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Overview: Essential reading for social and medical scientists and all those interested in infectious diseases and public health, AIDS and the Twenty-First Century examines the social and economic origins and impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS is not only a medical problem. It is an indication of the scale of the global crisis in public health. Accessibly written, this book is necessary reading for policymakers, students and all those who are concerned about the relationship between poverty, inequality and infectious diseases.978-1-4039-0006-7978-0-230-59920-8

Overview: Dr C P Ellinas Advanced Mechanics & Engineering Ltd Major advances have been achieved in recent years in subsea pipeline design and installation. Inspection, maintenance and repair have also received much attention. The development of marginal fields has brought with it special problems, which have necessitated novel methods and solutions. In the meanwhile interest in the development of deepwater fields continues with the development of new technology. This Conference has placed emphasis in addressing developments in pipeline technology under four main headings: pipeline/seabed inter

Overview: Focuses on the vital elements of discourse such as tenses and clarity..Guides the reader through the process of writing a scientific paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal..Offers researchers.This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees’ comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing..978-1-4419-9787-6978-1-4419-9788-3

Overview: Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies‘ whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology.978-0-230-28751-8Series ISSN 2946-9643 Se

Overview: Provides the first critical overview on affective urbanism.Situates affective urbanism within debates on the right to the city.Explains the benefits of incorporating the notion of urban curation into .The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn. Departing from a critique of the imposition of the experience economy on contemporary urbanism, the book seeks alternative narratives and praxis for the co-creation of experiences in the city by looking at how different urban curators play with rhythms,

Overview: These three volumes entitled Advances in Hypersonics contain the Proceedings of the Second and Third Joint US/Europe Short Course in Hypersonics which took place in Colorado Springs and Aachen. The Second Course was organized at the US Air Force Academy, USA in January 1989 and the Third Course at Aachen, Germany in October 1990. The main idea of these Courses was to present to chemists, com­ puter scientists, engineers, experimentalists, mathematicians, and physicists state of the art lectures in scientific and technical dis­ ciplines including mathematical modeling, computational m

Overview: Presents the latest research and open issues in artificial intelligence, medical engineering and education.Includes the proceedings of the International Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Medical This book includes the proceedings of the Second International Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, Education (AIMEE2018), held in Moscow, Russia, on 6–8 October 2018. The conference covered advances in the development of artificial intelligence systems and their applications in various fields, from medicine and technology to education. The papers presented in the

Overview: This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and finds that there are elements of resistance to norms and conventions in politics, to mainstream news channels and Hollywood, and to official American history already embedded in the culture.978-1-349-45334-4978-1-137-30099-7

Overview: Biedt up-to-date overzicht van acute presentaties van psychiatrische ziektebeelden.Voor iedere arts die acute psychiatrische beelden tegenkomt in de praktijk.Met behandeladviezen direct toepasbaar in .Dit praktische, up-to-date en overzichtelijke boekje geeft de belangrijkste informatie over acute presentaties van psychiatrie-gerelateerde ziektebeelden. Dit zijn zowel presentaties van acute psychiatrische ziektebeelden als presentaties die het gevolg zijn van gebruik van psychofarmaca en genotsmiddelen. Het boekje .Acute psychiatrie. biedt praktische evidence-based informatie met ges

Overview: Showcases the latest advancements in Environmental Sciences & Computational Sustainability.Explores the intersection of information and communication technologies with environmental sustainability.Exp.This book is an outcome of the 37th International Conference EnviroInfo 2023, held at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Munich, Germany), organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society. It explores the fusion of information and communication technologies with environmental sustainability. As a flagship edition of the EnviroInfo conf

Overview: The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causality induction, and knowledge-based systems. This year’s conferen

Overview: 978-3-540-65638-8978-3-642-47974-8

Overview: Provides a wealth of images and photos.Describes rare diseases involving retinal detachment.Helps doctors to deepen their understanding of retinal detachment and related diseases.This atlas and textbook aims to provide diverse pictures, facilitating the readers to learn fundus diseases. Retinal detachment is a common group of vitreo-retinal diseases that causes blindness. The diagnosis and differential diagnosis are dependent mostly on ophthalmolscopy and fundus imaging technology. With the development of imaging technology, it is getting easier for ophthalmologist to make quick and

Overview: Zahlentheorie mit dem Computer.Das Buch erklärt auf verständliche Art und Weise die Grundlagen der Zahlentheorie und die Anwendungsseite mithilfe von Algorithmen.Für Studierende der Mathematik und Inf.Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Zahlentheorie bis hin zu den quadratischen Zahlkörpern. Dabei wird durchgehend auch der algorithmische Aspekt betrachtet. So werden Existenzsätze (z.B. für die Darstellung von Primzahlen der Form p=4n+1 als Summe von zwei Quadratzahlen) stets durch Algorithmen zur Konstruktion ergänzt. Neben den klassischen Inhalten der elementaren Zahlentheorie werd

Overview: Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after World War I, and anticipating the spiritual seekers of the counterculture, turned to the religious traditions of Asia for inspiration.978-1-137-56795-6

Overview: Explains how the readers’ preferences and environmental factors can affect the final configuration of manufactured products.Provides novel tools for the evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable p.This book presents a novel framework, known as Active Robust Optimization, which provides the tools for evaluating, comparing and optimizing changeable products. Since any product that can change its configuration during normal operation may be considered a “changeable product,” the framework is widely applicable. Further, the methodology enables designers to use adaptability to deal wi

Overview: 978-3-540-15626-0978-3-642-82565-1

Overview: 978-3-531-12360-8978-3-322-90092-0

Overview: Combines materials science and electronics engineering in the same book, making it possible to obtain a general overview, from TFTs production and characterization to their integration in relatively c.This books discusses the design, electrical simulation and layout of a 2nd-order ∑∆ analog-to-digital converter (ADC), using oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) technology. The authors provide a unified view of materials science and electronics engineering, in order to guide readers from both fields through key topics. To accomplish this goal, background regarding materials, device physi

Overview: Spektakuläre Unternehmenszusammenbrüche haben das Vertrauen in die Corporate Governance und speziell in die Leistungen von Wirtschaftsprüfern erschüttert. Man geht davon aus, dass Wirtschaftsprüfer einem Interessenkonflikt ausgesetzt sind: Auf der einen Seite erhalten sie ihre Aufträge faktisch von den Unternehmensmanagern, auf der anderen Seite sollen sie diese Manager im Interesse aktueller und potenzieller Kapitalgeber kontrollieren...Roland Kitschler analysiert diesen Konflikt mit Hilfe der Principal-Agent-Theorie. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Untersuchung des Reputationsmechani