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Author: Ken Dickson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781491248638 Category : Mania Languages : en Pages : 0
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This harrowing memoir tells the true story of a devoted family man and respected engineer who undergoes a life-saving surgery, reacts to medication and improper treatment, and lands in a high-security psychiatric ward. There, psychiatrists pronounce him persistently and acutely disabled and a danger to himself and others. What will happen to him and will he ever regain his former life? "A massive amount of emotion rolled into a page-turner." "An enlightening and dare I say frightening glimpse into the world of mental health care." "This is a story you will want to share with the people you know and love." "Scary, life-changing and inspiring!" "Powerful and gripping." "A psychological thriller, medical mystery, and compelling drama-made all the more vivid because it actually happened."
Author: Ken Dickson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781491248638 Category : Mania Languages : en Pages : 0
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This harrowing memoir tells the true story of a devoted family man and respected engineer who undergoes a life-saving surgery, reacts to medication and improper treatment, and lands in a high-security psychiatric ward. There, psychiatrists pronounce him persistently and acutely disabled and a danger to himself and others. What will happen to him and will he ever regain his former life? "A massive amount of emotion rolled into a page-turner." "An enlightening and dare I say frightening glimpse into the world of mental health care." "This is a story you will want to share with the people you know and love." "Scary, life-changing and inspiring!" "Powerful and gripping." "A psychological thriller, medical mystery, and compelling drama-made all the more vivid because it actually happened."
Author: Lizzie Simon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743453220 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 223
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A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction. Detour is the extraordinary first book by Lizzie Simon, a twenty-three-year-old woman with bipolar disorder. We meet her as she is set to abandon her successful career as a theatrical producer in New York City, with plans to hit the road and find other bipolars like herself -- young, ambitious, opinionated, and truth-seeking. Her goal: to speak with them candidly without judgment, fear, or the slightest trace of anything clinical or jargon-laden. She wants their stories in their words. But after falling in love with her first interviewee, a troubled millionaire, the truth and the path become increasingly difficult to find. She indeed finds inspiring bipolars. Marissa, a twenty-something African-American adoptee; Jan, a popular rock 'n' roll radio deejay and mother of two; Matt, a quiet college student from the South. Each is resilient, wise, healthy, and hopeful. Yet each harbors stories of mania and depression that defy the limits of human experience and survival. But if she's achieving what she set out to do, then why does she feel more alien and alone than ever? Part road trip, part love story, part mystery, Simon has created a heartbreaking narrative of her cross-country quest. With brave humor, Simon writes guilelessly about herself, her past, and her search for "a herd of her own." She explores that shifting gray area where illness and identity intersect and blur, with the eye of an insider and the heart and soul of a survivor. Accessible and unique, Detour not only opens an intimate window on the day-to-day condition of living with a mood disorder, it also speaks to our universally human struggle to become whole.
Author: Alfredo H.S. Ang Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0415498759 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 504
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An exclusive collection of papers introducing current and frontier technologies of special significance to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of civil infrastructures. This volume is intended for professional and practicing engineers involved with infrastructure systems such as roadways, bridges, buildings, power generating and distribution systems, water resources, environmental facilities, and other civil infrastructure systems. Contributions are by internationally renowned and eminent experts, and cover: 1. Life-cycle cost and performance; 2.Reliability engineering; 3. Risk assessment and management; 4. Optimization methods and optimal design; 5. Role of maintenance, inspection, and repair; 6. Structural and system health monitoring; 7. Durability, fatigue and fracture; 8. Corrosion technology for metal and R/C structures; 9. Concrete materials and concrete structures.
Author: Jintao Ke Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0443189382 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets offers a fundamental modeling framework for characterizing ride-sourcing markets by spelling out the complex relationships among key endogenous and exogenous variables in the markets. This book establishes several economic models that can approximate matching frictions between drivers and passengers, describes the equilibrium state of ride-sourcing markets, and more. Based on these models, the book develops an optimum strategy (in terms of trip fare, wage and/or matching) that maximizes platform profit. While the best social optimum solution (for maximizing the social welfare) is generally unsustainable, this book provides options governments can use to encourage second-best solutions. In addition, the book's authors establish models to analyze ride-pooling services, with traffic congestion externalities incorporated into models to see how both new platforms and government designs can optimize operating strategies in response to the level of traffic congestion. Serves as a foundation for subsequent research studies that investigate ride-sourcing services through mathematical modeling Offers valuable managerial insights for ride-sourcing platforms and helps them develop more efficient and effective operating strategies Assists the governments or social planners in designing appropriate regulatory schemes to achieve more sustainable and societally beneficial market outcomes
Author: Paolo Mancosu Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192649299 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 336
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An Introduction to Proof Theory provides an accessible introduction to the theory of proofs, with details of proofs worked out and examples and exercises to aid the reader's understanding. It also serves as a companion to reading the original pathbreaking articles by Gerhard Gentzen. The first half covers topics in structural proof theory, including the Gödel-Gentzen translation of classical into intuitionistic logic (and arithmetic), natural deduction and the normalization theorems (for both NJ and NK), the sequent calculus, including cut-elimination and mid-sequent theorems, and various applications of these results. The second half examines ordinal proof theory, specifically Gentzen's consistency proof for first-order Peano Arithmetic. The theory of ordinal notations and other elements of ordinal theory are developed from scratch, and no knowledge of set theory is presumed. The proof methods needed to establish proof-theoretic results, especially proof by induction, are introduced in stages throughout the text. Mancosu, Galvan, and Zach's introduction will provide a solid foundation for those looking to understand this central area of mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
Author: Ken Dickson
Author: Ken Dickson
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
Author: Association for Computing Machinery
Author: Stephen Gower
Author: Association of Highway Officials of the North Atlantic States
Author: Lizzie Simon
Author: Alfredo H.S. Ang
Author: IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
Author: Jintao Ke
Author: Paolo Mancosu