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by Matt A. Bernstein, Kevin F. King, Xiaohong Joe Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is among the most important medical imaging techniques available today. There is an installed base of approximately 15,000 MRI scanners worldwide. Each of these scanners is capable of running many different "pulse sequences", which are governed by physics...
Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering
Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
In the last couple of decades, research in the area of tissue engineering has witnessed tremendous progress. The focus has been on replacing or facilitating the regeneration of damaged or diseased cell, tissue or organs by applying a biomaterial support system, and a combination of cells and bioactive...
by David A. Brannan, Matthew F. Esplen, Jeremy J. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 1999
This is an undergraduate textbook that reveals the intricacies of geometry. The approach used is that a geometry is a space together with a set of transformations of that space (as argued by Klein in his Erlangen programme). The authors explore various geometries: affine, projective, inversive, non-Euclidean...
Otology, Neurotology, and Lateral Skull Base Surgery
An Illustrated Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Otology, Neurotology, and Lateral Skull Base Surgery: An Illustrated Handbook combines the most relevant information on this complex subspecialty into a comprehensive, yet highly accessible resource.Chapters feature succinct explanatory text combined with clear, carefully formulated color plates to help...
by U. Förstner, V. Zitko, G. Tölg
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interestin this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and Iimits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
by F.C. Stork, J.D.A. Widdowson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject.
Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader...
by Dr. Roberto F. Casas, Dr. Paul A. Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
We have written this book because of our unique and real concern for improving education for children who are at risk of school failure. Whether these students are of different ethnicities or speak different languages, the students are not failures, but have difficulty maneuvering in a system we call...
Railway Security
Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks.
Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation...
The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities
International, National and Local Law Perspectives on REDD+
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity, tenure...
Ecological Toxicology Research
Effects of Heavy Metal and Organohalogen Compounds
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Conference on the Ecotoxicity of Heavy Metals and Organohalogen Com pounds was held under the auspices of the NATO Science Committee as part of its continuing effort to promote the useful progress of science through international cooperation. Science Committee Conferences are deliberately designed...
Computed Tomography of the Gastrointestinal Tract
Including the Peritoneal Cavity and Mesentery
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall
Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes...
The Way to Save
A 10-step Blueprint for Lifetime Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Helping a new generation of nonsavers get back on track, Ginita Wall offers a hands-on approach to achieving lifetime financial security, no matter how modest the income.
"A disciplined approach to managing personal finances that first recognizes the need to overcome certain common psychological...
The Marital Knot
Arranged Marriages, Love Marriages and the Ties that Bind
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
What binds people together in marriage? The Marital Knot examines the differences between arranges marriages and love marriage and explores the ties that bind. It shares the story of one of Dr. Shabnamzehra Bhojani’s patients, Sarah, who enters into an arranged marriage after arriving in the US. Using...