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Focuses on the internal fixation of difficult fractures, with emphasis on maintaining the integrity of remaining soft tissue attachments. This book employs preoperative planning and 'indirect reduction' techniques to accomplish this goal.

This book provides an analysis of the reaction mechanisms relevant to a number of processes in which CO2 is converted into valuable products.

This book describes the properties of single polymer molecules and polymeric materials and the methods how to characterize them. They present the temperature dependence of mechanical properties of various polymeric materials in a wide temperature range: from cryogenic temperatures to the melt.

The Black Sea Encyclopedia

This volume provides canonical knowledge in atomic physics together with the basics of modern spectroscopy. Starting from the fundamentals of quantum physics, it teaches readers the most important phenomena, models and measuring techniques.

This book examines the new International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) treaty. It covers the events leading to the non-signature of the treaty by a number of states, outlines possible consequences of that split and offers possible ways forward.

This book reveals the dynamics of contemporary Chinese village politics. By combining abundant empirical data with close observation as an insider, the author illustrates the processes and consequences of transplanting democracy into rural Chinese society.

Now in its fourth edition, this volume collates an array of material on using MATLAB and Octave in science computing, offering hundreds of examples, solved exercises, and programs that will greatly extend the range and abilities of the software's users.

This is the only scientific-based book on nicotine drug dependency. It presents a summary of the consequences that tobacco smoking has on health, taking into account all organ systems affected. It also describes measures to help individuals stop smoking.

This up-to-date, image-oriented book covers common, unusual and critical spinal disorders including skeletal and neural systems, which are encountered in daily routine practice. Each condition is described briefly with key images and schematic illustrations.

Covering all the essentials from biochemical recognition to the latest MEMS systems, this book on biosensors and their applications includes a wealth of case studies. Written by a leading expert on the subject, it includes a chapter on likely future advances.

Geotectonics has a special place among the geological dis ciplines. The fluidity of the general ideas and the need for joint consideration of the geological, geophysical, and geochemi cal data to substantiate these ideas are the main difficulties facing the author of a textbook on geotectonics.

Employing a variety of panel data regression techniques, this book provides readers with new findings that shed light on the effects of openness on China's regional economic growth and the evolution of the country's interregional disparities.

This book offers a comprehensive review of cysticercosis of the human nervous system. It details clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management as well as explains the role of modern neuroimaging and serologic techniques.

In its updated edition, this book covers disturbances in tooth formation, acquired dental diseases including caries and its sequelae, periodontal disease, odontogenic tumors and more. Adds 50% more images, and new guidance on diagnostically difficult cases.

In his autobiography, Martens offers the inside story of running a complex country like Belgium, fighting for European unification, and transforming the European People's Party into a united centre-right movement and leading European political family.

This book gives a synthetic presentation of the research performed in the field of sheet metal forming simulation during more than twenty years by the members of three teams: the Research Centre on Sheet Metal Forming, AUTOFORM and VOLVO.

This is a comprehensive and scientifically underpinned overview of the biocompatibility of dental materials. Up-to-date concepts of biocompatibility assessment are discussed, as well as information on almost all material groups used in dentistry practice.

History, Morphology, Biochemistry, Diagnostics, Clinic, Therapy

This book presents comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the wide field of concentrated vortices observed in nature and technique. The authors have described models of vortex structures used for interpretation of experimental data which serve as a ground for development of theoretical and numerical approaches to vortex investigation.

Aims to bring together experts from the medical and engineering fields in which trauma acts as a fulcrum in understanding the engineering approach to medical cases. This book lays emphasis on the retrospective study of medical scenarios as seen from the engineering perspective. It covers a wide spectrum of trauma case studies.

This is the first systematic owl checklist for over 50 years to include subspecies and synonyms. This beautifully illustrated checklist provides an outstanding resource for scientific collections, studies of global biodiversity, and species preservation.

MATLAB (R) is used for a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, the generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series.