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It was the year of 1969 when this monograph was originally published in Japanese by Professor TADASHI KAWAI, titled as "The Plasma Proteins, Their Fundamental and Clinical Aspects." I am happy, the refore, to know that the English edition of his monograph, partly revised, is ready to be published at this time.

This unique reference book meticulously lists a vast variety of the extensive South American flora, in particular the one of Venezuela. Botanical information of the individual species is given together with their specific use in traditional South American medicine.

Aims to bring together experts from the medical and engineering fields in which trauma acts as a fulcrum in understanding the engineering approach to medical cases. This book lays emphasis on the retrospective study of medical scenarios as seen from the engineering perspective. It covers a wide spectrum of trauma case studies.

This is the first systematic owl checklist for over 50 years to include subspecies and synonyms. This beautifully illustrated checklist provides an outstanding resource for scientific collections, studies of global biodiversity, and species preservation.

The 2nd edition of this book shows how the quality of information can be improved in such knowledge-intensive processes as on-line communication, strategy, product development, or consulting. The text offers proven principles for applying information quality management to a variety of information products.

This book explores environmental and human risk problems caused by contamination, from the perspective of real world applications with quantitative procedures.

Surveying a Century Ago As it was based on the principles of geometry and trigonometry, surveying may be may be looked upon as a branch of practical mathematics. In contrary, survey works done by the national mapping agencies (NMAs) were of a higher-level, and comprised the delimitation of boundaries as well as topographical surveys.

Suitable for graduate students and researchers wishing to learn about high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides, in particular the Kamimura-Suwa (K-S) model, this texbook explains briefly the historical development that led to the K-S model. It then focuses on the physical background necessary to understand the K-S model.

Optimization is a serious issue, touching many aspects of our life and activity. But even in a world that more and more understands that it cannot a?ord to waste resources, optimization remains to a large extent unknown.

Highlights various aspects of the analysis and design of buildings subject to impact, explosion, and fire. This reference book includes three-dimensional finite element and discrete element techniques. They are applied to buildings such as the World Trade Center Towers and the Federal Building in Oklahoma.

With contributions by numerous experts

MATLAB (R) is used for a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, the generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series.

This book focusses on the after sales business and presents the Service Parts Planning (SPP) solution which was developed by SAP in a joint effort with Caterpillar and Ford in order to address the specific planning problems of service parts.

This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population groups and neighbourhoods.

This book presents multi-agent scheduling models in which subsets of jobs sharing the same resources are evaluated by different criteria. It discusses complexity results, approximation schemes, heuristics and exact algorithms.

This book provides international readers with a fresh outlook on China's tort law system, exploring its principles, theories and history. It features real cases to explain the application of China's tort laws and the meaning of the corresponding statutes.