Practical Notes on Locomotive Engine Driving

Notes on Practical Surgery

as a preliminary to laryngotomy, for the removal of warts from the larynx. The tube used was Fuller's, with a split or dilating outer canula. Bronchitis supervened ; but after a few days the child was apparently doing well. On the seventh day after the operation severe arterial haemorrhage occurred from the trachea, with fatal result. At the autopsy, the trachea and innominate artery opposite t...

Notes on Practical Reasoning

I need at the start to say something about the relevance of logic, probability, and decision theory to reasoning by oneself—inference and deliberation—and to reasoning with others. The matter is complicated because the terms “logic”, “theory of probability”, and “decision theory” are used sometimes to refer to formal mathematical theories of implication and consistency, sometimes to refer to th...

Practical Notes on Nursing Procedures

Practical notes on implementing derivatives

For many applications in graphics, one is confronted with the task of solving an optimization problem or solving a nonlinear system of equations. Efficient methods for solving these problems require derivatives to be available. Differentiation in numerical methods also occurs for many other reasons, such as computing forces from potential energy or computing normal and curvature information fro...

Practical Notes on Obtaining Reliability Polynomials

General technical problems of obtaining coefficients of reliability polynomials for different reliability indices, such as all-terminal reliability, average pairwise reliability and average size of a connected sub-graph containing a special node are discussed in the paper. It is shown that one of possible forms of a reliability polynomial presentation helps in considerable speeding up of its ob...