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Biodesign
  • The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies
  • 2nd edition
  • Paul G. Yock, Stefanos Zenios, Josh Makower, Todd J. Brinton, Uday N. Kumar, F. T. Jay Watkins, Lyn Denend, Thomas M. Krummel, Christine Q. Kurihara
  • Published online:
    11 May 2018
    Print publication:
    02 February 2015
  • This step-by-step guide to medical technology innovation, now in full color, has been rewritten to reflect recent trends of industry globalization and value-conscious healthcare. Written by a team of medical, engineering, and business experts, the authors provide a comprehensive resource that leads students, researchers, and entrepreneurs through a proven process for the identification, invention, and implementation of new solutions. Case studies on innovative products from around the world, successes and failures, practical advice, and end-of-chapter 'Getting Started' sections encourage readers to learn from real projects and apply important lessons to their own work. A wealth of additional material supports the book, including a collection of nearly one hundred videos created for the second edition, active links to external websites, supplementary appendices, and timely updates on the companion website at ebiodesign.org. Readers can access this material quickly, easily, and at the most relevant point in the text from within the ebook.

Chance, Strategy, and Choice
  • An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections
  • Samuel Bruce Smith
  • Published online:
    11 May 2018
    Print publication:
    29 June 2015
  • Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for a general education course in game theory at the freshman or sophomore level, provides an elementary treatment of games and elections. Starting with basics such as gambling, zero-sum and combinatorial games, Nash equilibria, social dilemmas, and fairness and impossibility theorems for elections, the text then goes further into the theory with accessible proofs of advanced topics such as the Sprague–Grundy theorem and Arrow's impossibility theorem.Uses an integrative approach to probability, game, and social choice theoryProvides a gentle introduction to the logic of mathematical proof, thus equipping readers with the necessary tools for further mathematical studiesContains numerous exercises and examples of varying levels of difficultyRequires only a high school mathematical background.

Numbers and Functions
  • Steps into Analysis
  • 3rd edition
  • R. P. Burn
  • Published online:
    11 May 2018
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • The transition from studying calculus in schools to studying mathematical analysis at university is notoriously difficult. In this third edition of Numbers and Functions, Professor Burn invites the student reader to tackle each of the key concepts in turn, progressing from experience through a structured sequence of more than 800 problems to concepts, definitions and proofs of classical real analysis. The sequence of problems, of which most are supplied with brief answers, draws students into constructing definitions and theorems for themselves. This natural development is informed and complemented by historical insight. Carefully corrected and updated throughout, this new edition also includes extra questions on integration and an introduction to convergence. The novel approach to rigorous analysis offered here is designed to enable students to grow in confidence and skill and thus overcome the traditional difficulties.

Random Processes for Engineers
  • Bruce Hajek
  • Published online:
    11 May 2018
    Print publication:
    12 March 2015
  • This engaging introduction to random processes provides students with the critical tools needed to design and evaluate engineering systems that must operate reliably in uncertain environments. A brief review of probability theory and real analysis of deterministic functions sets the stage for understanding random processes, whilst the underlying measure theoretic notions are explained in an intuitive, straightforward style. Students will learn to manage the complexity of randomness through the use of simple classes of random processes, statistical means and correlations, asymptotic analysis, sampling, and effective algorithms. Key topics covered include:Calculus of random processes in linear systemsKalman and Wiener filteringHidden Markov models for statistical inferenceThe estimation maximization (EM) algorithmAn introduction to martingales and concentration inequalities.Understanding of the key concepts is reinforced through over 100 worked examples and 300 thoroughly tested homework problems (half of which are solved in detail at the end of the book).

  • Section 2 - Plautus’ Amphitruo

  • Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    An Independent Study Guide to <I>Reading Latin</I>
    Published online:
    21 June 2018
    Print publication:
    10 May 2018, pp 46-72

  • Summary

    2A(Text pp. 56–61)

    Notes for 2A

    In Section 2A we cover future indicative active, including sum, eo, possum, uolo, nolo and malo; 1st and 2nd decl. adj. like noster and uester; 3rd decl. adj. like celer and acer; numerals; and 4th decl. nouns like manus and domus.

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  • 1 erunt: the future of sum is based on the stem er-, giving ero, eris, erit etc.

  • 2 alter: is used where one wants to refer to one or the other of two entities, cf. line 8.

  • 3 Amphitruo: means ‘harassed on both sides’ – as he will be, by both Jupiter and Alcumena. Note that her Greek name is Alkmene; Alcmena and Alcimena are also found in Latin.

  • 6–7 seruus: tricky, verbally adept slaves, the source and butt of many jokes, are often the ‘heroes’ of comedy.

  • 8 Iuppiter: is the usual Latin spelling, rarely Iūpiter, the form from which the English derives. Another name for him was Diespiter ‘father of the day’, from which Iuppiter derives. In this play he is more like father of the night!

  • 10 Mercurius: addressing the audience as the prologue, Mercury calls the play a tragicomoedia, a ‘tragicomedy’ – the first known use of that word – because, as he explains, it has heroic ancient kings and gods in it. It is Plautus’ only experiment with Greek mythology.

  • 11 MERCVRIVS: note that classical Latin, always written in capitals, used V to represent both the vowel u and the semi-vowel w. The two sounds were not distinguished in writing till minuscule came in (c. 5th C AD), when u started to be used for the vowel and v for the semi-vowel. Mercury will himself become a tricky slave to act the part properly, thereby doubling the fun for the audience.

  • 13 nomen Mercurio est mihi: lit. ‘the name to me is Mercury’, i.e. ‘my name is Mercury’. mihi is dat. of possession with est, so this could also be translated ‘I have the name Mercury’. Note that in this idiomatic expression, the name (Mercurio) is attracted into the same case as mihi.

  • 15-17 Amphitruonis: further described in the gen. by uir … ducis. exercitus is gen. controlled by ducis – ‘leader of …’.

  • Section 6 - Poetry and politics: Caesar to Augustus

  • Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    An Independent Study Guide to <I>Reading Latin</I>
    Published online:
    21 June 2018
    Print publication:
    10 May 2018, pp 180-197

  • Summary

    6AHigh life and society (Text pp. 220–33)

    General note

    Everything you read from now on is unadapted. Notes on grammar, and difficult expressions and background information, follow each Running Vocabulary. There are grammar sections and exercises on metre. We have produced selected answers to these exercises below.

    Translation of 6A

    6A (i)

    You will dine well, my Fabullus, at my house

    in a few days, gods willing,

    if you bring with you a good, big

    dinner, not forgetting a pretty girl,

    [5] wine, wit and all the giggles.

    As I say, if you bring this, my charmer,

    you will dine well; for your Catullus’

    little purse is full of cobwebs.

    But in return you will get unmixed passion,

    [10] or whatever is sweeter or classier:

    for I shall give you a perfume which my girl

    was given by Venuses and Cupids,

    and when you smell it, you will ask the gods

    to make you all, Fabullus, nose.

    Now learn the Learning vocabulary at Text p. 221.

    6A (ii)

    Marrucinus Asinius, your left hand

    you do not use agreeably: over jokes and wine

    you lift the linen of the rather negligent.

    Do you think this is witty? You're wrong, idiot:

    [5] it's ever such a cheap and tasteless trick.

    You don't believe me? Believe Pollio,

    your brother, who even if it cost him a million,

    would like to reform your larceny: for he's

    a lad stuffed full of charm and wit.

    [10] And so it's either three hundred insulting verses

    you can expect or you can return my linen,

    which does not bother me in terms of its value,

    but is a souvenir of a good old pal of mine.

    For they were Spanish napkins from Saetabis

    [15] that were sent to me as a gift by Fabullus

    and Veranius: I've got to love these napkins

    as much as my little Veranius and Fabullus.

    Now learn the Learning vocabulary at GE p. 223.

    6A (iii)

    Yesterday, Licinius, at leisure

    we played around a lot on my writing-tablets,

    writing gay verse, as we'd agreed:

    as each of us wrote short poems,

    [5] we played around in different metres,

    capping each other over our jokes and wine.

  • Section 1 - Plautus’ Aulularia

  • Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    An Independent Study Guide to <I>Reading Latin</I>
    Published online:
    21 June 2018
    Print publication:
    10 May 2018, pp 7-45

  • Summary

    Introduction: familia Euclionis (Text p. 6)

    Preamble

  • 1 The English translation of the whole of Section 1 is word-for-word, in the Latin word-order. Where English uses more words than Latin, hyphens are used, e.g. amat, ‘he-loves’, serui, ‘of-the-slave’. If the strange word-order makes the English ambiguous, the Latin will solve the problem.

  • 2 Latin does not have a word for ‘the’ or ‘a’.

  • 3 In English, verbs in a question do not take the same form as verbs in a statement. Compare ‘you are’ and ‘are you?’ and ‘you carry’ and ‘do you carry?’ This is not the case in Latin, which uses exactly the same form of the verb in statements and questions. In this Section we have translated all Latin verbs as statements, e.g. quid est? ‘What it-is?’

  • 4 Explanations of the translation are given [in square brackets].

  • 5 Latin Text line numbers are given in the translation thus, [5].

    • Notes for introduction

    Text Page 6

    If you have read the Simplified grammatical introduction (pp. 2–6) of this volume, you will be looking keenly for subjects and objects. You will find plenty of subjects in this Section, but no objects (objects come in Section 1A). What you will find is the verb ‘to be’. This does not control an object but a complement.

    Consider: ‘Euclio is an old man.’ ‘Euclio’ subject, ‘is’ verb, ‘an old man’ – what is ‘an old man’? ‘An old man’ describes ‘Euclio’. ‘An old man’ is the complement to Euclio with the verb ‘to be’. ‘Euclio’ is subject, in the nominative case. ‘An old man’, the complement, is therefore in the nominative case as well, to show he is the same person as Euclio. ‘An old man’, as we say, ‘agrees’ with Euclio.

    Rule: the verb ‘to be’ takes the nominative case before and after (usually the subject before, the complement after, in English).

  • Section 5 - The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome 64–62

  • Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    An Independent Study Guide to <I>Reading Latin</I>
    Published online:
    21 June 2018
    Print publication:
    10 May 2018, pp 153-179

  • Summary

    5A(Text pp. 166–219)

    Notes for 5A

    The translation now reverts to normal English word-order.

    In this section, since GE already gives notes on new grammar, only a general note is given at the beginning of each sub-section telling you what new grammar to expect. References to the original are included at the end of each passage.

    Note on Sallust's style

    Sallust's language is very different from Cicero's. Cicero writes long sentences, with much use of anaphora (repetition), and with much amplification, all building up to tremendous climaxes. Sallust tends to write more concisely.

  • • He often omits esse (‘to be’), e.g. 5A(ii), line 33: libido sic accensa (‘her lust [was] so inflamed’) and line 34: uerum ingenium eius haud absurdum (‘But her intellect [was] not absurd’).

  • • He uses the historic infinitive, e.g. 5A(i), lines 19–21: sed in dies plura agitare, arma … parare, pecuniam portare (‘But day by day he stirred up many things, got arms ready, carried money …’).

  • • He goes to the heart of the matter without lengthy Ciceronian background explanations e.g. 5A(i), lines 5–6: erat ei cum Fuluia muliere nobili stupri uetus consuetudo (‘He had with Fulvia a long-standing sexual relationship’) – the behaviour was reprehensible (stuprum always reflects dishonour on the persons who perform the action and the illicitness of the action itself); it was habitual (consuetudo); and it had been going on a long time (uetus).

    • In these three passages, you will meet:

  • (a) Reinforcement of ut + subjunctive meaning ‘that’, giving the result of an action (introduced in.

  • (b) Reinforcement of ut + subjunctive meaning ‘in order that/to’ and indicating purpose (introduced in.

  • (c) The historic infinitive. See GE 153.

  • (d) The ablative of respect, indicating the point in which someone or something is X (e.g. ‘learned in —’, ‘fortunate in —’). See GE 154A.

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