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Essentials of Ecology
 G. Tyler Miller...
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NBC - 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics 16-20 June 2008; Riga, Latvia (IFMBE Proceedings) (IFMBE Proceedings)
 14th Nordic Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics NBC-2008 brought together scientists not only from the Nordic Baltic region, but from the entire world. This volume presents the Proceedings of this international conference, jointly organized by the Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society, Riga Technical University and University of Latvia in close cooperation with International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) The topics covered by the Conference Proceedings include: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering; Biomechanics, Artificial Organs, Implants and Rehabilitation; Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements, Biosensors and Transducers; Biomedical Optics and Lasers; Healthcare Management, Education and Training; Information Technology to Health; Medical Imaging, Telemedicine and E-Health; Medical Physics; Micro- and Nanoobjects, Nanostructured Systems, Biophysics...
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The Globalisation of Addiction Bruce Alexander
 The Globalisation of Addiction presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or what should be done about it. Meanwhile, it continues to increase around the world. This book argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that the conventional wisdom of the 19th and 20th centuries focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. Although addiction obviously manifests itself in individual cases, its prevalence differs dramatically between societies. For example, it can be quite rare in a society for centuries, and then become common when a tribal culture is destroyed or a highly developed civilization collapses. When addiction becomes commonplace in a society, people become addicted not only to alcohol and drugs, but to a thousand other......
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Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies (Studies of Organized Crime)
 The term “global organized crime” is often used to refer to worldwide illegitimate activities of criminal groups and networks and is associated with the so-called “globalization process”. Although it can not be denied that due to economic, technological, political and cultural developments, borders have disappeared or changed, markets have extended, mobility and communication facilities have improved, it would be a major fallacy to study organized crime and its containment solely from a global perspective. The central premise of this book is that we need more in-depth, empirically funded, knowledge on organized crime in specific situational contexts, rather than trying to predict how organized crime might develop throughout the world. The fifteen contributions in the book deal with various aspects of organized crime (drugs, diamonds, human trafficking, eco-crime, conflict resolution, underground banking, crime facilitators) in various parts of the world (Sicily, Sinai, the US,......
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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Qbook (Kaplan Medical) Kaplan
 Features:Over 850 exam-style questions in USMLE vignette formatComprehensive and detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answer choicesCoverage of the most exam-relevant subjects to help students prepare efficientlyTest-taking and study strategies guides with expert perspectives on how to prepare for the examsAn additional online companion with a sample customizable Qbank of questions...
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Automated Fusion of Multi-modality Biomedical Images Hua Cao
 A novel automated approach of multi-modality biomedical image control point detection, registration, and fusion has been successfully developed. The new algorithm, which consists of the Adaptive Exploratory Algorithm for the control point/feature detection and Heuristic Optimization Algorithm, is reliable and time efficient. The new approach has been applied on three ophthalmologic modalities of nonhuman primate eyes - angiogram, fundus, and oxygen saturation retinal images. It has achieved an excellent result by giving the visualization of fundus or oxygen saturation image with a complete angiogram overlay. By locking the multi-sensor retinal images in one place, the algorithm allows ophthalmologists to match the same eye over time to get a sense of disease progress and pinpoint surgical tools. The new registration and fusion algorithm can be easily expanded to the eye, brain, or body images of human or animals'. The target readers are graduate/undergraduate students, faculty,......
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Biliary Lithiasis: Basic Science, Current Diagnosis and Management
 The book provides an overview on biliary lithiasis and all its clinical pictures, twenty years after the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The gallbladder, the main bile duct and intra-hepatic stones, in their uncomplicated and complicated forms are illustrated. Chapters are focused on basic science, epidemiology, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to biliary lithiasis. The different diagnostic procedures described include invasive and noninvasive imaging, and treatment options take into consideration medical treatment, open and minimally invasive surgery, endoscopic and percutaneous approaches, both individually and as combined procedures. The book's content is not limited to the most commonly used therapeutic approaches reported in the literature, but also addresses new and innovative therapeutic strategies for biliary lithiasis. Thanks to its comprehensive approach, this volume will be of interest not only for GPs amd specialists in this field, but also to residents and......
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Pediatric Heart Sounds Michael E. McConnell
 As a learning tool, Pediatric Heart Sounds offers a unique interactive overview of cardiac auscultation. The CD-ROM is the only one to integrate high-fidelity, digitally recorded pediatric heart sounds with a graphic patient chest interface, while the book provides a review of the mechanisms behind the individual heart sounds. Using the CD-ROM, readers can ‘place’ the stethoscope at the four chest locations most commonly auscultated and to hear the corresponding sounds, thus simulating an actual examination. Pediatric Heart Sounds provides an additional learning tool for medical students and practitioners in preparation for future study or for integration into practical work experience with pediatric patients....
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The Harriet Lane Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series, Expert Consult: Online and Print (Harriet Lane Handbook) Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jason W. Custer, Rachel E. Rau, Carlton K. Lee
 The Harriet Lane Handbook represents over 50 years of expert guidance for pediatric residents and all those who treat children. This irreplaceable manual is your everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. The book's trademark formulary will be regularly updated online, to keep you absolutely current. New or revised chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Still convenient and pocket-sized, this latest edition includes Expert Consult functionality, so you can access the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable.Remains a convenient, pocket-sized reference, so you can carry a wealth of information with you. Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more to help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.Organized in a modified outline format so you can find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.Provides a......
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Biostatistics and Microbiology: A Survival Manual Daryl S. Paulson
 This “nuts and bolts” book provides a condensation of biostatistical methods that applied microbiology researchers need to perform data analyses. Based on the author’s more than two decades of applied research and teaching experience, it is presented in a straight-forward manner, applicable by practicing microbiologists with minimal backgrounds in mathematics. All methods rely only on the use of a basic hand-held calculator. The overriding goal of this book is to ground one’s microbiological expertise and experience in one’s research pursuits, using biostatistics not as a black box, but as a tool. The book begins with a broad discussion of the experimental process, leading to one-sample, two-sample, and multi-sample comparisons. Each regression analysis will be presented, as well as an example. Nonparametric methods will be discussed, as well as when they should be applied. Finally, special topics of statistics in microbiology (i.e., viral, plant, animal, human, food, industrial and......
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Surgery: Clinical Cases Uncovered (Case-Based) Harold Ellis, Christopher Watson
 * Written by authors of the bestselling Lecture Notes: General Surgery, this title in the CCU series contains a vast array of surgical cases for the student to experience and explore * Gives a firm understanding of signs and symptoms that might indicate a need for surgical intervention and the various treatment and management issues involved in surgery * Covers a core area of the medical curriculum * An ideal supplement to surgical attachments or rotations and for revision in the lead-up to surgical Finals...
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Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee James D Williams, Arthur E Bogan, Jeffrey T Garner
 Alabama rivers and waterways are home to the largest and most diverse population of freshwater mussel species in the nation, roughly 60% of U.S. mussel fauna. The Mobile River Basin, which drains portions of Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi waterways, also contains diverse mussel populations. However, many of these species have been significantly depleted in the last century due to habitat alteration (river damming, channelization, siltation), pollution, and invasive species, and many more are in imminent danger of extinction. The authors offer encyclopedic entries on each of the 178 mussel species currently identified in Alabama and the Mobile River Basina??the scientific and common names; a morphological description as well as color photographs of the shell appearance; analysis of the soft anatomy; information about ecology, biology, and conservation status; and a color distribution map. With an extensive glossary of terms and full index, plus additional material on the......
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