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This book first provides an overview of the development and features of a normal kidney. Next, it details developmental and cystic kidney diseases, vascular diseases and tubulointerstitial diseases. It features visual diagnostic criteria.

This book examines the art and the science of instrument development and evaluation, covering both its conceptual and technical aspects. It offers a systematic analysis of all phases of the design process, with examples from academic and business settings.

This book reviews the epidemiology of tobacco smoking in different settings and populations, with a special focus on health professionals and medical students, and offers examples of smoking prevention and cessation training in various settings.

This atlas provides an overview of reactive, pseudoneoplastic, benign and, intermediate neoplasms, sarcomas and related conditions arising in subcutaneous and deep soft tissues. It features visual diagnostic criteria along with detailed figure legends.

This book summarizes effective and general approaches and frameworks in the investigation of bifurcation phenomena for functional differential equations (FDEs). It provides all the tools from bifurcation theory and contains examples and applications.

This book provides valuable insights for existing biomedical engineers and those enrolled in continual engineering education programs. It explores the relevance of the study of ethics to biomedical engineering.

This book covers state estimation of stochastic dynamic systems from noisy measurements, specifically sequential Bayesian estimation and nonlinear or stochastic filtering. Describes applications in multi-target systems, video tracking of pedestrians and more.

For three decades, this classic has been a must-have textbook for transitional courses from calculus to analysis, celebrated for its clear style and simple proofs. This edition adds material on the irrationality of pi, the Baire category theorem and more.

This book recounts and analyzes disaster governance in and after the East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accidents of March, 2011. Includes changes in public administration and governance in recovery and reconstruction efforts now in progress.

With all the contributed essays written by well known historians of science, this celebration of the life and career of Chalres Coulston Gillispie, one of the founders of the field, ranges across the entire field, and relates mostly to his oeuvre.

In its revised 3rd Edition, this book provides a comprehensive applications-oriented grounding in the tensor-based theory of elasticity for students in mechanical, civil, aeronautical, biomedical engineering, as well as materials and earth science.

Ornithine Transcarbamylase: Basic Science and Clinical Considerations, written by a leading expert on OTC, for the first time assembles and analyzes more than 40 years of basic science and clinical research.

This brilliant volume is a one-stop shop that presents the main ideas of decision theory in an organized, balanced, and mathematically rigorous manner, while observing statistical relevance. All of the major topics are introduced at an elementary level, then developed incrementally to higher levels.

Uncovering the cultural origins and psychological aspects of body identity disorders, this perceptive study draws on the author's wealth of professional experience and re-examines debilitating illnesses that negatively impact self-image, including anorexia.

Providing useful standard protocols for determining the effectiveness of storm water treatment practices, this volume includes a substantial number of relevant case studies using the author's four-level approach, which standardizes protocol in the sector.

The space between the stars contains objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to galaxies. This book examines these processes and presents simple numeric estimates of the main quantities relevant to the interstellar medium.

This book describes the development of the first cobalt-60 unit, used in radiation treatments for cancer, and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. It tells the story of the development of one of the world's largest cancer centers and medical physics programs.

Developments in 3-D circuit design and nanotechnology have boosted interdisciplinary approaches to engineering Bio/CMOS interfaces. Here is an invaluable guide to the state of the art in this fast-moving field where chips now feature integrated biomolecules.

With material from internationally recognized pathologists, this authoritative guide includes high-quality images of visual diagnostic criteria with detailed figure legends that allow for efficient everyday use by clinicians encountering spleen pathologies.

Describes how to conduct kinetic experiments with heterogeneous catalysts, analyze and model the results, and characterize the catalystsDetailed analysis of mass transfer in liquid phase reactions involving porous catalysts.

This book shows how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning, presenting data on the ways in which teachers used those tasks in a specific research project. Demonstrates how use of mathematics can promote effective learning.

Here is a wide-ranging introduction to the foundations of nonsmooth analysis, a powerful compound of mathematical tools that obviates the usual smoothness assumptions. Covers recent progress and methods of implementation, especially in optimization problems.

After 13 years there are new areas to discuss and more recent trials to be included. The references are expanded from 305 to 512 and include the recent advances in trial design, such as the n-of-1 trials and megatrials, and up-to-date examples to illustrate the points made in the 20 chapters.

Perhaps surprisingly, this is the first comprehensive treatment of production planning and control problems in semiconductor wafer fabrication. It covers the role of modeling, analysis, and related information systems in this key manufacturing sector.

Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang presents both the theory behind, and the methodology of, developing a neuroevolutionary-based computational intelligence system using Erlang.

This book proposes that clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices could reach a scientific level in this digital age, by changing three paradigms that have controlled practice in the past century: (1) one-on-one, (2) personal contacts, (3) through talk.

The biopsychosocial lifespan model outlined here is readily adaptable to clinical work. Updated for this second edition, it is essential reading for a range of health professionals requiring effective strategies for handling patients' sexual health concerns.

This book presents scientific and medicinal analysis of the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-aging and immune boosting properties of some herbs and spices, and appraises their constituents, medicinal applications, toxicology and physiological effects.

After six years, a new the new vistas edition of this textbook must therefore take into account some of that have opened up recently.

This volume focuses on a wide range of behaviors and outcomes in stepfamily relationships, both positive and negative. The authors use the normative-adaptive perspective to seek out and study adaptive, well-functioning stepfamilies and find how they differ from those who struggle to cope.