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During the past decades, "Dynamics of the singing voice" has successfully been established as a reference text for teachers of singing, singers, choral conductors and organists, speech and voice therapists, laryngologists and other health professionals, psychologists and those in linguistics.

Conceived as a reference manual for practicing engineers, instrument designers, service technicians and engineering students. Historical anecdotes as far back as Hellenistic times to modern scientists help illustrate in an entertaining manner ideas ranging from impractical inventions in history to those that have changed our lives.

This pragmatic book provides a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition. In addition to an historic overview, each chapter presents a specific class of algorithm in a compositional context.

Courses on mathematical programming are now part of standard teaching programs of universities and institutes. The aim of this book is to introduce students of mathematics, economics, technology and other related subjects to the qualitative theory of mathematical programming in paired vector spaces.

The present book arose from a conference on Speech Motor Dynamics in Stuttering held at the University of Nijmegen in Nijmegen, the Netherlands from June 13-15, 1985.

The articles by well-known international experts intend to facilitate more elaborate expositions of the research presented at the seminar, and to collect and document the results of the various discussions, including ideas and open problems that were identified.

"Practical Handbook of Neurosurgery" invites readers to take part in a journey through the vast field of neurosurgery, in the company of internationally renowned experts.

This book is both an easy-to-read textbook for invariant theory and a challenging research monograph that introduces a new approach to the algorithmic side of invariant theory.

Topics treated are:- curve and surface modelling- non-manifold modelling in CAD- multiresolution analysis of complex geometric models- surface reconstruction- variational design- computational geometry of curves and surfaces- 3D meshing- geometric modelling for scientific visualization- geometric models for biomedical applications

"Physical Geodesy", published in 1967, has for many years been considered as the standard introduction to its field. Highlights include: emphasis on global integration of geometry and gravity, a simplified approach to Molodensky's theory without integral equations, and a general combination of all geodetic data by least-squares collocation.

The increasing proportion of demented elderly in populations, debates over patient's rights and autonomy, and the growing body of knowledge on dementia has inspired the European Dementia Consensus Network to regard competence assessment in dementia as an important topic of debate.

This is the first book to specifically focus on semiconductor nanocrystals, and address their synthesis and assembly, optical properties and spectroscopy, and potential areas of nanocrystal-based devices. One emerging area where this challenge will be very successfully met is the field of semiconductor nanocrystals.

The theoretical back ground, together with the corresponding methods of solution, is developed first in each chapter and is followed by 'carefully selected examples intended to serve not only as illustrations of the theory but also as sources for useful results of engineering interest.

This work on the progress in the chemistry of organic natural products offers examination on topics such as: the naturally occuring coumarins; variations of ring-attached five-carbon units found in coumarins; and variations of five carbon units attached to carbon and oxygen in coumarins.

This handbook provides both basic theory and suggestions for daily practice. The coverage reviews classic symptoms of disturbed attachment, and outlines treatment, from measures to ensure a healthy attachment early in life to treatment at different stages of personality development.

The time is ripe, more than fifty years after the publication of the magnum opus by Perls, Hefferline & Goodman, to publish a book on the topic of cre ativity in Gestalt therapy.

It is of interest to clinicians who wish to apply state-of-the-art knowledge to their management of this devastating condition and to basic scientists wishing to expand their understanding of cerebrovascular and neural pathophysiology related to subarachnoid hemorrhage.

For some 50 years, Professor Asakawa and his group have focused their research on the chemical constituents of bryophytes and have found that these plants contain large numbers of secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids, acetogenins, and aromatic compounds representative of many new skeletons, which exhibit interesting biological activities.

As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery.

This new edition adds the most recent advances in GPS technology, although the overall structure essentially conforms to the former editions. Furthermore, the augmentation of GPS by satellite-based and ground-based systems leading to future Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is discussed.

Authored by native experts in the field, the reader is introduced to each herb with a brief chronological review of Chinese literature on dietary herb uses, with chapters dedicated to each selected herb including color photos for each herb.

This work presents an investigation of the cortical structure of stimulus-response pathways. It comprises measurement of reaction times, recording of event-related potentials, the computer-assisted evaluation of the empirical data and the mathematical description of the pathways.

A systematic treatment of thermal energy storage, an important aspect of of energy research and development. The book covers physical and chemical basics, assessment of thermal energy storage plants, as well as design and optimization of storage vessels and complete thermal storage installations.