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Topological Data Structures for Surfaces: An Introduction to Geographical Information Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

In Geography and GIS, surfaces can be analysed and visualised through various data structures, and topological data structures describe surfaces in the form of a relationship between certain surface-specific features. Drawn from many disciplines with a strong applied aspect, this is a research-led, interdisciplinary approach to the creation,...

Handbook of Copper Pharmacology and Toxicology

Humana Press, 2002

Copper (Cu), an essential trace element, is required for the survival of organisms ranging from bacteria to mammals. Because Cu ions can adopt distinct redox states (oxidized Cu[II] or reduced Cu[I]), they play a pivotal role in cell physiology as catalytic cofactors in the redox chemistry of enzymes involved in a broad spectrum of...

The Physiological Bases of Cognitive and Behavioral Disorders

Routledge, 2005

Up to twenty percent of the American population suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder, and cross-national studies suggest a high prevalence of such disorders elsewhere. In recent decades, advances in our knowledge of the brain are causing us to question many of the theories underlying traditional approaches to diagnosing and treating...

Rudolph's Pediatrics

McGraw-Hill, 2002

The 21st edition of Rudolph's Pediatrics continues a tradition of evolving and adapting to changes in pediatric medicine. Originally published in 1897 as Diseases of Infancy and Childhood,...

Health and the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

Oxford University Press, 2005

In this book I explore some of the implications of looking at healthcare ethics in social context. My starting point is the contention that clinical ethics cannot be insulated from questions in public-health ethics; and the book is in large part an elaboration and defence of that contention. My purpose is partly substantive and...

Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business

O'Reilly, 2012

We are living in a time of big changes. We face changes driven by powerful forces like world population growth; rising prices for food, fuel, and raw materials; depletion of natural resources; and increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And at the very same time, we are also surrounded by the...

Earthquake Early Warning Systems

Springer, 2007

In the last few decades economic losses due to natural disasters have increased exponentially worldwide and little progress has been seen in reducing their rate of fatalities. This also holds for earthquake disasters and is mainly due to increasing population and industrial density in high hazard and vulnerability areas....

Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation

Springer, 2007

The world population is still growing at an alarming rate, requiring ever increasing productivity and less waste in agriculture to cope with the increasing demands to satisfy food security for all humans. Alleviation of poverty is in many countries hampered by a myriad of insect pests that cause enormous economic...

Shock Wave Applications in Musculoskeletal Disorders

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2002

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common conditions presenting to foot and ankle specialists. Although the condition is usually responsive to conservative and nonoperative care, recalcitrant plantar fasciitis occurs in 10–20 % of the patients treated.

Until recently, plantar...

Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Birkh?user Advances in Infectious Diseases)

Birkhauser, 2007

Community-acquired pneumonia is a disease of high morbidity and mortality. Demographic changes in industrialised countries with a growing population of elderly persons will add to its significance. In the last years much progress in the field of community-acquired pneumonia has been achieved. Vaccination programs against...

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Springer, 2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...

Radiation Oncology Advances (Cancer Treatment and Research)

Springer, 2007

Radiation therapy remains a mainstay of cancer treatment: it is estimated that around half of all cancer patients in Europe, in the US probably close to two-thirds, receive radiation therapy as part of their initial therapy, for salvage or for palliation. There are good reasons to expect the role of radiation therapy in the management of...

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