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Covering all the essentials from biochemical recognition to the latest MEMS systems, this book on biosensors and their applications includes a wealth of case studies. Written by a leading expert on the subject, it includes a chapter on likely future advances.

Geotectonics has a special place among the geological dis ciplines. The fluidity of the general ideas and the need for joint consideration of the geological, geophysical, and geochemi cal data to substantiate these ideas are the main difficulties facing the author of a textbook on geotectonics.

Employing a variety of panel data regression techniques, this book provides readers with new findings that shed light on the effects of openness on China's regional economic growth and the evolution of the country's interregional disparities.

This book offers a comprehensive review of cysticercosis of the human nervous system. It details clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management as well as explains the role of modern neuroimaging and serologic techniques.

In its updated edition, this book covers disturbances in tooth formation, acquired dental diseases including caries and its sequelae, periodontal disease, odontogenic tumors and more. Adds 50% more images, and new guidance on diagnostically difficult cases.

In his autobiography, Martens offers the inside story of running a complex country like Belgium, fighting for European unification, and transforming the European People's Party into a united centre-right movement and leading European political family.

This book gives a synthetic presentation of the research performed in the field of sheet metal forming simulation during more than twenty years by the members of three teams: the Research Centre on Sheet Metal Forming, AUTOFORM and VOLVO.

This is a comprehensive and scientifically underpinned overview of the biocompatibility of dental materials. Up-to-date concepts of biocompatibility assessment are discussed, as well as information on almost all material groups used in dentistry practice.

History, Morphology, Biochemistry, Diagnostics, Clinic, Therapy

This book presents comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the wide field of concentrated vortices observed in nature and technique. The authors have described models of vortex structures used for interpretation of experimental data which serve as a ground for development of theoretical and numerical approaches to vortex investigation.

Aims to bring together experts from the medical and engineering fields in which trauma acts as a fulcrum in understanding the engineering approach to medical cases. This book lays emphasis on the retrospective study of medical scenarios as seen from the engineering perspective. It covers a wide spectrum of trauma case studies.

This is the first systematic owl checklist for over 50 years to include subspecies and synonyms. This beautifully illustrated checklist provides an outstanding resource for scientific collections, studies of global biodiversity, and species preservation.

MATLAB (R) is used for a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, the generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series.

This book focusses on the after sales business and presents the Service Parts Planning (SPP) solution which was developed by SAP in a joint effort with Caterpillar and Ford in order to address the specific planning problems of service parts.

This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population groups and neighbourhoods.

This book provides international readers with a fresh outlook on China's tort law system, exploring its principles, theories and history. It features real cases to explain the application of China's tort laws and the meaning of the corresponding statutes.

This book examines the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.

This book presents a unique approach to natural-language processing, with the ultimate goal being the creation of cognitive machines that humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language.

This book explains situational method engineering and details how to apply it in software development. It features step-by-step explanations, from the basics to the customization and quality assessment of constructed methods. Includes industrial case studies.

This book examines physically unclonable functions in all their facets: the multitude of their physical constructions, the algorithmic and physical properties which describe them, and the techniques required to deploy them in information security applications.

This book offers insights into theoretical computer science and mathematics, distilling complex topics into manageable essays that summarize and explain key developments, historical context, and future directions of complexity, computability and algorithms.

This thesis presents research which has resulted in the synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterization of the first high-valent iron nitride complexes. It also details the reactivity of a unique iron (V) nitride complex with water, yielding ammonia.

Claudia Backes reviews her work on noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes in water, showing how rational surfactant design offers a key to solubilization, allowing nanotube surface and optical properties to be tailored in fully reversible fashion.

This second edition remains a comprehensive book on the subject. It offers beginners and advanced modelers alike a minimum theoretical background and a strong focus on the practical solution of geochemical modeling with PHREEQC.

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