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Ecografia dellapparato osteoarticolare : Anatomia, semeiotica e quadri patologici = Ultrasound of the osteoarticular system: Anatomy, semeiotics and pathological pictures
The echography is useful in the valutazione of articolari pathology in peace with rheumatic malattia and, other than in the diagnosis, is effective in the monitoring with power Doppler of the synovite, with a higher sensitivity to all'esame clinical. The high resolution ultrasound, integrated with the power Doppler technique, even to the degree of individualizing the entheopathic anomaly, the osseous erosion and the tendine involvement. The objective of the operation is to present the technique of same, and progress of echography in muscoloscheletric rheumatic pathology and the diagnosis of ultrasound in articolare rheumatic pathology. L’iconography è arricchita with integrated imaging of ultrasound, conventional radiology, CT and MRI.
E-CARGO and role-based collaboration : Modeling and solving problems in the complex
A model for collaboratively solving complex problems Explains the nature of collaboration, explores an easy-to-follow process of collaboration, and defines a model to solve complex problems in collaboration and complex systems. Written by a noted expert on the topic, the book initiates the study of an effective collaborative system from a novel perspective. The role-based collaboration (RBC) methodology investigates the most important aspects of a variety of collaborative systems including societal-technical systems. The models and algorithms can also be applied across system engineering, production, and management. Contains a set of concepts, models, and algorithms for the analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and assessment of a complex system Presents computational methods that use roles as a primary underlying mechanism to facilitate collaborative activities including role assignment Explores the RBC methodology that concentrates on the aspects that can be handled by individuals to establish a well-formed team Offers an authoritative book written by a noted expert on the topic
Early Nutrition and its Later Consequences : New Opportunities; Perinatal Programming of Adult Health - EC Supported Research
Health problems such as hypertension, tendency to diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, vascular disease, bone health, behaviour and learning and longevity may be ‘imprinted’ during early life. This process is defined as ‘programming’ whereby a nutritional stimulus operating at a critical, sensitive period of pre and postnatal life imprints permanent effects on the structure, physiology and metabolism. For this reason, academics and industry set-up the EC supported Scientific Workshop -Early Nutrition and its Later Consequences: New Opportunities. The prime objective of the Workshop was to generate a sound exchange of the latest scientific developments within the field of early nutrition to look for opportunities for new preventive health concepts. Further, a closer look was taken at the development of food applications which could provide (future) mothers and infants with improved nutrition that will ultimately lead to better future health. The Workshop was organised by the Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Munich, Germany in collaboration with the Danone Institutes and the Infant Nutrition Cluster, a collaboration of three large research projects funded by the EU.
Dynamical Vision ; ICCV 2005 and ECCV 2006 Workshops, WDV 2005 and WDV 2006, Beijing, China, October 21, 2005, Graz, Austria, May 13, 2006, Revised Papers
Classical multiple-view geometry studies the reconstruction of a static scene - served by a rigidly moving camera. However, in many real-world applications the scene may undergo much more complex dynamical changes. For instance, the scene may consist of multiple moving objects (e.g., a trafic scene) or arti- lated motions (e.g., a walking human) or even non-rigid dynamics (e.g., smoke, fire, or a waterfall). In addition, some applications may require interaction with the scene through a dynamical system (e.g., vision-guided robot navigation and coordination). To study the problem of reconstructing dynamical scenes, many new al- braic, geometric, statistical, and computational tools have recently emerged in computer vision, computer graphics, image processing, and vision-based c- trol.
Dynamic Vision for Perception and Control of Motion
The book uniquely details an approach to real-time machine vision for the understanding of dynamic scenes, viewed from a moving platform that begins with spatio-temporal representations of motion for hypothesized objects whose parameters are adjusted by well-known prediction error feedback and recursive estimation techniques. A coherent and up-to-date coverage of the subject matter is presented, with the machine vision and control aspects detailed, along with reports on the mission performance of the first vehicles using these innovative techniques built at Munich. Pointers to the future development and likely applications of this hugely important field of research are presented.
Dynamic Analysis of Petri Net-Based Discrete Systems
Design of modern digital hardware systems and of complex software systems is almost always connected with parallelism. For example, execution of an object-oriented p- gram can be considered as parallel functioning of the co-operating objects; all modern operating systems are multitasking, and the software tends to be multithread; many complex calculation tasks are solved in distributed way. But designers of the control systems probably have to face parallelism in more evident and direct way. Controllers rarely deal with just one controlled object. Usually a system of several objects is to be controlled, and then the control algorithm naturally turns to be parallel. So, classical and very deeply investigated model of discrete device, Finite State Machine, is not expressive enough for the design of control devices and systems. Theoretically in most of cases behavior of a controller can be described by an FSM, but usually it is not convenient; such FSM description would be much more complex, than a parallel specification (even as a network of several communicating FSMs).
Dumbing Down : The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend
This book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the labor market is also discussed.
Drug Metabolism: Current Concepts
The user-friendly text focuses on concepts rather than extraneous details and is supported by many illustrated examples of biotransformations as well as frequent references to current critical reviews and articles highlighting the nature of research objectives in this vibrant area of medicinal development.
Drug delivery via nasal route
Over the past 10 years, the interest in intranasal drug delivery has increased. The objective of this research is to summarize recent developments on intranasal administration for local and systemic delivery, as well as for CNS indications. Nasal delivery offers many advantages over standard systemic delivery systems, nevertheless, there are still formulation limitations and side effects to be optimized. Intranasal drug delivery in the field of drug development is an interesting delivery route for the treatment of neurological disorders. Systemic approaches often fail to efficiently supply the CNS with drugs. This research describes the anatomical, histological and physiological basis and summarizes currently approved drugs for administration via intranasal delivery. Further, the research focuses on advantages and disadvantages of intranasal applied compounds and discusses formulation aspects that need to be considered for drug development.
Double & Multiple Stars, and How to Observe Them
The first part of Jim Mullaney’s book provides a comprehensive review of the different classes of double and multiple systems, along with a look at the astrophysics of these objects. This is followed by a detailed guide for amateur astronomers, describing how to observe them – using a variety of different techniques – and outlining how to record the observations.In one book, here is all you need to observe double and multiple stars, and to understand the systems you are looking at.
DOM Scripting : Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. This book is about the latter of the three. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. Jeremy Keith starts off by giving you a basic crash course in JavaScript and the DOM, then moves on to provide you with several real-world examples built up from scratch, including dynamic image galleries and dynamic menus. Then, he shows you how to manipulate web page style using the CSS DOM, and create markup on the fly.
Distributed computing and Internet Technology ; 1st International Conference, ICDCIT 2004, Bhubaneswar, India, December 22-24, 2004, Proceedings
Taming the Dynamics of Disributed Data - DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING -- Data in Your Space -- Enabling Technologies for Harnessing Information Explosion -- Fair Leader Election by Randomized Voting -- An Efficient Leader Election Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Distributed Balanced Tables: A New Approach - Performance Evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet and SCI in a Linux Cluster -- Performance Evaluation of a Modified-Cyclic-Banyan Based ATM / IP Switching Fabric -- A Scalable and Robust QoS Architecture for WiFi P2P Networks -- NEC: Node Energy Based Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Connectivity,and other
Distributed computing ; Vol. 4167 ; 20th International Symposium, DISC 2006, Stockholm, Sweden, September 18-20, 2006, Proceedings
DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for presentation of research on all facets of distributed computing, inc- ding the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The 20th anniversary edition of DISC was held on S- tember 18-20, 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden. There were 145 extended abstracts submitted to DISC this year, and this - lume contains the 35 contributions selected by the Program Committee and one invited paper among these 145 submissions.
Distributed computing ; Vol. 3724 ; 19th International conference, DISC 2005, Cracow, Poland, September 26-29, 2005, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2005, held in Cracow, Poland, in September 2005. The 32 revised full papers selected from 162 submissions are presented together with 14 brief announcements of ongoing works chosen from 30 submissions; all of them were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The entire scope of current issues in distributed computing is addressed, ranging from foundational and theoretical topics to algorithms and systems issues and to applications in various fields.
Distributed Computing ; 22nd International Symposium, DISC 2008, Arcachon, France, September 22-24, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2008, held in Arcachon, France, in September 2008.
Distributed Computing ; 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings
This book covers all current issues in distributed computing, including theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks.
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems ; Vol. 4025 ; 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2006, Athens, Greece, June 14-16, 2006
This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems VI held in Bologna, Italy, on June 14-16, 2006. The conference program presents the state of the art in research on d- tributed and interoperable systems. In recent years, distributed applications have indeed gained a practical and widely-known footing in everyday computing.
Distributed applications and interoperable systems ; Vol. 3543 ; 5th IFIP WG 6.1 International conference, DAIS 2005, Athens, Greece, June 15-17, 2005, Proceedings
ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsoftheIFIPWG6. 1InternationalWorking Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems V held in Athens, Greece, on June 15–17, 2005. The conference program presented the state of the art in research concerning distributed and interoperable systems. The emergence of 4th-generation c- munication systems, the evolution of Internet technologies, the convergence of telecom and datacom, wireless and ?xed communication systems and appli- tions pave the path for ubiquitous service and application provision. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and h- erogeneity. Today, the emerging wide spectrum of distributed systems.
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems ; 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 4-6, 2008. Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of DAIS 2008, the 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems.
Diseases of the chest, heart and vascular system 2025-2028 : Diagnostic imaging
Offers an essential overview of chest, heart and vascular system imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. Written by leading international experts and teachers, the chapters are disease-oriented and cover all relevant imaging modalities, with a focus on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. IDKD books are rewritten (not merely updated) every four years, which means they offer a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in imaging. The book is clearly structured and features learning objectives, abstracts, subheadings, tables and take-home points, supported by design elements to help readers navigate the text.
