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Thoracic surgery is a high-risk speciality and requires attention to detail. Tips and Tricks in Thoracic Surgery is a fully illustrated, comprehensive text aimed at qualified and trainee thoracic surgeons.

With contributions by numerous experts

Biomedical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline at the intersection of computer science, decision science, information science, cognitive science, and biomedicine.

Reliability and safety are issues that must be addressed throughout the life of engineering systems. This book presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. It highlights recent advances and offers case studies.

This book places the formalism of Markov chain and hidden Markov models at the very center of its examination of current pattern recognition systems, demonstrating how the models can be used in a range of different applications.

At a time when clinicians are bombarded with masses of clinical information from numerous sources, and the wide variety of changes/advances in diabetes management, there is a need for a concise, easy-to-read book that provides an up-to-date review of the major advances in management of diabetes, with an evidence-based approach.

Representation theory studies maps from groups into the general linear group of a finite-dimensional vector space.

Selected References in Trauma and Orthopaedics is an essential study tool for all those preparing for the orthopedic FRCS (Tr & Orth).

Atrial Fibrillation Therapy

Cardiac Arrhythmias

This illustrated guide details up-to-date techniques used in the laparoscopic repair of hernias. Includes Extraperitoneal (TEP) and transabdominal (TAPP) hernia repair, fundamentals of ventral hernia repair, mesh fixation in laparoscopic surgery and more.

In its updated edition, this book covers techniques used in simulating crowds, particularly in video games and film. Covers path planning, and introduces the important concept of gaze attention - individuals seeming conscious of their environment and of others.

Behavioral Operations Management has been identified in the last years as one of the most promising emerging fields in Operations Management.

Finite Element Method in Machining Processes provides a concise study on the way the Finite Element Method (FEM) is used in the case of manufacturing processes, primarily in machining.

This essential primer on the clinical imaging of atherosclerosis is aimed at practicing clinicians and offers unrivaled imagery, excellent presentation of key information and contributions from a host of international experts in cardiac imaging.

Integrative and translational methodologies and frameworks have transformed modern biomedical research and the delivery of clinical care.

Here is a comprehensive examination of the rapidly expanding area of transformation electromagnetics and related metamaterial technology, with contributions on the subject provided by a collection of leading experts from around the world.

The newborn child's immature nervous system makes early diagnosis of some neurological disorders difficult: it is often only the passage of time which clarifies the severity and pattern. Chapters in this book describe neural tube defects, the recognition and management of cerebral palsy and, lest we forget, poliomyelitis.

Topics and features: uses an in-depth bottom-up approach to the topic of microcontroller design using the Microchip enhanced-range PIC18 (R) microcontroller family as the exemplar; provides a standalone module on foundation topics in digital, logic and computer architecture for microcontroller engineering;

Overview and Goals The agile approach for software development has been applied more and more extensively since the mid nineties of the 20th century.

These are: database modelling of 3D content, security in 3D environments, describing interactivity of content, searching content, visualization of search results, modelling mixed reality content, and efficient creation of interactive 3D content.

Sjoegren's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjoegren's Syndrome.

Invasive bladder tumors affect the muscle wall, and have a propensity to metastasize and spread to other areas of the body, and are more likely to be fatal. The book offers a comprehensive review of the subject, covering epidemiology, screening, diagnostic factors, surgery, chemotherapy and post-operative monitoring.

This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational face recognition systems.

Skylab is not just a story of space hardware and space science, but also of space explorers and pioneers.

With Skype, mobile telephony and other innovations in communication transforming the way families keep in touch with each other, this study analyzes how connections between families and couples are evolving in today's evolving technological context.

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series.

This is the first ever truly introductory text to the theory of tensor products of Banach spaces. Each chapter contains worked examples and a set of exercises, and two appendices offer material on summability in Banach spaces and properties of spaces of measures.