At 4:47 AM, Nora Vass wakes to her dog growling. Her front door stands open, the deadbolt withdrawn, yet her smart home system shows nothing. According to the technology Nora meticulously installed as an architect, nobody was there.But Nora knows her house like a surgeon knows anatomy. She notices the shifts others dismiss: the thermostat adjusting at 3 AM, the voice assistant responding to unheard commands, lights extinguishing as she walks past, as if the house is closing behind ...

Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma substitutes. In the United States, crystalloids and albumin are more popular, whereas in Europe artificial colloids such as hydroxyethyl starch are preferred. From an international perspective, it is notable that volume therapy using hydroxyet...

Leza Robinson comes up tough and has not been home in years. After her Aunt dies she returns to Youngstown, Ohio. Only to find out her ex, Victor is angrier then ever and wants his money back that she took or she will pay for it with her life. Desiree Baldwin has the perfect life or so it seems. She has a model like body and a big-time banker husband. All that comes crashing down when she walks in on her husband and what she thought was his cousin, in bed. Samantha Rose is what you call ho...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.BOOK 2: ALWAYS WATCHINGSix months after the trial, Nora Vass is rebuilding her life. New clients. New routines. The smart home system her security consultant Dan Cole installed is running clean. The locks work. The cameras are hers. The house on the hill is finally what it was supposed to be.Then a mortgage application she never submitted is approved.An email she never wrote apologises to a client she never off...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.At 4:47 AM, Nora Vass wakes to her dog growling. Her front door stands open, the deadbolt withdrawn, yet her smart home system shows nothing. According to the technology Nora meticulously installed as an architect, nobody was there.But Nora knows her house like a surgeon knows anatomy. She notices the shifts others dismiss: the thermostat adjusting at 3 AM, the voice assistant responding to unheard commands, lights extinguishing...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Book 3: Always There.Nora Vass is in prison.Eighteen months for crimes she did not commit, built on digital evidence fabricated by an autonomous system that no court understood and no expert could explain in terms a jury would accept.Inside Ashworth Vale Correctional Centre, every door is networked. Every call is recorded. Every movement is tracked by an RFID wristband she cannot...

This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within the framework of an annual cycle, and for which stochastic variability in the demographic processes is usually modest. Discrete-time models are developed in which animals can be assigned to dis...

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller of riveting mystery and suspense.A message courier pushed into the path of a train. A young woman commits a terrible act of violence. A family man puts a gun to his head.John Smith suspects these aren't random events — someone engineered them. But who — or what? And why is John Smith their next target?PRAISE FOR LEGION AND ROBERT SWARTWOOD"Legion is an excellent thriller...

Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to analyze their own data using the programming language R. Drawing on extensive experience teaching these techniques to graduate students in ecology, Benjamin Bolker shows ...

In this heart-pounding thriller, the world’s #1 bestselling author has created a frightening new future: a world where teens are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival.In the United, the population is strictly regulated, disease has been eradicated, and crime is nonexistent. Seventeen-year-old Cassie has never stepped out of line. When she tries to tell people that her suddenly missing twin, Becca, is in trouble, no one believes Cassie because Be...

It started with friendship. It ended with forever.Being best friends with two gorgeous boys should come with a warning label—especially when one makes you laugh until you can’t breathe, and the other makes your heart skip every single time he smiles.There’s Danny—the golden boy quarterback with sun-streaked hair, a killer arm, and a grin that dares me to take risks.He’s the adventure. The fun. The chaos.And Phillip—the steady one. The boy who sees m...

Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its sub-disciplines, such as ecology, over the past decade. The free software program WinBUGS, and its open-source sister OpenBugs, is currently the only flexible and general-purpose program available with which the average ecologist can conduct standard and non-standard Bayesian statistics. - Comprehensive and richly commented examples illustrate a wide range of models that are most relevant to the research of a modern population ecologist...