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This book presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of financial transmission rights (FTRS) from the perspectives of various countries.

Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments will be of interest to urban and building designers, environmental engineers, and building performance assessors.

This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older colorectal cancers patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research.

Global networks, which are the primary pillars of the modern manufacturing industry and supply chains, can only cope with the new challenges, requirements and demands when supported by new computing and Internet-based technologies.

Music and Human-Computer Interaction is stimulating reading for professionals and enthusiasts alike: researchers, musicians, interactive music system designers, music software developers, educators, and those seeking deeper involvement in music interaction.

This book describes how emotion plays an important role in today's engineering as well its future. It covers a range of topics that can be applied to product, process and industry development with special attention paid to the increasing importance of sensing.

This book offers approaches and methods to calculate optimal electric energy allocation, using evolutionary algorithms and intelligent analytical tools to improve the accuracy of demand forecasting. Focuses on improving the drawbacks of existing algorithms.

Addressing the consensus that introduction of technology to the production process contributes to an overall economic value, this book also provides a production model to assess the value contribution of technology within the production process.

Behavioral Operations Management has been identified in the last years as one of the most promising emerging fields in Operations Management.

These include (1) identifying energy efficiency barriers, (2) developing energy policies, (3) investing in energy efficient technologies, (4) undertaking project cost-effectiveness analysis, (5) de-risking and financing energy efficiency projects;

This volume covers the diagnostic and treatment options available in the management of electrical diseases. It details clinical and basic aspects of the physiology and pathophysiology in conjunction with new clinical findings and research discoveries.

Since the introduction of coronary angiography, a key technique in understanding coronary artery disease, a number of paradigms regarding its study and interpretation have taken place.

Valvular heart medicine revolves around the need to accurately identify locations of pathological structures and/or the interventional tools needed to manage that pathology.

Interventional cardiology has transitioned from angiographic subjective analysis of stenosis severity into assessment of plaque characteristics and objective assessment of stenosis severity. It will encompass and review all interventional imaging modalities and provide guidance for interventional cardiologists to use these modalities.

Recent advances in genetics and brain biochemistry point to the Abeta peptide as the major culprit in causing neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

The basic science of axonal degeneration and the clinical understanding of progressive multiple sclerosis are discussed in the context of emerging and future therapies for disease progression as are trials which might be conducted for progressive multiple sclerosis.

Over the last decade there has been a substantial increase in our understanding of the genetic basis of common disorders such as stroke.

A comprehensive analysis of outsourcing, dynamic pricing, inventory management and more are presented in Supply Chain Management. Modeling techniques are described in detail, in addition to the concepts themselves, from an industrial applications perspective.

21st Century Kinematics focuses on algebraic problems in the analysis and synthesis of mechanisms and robots, compliant mechanisms, cable-driven systems and protein kinematics. The text shows how the analysis and design of innovative mechanical systems yield increasingly complex systems of polynomials, characteristic of those systems.

This book discusses all aspects of computing for expressive performance, from the history of CSEMPs to the very latest research, in addition to discussing the fundamental ideas, and key issues and directions for future research.

Written by an international team of experts, this illustrated text provides advice on specialised team training, non technical skills and simulation. Simulation Training in Laparoscopy and Robotic Surgery is an important training aide for surgeons and residents interested in developing skills in this field.

With 11 invited submissions from leading researchers and teams of researchers sharing one common characteristic ? The dominant theme is programming languages, with chapters on object oriented programming, real-time programming, component programming and design patterns.

With Skype, mobile telephony and other innovations in communication transforming the way families keep in touch with each other, this study analyzes how connections between families and couples are evolving in today's evolving technological context.

Offering a balanced overview of the health and environmental issues surrounding nanoscale materials, this book provides a complete and detailed image of the multifaceted interface between nanomaterials and their rapidly expanding real-life applications.

Contending that people view each other as individuals, not classifiable types in a segmented society, this volume explains a versatile concept of user-focused design, solidly backed by research, and helpful in IT product design as much as character-led movies.

Here is coverage of utilisation and integration of human ergonomic models, production system event simulation, 3D visualization, data capture and knowledge management systems based on semantic web ontologies with integrated continuous data management.

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.

Measurement of Wound Healing will update the knowledge base and promote the use of measurements in order to improve both understanding of wounds and their management. This book will feature well used vascular measurements, pathological measurements, imaging measurements and so on.