Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic pathologies in children and adolescents require a high degree of specialization. This book provides practical guidelines for both thoracic surgeons and pediatric su
Most environmental data involve a large degree of complexity and uncertainty. Environmental Data Analysis is created to provide modern quantitative tools and techniques designed specifically to meet t
The book covers the fundamentals and applications of computational bioacoustics in monitoring and control applications in healthcare. The work provides a thorough discussion of cross-disciplinary rese
The monograph begins with a systematic introduction of chaos and chaos synchronization, and then extends to the methodologies and technologies in secure communication system design and implementation.
Formulations starts with a general introduction, explaining interaction forces between particles and droplets, self-assembly systems, polymeric surfactants and nanoemulsions. The second part covers th
Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. This is the first book to bri
This monograph presents a prototype theory-based approach to the graphic novel as a narrating genre. After a historical contextualization, the graphic novel is defined through the core feature of comp
This monograph provides an up-to-date overview on methods and techniques in seismology, with a focus on describing and detecting seismic waves in anisotropic media. The author discusses structural, ph
This book provides an up-to-date summary of the biology and the molecular pathogenesis of malignant lymphomas that represent malignant cancers of the lymphoid system. With its focus on the genetics an
This two-volume graduate textbook gives a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of describing large subgroups of the unit group of the integral group ring of a finite group and, more generally, of t
Derived from ancient Chinese philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine is considered to be difficult to understand. This book provides an overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine by illustrating the to
Anglophone and continental scholars of philosophy present the results of a research project based on the assumption that subjectivity remains a valid philosophical problem today, and that Nietzsche's
Interjections in Ancient Greek have long lacked a comprehensive account, despite their frequent occurrence in major texts. The present study of their semantics and pragmatics, encompassing all items e
This volume explores irony as a rhetorical tool in modernism and discusses three modes of irony in the context of early German Romantic and idealist theories and how they create understanding of socia
Our globalised world is shaped by migration, with large numbers of individuals and groups or even nations on the move. Stable concepts of home and belonging have become the exception rather than the r
The so-called Antiatticista is a Greek Atticistic lexicon (2nd cent. CE), rich in quotations from classical writers, many from works now lost. The author approved a broader idea of Attic language in c
Originating in a 2011 workshop in London, this volume contains most of the presentations that were delivered at that time. The essays follow a roughly geographical order starting with Mesopotamia and
Arising from his doctoral dissertation, Raedler’s essay aims to fill a gap: few commentators have attempted to explain how the notion of the interests of reason fits into Kant’s overall account of the
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. This book brings
The notion underlying the volume is that formal grammars need both a theory of computation (or derivation) and a theory of representation, and that the former has been attracting almost all of the att
Mikhailets and Murach present students, academics, and mathematicians with a systematic investigation of the applications of Hormander spaces to boundary-value problems for elliptical equations. The a
Verstraete and Rigsby describe Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland, Australia. They draw on archival sources recorded by anthropologists
This handbook details the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese, focusing on standard Tokyo Japanese. The 18 chapters address phonological processes unique to Sino-Japanese and
Dirac equations are of fundamental importance for relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. In relativistic quantum mechanics, the Dirac equation is referred to as one-particle wave
Scholars of management and other areas of business suggest how companies can manage their knowledge and intellectual capital in order to establish and implement adequate strategies for innovation lead
This volume examines various aspects of oaths and swearing as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. The authors examine the definition of an oath; oaths and self-curse; oaths in traditional myth; o
British and other European contributors in English literature, poverty studies, and cultural studies offer literary studies and cultural studies perspective of representations of British poverty in po
Linguists and scholars of particular languages explore words in non-English European languages that are popularly thought to be borrowed from English but are not. The topics include getting to grips w
Linguistics scholars based in Europe and the UK, the US, and Australia address various facets of core modality, peripheral modality, and evidentiality and modality in discourse. Fourteen contributions
This volume contains 11 essays on the phenomenon of auxiliary selection, addressing the characteristics of the synchronic rules and the historical development of the alternation between “have” and “be
Rescher collects nine studies of key issues in meta-philosophy and metaphysics that seek to elucidate the nature of philosophy as an enterprise of rational inquiry and to illustrate a range of methodo
Part of the “Marine and Freshwater Botany” series designed to explore topics in aquatic botany that will be important for the changing climate of the 21st century, this book explores the biology, morp
Assembling and updating materials he has used in chemistry lectures for many years, Kultuneiwicz begins be pointing out environmental problems, their causes, their impacts, and possible measures to al
Day and Samanta survey different biometrics data indexing methods that can be used in large-scale biometric personal identification systems that can accomplish matching processes in real-time without
Linguists address the disparity between the importance of writing and producing texts in modern society and people's competence in doing so. They assemble and systematize current research into writing
Most of the problems arising in science and engineering are nonlinear. They are inherently difficult to solve. Traditional analytical approximations are valid only for weakly nonlinear problems, and o
Courts have, traditionally, required the plaintiff to prove to the requisite standard of proof that causation exists. This monograph addresses what has, to date, been a modest reform toward permitting
Active researchers report on the current status of analyzing piezoelectric structures in engineering applications, focusing on particular aspects they are most familiar with. The topics include non-un
Biomedical composites materials are incredibly complex. They have to be, to endure the conditions under which they are used, while still remaining inoffensive to the body. These eight extended essays
