The exponential digitization of medical data has led to a transformation of the practice of medicine. This development in particular raises new complex issues surrounding health ICT. The proper use of these communication tools - telemedicine, e-health, m-health, the medical Big data - should improve the quality of monitoring and management of patients for a system of information with a "human face". Faced with these challenges, the health information systems and ethical analyzes from an ethical angle the doctor-patient relationship, the sharing, transmission and storage of medical information, setting references for ethics for the digitization of medical information. Drawing on good practice recommendations closely related to values, this model develops tools for reflection and presents the keys to understanding the decision-making issues that take into account both technological constraints and the complex nature of human reality in medicine. 1) Initially defines Big Data applications in health2) Presents the ethical value of the medical datasphere via the description of a model of an ethical analysis of Big Data.3) Presents the recommendations and steps necessary for successful management and governance of personal health data, and determines what conditions are essential for the development of the study of Big Data.

Big Data and Ethics: Medical Datasphere

Science & Math

Béranger, Jérôme

Biological Sciences

ISTE Press - Elsevier

Power electronics is based on the switching operating mode of semiconductor components. On this basis, the concepts of type (voltage or current) and reversibility of interconnected sources make it possible to apply a methodology for the synthesis of various types of converters. Here the author presents the major types of components available, always from a user’s point of view, with the gate drive/fire control and other auxiliary circuits that are required for their proper functioning (snubbers, for example). The different passive components (capacitors, coils and transformers) are discussed, as well as printed circuit technology, especially in the aspect of their design. This book also focuses on the importance of packaging by reviewing the electrical representation of components’ thermal models and the currently available electronics’ cooling technologies. Modeling is discussed, as well as different technological aspects used in the engineering design of an electronic power converter, useful for obtaining satisfactory performance and reliability.Presenting the essential notions in power electronics from both the theoretical and technological perspectivesDedicated chapters with a focus on connection rules, reversibility and impact choices of switches for converter synthesisPresented from a user's perspective to enable you to apply the theory of power electronics to practical applications

Power Electronics Applied to Industrial Systems and Transports, Volume 1: Synthetic Methodology to Converters and Components Technology

Patin, Nicolas

Physics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of power electronic converters (DC / DC, DC / AC, AC / DC and AC / AC) conventionally used in industrial and transportation applications, specifically for the supply of electric machines with variable speed drop off window. From the perspective of design and sizing, this book presents the different functions encountered in a modular way for power electronics. Power Converters and Their Control details less traditional topics such as matrix converters and multilevel converters. This book also features a case study design of an industrial controller, which is a synthesis (except the AC / AC direct conversion) of the study subjects, including sizing associated passive components.

Power Electronics Applied to Industrial Systems and Transports, Volume 2: Power Converters and their Control

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Some power electronic converters are specifically designed to power equipment under a smoothed DC voltage. Therefore, the filtering part necessarily involves the use of auxiliary passive components (inductors and capacitors). This book deals with technical aspects such as classical separation between isolated and non-isolated power supplies, and soft switching through a special converter. It addresses the problem of regulating the output voltage of the switching power supplies in terms of modeling and obtaining transfer of SMPS functions. Power Electronics for Industry and Transport, Volume 3, offers a case study of an isolated flyback power which the complete design is presented: the active and passive components are sized based on the specifications initially set. Particular attention is given to the converter output capacitors and all the surrounding organs.
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<li>Introducing Essential notions in power electronics from both the theoretical and technological perspectives</li>
<li>Detailed chapters with a focus on switch-mode power supplies, another key area in which power electronics is used is in the supply of energy to a variety of electronic equipment for signal and information processing</li>
<li>Presented from a user's perspective to enable you to apply the theory of power electronics to practical applications</li>
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Power Electronics Applied to Industrial Systems and Transports, Volume 3: Switching Power Supplies

If the operation of electronic components switching scheme to reduce congestion and losses (in power converters in general and switching power supplies in particular), it also generates electromagnetic type of pollution in its immediate environment. Power Electronics for Industry and Transport, Volume 4 is devoted to electromagnetic compatibility. It presents the sources of disturbance and the square wave signal, spectral modeling generic perturbation. Disturbances propagation mechanisms called "lumped" by couplings such as a common impedance, a parasitic capacitance or a mutual and "distributed constant", for which the spatial-temporal character must be taken into account, are also covered. This book also provides spectral analysis among other items that contain inequality Heisenberg-Gabor, very useful for understanding the spread spectrum PWM type signals.Introducing essential notions in power electronics from both theoretical and technological perspectivesDetailed chapters with a focus on electromagnetic compatibilityPresented from a user's perspective to enable you to apply the theory of power electronics to practical applications

Power Electronics Applied to Industrial Systems and Transports, Volume 4: Electromagnetic Compatibility

In the past four decades, information technology has altered chains of value production, distribution, and information access at a significant rate. These changes, although they have shaken up numerous economic models, have so far not radically challenged the bases of our society. This book addresses our current progress and viewpoints on digital identity management in different fields (social networks, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), with input from experts in computer science, law, economics and sociology. Within this multidisciplinary and scientific context, having crossed analysis on the digital ID issue, it describes the different technical and legal approaches to protect digital identities with a focus on authentication systems, identity federation techniques and privacy preservation solutions. The limitations of these solutions and research issues in this field are also discussed to further understand the changes that are taking place.

Digital Identity Management

Computers & Technology

Laurent, Maryline

Bouzefrane, Samia

Computer Science

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is a relatively new research area which describes the methods and approaches used to supply quantitative descriptions of the effects of uncertainty, variability and errors in simulation problems and models. It is rapidly becoming a field of increasing importance, with many real-world applications within statistics, mathematics, probability and engineering, but also within the natural sciences. Literature on the topic has up until now been largely based on polynomial chaos, which raises difficulties when considering different types of approximation and does not lead to a unified presentation of the methods. Moreover, this description does not consider either deterministic problems or infinite dimensional ones. This book gives a unified, practical and comprehensive presentation of the main techniques used for the characterization of the effect of uncertainty on numerical models and on their exploitation in numerical problems. In particular, applications to linear and nonlinear systems of equations, differential equations, optimization and reliability are presented. Applications of stochastic methods to deal with deterministic numerical problems are also discussed. Matlab® illustrates the implementation of these methods and makes the book suitable as a textbook and for self-study.

Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling with Matlab

Souza de Cursi, Eduardo

Sampaio, Rubens

The physical and chemical properties of food products have central roles in biotechnology and the pharmaceutical and food industries. Understanding these properties is essential for engineers and scientists to tackle the numerous issues in food processing, including preservation, storage, distribution and consumption. This book discusses models to predict some of the physical-chemical properties (pH, aw and ionic strength) for biological media containing various solutes. In recent years, food production has involved less processing and fewer additives or preservatives. If health benefits for consumers are obvious, it is not only necessary to adapt current processing and preservation processes but also to verify that appropriate technological and health properties are preserved. The authors present established models, but also introduce new tools for prediction with modeling methods that are part of a more general approach to understand the behavior of fluid mixtures and design new products or processes through numerical simulation.
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<li>Describes the construction of a tool to allow you to predict the physical-chemical properties of foods and bacterial broths</li>
<li>Shows you how to apply this tool with complex medias to predict water activity and pH levels and how to integrate this tool with a process simulator</li>
<li>Full with theoretical equations and examples to help you apply the content to your data</li>
</ul>

Physical-Chemical Properties of Foods: New Tools for Prediction

Ndob, Aïchatou Musavu

Melas, Malik

Lebert, André

This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI). The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio construction techniques and investing style risk premia strategies. Each chapter deals with new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios, constructing and combining systematic factor strategies and assessing the related rules-based investment performances. This book can assist portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics and students who wish to further their understanding of the science and art of risk-based and factor investing.

Risk-Based and Factor Investing

Business & Money

Investing

Failure in Geomaterials offers a unified view of material failure as an instability of deformation modes framed within the theory of bifurcation. Using mathematical rigor, logic, physical reasoning and basic principles of mechanics, the authors develop the fundamentals of failure in geomaterials based on the second-order work criterion. Various forms of rupture modes and material instabilities in granular materials are explored both analytically and numerically with lab experimental observations on sand as a backdrop. The authors provide a clear picture of inelastic deformations and failure of geomaterials under various loading conditions. A unique feature of the book is the systematic application of the developed theory to the failure analysis of some selected engineering problems such as soil nailing, landslides, energy resource extraction, and internal erosion in soils. 
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<li>Provides the fundamentals of the mechanics of geomaterials for a detailed background on the subject</li>
<li>Integrates a rigorous mathematical description of failure with mechanisms based on microstructure</li>
<li>Helps users apply mathematical models of solid mechanics to engineering practice</li>
<li>Contains a systematic development of the fundamentals of failure in heterogeneous multiphasic materials</li>
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Failure in Geomaterials: A Contemporary Treatise

Nicot, Francois

Darve, Felix

Wan, Richard

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