Books published by Springer London Ltd

Adventure and extreme sports are increasing in popularity and it is not surprising that commercial adventure tourism and the accompanying life style and fashion, have become increasingly important to world economy.

This book provides an extensive review of what innovation means in healthcare, with real-life examples and guidance on how to successfully innovate with IT in healthcare.

Taking a practice-based approach, this book uses case illustrations to highlight key aspects of diagnosis, management and prevention of infections in adult intensive care settings. Includes tables, figures and drawings, clinical illustrations and other images.

Written by an acknowledged expert, this comprehensive, detailed text examines all important aspects of gout, including its genetics, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management. Offers a valuable reference for rheumatologists and other medical professionals.

"Blind Equalization and System Identification" provides such a unified treatment presenting theory, performance analysis, simulation, implementation and applications.This is a textbook for graduate courses in discrete-time random processes, statistical signal processing, and blind equalization and system identification.

Urological Emergencies in Clinical Practice, Second Edition, is a well-researched pocket book that provides a comprehensive summary of urological emergencies and their management, in a form that is concise, relevant to the target audience and readily available.

Grasping in Robotics contains original contributions in the field of grasping in robotics with a broad multidisciplinary approach.

Imaging and Technology: Principles and Clinical Applications is a practical and user-friendly consolidated source book for urologists, and urologists in training, regarding the basic science of imaging modalities used on a day-to-day basis in urological practice.

Electrocatalysis in Fuel Cells: A Non and Low Platinum Approach is a comprehensive book summarizing recent advances of electrocatalysis in oxygen reduction and alcohol oxidation, with a particular focus on non- and low-Pt electrocatalysts.

This book surveys power frequency converters, focusing on converters without DC energy storage, and new matrix-reactance converters developed by the author and researchers from the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zielona Gora, Poland.

Information engineering and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing information computing, intelligent systems, mathematical models, numerical solution techniques, and using computers and other electronic devices to analyze and solve natural scientific, social scientific and engineering problems.

Linear Algebra and Linear Models comprises a concise and rigorous introduction to linear algebra required for statistics followed by the basic aspects of the theory of linear estimation and hypothesis testing.

This puts a keen focus on the role of imaging and the need to clearly identify and understand this aspect of clinical trials. As the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industry continues to identify ways to improve and speed up product development, medical imaging plays a more significant role.

Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, this book offers an inside look at the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the perspective of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed it first-hand.

This book examines the application of artificial intelligence methods to model economic data. It addresses causality and proposes new frameworks for dealing with this issue. It also applies evolutionary computing to model evolving economic environments.

Much debate has been given as to whether computer security is improved through the full disclosure of security vulnerabilities versus keeping the problems private and unspoken.

Three chapters focus on endothelial injury: one on the nitric oxide pathway in physiology and pathology, a second on the activation of endothelial cells, and a third on the monocyte and endothelial injury.

Professor Sluzalec is a well-known and respected authority in the field of Computational Mechanics, and his personal experience forms the basis of the book. The scope includes theoretical aspects and their rational application in thermal problems, thermo-elastoplasticity, finite strain thermoplasticity and coupled thermoplasticity.

In their preface, the authors highlight the great social and medical importance of hearing loss in the elderly, an ever-increasing prob lem.

A unique dictionary of astronomy specifically written for practical amateur astronomers. In addition to definitions, it provides an invaluable reference source for terms, techniques, instruments, formulas and processes for practising observers, both amateur and professional.

New edition of the classic complete reference book for cardiologists and trainee cardiologists on the theory and practice of electrocardiography, one of the key modalities used for evaluating cardiology patients and deciding on appropriate management strategies.

Organized in a complementary series of self-contained chapters, this book elaborates the ethnomethodological perspective on ethnography, a distinctive approach that provides canonical 'studies of work' in and for system design.

This book shows how an understanding of system dynamics is crucial to good performance and how that performance can be improved across a plant's operating range by using predictive control. It explains how different controllers can be applied.

The focus from most Virtual Reality (VR) systems lies mainly on the visual immersion of the user.

This is a personal exploration of the life, the writings and the mathematical achievements of a remarkable 19th century woman; the book emphasizes the originality of Kovalevskaya's work and assesses her legacy and reputation as a mathematician and scientist.

This book endeavours to bring together the physics, the radiobiology, the main clinical aspects as well as available clinical evidence behind Radiation Therapy, presenting mutual relationships between these disciplines and their role in the advancements of radiation oncology.

Voltage Control and Protection in Electrical Power Systems

The early 21st century has seen a renewed interest in research in the widely-adopted proportional-integral-differential (PID) form of control. Industrial practitioners and manufacturers of control systems with application problems relating to PID will find this to be a practical source of appropriate and advanced solutions.

This book outlines best practices and scientific progress in the management of people with type I diabetes who undertake some level of physical activity. It aims to be the gold-standard reference work for use by diabetologists.