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The Unofficial Guide? to Overcoming Arthritis (Unofficial Guides)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Iannucci, Lisa

Horowitz, Mark

Diseases & Physical Ailments

wiley

Describes the symptoms and diagnosis of lupus, discusses medications, and offers advice on preventing flare ups

Living with Lupus

Brill, Marietta Abrams

Plume

We spend most of our lives as members of collections of people – families, corporations, churches, civic groups, gangs, book clubs, sports teams, ethnic groups, economic systems, nation states, to name a few. But, we have very little understanding of how these groups or systems work. We tend to see human systems as simply the collection of the people that make them up. When something goes wrong in a system, we see only the individual people so some person must be at fault – “You’re not carrying your weight in the family,” or “The director of manufacturing can’t manage his people so product quality has deteriorated.” Clearly, this way of seeing and interpreting events leads to finger-pointing, blame and polarization among the very people who need to be working together to solve the systemic problem. It also leads to paralysis and gridlock as we wait for those ‘other’ people who are causing our problems, to change. So we change wives, or we change the director of manufacturing, or we change president of the United States, but nothing really changes. This book helps the reader understand why and what to do about it.

The Dance of We: The Mindful Use of Love and Power in Human Systems

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Synthesis Center, The

In his new book, The Dance of We, Mark Horowitz draws from his many years of work in psychology and as an organizational development consultant to explain the powerful systemic forces that impact us in our families, our workplaces and our social and political systems. Using humor, current events, and stories from his own life, including his early years in a cult, the author describes four characteristics of dysfunctional human systems and four principles for balancing love and power in order to make those systems more Life-affirming.

The Dance of We: The mindful use of LOVE and POWER in human systems

The Synthesis Center

Comprehensive resource describing guidelines for safely reducing or stopping (deprescribing) antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs for patients, including step-by-step guidance for all commonly used medications, covering common pitfalls, troubleshooting, supportive strategies, and more. Most formal guidance on psychiatric medication relates to starting or switching medications with minimal guidance on deprescribing medication. In 2023, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations called for patients, as a human right, to be informed of their right to discontinue treatment and to receive support to do so.&nbsp; The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines fills a significant gap in guidance for clinicians by providing comprehensive and authoritative information on this important aspect of treatment. The evidence-based handbook provides an overview of principles to be used in deprescribing. This is derived from fundamental scientific principles and the latest research on this topic, combined with emerging insights from clinical practice (including from patient experts). Building on the recognised brand of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, and the prominence of the authors' work, including in The Lancet Psychiatry on tapering antidepressants (the most read article across all Lancet titles when it was released).&nbsp;The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines covers topics such as: <ul> <li>Why and when to deprescribe antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs</li> <li>Barriers and enablers to deprescribing including physical dependence, social circumstances, and knowledge about the discontinuation process</li> <li>Distinguishing withdrawal symptoms from dose reduction, such as poor mood, anxiety, and insomnia, from symptoms of the underlying disorder that medication was intended to treat</li> <li>The difference between physical dependence and addiction/substance use disorder</li> <li>Explanation of why and how to implement hyperbolic tapering in clinical practice</li> <li>Specific guidance on formulations of medication and techniques for making gradual reductions, including using liquid forms of medication, and other approaches</li> <li>Step-by-step guidance for safely stopping all commonly used antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs, including fast, moderate and slow tapering regimens or schedules for each drug, and guidance on how to tailor these to an individual</li> <li>Troubleshooting issues which can arise on stopping these medications, including akathisia, withdrawal symptoms, acute or protracted, and relapse.</li> </ul> Written for anyone interested in safe deprescribing of psychiatric medications including psychiatrists, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, medical trainees, and interested members of the public. The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines is an essential resource on the subject that provides practical guidance on how to improve patient outcomes in this field of medicine.

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs (The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines Series)

Medical Books

Taylor, David M.

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

Most emerging applications in imaging and machine learning must perform immense amounts of computation while holding to strict limits on energy and power. To meet these goals, architects are building increasingly specialized compute engines tailored for these specific tasks. The resulting computer systems are heterogeneous, containing multiple processing cores with wildly different execution models. Unfortunately, the cost of producing this specialized hardware--and the software to control it--is astronomical. Moreover, the task of porting algorithms to these heterogeneous machines typically requires that the algorithm be partitioned across the machine and rewritten for each specific architecture, which is time consuming and prone to error. Over the last several years, the authors have approached this problem using domain-specific languages (DSLs): high-level programming languages customized for specific domains, such as database manipulation, machine learning, or image processing. By giving up generality, these languages are able to provide high-level abstractions to the developer while producing high-performance output. The purpose of this book is to spur the adoption and the creation of domain-specific languages, especially for the task of creating hardware designs. In the first chapter, a short historical journey explains the forces driving computer architecture today. Chapter 2 describes the various methods for producing designs for accelerators, outlining the push for more abstraction and the tools that enable designers to work at a higher conceptual level. From there, Chapter 3 provides a brief introduction to image processing algorithms and hardware design patterns for implementing them. Chapters 4 and 5 describe and compare Darkroom and Halide, two domain-specific languages created for image processing that produce high-performance designs for both FPGAs and CPUs from the same source code, enabling rapid design cycles and quick porting of algorithms. The final section describes how the DSL approach also simplifies the problem of interfacing between application code and the accelerator by generating the driver stack in addition to the accelerator configuration. This book should serve as a useful introduction to domain-specialized computing for computer architecture students and as a primer on domain-specific languages and image processing hardware for those with more experience in the field.

Compiling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Systems (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)

Computers & Technology

Bell, Steven

Pu, Jing

Hegarty, James

Computer Science

Springer

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