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The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental topics in microwave engineering, antennas and wave propagation, and electromagnetic compatibility, including electromagnetic boundary...

This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion,...

This unique book focuses on the emerging and expanding areas of research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD). These areas include investigations of genome-wide genetics and epigenetic contributions,...

A profile of the late Professor Gu Chaohao / Tatsien Li -- List of publications of Gu Chaohao -- In memory of Professor Gu Chaohao / Xiaqi Ding -- In memory of Professor Gu Chaohao / Gongqing Zhang...

There has been great progress and increase in demand for medical imaging. The aim of this book is to capture all major developments in all aspects of medical imaging. As such, this book consists of...

This book is written with the belief that classical mechanics, as a theoretical discipline, possesses an inherent beauty, depth, and richness that far transcends its immediate applications in...

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a highly interdisciplinary instrument that enables measurements of samples in liquid, vacuum or air with unprecedented resolution. The intelligent use of this...

This comprehensive book is the first of its kind to take scientists and engineers beyond simply getting a patent granted. Through the author's extensive scientific background and experience, the book...

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining...

This book is intended as an introduction to game theory which goes beyond the field of application, economics, and which introduces the reader to as many different sides of game theory as possible...

Gastrointestinal Malignancies: New Innovative Diagnostics and Treatment summarizes new advantages in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies, thereby providing the most current...

Based on lectures held at the 7th Villa de Leyva summer school, this book presents an introduction to topics of current interest in the interface of geometry, topology and physics. It is aimed at...

After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state ? the People's Republic of China ? does not only manage to stay intact, but has...

Should derivatives be feared "as financial weapons of mass destruction" or hailed as financial innovations which through efficient risk transfer are truly adding to the Wealth of Nations? By...

The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy did not vigorously rebound as expected. The West has...

This comprehensive text is unique in its compilation of experiences in addressing the global diabetes epidemic and description of diverse worldwide prevention initiatives. Background chapters...

This book contains the Proceedings of the Workshop 'Global Sustainability Inside and Outside the Territory' held on February 14, 2014, in Benevento, Italy...--Foreword.Author: Salvatore Rampone,...

We live in an era of globalization: ever increasing international integration of goods, capital, and labor markets. The benefits and costs of increased trade and financial integration in the world...

This volume presents important analyses of international trade, technology transfer and the global economics of intellectual property rights through selected and key works of Keith E Maskus, spanning...

The wave of uprisings that has engulfed the Arab world since 2011 has impacted the Gulf significantly however much the region appears to have remained unscathed. The case of Bahrain, in which the...

1. Recent developments of Hilbert-Type inequalities with applications. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Hilbert's inequality and Hilbert's operator. 1.3. Modern research for Hilbert-type inequalities. 1.4...

This concise handbook covers a diversity of subjects encompassing the broad spectrum of craniofacial surgery. As a quick reference guide intended for the less experienced craniofacial audience (i.e.,...

For graduate students pursuing PhDs and professionals doing research and development in the pattern recognition and computer vision field, this is a book you shouldn't miss. Overall, this book has a...

This unique one-volume handbook provides a quick and concise reference guide for practising ophthalmologists, retinal specialists, vitreo-retinal fellows, ophthalmology residents and optometrists on...

This book provides a modern introduction to harmonic analysis and synthesis on topological groups. It serves as a guide to the abstract theory of Fourier transformation. For the first time, it...

Harry S. Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. In this biography, E. Ray Canterbery captures the...

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing...

This proceedings volume, for the symposium in honor of Junwen Wang's 70th anniversary, is dedicated to his many important achievements in the field of accelerator physics. It includes the discussions...

Sets, mappings, groups -- Metric spaces -- Linear operators in linear spaces -- Linear operators in normed spaces -- The extended real line -- Measurable sets and measurable functions -- Measures --...

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology in particular. The book then explores how the...