Childhood brain tumors are a diverse group of diseases characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue contained within the skull. Other than leukemia and lymphoma, brain tumors are the most common type of neoplasms that occur in children. The leading cause of death from childhood neoplasms among persons up to 19 years is brain tumors. As...
“Anatomical potential spaces” is an attractive and no more abstract concept
that offers new perspectives to a surgical world that is rapidily changing and
becoming more complex.
Powerful new technologies demand our attention and testify that our clinical
work and research are deeply influenced by...
Advanced visual analysis and problem solving has been conducted successfully for millennia. The Pythagorean Theorem was proven using visual means more than 2000 years ago. In the 19th century, John Snow stopped a cholera epidemic in London by proposing that a specific water pump be shut down. He discovered that pump by visually correlating...
This book offers a modern updated review on the most important activities in today dynamical systems and statistical mechanics by some of the best experts in the domain. It gives a contemporary and pedagogical view on theories of classical and quantum chaos and complexity in hamiltonian and ergodic systems and their applications to anomalous...
This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology. It places an emphasis on the molecular dimension of life phenomena and in one chapter on anatomical and functional modeling of the brain....
This book reflects the move in Human Computer Interaction studies from standard usability concerns towards a wider set of problems to do with fun, enjoyment, aesthetics and the experience of use.
Traditionally HCI has been concerned with work and task based applications but as digital technologies proliferate in the home fun becomes an...
This book covers the analysis and development of online algorithms involving exact optimization and heuristic techniques, and their application to solve two real life problems.
The first problem is concerned with a complex technical system: a special carousel based high-speed storage system - Rotastore. It is shown ...
To the author’s knowledge the risk phenomenon in complex technical, economic and organizational systems is not completely recognized in the scientific plane and is not also resolved satisfactory for needs of applications, despite the fact that in complex systems non-success occurs rather often with human victims and large...
This outstanding volume provides an up-to-date overview of the advances in our knowledge of harmful cyanobacteria. An essential reference for all scientists and environmental professionals interested in cyanobacterial ecology and water management.
Mobile phones and the short-text messaging service (SMS or “text”) in particular are new social phenomena, much marvelled at and much commented upon (See Brown et al, 2002; Katz & Aakhus, 2002; Ling, 2004). This success is said to be because mobiles allow new levels of micromanagement in an age of fraught and ...
Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful...
The ongoing migration of computing and information access from stationary environments to mobile computing devices for eventual use in mobile environments, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), tablet PCs, next generation mobile phones, and in-car driver assistance systems, poses critical challenges for natural human-computer interaction....