Books published by Springer London Ltd

This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older lung cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research. The authors come from a broad geographic spread including the UK, mainland Europe and North America to ensure a worldwide relevance.

This book offers a fuzzy-based hierarchical approach to risk management problems, tackling imprecise information with qualitative and quantitative criteria. Uses case studies from the food, fashion and electronics sectors on supply chain management and more.

Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences.

This book provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles. Coverage includes real-time-implementable strategies that can approximate an optimal solution, including one that is adaptive for vehicle conditions like velocity and mass.

This updated Second Edition covers advances in understanding of vertigo and dizziness disorders, describing the range of different illnesses, and presenting results of long and short-term research. Includes reports on new diagnostic and treatment techniques.

This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field;

Applications in Maintenance, Reliability and Design provides a complete overview of all relevant failure mechanisms, ranging from mechanical failures like fatigue and creep to corrosion and electric failures.

Using a variety of illustrations, this book covers the majority of the techniques available for polishing diamond and polycrystalline diamond composites. These enable the reader to understand the merits and drawbacks of each existing technique.

This book discusses FBAR physics, design, modeling, fabrication and applications, along with tuning of the resonant frequency of FBARs and switchable and tuneable FBARs based on electric field induced piezoelectric effect in paraelectric phase ferroelectrics.

Here is a fully illustrated and informative reference on injuries within the peripheral nervous system. It incorporates new knowledge in molecular and cellular events which underlie the response of nerves to injury, regeneration and neuropathic pain.

Reliability and safety are issues that must be addressed throughout the life of engineering systems. This book presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. It highlights recent advances and offers case studies.

At a time when clinicians are bombarded with masses of clinical information from numerous sources, and the wide variety of changes/advances in diabetes management, there is a need for a concise, easy-to-read book that provides an up-to-date review of the major advances in management of diabetes, with an evidence-based approach.

Selected References in Trauma and Orthopaedics is an essential study tool for all those preparing for the orthopedic FRCS (Tr & Orth).

Atrial Fibrillation Therapy

In the 50 years since the invention of transistor, silicon integrated circuit (IC) technology has made astonishing advances. In state of the art silicon Ie manufacturing process, plasma is used in more than 20 different critical steps.

In its updated edition, this book covers techniques used in simulating crowds, particularly in video games and film. Covers path planning, and introduces the important concept of gaze attention - individuals seeming conscious of their environment and of others.

This book presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. It examines technological and philosophical concepts that managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts need to consider.

This book covers the use of recycled industrial waste as aggregates in concrete, reviewing properties of aggregates and offering procedures for estimating the properties of concrete containing construction and demolition waste in light of codes and practices.

Behavioral Operations Management has been identified in the last years as one of the most promising emerging fields in Operations Management.

Lasers in Dermatology: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of cutaneous laser treatment. Practical aspects of laser selection and treatment are combined with easily understood sections on basic science, laser safety and current regulations.

This book offers approaches and methods to calculate optimal electric energy allocation, using evolutionary algorithms and intelligent analytical tools to improve the accuracy of demand forecasting. Focuses on improving the drawbacks of existing algorithms.

This must-read text presents the late Professor Jacob T. Schwartz's work on computational logic and set theory and its application to proof verification techniques. Covers the AEtnaNova system, a program built to verify the correctness of mathematical proofs.

This volume introduces recent developments of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in the field of Geometric Design. The text is written with a particular emphasis on computer based design and analysis involving the geometry of physical objects.

Addressing the consensus that introduction of technology to the production process contributes to an overall economic value, this book also provides a production model to assess the value contribution of technology within the production process.

Integrative and translational methodologies and frameworks have transformed modern biomedical research and the delivery of clinical care.

Here is a comprehensive examination of the rapidly expanding area of transformation electromagnetics and related metamaterial technology, with contributions on the subject provided by a collection of leading experts from around the world.

The newborn child's immature nervous system makes early diagnosis of some neurological disorders difficult: it is often only the passage of time which clarifies the severity and pattern. Chapters in this book describe neural tube defects, the recognition and management of cerebral palsy and, lest we forget, poliomyelitis.

Invasive bladder tumors affect the muscle wall, and have a propensity to metastasize and spread to other areas of the body, and are more likely to be fatal. The book offers a comprehensive review of the subject, covering epidemiology, screening, diagnostic factors, surgery, chemotherapy and post-operative monitoring.

With Skype, mobile telephony and other innovations in communication transforming the way families keep in touch with each other, this study analyzes how connections between families and couples are evolving in today's evolving technological context.