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Numerical Simulation
(2012)
Numerical Simulation - from Theory to Industry is the edited book containing 25 chapters and divided into four parts. Part 1 is devoted to the background and novel advances of numerical simulation; second part contains ...
Neuroendocrinology and Behavior
(2012)
Understanding of the neuroendocrine system provides an insight into a wide range of bodily and mental processes. Neuroendocrinology and Behavior brings its readers a concise guide to up-to-date knowledge on the function ...
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
(2012)
This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further ...
Distance Education
(2012)
Education has become the number one demanded commodity for social and economic transformation for both developing and developed economies. Thus the number of persons going and returning to school has become too big to be ...
Binding Protein
(2012)
Proteins are essential for all cellular events. They bind or interact with additional players such as other proteins, peptides, DNA, and RNA to exert their functions. Revealing protein binding partners is important in ...
Recent Advances in Crystallography
(2012)
The advent of X-ray diffraction in the early twentieth century transformed crystallography from an area of scientific inquiry largely limited to physics, mineralogy, and mathematics, to a highly interdisciplinary field ...
Complementary Therapies for the Contemporary Healthcare
(2012)
Complementary therapies (CTs) are practices, products or systems for health that are outside the domain of conventional medicine (also called Western or allopathic medicine), used either to treat illnesses or to promote ...
Decision Support Systems
(2012)
Pacing through second decade of the 21th century, more computer users are widely adopting technology-based tools and information-enriched databases to focus on supporting managerial decision making, reducing preventable ...
Genetic Programming
(2012)
Genetic programming (GP) is a branch of Evolutionary Computing that aims the automatic discovery of programs to solve a given problem. Since its appearance, in the earliest nineties, GP has become one of the most promising ...
Biomedical Tissue Culture
(2012)
This book describes many aspects of tissue culture models in an extensive manner. The book includes many topics like, the development of cultural methods to produce massive neuronal syncytial connections and induce their ...
Evolving Trends in Urology
(2012)
Urology is currently the most rapidly expanding surgical superspecialty. The reason for this exponential propulsion of this field, especially over the last two decades, is the dual role of scientific breakthroughs and the ...
Aluminium Alloys
(2012)
Aluminium alloys have undergone a dramatic transformation in areas of extrusion, machining, welding, heat treatment, structural changes, created by ultra fine particles and enhanced corrosion resistance. Hence, these alloys ...
Current Concepts in General Thoracic Surgery
(2012)
The Aim of "Current Concepts of General Thoracic Surgery" is to provide a brief overview of several topics in this field. It includes a collection of contributions from many outstanding Authors who provide their knowledge ...
Advances in Hurricane Research
(2012)
This book provides a wealth of new information, ideas and analysis on some of the key unknowns in hurricane research. Topics covered include the numerical prediction systems for tropical cyclone development, the use of ...
Histopathology
(2012)
This edition aims to present some relevant topics in the histopathology area that may be of interest for medical doctors and for other professionals interested in pathology. Histopathology applies basic knowledge obtained ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(2012)
This book is an overview of invited contributions on recent data of inflammatory bowel diseases. The first part of the book covers topics related to the ethiopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases including the ...
Modern Speech Recognition
(2012)
This book focuses primarily on speech recognition and the related tasks such as speech enhancement and modeling. This book comprises 3 sections and thirteen chapters written by eminent researchers from USA, Brazil, Australia, ...
Advances in Expert Systems
(2012)
Intelligent systems, known as expert systems, serve to this purpose in the extent that they have signed as facilitators in this process. These are systems that are based on expert knowledge, on any subject, in order to ...
Methylation
(2012)
Alterations in the normal DNA methylation processes are known to have major consequences for embryonic development and are associated with congenital defects, autoimmunity, aging and malignant transformation. The main ...
Advances in Discrete Time Systems
(2012)
This volume brings about the contemporary results in the field of discrete-time systems. It covers papers written on the topics of robust control, nonlinear systems and recent applications. Although the technical views are ...
Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics for Emerging Engineering Processes
(2019)
As researchers deal with processes and phenomena that are geometrically complex and phenomenologically coupled the demand for high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) increases continuously. The intrinsic nature ...
Hysteresis of Composites
(2019)
This book introduces the hysteresis and damping of, and damage to, composites. It analyzes the following areas: damage mechanisms affecting the hysteresis of composites, mechanical hysteresis of ceramic-matrix composites, ...
Oral Health by Using Probiotic Products
(2019)
One of the most prevalent and important health problems in the world is periodontal and plaque-related diseases for which antibiotic drugs with their associated side effects are used as treatment. With increasing resistance ...
Behavioral Neuroscience
(2019)
What do we mean by "behavioral neuroscience?" This volume aims at providing an overview of behavioral neuroscience and deepening neuronal mechanisms and brain circuits that regulate the fundamental aspects of human behavior, ...
Environmental Chemistry and Recent Pollution Control Approaches
(2019)
In recent years, there have been significant advances in the techniques of sampling and analysis, which has allowed the more accurate recording of environmental levels of many substances present in the environment. At the ...
Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes
(2019)
Concerned with production decline, shortages of new oil reserves, and increasing world energy demand, the oil sector continues to search for economic and efficient techniques to enhance their oil recovery from the existing ...
Electrospinning and Electrospraying
(2019)
This book focuses on the recent advancements in the process parameters, research, and applications of electrospinning and electrospraying. The first chapter introduces the techniques and the effect of the parameters on the ...
Accounting and Finance
(2019)
Accounting and finance are common terms for users of financial information. Nowadays the reporting of financial as well as non-financial information of an entity, and efficiency in the banking system, are considered to be ...
Chronobiology
(2019)
The regular alternation of light and dark affects not only human biological systems, but also the social organization of behavior. The effect of such light modes is manifested in periodic changes in physiological functions ...
Osteomyelitis
(2012)
If you want to learn more about osteomyelitis you should not miss this book. The editors are professionals and scientists working in health sciences and the chapters have been prepared by experts in the field, covering ...
Brain Injury
(2012)
The present two volume book "Brain Injury" is distinctive in its presentation and includes a wealth of updated information on many aspects in the field of brain injury. The Book is devoted to the pathogenesis of brain ...
Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
(2012)
Schizophrenia is a poorly understood but very disabling group of brain disorders. While hallucinations and delusions (positive symptoms of schizophrenia) feature prominently in diagnostic criteria, impairments of memory ...
Topics in Neuromodulation Treatment
(2012)
"Topics in Neuromodulation Treatment" is a book that invites to the reader to make an update in this important and well-defined area involved in the Neuroscience world. The book pays attention in some aspects of the ...
Phytochemicals as Nutraceuticals
(2012)
Phytochemicals are biologically active compounds present in plants used for food and medicine. A great deal of interest has been generated recently in the isolation, characterization and biological activity of these ...
Quality Assurance and Management
(2012)
The purpose of this book is to present new concepts, state-of-the-art techniques and advances in quality related research. Novel ideas and current developments in the field of quality assurance and related topics are ...
Pitting Corrosion
(2012)
Taking into account that corrosion is costly and dangerous phenomenon, it becomes obvious that people engaged in the design and the maintenance of structures and equipment, should have a basic understanding of localized ...
Petrochemicals
(2012)
The petrochemical industry is an important constituent in our pursuit of economic growth, employment generation and basic needs. It is a huge field that encompasses many commercial chemicals and polymers. This book is ...
PID Controller Design Approaches
(2012)
First placed on the market in 1939, the design of PID controllers remains a challenging area that requires new approaches to solving PID tuning problems while capturing the effects of noise and process variations. The ...
Sociological Landscape
(2012)
More than the usual academic textbook, the present volume presents sociology as terrain that one can virtually traverse and experience. Each version of the sociological imagination captured by the chapter essays takes the ...
Fuzzy Logic
(2012)
Fuzzy Logic is becoming an essential method of solving problems in all domains. It gives tremendous impact on the design of autonomous intelligent systems. The purpose of this book is to introduce Hybrid Algorithms, ...
Neuropathic Pain
(2012)
Neuropathic pain is known to be pain with nerve involvement. The intensity of which depends on the severity, pain threshold and the ability of suffers to cope. Neuropathic pain may need mono-therapy or combination of ...
Continuum Mechanics
(2012)
Continuum Mechanics is the foundation for Applied Mechanics. There are numerous books on Continuum Mechanics with the main focus on the macroscale mechanical behavior of materials. Unlike classical Continuum Mechanics ...
Spine Surgery
(2012)
"Spine Surgery" is an authoritative and didactic textbook on the various fields of spine. It is written by many authors, internationally honorable experts to share their opinions with you. The chapters cover from anatomy ...
Antihypertensive Drugs
(2012)
Hypertension, known as a "silent killer" is widely prevalent and a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. It afflicts more than one billion population worldwide and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. ...
Meningitis
(2012)
Meningitis is a medical emergency requiring a rapid diagnosis and an immediate transfer to an institution supplied with appropriate antibiotic and supportive measures. This book aims to provide general practitioners, ...
Trauma, Tumors, Spine, Functional Neurosurgery
(2016)
This book is written for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in learning how the knowledge from research can be implemented in clinical competences. The first section is dedicated to deep ...
Cerebral Palsy
(2016)
Nowadays, cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation, along with medical and surgical interventions in children with CP, leads to better motor and postural control and can ensure ambulation and functional independence. In achieving ...
Nature-inspired Methods for Stochastic, Robust and Dynamic Optimization
(2018)
Nature-inspired algorithms have a great popularity in the current scientific community, being the focused scope of many research contributions in the literature year by year. The rationale behind the acquired momentum by ...
Printed Electronics
(2016)
This book contains a collection of latest research developments on the printed electronics from the material-related various processes to the interdisciplinary device applications. It is a promising new research area that ...
Recent Advances in Organocatalysis
(2016)
Organocatalysis has recently attracted enormous attention as green and sustainable catalysis. It was realized as a fundamental field providing wide families of catalysts for important organic transformations. It will ...
Ozone in Nature and Practice
(2018)
Ozone has an important and irreplaceable function in nature and human society. It preserves life on the Earth by stratospheric ozone layer. On the other hand, the formation of ground-level ozone by reactions of hydrocarbons ...
Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Modern World
(2016)
This book has nine chapters on Aquaculture Wetland Ecosystem Services Approach and Climate Change Adaptation, which explain how different aquaculture systems could maximize the benefits that society receives from both ...
Prostate Cancer
(2016)
Prostate cancer is diagnosed commonly in the course of general health screening. Very often it is difficult to tell whether the cancer will be aggressive and lethal or will be so slow growing that it will not affect the ...
The Management of Clinical Trials
(2018)
This concise book is addressed to researchers, clinical investigators, as well as practicing physicians and surgeons who are interested in the fields of clinical research and trials. It covers some important topics related ...
Meniscus of the Knee
(2019)
The principal aim of this title is to provide the arthroscopic orthopaedic surgeon with a clear, concise account of the anatomy, pathology, conservative and operative surgical techniques in the management of meniscal ...
Contemporary Topics in Graduate Medical Education
(2019)
Graduate medical education (GME) is a continually evolving, highly dynamic area within the complex fabric of the modern health-care environment. Given the rapidly changing regulatory, financial, scientific and technical ...
Neurochemical Basis of Brain Function and Dysfunction
(2019)
Neurochemistry is a vitally important academic discipline that contributes to our understanding of molecular, cellular, and medical neurobiology. As a field, neurochemistry focuses on the role of the chemical entities that ...
Biochar
(2019)
This book is intended to provide basic information and an overview of emerging researchable issues related to the use of biochar for mitigating climate change, water scarcity, soil degradation, and food security in a ...
Smoking
(2019)
Smoking can lead to a variety of ongoing complications in the body, as well as long-term effects on body systems. While smoking can increase the risk of a variety of problems over several years, some of the bodily effects ...
Nutrition in Health and Disease
(2019)
This book deals with very different aspects of nutrition from different countries (qualities and quantities of food, their absorptions from the gastrointestinal tract, utilization in healthy human beings or in patients ...