Robotics in Endoscopic Surgery, volume 2 in New Technologies is Surgery series, provides a complete overview of robot-assisted surgery, including concepts and technical details, current role in endos
Accumulating evidence supports the role of defects in post-transcriptional gene regulation in the development of cancer. RNA and Cancer focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of post-tra
This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines. The contributions address many crucial issues including
This new volume fills the gap in the literature as it will guide urologists and pathologists in the proper utilizatioin of a variety of laboratory methods that are currently available to determine th
"This book contributes to our growing understanding of the nature and development of language learner self-concept. It assesses the relevant literature in the disciplines of psychology and applied lin
This volume focuses on the most recent progress in the field to explain why, when and how abdominal MRI should be used. Detailed chapters discuss MRI of the various solid and hollow viscera of the abd
This volume sets out ideas, developed by Paul Cobb and his colleagues, which have greatly influenced the field of mathematics education in the past three decades. This overview enables readers to trac
The present volume describes and explains the fundamentals of organic/plastic solar cells in a manner accessible to both researchers and students. It provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account o
A survey of the development and practice of butterfly conservation in south east Australia, tracing evolution of the science through a series of cases from focus on single subspecies through increasin
This book does nothing less than lay out the state of development of tomorrow’s cancer drugs, directed against growth factors, growth factor receptors and intracellular signaling molecules with kinase
This volume presents an extensive collection of contributions covering aspects of the exciting and important research field of data mining techniques in biomedicine. Coverage includes new approaches f
Intrinsic errors of skeletal development are individually rare but of clinical importance because of their overall frequency and their impact on a patient's life. Sonography has become a routine compo
"Metadata and Semantics is an edited volume based on the 2007 Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR), now in its second meeting. Metadata research is a pluri-disciplinary field that enco
This volume will provide a contemporary account of advances in chemical carcinogenesis. It will promote the view that it is chemical alteration of the DNA that is a route cause of many cancers. The mu
The HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE will provide--for the first time--a historical context for the entire field of Operations Research/Management Science. This e
The purpose of this study was to take an in-depth look at the most important trends and the potentials of biomimetics as a basis of science and engineering development and innovation and to assess the
This volume collects a selection of refereed papers of the more than one hundred presented at the InternationalConference MAF 2008 – Mathematicaland Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Fina
The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the present Chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in contempo
During the last decades, legal theory has focused almost completely on norms, rules and arguments as the constitutive elements of law. Concepts were mostly neglected. The contributions to this volume
This softcover edition of a very popular two-volume work presents a thorough first course in analysis, leading from real numbers to such advanced topics as differential forms on manifolds, asympt
Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is dedicated to the use of new approaches and presents a state-of-the-art in hist
* examples of research conducted on 15 different teacher education programs* the impact the research had on the development of the program is included* the text systematically describes 15 teacher edu
Grasping and manipulation skills are at the core of the development of modern robotic systems. With the introduction of robotics in new applications involving unstructured environments (e.g. space, un
This volume places emphasis on the intricate interplay between creatine and creatine kinase function on one hand and proper brain function, neurodegenerative disease and/or neuroprotection on the othe
This volume offers a coherent account of the concepts that underlie different approaches devised for the determination of free energies. It provides insight into the theoretical and computational foun
This volume summarizes the new developments that made subcellular proteomics a rapidly expanding area. It examines the different levels of subcellular organization and their specific methodologies. In
This two-volume set on Deformable Models: Biomedical and Clinical Applications & Theory and Biomaterial Applications provides a wide cross-section of the methods and algorithms of variational and
Understanding the physical and thermomechanical response of materials subjected to intensive dynamic loading is a challenge of great significance in engineering today. This volume assumes the task of
This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of lang
This is a student text, introducing the scope and problems of a new scientific discipline - Computational Neurogenetic Modeling (CNGM). CNGM is concerned with the study and development of dynamic neur
This volume presents a coherent account of the concepts that underlie different approaches devised for the determination of free energies. The reader will gain the necessary insight into the theoretic
In many of the processes of oxidation catalysis, species with metal-carbon bonds are formed as key intermediates, and these processes represent the primary focus of this volume. An important aspect co
The book aims at showing the state-of-the-art in the field of modeling and applications in mathematics education. This is the first volume to do this. The book deals with the question of how key compe
This three-volume work contains articles collected on the occasion of Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the
This three-volume work contains articles collected on the occasion of Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the
In this volume, experts in such fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics explore human longevity. They report on recent studies on essential issues of human lo
Economically advanced nations have made significant progress toward meeting the basic needs of their populations; the majority of developing countries have not. The thirteen papers in this volume expl
The 14th volume in the series will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and exercise. The work will cover the range from molecular mechanisms of muscle fatigue and muscle wasting
This volume is a collection of exercises with their solutions in Design and Analysis of Experiments. At present there is not a single book which collects such exercises. Theseexercises have been colle
The study of variational problems showing multi-scale behaviour with oscillation or concentration phenomena is a challenging topic of very active research. This volume collects lecture notes on the as
