This volume presents the work of a group of international experts in neurocritical care. This book provides the physician with a quick and practical tool for consultation and it’s dedicated to brain-injured and neurocritically ill patients and provides the physician with a quick and practical tool for consultation. The management of these patients constitutes a growing subspecialty that remains unrecognized by many international medical associations but has played a prominent role in inten...

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi‑year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well‑being changes over time in a small‑scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.Using data compiled by the Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (2002–010) that monitored change in Tsimane’ communities, this book analyzes economic, social, and health changes in a farming and foraging society of native Amazonians in Bolivia. It uses multi...

Based on the work of more than 40 years of research and study, the opinion of diverse health specialists and his own personal life experience, the author shows that it is possible to reach the age of 60 and retain the same physical characteristics of the golden phase of youth with proportional and unaltered weight and having perfect health and excellent energy and vitality.It also shows the secrets, rules and principles that he adopts to prolong youth and life a healthy and happy l...

Are you ready to fine-tune your own LLMs?This book is a practical guide to fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), combining high-level concepts with step-by-step instructions to train these powerful models for your specific use cases.Who Is This Book For?This is an intermediate-level resource—positioned between building a large language model from scratch and deploying an LLM in producti...

Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes ...

Revised for PyTorch 2.x!Why this book?Are you looking for a book where you can learn about deep learning and PyTorch without having to spend hours deciphering cryptic text and code? A technical book that's also easy and enjoyable to read?This is it!How is this book different?First, this book presents an easy-to-follow, ...

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental righ...

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic. - Contains 16 practice-oriented topics including the burden of the "simple ankle sprains: a review of the epidemiology and long-term impact; anatomy of the ankle and subtalar joint ligaments: what don't we know about it?; can weightbearing CT be a game-changer in the assessment of ankle sprain and ankle instability?; the role of needle arthroscopy in the assessment and treatment of ankle sprains; multi...

Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending.Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing...

Children learn to recognize and cope with feeling sad, lonely, or disappointed.A young feelings detective looks for clues, both physical and emotional, to identify sadness, loneliness, and disappointment in themselves and in others. The child uses a special notebook to draw their feelings and identify how they feel. By noticing the clues, the feelings detective also helps a friend who feels lonely and finds a new plan to overcome their own disappointment.

Bert Weldon Lagos a.k.a Berty Werty Lagos is an entrepreneur from the city of Detroit. His story is one of mystery, action, romance and drama. Berty was destined to be a mogul. His father was a Detroit bus driver who was originally a Black Panther in his youth, and his mother was the youngest sister of a Colombian drug lord named Roberto Lagos. He carried his mother’s maiden name because his father was wanted by the FBI, and he never wanted his son caught up in that mess. Follow Berty's jo...

At the heart of the globalization of trade and of economies, estuarine cities are at the forefront of accelerating global change. They must confront the tensions generated by their demographic and socio-economic attractions and their ecological vulnerability linked to their location in trade flows, downstream of rivers and at the interface between land and sea.Using the examples of the estuarine cities of the Gironde, the Loire and the Seine and their specific challenges, such as c...