Correspondence: ciaccio@columbia. edu Columbia University Medical Center, Harkness Pavilion 804, 180 Fort Washington Avenue, New York NY 10032 Abstract This article is a review of the book: ‘Applied Medical Image Processing: A Basic Course’, by Wolfgang Birkfellner, which is published by CRC Press. Basic information that should be helpful in deciding whether to read the book and whether to use ...

DEMONSTRATIONS OF PHYSICAL SiGNS IN CLINICAL SURGERY. By Hamilton Bailey, F.R.C.S. Tenth Edition (revised). Pp. 375. '"SYMPTOMS and Signs in Clinlical Surgery" has probably made the name of Hamilton Bailey familiar to more generations of medical students than any olther of hlis books, and the tenth edition will enhalnce thle reputations of both writer and publislher (John Wright & Sons Ltd.). I...

Non-native speakers of English far outnumber native speakers; English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports, air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, international competitions, pop music, and advertising (British Council 2014). Online education in the form of massive online open courses is also primarily in English...

CS245 course then covers implementation of a DBMS, notably storage structures , query processing, and transaction management. We're on a quarter system at Stanford, so the principal course using this book — CS245 — is only ten weeks long. In the Winter of 1999, Hector Garcia-Molina used a "beta" version of this book, and covered the following parts: Sections 2. The balance of Chapters 6 and 7 (...