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This is a meticulously detailed chronological record of significant events in the history of medical informatics and their impact on direct patient care and clinical research, offering a representative sampling of published contributions to the field.

This accessible text presents a detailed introduction to the use of a wide range of software tools and modeling environments for use in the biosciences, as well as the fundamental mathematical background. describes such useful tools as the Maxima algebra system, the PRISM model checker, and the modeling environments Repast Simphony and Smoldyn;

The Robotics Divide explores future developments in robotics technology and discusses the model of technological development and the implementation of robotics in this competitive market economy.

Providing insight into methodologies for designing adaptive systems based on semantic data, and introducing semantic models that can be used for building interactive systems, this book showcases applications made possible by the use of semantic models.

This book offers a thorough insight into the study of electromagnetic transients and underground power cables, from the simplest lumped parameters circuits to complex cable-based high voltage networks. It explains and demonstrates the importance of modeling.

This important text/reference presents the latest secure and privacy-compliant techniques in automatic human recognition. Featuring viewpoints from an international selection of experts in the field, the comprehensive coverage spans both theory and practical implementations, taking into consideration all ethical and legal issues.

This easy-to-follow book provides a student-friendly introduction to programming and algorithms, using an active learning style in which deeper understanding is gained from evaluating, questioning and discussing the material, practiced with hands-on exercises.

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. The 15 papers selected for this conference deal with and reflect the lively debate currently ongoing in our field of research.

This book provides up to date knowledge, research results, and innovations in smart grids spanning design, implementation, analysis and evaluation of smart grid solutions to the challenging problems in all areas of the power industry.

This book introduces theoretical and practical aspects of computer networks and network programming, surveying current developments in network architecture, communication protocols and programming techniques, supported by code examples for hands-on practice.

As the annual production of carbon Dioxide (CO2) reaches 30 billion tones, the growing issue of the greenhouse effect has triggered the development of technologies for CO2 sequestration, storage and use as a reactant.

This book offers fascinating insight into the great minds behind the computing technology that has transformed modern life. From theoreticians to entrepreneurs, each pioneer is introduced with a brief biography, and a concise account of their contributions.

This book covers data refinement and its application to Z; generalisations of refinement that change the interface and atomicity of operations; refinement in Object-Z; and modelling state and behaviour by combining Object-Z with CSP.

This book examines the global mobile offshore drilling units service and construction industry and describes the economic impacts of construction in the US, with an emphasis on dayrates in the service market and capital expenditures in the newbuild market.

This book provides detailed, specific, and formal methods for how to use nature as inspiration for engineering design, enabling practitioners to apply such methods to their design problems.

This book illustrates how to deal with complex media and convert raw data into useful information. Students and researchers needing a solid foundation or reference, and practitioners interested in discovering more about the state-of-the-art will find this book invaluable.

This book illustrates how Interactive Systems can help elderly and disabled populations engage with the world around them by finding methods of overcoming the difficulties these communities face when using such systems by presenting the latest in state-of-the-art technology and providing a vision for accessibility for the near future.The challenges faced by accessibility practitioners are discussed and the different phases of delivering accessible products and services are explored. A collection of eminent researchers from around the world cover topics on developing and standardizing user models for inclusive design, adaptable multimodal system development for digital TV and ubiquitous devices, presenting research on intelligent voice recognition, adaptable pointing, browsing and navigation, and affect and gesture recognition. The research not only focuses on how these can be hugely beneficial to primary users, but often finding useful applications for their able-bodied counterparts.For this new edition, new chapters have been added focusing on the latest developments in games for the visually impaired, inclusive interfaces for the agricultural industry in India and technologies to improve accessibility in broadcasting in Japan. A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing will be an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners alike.

This book joins new modifications of classical relay feedback test with application-specific optimal tuning rules to form a non-parametric test-and-tuning method. Includes problems of optimization and identification accompanied by downloadable MATLAB (R) code.

Robert Strom and Anne Sprague present, for the first time, a brand new treatment of the study and exploration of Mercury through the Mariner and then Messenger missions that will stir the imagination of readers and break new ground in the scientific frontier of our understanding of the planet.

This volume is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products.

Adventure and extreme sports are increasing in popularity and it is not surprising that commercial adventure tourism and the accompanying life style and fashion, have become increasingly important to world economy.

The first paper on this subject was published in 1976 and since then over 100 papers on rheumatological topics have been published, from Prof Ebringer's group, at the Division of Life Sciences, King's College in London, UK.

Many diseases earlier considered to be incurable are now being treated with modern innovations involving fetal tissue transplants and stem cells derived from fetal tissues. Fetal tissues are the richest source of fetal stem cells as well as other varying states of differentiated cells and support or stromal cells.

This book covers all aspects of serous effusions, including etiology, morphology and ancillary diagnostic methods, as well as data related to therapeutic approaches and prognostication. It features multiple microscopic illustrations of all diagnostic entities.

Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare - a Practical Handbook for Clinicians is the first book to reveal the field of Evidence Synthesis, by combining multiple sources of quantitative/qualitative data to derive the best evidence for use in healthcare.