Stefano: 1425 books

In vivo magnetic resonance spectrosopy (MRS) is increasingly being used in the clinical setting, particularly for neurological disorders. Clinical MR Spectroscopy – Techniques and Applications explains both the underlying physical principles of MRS and provides a perceptive review of clinical MRS...

Over the last two decades, the increasing use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has reduced the need for endotracheal ventilation, thus decreasing the rate of ventilation-induced complications. Thus, NIV has decreased both intubation rates and mortality rates in specific subsets of patients with acute...

Nuclear Medicine has greatly contributed to the diagnosis and treament of neuroendocrine neoplasms. This issue of PET Clinics will focus not only on the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, but also theranostics. Topics include SPECT and other PET tracers, F-DOPA, Ga-DOTA-peptides, Yttrium-...

This book provides a rapid overview of crosslinking protocols and the therapeutic guidelines to optimize the application according to patients age and ectasia staging. This book is unique in the field of crosslinking therapy, as it gives the readers a complete guide for their daily practice to understand...

Usually “fat” is synonymous of “bad”: LDL, HLD, Triglycerides, cholesterol… are all a kind of nightmare for everyone. We always put on eye at lipid and fat percentage of all kind of food, we run and run to burn fat, we go on gym and make the most strange kind of diet. This...

This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years. It shows how the focus has progressively moved away from the technical approach that characterized early ICUs to a wider personalization of patient care that also highlights...

In those years, Europe was full of bonfires committed to make a clean sweep of witches. At the same time a young scientist: Sybilla Merian, daughter of the well-known German engraver Matthaeus Merian, was instead committed to studying, and illustrating the microscopic world of insects, caterpillars...

La battaglia di Berlino (in tedesco Schlacht um Berlin, in russo Берлинская наступательная операция) fu lo scontro finale del teatro europeo della seconda guerra mondiale. A partire dal 16 aprile 1945, l’Armata Rossa sferrò il grande attacco sulla linea dell’Oder...

La sociedad del siglo XXI demanda nuevas vías de solución de conflictos que ofrezcan al ciudadano una respuesta más rápida, eficaz y satisfactoria, y es en este marco donde la mediación en los últimos años se viene mostrando como un mecanismo especialmente adecuado para la gestión de un buen...

With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one way of...

Il libro intende agevolare la conoscenza dei Quattro Vangeli canonici mediante la loro unione in un solo racconto, ordinato cronologicamente, che per ogni episodio narrato da più evangelisti riporti soltanto la versione ritenuta maggiormente significativa, nel pieno rispetto ella traduzione CEI....

What is the dark matter that fills the Universe and binds together galaxies? How was it produced? What are its interactions and particle properties? The paradigm of dark matter is one of the key developments at the interface of cosmology and elementary particle physics. It is also one of the...

Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of theoretical and experimental contributions to cancer research from different fields of physics, from biomechanics and soft-condensed matter physics to the statistical mechanics of complex systems. Reviewing these contributions and providing a sophisticated...

Patrizia Mondelli, young scion of a wealthy family, is found dead in her car. Both the evidences and the autopsy show it’s positively a suicide.  Yet inspector Giorgio Bonomi tries to decipher the message the girl left at her side. It’s a shocking message – shocking and apparently nonsense. Apparently.