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As our diagnostic techniques have improved, particularly through imaging, surgical techniques to match the improved diagnostic techniques will emerge.

The problem stems in part from the difficulty in estimating the milder stages of undernourishment, in part from the difficulty in believing that people suffer from poor nutrition in the midst of overconsumption.

This updated translation from the original German edition provides general background information on oceanology and ocean engineering is given, along with descriptions of drilling techniques, offshore structures and hydrocarbon production at sea.

The present day trainees entering radiology are no longer trained by radiologists who cover and are well informed on most aspects of their specialty as was the case with previous generations. not to mention others like pediatric radiologists who fit into neither classification.

Recent Developments in H? theory have produced a promising new design approach. An H? control law has been developed and tested for the DRA (Defence Research Agency) Bedford research Harrier. The first part of this text introduces the basic components of the flight control and engine systems and describes the models for the different sub-systems.

It is based on the recent developments in classification and overall understanding of human lymphoid neoplasms which are relatively common neoplasms and which epidemiological evidence suggests are increasing in frequency.

Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases. This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory, therapeutic intervention measures to protect the public health and reduce the disease burden caused by acute and long-term exposure to air pollutants.Air Pollution and Health Effects provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of air pollution health risks, morbidity and the global disease burden, whilst also delivering critical review on state of the art research so as to gain a fundamental understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in the etiology of air pollution-induced diseases. Chapters range from pregnancy outcomes and pre-term birth, carcinogens in the ambient aerosol and the health consequences of indoor biomass burning. Special emphasis is placed on regional and local air pollution and its impact on global health along with suitable preventive and interventional measures.With contributions from international experts in the field this volume is a valuable guide for researchers and clinicians in toxicology, medicine and public health as well as industry and government regulatory scientists involved in health protection.

Due to the special sections which give clinical correlations, this book will be invaluable to physicians who treat vascular disorders, surgeons, cardiologists, vascular radiologists and the vascular laboratory staff.

Neurologic emergencies are a common reason for admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Once again, we would like to dedicate this textbook to our families and to the physicians and nurses who provide steadfast care every day in pediatric intensive care units across the globe.

Assuming only neighbor-neighbor interaction among vehicles, this monograph develops distributed consensus strategies that ensure that the information states of all vehicles in a network converge to a common value. Readers learn to deal with groups of autonomous vehicles in aerial, terrestrial, and submarine environments.

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

This book is the third of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. describes simulations of social networks, and the representation and analysis of social networks, highlighting methods for the data mining of CSNs;

This book joins new modifications of classical relay feedback test with application-specific optimal tuning rules to form a non-parametric test-and-tuning method. Includes problems of optimization and identification accompanied by downloadable MATLAB (R) code.

This book describes the business value of RFID, offering a thorough explanation of its costs and benefits. Geared to business, rather than technological leaders, the book proposes different investment evaluation models for use in various application areas.

The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging's sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts.

This book covers theory and application of such MADM methods as Analytic Hierarchy Process, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution, VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje and more. Offers novel MADM methods, and includes computer code.

With contributions by numerous experts

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".

This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. discusses privacy impact assessments for the cloud, and examines the use of cloud audits to attenuate cloud security problems;

This book is the second of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. describes simulations of social networks, and the representation and analysis of social networks, with a focus on issues of security, privacy, and anonymization;

Open-channel hydraulics are described by hyperbolic equations, derived from laws of conservation of mass and momentum, called Saint-Venant equations. Once the control objectives are clarified, a generic control design method is proposed, first for a canal pool, and then for a whole canal.

Effective supply chain management is crucial to a company's ability to fill consumer demand, regardless of the industry. This book presents topics on the assessment, modeling and monitoring of supply chain risk.

This book reviews past and present work on discriminative and hierarchical models for both acoustic and language modeling. It also analyzes the research direction and trends towards establishing future-generation speech recognition.

"Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems" gathers contributions from workers around the world and presents them in four categories according to the style of control employed: fuzzy control;

This concise, accessible, and easy-to-read guide introduces the most important features of Fortran 03. It presents a complete discussion of all the basic features needed to write complete Fortran programs and makes extensive use of examples and case studies.

This book explores different aspects related to innovation processes in industry. It presents in detail several approaches to support these processes by ICT-based Knowledge Management (KM) systems and collaborative working environments.

Production development is about improving existing industrial production systems and developing new ones. This reference details a holistic perspective on the production system and its design process during the whole system lifecycle.

This book presents methodologies for optimal design of control and diagnosis strategies for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell systems. A key feature of the methodologies presented is the exploitation of modelling tools that balance accuracy and computational burden.

Since the introduction of laser devices to the medical sciences this technology has created great interest.