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Overview: Comprehensive up-to-date overview of normal cardiac function, the mechanisms of dysfunction in heart failure, and the therapeutic approaches that are available to manage the syndrome.Designed to proviIn its third edition, the Atlas of Heart Failure provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of normal cardiac function, the mechanisms of dysfunction in heart failure, and the therapeutic approaches that are available to manage the syndrome. Designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive visual exposition of all aspects of cardiac function and dysfunction, this atlas contains several

Overview: Proceedings of the 1st Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics LACAR, held in Panama City, February 8-10, 2017.Topics include Mobile Robotics, Social Robotics, Learning, Control Algorithms,.This book contains the proceedings of?the 1st?Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics held at Panama City, Panama?in?February 2017. It gathers research work from?researchers, scientists, and engineers from academia and private industry, and?presents current?and exciting research applications?and future challenges in Latin American.?..The scope of this?book covers a wide range

Overview: The arts are situated at the centre of policies and programs seeking to make communities more creative, cohesive or productive. This book highlights the governmental, aesthetic and economic contexts which shape art in community, offering a constructive account of the ties between government, culture and the citizen.978-1-137-51249-9

Overview: State-of-the-art text book, covering the most relevant developments in Analog-to-digital conversion.Extensive treatise of all aspects concerning accuracy, including the statistical aspects A 100-pagesA book is like a window that allows you to look into the world. The window is shaped by the author and that makes that every window presents a unique view of the world. This is certainly true for this book. It is shaped by the topics and the projects throughout my career. Even more so, this book re?ects my own style of working and thinking. That starts already in Chap. 2. When I joined P

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Overview: In the post-Cold War era, European militaries are engaged in an ongoing adaptation which is challenging relations between armed forces and the societies that they serve. This book offers an innovative conceptual framework to critically evaluate contemporary civil-military relations across the continent of Europe. It analyzes eight key issues in armed forces and society relations, to explore the scale and intensity of these changes.978-1-4039-0365-5978-0-230-50240-6

Overview: Presents pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for stress adaptation and its management.Discusses various stress which directly or indirectly affects humans and ways to attain adaptive.The book delves into the intricate interplay of stress and adaptive responses, and their multifaceted dynamics influenced by stress type, exposure duration, genetic factors, and lifestyle elements. It unveils the complexity of stress management, unveiling how adaptive strategies evolve in response to stressors. By harnessing scientific breakthroughs in stress response comprehension, the

Overview: Approaches the evolution of the Chinese patent law system from a unique philosophical perspective: Confucianism.Brings together a group of top scholars on the much-debated issue of how to justify inte.This book comprehensively discusses the main features of the Chinese patent law system, which not only legally ‘transplants’ international treaties into the Chinese context, but also maintains China’s legal culture and promotes domestic economic growth. This is the basis for encouraging creativity and improving patent law protection in China...The book approaches the evolution of the Ch

Overview: Valuable resource on molecular mechanisms of heart failure related to aging and current status of therapies for heart failure in the elderly.Provides critical assessment of publications on key topics This book synthesizes the major research advances in molecular, biochemical and translational aspects of aging and heart failure over the last four decades and addresses future directions in management and drug discovery. It presents clinical issues and molecular mechanisms related to heart failure, including the changing demographics in the aging population with heart failure; hypertens

Overview: The two-volume set CCIS 2053 and 2054 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Advanced Computing Conference, IACC 2023, held in Kolhapur, India, during December 15–16, 2023..The 66 full papers and 6 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 425 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:.Volume I:.The AI renaissance: a new era of human-machine collaboration; application of recurrent neural network in natural language processing, AI content detection and time series data ana

Overview: "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?" -Jeremiah "Existentialism" today refers to faddism, decadentism, morbidity, the "philosophy of the graveyard"; to words like fear, dread, anxiety, anguish, suffering, aloneness, death; to novelists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Dostoievski, Camus, Kafka; to philosophers like Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel, Jaspers, and Sartre-and because it refers to, and is concerned with, all of these ideas and persons, existentialism has lost any clearer meaning it may have originally possessed. Because it has so many def

Overview: Explains how hackers operate and which mistakes they make.Presents the technical methods to track and identify the perpetrators.Compares the approaches of security companies and government agencies.Sh.An increasing number of countries develop capabilities for cyber-espionage and sabotage. The sheer number of reported network compromises suggests that some of these countries view cyber-means as integral and well-established elements of their strategical toolbox. At the same time the relevance of such attacks for society and politics is also increasing. Digital means were used to influ

Overview: Explains the concept, attribute characteristics, design concept and development process of high-speed railway (HSR).Provides a systematic introduction of the development of high-speed railroads in ChiThis book introduces the basic knowledge, concepts, terms and development process of high-speed rail (HSR) and summarizes its main achievements at this stage. It mainly expounds the connotation of high-speed rail to readers from two different aspects of theory and technology. The book explains the development process of high-speed rail in terms of time: yesterday‘s wheel rail high-speed

Overview: Reports on the state-of-the-art research in affective information processing.Summarises key technologies researched during the last few years, such as affective speech processing. affective facial exp.Affective information processing assigns computers the human-like capabilities of observation, interpretation and generation of affect features. It is an important topic for harmonious human-computer interaction, by increasing the quality of human-computer communication and improving the intelligence of the computer....Discussing state of art of the research in affective information pro

Overview: Presents valuable information the intellectual transformations that were sweeping France in the second half of the 18th century as the Enlightenment became the prevailing ideology.Fills a gap and provThis book provides substantial background?on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc?region of France during the 18th century. This is a crucial period in Smith’s life for at least two reasons: i) it is during this time that Smith began?to work on .The Wealth of Nations.; and ii) it is generally understood that although some of his ideas about?political economy

Overview: This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent ?disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls are being produced in contradictory ways in current schooling. Many girls develop a ?sense of themselves through close connection with friendship groups but schooling processes typically require them to adopt the position of competitors in the end-of-school rankings and to act out their i

Overview: Presents the main research and development approaches in aerial robotics manipulation, including the description of relevant systems.Includes the deployment of real systems in realistic scenarios.Pres.Aerial robotic manipulation integrates concepts and technologies coming from unmanned aerial systems and robotics manipulation. It includes not only kinematic, dynamics, aerodynamics and control but also perception, planning, design aspects, mechatronics and cooperation between several aerial robotics manipulators. ..All these topics are considered in this book in which the main researc

Overview: Comprehensive collection of proven lab protocols in the expanding field of antibody engineering.Beginners are introduced to the basic methods with detailed instructions.Professional antibody engineersInterest in recombinant antibody technologies has rapidly increased because of the wide range of possible applications in therapy and diagnosis, especially in cancer treatment. The possibility of generating human antibodies that are not accessible by conventional polyclonal or monoclonal approaches has forced the development of antibody engineering technologies even more..This manual pre

Overview: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2019, held as part of SCF 2019, in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019.?.The 12 full papers and one short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover different aspects of mobile services from business management to computing systems, algorithms and applications. They promote technological technological innovations in research and development of mobile services, including, but not limited to, wireless and sensor netw

Overview: André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s contains, for the first time in English in one volume, much if not all of Bazin’s writings on American cinema.A"André Bazin (1918–58) is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: Fran?ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and C