Pulmonary endoscopy is one of the most commonly performed procedures by interventional pulmonologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. This handbook provides how-to guidance for physicians wishing to improve their skills in this important field. With an emphasis on endosonography¿both endobronchial and esophageal ultrasound¿the text simplifies and distils the essential practical and theoretical knowledge needed to perform basic endoscopic procedures for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases. Many alternative invasive techniques are presented, along with illustrations and step-by-step instructions, making this book an ideal primer for trainees.

First published in 1973, this well-established textbook offers medical students and junior doctors a readable introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to situations in the developing countries of the tropics. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in public health. It retains the popular approach of previous editions in stressing basic principles illustrated by selected examples pertinent to the regions in question. The book focuses on both communicable and non-communicable diseases and covers gender-specific issues as well as health systems, health promotion, and health economics.

A comprehensive introduction to the technical and socioeconomic issues surrounding global energy, this text presents a fresh new treatment on the fundamentals of energy science, technology, and policy implications. It addresses the need for diversity in any nation¿s energy portfolio and the educational requirements of scientists, engineers, and policymakers today. Taking an introductory yet rigorous approach, the book covers alternative and sustainable supply strategies, such as wind and solar. It uses real-life examples of current and future technologies and offers many hands-on exercises.

An introduction to a new paradigm in social, technological, and scientific discourse, this book presents an overview of statistical methods for describing, modeling, and inferring biological networks using genomic and other types of data. It covers a large variety of modern statistical techniques, such as sparse graphical models, state space models, Boolean networks, and hidden Markov models. The authors address gene transcription data, microRNAs, ChIP-chip, and RNAi data. Along with end-of-chapter exercises, the text includes many real-world examples with implementations using a dedicated R package.

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the greatest philosophers of the Twentieth century. This comprehensive, clear introduction unpacks and explains Sartre's philosophy, covering all the key topics. An indispensable introduction to Sartre's philosophy, and also useful to those in related disciplines such as politics, sociology, literature, religion and French studies.

Now fully revised in line with the latest research, each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

The Routledge Handbook of Rural China provides a critical reflection on the major themes and debates that have characterised rural Chinäs development experience. The contributors delineate the state, trajectory and dynamics of the field, including emerging issues and debates on topics such as The Hukou, Eco-tourism and Labour shortages.

Making the case that student's home languages are benefits, not deficits, this book presents critical research about the use (and value) of home and heritage languages, offers portraits of linguistically rich and effective preK-12 classrooms and instructional settings, and provides teaching strategies that build on students' home languages.

Making the case that student's home languages are benefits, not deficits, this book presents critical research about the use (and value) of home and heritage languages, offers portraits of linguistically rich and effective preK-12 classrooms and instructional settings, and provides teaching strategies that build on students' home languages.

This book examines the role of linen undergarments in concepts of propriety and health in early-modern England. Acknowledging the difficulties in researching the habits of cleanliness in the past, particularly the unreliability of personal testimony for reasons of bias and modesty, the study sets out a methodology for researching aspects of bodily hygiene, first delineating in full what the advice was in both conduct and medical literature. By incorporating not only dress, social and medical histories, but also evidence from surviving clothing, the book serves as an example of an interdisciplinary methodology and a potential model for other histories of other "unspoken" subjects.

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of science. Introduces the key topics, such as the scientific method, rationalism and empiricism, as well as more advanced topics such as realism and antirealism.

Constructivist as well essentialist concepts of identity, and especially of cultural identity, have failed. Based on a new sociological concept of a relational cultural identity, this book poses the question of European identity as a contradictory process of identity formation. Written in clear and non-technical language, this book is addressed to sociologists, social theorists and philosophers, cultural and political scientists, social psychologists and anthropologists as well as to politicians, and it is also suitable for a general audience, and for students of sociology, cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, anthropology and European studies.

Constructivist as well essentialist concepts of identity, and especially of cultural identity, have failed. Based on a new sociological concept of a relational cultural identity, this book poses the question of European identity as a contradictory process of identity formation. Written in clear and non-technical language, this book is addressed to sociologists, social theorists and philosophers, cultural and political scientists, social psychologists and anthropologists as well as to politicians, and it is also suitable for a general audience, and for students of sociology, cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, anthropology and European studies.

Okinawa, the largest of Ryukyu Islands, was occupied by the United States following a bitterly fought battle in the early months of 1945, and remained under US administration for 27 years. This book examines the impact of the US occupation of Okinawa from the end of the US Occupation of the rest of Japan up to the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. It shows how Okinawans opposed the US presence, and how the continuing US occupation of Okinawa was a major factor in US-Japan relations in the period.

This book will fill a need among animal paleopathologists and animal forensic scientists for a text/atlas focused on lesions that commonly appear in skeletal remains. The text describes what is known about disease pathogenesis and occurrence in modern and historical settings and include evolutionary and comparative considerations. It is a stand-alone atlas on animal bone disease with images of lesions on the whole bone, which would facilitate understanding of bone disease and provide insights into disease processes. This book fills a unique niche - a text/atlases on comparative bone pathology that includes images of whole specimens.

This book presents hybrid value stream mapping tools for developing Lean and green supply chains. The tools incorporate green and Lean concepts that can assist supply chain decision makers to simultaneously minimize wastes, costs, environmental damage, and energy and material usage In addition, it provides a new integrated approach for evaluating supply chain performance from both green and Lean perspectives. As supply chain stakeholders increasingly become aware of the need to simultaneously address economic, environmental, and energy usage issues, it is essential to formulate performance objectives based on these issues. To achieve these objectives, the book provides tools and techniques for value stream mapping the supply chain. Suggested tools, such as green lean process mapping, quality filter mapping, energy value stream mapping, and supply chain response matrix can assist supply chain decision makers to simultaneously achieve green and Lean objectives centered on minimizing wastes, costs, environmental damage, as well as energy and material usage. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents recent concepts of green and Lean paradigms, as well as green Lean performance in supply chain systems. Part II presents parallel and integrated green Lean models, based on the triple bottom line (also known as the 3E bottom line) perspective, covering aspects related to the economy, the environment, and energy and material usage. Part III presents and explains a range of tools and techniques, where Leanness and greenness are emphasized from a common view point. A compendium of Lean green value stream mapping tools are presented and illustrated using succinct procedures, flowcharts and examples.

Gazprom, one of Europe's most important energy companies, and the sole exporter of Russian gas to Europe, is often viewed simply as an agent of the Russian state, being used by the Russian state to exert political pressure on Russia's neighbours and more widely. This book presents a thorough examination of the Russian gas sector and Gazprom's place within it. It considers how the Russian gas sector has been modernized over recent decades, examines Russia's gas exports to different parts of the world, and explores how the international situation has changed, and continues to change, over time. The author concludes that the picture is complex; that Gazprom is both a commercially-oriented actor that lobbies strongly for its own interests and is at the same time subject to varying degrees of influence from the Russian government, the degree of influence depending on the policy area.

Speaking to wider debates of U.S. foreign policy and grand strategy, its interests and motivations in International Relations and International Political Economy, and processes of regionalism with regard to political-economic integration. NAFTA-land Security present a clear, important and original argument to all those struggling with how best to understand the overall policy aims that drive U.S. thinking, and how they relate to global trends and developments in U.S. foreign policy.

Nonionizing Radiation Protection in Medical Environments describes how medical practitioners can safely use nonionizing radiation sources such as magnetic resonance imaging, lasers and ultrasound devices, for surgical, therapeutic, and diagnostic purposes. Focusing on the professional, operational, and regulatory aspects of nonionizing radiation protection, the book covers virtually all regions of the world. The theoretical background is based on current regulatory frameworks and is complemented by practical sections and professional discussions by the world's leading medical and health physics professionals.

Covering topics such as Adsense, access to information, location services, YouTube, Android, and hardware, this short student-friendly book will explore the history, business model, cultural impact, and future of the ubiquitous search engine.

This book focuses on how the interests of corporations and governments to embrace a "new economy" have served to drive the development and uptake of mobile/ubiquitous media.

Focussing on the jurisprudence of English-speaking liberal democracies - predominantly the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia - the author of this book examines the legal control of the kind of self-regarding actions that could be regarded as modes of self-expression. She distinguishes between the ways in which the law tends to regulate expressive aspects of ΓÇÖthe selfΓÇÖ when those expressions have commercial potential (and could thus be considered to be self-regarding actions with value to others) as opposed to when they are of a more personal nature. This conclusion leads to the identification of a contemporary ΓÇÖcommercialΓÇÖ form of liberalism which, it will be suggested, tends to dominate over the historical forms of liberalism in which many modern liberal democracies are notionally grounded. The reasons for, and consequences of this, are then discussed.

This book is the quintessential guide to port state control. It provides detailed information on all aspects of the topic, including the legal base for port state control, its global application, and the major practical implications for the maritime world. It also offers expert analysis of the port state control procedures as defined by the IMO, and gives extensive information on regional port state control agreements throughout the globe.

In communist Eastern Europe the churches were often a focus for opposition to communism, and in the immediate post-communist period churches played a key role in fostering national cohesion, promoting a conservative political agenda, and in rewriting national narratives to eliminate or revise communist narratives. These activities, which are implicitly conservative and nationalistic, are not naturally in step with European integration. This book explores the relationship between religion and politics in post-communist Europe, focusing especially on the degree to which religion, and religious involvement in politics, encourage Euroscepticism.