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This 2nd revised edition covers management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunctions in men and women, pelvic organ prolapse, issues concerning the elderly, neurologically impaired patients and those with pelvic pain.

Digital electronic imaging devices allow the wonders of the universe to be seen in detail never before possible from an amateur astronomer's backyard. This book clearly examines how to create the best astronomical images possible with a digital camera.

Companies are being forced to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times. This book introduces an original and integrated idea of maintenance: maintenance for productivity.

This book offers a complete overview of fault-tolerant flight control techniques. Discussion covers the necessary equations for the modeling of small UAVs, a complete system based on extended Kalman filters, and a nonlinear flight control and guidance system.

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of natural image statistics. It offers a clear overview of all the basic theory plus the most recent developments and research, and it includes exercises and computer assignments.

One of the main limitations of the precursors of today's biometrics, which is still present in the vast majority of the existing biometric systems, has been the need to keep the device in close contact with the subject to capture the biometric measurements.

This book uses 3D colour drawings and tabulations of algebraic expansions to provide new insights into geometric algebra and its application to computer games and animation. It is filled with many worked examples and full-colour illustrations and tables.

This introduction to the ideas and methods of linear functional analysis shows how familiar and useful concepts from finite-dimensional linear algebra can be extended or generalized to infinite-dimensional spaces.

The second edition of this successful book shows how the contents of computer systems can be recovered for criminal evidence, even when hidden or subverted. Coverage includes Windows XP/2000 file systems, fast drives, new encryption technologies, and personal organisers.

Thermoelectricity describes the physics of energy conversion, from heat to electric power, and from electric power to heat or cooling power in solids. The working fluid consists of the conduction electrons.

Allows quick (and structured) identification of known aerial phenomena, whether at night or during the day. This book gives a description, physical explanation, and where relevant notes on observing and photographing the various phenomena. It approaches UFOs from a scientific standpoint.

The book will assist in the new public health response to the threats from bioterrorism and other public health disease by combining established principles of disease management protocols with effective differential diagnosis algorithms.

Multi-database mining has been recognized as a strategically essential area of research in data mining. This book discusses various issues regarding the systematic and efficient development of multi-database mining applications.

This eagerly awaited follow-up to Nonlinear Control Systems incorporates recent advances in the design of feedback laws, for the purpose of globally stabilizing nonlinear systems via state or output feedback. The author is one of the most prominent researchers in the field.

Applied statisticians often need to perform analyses of multivariate data; This book sets out how to use these packages for these analyses in a concise and easy-to-use way, and will save users having to buy two books for the job. The author is well-known for this kind of book, and so buyers will trust that he's got it right.

This book de-mystifies the jargon of webcams and computer processing, and provides detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon and planets with a webcam.

The book explains the process of conceptual design of new manufactured products and shows how the principles involved are employed in real examples of consumer products from some of the world's most important corporations detailed by the designers themselves.

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary scales,ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds, and techniques of soundmanipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance.

New results, fresh ideas and new applications in automotive and flight control systems are presented in this second edition of Robust Control.

Suitable for senior house officers and residents in general (internal) medicine, health professionals in rheumatology, primary care doctors and medical students, this title features: information about various therapies; essentials of common and uncommon rheumatic diseases listed; and, more.

The first up-to-date book written for the popular enthusiast market which describes the development of modern particle physics and its importance in improving our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe.

A practical guide to the functional investigation of patients with incontinence and voiding disturbances. It is suitable for specialists in geriatrics, pediatrics and neurology.

This updated edition will help IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets. The book uniquely bridges the gap between information security, information systems security and information warfare.

Commercially-made astronomical telescopes are better and less expensive than ever before, and their optical and mechanical performance can be superb.

The pace of development in knowledge and know-how in the Organisation Sciences, Logistics and Information Technology is rapid. The Delft Systems Approach describes a fundamental approach for analysing industrial systems, which emphasizes a concept that can be used by all disciplines involved.

Over the past 35 years more than 100 individual astronauts and cosmonauts have performed nearly 200 EVAs, (spacewalks), either singularly or in teams in Earth orbit, deep space or on the Moon.

The only practical guide to observing truly spectacular astronomical objects from less than perfect locations. Gives advice on viewing objects, and on making realistic images by drawing or video. Includes extensive catalogs of spectacular objects that can be seen from suburban sites in both hemispheres.

Real Analysis is a comprehensive introduction to this core subject and is ideal for self-study or as a course textbook for first and second-year undergraduates. This book offers a fresh approach to a core subject and manages to provide a gentle and clear introduction without sacrificing rigour or accuracy.

A guide to performing the post mortem. This book covers both the standard evisceration techniques and the many different dissection techniques that may be necessary in a variety of circumstances likely to be encountered by a practicing pathologist. It is suitable for pathologists in training, medical students, and mortuary technicians.

The laser has given manufacturing industry a new tool. Laser cutting leads because it is a direct process substitu tion and the laser can usually do the job with greater flexibility, speed and quality than its competitors. It is a book which managers and technicians in laser job shops and laser processing facilities would be foolish not to read.