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The republic of Georgia in the Caucasus boasts a wide variety of ecosystems in a relatively small area, including semi-desert, sub-tropical and subalpine zones. This new volume describes the country's vegetation in all its wonderful richness and diversity.

This book collects images from 100 oncology cases, organized according to the role of FDG PET/CT in the evaluation and management of patients. The focus is on identification and assessment of the extent of disease, response and post-therapeutic observation.

Approaching mathematics from a computer science viewpoint, this book defines ways of calculating the results of applying the operators, then shows how they satisfy various properties. The comprehensive text is supplemented with summaries, proofs and exercises.

This book explains aspects of transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffractometry that are important for characterization of materials. The 4th edition adds new techniques such as electron tomography, nanobeam diffraction and geometric phase analysis.

This book examines for the first time, the ways that in-memory computing is changing the way businesses are run. The authors describe techniques that allow analytical and transactional processing at the speed of thought and enable new ways of doing business.

This book presents a practical review of numerical tools applied to structural dynamic analysis of moving inertial loads. The material offered here enables readers to work with complex structures such as frames, grids, shells and three-dimensional objects.

This vastly expanded 2nd edition contains all the new developments since 1985. It describes significant new phenolic resin chemistry, new applications with up-to-date developments, and includes detailed standardized test methods important for ISO 9001 ff certification.

This book deals with methods for solving nonstiff ordinary differential equations. The reader will benefit from many illustrations, a historical and didactic approach, and computer programs. This new edition has been rewritten and new material has been included.

Aiming at a better understanding of power system harmonics, this text presents a discussion of this issue, providing a quantitative analysis when possible.

This is due to the stringent operating conditions and widely varying specifications - a drive may alternately require control of torque, acceleration, speed or position - and the fact that most electric drives have - in contrast to chem ical or thermal processes - well defined structures and consistent dynamic characteristics.

This concise guide to a vast field punches above its weight with its streamlined presentation of the full spectrum of subfields such as elasticity, rheology and thermoelectricity alongside core coverage of the governing principles of continuum physics.

This comprehensive book covers both long-standing results in the theory of polynomials and recent developments. After initial chapters on the location and separation of roots and on irreducibility criteria, the book covers more specialized polynomials.

This two volume work on Positivity in Algebraic Geometry contains a contemporary account of a body of work in complex algebraic geometry loosely centered around the theme of positivity.

- Not only written by experts but the content of each of the chapters has also been peer-reviewed. - Presents a step-by-step approach to the treatment of chronic wounds. - For dermatologists, but also many other medical disciplines such as general practitioners and family physicians who also treat chronic wounds.

This book discusses knotted surfaces in 4-dimensional space and surveys many of the known results, including knotted surface diagrams, constructions of knotted surfaces, classically defined invariants, and new invariants defined via quandle homology theory.

A clear and methodical guide to implementing 'lean' management, describing each step in a distinctive method-based 'European' process that contrasts with tools-based Japanese systems. Case studies from a range of industries provide invaluable real-world models.

This thoroughly revised second edition includes a brand new chapter devoted to volatility risk. As a consequence, hedging of plain-vanilla options and valuation of exotic options are no longer limited to the Black-Scholes framework with constant volatility.

This outstanding thesis charts the links between a molecule's shape and its photochemical reactivity, which has highly truncated excited states radically different to those in ground-state chemistry. Its novel use of bichromophoric interactions is promising.

This book offers a detailed overview of materials and components for noise control and acoustical comfort, with examples for spatial acoustics, free-field test facilities and canal linings. Includes interference absorbers, active resonators and more.

It naturally splits into two parts: The first part is intended for undergraduate students majoring in mathematics, statistics, econometrics or biometrics whereas the second part is intended to be used by master and PhD students or researchers.

Roman law forms a vital part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America, East Asia and other parts of the world.

Addresses the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy. This title provides access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.

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Skin, the most accessible part of a child suffering physical abuse, is also the most injured. Yet some dermatological disorders closely resemble intentional injuries. This book details the cutaneous signs of violent trauma and offers vital diagnostic guidance.

These groups are highly vulnerable toclimate change due to their dependence on natural resources Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats.

This book covers treatment and correction of scars by type: atrophic and stretch marks, keloid and hypertrophic, normotrophic, and mixed scars. Reviews invasive and minimally invasive procedures and results, and includes numerous high-quality photographs.

This book explores the finishing of substrates with a functionalising coating, focusing on technical textiles. Covers a variety of substrates and coating materials, process engineering and equipment components as well as complex machinery.

This atlas aids in the differential diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections, benign dermatological genital lesions and premalignant and malignant disorders. 700 full-color figures show common disease presentations, with text describing clinical cases.

This book explores a novel method developed by the authors that incorporates subject studies, MRI, 3D-CAD-reconstruction, continuum mechanics and more to model the interaction of soft tissue with systems like medical bedding, automotive and airline seating.

Presenting basic concepts and standard procedures, this book covers identification of unknown individuals, forensic dentistry in mass disasters and multiple fatality cases, dental evidence in child abuse investigations and analysis of bite mark evidence.