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CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference at Marseilles, 25–27 June 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...
by D. Abdel-Halim, D. Anagnostopoulos, T.A. Angerpointner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At first sight it may appear strange that a volume of Progress in Pediatric Surgery should be devoted to the history of our specialty. One assumes that progress is concerned primarily with recent developments whilst history deals with matters of the past. However, in the past there has also been considerable...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
The Encultured Brain
An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...
by C. Burri, K.H. Altemeyer, B. Gorgass
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The application of the caval catheter in emergency medicine and intensive care has today become routine. Generally, even in severe shock this route of access to the cardiovascular system is available in order to apply life saving volume substitution. It also permits longterm infusions in modern intensive...
Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needs
Guidelines and Procedures for Schools, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Essential for every school health office, this fully illustrated reference is the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. A comprehensive update of the classic guide school nurses trust, this authoritative book compiles the latest...
Lung Tumors
Lung, Mediastinum, Pleura, and Chest Wall
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series on the treatment of cancer is sponsored by the UICe. The editors and authors feel strongly that more standar dization in cancer therapy is needed on a worldwide basis. This, of course, is only possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy of making their treatment...
Skin Disease
Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Thomas P. Habif, James L. Campbell, Jr., M. Shane Chapman, James G. H. Dinulos, and Kathryn A. Zug, is the quick and practical clinical reference you need to help you effectively diagnose and treat 250 common dermatologic diseases. You’ll...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators and citizens considering reform of the outdated document.
Alabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most,...
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
by H.H. Scheld, U. Löhrs, K.-M. Müller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Increasingly, pathologists are being confronted with the effects of a number of complex devices on the body. Cardiac pace-makers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, ventricular support systems for the heart are well established, and vascular and other protheses are being used in increasing numbers....