Computed tomography is generally considered to be the best imaging modality for the
assessment of the lung parenchyma. High resolution computed tomography (HRCT)
is able to provide very high morphological detail of the normal and abnormal lung
parenchyma and has been widely accepted as the imaging gold standard for the lung...
Programmed cell death (PCD) plays pivotal roles in tumor progression, cancer therapeutics and resistance of tumor cells to therapy. With the discovery of key mechanisms that are involved in mediating PCD and in promoting resistance to therapy, design of therapeutic approaches for promoting tumor-selective cell death has risen dramatically....
This book compiles and presents the research results from the past five years in mm-wave Silicon circuits. This area has received a great deal of interest from the research community including several university and research groups. The book covers device modeling, circuit building blocks, phased array systems, and antennas and packaging. It...
This book gives an introduction to the finite element method as a general computational method for solving partial differential equations approximately. Our approach is mathematical in nature with a strong focus on the underlying mathematical principles, such as approximation properties of piecewise polynomial spaces, and variational...
For this book, the editors invited contributions from indispensable research areas relevant to "chance discovery", which has been defined as the discovery of events significant for making a decision, and studied since 2000. The chapters contain contributions to identifying rare or hidden events and explaining their significance. The...
It was 1999 when Extreme Programming Explained was first published, making this
year’s event arguably the fifth anniversary of the birth of the XP/Agile movement in
software development. Our fourth conference reflected the evolution and the learning
that have occurred in these exciting five years as agile practices have become...
Recently, a new class of heuristic techniques, the swarm intelligence has
emerged. In this context, more recently, biologists and computer scientists in
the field of “artificial life” have been turning to insects for ideas that can be
used for heuristics. Many aspects of the collective activities of social insects,...
Many stakeholders within and outside the company can be identified, ranging
from top-level management to software engineers. Each stakeholder
requires specific information presented in an accessible way, to deal with
the impact of such wide-ranging developments. To predict the effects of
such developments and modifications of an...
We are delighted to see this edited book as the result of our intensive work
over the past year. We succeeded in attracting high quality submissions of which
we could only include 19 papers in this edited book. The present text aims at
helping the reader whether researcher or practitioner to grasp the basic concept
of reusability...
This book provides readers with a solid set of diversified and essential tools for the theoretical modeling and control of complex robotic systems, as well as for digital human modeling and realistic motion generation. Following a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of robotic kinematics, dynamics and control systems design, the...
Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders. Hence, when you want to develop a high-quality software system, the first step must be a clear and precise specification of quality. Yet even if you get it right and complete, you can be sure that it will become invalid over...
