Written from a Visual Basic perspective, this guide intends to make you comfortable with using design patterns by laying out the concept of patterns in a practical fashion. Provides one or more complete working visual examples of programs using that pattern, along with UML diagrams illustrating how the classes interact. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Visual Basic Design Patterns VB 6.0 and VB.NET (With CD-ROm)

Computers & Technology

Cooper,James W.

Programming

Addison-Wesley

Computer Science/Programming Languages This unique guide will enable you to write serious C++ programs—in just three days! Here is your chance to master the C++ language quickly and completely. Based on a successful course given by the authors at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, this book/disk set provides the instruction, examples, and exercises you need to progress from simple starting programs to complex data manipulation in three compact reading/exercise sessions. The book offers clear, concise explanations that move you step-by-step through the material, and the disk contains a wealth of example programs and exercises that cover every aspect of C++, including: classes, inheritance, constructors and destructors, overloading, virtual functions, friends, static members, templates, and exceptions. Numerous special features make this the ideal source for scientists, programmers, professors, and students who need to upgrade their C skills to C++, but who previously thought that they didn’t have the time. Special features include: 
<ul>
<li>Practical "real world" examples</li> <li>Complete source code on diskette</li> <li>Advice on writing, structuring, and bulletproofing your programs</li> <li>Examples on using file stream I/O, exceptions, and templates</li> <li>Complete linked list class</li> <li>Neural network class</li> <li>Mandelbrot fractal drawing program</li> <li>Utility program for generating C++ class declaration and source header files</li> </ul>

A Jump Start Course in C++ Programming

Lam, Richard B.

Programming Languages

Wiley-Interscience

Serves as an introductory textbook in the identification of organic compounds by spectroscopic means. Covers the usual techniques of infrared (IR), proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H nmr) ultraviolet and mass spectroscopy with over 230 actual spectra included in the examples and worked-out problems. Covers the increasingly common techniques of carbon-13 nmr and Fourier transform nmr methods in a simple, non-mathematical way. Also discusses computer methods of iterating theoretical nmr spectra for a best fit with experimental ones using the popular LACOON III program in a conversational timesharing version.

Spectroscopic Techniques for Organic Chemists

Science & Math

Chemistry

wiley

Provided here is a simple introduction to writing scientific programs using the OS/2 presentation manager. This book shows you how to write programs in the C language and is the first to illustrate how to plot data on hard copy devices such as dot matrix printers and pen plotters. Since the C language may be somewhat hard to read for some beginners, a chapter has been included which introduces the C language and includes simple definitions to make C more readable. Discussions comprehensively cover all important areas, including: how to display images such as those obtained from scanning microscopy techniques, frame grabbers, and image capture devices; how multiple thread of execution can be used within your program so that several tasks can run at the same time; the methods of communicating between these threads; how to acquire data from acquisition cards; an introduction to the Intel 80286 assembly language; and how to make calls to OS/2's serial device driver showing how to send and receive characters simply. In addition, all program examples are complete working programs which are fully discussed so that novices can easily understand their purpose.

Writing Scientific Programs Under the OS/2 Presentation Manager

Operating Systems

Visual BASIC for DOS (VBDOS) is ideally suited for work in the physical science laboratory because access to serial ports and interface cards is much easier than other languages. It doesn't require line numbers, has subprograms which permit the passing of arguments, allows global and local variables, separate compilation of routines and linking of libraries and more. VBDOS provides a way for users to effectively process, acquire and display technical data.

Visual Basic for DOS: Building Scientific and Technical Applications

How to use Microsoft QuickBASIC to write better programs on IBM PC's and compatibles. QuickBASIC is a structured language, with powerful looping constructs--especially useful for handling programs with mathematical operations. Easier to use than documentation, this guide covers EGA and VGA monitors and how to program for them, treats graphs in BASIC on the IBM PC and the PS/2, illustrates the use of sophisticated debugging facilities, and provides an overview of assembly language for the 8086 series of microprocessors, and how simple assembly language routines can be interfaced to QuickBASIC programs.

Microsoft QuickBASIC for Scientists: A Guide to Writing Better Programs

A guide to diagnosis and treatment of viral diseases in geriatric patients, Antivirals in the Elderly offers health care providers a quick reference to special consideration for the most appropriate use of antiviral medications in the elderly. Authors present timely and updated information to help optimize treatment of the elderly.Authors offer information about the following health problems in regard to the elderly: 
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<li>influenza illness, prophylaxis, and treatment </li>
<li>herpes zoster (shingles) and its treatment </li>
<li>sexually transmitted viral diseases, including AIDS </li>
<li>antiviral drugs’efficacy and toxicity </li>
<li>immune competence </li>
<li>important pharmacokinetic considerations </li>
<li>underlying pathological states and conditions that predispose the elderly to infectionPhysicians, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, gerontologists, and other health care professionals involved with the care of elderly patients will find Antivirals in the Elderly an informative and concise reference to antiviral therapy for their geriatric patients.</li>
</ul>

Antivirals in the Elderly (Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy , Vol 10, No 2)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Thirteen million Americans and at least half of the 1.5 million nursing home residents in the U.S. experience urinary incontinence (UI), yet many people go without treatment because they feel embarrassed or don’t realize that UI is highly responsive to treatment. Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly discusses how to educate health care providers and the public about UI and how physicians, directors of nursing, and other health care providers can begin and maintain a comprehensive, science-based approach to diagnosing and treating UI. In no time at all, you will be able to implement effective treatment plans that are consistent with your patients’conditions, goals, and wishes.In addition to its practical techniques and steps for managing acute and chronic UI, Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly contains tables and charts that will help you diagnose the patient’s condition, identify the causes for UI, and select appropriate treatment methods. The book also gives you a list of helpful questions to assist you in the identification and assessment of UI and sample bladder records so that you or your patient can keep track of voluntary and involuntary urine voidings. To further increase your understanding of UI and its management, this helpful guidebook discusses: teaching women about gestational and postpartum pelvic muscle exercises proper bladder-emptying techniques behavioral, pharmacologic, and surgical treatment of UI risk factors associated with UI, such as low fluid intake, high-impact physical activities, diabetes, and estrogen depletion stress incontinence how your body makes, stores, and releases urine ensuring proper care of long-term residentsUrinary Incontinence in the Elderly will help consumers and caregivers treat and manage UI, but it will also enable them to work together to target and alleviate specific risk factors before UI even sets in. Don’t let UI go untreated--with dedicated teamwork and this book’s advice and suggestions, you can overcome it, or at least manage it, with surprising levels of success.

Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly: Pharmacotherapy Treatment (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy , Vol 11, No 3)

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions

Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects, can often be avoided or reduced. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you get better outcomes with your patients as it points out pitfalls to avoid and provides you with logical principles for administering drug therapy. Offering guidelines, advice, and gentle reminders, this book shows you the importance of properly documenting patient problems and of considering the entire medical history of your patients. It also helps you perform fall and psychoactive drug risk assessments and address under-recognized and undertreated problems such as malnutrition, depression, sensory deficits, anemia, osteoporosis, and pressure ulcers.As Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions clarifies, increased consultant pharmacist involvement in comprehensive pharmaceutical services results in the reduction of drug-related problems and medication-associated costs with long-term care patients. Using this book's helpful and substantive interventions, you can improve clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes in your practice. For this purpose, Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions discusses: 
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<li>a study designed to teach pharmacy students to identify, document, solve, and prevent medication-related problems </li>
<li>providing patient-focused care and assuming responsibility for patient outcomes </li>
<li>reimbursing pharmacists for performing cognitive service and cost-savings activities </li>
<li>how the prevalence of drug-related problems that influence the need for hospital and nursing home admissions increases with age </li>
<li>reasons for patient noncompliance </li>
<li>NSAID-associated gastritis, gastrointestinal bleeding, drug-induced delirium, incontinence, and constipation </li>
<li>why the advent of managed care does not bode well for the overall health outcomes of the elderlyPharmacists, physicians, and other health care providers can't control all aspects of drug use, but there are many practical steps you can take to help your patients use their prescriptions appropriately. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you monitor the efficacy of drug therapy, guide patients who are exasperated with being poked, prodded, and barraged with medications, and work together to develop therapy patterns and schedules that are effective and comfortable.</li>
</ul>

Medicine

CRC-Press

If you?re a pharmacist, nurse, or physician involved in caring for elderly patients, you?ll definitely want to take advantage of the concise review of the most important drugs for gastrointestinal problems in Gastrointestinal Drug Therapy in the Elderly. Compact, clear, and concise, this new volume will give you vital information concerning drug therapy for the elderly as presented by some of the world?s most authoritative, qualified professionals. Your knowlege of effective drug therapies will expand, and you?ll find new avenues of application for your treatment methods.Gastrointestinal Drug Therapy in the Elderly brings out your practical side, giving you method after method for dealing with the gastrointestinal maladies of elderly patients. Its scope is broad and contemporary, covering everything from gastroesophageal reflux disease to peptic ulcers, from inflammatory bowel disease to constipation and diarrhea. Specifically, you?ll get pragmatic guidance in the following areas:
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<li>heartburn causes and treatments</li>
<li>gastritis and peptic ulcers</li>
<li>inflammatory bowel disease</li>
<li>case studies of drug effects on the gastrointestinal tractYou?ll also receive in this useful volume a review of basic pathophysiology and the effects of drugs on the GI tract. Filled with useful case studies and recent findings on drug use, Gastrointestinal Drug Therapy in the Elderly is your guide to practicality and heightened success in the treatment of persistent gastrointestinal problems in your elderly patients. </li>
</ul>

Gastrointestinal Drug Therapy in the Elderly (Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy, Vol 12, No 1)

Wade, William E

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