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This book details an alternative to GPS navigation for mobile robots, a model that allows them to use infrared imaging to assess the physical nature of surrounding structures. Thus, the robots can make navigational decisions without human interpretation.

The advent of powerful processing technologies and the advances in software development tools have drastically changed the approach and implementation of computational research in fundamental properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing biological entities and processes in artificial media.

It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers for civil applications. examines early Elliott digital computers designed for classified military applications and for GCHQ;

Written by specialists in teaching computer animation, this text addresses key international topics of computer animation, such as: mathematics, modelling, rendering, and compositing.

Useful for health professionals involved in the care and treatment of cardiac patients, this book highlights various aspects of the contemporary guidelines. It includes chapters on coronary heart disease, cardiac investigations, angina, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmia, lipids, hypertension, and diabetes.

A practical manual covering the full spectrum of PET and PET/CT imaging, now in common clinical practice, this book includes images of normal variants, artifacts, and pathologic conditions.

Contains the papers presented at Computer Graphics International 2002, in July, at the University of Bradford, UK that represent original research in computer graphics from around the world and cover areas such as: Real-time computer animation; Image based rendering; Non photo-realistic rendering; Virtual reality; Avatars; and, Data compression.

Dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting international trade in the free market environment. The book provides a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

This reference book is for anyone involved in generating surgical training scenarios, as well as in VR-based training in general. The book is the ideal reference for any reader involved in generating training scenarios, as well as in VR-based training in general.

Throughout the book, theory is followed by implementation using C / C++ and complete programs are provided on the Springer website.A procedural approach has been taken to algorithmic development while taking an object oriented approach when building artefacts from simple objects.

Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation systematically describes the important techniques developed over the last ten years or so. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers not only traditional lip-sync (speech animation), but also expressive facial motion, facial gestures, facial modeling, editing and sketching, and facial animation transferring.

This book has been written in response to the many excellent questions posed by our patients and their care teams, questions which deserve the best-informed and up to date answers provided by our experts in each of the many health areas affected by Marfan syndrome.

We hope the reader will find these short chapters interesting and while they are not evidence-based medicine in the true sense, they do represent a wide range of clinical experience from which we can all learn.

Spanning the topics involved in the current practice of an adult cardiac surgeon, this book offers a step-by-step approach to the peri-operative management and surgical technique specific to each pathological process affecting the mitral and tricuspid valves.

Pancreatic Disease: Basic Science and Clinical Management summarises the state of the art in basic science and clinical management of pancreatic disease.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 1st Smart Design conference held at Nottingham Trent University in November 2011. This title includes summaries of the talks given on topics ranging from intelligent textiles design to pharmaceutical packaging to the impact of social and emotional factors on design choices.

This book presents fifty clinical cases in neuro-ophthalmology, some of which are common and some of which are rare. High quality clinical photographs and images bring the cases to life alongside the diagnostic process and management decisions of an experienced specialist.

This book examines pediatric metabolic syndrome and its relationship to numerous other poor health outcomes that also develop in childhood. Discusses the health, social, psychological and economic consequences of obesity and pediatric metabolic syndrome.

The results include a model-based approach to automate warehouse control design, analysis models for warehouse design, concepts for robotic item handling and computer vision, and autonomous transport in warehouses.Automation in Warehouse Development is targeted at both academic researchers and industrial practitioners.

Sjoegren's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjoegren's Syndrome.

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus explores the idea that Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a urinary tract infection as a result of Proteus bacteria.

This book details advances in such topics as surgery and non-pharmacological treatments for atherosclerotic disease of the aorta, pulmonary arterial hypertension, cytoprotective mechanisms in the vasculature and the "Broken Heart Syndrome".

Practical, didactic format designed to deliver point-of-care information to practitioners of cardiology. Highly illustrated with schematics and useful clinical figures, this will be an essential reference to all outpatient cardiology procedures.

Describing current research trends, this book is a compilation of articles from experts in the design, development, and use of human-in-the-loop simulations. It investigates the complexities of human-related interactions from a holistic, systems perspective.

Such alternative perspective to the neural control of limb function is not only biologically plausible, but sheds light on the most central tenets and debates in the fields of neural control, robotics, rehabilitation, and brain-body co-evolutionary adaptations.

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Written by leading authorities in the field, Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries comprehensively reviews the clinical presentation and the pathogenesis of the condition, as well as its management.