BOOKS with Alphabet   M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: Presents different approaches on multi-modality imaging including functional (related to physiological body measurements) and anatomical (structural) imaging modalities.Broadens readers’ understanding.This book presents different approaches on multi-modality imaging with a focus on biomedical applications. Medical imaging can be divided into two categories: functional (related to physiological body measurements) and anatomical (structural) imaging modalities..In particular, this book covers imaging combinations coming from the usual popular modalities (such as the anatomical modaliti

Overview: Provides a comprehensive overview of different dimensions of quality of life across continents.Covers key dimensions of quality of life to benefit students and academics across disciplines.Adds a new This comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of quality of life issues covering a wide geographical region: North America, Europe, parts of Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. Spread over more than 25 chapters, it includes the latest findings from these regions to provide a multidisciplinary account of the major dimensions of quality of life, and therefore has a vast scope. The vol

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Leading researchers review the activation of the mammalian immune system by bacterial DNA and its immunostimulatory sequences (ISS), and consider theapplications of ISS in clinical medicine. The authors survey the latest findings concerning the receptor-recognition and signaling pathways triggered by ISS , the process of cell activation, and the potential vaccination strategies using ISS. Specific pharmaceutical applications discussed include infectious disease (Hepatitis B, HIV, and mycobacterial infections), allergy (asthma and conjunctivitis), canc

Overview: Explores the motivational regulation of Chinese college students in their English language learning..Considers self-regulated language learning strategies among Chinese college students..Examines learThis text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students. Considering the importance and necessity of motivational regulation study in foreign language learning, it systematically explores strategies used by Chinese college students to regulate motivation, taking into account student gender, specialty and English proficiency. The book cons

Overview: Provides a unique review of technical developments related to the unification that is rapidly taking place today among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science.AsseWith the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and science-driven business revolution. The already emerging reality of convergence is to be found in genomics, robotics, bio-

Overview: Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth. The plateau offers an ideal region for studying of lithospheric formation and evolution, probing into the mechanism of crustal movement, and understanding of changes in environments and geo-ecosystems in Asia. Intense uplift ofthe plateau resulted in drastic changes of natural environment and apparent regional differentiation on the plateau proper and neighboring regions. The plateau therefore becomes a sensitive area of climate change in Asian monsoon re

Overview: This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the ‘positioning theory‘ in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991.978-1-349-53827-0978-0-230-60500-8Series ISSN 2945-6118 Series E-ISSN 2945-6126

Overview: Image registration is an emerging topic in image processing with many applications in medical imaging, picture and movie processing. The classical problem of image registration is concerned with ?nding an appropriate transformation between two data sets. This fuzzy de?nition of registration requires a mathematical modeling and in particular a mathematical speci?cation of the terms appropriate transformations and correlation between data sets. Depending on the type of application, typically Euler, rigid, plastic, elastic deformations are considered. The variety of similarity p measure

Overview: Following the long-standing tradition of the Seeheim-Workshops on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1994 always held in the same traditional place of the Lufthansa Training Center in Seeheim/Germany, the 5.th. workshop took place in 2002. The main topics covered are: .-new technical developments such as the techniques of Nuclear Inelastic Scattering (NIS) and Nuclear Forward Scattering (NFS) of Synchrotron Radiation and their applications in studying lattice dynamics, magnetism and surface phenomena; .-investigations of molecular structural and bonding properties in biomolecu

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Overview: Explores the evolution of European encounters with the unknown and exotic from the Revolutionary period to the First World War.Adopts an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to the history of This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War.  In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe’s own ‘civi

Overview: Considers food at different ecological scales in local and global contexts.Compares food making between and within Europe and Asia.Takes anthropological approaches to holistic food-related challengesThis book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives. Modern food consumed in any society is created in a variety of natural and cultural environments. There is a "food democracy" in which how we procure and share food can be an indicator of our participation in society, while food nurtu

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Overview: Presents the latest research on the design and fabrication of the biomaterials used in mimicked scaffolds.Outlines design and fabrication of Mimicked scaffolds for tissue engineering in maxillofacial This book outlines the latest research on the design and fabrication of the biomaterials used in mimicked scaffolds for tissue engineering for maxillofacial and orthopedic applications. The book is written based on integration and optimized concepts of 3 main parts 1) principle of tissue engineering; 2) mimicking of structure and function of scaffolds which is similar to extracellular ma

Overview: Die dritte Auflage dieses erfolgreichen Lehrbuchs der speziellen Mineralogie, Petrologie und Lagerstättenkunde wurde vom Autor unter Berücksichtigung der Anregungen seiner Fachkollegen jetzt überarbeitet und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Wie bereits in den früheren Auflagen setzt es Grundkenntnisse in der allgemeinen Mineralogie und Kristallographie voraus und liefert zahlreiche Hinweise auf die technisch-wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Minerale, Gesteine und Erze als Rohstoffe. Das Werk spiegelt die langjährige Lehrerfahrung des Autors wider und ist in idealer Weise auf den Unterri

Overview: .Mathematical Programming and Financial Objectives forScheduling. .Projects. focuses on decision problems where theperformance is measured in terms of money. As the title suggests,special attention is paid to financial objectives and the relationshipof financial objectives to project schedules and scheduling. Inaddition, how schedules relate to other decisions is treated indetail. The book demonstrates that scheduling must be combined withproject selection and financing, and that scheduling helps to give ananswer to the planning issue of the amount of resources required for aproject.

Overview: Advances the reader‘s understanding on the different managerial functions and key management issues.Presents new conceptual skills necessary in the competitive business environment of organisations.LiThis book focuses on the relevant subjects in the curriculum of an MBA program. Covering many different fields within business, this book is ideal for readers who want to prepare for a Master of Business Administration degree. It provides discussions and exchanges of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications in the business area.978-3-319-8

Overview: The first book to focus on areas that have not yet been fully exploited for cryptographic applications, such as representation theory and mathematical physics.Contributes to a better understanding of This book presents the mathematical background underlying security modeling in the context of next-generation cryptography. By introducing new mathematical results in order to strengthen information security, while simultaneously presenting fresh insights and developing the respective areas of mathematics, it is the first-ever book to focus on areas that have not yet been fully exploited

Overview: It is difficult to become an ecologist withou,t acquiring some breadth~ For example, we are expected to be competent statisticians and taxonomists who appreciate the importance of spatial and temporal processes, whilst recognising the potential offered by techniques such as RAPD. It is, therefore, with some trepidation that we offer a collection of potentially useful methods that will be unfamiliar, and possibly alien, to most ecologists. I don‘t feel old, but when I was undertaking my postgraduate research our lab calculator was mechanical. There was great excitement in my fmal year

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Vienna, Austria.Detailed phase-space description of matter-wave interferometry in the near field.Mie theory treatment of nano spheres inteMatter‐wave interferometry is a promising and successful way to explore truly macroscopic quantum phenomena and probe the validity of quantum theory at the borderline to the classic world. Indeed, we may soon witness quantum superpositions with nano to micrometer-sized objects. Yet, venturing deeper into the macroscopic domain is not only an experimental but also a theoretical endeavour: