A unique reference containing detailed reviews of more than 900 drugs and poisons, the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook, Fourth Edition provides the latest information on medicinal, biological, herbal, and non-medicinal agents, and antidotes. Increasing its depth and scope with analyses of newer drugs, chemicals,...
"Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering" presents some of the most recent work from top-notch researchers studying projection and other first-order fixed-point algorithms in several areas of mathematics and the applied sciences. The material presented provides a survey of the state-of-the-art...
Chronic heart failure is now finally getting the recognition it deserves as a major public health problem. Increased awareness in the medical community has been reflected by the emergence of specialist journals and meetings, specific patient resources, public awareness campaigns, and a massive increase in research activities directed toward...
Leadership skills have now been universally recognised as
a key ingredient – some would say the key ingredient – in
management. A good manager is now by definition a leader.
Equally, a good leader will also be a manager.
But how do you become such a leader? Is it possible to
develop your own...
Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management—and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field—Hospital Medicine includes...
Many pediatricians and family practice physicians are intimidated by heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. This may result from the perception that learning so many types of congenital heart defects and diseases may appear to be an insurmountable task. In addition becoming an expert in auscultation of the...
Established for fifteen years as the standard work in the field, Melvin Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook is now in its Fourth Edition. Under the editorial direction of Andrés Martin and Fred R. Volkmar—two of Dr. Lewis's colleagues at the world-renowned Yale Child Study...
This book is part of a series of ophthalmic monographs, written for ophthalmologists in training and
general ophthalmologists wishing to update their knowledge in specialised areas. The emphasis of
each is to combine clinical experience with the current knowledge of the underlying disease processes.
This volume of essays on neural networks and psychopathology is aimed
at an unusually diverse audience. On the one hand, we hope that the
volume will be read by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians
and researchers interested in psychopathology and its treatment. On the
other hand, we hope that it will be read by...
The maintenance of long-living software systems is an essential topic in today’s software engineering practice and research. Software Architecture Restructuring is an important task to adjust these systems to current requirements and to keep them maintainable. Niels Streekmann introduces an approach to Software Architecture...
This book represents the fruit of many years of research into the use of acupuncture as a tool for releasing holding patterns in the bodymind as a way to restore functional/structural balance and to relieve chronic pain. Dr. Seem shares his clinical experience of how and why this style of acupuncture works and presents specific protocols for...
With recent major breakthroughs in ultrafast laser technology and femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopic techiques, Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy is currently a burgeoning field in many branches of science, including physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. There is an urgent need for researchers and postgraduate students to have a...
