Books published by Springer London Ltd

Sports Medicine is now a specialty in its own right. This book utilises the excellent sports medicine section originally published within International Advances in Foot and Ankle Surgery and present it in a quick reference format for residents and trainees in orthopedic sports medicine.

examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

This book is the second of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. describes simulations of social networks, and the representation and analysis of social networks, with a focus on issues of security, privacy, and anonymization;

Here is a practical reference on recent research in supply chain integration focusing on distributed decision-making problems. It examines recent applications of various decision-making tools for integrating supply chains.

In a well ordered presentation of recently identified techniques for overcoming the complications inherent in wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, this volume is a searching exploration of problems in kinematics, dynamics modeling, and other topics.

This book provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. It examines the industry and describes the shipping market and its structure as well as forecasting, location plan, and the transportation chain.

Aimed at clinicians who are thinking about undertaking research, those who are about to begin a project, and those who are new to the work of supervising researchers, this book helps people make the best use of time and effort.

With fully one third of the world's males having undergone the procedure, a focused guide to circumcision is long overdue. This superbly illustrated surgical reference covers protocols and historiography and explains the operation's administrative aspects.

When a person suffers from advanced, progressive illness, palliative care - treatments that improve the physical and psychological quality of life of patients and their families - can be just as important as treatments that aim to slow or prevent disease progression.

Multidisciplinary Care of Urinary Incontinence - a Handbook for Health Professionals effectively uses a multidisciplinary approach to assist health professionals in their care of patients with urinary incontinence.

A huge number of new technologies have been introduced in recent years to aid in this diagnostic pathway in the form of urine tests, blood tests and imaging modalities. The book focuses on the diagnostic pathways involved, bringing together international leaders in the field who describe the current status of urological investigation.

Nutritional Influences on Bone Health presents a collection of papers from the 8th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, the primary forum for and only regular meeting exclusively devoted to the topic of nutritional influences on bone health.

Sickle Cell Disease is the most common genetic disease world wide and in the UK. Sickle Cell Disease can be associated with acute life threatening complications, when clear, easily available advice is needed, and with chronic long term complications which may need liaison with other health professionals.

This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore's classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Packs a great deal of valuable information into appendices which make up almost half the book. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place.

Oogenesis provides an overview of oocyte biology, integrating perspectives of philosophy and science. The text explores the voyage from the formation of the primordial oocyte to embryo development, and discusses ethical considerations on questions involved with in vitro growth and maturation.

Imaging is a key source of diagnostic information, but the conditions in which diagnostic imaging has to be performed are often extremely challenging and significantly different to imaging in the non acute setting. Imaging the ICU Patient reviews imaging procedures on the ICU in a highly practical and memorable manner.

This book updates the considerable recent progress in vulval pathology, including significant changes in the FIGO staging system for cancer of this region. Coverage includes high-quality illustrations, detailed description and an exhaustive list of references.

A simple introduction explaining the broad principles underlying chemotherapy, this book gives trainees a framework within which they can place the specific aspects of cancer chemotherapy they encounter in their everyday experience.

This book is an easy-to-read, practical guide for any medical school preparing for accreditation or institutional review. This book will appeal to medical school faculty as well as faculty from other health professions schools who are preparing for either high stakes accreditation or internal review.

This handbook provides accessible, technique-specific information on interventional radiology procedures, supplemented with key-point summaries, illustrations, step-by-step procedural guidelines, and advice on management of complications.

This book brings the most important aspects of modern topology within reach of a second-year undergraduate student. It successfully unites the most exciting aspects of modern topology with those that are most useful for research, leaving readers prepared and motivated for further study.

A comprehensive introduction to the most popular class of neural network, the multilayer perceptron, showing how it can be used for system identification and control.

Derived from a course of innovative lectures, the book shows students early in their studies how many of the topics they have encountered - partial differential equations, differential equations, Fourier series, and linear algebra - are useful in constructing, analysing and interpreting phenomena present in the real world.

This introduction to Laplace transforms and Fourier series is aimed at second year students in applied mathematics. Mathematics students do not usually meet this material until later in their degree course but applied mathematicians and engineers need an early introduction.

We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation - including games, tourism and certain types of work - and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly. First each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (or 'NOTES') is an advancement with surgery and is causing many shockwaves throughout the industry, as well as attracting much attention from the outside media. This book covers the subject of NOTES.

These contributions, compiled as a tribute to Professor Janis Bubenko on his retirement from the University of Stockholm, are in three sections: information society; approaches to information systems engineering; and concepts for information system.

This text presents numerous illustrations of the observed variability of cataclysmic variable stars. It provides a clear explanation and thorough up-to-date overview of this phenomena at a level accessible to the advanced amateur or undergraduate student.

Based on the new 'guided-tour' concept that eliminates the start-up transient encountered in learning new programming languages, this beginner's introduction to MATLAB teaches a sufficient subset of the functionality and gives the reader practical experience on how to find more information.