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This book provides a comprehensive guide for selective venous sampling procedures and the role of interventional radiologists in the care and treatment of patients with endocrine disorders. Disorders of the endocrine system involve an imbalance in the natural homeostasis of the hormones produced by the glands in the body. There are a variety of endocrine conditions that are characterized by either hormonal hyposecretion or hypersecretion. Perc...

This book provides a comprehensive guide for selective venous sampling procedures and the role of interventional radiologists in the care and treatment of patients with endocrine disorders. Disorders of the endocrine system involve an imbalance in the natural homeostasis of the hormones produced by the glands in the body. There are a variety of endocrine conditions that are characterized by either hormonal hyposecretion or hypersecretion. Perc...

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020"By turns hilarious and flat-out heart-breaking, Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown is a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel."-Roxanne Gay, head judge

One of the funniest books of the year has arrived, a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." -The Washington Post"Fresh and beautiful . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." -Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal...

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From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop....

THE AUTHOR BELIEVES: (IN HIS OWN WORDS) ¿ Diligence is the mother of achievement. ¿ No insurance company underwrites a policy for success. ¿ The Almighty acknowledges hardship and rewards accomplishment in His own way. ¿ When you fail, you gain experience. ¿ Advancement tastes sweeter with sweat. ¿ It is not HOW you start, it is WHAT you end up with. ¿ Walking the pathway of progress. living and learning must hold hands. ¿ Learning institution...

THE AUTHOR BELIEVES: (IN HIS OWN WORDS) ¿ Diligence is the mother of achievement. ¿ No insurance company underwrites a policy for success. ¿ The Almighty acknowledges hardship and rewards accomplishment in His own way. ¿ When you fail, you gain experience. ¿ Advancement tastes sweeter with sweat. ¿ It is not HOW you start, it is WHAT you end up with. ¿ Walking the pathway of progress. living and learning must hold hands. ¿ Learning institution...

Charles Yu experiments with form and genre to explore the stories we tell ourselves while navigating contemporary life. In "Third Class Superhero, " a would- be good guy must come to terms with the darkness in his heart. A couple living in the Luxury Car Commercial subdivision in "401(k)" are disappointed when their exotic vacation turns into a Life Insurance/Asset Management pitch. The author struggles to write the definitive biography of his...

Optic flow informs moving observers about their heading direction. Neurons in monkey medial superior temporal cortex show heading selective responses to optic flow and planar direction selective responses to local motion patches. Our goal was to test the hypothesis that the optic flow responses reflect the sum of the local motion responses. The local motion responses of each neuron were modeled as mixtures of Gaussians derived using a genetic ...

Data fusion problems arise frequently in many different fields.  This book provides a specific introduction to data fusion problems using support vector machines. In the first part, this book begins with a brief survey of additive models and Rayleigh quotient objectives in machine learning, and then introduces kernel fusion as the additive expansion of support vector machines in the dual problem.  The second part presents several novel kernel ...

The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories. Look for Charles Yu's new novel, Interior Chinatown, available in January. A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter le...

A time machine repairman becomes trapped in a time loop of his own making in this acclaimed debut, which combines the appeal of the two Douglases, Adams and Coupland.

Data fusion problems arise frequently in many different fields.  This book provides a specific introduction to data fusion problems using support vector machines. In the first part, this book begins with a brief survey of additive models and Rayleigh quotient objectives in machine learning, and then introduces kernel fusion as the additive expansion of support vector machines in the dual problem.  The second part presents several novel kernel ...

The Secrets of Chinese Meditation is a classic text that presents a rare opportunity: a chance to study the ancient and original sources which are the basis for most contemporary texts on consciousness development. Lu K'uaan Yu is one of the foremost interpreters of Chinese meditation practices. This concise volume is a presentation of different methods of meditation as practiced in China, including extracts from ancient and modern classics as...

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From a 5 Under 35 winner, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. Look for Charles Yu's new novel, Interior Chinatown, available in January. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking clien...