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Autoimmunerkrankungen in der Neurologie: Diagnostik und Therapie
by Mathias Mäurer Martin StangelKaum ein Gebiet der klinischen Neurologie entwickelt sich so dynamisch wie die Neuroimmunologie. Mit effizienten Immunmodulatoren und immunsuppressiven Medikamenten lassen sich heute viele neuroimmunologische Erkrankungen gut behandeln. Der wissenschaftlich fundierte Leitfaden bietet einen aktuellen Überblick zu diagnostischen und therapeutischen Maßnahmen. Primäre neuroimmunologische Krankheitsbilder werden dabei ebenso besprochen wie neurologische Manifestationen internistischer autoimmuner Systemerkrankungen - für Neurologen wie für Internisten.
Erfolgreich IGeLn
by Melanie Jordt Thomas Girr Ines-Karina WeilandIndividuelle Gesundheitsleistung wird zunehmend wichtig für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg der Arztpraxis. Analyse, Organisation, Vermarktung: Welche Bedürfnisse haben meine Patienten? Welche IGeL-Leistungen will ich in meiner Praxis anbieten? Wie organisiere ich Termine, Personal, Räume? Wie biete ich meine IGeL-Leistungen an? IGeLn aus betriebswirtschaftlicher, rechtlicher und kommunikativer Sicht. Mit hilfreichen Tipps zum Umgang mit Patienten und Mitarbeitern, zur Abrechnung und Fehlervermeidung. Das interdisziplinäre Autorenteam - Arzthelferin, Ärztin, Rechtsanwalt - liefert praxisrelevant und kompakt die optimale Strategie für Ihren Erfolg.
Penetrating Trauma
by Dietrich Doll Elias Degiannis George C. VelmahosSurgery needs skill. Skill needs knowledge. Knowledge of tricks, moves, and tools. This book is about such knowledge. Expert authors have contributed technical pearls, gained by years of experience. The short "how-I-do-it" chapters offer the reader a quick and effective guide that will be invaluable when addressing any penetrating injury. The book is not intended to serve as a comprehensive volume of pathophysiology and management in trauma; rather the goal is to provide practical solutions on how to treat injuries surgically. It describes the steps that you must take when, in the middle of the night, confronted with devastating bleeding, you will have only one chance to save a life!
Foundations of Large-Scale Multimedia Information Management and Retrieval
by Edward Y. Chang"Foundations of Large-Scale Multimedia Information Management and Retrieval: Mathematics of Perception" covers knowledge representation and semantic analysis of multimedia data and scalability in signal extraction, data mining, and indexing. The book is divided into two parts: Part I - Knowledge Representation and Semantic Analysis focuses on the key components of mathematics of perception as it applies to data management and retrieval. These include feature selection/reduction, knowledge representation, semantic analysis, distance function formulation for measuring similarity, and multimodal fusion. Part II - Scalability Issues presents indexing and distributed methods for scaling up these components for high-dimensional data and Web-scale datasets. The book presents some real-world applications and remarks on future research and development directions. The book is designed for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Large-scale Data Mining, Database, and Multimedia Information Retrieval. Dr. Edward Y. Chang was a professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, before he joined Google as a research director in 2006. Dr. Chang received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.
Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems
by Nigel Gilbert Guillaume DeffuantOne common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself. Understanding how such systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing or recovering from major external perturbations requires both quantitative foundations and a multidisciplinary view on the topic. This book demonstrates how new methods can be used to identify the actions favouring the recovery from perturbations. Examples discussed include bacterial biofilms resisting detachment, grassland savannahs recovering from fire, the dynamics of language competition and Internet social networking sites overcoming vandalism. The reader is taken through an introduction to the idea of resilience and viability and shown the mathematical basis of the techniques used to analyse systems. The idea of individual or agent-based modelling of complex systems is introduced and related to analytically tractable approximations of such models. A set of case studies illustrates the use of the techniques in real applications, and the final section describes how one can use new and elaborate software tools for carrying out the necessary calculations. The book is intended for a general scientific audience of readers from the natural and social sciences, yet requires some mathematics to gain a full understanding of the more theoretical chapters. It is an essential point of reference for those interested in the practical application of the concepts of resilience and viability
Collaborative Financial Infrastructure Protection: Tools, Abstractions, and Middleware
by Gregory Chockler Roberto BaldoniThe Critical Infrastructure Protection Survey recently released by Symantec found that 53% of interviewed IT security experts from international companies experienced at least ten cyber attacks in the last five years, and financial institutions were often subject to some of the most sophisticated and large-scale cyber attacks and frauds. The book by Baldoni and Chockler analyzes the structure of software infrastructures found in the financial domain, their vulnerabilities to cyber attacks and the existing protection mechanisms. It then shows the advantages of sharing information among financial players in order to detect and quickly react to cyber attacks. Various aspects associated with information sharing are investigated from the organizational, cultural and legislative perspectives. The presentation is organized in two parts: Part I explores general issues associated with information sharing in the financial sector and is intended to set the stage for the vertical IT middleware solution proposed in Part II. Nonetheless, it is self-contained and details a survey of various types of critical infrastructure along with their vulnerability analysis, which has not yet appeared in a textbook-style publication elsewhere. Part II then presents the CoMiFin middleware for collaborative protection of the financial infrastructure. The material is presented in an accessible style and does not require specific prerequisites. It appeals to both researchers in the areas of security, distributed systems, and event processing working on new protection mechanisms, and practitioners looking for a state-of-the-art middleware technology to enhance the security of their critical infrastructures in e.g. banking, military, and other highly sensitive applications. The latter group will especially appreciate the concrete usage scenarios included.
Bioengineering Aspects in the Design of Gas Exchangers: Comparative Evolutionary, Morphological, Functional, and Molecular Perspectives
by John N. MainaThis book encapsulates over three decades of the author's work on comparative functional respiratory morphology. It provides insights into the mechanism(s) by which respiratory means and processes originated and advanced to their modern states. Pertinent cross-disciplinary details and facts have been integrated and reexamined in order to arrive at more robust answers to questions regarding the basis of the functional designs of gas exchangers. The utilization of oxygen for energy production is an ancient process, the development and progression of which were underpinned by dynamic events in the biological, physical, and chemical worlds. Many books that have broached the subject of comparative functional respiratory biology have only described the form and function of the 'end-product,' the gas exchanger; they have scarcely delved into the factors and the conditions that motivated and steered the development from primeval to modern respiratory means and processes. This book addresses and answers broad questions concerning the critical synthesis of multidisciplinary data, and clarifies previously cryptic aspects of comparative respiratory biology.
Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments
by Irwin King Bebo White Philip TsangOnline social media have transformed the face of human interaction in the 21st century. Wikis, blogs, online groups and forums, podcasts, virtual worlds, and social tagging are but a few of the applications enabling innovative behaviors that support acquisition, access, manipulation, retrieval, and visualization of information. It is, therefore, no surprise that educational practitioners and theorists have begun to explore how social media can be harnessed to describe and implement new paradigms for communication, learning, and education. The editors' goal in publishing this book was to identify original research on the application of online social media and related technologies in education as well as emerging applications in Web technologies that could provide and shape future educational platforms. The selected contributions deal with questions such as how social media can truly enrich and enhance learning and teaching experiences in ways not otherwise possible; how learning can be integrated in a distributed and ubiquitous social computing environment; or what theories, paradigms, and models are applicable for the support of social computing in education. Researchers in education or educational software will find interesting and sometimes provocative chapters on paradigms and methodologies, virtual and mobile learning spaces, and assessment and social factors. Practitioners in these fields will benefit from an additional section devoted to case studies and first experience reports.
Manual der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie bei Anorexie und Bulimie
by Tanja Legenbauer Silja VocksDie Anzahl der propagierten Diäten, die das Erreichen des ,,Idealgewichts" versprechen, hat rasant zugenommen. Manche Mädchen, aber auch immer mehr junge Männer finden aus dem Teufelskreis von Essen - Abnehmen - Essen alleine nicht mehr heraus. Sie sind auf professionelle Hilfe angewiesen. Dieses Manual liefert Therapeuten einen Leitfaden für eine kognitive Verhaltenstherapie - inklusive der Kopiervorlagen, die als Arbeitsmaterialien direkt eingesetzt werden können.
Change Communications Jahrbuch 2010
by Hannes Maier Christoph HarringerDas Jahrbuch bietet mit aktuellen Best-Practice-Projekten Einblick in Unternehmensaktivitäten rund um das Thema Veränderungskommunikation. Change Communication (Cultural Change, Internal Branding) kommt immer dann zum Einsatz, wenn in einem Unternehmen bzw. einer Organisation Veränderungen erfolgreich umgesetzt werden sollen. Die zehn Projekte wurden mit dem Change Communications Award prämiert, der 2009 erstmals vergeben wurde. Sie wurden von einer international besetzten Jury ausgewählt und offenbaren Erfolgsgeheimnisse namhafter Unternehmen.
Pediatric Oncology, 2nd Edition
by Thomas Kühne Robert J. Arceci Paul ImbachThis is the second edition of a well-received compendium of information and guidance on the diagnosis and management of the various oncological diseases that are encountered in children and adolescents. For each disease entity, fundamental facts are provided that will be relevant for a range of professionals - hospital physicians, specialist nurses, psycho-oncologists, physiotherapists, family doctors, and pediatricians. Compared with the first edition, all chapters have been updated and entirely new chapters are included on rare disorders, genetic aspects, and palliative care. Throughout, rapid orientation is ensured by the clear, consistent layout and the concise, lucid style. Pediatric Oncology: A Comprehensive Guide is an excellent, easy-to-use reference that belongs on the shelf of every practitioner who encounters or treats malignancies in the pediatric age group.
Chaotic Flows: Correlation Effects, Transport, and Structures (Springer Series in Synergetics #10)
by Oleg G. BakuninThe book introduces readers to and summarizes the current ideas and theories about the basic mechanisms for transport in chaotic flows. Typically no single paradigmatic approach exists as this topic is relevant for fields as diverse as plasma physics, geophysical flows and various branches of engineering. Accordingly, the dispersion of matter in chaotic or turbulent flows is analyzed from different perspectives. Partly based on lecture courses given by the author, this book addresses both graduate students and researchers in search of a high-level but approachable and broad introduction to the topic.
Inorganic 3D Structures
by Angel VegasD. Santamaría-Pérez and F. Liebau : Structural relationships between intermetallic clathrates, porous tectosilicates and clathrates hydrates Vladislav A. Blatov: Crystal structures of inorganic oxoacid salts perceived as cation arrays: a periodic graph approach Ángel Vegas: FeLiPO4: Dissection of a crystal structure. The parts and the whole D. J. M. Bevan, R. L. Martin, Ángel Vegas: Rationalisation of the substructures derived from the three fluorite-related [Li6(MVLi)N4] polymorphs: An analysis in terms of the "Bärnighausen Trees" and of the "Extended Zintl-Klemm Concept" Ángel Vegas: Concurrent pathways in the phase transitions of alloys and oxides: Towards an Unified Vision of Inorganic Solids
Geodesy for Planet Earth
by Urs Marti Maria Christina Pacino Steve KenyonThese proceedings include the written version of 130 papers presented at the International Association of Geodesy IAG2009 "Geodesy for Planet Earth" Scientific Assembly. It was held 31 August to 4 September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The theme "Geodesy for Planet Earth" was selected to follow the International Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009 goals of utilizing the knowledge of the world's geoscientists to improve society for current and future generations. The International Year started in January 2007 and ran thru 2009 which coincided with the IAG2009 Scientific Assembly, one of the largest and most significant meetings of the Geodesy community held every 4 years. The IAG2009 Scientific Assembly was organized into eight Sessions. Four of the Sessions of IAG2009 were based on the IAG Structure (i.e. one per Commission) and covered Reference Frames, Gravity Field, Earth Rotation and Geodynamics, and Positioning and Applications. Since IAG2009 was taking place in the great Argentine city of Buenos Aires, a Session was devoted to the Geodesy of Latin America. A Session dedicated to the IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), the primary observing system focused on the multidisciplinary research being done in Geodesy that contributes to important societal issues such as monitoring global climate change and the environment. A Session on the IAG Services was also part of the Assembly detailing the important role they play in providing geodetic data, products, and analysis to the scientific community. A final Session devoted to the organizations ION, FIG, and ISPRS and their significant work in navigation and earth observation that complements the IAG.
Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Growth Responses
by Dinesh K. MaheshwariThe future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the diverse bacterial species of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB). The use of these bio-resources for the enhancement of crop productivity is gaining worldwide importance. "Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Growth Responses" describes the application of various bacteria in plant growth promotion and protection, including symbiotic, free living, rhizospheric, endophytic, methylotrophic, diazotrophic and filamentous species.
Development of the Settlement Network in the Central European Countries
by András Balogh Tamás CsapóThis volume intends to summarize the most important changes in the Central European countries and their settlement network emphasizing the last 20 years since the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Wunibald I. E. Kamm - Wegbereiter der modernen Kraftfahrtechnik
by Ingobert C. Schmid Jürgen PotthoffDie "Kammsche Regel" zur Verbesserung der Richtungsstabilität oder das K-Heck, das sich in der Form vieler moderner Pkws verbirgt - diese und viele andere innovativen Konzepte gehen auf Professor Kamm (1893 - 1966) zurück, den Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Kfz-Technik. Leben und Wirken des deutschen Automobil-Wissenschaftlers werden in dieser Monografie analysiert und seine Rolle während des Nationalsozialismus neu beleuchtet. 2009 wurde Wunibald I. E. Kamm posthum mit der Aufnahme in die "Automotive Hall of Fame" der USA geehrt.
Hydrostatische Führungen und Lager
by Bozina PerovicWerkzeugmaschinen mit hydrostatischen Führungen behalten über Jahre ihre Eigenschaften bei: Sie sind spielfrei, arbeiten ohne Verschleiß und weisen eine ausgezeichnete Dämpfung auf. Das Buch unterstützt Konstrukteure von Werkzeugmaschinen, Führungen und Lager bei der Berechnung und Auslegung der passenden Hydraulikpläne. Während im ersten Teil prinzipielle Darstellungen und Beschreibungen präsentiert werden, enthält der zweite Teil vollständige Ausführungen, Berechnungsformeln und -schritte sowie Hydraulikpläne für drei Ölversorgungssysteme.
Casimir Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics #834)
by David Roberts Diego Dalvit Felipe Da Rosa Peter MilonniCasimir effects serve as primary examples of directly observable manifestations of the nontrivial properties of quantum fields, and as such are attracting increasing interest from quantum field theorists, particle physicists, and cosmologists. Furthermore, though very weak except at short distances, Casimir forces are universal in the sense that all material objects are subject to them. They are thus also an increasingly important part of the physics of atom-surface interactions, while in nanotechnology they are being investigated not only as contributors to 'stiction' but also as potential mechanisms for actuating micro-electromechanical devices. While the field of Casimir physics is expanding rapidly, it has reached a level of maturity in some important respects: on the experimental side, where most sources of imprecision in force measurements have been identified as well as on the theoretical side, where, for example, semi-analytical and numerical methods for the computation of Casimir forces between bodies of arbitrary shape have been successfully developed. This book is, then, a timely and comprehensive guide to the essence of Casimir (and Casimir-Polder) physics that will have lasting value, serving the dual purpose of an introduction and reference to the field. While this volume is not intended to be a unified textbook, but rather a collection of largely independent chapters written by prominent experts in the field, the detailed and carefully written articles adopt a style that should appeal to non-specialist researchers in the field as well as to a broader audience of graduate students.
Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later
by Ignacio Ferreras Anna PasqualiThe publication of the morphology - density relation by Alan Dressler in 1980 brought into the limelight the role played by environment in the formation and evolution of galaxies. The symposium Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later, was organised with the purpose of establishing the environmental impact on the evolution of galaxies and its dependence on look-back time. Special emphasis was placed on the physical mechanisms that are responsible for transforming galaxies once they are accreted by a group or a cluster, including the observable imprint left in the galaxy HI distribution. Other major topics of the symposium were the environmental dependence of galaxy properties at z >= 1 and the implementation of environmental effects in cosmological models of galaxy formation and evolution. This book presents the edited proceedings of this stimulating meeting.
Architecture Principles: The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture (The Enterprise Engineering Series)
by Danny Greefhorst Erik ProperIt can be argued that architecture principles form the cornerstone of any architecture. The focus of this book is on the role of architecture principles. It provides both a balanced perspective on architecture principles, and is the first book on the topic.
Chemicals for Life and Living
by Eiichiro OchiaiChemicals often have a negative Image among the general public. But there is no material world or indeed human beings without chemicals. The material world is operated by chemicals. The title 'Chemicals for Life and Living' implies that the material world is staged and played by chemicals. The book consists of five parts and an appendix. Part 1 - Essentials for life; Part 2 - Enhancing health; Part 3 - For the fun of life; Part 4 - Chemistry of the universe and earth, and Part 5 - Some negative effects of chemicals. The appendix gives a brief summary of what chemistry is all about, including a short chapter of chemical principles. No quantitative calculations are included in this book so that it is appealing for everyone - not just chemists.
Color Atlas of Chemical Peels
by Antonella Tosti Maria Pia De Padova Pearl E. GrimesFirst atlas to cover latest advances in chemical peel techniques Fully illustrated to support step-by-step procedures Ideal reference tool for dermatologists focusing on cosmetology
Global Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law
by Edoardo Chiti Bernardo Giorgio MattarellaThis book seeks to enrich and refine global administrative law and EU administrative law analytical tools by examining their manifold relations. Its aim is to begin to explore the complex reality of the interactions between EU administrative law and global administrative law, to provide a preliminary map of such legal and institutional reality, and to review it. The book is the first attempt to analyze a dense area of new legal issues. The first part of the book contains core elements of a general theory of the relationships between global and EU administrative law: comparative inquiries, exchanges of legal principles, and developing linkages. The second part is devoted to special regulatory regimes, in which global and European law coexist, though not always peacefully. Several sectors are considered: cultural heritage, medicines, climate change, antitrust, accounting and auditing, banking supervision, and public procurement.
Digitale Produktion
by Engelbert Westkämper Dieter Spath Carmen Constantinescu Joachim LentesModerne Informationstechnik pr#65533;gt die industrielle Produktion immer st#65533;rker. Die Autoren stellen in dem Band die Ergebnisse des Innovationsclusters Digitale Produktion vor und betrachten dabei die digitale Produktion aus einer ganzheitlichen Perspektive, in die Mensch, Organisation und Technik (innovative Informationstechnologien) einbezogen werden. F#65533;r den Aufbau, die Vernetzung sowie die Optimierung produkt- und produktionsbezogener Prozesse in Industrieunternehmen liefern sie wissenschaftlich fundierte Methoden, Werkzeuge und Anwendungsbeispiele.