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Written by internationally acclaimed specialists, Upper Abdominal Surgery provides pertinent and concise procedure descriptions spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures.

This book focuses on the problems seen in the adult hip in sport including pre arthritic inflammatory, non inflammatory, and degenerative causes of hip pain.

Total joint arthroplasty is an effective surgical procedure for end-stage osteoarthritis of major joints with satisfactory long term clinical outcome. Orthopaedic Surgeons will find information which will improve their clinical practice and basic scientists will be helped to understand and appreciate clinical needs.

General Surgery Risk Reduction is part of the series: Surgery: Complications, Risks and Consequences edited by Brendon Coventry.

Pediatric Endourology Techniques 2nd edition is a fully illustrated text with an accompanying web application which addresses these issues. The aim of this 2nd edition is to enable surgeons to carry out commonly performed minimally invasive pediatric urological procedures.

This comprehensive book discusses cartilage repair and all its aspects. Finally, an overview of novel cartilage repair techniques such as minced cartilage, denovo cartilage and more areas are discussed in this comprehensive addition to the literature.

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This book explores the effects of biodiesel usage on injection, fuel spray, combustion, and tribology characteristics, and engine performance. It also details optimization procedures of diesel engine characteristics using practical examples.

This authoritative text/reference presents a review of the history, current status, and potential future directions of computational biology in molecular evolution.

Aligning current practices, innovations and case studies with academic theories, this book offers detailed coverage of multi-criteria and game theory applications in manufacturing and logistics. Discusses vehicle routing problems and supply chain management.

Benign prostatic enlargement (BPE) is one of the most common diseases in older men and it is caused by an histopathological condition called "benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Clinical manifestations of BPH include symptoms, signs and sequelae of bladder outlet obstruction caused by the enlarged prostate.

Encompassing problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters, the book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the special problems of delivering medicine in a hostile environment.

Treatment of Postoperative Complications After Digestive Surgery

The Web is undergoing revolutionary changes - its second generation is emerging. If the appearance of web pages is a major concern in the first generation, then the meaning (or semantics) of information on the Web is the focus of the second generation, which is why it is also called "the Semantic Web."

Developed as an offshoot/update of the "clinical practice" portion of the main book, edited by PE Valk et al, published in 2003 (Positron Emission Tomography: basic science and clinical practice), this offshoot covers the second half of the main book only, dealing with mainly the clinical research and practice.

Designed as a quick and easy reference, it fits in a lab coat pocket making it perfect for emergency situationsGeared for a urology resident, chapters are organized in a similar structure as clinical board examsMost sections include useful hints and tips at the end of the each chapter

Provides comprehensive aspects of evaluation and therapy of female pelvic floor dysfunction. This book focuses on urinary incontinence and other voiding dysfunctions, fecal incontinence and other distal gastroenterologic problems, genital and rectal prolapse, and other recognized pelvic floor problems.

This book focuseson the use of computer visionand graphics in architecture. Collective interest in this topic led to the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, whose papers are contained in this book.

Lasers in Dermatology: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of cutaneous laser treatment. Practical aspects of laser selection and treatment are combined with easily understood sections on basic science, laser safety and current regulations.

Biometric Systems provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers three main topics: key biometric technologies, design and management issues, and the performance evaluation of biometric systems for personal verification/identification.

The subject of this book is surface metrology, in particular two major aspects: surface texture and roundness. Traditionally surface metrology usage has been dictated by engineers who have served long and demanding apprenticeships, usually in parallel with studies leading to technician-level qualifications.

Biometrics has moved from using fingerprints to using many methods of assessing human physical and behavioral traits. This guide introduces a new performance evaluation framework designed to offer full coverage of performance evaluation of biometric systems.

This book presents a collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art of research efforts in the area of smart devices and novel machine design, as well as their practical applications to enable advanced manufacturing. The first section presents a broad-based review of several key areas of research in smart devices and machines.

After giving a biological overview of liver metastases and current methods of detection and diagnosis, this book explores in detail each of the possible major treatment modalities. It closes with a look at germane health economics issues.

This book covers all aspects of pulmonary protection in heart surgery, including repercussions from cardiopulmonary bypass on the lung, lung perfusion, cardioplegic arrest, beating heart surgery, arterial and venous blood, and ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Just as important are the many diseases that affect the respiratory system that are not associated with acute respiratory failure, but nevertheless constitute a major portion of the practice of pediatric critical care medicine, some of which account for signi?

Biometrics has moved from using fingerprints to using many methods of assessing human physical and behavioral traits. This guide introduces a new performance evaluation framework designed to offer full coverage of performance evaluation of biometric systems.

Topologyhasbeenreferredtoas"rubber-sheetgeometry".Thenameisapt,for the subject is concerned with properties of an object that would be preserved, no matter how much it is stretched, squashed, or distorted, so long as it is not in any way torn apart or glued together.

Over the last 10-20 years, there has been an increasing appreciation of the need to manage individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the context of overall cv risk rather than on the basis of the absolute level of any given risk factor.

After giving a biological overview of liver metastases and current methods of detection and diagnosis, this book explores in detail each of the possible major treatment modalities. It closes with a look at germane health economics issues.