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This comprehensive treatment of a classic element of machine design examines not only 'classic' aspects of the subject, but also includes advanced material from the authors, including the presentation of new solutions in closed form to aid conceptual design.

The idea for this text stemmed from the fruitful experience gathered during the training course of 9 Nigerian university students organized in Naples from 3 to 18 September 2008 by the team of Fondazione IDIS-Citta della Scienza under the project Science Centre Owerri.

This book presents the work of researchers in physics, economics, mathematics and financial engineering who have undertaken the task of modeling and analyzing systemic risk, network dynamics and other topics.

A growing number of people worldwide view trading the markets as an attractive part- or even full-time pursuit. This book shows how traditional long positions are giving way to techniques that focus on making money by being on the right side of the market.

Businesses now operate amid a welter of risks that exist at various levels, both inside companies and at the network level. This handbook provides the latest integrated managerial approaches that help protect businesses from adverse events and their effects.

Furthermore, it proposes a comprehensive and operational framework for the assessment of the financial feasibility of strategy, through the measurement of the impact of the planned strategic moves on financial needs and the evaluation of their financial sustainability.

This volume is intended to collect important research results to the lectures and discussions which took Place in Rome, at the INdAM Workshop on Different Notions of Regularity for Functions of Quaternionic Variables in September 2010.

The book provides a critical overview of innovation policy in Europe and a synopsis of the current institutional framework of Europe shaped after the Europe2020 strategy and in view of the upcoming Horizon2020 agenda.

This illustrated book illuminates normal appearances and diseases of the fetal and the neonatal central nervous system, with matching of clinical and neuroradiological aspects for the entire range of CNS pathology. Covers MRI, ultrasound, CT and more.

This atlas covers the most frequent penile diseases, along with more rare ones, providing useful clinical guidance. It also presents the most appropriate treatment, according to the most recent and evidence-based therapeutic advances.

Even if in the last years more information on sepsis and new treatments has become available, mortality rate is however high. Another major problem is the consequent organ failure, which grows in a sequential way and in relation with the lesion gravity and the functional reserves of the patient.

This manuscript is an introduction to the design and planning of clinical research. Study designs are described and special emphasis is given to writing a protocol of a clinical trial. Sample selection and recruitment, variable measurement, randomization, follow up, statistical analysis, sample size and bias are covered.

The 13th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics was held in Cala Corvino-Monopoli (Bari) from September 21to September 25, 1998.