Pain in the Elderly: A Report of the Task Force on Pain in the Elderly of the International Association for the Study of PainShows how to use the POSIX threads standard, discussing performance issues and how threads interact with the rest of the UNIX system, and comparing various types of threads. Subjects include basic design techniques, specialized synchronization techniques, UNIX libraries, measuring performance, and special considerations for DCE. Source code and examples are available electronically. For programmers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Overview of Aging and Pain | 1 |
A CognitiveBehavioral Perspective | 17 |
Patient Education and Nondrug Interventions | 35 |
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