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Morbid obesity is a chronic medical illness that has long-reaching consequences and is caused by multiple factors. This title reviews problems that these patients face in the perioperative period and in the long term, as well as their adjustments in lifestyle and healthcare management.

Considers how to go about designing, explaining and interpreting experiments centered around various forms of voltammetry (cyclic, microelectrode, hydrodynamic, etcetera). This textbook gives references to important research papers to provide an introductory entry into the literature.

Intends to prepare non-science students to make life and political decisions involving science and to understand the advances in sciences as covered and reported in the mass media. This book provides the essential background to discuss the selected topics in biological and neurological sciences, as well as astronomy and geology.

Neurology has been rated as the most difficult subject in MRCP examinations. This title is written by two neurologists who have taught both the written (Part 1 and Part 2) and clinical (PACES) sections of the exam. It is suitable for medical students sitting for their final examinations and for doctors preparing for the PLAB examination.

Describes theories of mutation pathogen systems showing critical fluctuations, as a paradigmatic example of an application of the mathematics of critical phenomena to the life sciences. This book enables the reader to understand the implications and future impact of these findings.

Covers solid continuum mechanics, finite element method and stochastic modeling comprehensively. This book explains the numerical simulation of strong ground motion and faulting. It details examples of applying computational science technology to earthquake engineering problems.

Presents a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which highlight the major problems that need to be solved by any plausible theory.

Presenting interdisciplinary research at the forefront of the advances in information technologies and their foundations, this work contains pieces of work exemplifying the application of formal language tools in such fields as logic and discrete mathematics, natural language processing, natural computing and bioinformatics.

These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists.

Offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This book presents the ABC's or bare essentials of CFD in their simplest and most transparent form.

Focuses on the identification of the organising concepts of some physical and biological phenomena, by means of an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and of physics.

Helps analytical chemists feel comfortable with the commonly used statistical operations and make effective use of the results. This title is intended for analytical chemists working in industry but is at the level required for students taking first degrees or an MSc in analytical chemistry.

Explains how group theory underpins some of the key features of particle physics. This book examines symmetries and conservation laws in quantum mechanics and relate these to groups of transformations.

Gives an overview of the technologies and economics in the production of olefins in the petrochemical industries. This compendium highlights the options and costs for producing olefins using different technologies and different feedstocks at a time when the cost of carbon dioxide emissions are set to be included in the production cost.

Presents an exposition of the research on the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change in relation to agroecosystems.

Presents a comprehensive introduction of polymer membranes' preparation, functionalization and applications in biotechniques including affinity membrane chromatography, membrane-based biosensor and membrane-based bioreactor. This book discusses the preparation of polymeric membranes.

In many fields of modern physics, classical mechanics plays a key role. This book provides an illustration of classical mechanics in the form of problems (at the bachelor level) inspired - for most of them - by contemporary research in physics, and resulting from the teaching and research experience of the authors.

Chemistry serves as a bridge between physics and biology. This work focuses on chemistry as applicable to engineers. It provides a comprehensive review of the basic branches and principles of chemistry, and also discusses the applications of chemistry in fields such as cement chemistry, asphalt chemistry, and polymer chemistry, among others.

This book is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics. The new edition has also been revised to give more emphasis to specific examples worked out in detail.

Directed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students interested to get acquainted with the representation theory of Lie algebras, this book treats the case of the smallest simple Lie algebra, namely, the Lie algebra sl_2. It also contains an account of a new research direction: the categorification of simple finite-dimensional modules.

The beta-beam concept for the generation of electron neutrino beams was first proposed by Piero Zucchelli in 2002. This book presents a monograph on the beta-beam concept. It describes both technical aspects and experimental aspects of the beta-beam.

Ever wondered if your patient's new symptoms are a manifestation of metastatic disease, treatment effects or are altogether unrelated to the cancer diagnosis; or whether herbal remedies interact with cancer treatment? This book answers these and many other questions, spanning from cancer prevention to palliative care.

Presents an introduction to the classical theory of modular forms and computations involving modular forms, including modular functions and the theory of Hecke operators. This book also includes applications of modular forms to such diverse subjects as the theory of quadratic forms, the proof of Fermat's last theorem and the approximation of pi.

Introduces the concept of intrusion detection, discusses various approaches for intrusion detection systems (IDS), and presents the architecture and implementation of IDS. This title also includes the performance comparison of various IDS via simulation.

This text surveys available energy sources and their effects on the environment in the context of moral imperatives and political realities. It considers: the political aspects of the energy crisis; nuclear power; effects on the environment; and choosing the best energy sources.

Offers an overview of approaches to internationalization experienced by smaller manufacturing enterprises. This book focuses on the individual aspects of internationalization. It presents about 10 research cases which are supplemented with a minimum of two cases each from Denmark, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.

In this volume 35 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. It covers their seminal discoveries, and the conversations bring out the humanity of these great scientists.

Highlighting foundational issues in theoretical physics, this work expresses the flow of ideas in physics - from the period of Galileo and Newton to the contemporary ideas of the quantum and relativity theories, astrophysics and cosmology - as explanations for the laws of matter.

Serves as a historical research monograph on the biographical sketch and career of Leonhard Euler and his major contributions to numerous areas in the mathematical and physical sciences. This title contains fourteen chapters describing Euler's works on number theory, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential and integral calculus.

This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a distinct quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, quantum technology, and quantum information processing are now strongly converging. The acronym BINS, for Bio-Info-Nano-Systems, has been coined to describe the synergetic interface of these several disciplines. The living cell is an information replicating and processing system that is replete with naturally-evolved nanomachines, which at some level require a quantum mechanical description. As quantum engineering and nanotechnology meet, increasing use will be made of biological structures, or hybrids of biological and fabricated systems, for producing novel devices for information storage and processing and other tasks. An understanding of these systems at a quantum mechanical level will be indispensable.