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This book gives an excellent discussion of our basic understanding of different wave modes, using a full-waveform and multi-component approach.

It is comprehensive in its coverage, encompassing patient and donor evaluation, ethics, legal issues, psychological issues, types of transplant, surgical technique, issues relating to immunosuppression, follow-up protocols, and current outcomes.

Insurance against natural hazards lies at the heart of such a system. The insurance systems of Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and the USA are presented. The author explains what type of insurance system is best suited to meet the challenge of climate change.

This book details how hybridization can help improve the quality of computer classification systems. It introduces the different levels of hybridization and illuminates common problems faced when dealing with such projects.

Entropy is the most important and the most difficult to understand term of thermodynamics. This book helps make this key concept understandable. It includes seven illustrative examples of applications of entropy, which are presented step by step.

Cytologic examination of the cerebrospinal fluid is a technically simple, yet productive, diagnostic procedure. High-quality slides depict the common cerebrospinal fluid cell types, cell anomalies in inflammatory conditions and neoplastic and non-neoplastic disorders, and cases with contaminants.

Giving readers a rounded understanding of control-related problems in UAVs and presenting the latest advances in bio-inspired computation, this volume links theory, algorithms, and implementation procedures. It tracks results with academically sound graphics.

This comprehensive study of shipping activities in Arctic waters explores factors and conditions that will determine the scope and range of the industry for years to come. Topics include geopolitics, military affairs, global warming, sea ice melting and more.

Describing principles from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides an overview of electrical machines and drives. Special attention is given to the necessary formulae to calculate machines and drives, as well as simplifications.

Ideal material for private study or revision, this accessible volume will be required reading for anyone collecting, analyzing and presenting a range of data. It is particularly relevant to the task of planning sample data collection such as customer surveys.

This review of classical field theory describes Maxwell's equations in their integral, directly testable form, and moves on to their local formulation. Includes detailed figures, worked examples, problems and solutions, highlighted special topics and more.

This book covers combinational circuits, latches, and asynchronous sequential circuits, reviewing orthodox and unorthodox approaches to circuit design, exploring the theory of latches and examining asynchronous circuits in tree specification.

This award-winning best-seller addresses the fundamentals of computer science. The authors discuss the design of algorithms, their efficiency and correctness, quantum algorithms, concurrency, large systems and artificial intelligence.

The goal of this original and relevant book is to provide a complete overview, exposition, and evaluation of the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation. It also considers implications for a variety of public policy issues.

Here is a framework for mixed finite element methods, moving from a finite dimensional presentation, then on to formulation in Hilbert spaces and approximations, stabilized methods and eigenvalue problems. Offers examples: Stokes' problem, elasticity and more.

Based on clinical experience managing vertigo in a large university-affiliated hospital, this book covers epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, diagnostics, testing, treatment, rehabilitation and ethical considerations. Includes pediatric and geriatric pathologies.

This book breaks new ground in its effort to interlink genetics, epidemiology and cognitive neuroscience. It provides practitioners with the tools and knowledge base to collaborate on large-scale imaging studies of the developing, mature and aging brain.

This book presents an accurate, efficient pipeline for single camera-based 3D mapping of terrestrial and underwater environments. The authors offer a novel Structure from Motion algorithm that boosts accuracy by registering camera views directly with the maps.

This book takes on pervasive computing, introducing SmartShadow, which emulates shadows in the physical world by creating an always-available virtual personal space. Presents models, methods and software infrastructure and a sample smart car application.

It provides fuzzy programming approach to solve real-life decision problems in fuzzy environment. Within the framework of credibility theory, it provides a self-contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of fuzzy programming models, algorithms and applications in portfolio analysis.

This book reviews the design of real-time security extensions for EPCglobal networks based on in-memory technology, presents authentication protocols for devices with low computational resources and outlines steps for implementing history-based access control.

This book describes a multidisciplinary, multiscale approach to the analysis of tight gas reservoirs, showing the need to move beyond standard seismic interpretation work flows to better understand the temporal and spatial evolution of such complex reservoirs.

Benefiting graduate and post-graduate students in theoretical physics, this book systematically describes methods for investigation of the effects of external active media, both strong electromagnetic fields and hot dense plasma, in quantum processes.

This book reviews techniques of indirect questioning, including various versions of randomized response, the item count technique, the nominative technique, the three-card method and negative surveys, and explores the key aspect of protecting privacy.

This book shows how the US, the EU and China have reached a decisive crossroads, at which a small number of competitive markets which will decide future earning capacity and prosperity. Offers a new, ready-to-apply view of innovation.

This book covers the basics of Clifford algebras and spinor modules, with applications to the theory of Lie groups. Topics include Petracci's proof of the Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt theorem, quantized Weil algebras, Duflo's theorem for quadratic Lie algebras and more.

This richly illustrated book assesses the role, advantages and limitations of each imaging modality from conventional to high-tech, showing anatomic and developmental peculiarities of the growing skeleton, and describing findings in a wide range of conditions.

The new edition of this classic book collects the founding works of mathematical demography from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century, updates commentaries by the editors and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.

This book presents a coherence-based approach to computer graphics that can be comprehensively applied to all the major elements of image-based appearance modeling, from data acquisition and user-assisted modeling to efficient rendering and model editing.