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by Andre S. Merbach, Lothar Helm, Éva Tóth
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most important tools in clinical diagnostics and biomedical research. The number of MRI scanners operating around the world is estimated to be approximately 20,000, and the development of contrast agents, currently used in about a third of the 50 million...
Basic Science for the MRCS E-Book
A revision guide for surgical trainees
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This is a concise revision guide to the core basic sciences for all surgical trainees preparing for Part A of the Intercollegiate MRCS examination. Covering anatomy, physiology and pathology it has been written in a style to facilitate easy learning of the essential facts, with indications of both...
Cancer of the Breast
From Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Selected from the world’s leading comprehensive cancer textbook, this tightly focused resource provides you with the practical, cutting-edge information you need to provide the best cancer care to each patient. Cancer of the Breast: Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th Edition, offers...
Colon and Other Gastrointestinal Cancers
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 10th edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Selected from the world’s leading comprehensive cancer textbook, this tightly focused resource provides you with the practical, cutting-edge information you need to provide the best cancer care to each patient. Colon and Other Gastrointestinal Cancers: Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology,...
The Human Rights Enterprise
Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Why do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state...
Blurring The Lines
Charter, Public, Private and Religious Schools Come Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policymakers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest, too, to university teachers working in the areas of "School Law," "School Policy and Politics,"...
by John Creed, Sheng Ding, Joseph Fewsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
State–society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
Essential Anesthesia
From Science to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Essential Anesthesia is a concise, accessible introduction to anesthetic practice. Now in its second edition, it provides a thorough overview of the science and practice of anesthesia. Part I describes the evaluation of the patient, the different approaches to anesthesia, and the post-operative care...
Transient Chaos
Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
The aim of this Book is to give an overview, based on the results of nearly three decades of intensive research, of transient chaos. One belief that motivates us to write this book is that, transient chaos may not have been appreciated even within the nonlinear-science community, let alone other scientific disciplines.
Planning for Community Resilience
A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2
Diseases, pests, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
by Maurice Chive, Jean C. Bolomey, T.C. Cetas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The enormous potential that hyperthermia has for benefiting patients with cancer is impressively indicated by biological studies, both in vitro and in vivo, and by comparative clinical studies whenever the heat has been appro priate to the size of the tumor. But hyperthermia, as with any other technologically...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...