Category: E-Books

The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, (PDF) provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and kinds of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its all-embracing framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its economic,

Multimodal Behavioral Analysis in the Wild, (PDF) delivers state-of-the-art behavioral signal processing using different data modalities, with a particular focus on recognizing the strengths and limitations of current technologies. The ebook focuses on audio and video modalities, while also stressing emerging modalities, such as an accelerometer or proximity data. It

Fully revised and updated by authors Shigemi Kamitsuru, PhD, FNI, RN, and T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, FNI, Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2018-2020, 11th Edition (PDF) is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses, as reviewed and approved by NANDA International (NANDA-I). In this new 11th edition of a seminal

Computer and Cyber Security: Principles, Algorithm, Applications, and Perspectives (PDF) is a monumental reference for the theory and practice of computer security. Very comprehensive in scope, this textbook covers applied and theory, practical elements, and the reasons for the design of applications and security techniques. It provides excellent examples of

In this ebook titled The Economics of US Health Care Policy (PDF), authors Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform. They trace the foundations of today’s system and show how distortions in the incentives facing participants in the health care