Modern medicine increasingly requires the clinician, including urologists, to apply evidence based medicine in their daily practice. What clinicians thought were true are being constantly changed through evidence search and evidence merging to derive on a new clinical message. Addition of new evidence then goes on to regularly challenge these clinical messages. This book is divided into two par...

4. Algebraic Function Fields and Codes by Henning Stichtenoth. Reviewed by Swastik Kopparty. This book gives a rigorous, systematic and thorough treatment of the theory of algebraic function fields and its applications in coding theory. Algebraic function fields are natural objects that arise in the study of algebraic curves and exponential sums over finite fields, and have found widespread app...

سومین چاپ کتاب «اپیدمیولوژی نوین» (modern epidemiology) در سال 2008 میلادی و توسط انتشارات lippincott williams wilkins با قیمت 101 دلار، روانه بازار کتاب شد. سرنوشت این کتاب، همانند سرنوشت دانش اپیدمیولوژی، بسیار جذاب و شنیدنی است. چاپ اول کتاب 20 سال قبل از چاپ سوم، یعنی در سال 1988 میلادی منتشر شده بود. چاپ اول، فقط یک نویسنده داشت و بسیار کم حجم بود. چاپ دوم کتاب 12 سال بعد از چاپ اول، یعنی ...

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This paper uses detailed weekly data on sales of hardcover fiction books to evaluate the impact of New York Times book reviews on sales. In order to weigh the relative propensity of reviews to inform and to persuade, the analysis utilizes a measure of review opinion obtained through a systematic reading of each review. The estimates indicate that in the case of book reviews, any publicity is go...