimed application-based guide to adult mechanical ventilation --- updated to reflect the latest topics and practice guidelinesThis practical guide is written from the perspective of authors who have nearly 100 yearsΓÇÖ experience as clinicians, educators, researchers, and authors. Unlike other references on the topic, this resource is about mechanical ventilation rather than mechanical ventilators. It is written to provide a solid understanding of the general principles and essential foundational knowledge of mechanical ventilation as required by respiratory therapists and critical care physicians.  To make it clinically relevant, Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation includes disease-specific chapters related to mechanical ventilation in these conditions. The Fourth Edition has been carefully updated throughout. New content includes coverage of mechanical ventilation of the obese patient and advanced monitoring procedures. Concepts such as driving pressure are included, and the content has been checked against the most recently published clinical practice guidelines.Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation, Fourth Edition is divided into four parts:Part One, Principles of Mechanical Ventilation describes basic principles of mechanical ventilation and then continues with issues such as indications for mechanical ventilation, appropriate physiologic goals, and ventilator liberation.  Part Two, Ventilator Management, gives practical advice for ventilating patients with a variety of diseases. Part Three, Monitoring During Mechanical Ventilation, discusses blood gases, hemodynamics, mechanics, and waveforms. Part Four, Topics in Mechanical Ventilation, covers issues such as airway management, aerosol delivery, and extracorporeal life support.

The first resource dedicated to providing concise summaries of the most clinically relevant inpatient care guideline summariesCURRENT Practice Guidelines in Inpatient Medicine, 2018-2019 is written to spare busy physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and medical students from having to wade through full-length practice guidelines in order to provide high-quality care for hospitalized adults. With content drawn from reliable sources such as major professional societies and government agencies, each section of the book outlines the guidelines surrounding initial assessment, acute management, and subsequent care for conditions commonly encountered in the hospital setting. CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Inpatient Medicine, 2018-2019 strikes the perfect balance between brevity and clinical necessity, delivering exactly the amount of information needed ΓÇô no more, no less

This highly effective study guide offers 100% coverage of every subject on the FE Civil examThis self-study resource contains all the information you need to prepare for and pass the challenging FE Civil exam. Written by a leading civil engineering educator and exam coach, Fundamentals of Engineering FE Civil All-in-One Exam Guide features clear explanations, exam strategies, and practice problems with fully worked solutions. Organized to exactly follow the order of the official exam syllabus, this effective study guide includes references to the official FE Reference Handbook along with tips on how to utilize that resource during the exam. Covers all exam subjects, including: ΓÇóMathematicsΓÇóProbability and statisticsΓÇóComputational toolsΓÇóEthics and Professional practiceΓÇóEngineering economicsΓÇóStaticsΓÇóDynamicsΓÇóMaterials and mechanics of materialsΓÇóFluid mechanicsΓÇóHydraulics and hydrologic systemsΓÇóStructural analysis and designΓÇóGeotechnical engineeringΓÇóTransportation engineeringΓÇóEnvironmental engineeringΓÇóConstructionΓÇóSurveying

The fun, fast, and effective way for nursing majors to master pharmacology!Finally! A pharmacology primer written for nursing (and other allied health) majors rather than pharmacy students.  You might be apprehensive learning pharmacology, especially if you have little, if any, experience with drugs. Pharmacology can by mystifying. However, it becomes demystified as you read this innovative text, because your knowledge of basic science is used as the foundation to learn pharmacology.  All you need is a working knowledge of basic science ΓÇô and Pharmacology Demystified ΓÇô and youΓÇÖre well on your way to mastering this challenging topic.Pharmacology Demystified starts you off by fully explaining must-know concepts and practices in easily understood everyday language. Then, this unique guide leads you forward ΓÇô at your own pace ΓÇô to master the more complex aspects of pharmacology. Summations of key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and a ΓÇ£final examΓÇ¥ reinforce learning every step of the way.

The acclaimed quick-reference manual focusing on the clinical management of the critically ill pregnant patientFor two decades, the Obstetric Intensive Care Manual has distinguished itself as the go-to guide for obstetricians, intensivists, residents, and nurses requiring immediate, practical guidance on intensive and critical care obstetric issues. Carefully written and formatted to deliver at-a-glance answers the moment they are needed, this trusted resource delivers treatment information on the most commonly encountered emergencies such as maternal sepsis, postpartum hemorrhage, cardiac disease, and thyroid emergencies. The Manual also covers key topics in managing obstetric patients in the ICU, such as transporting critically ill patients, fetal considerations and neonatal resuscitation, fluid and electrolyte therapy, and advanced cardiac life support. Features:ΓÇóUpdated content reflects the best available evidenceΓÇóEasy-to-apply step-by-step guidance helps you deliver outstanding care to critically ill patients, and makes even the most complex treatment protocol simple to implementΓÇóNumerous summary tables, algorithms, figures, boxed information, and illustrations put essential information at your fingertipsΓÇóMemory aids help you learn and remember information in the most efficient way possibleIf you are in need of a time-proven reference that delivers focused coverage over an extensive range of topics relative to obstetric intensive care, your search ends here. 

Master Cloud building with Oracle VM 3 installation, configuration, and maintenanceSet up, configure, and manage a dynamic virtualization platform across your enterprise using the detailed information contained in this Oracle Press guide. The book shows, step-by-step, how to size servers for Oracle VM, choose and deploy virtualization hardware and manage the environment as the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure. Real-world examples and valuable best practices are featured throughout.Oracle VM 3 Cloud Implementation and Administration Guide lays out key virtualization concepts and clearly explains every aspect of Oracle VM architecture. From there, you will learn how design server farms, build and maintain virtual machines, handle provisioning and cloning, work with Oracle VM Manager, and incorporate solid security procedures. Advanced topics such as Disaster Recovery design and implementation, Cloud management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and advanced storage and network integration aspects are fully covered.ΓÇó Features tips, techniques, and tools for optimizing Oracle products on Oracle VMΓÇó Contains expert, hands-on advice on tackling the most common challenges ΓÇó Written by a team of Oracle professionals with extensive VM experience

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Emphasizing the role that communication plays in both creating and solving family issues, Perspectives on Family Communication thoroughly reflects the explosion of research literature in the area of family communication. Now in its fifth edition, this text continues to emphasize the role that communication plays in the evolution of family issues. The material examines a wide variety of contemporary family types and supports this examination with current research and practical examples. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessment.McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:. SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.. Access to your instructor's homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course.. Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.. The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

A complete guide to petrochemicals production processes-fully revised to cover the latest advancesGet all the information you need on petrochemical processes for major organic chemicals inside this industry-standard one-stop reference. Prepared by leading petrochemical licensing firms, Handbook of Petrochemicals Production Processes, Second Edition clearly explains the powerful techniques used to create the most economically important chemicals in the world. The book offers cutting-edge production methods along with detailed product properties. You will discover how to effectively evaluate licensable processes for new production through the comparison of technologies, environmental factors, and economics.Coverage includes:.General process descriptions, feed definitions, product yields, and simplified flow diagrams .Process chemistries and thermodynamics .Commercial process perspectives, including plant locations and long-term plans .Process details, with flow diagrams and mass and energy balances for major process variations .Feeds and details on unique and key equipment.Brand-new details on gas to petrochemical conversion, biomass to petrochemical conversion, and bisphonal A (BPA)

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The first complete guide to the rapidly expanding field of telehealth From email to videoconferencing, telehealth puts real-time healthcare solutions at patientsΓÇÖ and cliniciansΓÇÖ fingertips. Every year, the field continues to evolve, enhancing access to healthcare, supporting clinicians, and improving the patient experience. However, since telehealth is in its infancy, no text has offered a comprehensive, definitive survey of this up-and-coming fieldΓÇöuntil now. Written by past presidents of the American Telemedicine Association, Understanding Telehealth explains how clinical applications leveraging telehealth technology are optimizing healthcare delivery. In addition, this timely resource examines the bedrock principles of telehealth and highlights the safety standards involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients through digital communications. Logically organized and supported by high-yield clinical vignettes, the book begins with essential background information, including a look at telehealth history, definitions and roles, and rural health. It then provides an overview of clinical services for adults, from telestroke to telepsychiatry. The third section addresses pediatric clinical services, encompassing pediatric emergency and critical care, telecardiology, and more. A groundbreaking resource:ΓÇóChapters cover a broad spectrum of technologies, evidence-based guidelines, and application of telehealth across the healthcare continuum ΓÇóIdeal for medical staff, public healthcare executives, hospitals, clinics, payors, healthcare advocates, and researchers alikeΓÇóIncisive coverage of the legal and regulatory environment underpinning telehealth practice

This one-semester text is designed for an upper-level majors course. Vertebrates features a unique emphasis on function and evolution of vertebrates, complete anatomical detail, and excellent pedagogy. Vertebrate groups are organized phylogenetically, and their systems discussed within such a context. Morphology is foremost, but the author has developed and integrated an understanding of function and evolution into the discussion of anatomy of the various systems.

State-of-the-art coverage of Cardiovascular PETThis innovative text provides readers with in-depth clinical updates on every aspect of Cardiovascular PET. With coverage that spans everything from instrumentation to clinical procedures, the intent and focus of the book is provide readers with the very latest, most reliable data in this rapidly expanding area. Essential for anyone preparing for the Nuclear Cardiology boards, Cardiovascular PET: Current Concepts in logically divided into six section: Technical Developments in PET, New Developments in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with Cardiac PET, New Developments in Viability Assessment with Cardiac PET, Current Status of Assessment Cardiac Sarcold with FDG Imaging, Infection and Vascular Inflammation Imaging, and New Tracers in Cardiovascular PET.

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook spanning the entire scope of cardiovascular and pulmonary practiceCardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy, Third Edition reflects the broadest possible spectrum of cardiovascular and pulmonary practice and draws upon the expertise of a carefully selected team of world-renowned contributors. This internationally acclaimed text reviews must-know background knowledge, thoroughly explains exercise principles, cites the best evidence, and integrates the American Physical Therapy Association's approved practice patterns into the chapter content. Learn how to apply principles to practice in any setting with:. The Guide to Physical Therapy Practice integrated throughout, with an entire chapter devoted to its history and use . Preferred practice patterns for cardiovascular and pulmonary physical therapy form the core of eight chapters are used as springboards to describe interventions and outcomes . Case studies in practice pattern chapters allow you to experience the proper application of the practice patterns . The patient-client management model is used in the case studies with appropriate test, measures, and interventions selected from the practice patterns and applied to the patient . "International Perspectives" provide a way to gain insight into the global practice of physical therapy . Evidence-based and peer reviewed published material is included to help you develop specific intervention regimens . Online access to case-based exercises, video clips illustrating technical psychomotor skills, and demonstrations of cardiac and pulmonary physical exams

This is a book of hypothetical cases written to give students real examples of key finance concepts. Each case contains a strong critical thinking/analytical component. The cases match topics covered by all of our undergraduate books, making it the perfect companion. Each case is 3-4 pages in length, and concludes with questions and problems that walk students through calculations and critical analysis of the case to help them make business decisions.

Preface to Marketing Management, 15e, by Peter and Donnelly, is praised in the market for its clear and concise presentation of the basic principles of marketing in such a way that the core concepts and ideas are covered in sufficient depth to ensure understanding. By offering an engaging, clear, and conceptually sound text, this book has been able to maintain its position as a leading marketing management text. The fifteenth edition serves as an overview for critical issues in marketing management. Its brief, inexpensive, paperback format makes it a perfect fit for instructors who assign cases, readings, simulations or offer modules on marketing management for MBA students. The text also works in courses that implement a cross-functional curriculum where the students are required to purchase several texts.

Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems, Fifth Edition, provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the field of mechatronics for mechanical, electrical and aerospace engineering majors. The author presents a concise review of electrical circuits, solid-state devices, digital circuits, and motors- all of which are fundamental to understanding mechatronic systems.Mechatronics design considerations are presented throughout the text, and in "Design Example" features. The text's numerous illustrations, examples, class discussion items, and chapter questions & exercises provide an opportunity to understand and apply mechatronics concepts to actual problems encountered in engineering practice. This text has been tested over several years to ensure accuracy.Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems, Fifth Edition - is a multifaceted resource which is designed to serve as a text for modern instrumentation and measurements courses, hybrid electrical and mechanical engineering courses replacing traditional circuits and instrumentation courses, as well as for stand-alone mechatronics courses, or the first course in a mechatronics sequence. It can also work for hybrid courses, providing an opportunity to reduce the number of credit hours in a typical mechanical engineering curriculum. Written by the academic award winning author and mechanical engineering professor, Dr. David G. Alciatore.The author's webpage (linked to from OLC) has additional computer files and resources, including MATLAB examples, videos demonstrations, and lab exercises.

Designed for courses that provide a conceptual and broad-based introduction to econometrics and business analytics, Predictive Analytics for Business Strategy, 1st edition provides future managers with a basic understanding of what data can do in forming business strategy without getting into a taxonomy of models and their statistical properties. Through engaging questions, explanations, and applications, students develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental reasoning behind how and why analysis can generate actionable knowledge and learn to think critically about whether a given analysis has merit or not.

First published just over 50 years ago and now in its Eighth Edition, Bill Hayt and John Buck's Engineering Electromagnetics is a classic text that has been updated for electromagnetics education today. This widely-respected book stresses fundamental concepts and problem solving, and discusses the material in an understandable and readable way. Numerous illustrations and analogies are provided to aid the reader in grasping the difficult concepts. In addition, independent learning is facilitated by the presence of many examples and problems. Important updates and revisions have been included in this edition. One of the most significant is a new chapter on electromagnetic radiation and antennas. This chapter covers the basic principles of radiation, wire antennas, simple arrays, and transmit-receive systems.

Over the course of two decades, Urban Economics has achieved a worldwide audience, and has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Russian, and Korean. Like the eight previous editions, this edition provides a clear and concise presentation of the economic forces that:- cause the development of cities;- determine the spatial form of cities;- cause urban economies to grow or shrink;- generate urban problems such as poverty, crime, and congestion;- make the market for urban housing unique; and- shape the tax and spending policies of local governments.In addition to developing the basic concepts of urban economics, the book uses economic analysis to evaluate the merits of policies designed to address our most vexing urban problems.

The #1 review for the USMLE Step 2 CS is now even better!The Sixth Edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CS has been updated to reflect the latest NBME exam format and worksheet items, and incorporates feedback from recent US and international test-takers. This high-yield review delivers a thorough exam preparation guide for the USMLE Step 2 CS, offering a solid review of frequently test CS cases, along with proven study and exam strategies for clinical encounters.¿44 full-length practice cases that simulate the real exam, updated to reflect recent exam changes, and test your ability to document the patient's most likely diagnosis and how it is supported by the history and physical findings¿A revised and expanded set of 39 minicases representing common complaints designed to help you rapidly develop a working set of differential diagnoses¿Detailed descriptions and illustrations of high-yield physical exam maneuvers that will win you points without costing time¿Updated maxicases with examples of how to ask patients insightful questions¿Expanded guidelines on how to deal with challenging situations, including those that pose ethical and confidentiality issues¿An updated exam preparation guide for the new USMLE® Step 2 CS, including proven study and exam strategies for clinical encounters based on the patient-centered interview¿Updated content based on feedback from recent U.S. and international test takers