The female patient with chronic kidney disease often requires care that differs from the male patient. Particularly in the pregnant patient, a specialized body of knowledge is required to provide optimal care. This book focuses on such issues encountered during pregnancy including physiology and pathophysiology of pregnancy,...

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Ethical Hacking Conference, eHaCON 2019, the second international conference of its kind, which was held in Kolkata, India, in August 2019. Bringing together the most outstanding research papers presented at the conference, the book shares new findings on computer...

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This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan...

A large number of patients suffer from high blood pressure, and it was previously thought that secondary hypertension accounted for 10% of all...