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This book presents a broad survey of technical requirements and design principles for incorporating virtual reality in surgical training, intra-operative augmentation, and rehabilitation that are currently in use as well as techniques now in development.

Dynamics and Control of Switched Electronic Systems draws on the expertise of an international group of expert contributors to give an overview of recent advances in the modeling, simulation and control of switched electronic systems.

This book examines and compares several methods for constructing systems models based on real experimental data from typical industrial processes, and incorporating system identification techniques. Offers exercises, problems and examples using MATLAB (R).

Distributed-order differential equations, a generalization of fractional calculus, are of increasing importance in many fields of science and engineering from the behaviour of complex dielectric media to the modelling of nonlinear systems.

Dedicated to the memory of leading exponent Jim Thomas, this volume includes contributions from a wealth of international experts who explore varied aspects of a discipline that becomes more important with every petabyte added to the world's stored data.

This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. If any content annoys us, we will be able to effortlessly say so and change it with simple gestures, and content providers and advertisers will know what we like and be able to act accordingly.

This detailed book covers key principles in offshore wind development, providing a methodological framework for assessing installation and decommissioning costs. The book is supported throughout by visual aids and data tables.

Opening with a discussion of the underlying theory and a brief history of video text detection, the text proceeds to cover pre-processing and post-processing techniques, character segmentation and recognition, identification of non-English scripts, techniques for multi-modal analysis and performance evaluation.

This book analyzes energy-efficient lighting using solar-powered LED systems, focusing on the interplay of energy transformation and device efficiency. Covers many aspects of renewable energy; shows how more efficient appliances can reduce the cost of energy.

This book presents an analysis of how the introduction and application of low-carbon technologies in developing countries could be streamlined. It addresses the implementation of green-energy technology from a technological to a national level.

This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges.

Gas Hydrates opens up this fascinating, multidisciplinary field to non-specialists. It provides a scientific study of gas hydrates that considers their potential as an energy source, while assessing possible risks to the environment.

Critical Care Clinicians can use general drug references (Micomedex, Lexicomp) for data on dosing of high-alert medications in special patient populations but these references are not available to all healthcare clinicians, they are expensive and they are not specific to high-alert medications or critically ill patients.

The proposed book explores the theme of identity, specifically as applied to its role and development in virtual worlds. factors that support the development of identity in virtual worlds; managing multiple identities across different environments and creating an online identity for a physical world purpose.

This book covers such cutting-edge applications in communications as advanced metering infrastructure, distribution automation, demand response and synchrophasors. Discusses transformation of integrated networks via smart grid architecture format.

Features: introduces examples of robust feature representations, reviews salient feature weighting and selection mechanisms and examines the benefits of semantic attributes;

This book offers a comprehensive and structured approach to design and implementation of controllers for the sheet metal stamping process. Presents experimental results from actual shopfloor deployments, with ideas for further improvement of the technology.

3D Multiscale Physiological Human

This thorough, multidisciplinary study discusses the findings of social interaction and social simulation using understandable global examples. Shows the reader how to acquire intercultural data, illustrating each step with descriptive comments and program code.

This book offers an alternative approach to robust and optimal controller synthesis procedures for linear, time-invariant systems based on the two-port system widely used in electrical engineering. With examples and exercises, using downloadable MATLAB (R) code.

This comprehensive text explains how to treat continuous physical systems with digital control, establishing a solid basis for their analysis and design, and focusing on frequency-domain methods suitable for deployment in uncertain physical systems.

Finite-time stability (FTS) is a more practical concept than classical Lyapunov stability, useful for checking whether the state trajectories of a system remain within pre-specified bounds over a finite time interval.

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management and the XVI Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización (CIO 2012). The aim of CIO is to establish a forum for the open and free exchange of ideas, opinions and academic experiences about research, technology transfer or successful business experiences in the field of Industrial Engineering. The CIO 2012 is an annual meeting promoted by ¿Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Ingeniería de Organización¿ (Industrial Engineers Association, ADINGOR) with a  Scientific Committee composed of 61 international referees and more than 200 professionals from 7 countries. A selection of the lectures and presentations made over three days by researchers and practitioners from  different countries are presented here. A range of topics is covered including:A selection of the lectures and presentations made over three days by researchers and practitioners from  different countries are presented here. A range of topics is covered including:·         Business Administration & Economic Environment ·         Technological & Organizational Innovation·         Logistics & Supply Chain Management·         Production & Operations Management·         Management Systems & SustainabilityThe conference in Industrial Engineering (CIO) and its proceedings are an excellent platform for the dissemination of the outputs of the scientific projects developed in the frame of the International Research and Development plans.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women in the US, with more women dying from heart disease than men.

The idea behind this book is to produce a fully comprehensive and highly illustrated "how to" technical reference manual, demonstrating surgical procedures in a step by step manner.

This edited collection will provide an overview of the field of physiological computing, i.e. the use of physiological signals as input for computer control. It will cover a breadth of current research, from brain-computer interfaces to telemedicine.

Drawing on simulations developed in recent years, this book reviews the main ingredients necessary to build up a quasi-dimensional computer simulation scheme which models physical and chemical processes involved in the evolution of an automotive engine.

With this book, the reader will additionally be able to critically appraise the applicability and the limits of the methods used in modern risk management.Value-oriented Management of Risk in Insurance focuses on risk capital, capital allocation, performance measurement and value-oriented management.

The Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture Conference series is now in its tenth year and has become a well-established, application-oriented meeting recognised by several UK Engineering Institutions and the International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computing.