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This challenge has attracted a great many researchers including the au thors who have developed a local pattern analysis, a new strategy for dis covering some kinds of potentially useful patterns that cannot be mined in traditional multi-database mining techniques.

This comprehensive, up-to-date guide covers diagnosis, clinical features and management of inherited disorders conferring cancer susceptibility. Includes risk analysis, genetic counselling, predictive testing and organisation of the cancer genetics service.

An exposition of the interplay between the modelling of dynamic systems and the design of feedback controllers based on these models. The authors of individual chapters are some of the most renowned and authoritative figures in the fields of system identification and control design.

This book details practical solutions to the design issues presented in wireless-sensor-network-based systems. It features workable solutions, demonstration systems and case studies.

Offering a practical example of translational medicine that links the newest theoretical results to the latest clinical research, this book discusses clinical applications, and also links Heart Rate Variety to systems biology and theories of complexity.

This is a single, comprehensive handbook for clinical oncology trainees and consultants, covering the basic aspects of stereotactic radiotherapy systems and treatment.

Focusing on large-amplitude patterns far from equilibrium in biologically relevant models, this book summarizes and expands on fifteen years of results in the mathematical analysis of patterns which are encountered in biological systems.

Until the Apollo-Soyuz flight of 1972, the Russian Space Program was shrouded in such complete secrecy that only rumors of failures (or catastrophes) reached the West.

An Introduction to Network Programming with Java

The causative organisms of Urinary Tract Infection are dynamic in terms of their virulence and resistance patterns, leading to challenges in the prevention and treatment of urinary infection.

This book features a comprehensive review of the sense of touch from the psychophysical, biomechanical and technological viewpoints. It presents guidelines for mechatronics design and the control of high-fidelity vibrotactile devices.

This short, pithy book - addressed to primary care physicians, will also be invaluable to those studying urology, prior to taking any professional exam.

The versatility of oocyte and embryo donation has proven to be extremely valuable to both patients and doctors engaged in reproductive medicine.

- Written by international contributors including specialists in surgery, hematology and oncology. - The information is presented in an instructive manner, allowing the phycisian to utilize the content immediately. - Discusses new techniques such as minimally invasive approaches to surgery and new cancer treatments.

General Principles of Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict these surgical principles.

Nonlinear Stochastic Processes shows the reader how to deal with the issue of network-induced incomplete information. It presents a unified framework for filtering and control problems in complex communication networks with limited bandwidth.

This book combines steels research and model development, including the application of modeling techniques in steels. Coverages structural engineering modeling and novel, prototype alloy steels such as heat-resistant steel and low nickel maraging steel.

This book gives readers a framework of model-based FDI techniques, helping them to become familiar with the basic ideas and schemes in a systematic way. Examples and benchmarks provide a means of practising the ideas and judging the methods described.

Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments will be of interest to urban and building designers, environmental engineers, and building performance assessors.

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues.

The book offers guidance on choosing pattern recognition classification techniques, and helps the reader set expectations for classification performance.

This book gathers chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers focusing on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering.

Synthesizing two key texts from Frederic Pham's groundbreaking research in algebraic geometry, this essential introduction to the singularities of integrals focuses on topological and geometrical aspects before moving on to explain the analytical approach.

This highly practical Guide to Geometric Algebra in Practice reviews algebraic techniques for geometrical problems in computer science and engineering, and the relationships between them. discusses the geometric algebra of lines, lower-dimensional algebras, and other alternatives to 5-dimensional CGA;

This self-contained, comprehensive book tackles the principal problems and advanced questions of probability theory and random processes in 22 chapters, presented in a logical order but also suitable for dipping into.

This book surveys physical, optical and spectroscopic properties of nanocomposites formed from carbon nanotubes interfaced with organic and inorganic materials. Covers light harvesting, energy conversion, photoinduced charge separation and transport and more.