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Atlas Of Complicated Abdominal Emergencies: Tips On Laparoscopic And Open Surgery, Therapeutic Endoscopy And Interventional Radiology (With Dvd-rom) -

This book is novel in that it is a single volume offering useful practical tips in the performance of the broad range of procedures used by gastroenterologists, interventional radiologists and surgeons in the current management of complicated abdominal emergencies and traumatic injuries. Emphasis is placed on practical tips which could be life-saving.The contributors are experienced staff members from the National University Hospital, Singapore. Through a step-by-step narrative and an abundance of medical illustrations, the contributors impart to the reader how best to perform and overcome difficulties encountered in the management of complicated abdominal emergencies. Learning is enhanced by video clips of procedures recorded live, in the DVD-ROM that accompanies the book.

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using Matlab (With Dvd-rom) - Daniel Green - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Keeping My Mandarin Alive: Lee Kuan Yew's Language Learning Experience (With Resource Materials And Dvd-rom) (English Version) - - Bog - World

Learn Mandarin while you brush your teeth or shave? Read how Singapore''s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew does it!A Prime Minister as an interpreter? Find out when and why MM Lee had to do it.For the first time, this towering figure of the island-state''s politics gives a first-hand account of H ow he has learnt Mandarin over the last 50 years and kept it alive. He also tells W hen and W hy he decided to learn the language, W here he got hold of the learning materials from, W hom he practises his Mandarin with and W hat spurs him on.MM Lee goes beyond these 5Ws and 1H in Keeping My Mandarin Alive, to share the agony of a mature Chinese language student and how he has overcome the difficulties — he strove to learn Mandarin only at age 32 (from 1955) and Hokkien at age 38 (from 1961).The comprehensive package also details how the English-educated MM Lee has been relating Mandarin to his master language in an effort to grasp the former and unravels how the latest technology has helped him in his quest.Edited by Dr Chua Chee Lay, one of MM Lee''s Chinese tutors, Keeping My Mandarin Alive comprises:

Clean Energy: Hydrogen/fuel Cells Laboratory Manual (With Dvd-rom) - Massoud J Miri - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This manual is designed for the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the fuel cells. The turn of the century has seen a realization of moving towards clean energy due to a variety of considerations ranging from global warming, anxiety to living in a healthy atmosphere, depletion of fossil fuels, oil slick in Gulf of Mexico resulting in disasters and so forth. Innumerable debates in the literature has led to the identification of hydrogen as the safest and efficient fuel over the other available fuels. This fuel can be used in two ways: a) direct combustion like gasoline and b) fuel cells. The use of it by the first method requires pure oxygen to be used for combustion; it is an expensive method involving oxygen storage and transportation. If oxygen is substituted by air in the combustion, it produces nitrogen oxides that are defying the definition of clean energy. The other method is to use it as a fuel cell for easy emission free transportation. Here chemical energy is converted to electrical energy directly in a fuel cell. To illustrate principles of related fuel cells, methanol and borohydride fuel cells are included in this manual. The nine experiments described here are designed for illustrating the concepts for the beginners and those motivated to go for clean energy.DVD displays the actual experimental set up and measurement procedures for Hydrogen safety; Fuel value measurement; Gaseous properties of hydrogen; Proton exchange membrane fuel cell assembly and Dissolved methanol fuel cell.

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using Matlab (With Dvd-rom) - Daniel (fermi Nat'l Accelerator Lab Green - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte

Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest For The Secrets Of Stradivari (With Dvd-rom) - Kameshwar C Wali - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd -

Cremona violins occupy a unique and storied place in violin history. This book contains a brief account of that history — the rise and fall of the Cremonese art of violin making that dominated over two centuries. It is primarily devoted, however, to the physics behind violin acoustics, specifically the research of William F “Jack” Fry over the past several decades. The gradual evolution of his ideas leading to a holistic approach is chronicled, in sharp contrast to the conventional “reductionist” analysis. With rare insights, he has come closer than anyone before in reproducing the tonal qualities of the great Italian masters. This historic achievement makes the book extremely valuable for violin makers and violin researchers, enabling young and aspiring violinists to own excellent sounding instruments with the acoustical marvels of the old at affordable prices.The accompanying video features Fry''s demonstration of how and why minute changes in thickness graduations make predictable changes in tonal qualities of an instrument.

When The Scientist Presents: An Audio And Video Guide To Science Talks (With Dvd-rom) - Jean Luc Lebrun - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the presenter-host. This book takes a human factor view of the presentation delivery, in which the audience is easily distracted, rapidly forgetful, and increasingly impatient.

Lecture Notes On Local Rings - Birger (aarhus Univ Iversen - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The content in Chapter 1–3 is a fairly standard one-semester course on local rings with the goal to reach the fact that a regular local ring is a unique factorization domain. The homological machinery is also supported by Cohen–Macaulay rings and depth. In Chapters 4–6 the methods of injective modules, Matlis duality and local cohomology are discussed. Chapters 7–9 are not so standard and introduce the reader to the generalizations of modules to complexes of modules. Some of Professor Iversen's results are given in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 is about Serre's intersection conjecture. The graded case is fully exposed. The last chapter introduces the reader to Fitting ideals and McRae invariants.

Electromagnetic Anisotropy And Bianisotropy: A Field Guide - Akhlesh Lakhtakia - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The aim of this book is to extend and update the standard treatments of crystal optics found in classical textbooks. It provides a broad overview of electromagnetic anisotropy, bianisotropy, and chirality. The topics covered are constitutive relations (Chapter 1); examples of anisotropy, bianisotropy, and chirality (Chapter 2); spacetime symmetries (Chapter 3); planewave propagation (Chapter 4); dyadic Green functions including depolarization dyadics (Chapter 5); homogenization formalisms (Chapter 6); nonlinear aspects (Chapter 7); surface waves (Chapter 8) and topological insulators (Chapter 9). New additions in this second edition are: Chapters 8 and 9, expanded treatments of active mediums in Chapter 4, and the Huygens principle and the Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem in Chapter 5. This book is perfect for postbaccalaureate students and researchers seeking an introductory survey of the electromagnetic theory of complex mediums.

Kenken: Lim-ops, No-ops And Twist!: 180 6 X 6 Puzzles That Make You Smarter - - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book will challenge seasoned KenKen players, enhance their solving techniques, and provide hours of fun puzzle play and brain training.NEW RULES ARE INTRODUCED ...... AND A BRAND NEW PUZZLETwist puzzles where instead of using 1 to 6 for a 6 x 6 puzzle as you do in regular KenKen, you''ll use a different candidate set each time. In one puzzle, you might use {1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9}; in another, you might use {2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9}. Different combinations will present exciting new challenges.No puzzle involves guesswork ... there is always a logical way in!This collection of 6 x 6 puzzles is perfect for any experienced KenKen player ... from beginner to expert!Hours of Fun, Challenges and ultimate Satisfaction!!KenKen is an exciting, mind-expanding puzzle based on ''The Art of Teaching without Teaching'', an ingenious teaching philosophy developed by KenKen''s creator and renowned educator, Tetsuya Miyamoto.

A Comprehensive Summary Of The Benford's Law Phenomenon: On The Unequal Spread Of Digits Within Scientific And Typical Data - Alex Ely Kossovsky - Bog

Numbers are written in our digital language system by conveniently and efficiently utilizing the ten digits 0 to 9 in much the same way as sentences and books are written in the English language system by conveniently utilizing the 26 letters A to Z. Surprisingly, and against all common sense or intuition, the spread of these ten digits within numbers of random data is not uniform, but rather highly uneven. Benford's Law predicts that the first digit on the left-most side of numbers is proportioned between all possible digits 1 to 9 approximately according to LOG(1 + 1/digit), so that occurrences of low digits such as {1, 2, 3} in the first position are much more frequent than occurrences of high digits such as {7, 8, 9}. Remarkably, Benford's Law is found to be valid in almost all real life statistics, from data relating to physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology to data relating to economics, accounting, finance, engineering, and governmental census information. Therefore, Benford's Law stands as the only common thread running through and uniting all scientific disciplines!This book represents an intense and concentrated effort by the author to narrate this digital, numerical, and quantitative story of the Benford's Law phenomenon as briefly and as concisely as possible, while still ensuring a comprehensive coverage of all its aspects, results, causes, explanations, and perspectives. The most recent research results and discoveries in this field are included within this book in such a way as to be comprehensible and engaging to readers of all proficiencies.

Kenken: A Puzzle A Day!: 365 Puzzles That Make You Smarter - - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book will challenge KenKen puzzle lovers to improve their puzzling, sharpen their logic and reasoning skills, and to just have fun by solving an all-new puzzle-a-day. It is suitable for ALL puzzle lovers, math and logic aficionados, and anyone who enjoys exercising their brain on a regular basis or who is interested in improving their thought processes.You''ll find a BRAND NEW, freshly ''Kenerated'' KenKen puzzle for every day of the year in this book. That''s right — 365 puzzles, ranging in size from 4 x 4 to 9 x 9, and ranging in difficulty from easy to advanced! We''re hopeful that you will find time each day to indulge in just one intriguing puzzle.You''ll also discover three different types of KenKen puzzles:KenKen, the most enjoyable and fastest growing math and logic puzzle in the world, is based on ''The Art of Teaching without Teaching'', an ingenious teaching philosophy developed by KenKen''s creator and renowned educator, Tetsuya Miyamoto. Give your brain a treat with these fascinating puzzles ... ... STARTING TODAY!

Mathematical Understanding Of Infectious Disease Dynamics - - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Dynamics and Control from 15 August to 9 October 2005. As part of the program, tutorials for graduate students and junior researchers were given by leading experts in the field.This invaluable volume is a collection of three expanded lecture notes of those tutorials which cover a wide range of topics including basic mathematical details for various epidemic models, statistical distribution theory, and applications with real-life examples with implications for health policy makers.

Lecture Notes On Calculus Of Variations - Kung Ching Chang - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is based on the course "Calculus of Variations" taught at Peking University from 2006 to 2010 for advanced undergraduate to graduate students majoring in mathematics. The book contains 20 lectures covering both the theoretical background material as well as an abundant collection of applications. Lectures 1–8 focus on the classical theory of calculus of variations. Lectures 9–14 introduce direct methods along with their theoretical foundations. Lectures 15–20 showcase a broad collection of applications. The book offers a panoramic view of the very important topic on calculus of variations. This is a valuable resource not only to mathematicians, but also to those students in engineering, economics, and management, etc.

Laser Spectroscopy - Proceedings Of The Xxii International Conference - - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

ICOLS features the latest developments in the area of laser spectroscopy and related topics in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and other disciplines. The talks covered a broad range of exciting physics, such as precision tests of fundamental symmetries with atoms and molecules, atomic clocks, quantum many-body physics with ultra-cold atoms, atom interferometry, quantum information science with photons and ions, quantum optics, and ultra-fast atomic and molecular dynamics. The conference program comprised 14 sessions with 9 keynote addresses, 25 invited talks, and 3 hot topic talks. The speakers came from 15 different countries. Ever since the ICOLS conference series originated in 1973, its proceedings have been highly valued by many for capturing important developments in the field and offering the room to represent various aspects of specific research topics. The present volume contains some of the invited talks delivered at the conference.

Computational Physics: An Introduction To Monte Carlo Simulations Of Matrix Field Theory - Badis Ydri - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd -

This book is divided into two parts. In the first part we give an elementary introduction to computational physics consisting of 21 simulations which originated from a formal course of lectures and laboratory simulations delivered since 2010 to physics students at Annaba University. The second part is much more advanced and deals with the problem of how to set up working Monte Carlo simulations of matrix field theories which involve finite dimensional matrix regularizations of noncommutative and fuzzy field theories, fuzzy spaces and matrix geometry. The study of matrix field theory in its own right has also become very important to the proper understanding of all noncommutative, fuzzy and matrix phenomena. The second part, which consists of 9 simulations, was delivered informally to doctoral students who were working on various problems in matrix field theory. Sample codes as well as sample key solutions are also provided for convenience and completeness.

New Methods Of Financing Your Business In The United States: A Strategic Analysis - Frederick D Lipman - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

United States (US) has one of the deepest pools of potential investors of any country. It has more than 33 million total investors, both accredited and non-accredited. It has been reported that over 9 million US households qualify as accredited investors, with a net worth of over &1 million (exclusive of primary residence). It has also been reported that, in US, there are over 700,000 “angel investors” who are willing to invest their own money in ranges of $150,000 to $2 million. This book will describe three new methods of raising capital from US investors which have recently been approved. It also analyzes strategies for successfully implementing these finance methods. This book is intended for entrepreneurs (both US and international) who are thinking of growing their business with outside capital from US. It will be of importance for all start-up and middle-market companies who are in need of additional capital to grow their businesses.

Raman Spectroscopy: An Intensity Approach - Guozhen Wu - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book summarizes the highlights of our work on the bond polarizability approach to the intensity analysis. The topics covered include surface enhanced Raman scattering, Raman excited virtual states and Raman optical activity (ROA). The first chapter briefly introduces the Raman effect in a succinct but clear way. Chapter 2 deals with the normal mode analysis. This is a basic tool for our work. Chapter 3 introduces our proposed algorithm for the Raman intensity analysis. Chapter 4 heavily introduces the physical picture of Raman virtual states. Chapter 5 offers details so that the readers can have a comprehensive idea of Raman virtual states. Chapter 6 demonstrates how this bond polarizability algorithm is extended to ROA intensity analysis. Chapters 7 and 8 offer details on ROA, showing many findings on ROA mechanism that were not known or neglected before. Chapter 9 introduces our proposed classical treatment on ROA which, as combined with the results from the bond polarizability analysis, leads to a comprehensive physical picture for the Raman effect. In particular, this classical treatment unifies ROA and VCD (vibrational circular dichroism) on equal footing. In each section, Comments summarize the key ideas and their evaluation. This will help the readers to capture the core ideas of the presentations.

Lectures On The Non-equilibrium Theory Of Condensed Matter - Ladislaus Alexander Banyai - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses in depth many of the key problems in non-equilibrium physics. Besides the standard subjects (Boltzmann and Master equations, linear response) it includes several new important subjects as well. The origin of macroscopic irreversible (dissipative) behavior receives an extended attention and is illustrated in the framework of solvable classical models of open systems (Chapter 3). The scaling relationship between the kinetic and hydrodynamical levels is described in Chapter 9. The QED of charged non-relativistic particles and its restriction to the states without photons to order 1/c² leading to the current-current magnetic interaction is discussed in some depth in Chapters 14 and 15. Bose-Einstein condensation in real time within the frame of rate equations, as well as soliton-like solutions of the non-linear Gross-Pitaevskii equation are discussed in Chapter 22. The presentation also includes the latest developments - quantum kinetics - related to modern ultrafast spectroscopy (Chapters 23-30).This second edition was improved, restructured, and enriched with new results from the recent papers of the author. Chapter 3 was largely extended and Chapters 14 and 15 are completely new. Chapter 22 has a new Section. Several new useful figures were added throughout the book as well.

Religion And Identity Politics: Global Trends And Local Realities - Mathews Mathew - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive. This edited volume seeks to spotlight the perspectives of academics and practitioners vis-à-vis global trends in religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism over the past decade. It presents a collection of works from notable academics and practitioners; including a selection of case studies from Asia to illustrate the contemporary interplay of religion, politics and identity; alongside broader global trends of religious fundamentalism.The chapters that follow attempt to trace the sources and factors that led to the dramatic rise in these powerful forces of faith, which influence societies and politics around the world. Together, they present a carefully curated narrative of the interplay of religion and identity politics globally and across Asia. The prevailing differences in demographics, history and the extent of ethno-religious diversity across country contexts are perused across each chapter, and the ensuing circumstances deliberated upon.As these circumstances change, the ways people interpret their identities, engage in politics, and navigate their religion will also evolve. How we manage the effects of religious fundamentalism must hence begin with an understanding of how religion, identity, and politics interact — and this is what the upcoming chapters seek to illustrate.

Religion And Identity Politics: Global Trends And Local Realities - Mathews (inst Of Policy Studies Mathew - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte

Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive. This edited volume seeks to spotlight the perspectives of academics and practitioners vis-à-vis global trends in religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism over the past decade. It presents a collection of works from notable academics and practitioners; including a selection of case studies from Asia to illustrate the contemporary interplay of religion, politics and identity; alongside broader global trends of religious fundamentalism.The chapters that follow attempt to trace the sources and factors that led to the dramatic rise in these powerful forces of faith, which influence societies and politics around the world. Together, they present a carefully curated narrative of the interplay of religion and identity politics globally and across Asia. The prevailing differences in demographics, history and the extent of ethno-religious diversity across country contexts are perused across each chapter, and the ensuing circumstances deliberated upon.As these circumstances change, the ways people interpret their identities, engage in politics, and navigate their religion will also evolve. How we manage the effects of religious fundamentalism must hence begin with an understanding of how religion, identity, and politics interact — and this is what the upcoming chapters seek to illustrate.

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 29: Cervical Radiculopathy - Claire Shuiqing Zhang - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd -

This 29th volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series aims to provide a multi-faceted ''whole evidence'' analysis of the management of cervical radiculopathy in integrative Chinese medicine.Beginning with overviews of how cervical radiculopathy is conceptualised and managed in both conventional medicine and contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed analyses of how cervical radiculopathy was treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture in past eras.In the subsequent chapters, the authors provide a comprehensive review of the current state of the clinical trial evidence for Chinese herbal medicines (Chapter 5), acupuncture (Chapter 7), other Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 8), and combination Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 9) in the management of cervical radiculopathy, as well as an analysis and evaluation of the results of these studies from an evidence-based medicine perspective. Chapter 6 provides a review and summary of the experimental evidence for the bioactivity of commonly used Chinese herbs. The outcomes of these analyses are summarised and discussed in Chapter 10. The implications for the clinical practice of Chinese medicine and for future research are also identified.This book can inform clinicians and students in the fields of integrative medicine and Chinese medicine regarding contemporary practice and the current evidence base for a range of Chinese medicine therapies used in the management of Cervical Radiculopathy, including herbal formulas and acupuncture treatments, in order to assist clinicians in making evidence-based decisions in patient care.

Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 29: Cervical Radiculopathy - Claire Shuiqing (rmit Univ Zhang - Bog - World Scientific Publishing Co

This 29th volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series aims to provide a multi-faceted ''whole evidence'' analysis of the management of cervical radiculopathy in integrative Chinese medicine.Beginning with overviews of how cervical radiculopathy is conceptualised and managed in both conventional medicine and contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed analyses of how cervical radiculopathy was treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture in past eras.In the subsequent chapters, the authors provide a comprehensive review of the current state of the clinical trial evidence for Chinese herbal medicines (Chapter 5), acupuncture (Chapter 7), other Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 8), and combination Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 9) in the management of cervical radiculopathy, as well as an analysis and evaluation of the results of these studies from an evidence-based medicine perspective. Chapter 6 provides a review and summary of the experimental evidence for the bioactivity of commonly used Chinese herbs. The outcomes of these analyses are summarised and discussed in Chapter 10. The implications for the clinical practice of Chinese medicine and for future research are also identified.This book can inform clinicians and students in the fields of integrative medicine and Chinese medicine regarding contemporary practice and the current evidence base for a range of Chinese medicine therapies used in the management of Cervical Radiculopathy, including herbal formulas and acupuncture treatments, in order to assist clinicians in making evidence-based decisions in patient care.

Integration For Calculus, Analysis, And Differential Equations: Techniques, Examples, And Exercises - Marat V Markin - Bog - World Scientific

The book assists Calculus students to gain a better understanding and command of integration and its applications. It reaches to students in more advanced courses such as Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, and Analysis, where the ability to effectively integrate is essential for their success. Keeping the reader constantly focused on the three principal epistemological questions: " What for? ", " Why? ", and " How? ", the book is designated as a supplementary instructional tool and consists of - 9 Chapters treating the three kinds of integral: indefinite, definite, and improper. Also covering various aspects of integral calculus from abstract definitions and theorems (with complete proof whenever appropriate) through various integration techniques to applications, - 3 Appendices containing a table of basic integrals, reduction formulas, and basic identities of algebra and trigonometry. It also contains - 143 Examples, including 112 thoughtfully selected Problems with complete step-by-step solutions, the same problem occasionally solved in more than one way while encouraging the reader to find the most efficient integration path, and - 6 Exercises, 162 Practice Problems offered at the end of each chapter starting with Chapter 2 as well as 30 Mixed Integration Problems "for dessert", where the reader is expected to independently choose and implement the best possible integration approach. The Answers to all the 192 Problems are provided in the Answer Key. The book will benefit undergraduates, advanced undergraduates, and members of the public with an interest in science and technology, helping them to master techniques of integration at the level expected in a calculus course.

Integration For Calculus, Analysis, And Differential Equations: Techniques, Examples, And Exercises - Marat V Markin - Bog - World Scientific

The book assists Calculus students to gain a better understanding and command of integration and its applications. It reaches to students in more advanced courses such as Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, and Analysis, where the ability to effectively integrate is essential for their success. Keeping the reader constantly focused on the three principal epistemological questions: " What for? ", " Why? ", and " How? ", the book is designated as a supplementary instructional tool and consists of - 9 Chapters treating the three kinds of integral: indefinite, definite, and improper. Also covering various aspects of integral calculus from abstract definitions and theorems (with complete proof whenever appropriate) through various integration techniques to applications, - 3 Appendices containing a table of basic integrals, reduction formulas, and basic identities of algebra and trigonometry. It also contains - 143 Examples, including 112 thoughtfully selected Problems with complete step-by-step solutions, the same problem occasionally solved in more than one way while encouraging the reader to find the most efficient integration path, and - 6 Exercises, 162 Practice Problems offered at the end of each chapter starting with Chapter 2 as well as 30 Mixed Integration Problems "for dessert", where the reader is expected to independently choose and implement the best possible integration approach. The Answers to all the 192 Problems are provided in the Answer Key. The book will benefit undergraduates, advanced undergraduates, and members of the public with an interest in science and technology, helping them to master techniques of integration at the level expected in a calculus course.