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The advent of assisted conception procedures such as in-vitro fertili sation (IVF) has provided the impetus for exploration of the factors that lead to the establishment of pregnancy.

Myotonia, for example, is an electrophysiological finding in some syndromes in which it is un detectable by clinical examination, although the phenomenon itself was originally defined as a clinical entity.

This essential and highly-illustrated guide is for anyone taking their first steps in observational astronomy. It shows what you can expect to see, helping you get the most from your equipment. This unique book gives amateurs the guidance and assurance they need to become more proficient observers.

The !first part is devoted to robot dynamics modelling and identification of robot and load parameters, incorporating friction torques, discussing identification schemes, and presenting simulations and experiment al results of robot and load dynamic parameters identification.

Here is a fully illustrated and informative reference on injuries within the peripheral nervous system. It incorporates new knowledge in molecular and cellular events which underlie the response of nerves to injury, regeneration and neuropathic pain.

This book describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, progressing step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment. Includes review questions, hands-on exercises, study activities and discussion topics.

Practical Patch Testing and Chemical Allergens in Contact Dermatitis covers the most relevant allergens in a concise and algorithmic fashion, with practical tips for patch testing.

This book develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors.

The usefulness of this theorem stems from being more accessible for calculations than K-theory, and hence a single calculation of K-theory can be used with homological calculations to obtain a host of 'nearby' calculations in K-theory.

With up-to-date numerical data across a range of topics related to renewable energy technologies, this volume offers a comprehensive source of key information to engineers, economists and other professionals working in the energy and climate change sectors.

This book introduces algorithms of human body reconstruction, freeform product modeling, constraining and reconstructing freeform products and shape optimization for improving the manufacturability of freeform products, to assist with automate design tasks.

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the essentials of networking and communications technologies. discusses networking models and standards, local area and wide area networks, network protocols, TCP/IP-based networks, network management and wireless communications;

In our opinion it was very important to divide the orthopedic procedures according to their own thrombotic risk, so having their own protocols for thromboprophylaxis: high risk, day surgery procedures and "special" surgical procedures are included in three different chapters, from three different authors with complementary views.

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.

This book is an introduction to matrix transforms, which are ubiquitous in the world of computer graphics. Covers notation, determinants, matrices, 2D transforms, 3D transforms and quaternions, and offers many worked examples to illustrate their practical use.

This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data.

This book offers essays by friends, students and collaborators of Jacob T. Schwartz at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, on topics Schwartz explored: quantum theory, theory and practice of programming, robotics, motion planning and genomics.

Control of Discrete-event Systems provides a survey of the most important topics in the discrete-event systems theory with particular focus on finite-state automata, Petri nets and max-plus algebra.

Change detection using remotely sensed images has many applications, such as urban monitoring, land-cover change analysis, and disaster management. In addition to testing existing methods, four new change detection methods are introduced: fuzzy logic-based, shadow detection-based, local feature-based, and bipartite graph matching-based.

This book explains the underlying physical mechanisms of flow-induced pulsation and vibration, and their possible effects. Discusses links between state-of the-art CFD computation and notorious practical problems, and offers data on normal vibration levels.

This thorough book covers rotordynamics and Active-Magnetic-Bearing technology, from instability modeling and controller design to implementation and testing of the control algorithm in a specially-constructed industrial-size centrifugal compression system.

Frequency Domain Criteria for Absolute Stability focuses on recently-developed methods of delay-integral-quadratic constraints to provide criteria for absolute stability of nonlinear control systems.

Cancer Pain provides a comprehensive, practical guide to the management of pain in cancer patients. Subsequent chapters address particular challenges in pain control, such as breakthrough pain, neuropathic cancer pain, as well as pain associated with cancer treatment which, until recently, has not been fully appreciated.

Cost estimating is a powerful tool in industry and business. Anyone involved in cost estimating will find this book extremely useful because of the real life examples, which mean they can use the information in real situations immediately.

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 urological cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research.

Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice is the fifth volume in the Essentials in Autopsy Practice series, covering topics of current and future interest.

This book distils into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes. No other book covers the gap between the theory and practice of control systems so comprehensively.

This must-read text presents the late Professor Jacob T. Schwartz's work on computational logic and set theory and its application to proof verification techniques. Covers the AEtnaNova system, a program built to verify the correctness of mathematical proofs.

Stress-reducing defects and subsequent microcracks are a central focus during micromachining processes. After establishing the central process of micromachining, this book explains the underlying theories that describe chip formation and applies elementary cutting theory to machining at the microscale.

This book introduces to readers who are unfamiliar with thermodynamics the concept of exergy, discussing a variety of relevant topics in the built-environmental space such as heating, cooling, lighting and many more.