The year of Vincent Price continues. When finding himself surrounded by lost souls on the edge of damnation, entrepreneur daredevil Jim Berneke realizes he's one of them. The only escape from death is if an antique radio can catch just one person praying for his life. But even if he lives, what of those left behind?

It is widely recognized that the degree of development of a science is given by the transition from a mainly descriptive stage to a more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative interpretations (conceptual models) are complemented with quantification (numerical models, both, deterministic and stochastic). This has been the main task of mathematical geoscientists during the last forty years - to establish new frontiers and new challenges in the study and understanding of the natu...

In Seattle, Colin Halliday is an introverted, aspiring comic book writer whos sorting through his life while working at a record store. After a devastating break-up, he decides to devote all his attention to his writing career, but first, he meets with his ex for closure. He also confesses some less than stellar details of his life to his parents in an effort to clean the slate. Also living in the city, Love Labelle is a free-spirited fitness instructor, struggling to find her place in a w...

The Archetype Development Process (ADP) is a technique where clinicians participate in order to define the structure of composite clinical concepts as they are used in an EHR system and the relationships between them. This process involves many actors with different backgrounds who collaborate to achieve a consensus in the definition of these clinical concepts. This dissertation aims to evaluate current initiatives based on archetypes and proposes actions to promote best practice in the Ar...

Aligned with the increased adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, it is recognized that semantic interoperability provides benefits for promoting patient safety and continuity of care. This research proposes a framework of quality metrics and recommendations for developing semantic interoperability resources specially focused on clinical information models, which are defined as formal specifications of structure and semantics for representing EHR information for a specific dom...

One of the most horrifying characters makes his way back to the pages of Vincent Price Presents. Canus, the demon dog, is back and looking for revenge to those that made him!

With his partner missing and himself held in the hands of the sadistic Doctor Orne, detective Ray Bierce must piece together the mystery that surrounds the beautiful Mrs. Hazera while blackmail, theft, and murder swirl all around. A supernatural twist on classic noir tales!

The 5th volume of the Vincent Price Presents graphic novel series features nothing but good old fashion gothic horror! One of classic Hollywood's most famous scary men, Vincent Price made a name for himself in classic mysteries and thrillers throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The series features some of Price's films like "The Witchfinder General" as well as developing new frightening ones with his estate. Welcome back to the macabre world of Vincent Price. This special edition has never bef...

In plain, uncomplicated language, and using detailed examples to explain the key concepts, models, and algorithms in vertical search ranking, Relevance Ranking for Vertical Search Engines teaches readers how to manipulate ranking algorithms to achieve better results in real-world applications. This reference book for professionals covers concepts and theories from the fundamental to the advanced, such as relevance, query intention, location-based relevance ranking, and cross-property ranki...

Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions, is the collected proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 24 - 26, 2011. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections between industry, research and education. These proceedings represent ongoing reflections within the academic community on established information systems topics and emer...

Electronic Health Record: Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and InfrastructuresDiscover How Electronic Health Records Are Built to Drive the Next Generation of Healthcare DeliveryThe increased role of IT in the healthcare sector has led to the coining of a new phrase "health informatics," which deals with the use of IT for better healthcare services. Health informatics applications often involve maintaining the health records ...

Software Quality Assurance in Large Scale and Complex Software-intensive Systems presents novel and high-quality research related approaches that relate the quality of software architecture to system requirements, system architecture and enterprise-architecture, or software testing. Modern software has become complex and adaptable due to the emergence of globalization and new software technologies, devices and networks. These changes challenge both traditional software quality assurance te...