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Death with Dignity
In this book the author makes a case for legalized physician-assisted dying. Using the latest data from Oregon and the Netherlands, he puts a new slant on perennial debate topics such as "slippery slopes," "the integrity of medicine," and "sanctity of life." This book provides an in-depth look at how we die in America today. It examines the shortcomings of our end-of-life system. You will learn about terminal torture in hospital ICUs and about the alternatives: hospice and palliative care. The author scrutinizes the good, the bad, and the ugly. He provides a critique of the practice of palliative sedation. The book makes a strong case that assisted dying complements hospice. By providing both, Oregon now has the best palliative-care system in America. This book, above all, may help you or someone you care about navigate this strange landscape we call "end of life." It can be an informed guide to "a good death" in the age of hospice and high-tech medical intervention.
Distributed Network Systems
Both authors have taught the course of “Distributed Systems” for many years in the respective schools. During the teaching, we feel strongly that “Distributed systems” have evolved from traditional “LAN” based distributed systems towards “Internet based” systems. Although there exist many excellent textbooks on this topic, because of the fast development of distributed systems and network programming/protocols, we have difficulty in finding an appropriate textbook for the course of “distributed systems” with orientation to the requirement of the undergraduate level study for today’s distributed technology. Specifically, from - to-date concepts, algorithms, and models to...
Changing the Ways We Work
This book highlights the effects of an increasing use of information technology, IT, in manufacturing. Mainly, focus is on the changes in organisation, in working procedures and in the demands on the capabilities of the personnel, both on the shop floor and the engineering and management levels. It disseminates information from the research and development carried out under ESPRIT's Integration in Manufacturing domain as well as from other activities in similar domains in industry and academia. A particular focus is on giving an overview and resume of work undertaken in the Third and Fourth Research Framework Programmes of ESPRIT.
Mobile Agents
Recent years have witnessed the appearance of new paradigms for designing distributed applications where the application components can be relocated - namically across the hosts of the network. This form of code mobility lays the foundation for a new generation of technologies, architectures, models, and - plications in which the location at which the code is executed comes under the control of the designer, rather than simply being a con?guration accident. Among the various ?avors of mobile code, the mobile agent paradigm has become particularly popular. Mobile agents are programs able to determine - tonomously their own migration to a di?erent host, and still retain their code and state (o...
2nd Workshop on Libraries, Component Modeling and Quality Assurance
Compendio de los trabajos presentados en Toledo durante el 2nd Workshop on Libraries, component modeling and quality assurance.
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2000. Data Mining, Financial Engineering, and Intelligent Agents
X Table of Contents Table of Contents XI XII Table of Contents Table of Contents XIII XIV Table of Contents Table of Contents XV XVI Table of Contents K.S. Leung, L.-W. Chan, and H. Meng (Eds.): IDEAL 2000, LNCS 1983, pp. 3›8, 2000. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000 4 J. Sinkkonen and S. Kaski Clustering by Similarity in an Auxiliary Space 5 6 J. Sinkkonen and S. Kaski Clustering by Similarity in an Auxiliary Space 7 0.6 1.5 0.4 1 0.2 0.5 0 0 10 100 1000 10000 10 100 1000 Mutual information (bits) Mutual information (bits) 8 J. Sinkkonen and S. Kaski 20 10 0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 Mutual information (mbits) Analyses on the Generalised Lotto-Type Competitive Learning Andrew Luk St B&P Neural ...
Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2003
The concept of CAST as Computer Aided Systems Theory, was introduced by F. Pichler of Linz in the late 80’s to include those computer theoretical and practical developments as tools to solve problems in System Science. It was considered as the third component (the other two being CAD and CAM) that will provide for a complete picture of the path from Computer and Systems Sciences to practical developments in Science and Engineering. The University of Linz organized the ?rst CAST workshop in April 1988, which demonstrated the acceptance of the concepts by the scienti?c and technical community. Next, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria joined the University of Linz to organize the ?r...
Programming with VisiBroker
The only book you need for programming VisiBroker using Java The most widely used commercial implementation of the CORBA standard, Inprise's VisiBroker, is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. Written by a team of Inprise insiders, this updated and expanded Second Edition of the #1 guide to programming VisiBroker helps Java developers quickly master the skills they need to develop more powerful and sophisticated distributed, object-oriented, client/server systems, from scratch or with existing components using VisiBroker 4. New topics covered in this edition include migrating VisiBroker 3 to version 4; the Portable Object Adaptor; implementing the Objects by Value feature; the VisiBroker Interface Repository; Dynamic Programming APIs for use with scripting; and more. CD-ROM contains VisiBroker for Java 4, VisiBroker Naming and Event Services, and complete code for all examples in the book.
Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA
Building secure applications using the most popular component technologies Did you know that most corporate computer security breaches are inside jobs by trusted employees? This book addresses the need in the era of multi-tier systems to implement security solutions across all enterprise applications, not just firewalls that target intrusion from the outside. With nationally recognized CORBA security experts Bret Hartman, Donald J. Flinn, and Konstantin Beznosov, this book shows application developers how to build secure, real-world applications that deliver tightly integrated security at all system levels using the latest component technologies and tools. Coverage also includes a sample e-commerce system built using Java with EJB and CORBA as well as case studies of implementations in finance, manufacturing, and telecom.
Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the international conference NetObjectDays 2002, held in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on embedded and distributed systems; components and MDA; Java technology; Web services; aspect-oriented software design; agents and mobility; software product lines; synchronization; testing, refactoring, and CASE tools.
