Endourology Step by Step. This manual is intended to help residents in urology learn the basic techniques of endourology. All authors are experts in this field and experienced teachers. Each chapter includes: indications, limits, risks and contraindications, a step-by-step procedure. The book is completed by extensive illustrations. Learning...
The observation that blending existing polymers can produce new and improved materials with the beneficial features of each component has focused attention on understanding the phase behavior of polymer blends because the resulting composites may form homogeneous phases or may be phase separated with a particular desirable morphology. While...
This well-written textbook on combinatorial optimization puts special emphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably good performance, in contrast to heuristics. The book contains complete (but concise) proofs, as well as many deep results, some of which have not appeared in any previous books.
Although designed primarily for desktop mapping and analysis, Geographic Information Systems have, for some years, been ‘coupled’ to other ‘allied’ technologies. This coupling or integration has occurred for some time due to the limitations in commercially available systems. It has occurred in several areas including...
Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than one million
people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium
falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans.
This high burden of mortality falls heavily on sub-Saharan Africa, where
over 90% of these deaths are...
This book provides information on the acquired and genetic basis of aortic diseases as well as giving a global perspective on therapeutic alternatives. The new concept of a team approach with surgeons working together with both interventional radiologists and specialists to repair the aorta is the trademark of this book. New material and new...
Characteristics are used in SAP as attributes, e.g. to specify the configuration of products or the properties of batches. In many industries – engineering, automotive, mill, pharmaceutical and foods to name the most typical – supply chain planning has to consider these characteristics. APO offers many different...
Transabdominal ultrasound is accepted in clinical practice as a primary imaging procedure in the diagnostic work-up and follow-up of various disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. This book provides a comprehensive overview of ultrasound in the imaging of acute and chronic inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract as well as of...
Diagnosis and treatment modalities for neuro-oncologic diseases have made considerable advances in recent years. There is hardly a segment of the field of solid tumours that is experiencing such dynamic development with regard to basic scientific findings and clinical results. In the present book the world's leading experts have compiled...
Computer applications for image processing in radiological imaging have matured
over the past decade and are now considered an indispensable tool for extracting maximal
information from the enormous amount of data obtained with the new cross-sectional
techniques such as ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance...
The IT community has always struggled with questions concerning the value of an organization’s investment in software and hardware. It is the goal of value-based software engineering (VBSE) to develop models and measures of value which are of use for managers, developers and users as they make tradeoff decisions between, for example,...
It seems curious that we have not found a general definition of this term in the literature. In statistics, for example, data analysis is understood as “the process of computing various summaries and derived values from the given collection of data” (Hand 1999, p. 3). It is specially stressed that the process is...
