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This book introduces the techniques needed to produce realistic simulations and animations of particle and rigid-body systems. Features: examines the problem of computing an hierarchical representation of the geometric description of each simulated object, as well as the simulated world;

This book offers a comprehensive reference to the mathematical modeling of environmental and geophysical problems. It provides an abundance of mathematical models, both simple and complex, and elaborates them with approximation techniques.

Provides a problem-based approach to solutions for common scenarios in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. This book outlines a pathway through management for the clinician, consisting of six phases: Recognition of the condition; General approach; Assessment; Treatment; Management; and, Evidence.

Psychology and Diabetes Care: A Practical Guide is a concise handbook for the practicing diabetes clinician who is interested in gaining a better understanding of his patients, and in learning simple skills and tips to manage patients more effectively.

Mobile Context Awareness presents work from industrial and academic researchers, focusing on novel methods of context acquisition in the mobile environment - particularly through the use of physical and virtual sensors - along with research into new applications utilising this context.

Ankylosing Spondylitis in Clinical Practice is a concise, practical guide on the diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition. This book is aimed at clinicians who treat Ankylosing Spondylitis. It provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the diagnosis, management and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis.

Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems.

With the advent of less invasive treatments for aortic stenosis including percutaneous and apical replacement, more patients are being offered this technology. It will assist cardiologists in identifying patients with true aortic stenosis who may benefit from valve replacement.

The raison d'etre for a new atlas of congenital heart surgery is based on the reality that the specialty has undergone numerous changes in the last few years resulting in improved techniques and new operations.

The management of various conditions in the foot and ankle will be approached by authors in different parts of the world. Authors will be invited to provide radiographs, diagrams, and intra-operative pictures to illustrate the procedures described. The reader will be exposed to a step-by-step approach to each procedure presented.

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them.

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The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is an extremely useful tool that finds application in many different disciplines.

Electrical Disease of the Heart, 2nd Edition, volume 1, provides a valuable insight to the latest developments in the field of cardiac electrophysiology and clinical electrocardiology.

Hughes Syndrome: Highways and Byways

Social Media in Clinical Practice

This comprehensive handbook provides in-depth coverage of the most recent advances and practices in fingerprint recognition. Readers will find authoritative coverage of all the major concepts, topics, and security methods associated with the subject.

The initial motivator for the development of DRM, a Design Research Methodology, and the subsequent writing of this book was our frustration about the lack of a common terminology, benchmarked research methods, and above all, a common research methodology in design.

This is followed in en- ing chapters by dissemination of precise information, techniques, and indications for the most popular and utilized grafts including Boston Relay Stent Graft, Cook TX2 Zenith Stent Grafts, as well as the Gore and Medtronic Aortic Stent Grafts.

Part of the Monographs in Cardiac Surgery Series - Introducing 'basic science into the cardiac operating room'. Fast systematic review of small areas of cardiac surgery including up-to-date information.

This unique text brings together into a single framework current research in the three areas of discrete calculus, complex networks, and algorithmic content extraction. Many example applications from several fields of computational science are provided.

and anatomy and imaging of spinal vessels- Neurovascular Imaging contains a rich collection of images to teach the reader how to interpret MR images of the brain vessels and spinal vessels, and how to identify pathological signs.

Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography is now an accepted modality in the assessment of the heart and more so with the ability to perform 3D transesophageal (TEE) echocardiography.

Geodesic and Horocyclic Trajectories provides an introduction to the topological dynamics of classical flows. The text highlights gateways between some mathematical fields in an elementary framework, and describes the advantages of using them.

The book offers both a discussion of relevant software engineering approaches and practical guidance on enterprise-wide software deployment in the cloud environment, together with real-world case studies.

Covering the most relevant central and peripheral ocular motor and vestibular disorders, this clinically-oriented and easy-to-read book describes how to take the history of a patient suffering from double vision, blurred vision, opscillopsia, vertigo, or dizziness.

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a form of arthritic joint disease associated with the chronic skin scaling and fingernail changes seen in psoriasis.

Due to the special sections which give clinical correlations, this book will be invaluable to physicians who treat vascular disorders, surgeons, cardiologists, vascular radiologists and the vascular laboratory staff.

Human Factors of Stereoscopic Displays provides an overview of all vision-relevant topics and issues that inform stereo display design from a user-centric or human factor, perspective.

From epidemiology and pathophysiology to diagnosis and management, covering breakthroughs in research and developments in clinical practice, this title offers the reader a comprehensive look at Gestational Diabetes.