Books published by Taylor & Francis Inc

The proposed book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations. The underlying concept is explained from two perspectives: organizational level and policy level.

Trauma Care Manual 3e is the definitive evidence-based manual of best trauma practice. Written by members of Trauma Care, this book provides clear practical guidelines for the management of victims of major trauma. New coverage includes chapters on abdominal and urological trauma, as well as trauma in the obese patient.

The book "Rare Isotope Beams: Concepts and Techniques" gives an up to date overview of all these aspects of RIB science inside a single cover containing the scientific motivation, production techniques, experimental techniques for studying exotic nuclei, methods used in condensed matter research and medical applications.

Concise, problem-oriented, and accessibly designed, the Pocket Handbook of Small Animal Medicine 2nd Edition focuses on the essentials of medicine and surgery options of the dog and cat. The book helps start the process of case management and resolution. It includes tips and hints on interpretation of physical signs, diagnostic tests, and management of common presenting conditions. The book presents algorithms used to assist decision-making, specifically in clinical presentations and critical care. The new edition will be completely updated and contain three important new sections: Guide to Common Procedures, Client Communication and Professional Conduct and Therapeutics.

Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications (2nd edition) presents an updated introduction to linear modeling using the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) as the overarching conceptual framework. It provides a comprehensive introduction to GLMM methodology.

This is the second edition of a popular graduate level textbook on time series modeling, computation and inference. The book is essentially unique in its approach, with a focus on Bayesian methods, although classical methods are also covered.

Greenhouse Engineering helps enhance the competitive position of the global greenhouse industry by introducing economically, environmentally and socially sustainable technologies and management strategies.

This book is designed as a general text on the theoretical underpinnings of standard setting in the context of educational testing. Because it includes practical examples, it is a resource for professionals in educational testing or policy, or as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses.

This book provides an accessible but rigorous introduction to asymptotic theory in parametric statistical models. The book is based on lecture notes prepared by the first author, subsequently edited, expanded and updated by the second author. Includes a large number of exercises.

This handbook is intended to serve as a reference text on statistical methods for randomized controlled trials. It can be used as a textbook for a graduate course in statistical methods for randomized controlled trials as well as a reference for those involved in the design, monitoring and analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Focusing on applications in cancer treatment, this book covers basic principles, practical aspects, and clinical applications of focused ultrasound therapy. o.

This textbook begins with conventional power generation technologies, including steam power plants and gas turbine cycles. It then introduces more advanced cycles, including combined heat and power (CHP) cycles, combined cycle power plants (CCPP), integrated gasification combined cycles (IGCC), and fuel cells.

Forensic Neuropathology is written by experts for specialists and trainees alike addresses concerns of the forensic pathologist and neuropathologist by tackling the problems that arise during the post-mortem examination and subsequent legal proceedings.

This comprehensive textbook covers current state-of-the-art shotcrete technology. It provides an overview of the many and various uses of shotcrete. It includes chapters with case histories on shotcrete materials and mixture proportioning, performance, shotcrete research, equipment and shotcrete application.

This new edition of Cardiovascular Disease in Companion Animals now covers the horse as well as the dog and cat. The comprehensive, superbly illustrated book has been completely revised, expanded into five key sections, and contains a new Summary Formulary at end.

This book will present a unified and up-to date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering both diagnosis (classification) and prediction. The book will emphasize the practical implementation of these methods using standard statistical software such as R and STATA.

This book presents the advanced statistical methods for mapping pharmacogenetic control by integrating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles of drug-body interactions. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of biology, medicine, bioinformatics and drug design and delivery.

A comprehensive reference to molecular gastronomy, this book highlights techniques that have enabled chefs to achieve new and better ways of preparing food. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the physics, biology, and chemistry of food as well as food preparation along with practical tips on molecular cooking. It offers an introductory overview and perspective on key issues and contains a complete A-Z guide to scientific terminology, ingredients, tools, and methods, as well as innovative recipes by world-renowned chefs.

With an updated edition including new material in additional chapters, this one-of-a-kind handbook covers not only current standardization efforts, but also anthropometry and optimal working postures, ergonomic human computer interactions, legal protection, occupational health and safety, and military human factor principles.

This gives a comprehensive introduction to the (standard) statistical analysis based on the theory of martingales and develops entropy methods in order to treat dependent data in the framework of martingales. The author starts a summary of the martingale theory, and then proceeds to give full proofs of the martingale central limit theorems.

The book focuses on problem solving for practitioners and model building for academicians under multivariate situations. This book helps readers in understanding the issues, such as knowing variability, extracting patterns, building relationships, and making objective decisions.

With discussions on many developments in Bayesian methodologies, this work considers statistical issues in biomedical research. It includes an overview of Bayesian statistics, a discussion of rates and proportions with applications in clinical and other population-based studies, and developments in clinical trial design.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and systematic coverage of regional policy, dealing with core theories and looking at contemporary challenges in practice, addressing regional policy across the world.

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori.

Traditionally, computer programming skills have rarely been emphasized during the education and training of medical physicists, meaning that many individuals enter the workplace without the ability to solve real-world clinical problems.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on world¿s oceans.

Multiple Imputation of Missing Data in Practice: Basic Theory and Analysis Strategies provides a comprehensive introduction to the multiple imputation approach to missing data problems that are often encountered in data analysis.

Designed for researchers primarily interested in what their data are revealing, this book presents statistical methods without burdening readers with matrix algebra and calculus. The book shows how high resolution, publication-ready graphics associated with regression and ANOVA methods are produced with virtually no effort by the SAS user.