V J R: 110 books
Infrared Imaging
A casebook in clinical medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
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...
by I. Fernström, B. Johansson, P. Günther
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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...
by Lisa V. Binckes, Charles J. Cavenee, Carol A. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they...
by Prof. Mick Price, Dr Matt Spangler, Annie Vénien
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;
Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;
Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as color, flavor and tenderness
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
From improved varieties to local applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
Putting Image Repair to the Test
Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
*Putting Image Repair to the Test:*Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image repair discourse, its effects, and the surrounding discourse. The contributors provide empirical data...
by Christo Ananth, Boselin Prabhu.S.R., Jithin Kumar.M.V.
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Cryptology is a youthful science. In spite of the fact that it has been utilized for a huge number of years to shroud mystery messages, orderly investigation of cryptology as a science (and maybe a craftsmanship) just began around one hundred years back. The principal known proof of the utilization...
Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol. 1: Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
by H. Alvarez, I.S. Choi, G.M. Debrun
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The methods of interventional neuroradiology represent a distinct and difficult branch with in the new field of interventional radiology. The editor of this volume, Anton Valavanis, is a pioneer in this area, and one of the outstanding neuroradiologists in the world. Furthermore, he has brought...
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...