This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological purview of multiple perspectives surrou
Preserving quality, maintaining nutritional components, reducing storage losses, and alleviating chilling injury are the major challenges for the fresh produce industry. This book examines the shelf l
The authors deliver a complete overview of fiber-optic Fabry-Perot (FFP) sensing technology, integrating the knowledge and tools of multiple fields including optics, sensing, micromachining, instrumen
Medical schools currently use specialist perspectives on psychiatric disorders to train physicians, nurses and health professionals. This results in a lack confidence among non-psychiatric health prof
Primary care physicians work in settings with limited time and resources making them unable to incorporate nutritional advice into daily practices. This book provides practical applications of proper
This book will provide all the basic details of neuroanaesthesia and how management of different neurosurgical cases may differ. Simple issues such as neurological examination of patient, understandin
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This practical guide tackles the important issues of spirituality in health care, emphasising the role of organisations in developing a culture of leadership and management that facilitates spiritual
This is an innovative book detailing the many challenges of bringing nanomedicines from the bench to the market. Through conversation, stories, descriptions, and personal accounts with leading entrepr
This book describes the various methods used for exploratory data analysis with an emphasis on MATLAB implementation. It covers approaches for visualizing data, data tours and animations, clustering (
There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology. This book touches on all of these, wi
This timely book provides a succinct summary of methods for the synthesis of bioactive heterocycles using a multicomponent reaction (MCR) approach. The majority of pharmaceuticals and biologically act
With the aim of presenting different classes of marine biopolymers and their industrial applications, this book successfully demonstrates the precious value of the ocean resources to society. The poly
This book is designed to serve as a textbook for postgraduates, researchers of applied mathematics, theoretical physics and students of engineering who need a good understanding of classical mechanics
Recently, many books on multiobjective programming have been published. However, only a few books have been published, in which multiobjective programming under the randomness and the fuzziness are in
Novel and diverse logic-based applications are becoming more available to systematists. This book provides an updated, open-minded characterization of the "boundaries of logic" in systematic
This book introduces the time domain numerical methods to solve electromagnetic problems, including finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, the finite element method (FEM) and method of moment (M
This book provides the background that automotive engineers, students and other readers need in order to appreciate the development of the complex machines. In chronological order, it integrates world
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This book focuses on methods to investigate the structure and function of non-voltage gated calcium channels. The book aims to present important discoveries in calcium entry pathways; specifically, ch
This book covers methods for evaluation of experimental data commonly encountered in science and engineering. Measurements of quantities that vary in a continuous fashion, e.g., the pressure of a gas,
This book focuses towards the spacer engineering aspects of novel MOS-based device-circuit co-design in sub-20nm technology node, its process complexity, variability and reliabilities issues. This boo
This book focuses on symmetric groups and representation theory. The symmetric group is a central object in discrete mathematics. It can be studied from a combinatorial, algorithmic, or algebraic view
As the healthcare market moves toward an era of patient engagement, population health and patient advocates, practitioners need a practical how-to guide that helps facilitate their teaching with patie
This book covers the broad field of cellular, molecular, preclinical, and clinical imaging either associated with or combined with photodynamic therapy (PDT). It showcases how this approach is used cl
Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed to enable key science applications and to exploit the computational power of largescale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading
This comprehensive handbook gathers together leading practitioners and scholars to discuss the most sweeping trend in the public sector: e-governance. We live in an age of digital technology, globaliz
This is the second edition of a popular reference on cluster randomized trials. There have been many developments in methodology and applications since the first edition published in 2007. The second
This book is intended primarily as a textbook for students studying structural engineering. It covers three main areas in the analysis and design of structural systems subjected to seismic loading: ba
This book gives a reasonably self-contained account of a number of algorithmic problems and their solutions for linear algebraic groups. The theory underpinning the algorithms is described as well. To
This book is the first to cover the engineering aspects and technology of severe plastic deformation (SPD) technology as used to refine grain structure in metallic materials. The fundamentals of both
Future remote sensing systems will make extensive use of Compressive Sensing (CS ) and will include CS as part of the system design. CS can be particularly important with increased high resolution sen
Everywhere you look in healthcare, disruptive changes are emerging, yet the pressure to keep productivity up is ever-present. There are ways to minimze disruption and make adoption stick. This book sh
This third volume in the series looks at trends in the judiciary. It provides an insider's view not commonly available by gathering empirical data from judges and justices from different legal systems
Designed for easy revision, this text reviews the evidence for best practice, presenting the reader with the right information, in the right format, summarized in easy-to-use tables and algorithms. Ea
From the splash of breaking waves to turbulent swirling smoke, the mathematical dynamics of fluids are varied and continue to be one of the most challenging aspects in animation. Fluid Engine Developm
This book details the surgical techniques of Dr. Francoise Firmin, arguably the world's number one ear surgeon and a recognized thought leader. It contains her "trade secrets" that have been
The fast development of mobile internet have changed our life, it's also reforming the social production and the real economy innearly every aspect, it’ll advance the productivity of the whole human s
Fat grafting has become the revolutionary technique for solving a host of aesthetic and reconstructive problems. It is one of the hottest topics in surgery today with a growing array of applications.
