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This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field;

All those physicians and surgeons who have responsibility for newborn infants will face the problem of dealing with tumours. Although emphasis is placed on the common tumours, the book covers the entire spectrum including many of the rarer tumour types.

Ginsberg's program fared poorly in the 1997 Bridge championships, but Ginsberg himself reports very promising results [4] on a hard set of complete Bridge deals taken from the Bridge tutoring program Bridge Master.

Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry. Its aim is to develop and analyse these modelling tools in depth and within a consistent framework.

Blood Supply of Bone: Scientific Aspects provides a comprehensive description of the development and physiology of blood supply to the skeleton.

The illustrations - many of them colour photographs - animate the text, itself so clear and concise that it will fascinate readers of every discipline. Winner of the Rapportryers Prize for "most meritorious popular science book".

Hairy cell Leukaemia (HCL) has always attracted an interest out of all proportion to its frequency and continues to do so. This monograph is a comprehensive account of hairy cell leukaemia and aims to provide a more detailed account than is available in the existing literature.

Fractal analysis research is expanding into a variety of engineering domains. Sections include multifractal analysis, iterated function systems, random processes, network traffic analysis, fractals and waves, image compression, and applications in physics.

Cordless Telecommunications Worldwide describes the emergence of the global unlicensed PCS industry from initial developments in Europe to subsequent activities in Asia and America. This is related to the dynamic panorama of development, both in the available technology and in the market, which has occurred worldwide. Contributions from key industry players include: Evolution of the Cordless Telephone (unlicensed PCS) Market Applications; Standards Development Worldwide; New Digital Standard Products; Cordless Technology; Future Evolution of Cordless Telecommunications; Descriptions of Technical Standards including CT2, DECT, PHS, WCPE, and PACS. Comprehensive coverage of these issues will provide both managers and analysts in the telecommunications industry with valuable insights into and understanding of the market, the technologies and their interaction as well as likely future developments.

Varicose veins are a very common problem. The precise aetiology of primary varicose veins remains unclear. Increasing age, female gender, parity and occupation may all promote the development of varicose veins in susceptible individuals. The treatment of varicose veins. Varicose veins: pilot study.

Within the last five years a number of new books on venous disorders have been produced. Previously the study of venous disease was well-served by the classic texts of Foote, Anning, Dodd and Cockett, and Hobbs, but these texts are now out of print and out of date.

The hope is that the techni cal advances which have enabled bone mineral density, and other allied indices, to be measured with high precision and accuracy offers the chance of identifying patients at risk of fracture and guiding the clinician to make treatment decisions which may reduce the patients' risk of fracture.

A step-by-step guide to the most commonly performed minor operations, mostly done under local anaesthetic on a day case basis, although some may require general anaesthetic.

Cancer and Pregnancy covers the clinical challenges to diagnosing and treating malignancies in the pregnant patient; The book should be read by obstetricians and gynaecologists, clinical oncologists, reproduction specialists, and those involved in investigation of development, biology, toxicology, immunology, as well as cancer research.

Orthofix External Fixation in Trauma and Orthopaedics provides the scientific basis behind the success of the Orthofix system of external fixators, which are now widely used throughout the world.

Rapid prototyping is an exciting new technology used to create physical models and functional prototypes directly from CAD models. Rapid tooling concerns the production of tooling using parts manufactured by rapid prototyping. The book describes the characteristics and capabilities of the main known rapid prototyping processes.

Female Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery is a multi-disciplinary book edited by Stuart L Stanton, Urogynaecologist, and Phillipe Zimmern, Urologist, with contributions by internationally known and experienced clinicians.

Focuses on a class of nonsmooth hybrid dynamical systems, namely finite-dimensional mechanical systems subject to unilateral constraints. This book contains overview of the main problems in mathematics, mechanics, stability and control. It discusses such topics as: shock dynamics; multiple impacts; feedback control; and, Moreau's sweeping process.

Machine vision systems offer great potential in a large number of areas of manufacturing industry and are used principally for Automated Visual Inspection and Robot Vision. A comprehensive set of image processing subroutines, which together form the basic vocabulary for the versatile image processing language IIPL, is presented.

The recent explosive growth of our ability to generate and store data has created a need for new, scalable and efficient, tools for data analysis.

The first book to provide practical guidance on how to get the most from an outsourced IS service and written specifically for IS and IT professionals and not senior business managers.

This work discusses how to use information available on the Web to supply company data warehouses.

Unique in its systematic approach to stochastic systems, this book presents a wide range of techniques that lead to novel strategies for effecting intelligent control of complex systems that are typically characterised by uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, component failure, unpredictable disturbances, multi-modality and high dimensional spaces.

Comprehensive treatment of approximation methods for filters and controllers. Balanced truncation, Hankel norm reduction, multiplicative reduction, weighted methods and coprime factorization methods are all discussed.

The world of artificial systems is reaching complexity levels that es cape human understanding. Researchers from many different fields are trying to understand and develop theories for complex man-made systems. The book has grown out of activities in the research program Control of Complex Systems (COSY).

The book develops the root-cause approach to reliability - often referred to as "physics of failure" in the reliability engineering field. The book can be used to teach first- or second-year postgraduate students in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing and materials engineering about addressing issues of reliability during product development.

Includes coverage of the background theory of shell structures; development and implementation of reliable, creative and efficient computational tools for static and free-vibration analysis and structural optimization of variable-thickness shells and folded-plate structures; and, integrated computer-aided curve and surface modelling tools.

Divided into three parts, it covers: - Model Theory and Recursive Functions - introducing the basic model theory of propositional, 1st order, inductive definitions and 2nd order logic.