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Lavishly illustrated, this unique and comprehensive book covers common and rare pregnancy-related dermatoses, and includes: clinical pictures, laboratory tests, histopathology, differential diagnosis, influence on mother and embryo, treatment and prognosis.

This book analyzes two opposing currents in business thinking: the tug of war between strategic and financial considerations. It dissects their differences and develops an approach that reconciles the two conflicting schools of thought.

This book introduces new management tools essential for the success of any economic changes in the field of culture, including recommendatory services operating as a social institution of expert consumer analysis of cultural goods and services.

This book describes the current state of video search engine technology and details the opportunities to contribute to the development of this field. It brings readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems.

This book showcases examples of excellent manufacturing companies who have succeeded in creating value and job growth in Western Europe. It shows how a clearly articulated strategic position can be combined with excellent execution to achieve competitiveness.

This overview for the interested layman reviews the attempts of scientists to find answers to the question of where life comes from. After an historical introduction, he surveys the origin of the universe, the solar system, our Earth, meteorites and comets.

Henry presents an integrated approach to testing based on cutting-edge methodologies, processes and tools in an IT context. The value of this book is the in-depth explanation of all processes and relevant methodologies and tools to address this complexity.

Collaborative research in bioinformatics and systems biology is a key element of modern biology and health research. This book provides access to many of the methods, environments, results and resources involved. Over 350 web references are included.

This monograph provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive description of computer security threats and countermeasures, ideal for graduate students or researchers in academia and industry who require an introduction to the state of the art in this field.

Interdisciplinary research is the key to success in the sciences' future. This is the first book dealing with applications of the method SERS. It includes theory as well as experimental measurements.

Chapter 6 shows the application of the model in the fatigue life assessment in the complex state of loading (bending with torsion of flange-tube and tube-tube joints) based on fatigue research of steel and aluminum welded joints carried out in well-known German centres.

This self-tutorial offers a concise yet thorough grounding in the mathematics necessary for successfully applying FEMs to practical problems in science and engineering. Its unique teaching method explains the analysis using exercises and detailed solutions.

This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation. It is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics. At the end of each chapter several exercises are formulated.

This fascinating work makes the link between the rarified world of maths and the down-to-earth one inhabited by engineers. It introduces and explains classical and modern mathematical procedures as applied to the real problems confronting engineers and geoscientists.

This is the first coherent book on SS7 and includes detailed background knowledge about the SS7 network protocols. The book summarizes important developments in telecommunications, including SS7 over IP, with a focus on SS7 network reliability.

Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on different length and time scales.

The subject of the book is the development of physics in the 18th century centered upon the fundamental contributions of Leonhard Euler to physics and mathematics. The book examines how Euler coordinated his progress in mathematics with his progress in physics.

Economic progress in the digital knowledge society will be characterized by enormous structural change and the growth of digital services. It highlights technological and regulatory dynamics with respect to EU countries and the US and presents new policy conclusions at both the national and international levels, including welfare analysis.

This book reviews the effects of pressure on the dynamics of a variety of glass-forming systems, offering a detailed discussion of the thermodynamics of these systems and their relation to chemical specificity as well as present and potential applications.

This book provides a solid scientific basis for researchers, practitioners and students interested in the application of genetic principles to tropical forest ecology and management. It presents a concise overview of genetic variation, evolutionary processes and the human impact on forest genetic resources in the tropics.

A new starting-point and a new method are requisite, to insure a complete [classi?cation of the Steiner triple systems of order 15].

This book conducts a careful basic theoretical and econometric analysis of the factors determining the real exchange rates of Canada, the U.K., Japan, France and Germany with respect to the United States.

This compendium of soft computing methods reflects the explosion of interest in and opportunities for the design and development of microwave components. It shows how to develop and use soft computing methods for tackling challenging microwave design problems.

The field of semiconductor nanostructures is of enormous and still-growing research interest. On the other hand, they allow, in specially tailored systems, the investigation of fundamental properties such as many-particle interactions of electrons in reduced dimensions.

This book provides a training course for I and C maintenance engineers in power, process, chemical, and other industries. The book compiles 30 years of knowledge gained by the author and his staff in testing the I and C systems of nuclear power plants around the world.

A major task for physical oceanographers is to determine the movement of oceanic water from observations. This book introduces the P-vector inverse method, with a two-step determination of the velocity from hydrographic data.

The theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is particle physics in a nutshell. The theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is at the cutting edge of current research in particle physics, and any deviation between the theoretical prediction and the experimental value might be interpreted as a signal of an as-yet-unknown new physics.