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The featured review of the AMS describes the author's earlier work in the field of approach spaces as, 'A landmark in the history of general topology'. The theory is then illustrated in such varied fields as topology, functional analysis, probability theory, hyperspace theory and domain theory.

¿Entertainment mediä are entertainment products and services that rely on digital technology and include traditional media (such as movies, TV, computer animation etc) as well as emerging services for wireless and broadband, electronic toys, video games, edutainment, and location-based entertainment (from PC game rooms to theme parks).Whilst most of the digital entertainment industry is found in the developed countries such as USA, Europe, and Japan, the decreasing costs of computer and programming technologies enables developing countries to really benefit from entertainment media in two ways: as creators and producers of games and entertainment for the global market and as a way to increase creativity and learning among the youth of the developing world.Focusing specifically on initiatives that  use entertainment technologies to promote economic development, education, creativity and cultural dissemination, this book explores how current technology and the use of off-the-shelf technologies (such as cheap sensors, Kinect, Arduino and others) can be exploited to achieve more innovative and affordable ways to harness the entertainment power of creating. It poses questions such as ¿How can we convert consumers of entertainment into creators of entertainment?¿ ¿How can digital entertainment make a contribution to the emerging world?¿.Academic researchers and students in human-computer interaction, entertainment computing, learning technologies will find the content thought-provoking, and companies and professionals in game and entertainment technology, mobile applications, social networking etc. will find this a valuable resource in developing new products and new markets.

This book discusses lasers and light technologies in dermatology. It is the first handbook of lasers in dermatology, facilitating access to information to all individuals interested in lasers in this specific medical field . The Lasers in Dermatology Handbook is a tool to understand the use of lasers in clinical practice.

Pervasive Healthcare

Data mining essentially relies on several mathematical disciplines, many of which are presented in this second edition of this book. To motivate the reader a significant number of applications of these mathematical tools are included ranging from association rules, clustering algorithms, classification, data constraints, logical data analysis, etc.

The 2nd edition of this popular and authoritative reference covers the latest technological developments and potential clinical applications of sensing and monitoring using wireless, wearable and implantable devices for vivo monitoring and intervention.

This book teaches the art of writing mathematics, an essential -and difficult- skill for any mathematics student.

Ordinary Differential Equations

This illustrated textbook is an essential and invaluable guide to young clinicians and researchers of Trauma and Orthopaedics, reporting all classification systems which are currently utilised in the clinical setting.

Researchers, research students and practitioners in complex systems, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, and even system science, cognitive science, behaviour science, and social science, will find this book invaluable.

Metabonomics and Gut Microbiota in Nutrition and Disease

Based on the seminar that took place in Dagstuhl, Germany in June 2011, this contributed volume studies the four important topics within the scientific visualization field: uncertainty visualization, multifield visualization, biomedical visualization and scalable visualization.

It presents the micro-combined cooling, heating & power systems Stirling engines & renewable energy sources (mCCHP-SE-RES) systems in an accessible manner both for the public at large, and for professionals who conceive, design or commercialise such systems or their components.

This book discusses the basic principles of design and implementation of secondary care electronic medicines management systems, and the likely impact of their design and configuration on benefits realization, hospital workflow and clinical practice.

This comprehensive textbook/reference provides an in-depth overview of the key aspects of transportation analysis, with an emphasis on modeling real transportation systems and executing the models.

Few references have been published on the renal vascular system and its effect on the cardiovascular system as a whole. This book details the diagnosis, treatment and management of all renal vascular disease.

Using internationally recognized competency frameworks this book will support the acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant to medical management and leadership such as project management, intelligent leadership, presentation skills, audit, organizational decision making and engaging relevant stakeholders.

This book introduces the modeling process of turbulent particulate flows which are encountered in many engineering and environmental applications. Views the modeling process from a mesoscopic level, and offers many numerical simulations of basic processes.

Meeting today's energy and climate challenges require not only technological advancement but also a good understanding of stakeholders' perceptions, political sensitivity, well-informed policy analyses and innovative interdisciplinary solutions.

This atlas covers the surgical procedure of microskin grafting to repigmentation of vitiligo. It offers an extensive selection of images of operative steps and pays special attention to regional anesthesia techniques.

This book presents the state of the art on thermophysical and thermochemical properties, fabrication methodologies, irradiation behaviours, fuel reprocessing procedures, and aspects of waste management for oxide fuels in general and for thoria-based fuels in particular.

This book shows in detail how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, emphasizing process improvement and operations management in hospitals. Offers case studies on emergency room throughput, linen process improvement, sepsis protocols and more.

This book offers a compendium of problems in operations research, in such areas as linear programming, integer programming, non-linear programming, network modeling, inventory theory, queue theory, tree decision, dynamic programming, Markov processes and more.

Desiccant-Assisted Cooling

In this book, rather than emphasize differences between sampled-data and continuous-time systems, the authors proceed from the premise that, with modern sampling rates as high as they are, it is more appropriate to emphasise connections and similarities.

Why write a book on the tourniquet? The tourniquet is used routinely in op- ating theatres throughout the world, but as far as I know there is no single book that surveys the considerable literature that has accumulated.

The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained description of the fun damentals of the theory of nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the differential geometric approach.

English Christine Moore Contents 1 Basic Principles . . . . . . . . . . 1 Atomic Theory . . 1 Magnetic Theory . . . . . . . 14 The Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Saturation Recovery (Partial Saturation) 19 Spin Echo (SE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Inversion Recovery (IR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .