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Trying to meet the requirements in the field, present book treats different fuzzy control architectures both in terms of the theoretical design and in terms of comparative validation studies in various applications, numerically simulated or experimentally developed. Through the subject matter and through the inter and multidisciplinary content, this book is addressed mainly to the researchers, doctoral students and students interested in developing new applications of intelligent control, but also to the people who want to become familiar with the control concepts based on fuzzy techniques. Bibliographic resources used to perform the work includes books and articles of present interest in the field, published in prestigious journals and publishing houses, and websites dedicated to various applications of fuzzy control. Its structure and the presented studies include the book in the category of those who make a direct connection between theoretical developments and practical applications, thereby constituting a real support for the specialists in artificial intelligence, modelling and control fields.

Electric controllers. --- Artificial intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Controllers, Electric --- Automatic control --- Electric machinery --- Electric rheostats --- Neural networks & fuzzy systems

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This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.

Seguretat dels pacients --- Pacients --- Internal Medicine --- Surgery --- patient safety --- high-risk industries --- system design --- silent epidemic --- workplace safety --- open access --- Clinical & internal medicine

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Amadurecido pelas viagens e pela experiência da vida, materialmente afortunado, Luciano cedo se farta da actividade judiciária, da retórica e da sofística, para se entregar a uma actividade literária que, não sendo nova, ele, no entanto, reforma de maneira radical: trata-se do diálogo filosófico, mas agora entendido e elaborado segundo princípios originais. De facto, Luciano aligeira substancialmente o majestoso diálogo filosófico que vinha dos tempos de Platão e acrescenta- lhe um aspecto dramático, orientado no sentido da sátira - o que significa reunir no «novo género» dois géneros diferentes e até muito diversos: o diálogo filosófico e a comédia. Realmente, foram sobretudo as obras em forma de diálogo que deram fama a Luciano. É nelas que melhor se expande a sua crítica panfletária e corrosiva, que atinge, literalmente, tudo e todos: os deuses e os heróis, a religião e as religiões, a filosofia e as suas variadíssimas seitas, a moral convencional, a sociedade e os seus pilares mais destacados, os homens e as suas vaidades, as suas superstições irracionais e o aproveitamento que delas fazem os espertos ... enfim, podemos dizer que em Luciano conflui o que de mais violento havia na comédia. Um certo epicurismo prático e um cinismo teórico afinam e refinam o processo. A life trajectory. Matured by his travels and life experiences, and materially well endowed, Lucian soon grows tired of judicial activities, rhetoric and sophistry, and retires to devote himself to literary activity which he radically reforms. The traditional philosophical dialogue is now understood differently and organized according to new principles. Lucian lightens the majestic tone of the Platonic-style dialogue and adds a dramatic satirical aspect, thereby blending two quite different genres (the philosophical dialogue and comedy) into an entirely new genre. It was these dialogues that brought fame to Lucian. In them he expanded his corrosive social criticism, sparing no one: gods and heroes, religion and religions, philosophy and its various sects, conventional morality, society and its most revered pillars, men and their vanity, irrational superstitions and the use that is made of them by the cunning ... Lucian used what was most violent in comedy, refining the process with a certain practical epicurianism and theoretical cynicism.

Lucian,

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Amadurecido pelas viagens e pela experiência da vida, materialmente afortunado, Luciano cedo se farta da actividade judiciária, da retórica e da sofística, para se entregar a uma actividade literária que, não sendo nova, ele, no entanto, reforma de maneira radical: trata-se do diálogo filosófico, mas agora entendido e elaborado segundo princípios originais. De facto, Luciano aligeira substancialmente o majestoso diálogo filosófico que vinha dos tempos de Platão e acrescenta- lhe um aspecto dramático, orientado no sentido da sátira - o que significa reunir no «novo género» dois géneros diferentes e até muito diversos: o diálogo filosófico e a comédia. Realmente, foram sobretudo as obras em forma de diálogo que deram fama a Luciano. É nelas que melhor se expande a sua crítica panfletária e corrosiva, que atinge, literalmente, tudo e todos: os deuses e os heróis, a religião e as religiões, a filosofia e as suas variadíssimas seitas, a moral convencional, a sociedade e os seus pilares mais destacados, os homens e as suas vaidades, as suas superstições irracionais e o aproveitamento que delas fazem os espertos ... enfim, podemos dizer que em Luciano conflui o que de mais violento havia na comédia. Um certo epicurismo prático e um cinismo teórico afinam e refinam o processo.

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Amadurecido pelas viagens e pela experiência da vida, materialmente afortunado, Luciano cedo se farta da actividade judiciária, da retórica e da sofística, para se entregar a uma actividade literária que, não sendo nova, ele, no entanto, reforma de maneira radical: trata-se do diálogo filosófico, mas agora entendido e elaborado segundo princípios originais. De facto, Luciano aligeira substancialmente o majestoso diálogo filosófico que vinha dos tempos de Platão e acrescenta- lhe um aspecto dramático, orientado no sentido da sátira - o que significa reunir no «novo género» dois géneros diferentes e até muito diversos: o diálogo filosófico e a comédia. Realmente, foram sobretudo as obras em forma de diálogo que deram fama a Luciano. É nelas que melhor se expande a sua crítica panfletária e corrosiva, que atinge, literalmente, tudo e todos: os deuses e os heróis, a religião e as religiões, a filosofia e as suas variadíssimas seitas, a moral convencional, a sociedade e os seus pilares mais destacados, os homens e as suas vaidades, as suas superstições irracionais e o aproveitamento que delas fazem os espertos ... enfim, podemos dizer que em Luciano conflui o que de mais violento havia na comédia. Um certo epicurismo prático e um cinismo teórico afinam e refinam o processo.

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