The 5th Edition of this text gives clear, concise guidance on all aspects of acquiring surgical skills to ensure operative success. The full range of surgical procedures is comprehensively reviewed in a clear "how-to-do-it" style. Thoroughly updated and modernized throughout, this latest edition includes new information on...

This is a textbook for medical students covering orthopaedics, trauma and rheumatology, offering both core information regarding what the student needs to know about these subject areas and an extensive series of cases with questions and answers that illustrate the thinking behind common everyday practice. The package also offers online...

Just about everyone involved in electronics has experienced the frustration of searching for the particular power supply, temperature control circuit, or audio power amplifier circuit that exactly fills a need. The Encyclopedia of Electronics Circuits, Volume 1 has changed all that. Volume 1 of this outstanding pair includes more than 1,300...

Hollywood is under attack from videogames. Movies defined the 20th century but games are now pushing them aside as the medium that captures our time, fascination and money. Generation Xbox digs into the love-hate relationship between games and cinema that has led us to this point. It's a story of disaster, triumph and Angelia Jolie in hot...

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Recent years have seen the widespread application of Natural Computing algorithms (broadly defined in this context as computer algorithms whose design draws inspiration from phenomena in the natural world) for the purposes of financial modelling and optimisation. A related stream of work has also seen the application of learning mechanisms...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and idea of multisensor data fusion.
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