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Topics and features: introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain; reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information; describes a range of applications related to social media.

This review of the mathematics uses in computing takes in a host of topics including software engineering and reliability, coding theory, and cryptography, and is an enlightening introductory guide to the calculations which have built our technological world.

21st Century Kinematics focuses on algebraic problems in the analysis and synthesis of mechanisms and robots, compliant mechanisms, cable-driven systems and protein kinematics. The text shows how the analysis and design of innovative mechanical systems yield increasingly complex systems of polynomials, characteristic of those systems.

Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is a combination of computer graphics and computer vision that produces renderings in various artistic, expressive or stylized ways such as painting and drawing.

Among all the extensor mechanism pathologies, lateral patellar instability is of great interest not only for the knee specialist, but also for the general orthopedic surgeon and trainee.

Minimally Invasive Surgery for the achilles tendon represents a novel approach to treatment of orthopedic problems in the Achilles tendon.

This book describes a number of the better established and accepted minimally invasive surgical correction techniques for forefoot problems. The concise written text is complemented by a generous assortment of useful photos, diagrams, and imaging studies.

The book is divided into four sections, the first section focuses on the etiopathogenic bases, the second section focuses on emerging technologies, the third section includes difficult clinical casesstudied, and the fourth section provides a description of the most important surgical techniques for the knee extensor mechanism.

The aim of this atlas is to provide detailed and comprehensive, easy-to-use information, sufficient to perform trichoscopy in clinical practice. The second part consists of detailed description of characteristic trichoscopy features of diverse diseases of hair and scalp.

This book lays a foundation of principles in dermatopathology, highlighting key elements in the field for students and serving as a basic resource for pathologists in general practice. Features spare text, and high resolution histopaghologic micrographs.

Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the control algorithm in regulating the mean-value rail pressure independently from engine working conditions (engine speed and time of injection) with limited design effort.

¿¿ ¿¿¿This book has been written by established Orthopedic Surgeons who have become dedicated specialists within their particular subspecialty. They have contributed by writing highly detailed chapters that educate the reader with the basic science, accepted fundamentals and most recent trends within the full range of orthopedic management of upper and lower limb orthopedic disorders.It is intended that this well illustrated and highly informative text book to provide orthopedic surgeons in training with comprehensive and relevant core knowledge on all aspects of  orthopedics of the upper and lower limb, and will become an essential guide for surgeons in training, providing step by step approaches to performing initial diagnosis, surgical procedures and post operative management.¿

This book offers clear, accurate data for topics ranging from Ni cermet anodes, chemical expansion in materials, and the measuring and modelling of mechanical stresses, to the broader history and present design of cells, to SOFC systems and the future of SOFC.

This book has been written by established Orthopedic Surgeons who have become dedicated specialists within their particularsubspecialty.

As such Inflammatory Response in Cardiovascular Surgery is vital reading for all involved in the management of cardiovascular surgical patients, such as cardiovascular and transplant surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, cardiovascular and vascular fellows, and researchers.

This authoritative guide to diagnosis and management in dermatology focuses on challenging cases including unusual presentations of common morbidities. Full of expert tips and highlighted key points, it will enrich the skill set of relevant clinicians.

Vascular care has evolved from conservative therapy and open surgical therapy to a minimally invasive approach using endovascular techniques, laparoscopic or thoracoscopic techniques as well as hybrids of open and endovascular techniques. This volume provides up-to-the-minute information and details new developments and procedures.

Prostate cancer is the commonest male cancer with over 5 million survivors in US alone.

Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, this book gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It will benefit those seeking to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process.

This book suggests that most literature on climate change is too optimistic regarding the potential for conventional mitigation solutions to achieve the deep cuts in greenhouse gases needed. It offers a global perspective in its treatment of various solutions.

This overview of research into enabling technologies for small and medium-sized companies presents the latest scientific advances and demonstrates how to develop new methods, tools and algorithms to address the problems inherent in mass customisation.

Another interesting aspect of this book are the step by step surgical techniques videos, that will allow a knee specialist to perform the technique presented by the author.

A Practical Astronomer's Deep-sky Companion is an essential read for deep-sky observers, whether they are interested in imaging or just sightseeing. This beautiful large-format full-colour book is designed to be taken out into the field during observing to provide all the information necessary for finding and imaging interesting deep-sky objects.

M.A.BRAMER University of Portsmouth, UK This volume comprises the refereed technical papers presented at ES2002, the Twenty-second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2002.

The papers in this volume are the referred Applications papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGES international Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Cambridge during December 2002.

Over 100 of the authors hand-drawn diagrams, based on his own observations, provide non-specialist surgeons with the vital aspects about almost every conceivable neck injury, allowing precise surgical diagnosis and management. No other handbook provides such comprehensive inter-speciality information in such an accessible format.

Recent research advances and industrial innovations in information systems modeling and Internet applications have explored the new trends in shifting information system vendors from component and system developers to services providers.

Optimization in Industry comprises a collection of papers presented at the third US United Engineering Foundation's 'Optimization in Industry' Conference.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Third Combinatorics, Computability and Logic (DMTCS'01) conference, These papers cover topics such as abstract data types and specifications algorithms and data structures automata and formal languages computability among others.