Books published by Springer London Ltd

Written by internationally acclaimed specialists, Upper Abdominal Surgery provides pertinent and concise procedure descriptions spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures.

This book shows why better leadership helps meet the challenges facing health care. The focus is on the Canadian-developed LEADS in a Caring Environment framework: what it does, how it was developed and how LEADS can be a model to envision and plan change.

Colorectal surgery is probably the largest of the subspecialties of general surgery, and one of the areas where trainees and consultant general /colorectal surgeons are least confident is in their understanding of the anatomy, physiological pathology and management of the anal canal and pelvis.

Orthopedic experts in their field have carefully chosen what they consider to be the key papers in their respective domains. Papers have been chosen by number of citations, academic importance, articles that have changed our whole way of thinking or that have simply stood the test of time.

This book covers mathematical modeling and simulation of desiccant wheels, and applications in thermal comfort and humidity controlled environments. Includes enthalpy, lumped models for heat and mass transfer, and desiccant assisted radiant cooling systems.

Using a `learning by calculating' approach, this comprehensive introductory text shows how stochastic computational methods are used across the field of finance. The revised and expanded fifth edition includes updates, as well as new material and exercises.

Aside from its use for public health professionals, the book will be used by schools of public health, clinical and public health nurses and students, schools of social work, allied health, and environmental sciences.

Offering an integrated approach that includes important management and decision-making practices, this book shows how to create successful solutions that closely fit user and customer needs, by blending software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

In this book the authors review the surgical management of patients with aortic disease. This reference reviews each controversy and provides practical answers to the cardiac surgeon and will help them reveal the spectrum of disorders and their management.

Patient Safety in Surgery, covers all aspects related to patient safety in surgery, including pertinent issues of interest to surgeons, medical trainees (students, residents, and fellows), nurses, anaesthesiologists, patients, patient families, advocacy groups, and medicolegal experts.

This book explores the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of understanding learning in virtual worlds. It includes case studies that demonstrate some of the various ways in which virtual worlds can be applied to facilitate learning and teaching.

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.

Drawing on simulations developed in recent years, this book reviews the main ingredients necessary to build up a quasi-dimensional computer simulation scheme which models physical and chemical processes involved in the evolution of an automotive engine.

Based on three series of lectures by the author at the University of Strasbourg, this book presents functional analysis in a non-traditional way by generalizing elementary theorems of plane geometry to spaces of arbitrary dimension, leading naturally to the basic notions and theorems. Most results are illustrated by the small lp spaces.

This book addresses the various challenges and open questions relating to CAN communication networks. Opening with a short introduction into the fundamentals of CAN, the book then examines the problems and solutions for the physical layout of networks, including EMC issues and topology layout.

This book illustrates in detail how digital video can be utilized throughout a design process, from the early user studies, through making sense of the video content and envisioning the future with video scenarios, to provoking change with video artifacts.

Today, we have a variety of subfields of informatics including not just medical and nursing informatics, but informatics applied to specific health professions (such as dental or pharmacy informatics), as well as biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and public health informatics.

In Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Professor Jones has written a broad introduction to the subject, addressing important topics such as, what is life?, the origins of life and where to look for extraterrestrial life.

Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World

The field of bioinformatics continues to develop energetically. This second edition covers new findings using the formula of the original text. It is self-contained, bringing together the multiple disciplines necessary for a profound grasp of the field.

This book discusses how electronic medical records and personal health records now digitize patient information, thus making it accessible for review and easy to update by both doctors and patients. Case studies illustrate real life situations.

This book presents innovative methodologies that can be used to resolve issues raised by the interaction of customers and suppliers in an e-marketplace environment. The presented methodologies have been statistically tested in different market conditions.

This updated and revised third edition of Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries provides a unique collection of real-life case histories, written by experts, that highlights the diversity of problems encountered in vascular surgery.