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Jean Désy

"Je dédie ce recueil aux étudiants en médecine que j'ai eu le bonheur de côtoyer depuis une quinzaine d'années. J'aime passionnément leur enseigner. Quel talent et quelle intelligence chez ces êtres neufs qui avancent, qui sont allumés, qui "étincellent" dans l'existence, pour qui j'ai tant d'affection. Je leur dédie ces histoires parce que ce sont ces mêmes étudiants qui, après certains cours, alors que j'avais ouvert la discussion sur des éléments plus personnels ou plus cliniques, m'ont demandé de leur raconter quelques anecdotes tirées de mes expériences, de ma pratique médicale sur la Côte-Nord et autour de Québec, au Nunavik et à la Baie-James."--Memento.

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Savitri Bevinakoppa

"Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures is designed for advanced students and practitioners of computer science. This comprehensive reference provides a foundation for understanding digital image compression techniques and parallel computer architectures."--BOOK JACKET.

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Karen Shea

"Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its simulated sex and violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.'--publisher.

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Selim G. Akl

An understanding of the role of parallel algorithms and the technical knowledge for designing and analyzing them are essential to anyone entering the field of parallel computation. Familiarity with the models associated with the algorithms is also essential. Thus, focusing on "models and methods," author Selim G. Alk presents the following areas of parallel computation: an overview of the models, including combinational circuits, interconnection networks, shared memory machines, and models that use buses; an overview of the methods, including prefix computation, list ranking, divide and conquer, split and plan, matrix multiplication, broadcasting with selective reduction, and many others; and a wide variety of computational problems, which illustrate and contrast the models and methods. Examples include sorting, searching, and numerical problems; combinatorial problems; and problems in graph theory and computational geometry. Parallel Computation will be useful to computer science students, practicing scientists and engineers, and researchers in the field. Knowledge of design and analysis techniques for sequential algorithms is helpful, but not necessary. The text provides many references where such background is amply covered.