Introduction to Electrocardiography Diagnostic Skills

Electrocardiography and Introduction to Electrophysiologic Techniques

Of the benefits which graphic methods have conferred upon practical medicine, it is my desire to speak but briefly. These records have placed the entire question of irregular or disordered mechanism of the human heart upon a rational basis..., they have influenced prognosis..., they have potentially abolished the promiscuous administration of certain cardiac poisons, and have clearly shown the ...

Brief Introduction to Social Deliberative Skills

Social deliberative skill is the capacity to deal productively with heterogeneous goals, values, or perspectives, especially those that differ from ones own, in deliberative situations. In other papers we describe our team's initial results in exploring this domain, which includes evaluating software features hypothesized to support SD-skills in participants, using machine learning and text ana...

Introduction and Diagnostic Considerations

“Consider, too, that in publicizing RSD, we generally focus on the pain, not the disabilities that come with it—the legs and hands that no longer work, the bones that become osteoporotic, the joints that become locked, the muscles that become spastic...There is an awful lot we leave out—how a productive member of society can become too disabled to work or take care of her children. We don’t dis...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...