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The area claimed by the British Empire as Western Australia was primarily colonized through two major thrusts: the development of the Swan River Colony to the southwest in 1829, and the 1863 movement of Australian born settlers to colonize the nor...

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This volume presents methods for the analysis of genomic variability in vertebrate neurons and broadens our knowledge in the ways we understand the brain and its neurons. The chapters in this book are divided into 5 parts, and cover the following ...

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Laparoendoscopic Single-Site Surgery (LESS) and Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) are based on the premise that patients should benefit in terms of recovery time, physical discomfort, pain, and cosmesis if a surgical procedur...

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In his latest book, Dr. Robert A. Norman introduces us to the intriguing concept of preventive dermatology. Although dermatologists have long been patient advocates and have stressed vigorously on the importance of sun avoidance and protection, th...

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A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission. This is the first book that collects contributions from scholars in various fields, from astronomy and...

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This book offers the first-ever survey of Swiss artist Nicolas Party's entire body of work. Born in 1980 in Lausanne, Party now lives and works in New York and has established himself as one of the most important figures of international contempor...

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Kaum einem anderen Fach haftet der Ruf des Komplizierten und Formellastigen so stark an, wie der Physik. Doch sind viele der grundlegenden Konzepte und Prinzipien auch ohne tiefere mathematische Ausbildung verstndlich. Dieses Buch soll eine Brcke ...

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The preanalytical phase is an important component of Laboratory medicine and errors arising in this phase affect the validity of laboratory results. In this book, physicians and clinical staff have access to valuable information about the current ...

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This book features 13 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots, held August 2013 in Chicago, IL. It examines recent applications and developments in recurrence plots and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) wit...

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This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed and studied in Active Galactic Nuclei (AG...

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This book describes new and efficient calorimetric measurement methods, which can be used to accurately follow the chemical kinetics of liquid phase reaction systems. It describes apparatus and techniques for the precise measuring of the rate of h...

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Psychophysiology is an ever expanding field. The application of psychophysiological investigations to psychiatric disorders is likewise expanding and has in fact shed much light on some of the neural processes contributing to the development of ps...

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This book covers all aspects of low field MRI, describing its advantages, problems and prerequisites. Individual chapters are devoted to site planning, safety considerations, coils, imaging technique, image quality optimization, the imaging of dif...

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This complete resource captures state-of-the-art strategies and the accelerated pace of discovery that is revolutionizing what is known about ischemic stroke and its treatment. Therapeutics for acute management, secondary prevention, recovery, reh...

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This book examines state-of-the-art techniques for using recycled materials for structural concrete production, and explores the use of concrete with metallurgical slag, rheology of fresh recycled concrete, and life-cycle analysis of building mate...

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This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about. Utilising real-world case studies illustrated by companies that have adopted thi...

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This book introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods such as freshwater crabs, crayfish, and shrimps. Biodiversity loss in general is hig...

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This book provides a roadmap for optimizing quality and safety within radiology practices, whether academic or private and irrespective of their national setting. All aspects of the radiology workflow are addressed, from imaging appropriateness, e...

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This book presents an overview of recent advances in our understanding of the genesis of diamonds and the associated phases. It is divided into three main parts, starting with an introduction to the analysis of diamond inclusions to infer the form...

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This volume collects contributions by leading experts in the area of commutative algebra related to the INdAM meeting Homological and Computational Methods in Commutative Algebra held in Cortona (Italy) from May 30 to June 3, 2016 . The conference...

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From its origins as a niche technique more than 15 years ago, fragment-based approaches have become a major tool for drug and ligand discovery, often yielding results where other methods have failed. Written by the pioneers in the field, this book...

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Die empirische Studie beleuchtet sowohl die vielfltigen Teilkulturen schulischer Leitungskrfte als auch die Determinanten von Belastung und Zufriedenheit in der Leitungsposition. Dabei untersucht Julia Warwas neben dem Einfluss schulspezifischer H...

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An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies. Includes an e-publi...

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Die Arbeiten in diesem Band sind Wolfgang Wittkowski gewidmet, dessen langjahrige Tatigkeit als Forscher, Kritiker, Lehrer, Herausgeber und fuhrender Geist von funf Symposien uber die Literatur der Goethezeit zahlreiche Germanisten in aller Welt a...

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Recent progress in numerical methods and computer science allows us today to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through realistically heterogeneous Earth models with unprecedented accuracy. Full waveform tomography is a tomographic techniqu...

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Zwischen 1939 und 1945 wurden mindestens 160 bis 200.000 psychisch kranke und behinderte Menschen im damaligen Deutschen Reich gettet. Psychiater waren an der Initiative, Rechtfertigung, Planung und Durchfhrung dieser Ttungen mageblich beteiligt. ...

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The high accuracy of modern astronomical spatial-temporal reference systems has made them considerably complex. This book offers a comprehensive overview of such systems. It begins with a discussion of The Problem of Time, including recent develop...

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The ability of a single genome to give rise to hundreds of functionally distinct cell type programs is in itself remarkable. Pioneering studies over the past few decades have demonstrated that this plasticity is retained throughout development, a ...

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Significant advances in the scientific use of space based data were achieved in three joint interdisciplinary projects based on data of the satellite missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE within the R&D program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN. It was possible to exp...

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Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich leicht verstndlich mit der Theorie der Kalman-Filterung. Die Autoren geben damit eine Einfhrung in Kalman-Filter und deren Anwendung fr eingebettete Systeme. Zustzlich wird anhand konkreter Praxisbeispiele der Kalman-F...

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