This text examines issues surrounding the management and conservation of a particular category of animal, namely the "mediagenic megafauna", or the largest of the land and sea mammals. The value accorded to different biotic resources varies significantly depending upon the interests and goals of the parties undertaking the valuation, and these ...
Men die younger and when sick they seek help later. While it is now accepted that many of the causes of premature death in men are potentially remediable by appropriate education, counseling, diagnosis, and therapy, few, if any, inroads have been made in terms of actually closing the mortality gap between the sexes. Why, given the facts, is men's ...
Managing Infections provides readers with a working knowledge of infections combined with a comprehensive and impartial analysis of the pros and cons of managing common conditions with regard to different investigations, treatments and referrals. The framework and approach of the books aims to help doctors draw their own conclusions as to what is ...
Offering a look at the constantly changing field of planning, this revised and updated edition presents theories, concepts and issues. Discussion questions and exercises accompany each chapter. Topics include regulatory and allocative planning and planners' roles.
From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances. Free of mathematics and complex graphs, the book nevertheless explains deep concepts of space and time, of ...
More than 20,000 spinal operations are carried out in the UK each year, and it is inevitable and unfortunate that mistakes will occasionally be made. Only careful attention to detail in the pre-operative assessment, meticulous surgical care and supervised post-operative management will ensure consistently good results. This book illustrates the ...
The editors have brought together an international team of experts to discuss issues particular to women who suffer from mood disorders. This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the subject, and it profiles women's health issues, such as pregnancy, menopause, breastfeeding and abortion, and their impact on such patients. ...
Sitting squarely at the interface between earth and life sciences, palaeobiogeographic information is scattered throughout many publications until now. "Palaeobiogeography of Marine Fossil Invertebrates" covers important theoretical concepts relating to palaeobiogeography together with descriptions of analytical methods. Fabrizio Cecca discusses ...
Now in its sixth edition, The Kidney and Hypertension in Diabetes Mellitus retains its position as the comprehensive resource for information on diabetic kidney disease. The book covers all aspects of renal involvement in diabetes and incorporates information from important publications and new trials conducted during the last three years. The new ...
The title presents an up-to-date account of the research, development, and applications of metallic alloys, recent research into the structure of charge materials, melt treatment, and casting technologies, and their influence on the properties of melts and ingots. This research has confirmed theoretical concepts about the microheterogenous ...
This invaluable book demonstrates the relation of medical disorders to oral and maxillofacial diseases and presents many clinical examples. One of the most comprehensive illustrated texts available, Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases is an essential aid to diagnosis for oral and maxillofacial surgeons, dental surgeons, oral physicians and other ...
This volume presents a systematic and unified treatment of Leray-Schauder continuation theorems in nonlinear analysis. In particular, fixed point theory is established for many classes of maps, such as contractive, non-expansive, accretive, and compact maps, to name but a few. This book also presents coincidence and multiplicity results. Many ...
Key Topics in Neurology addresses many of the major areas of neurology including headache, epilepsy, stroke and multiple sclerosis as well as neurological history-taking and examination. The text provides up-to-date reviews of clinical neurology topics, focusing on areas where new developments, insights or treatments have occurred in recent years.
The fourth and final volume in this comprehensive set presents the maximum principle as a wide ranging solution to nonclassical, variational problems. This one mathematical method can be applied in a variety of situations, including linear equations with variable coefficients, optimal processes with delay, and the jump condition. As with the three ...
This text has been shaped by the editor's experiences on task forces set up to investigate major explosives incidents and related civil and criminal proceedings. Chapters cover methods, applications, quality control, and significance of forensic chemistry, aircraft sabotage investigation, forensic pathology, and presentation of expert testimony. ...
A monotone iterative technique is used to obtain monotone approximate solutions that converge to the solution of nonlinear problems of partial differential equations of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic type. This volume describes that technique, which has played a valuable role in unifying a variety of nonlinear problems, particularly when ...
This monograph describes the results of stability investigations of solutions of five types of nonlinear ordinary differential equations containing a small parameter. The averaging technique, the comparison method and Lyapunov's direct method for scalar, vector or matrix functions are employed for the construction of various sufficient conditions ...
Impact Assessment is becoming part and parcel of an increasing number of development proposals in the UK and Europe. As the practice of Impact Assessment develops it becomes more standardized and good practice starts to be defined. However, the quality of Impact Assessment is still far from satisfactory. "Expert Systems and GIS for Impact ...
Comparative Physiology and Evolution of the Autonomic Nervous System, the fourth volume in the Autonomic Nervous System series, is an up-to-date account of the comparative physiology and functional anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, with an emphasis on non-mammalian vertebrates. The book starts with an overview of the field and then ...
Addressing the early clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, these essays demonstrate the current lack of clinical utility in research methodologies such as neuro-imaging, drug challenges and brain biopsy.
This volume is an updated and internationalized English-language version of the Dutch text. "Land Observation by Remote Sensing: Theory and Applications" focuses on earth-surface objects and describes both the theory of remote sensing and the applications of this technique to the fields of agriculture, forestry, land evaluation, agrohydrology and ...
This concise text reviews a number of important topics in lymphoid malignancies, presenting for each one a summary of key developments in the field, and a critical review of the literature and data available. It provides a valuable overview for haematologists and oncologists.
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