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The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism around the whole world and the increasing emigration of peoples from the developing countries to the "old continents" have changed the classical image of tropical diseases, which are now seen more frequently in temperate and highly developed...

Solid state ionics is a multidisciplinary scientific and industrial field dealing with ionic transport phenomena in solids. In a couple of decades, solid state ionics has become one of the largest disciplines closely related to energy technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, and so on. So...

This book is intended to help the reader understand impact phenomena as a focused application of diverse topics such as rigid body dynamics, structural dynamics, contact and continuum mechanics, shock and vibration, wave propagation and material modelling. It emphasizes the need for a proper assessment...

Self-confidence, perseverance, hard work, concentration and an analytical mind are the essentials to win and prosper in life. But despite the efforts and struggles, some of us are not able to climb up the progress ladder. What is the reason? There is some reason beyond our reach and understanding, which...

Advances in the understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in uveitis and uveoretinitis led to the introduction of various new therapeuticmodalities for these diseases, thus raising the need for a comprehensive and reproducible standard scoring system. This monograph is the end result of...

Medical thermography or infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. The natural infrared emission from the skin is captured by the imaging camera, and is displayed as a digital image where abnormal physiological activity...

Il y a plusieurs siècles, le clan des vampires Kahill a été chassé d'Irlande et est venu s'échouer sur les rives de la péninsule de Clare Point, aux Etats-Unis... Liam McCathal parcourt le monde pour traquer les pires criminels engendrés par l'espèce humaine afin d'obtenir la rédemption de...

Il y a plusieurs siècles, le clan des vampires Kahill a été chassé d'Irlande et est venu s'échouer sur les rives de la péninsule de Clare Point, aux Etats-Unis. Finn Kahill est intrépide et irrésistible. Il a voué sa vie à pourchasser les pires serial killers. Il aurait voulu goûter un...

The difficulties associated with making risk assessments on the basis of experimental results are familiar to practitioners in many fields­ engineering, epidemiology, chemistry, etc. These difficulties are particularly common in problems that have dynamic and stochastic characteristics driven by...

Provides corrosion basics in a lucid manner to students and working professionals and over 80 corrosion-failure analysis case studies Correlates Failure Analysis with Corrosion Science Exclusively provides corrosion-related failure analysis case histories in one place in a convenient format One-stop...

The dramatic evolution of new technology in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology has changed the whole field of medicine. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and digital radiography are those new techniques which are undergoing continuous development, providing us with...

Veterinary Microbiology is concerned with microbial diseases of domesticated animals that supply food, other useful products or companionship. We also know that microorganisms may have one or more of four functions in a food. They may have a useful function, cause spoilage, be a health hazard, or...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains...