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For many years, there has been vast investment into researching chronic congestive heart failure, while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study. The latest trials and studies have generated a considerable amount of new data and many new concepts have been proposed looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure. Acute Heart Failure informs cardiology, intensive care, and emergency medicine physicians on the diagnosis and management of severe acute heart failure from epidemiology through to diagnosis and treatment. This broad inclusive coverage ensures that the entire subject is covered in the necessary detail, providing information not only on the practical management but also the scientific basis behind the processes involved in acute heart failure. Because cardiologists and intensivists do not see the same patients and/or do not have the same background, this book represents a joint effort from internationally known cardiologists and intensivists to set up a single reference resource, appropriate for practice both in Europe and the US. Consequently, all involved in the treatment of these patients will benefit from the consistent approach to acute heart failure within this book.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Cardiology. --- Cardiac Surgery. --- Internal Medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Epidemiology. --- Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Internal medicine. --- Heart --- Médecine --- Médecine d'urgence --- Médecine interne --- Cardiologie --- Coeur --- Epidémiologie --- Surgery. --- Chirurgie --- Heart failure -- Treatment. --- Heart failure. --- Heart failure --- Heart Failure --- Heart Diseases --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Diseases --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Treatment --- Treatment. --- Cardiac failure --- Cardiac insufficiency --- Failure, Heart --- Insufficiency, Cardiac --- Cardiac surgery. --- Cardiac arrest --- Medicine, Internal --- Cardiac surgery --- Open-heart surgery --- Internal medicine --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Public health --- Surgery

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Competency based critical care: Renal Increased recognition of the overlap between critical care and renal medicine, and recent advances in the understanding of acute renal failure and the application of renal replacement therapies, have brought increased attention to the nephrologist's role in the intensive care unit. This book covers all aspects of the renal system as seen from this perspective, including causes and management of acute kidney injury, end-stage kidney disease and renal replacement therapies. The volume is written to provide an approach for the resident in nephrology, and recent advances are highlighted in the text, also making this text a useful reference to those already established within the field of critical care. Key features include: - Concise and complete book for the learning resident. - Multidisciplinary relevance, offering clear explanations of each department and discipline’s role in the overall treatment process, making focused and contextual reading easier. - Accessible format making the process of self-directed learning as user friendly as possible. - Up-to-date chapters written and edited by expert practitioners in the field, to complete a contemporary text that will be of use to trainees and specialists alike.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Nephrology. --- Transplant Surgery. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Médecine --- Médecine d'urgence --- Soins intensifs --- Néphrologie --- Greffe (Chirurgie) --- Acute renal failure -- Treatment. --- Acute renal failure. --- Kidneys -- Diseases -- Treatment. --- Kidneys -- Diseases. --- Kidneys --- Acute renal failure --- Renal Insufficiency --- Acute Kidney Injury --- Kidney Diseases --- Urologic Diseases --- Male Urogenital Diseases --- Female Urogenital Diseases --- Diseases --- Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications --- Medicine --- Urology & Nephrology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Treatment --- Diseases. --- Treatment. --- Acute kidney failure --- Acute renal insufficiency --- Kidney failure, Acute --- Renal failure, Acute --- Renal insufficiency, Acute --- Kidney diseases --- Nephritis --- Nephropathy --- Renal diseases --- Surgical transplantation. --- Transplantation of organs, tissu. --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Tissues --- Transplants, Organ --- Surgery --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Internal medicine --- Transplantation --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery

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Multimodal Usability demonstrates several major generalisations of human-computer interaction and extends the traditional focus on graphical user interfaces to all input/output modalities accessible to vision, hearing, and touch. Multimodal Usability can help make a multimodal interactive system usable no matter if you are building a work tool or a game, and whether your system models aspects of people, like a virtual (or robot) companion or friend, or not. Successful implementation can be achieved using the following usability development steps: (1) Augment system model specification with an AMITUDE model of use specified in terms of Application type, Modalities, Interaction type, Task, User, Device and Environment of use. (2) Apply usability methods to collect the usability data needed at any time. A toolbox of 24 key methods are presented in a common format. Methods are of five kinds: question-answering, meetings with discussion, observation, imagination, and interaction with the system. (3) For each method application, post-process, annotate, analyse, report, and act on the data to improve system model usability. Three multimodal system Cases are included to illustrate usability development from idea to user test of the implemented prototype. Multimodal Usability assumes no prior knowledge about usability and human-computer interaction.

Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Media Design. --- Computer science. --- Computer system performance. --- Informatique --- Human-computer interaction --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Interactive multimedia --- Human-computer interaction. --- Human engineering. --- Informatics --- Science --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer system failures. --- Multimedia systems . --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Computer systems --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Failures

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Network calculus, a theory dealing with queuing systems found in computer networks, focuses on performance guarantees. The development of an information theory for stochastic service-guarantee analysis has been identified as a grand challenge for future networking research. Towards that end, stochastic network calculus, the probabilistic version or generalization of the (deterministic) Network Calculus, has been recognized by researchers as a crucial step. Stochastic Network Calculus presents a comprehensive treatment for the state-of-the-art in stochastic service-guarantee analysis research and provides basic introductory material on the subject, as well as discusses the most recent research in the area. This helpful volume summarizes results for stochastic network calculus, which can be employed when designing computer networks to provide stochastic service guarantees. Features and Topics: • Provides a solid introductory chapter, providing useful background knowledge • Reviews fundamental concepts and results of deterministic network calculus • Includes end-of-chapter problems, as well as summaries and bibliographic comments • Defines traffic models and server models for stochastic network calculus • Summarizes the basic properties of stochastic network calculus under different combinations of traffic and server models • Highlights independent case analysis • Discusses stochastic service guarantees under different scheduling disciplines • Presents applications to admission control and traffic conformance study using the analysis results • Offers an overall summary and some open research challenges for further study of the topic Researchers and graduates in the area of performance evaluation of computer communication networks will benefit substantially from this comprehensive and easy-to-follow volume. Professionals will also find it a worthwhile reference text. Professor Yuming Jiang at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has lectured using the material presented in this text since 2006. Dr Yong Liu works at the Optical Network Laboratory, National University of Singapore, where he researches QoS for optical communication networks and Metro Ethernet networks. Key Topics: • Queuing systems • Performance analysis and guarantees • Independent case analysis • Traffic and server models • Analysis of scheduling disciplines • Generalized processor sharing • Open research challenges.

Computer Science. --- Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Computer science. --- Computer network architectures. --- Computer system performance. --- Informatique --- Réseaux d'ordinateurs --- Architectures --- Queuing theory. --- Queuing theory --- Mathematical Statistics --- Operations Research --- Mathematics --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Stochastic processes. --- Random processes --- Erlang traffic formula --- Queueing theory --- Theory of queues --- Waiting-line theory --- Computer organization. --- Computer communication systems. --- Computer system failures. --- Probabilities --- Production scheduling --- Stochastic processes --- Architectures, Computer network --- Network architectures, Computer --- Computer architecture --- Organization, Computer --- Electronic digital computers --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Computer systems --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Failures --- Distributed processing

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This volume contains the proceedings of two international workshops EPEW and WS-FM held atthe Universit´ ede VersaillesSaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,V- sailles, France, 1-3 September 2005. EPEW (European Performance Engineering Workshop) and WS-FM (Int- national Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods) were colocated to gather the researchers working across the spectrum of techniques for modelling, speci?cation, analysis and veri?cation of the behavior of computer systems and business processes. This proceedings contains a selection of 20 research contributions, out of 59 submissions, which went through a rigorous review process by international reviewers. We therefore owe special thanks to all members of both program committees of EPEW and WS-FM and their sub-referees for the excellent work they did in the short time they had. Additionally, this proceedings includes four invited papers, by Gianfranco Ciardo (University of California at Riverside), Peter G. Harrison (Imperial C- lege London), Cosimo Laneve (University of Bologna) and Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology). These contributions brought an ad- tional dimension to the technical and the scienti?c merit of these workshops. Finally,ourthanksgototheUniversityofVersaillesSaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, its Laboratoire PRiSM and the CNRS for hosting the workshops and providing technicaland?nancialsupport.

software engineering --- Computer. Automation --- maatschappij --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- informatica --- computernetwerken --- computerbesturingssystemen --- programmeren (informatica) --- Computer science --- Formal methods (Computer science) --- Stochastic models --- Computer systems --- Evaluation --- Software engineering. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Logic design. --- Computer system performance. --- Computer science. --- Software Engineering. --- Logics and Meanings of Programs. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Computers and Society. --- Informatics --- Science --- Design, Logic --- Design of logic systems --- Digital electronics --- Electronic circuit design --- Logic circuits --- Machine theory --- Switching theory --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Computer communication systems. --- Computer logic. --- Computer system failures. --- Computers and civilization. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Computer science logic --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Failures --- Distributed processing --- Computer networks. --- Electronic digital computers—Evaluation. --- Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming.