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This book presents critical, need-to-know concepts in perioperative care, from preoperative risk assessment to postoperative follow-up. This edition includes new information on preoperative assessment, and updated sections on cardiology and pulmonary medicine.

This book highlights the importance of education as a central mission of the medical specialty of radiology. It brings current and potential radiological educators up to speed on the state of the art of contemporary educational theory and practice.

This book provides an in-depth analysis into the main effects of Hughes Syndrome. It offers a detailed history of Hughes Syndrome and examines the effects of the syndrome on the major organs, making it a valuable reference tool for students in training.

This book offers rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of networked and distributed predictive control systems, including new techniques for system design, insight into likely issues and challenges, and integrated exposition of novel research topics.

In this book we discuss how children grow, how to measure this and how to decide whether development falls within normal parameters. This leads us to consider problems with the norm, including the more generalised bone and cartilage disorders, most now genetically determined.

Having considered the more generalised neuromuscular and skeletal problems of childhood in the previous two books, we concentrate in this book on regional disorders. The lower limb chapters consider limb deficiency and deformity and how best we should manage them.

This literature review on haptic textures examines the problem of rendering virtual haptic textures with force-feedback devices. It provides a thorough grounding in the subject and includes tools for analyzing the textures that a haptic device can produce.

Combining lucid description and illustrations with rigorous arguments and detailed proofs, this book examines the core concepts of automata and languages, computability, and complexity of computation, and offers a solid foundation in computation theory.

The subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization. It enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

Optimization techniques have been widely adopted to implement various data mining algorithms. This book focuses on cutting-edge theoretical developments and real-life applications in optimization, covering a range of fields from finance to bioinformatics.

Here is a thorough introduction to nonlinear model predictive control for discrete-time and sampled-data systems. Includes an appendix with NMPC software and accompanying MATLAB (R) and C++ programs enable readers to perform computer experiments exploring NMPC.

Retroperitoneal Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery provides urologists with an easy way to learn the extraperitoneal alternative when performing laparoscopic or robot assisted procedures. This book will support beginners in making the transition from open extraperitoneal to laparoscopic or robotic extraperitoneal procedures.

This book provides an essential resource for clinicians in the management of neuropathic pain in diabetic patients. It examines approaches in the management of neuropathic pain and includes guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of this condition.

Here is a different approach to pattern recognition systems, in which users of a system are involved during the recognition process, and examines a range of advanced multimodal interactions between machine and users, including handwriting, speech and gesture.

Safety and Risk Modeling presents the latest theories and methods of safety and risk with an emphasis on safety and risk in modeling.

The title of this new book: "The Connected Home" reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education - and even eating!

This book considers biometric technology in all its broad aspects, integrating the concept seamlessly into mainstream IT while discussing legal, political and societal factors, including the cultural attitudes and the societal impact of identity management.

The first systematic survey of Healthcare Infrastructure, this book describes the inevitable future of health systems. This book outlines how the health of populations will be measured at the level of individuals, combining engineering and medicine to support viable health systems for the first time.

This book enables readers to quickly develop a working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and PHP. It provides a hands-on approach to learning and makes extensive use of examples. Includes a glossary as well as a range of programming exercises.

The concept of Whole Body Interaction explores the integration of input and output from human motion and physiology, cognitive models and emotional states. This book offers extended papers submitted to the ACM SIGCHI 2009 Workshop on Whole Body Interaction.

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered either life-threatening or requiring complex management.

Containing 100 case studies and the most up-to-date, high-resolution imagery such as 64-slice CT scans, the material in this practical volume covers everything from common and everyday conditions to less common cases of which practitioners should be aware.

A comprehensive collection covering more than 3,000 plants Offers systematic information on the lipids and natural oils that can be extracted from each part of the plantIncludes material not previously readily available in English

This detailed book explores reliability, availability and safety modeling of networked computer-based systems used in life-critical applications such as avionics, nuclear power plants, automobiles and chemical process industries.

This book offers a thorough understanding of the applications of finite element method (FEM) to reliability modeling and an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of various numerical models for interconnect reliability.

Osteoporosis Research - Animal Models, presents in a very illustrative and practical manner, general methodologies of bone studies in animals, as well as the particular features of the most commonly used animal models in the field.

Stochastic Processes covers useful reliability studies and applications, while providing an overview of stochastic processes. Examples from reliability models illustrate how to apply stochastic processes.

"Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks" introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.

Laparoscopic Entry: Traditional Methods, New Insights And Novel Approaches discusses traditional methods of laparoscopic surgery, new devices, laparoscopic entry in difficult patients, robotic assisted surgery access, single port entry, gasless access, transvaginal entry and natural orifice surgery.

By a thorough clinical examination, it can help an individual to arrive at a tentative differential diagnosis of the condition and hence help in investigating the same by numerous tests which are relevant to the given condition.