This new edition is written in the same quick reference style as its predecessor to help clinical and basic researchers, as well as graduate students, understand hemodynamics. Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize, in a quantitative way and often with noninvasive techniques, the function of the heart and the arterial system, individually and in combination.

This book discusses group theory investigations of zincblende and wurtzite semiconductors under symmetry-breaking conditions. The text presents the group theory elements required to develop a multitude of symmetry-breaking problems, giving scientists a fast track to bypass the need for recalculating electronic states. The text is not only a valuable resource for speeding up calculations but also illustrates the construction of effective Hamiltonians for a chosen set of electronic states in crystalline semiconductors.

Dieses Buch klärt interessierte Laien über erstaunliche Fakten und Prozesse bei Medizin und Gesundheit auf. Warum würden wir ohne Schlaf sterben? Wie kommt es zum Jojo-Effekt? Wieso haben alle unsere Körperzellen im Grunde ihre eigene Nase? Warum altern wir und lässt sich das wirklich aufhalten? Wie entwickelt sich das Denken? Und warum kann ein Placebo bei der Heilung so effektiv sein wie eine Operation? Diesen und weiteren Fragen rund um verschiedene Vorgänge im menschlichen Körper geht die Autorin nach. Erfahren Sie von faszinierenden medizinischen Zusammenhängen – und warum wir doch natürliche Feinde haben, Schmerz empfinden, was uns aus dem Gleichgewicht bringt und unsere Stimme anders klingen lässt. Und wussten Sie eigentlich schon, was genau Intuition ist? Tauchen Sie ein in die Vielfalt Mensch und lassen Sie sich von Ihrem eigenen Körper verblüffen.

AI and Algorithmics have already optimized and automated production and logistics processes. Now it is time to unleash AI on the administrative, planning and even creative procedures in marketing, sales and management.This book provides an easy-to-understand guide to assessing the value and potential of AI and Algorithmics.

Learn how to build web applications from three Microsoft MVPs. After building the data application layer using Entity Framework Core and a RESTful service using ASP.NET Core, you will then build the client side web application three ways: first, using ASP.NET Core, then using Angular 2, and, finally, using React. You will be able to compare and contrast these UI frameworks and select the best one for your needs.

This unique text/reference presents a detailed review of noise removal for photographs and video. An international selection of expert contributors provide their insights into the fundamental challenges that remain in the field of denoising, examining how to properly model noise in real scenarios, how to tailor denoising algorithms to these models, and how to evaluate the results in a way that is consistent with perceived image quality. The book offers comprehensive coverage from problem formulation to the evaluation of denoising methods, from historical perspectives to state-of-the-art algorithms, and from fast real-time techniques that can be implemented in-camera to powerful and computationally intensive methods for off-line processing.

The 3rd edition of this successful textbook continues to build on the strengths that were recognized by a 2008 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). Materials Chemistry addresses inorganic-, organic-, and nano-based materials from a structure vs. property treatment, providing a suitable breadth and depth coverage of the rapidly evolving materials field — in a concise format.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Embedded Systems Technology, ESTC 2017, held in Shenyang, China, in November 2017.

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an analysis of the place impacts of investment, viewing ‘new money’ as a potential development opportunity, delivering a variety of outcomes for local landscapes and communities. After providing introductory insights into rural land investment and the measurement of associated impacts, ten case studies – from different European locations – explore actual investment motives and local impacts. The book concludes with a synthesis of investment experiences and an assessment of the transformative changes brought to rural areas by the flow of new money.