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Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Patch-based Techniquesin Medical Images, Patch-MI 2015, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015...The 25 full papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The topics covered are suchas image segmentation of anatomical structures or lesions; image enhancement;computer-aided prognostic and diagnostic; multi-modality fusion; mono and multimodal image synthesis

Overview: Comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference IGC 2022.Enriches understanding by including contributions from leading experts across the globe.Covers the latest research in technologica.This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022. The contents focus on recent developments in geotechnical engineering for a sustainable world. The book covers behavior of soils and soil–structure interaction, soil stabilization, ground improvement, and land reclamation, shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical, geological and geophysical in

Overview: Selected papers of 2016 Chinese Intelligent systems Conference (CISC’16).Includes the very latest theories and technologies in the field of intelligent systems.Written by leading experts in the field..These proceedings present selected research papers from CISC’16, held in Xiamen, China. The topics include Multi-agent system, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Complex systems, Computation intelligence and soft computing, Intelligent control, Advanced control technology, Robotics and applications, Intelligent information processing, Iterative learning control, Machine

Overview: Continues longstanding efforts to help denaturalize migrant suffering and promote migrant rights.Demonstrates how nineteenth-century subgenres – the race melodrama, domestic melodrama, and sensation mThis book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries – heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebell

Overview: .The 3-volume set LNAI 14967, 14968, and 14969 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2024, held in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, during September 3–6, 2024...The 94 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:..Volume I:..AI and Creativity (AIC); Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA); Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture (AIoTA); Artificial Intelligence and Law (AIL); and Artificial Intelligenc

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Overview: The last 30 years have seen little improvement in the age-adjusted mortality rates for most common types of cancer, and until we develop more effective and less damaging treatment modalities for these tumours, selection of each patient‘s treatment must depend on prognostic pointers. These lead to a calculated trade­ off between our estimate of likely benefit to the patient, as against cost in terms of quality of life. But changes have occurred recently in our understanding of the traditional prognostic pointers used for selecting such individualised treatment. First, it is increasing

Overview: Considers critical moments in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire.Spans over two centuries and five formerly colonial territories.Explores the meanings and contes.This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. .Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975. brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspect

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing, PODDP‘98, held in Saint Malo, France, in March 1998.. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed during two rounds of selection for inclusion in the book. The book is divided into sections on document models and structures, characterization of documents and corpora, and accessing collections of documents.978-3-540-65086-7978-3-540-49654-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: "Prove It With Figures" displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied to the proof of facts in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel‘s "Say It with Figures," a standard in the field of social statistics since 1947, it clarifies, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect re

Overview: Offers a clear introduction to water economics.Presents a clear case study on the urban water supply, pricing, and management in Hyderabad and Varanasi.Contributes to solving the problems which many c.High population growth, informal settlements, and organizational and financial mismanagement represent major challenges for the water supply in many cities in developing countries. This book contributes to solving those problems by identifying systematic shortcomings and proposing solutions to improve the financial conditions in two representative cities: Hyderabad and Varanasi. Serious

Overview: The intercultural occurs in the space between two or more distinct cultures that encounter each other, an area where meanings are translated and difference is negotiated. In this volume, scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on the phenomenon of interculturality and on the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interpreting it978-1-349-50416-9978-1-137-48439-0

Overview: 978-3-0348-9835-5978-3-0348-8938-4Series ISSN 2297-0215 Series E-ISSN 2297-024X

Overview: Over the last few years several new instrumental techniques have been introduced for chromatographie separations. In addition, rapid developments in existing methods, such as preparative HPLC, have taken place. Despite these advances, how­ ever, a handbook covering the various preparative aspects ofthe new separation tech­ niques does not exist. This book is an attempt to fill the gap and to present a compila­ tion of modern separation techniques that will be useful for researchers faced with day-to-day preparative problems. Numerous examples of separations have been selected in orde

Overview: Strukturierte Einführung mit Übungen für das Arbeiten mit Pro/Das Buch gibt eine strukturierteEinführung in die parametrische 3D-Konstruktion. Mit zahlreichen Übungen führt es methodisch in die Arbeitstechniken moderner 3D-CAD-Systeme ein und ist als Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk zur Arbeit mit Pro/ENGINEER bestens geeignet..Der 3. Auflage liegt die aktuelle Version "Wildfire" zugrunde...978-3-663-01331-0

Overview: Focuses on all stages of pulmonary embolism, starting with acute and ending with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.Provides an depth assessment of up-to-date treatment options, including n.This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of all stages of pulmonary embolism, starting with acute and ending with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is responsible for 150-250,000 hospitalizations and 60-100,000 deaths each year in the United States, making it the third most common cause of cardiovascular death. Acute P

Overview: Investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed..Challenges readers to critically rethink specific epistemological issues regarding Africanizing k.This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West—from architecture to gender discourse, from environmental management to democratic governance—and offer distinct and unique arguments that challenge the denig

Overview: Combining actionable, real-world source code with graphics, Pro Android Games, Third Edition shows you how to build more sophisticated and addictive Android game apps with minimum effort..Harness the .Combining actionable, real-world source code with graphics, .Pro Android Games, Third Edition. shows you how to build more sophisticated and addictive Android game apps with minimum effort. Harness the power of the latest Android 5.0 SDK to bring countless legendary, action-packed PC games to the Android platform. .With actionable real-world source code, this one of a kind book shows yo

Overview: Eine erziehungswissenschaftliche Studie.Syndikalismus im historischen Kontext.Syndikalismus in den zeitgenössischen DebattenIm Syndikalismus der 1920er Jahre wurde der ‚Revolutionierung der Köpfe‘ eine zentrale Stellung im Kampf um eine neue Gesellschaft zugeschrieben. Stephan Geuenich beschäftigt sich mit diesem Spannungsverhältnis aus Politik, Gesellschaft und Pädagogik: Er diskutiert nicht nur die pädagogischen Überlegungen der föderalistisch, lokal und basisdemokratisch aufgebauten gewerkschaftlichen Bewegung, sondern ordnet sie auch in den historischen Kontext ein und arbeitet B

Overview: Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie.978-1-349-49498-9978-1-137-44205-5