Podrid"s Real-World ECGs: A Master"s Approach to the Art and Practice of Clinical ECG Interpretation. Volume 4A... (repost)

Podrid’s Real-World ECGs: A Master’s Approach to the Art and Practice of Clinical ECG Interpretation. Volume 4A, Arrhythmias: Core Cases by Philip Podrid and Rajeev Malhotra
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1935395025 | 368 pages | PDF | 123 MB

Podrid’s Real-World ECGs combines traditional case-based workbooks with a versatile Web-based program to offer students, health care professionals, and physicians an indispensable resource for developing and honing the technical skills and systematic approach needed to interpret ECGs with confidence. ECGs from real patient cases offer a complete and in-depth learning experience by focusing on fundamental electrophysiologic properties and clinical concepts as well as detailed discussion of important diagnostic findings and relevant management decisions. Six comprehensive volumes encompass more than 600 individual case studies plus an online repository of hundreds more interactive case studies that include feedback and discussion about the important waveforms and clinical decision-making involved. From an introductory volume that outlines the approaches and tools utilized in the analysis of all ECGs to subsequent volumes covering particular disease entities for which the ECG is useful, readers will take away the in-depth knowledge needed to successfully interpret the spectrum of routine to challenging ECGs they will encounter in their own clinical practice.

Volume 4, Arrhythmias–Part A: Core Cases presents 62 cases that are fundamental to the understanding and diagnosis of arrhythmias. Included are rhythm disorders involving the sinus node, those generated by the atrial myocardium, those involving the AV node or junction, and those that originate within the ventricular myocardium.

An additional 58 cases for further study are available in a separate digital edition,Volume 4, Arrhythmias Part B: Practice Cases.

Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism

Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism by Michael LaFargue
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1438460252 | pages | PDF + EPUB | 1,3 + 0,8 MB

Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato s legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato s Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character and become like God so far as is humanly possible. LaFargue constructs a model of inductive Socratic reasoning capable of acquiring knowledge of these perfect Virtue-Forms, then scales back claims about these Forms to what can be supported by this kind of reasoning. This is a critical theory, but also a pluralistic one that accommodates modern cultural diversity. A how-to chapter provides detailed descriptions of the rules of Socratic reasoning basic to this spirituality, which any interested individual can practice today. LaFargue supports his interpretation by a close reading of the Greek text of key passages in Plato s dialogues. The work also undertakes a broader philosophical consideration, discussing the philosophical foundations proposed for this Platonism in relation to the thought of G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Rorty.”

Experiments in the Machine Interpretation of Visual Motion (Repost)

David W. Murray, Bernard Buxton, “Experiments in the Machine Interpretation of Visual Motion”
1990 | pages: 243 | ISBN: 026213263X | PDF | 23,5 mb

If robots are to act intelligently in everyday environments, they must have a perception of motion and its consequences. This book describes experimental advances made in the interpretation of visual motion over the last few years that have moved researchers closer to emulating the way in which we recover information about the surrounding world. It describes algorithms that form a complete, implemented, and tested system developed by the authors to measure two-dimensional motion in an image sequence, then to compute three-dimensional structure and motion, and finally to recognize the moving objects.

The authors develop algorithms to interpret visual motion around four principal constraints. The first and simplest allows the scene structure to be recovered on a pointwise basis. The second constrains the scene to a set of connected straight edges. The third makes the transition between edge and surface representations by demanding that the wireframe recovered is strictly polyhedral. And the final constraint assumes that the scene is comprised of planar surfaces, and recovers them directly.

ContentsImage, Scene, and Motion; Computing Image Motion; Structure from Motion of Points; The Structure and Motion of Edges; From Edges to Surfaces; Structure and Motion of Planes; Visual Motion Segmentation; Matching to Edge Models; Matching to Planar Surfaces.

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