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Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat
by Anita R. Kiehl Maron Brown Calderwood MaysAtlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat is a diagnostic tool for determining if samples are abnormal and defining the cause of the abnormality, with 386 clinical images depicting normal and abnormal results, the book begins by describing specific types of neoplasia. Offers a brief overview of the methods used to produce a diagnosis and prognosis from a biopsy tissue sample Pairs photographs of biopsy samples with photomicrographs of cells obtained via fine needle aspirate Includes a useful chapter covering sample handling, staining, and shipping
Atlas Frühkarzinome des Gastrointestinaltrakts: Endoskopische Diagnostik und Therapieentscheidungen
by Frieder Berr Tsuneo Oyama Thierry Ponchon Naohisa YahagiDieses Buch präsentiert die neuesten Standards und Erkenntnisse in der endoskopischen Diagnostik von Frühkarzinomen des gesamten Magen-Darm-Trakts. Der Atlas skizziert die Techniken und Strategien für die Detektion und das endoskopische Staging (Vorhersage der pT-Kategorie) von kleinen und winzigen Frühkarzinomen und zeigt, anhand von hochauflösenden endoskopischen und endo-sonographischen Abbildungen, Kriterien für die Invasion der Submukosa. Diese validierten Staging-Klassifikationen werden mit zahlreichen Bildern, Graphiken und strategischen Algorithmen erläutert. Für die kurative Resektion – dargestellt an histopathologischen Kriterien – werden auch die endoskopischen und laparoskopischen Resektionstechniken mit Risiken und Ergebnissen dargelegt – was eine evidenzbasierte Differentialindikation ermöglicht. Die Auflage umfasst auch die Diagnostik und Therapieindikation von Neoplasien im Dünndarm, Dysplasien / Frühkarzinomen bei Barrett Ösophagus und chronisch entzündlichen Darmerkrankungen sowie von submukösen Tumoren.Dieses Buch – mit führenden Experten verfasst - entspricht der in Japan und international anerkannten Diagnostik und ist für Endoskopiker eine wertvolle Quelle, um die Kompetenz in Diagnostik und Differentialindikation zu optimieren.
Atlas Gebitsslijtage
by P. Wetselaar F. Lobbezoo C. M. Kreulen A. W. J. van PeltDeze atlas laat, aan de hand van casussen, zien welk behandelspectrum de behandelaar van gebitsslijtage ter beschikking staat.Gebitsslijtage is een multifactoriële aandoening die leidt tot het verlies van de harde tandweefsels (glazuur, tandbeen en wortelcement). Gebitsslijtage lijkt steeds vaker voor te komen en vraagt derhalve om zorgvuldige diagnostiek en behandeling. In deze uitgave, met bijdragen van een groot aantal auteurs, wordt de lezer meegenomen langs de grote diversiteit aan verschijningsvormen die gebitsslijtage kenmerkt. Na een algemeen inleidend deel volgen 47 casussen, uiteenlopend van eenvoudig tot complex, die worden gepresenteerd met veel foto’s en illustraties van hoge kwaliteit. Volgens een éénduidige systematiek (volgens het Gebitsslijtage Beoordelings Systeem, GBS) komen in iedere casus aan bod: diagnostiek (kwantificatie en kwalificatie), zorgvraag, reden om een behandeling te starten, keuze van behandeling, uitvoering van de behandeling, prognose, nazorg en eventueel onderhoud. Ook wordt aangegeven wanneer verschillende benaderwijzen van de behandeling mogelijk zijn, en worden de voor-en nadelen benoemd. Soms kan een zorgverlener zelf behandelen, terwijl in andere gevallen een multidisciplinaire aanpak noodzakelijk is. Het boek is bedoeld voor tandartsen-algemeen practicus, gedifferentieerde tandartsen, orthodontisten, kaakchirurgen, tandtechnici en studenten tandheelkunde.Een unieke bundeling van kennis en ervaring! Redacteuren:Dr. Hans van Pelt verdeelt zijn werkzaamheden over het UMC Groningen waar hij is belast met onderwijs in Orale Functieleer en PRO Rotterdam, een verwijspraktijk voor prothetiek, restauratieve tandheelkunde en orthodontie. Dr. Cees Kreulen is verbonden aan de vakgroep Orale Functieleer van het Universitair Medisch Centrum St. Radboud in Nijmegen. Prof. dr. Frank Lobbezoo is tandarts-gnatholoog werkzaam bij het Academisch Centrum voor Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA), waar hij in 2005 als hoogleraar werd benoemd. Sinds 2014 is hij vice-decaan van ACTA. Dr. Peter Wetselaar is sinds 2011 Chef de Clinique van de Kliniek voor Orofaciale Pijn en Disfunctie van het Academisch Centrum voor Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA).
Atlas Klinische Neuroradiologie Wirbelsäule und Spinalkanal
by Martin Wiesmann Jennifer Linn Omid NikoubashmanSicher Befunden in der Neuroradiologie!Die zweite Auflage des beliebten Atlas gibt zunächst im großen Anatomiekapitel eine hervorragende Übersicht zur klinischen Anatomie der Wirbelsäule und des Rückenmarks, mit vielen exzellenten, neu angefertigten Zeichnungen. Die nachfolgenden Kapitel beschreiben detailliert und mit über 1.000 Abbildungen sowohl gängige als auch seltene Pathologien. Mit den Neuerungen und Überarbeitungen der 2. Auflage ist es das bei weitem umfassendste und detaillierteste Werk zur Neuroradiologie der Wirbelsäule und des Rückenmarks.Neu in der zweiten Auflage:Über 400 Abbildungen wurden in der 2. Auflage erneuert oder neu bearbeitet. Außerdem wurden 40 neue Krankheitsbilder hinzugefügt wie z.B. verschiedene Motoneuronerkrankungen wie Muskelatrophien, ALS etc., bei metabolischen Erkrankungen wie Amyloidose, vertebrale Gicht etc. oder Tumorerkrankungen wie:Benigner notochordaler Tumor (BNCT), Leukämie, Lymphom, Mastozytose, Myelofibrose.Krankheitsbilder aus allen Bereichen:Tumoren und Zysten Verletzungen, Entzündungen und FehlbildungenDegenerative, vaskuläre und metabolische ErkrankungenAn die Bedürfnisse des befundenden Arztes angepasst: detaillierte Beschreibung der Morphologie anhand verschiedener Modalitäten und Sequenzen;hervorragende Bildqualität der Referenzabbildungen;moderne Schnittbilddiagnostik und konventionelles Röntgen;stichwortartiger Text zur schnellen Informationsaufnahme;ausführliche Berücksichtigung der Differenzialdiagnosen.Zum schnellen Nachschlagen aber auch zum vertiefenden Nachlesen geeignet, ideal auch zur Vorbereitung auf die Facharzt- und Schwerpunktprüfung.Die ideale Ergänzung zum ersten Band "Atlas Klinische Neuroradiologie des Gehirns" bildet der „Atlas Klinische Neuroradiologie - Wirbelsäule und Spinalkanal“.
ATLAS Measurements of the Higgs Boson Coupling to the Top Quark in the Higgs to Diphoton Decay Channel (Springer Theses)
by Jennet Elizabeth DickinsonDuring Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS experiment recorded proton-proton collision events at 13 TeV, the highest energy ever achieved in a collider. Analysis of this dataset has provided new opportunities for precision measurements of the Higgs boson, including its interaction with the top quark. The Higgs-top coupling can be directly probed through the production of a Higgs boson in association with a top-antitop quark pair (ttH). The Higgs to diphoton decay channel is among the most sensitive for ttH measurements due to the excellent diphoton mass resolution of the ATLAS detector and the clean signature of this decay. Event selection criteria were developed using novel Machine Learning techniques to target ttH events, yielding a precise measurement of the ttH cross section in the diphoton channel and a 6.3 $\sigma$ observation of the ttH process in combination with other decay channels, as well as stringent limits on CP violation in the Higgs-top coupling.
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders
by Joshua Foer Atlas Obscura Cara GiaimoFrom the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field guide–it's an adventure. From the curious minds of Atlas Obscura, authors of #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura, comes an unputdownable celebration of the world's living wonders. Learn how dung beetles navigate by the stars, and trees communicate through their roots. Meet one of the strongest animals in the world: the puny peacock mantis shrimp. Pay your respects to a 44,000 year old shrub, float along flying rivers, and explore a garbage dump overseen by endangered storks. Examine old examples of bird song notation written on sheet music. Also, first person interviews: hear from a honey hunter and his avian partners, a scientist working to find the world's only ocean-dwelling insects, and an offshore radio DJ who is at the heart of the local fishing community. Featuring over 500 extraordinary plants, animals, and natural phenomena, with illustrations and photos on every page, the book takes readers around the globe—from Antarctic deserts to lush jungles, and into the deepest fathoms of the ocean and the hearts of our densest cities. Teeming with detail and wildly entertaining, Wild Life reinvigorates our sense of wonder, awe and amazement about the incredible creatures we share our planet with.
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Atlas Obscura)
by Joshua Foer Dylan Thuras Ella MortonIt's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.
Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Atlas Obscura)
by Joshua Foer Ella Morton Dylan Thuras Atlas ObscuraThe bestselling book that celebrates wonder all around the world and in our backyards, now in an updated second edition with more than 120 brand-new destinations to explore, new city guides, and a full-color gatefold map.
The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide For The World's Most Adventurous Kid
by Dylan Thuras Rosemary Mosco Joy AngCreated by the team behind the #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura,The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth. <P><P> For curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria. <P><P> As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.
Atlas of 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography in Structural Heart Disease Interventions: Cases And Videos
by Ming-Chon Hsiung Wei-Hsian Yin Fang-Chieh Lee Wei-Hsuan ChiangUses over 500 to demonstrate various cardiovascular pathologies.<P><P> All of the delicate pictures were captured, reconstructed, and analysed by well-experienced senior physicians and cardiovascular imaging specialists.<P> All 40 cases are written in the uniform structure and easily readable way.<P>This book introduces classic and unique cases in 3D TEE in structural heart disease interventions. In each all the 40 cases, background information, clinical presentations, and diagnostic findings are present and followed by step-by-step approaches of interventional therapies and outcomes after the procedures. The highlight of the book is to utilize extensive illustrations, over 500, to demonstrate various cardiovascular pathologies. Most of the figures are 3D transesophageal echocardiograms, they are cooperated with 2D transesophageal echocardiograms, X rays, fluoroscopies, computed tomograms, etc. Since the echo images obtained in clinic practice are moving images, it also includes over 300 videos, which serve as a supplement to the static illustrations in this book.<P> The atlas is organized into five chapters. In Chapters one, cases received closure of congenital and acquired cardiac defects are described. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation and its complications are discussed in Chapter two and three. Chapter four details the valve-in-valve therapy. Chapter five covers MitraClip therapy. It offers readers an insider’s view of 3D transesophageal echocardiography in structural heart disease interventions and to refresh their clinical work.
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
by Craig ChildsFrom the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time.The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals.Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.
The Atlas of Abandoned Places
by Oliver SmithThe globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past.A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never-launched space shuttles slowly crumble, left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other.With remarkable stories, bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites, The Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell, the ones you won't find in any guidebook.Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long-lost path, shining a light on the places that the world forgot.Locations featured in the book include:Europe: Maunsell Forts, Aldwych Station, Paris Catacombs, La Petite Ceinture, Craco, Teufelsberg, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Red Star Train Graveyard, Pyramiden, Salpa Line, Buzludzha Monument, Pripyat, Wolf's Lair, Project Riese, Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track, Albanian Bunkers, Rummu QuarryThe Americas & the Carribean: New Bedford Orpheum Theatre, City Hall Station, Bodie, The Boneyards of Western USA, Bannerman Castle, Palace of Sans Souci, Montserrat Exclusion Zone, Ciudad Perdida, Humberstone and Santa Laura, Uyuni Train Cemetery, FordlândiaThe Middle East & the Caucasus: Kayaköy, Burj Al Babas, Varosha, Tskaltubo, Palaces of SaddamAsia: Ryugyong Hotel, Buran at Baikonur, Mo'ynoq Ship Graveyard, Aniva Lighthouse, Hô' Thuy Tiên Waterpark, Fukushima Red Zone, HashimaOceania: Wittenoom, Wrecks of Homebush Bay, Port Arthur, MS World Discoverer, Second World Remains of Papua New GuineaAfrica: Shipwrecks of the Skeleton Coast, Kolmanskop, Mobutu's Gbadolite, Mos Espa, São Martinho dos Tigres
The Atlas of Abandoned Places
by Oliver SmithThe globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past.A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never-launched space shuttles slowly crumble, left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other.With remarkable stories, bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites, The Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell, the ones you won't find in any guidebook.Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long-lost path, shining a light on the places that the world forgot.Locations featured in the book include:Europe: Maunsell Forts, Aldwych Station, Paris Catacombs, La Petite Ceinture, Craco, Teufelsberg, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Red Star Train Graveyard, Pyramiden, Salpa Line, Buzludzha Monument, Pripyat, Wolf's Lair, Project Riese, Sarajevo Bobsleigh Track, Albanian Bunkers, Rummu QuarryThe Americas & the Carribean: New Bedford Orpheum Theatre, City Hall Station, Bodie, The Boneyards of Western USA, Bannerman Castle, Palace of Sans Souci, Montserrat Exclusion Zone, Ciudad Perdida, Humberstone and Santa Laura, Uyuni Train Cemetery, FordlândiaThe Middle East & the Caucasus: Kayaköy, Burj Al Babas, Varosha, Tskaltubo, Palaces of SaddamAsia: Ryugyong Hotel, Buran at Baikonur, Mo'ynoq Ship Graveyard, Aniva Lighthouse, Hô' Thuy Tiên Waterpark, Fukushima Red Zone, HashimaOceania: Wittenoom, Wrecks of Homebush Bay, Port Arthur, MS World Discoverer, Second World Remains of Papua New GuineaAfrica: Shipwrecks of the Skeleton Coast, Kolmanskop, Mobutu's Gbadolite, Mos Espa, São Martinho dos Tigres
Atlas of Acquired Cardiovascular Disease Imaging in Children
by Randy Ray RichardsonThis atlas is a concise visual guide to the imaging of acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Imaging plays an ever-increasing vital role in diagnosis, preoperative planning, and postoperative management for children with these disorders. The book reviews techniques for lowering radiation, discusses protocols for imaging in children, and provides recommendations for the most appropriate studies that decrease the time and cost of imaging these patients. Focusing on functional and anatomic imaging with an emphasis on three-dimensional color-coded models derived from CT and MR scans, this book promotes understanding of cardiovascular disorders in children, including infectious, neoplastic, and metabolic diseases. Atlas of Acquired Cardiovascular Disease Imaging in Children is a valuable resource through which cardiologists, radiologists, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons, and residents can improve the quality and treatment of pediatric and adolescent patients with acquired heart disease.
Atlas of Adolescent Dermatology
by Patricia Treadwell Michael Lee Smith Julie PrendivilleValuable to dermatologists, adolescent medicine specialists, family medicine practitioners, and primary care physicians, the Atlas of Adolescent Dermatology presents a concise and practical guide to the diagnosis and management of adolescent skin diseases. Each chapter follows a similar format, to assist in ease of reference, and contains information on diagnosis and management. The various chapters include conditions such as Acne, Seborrheic Dermatitis, Eczema, Scabies, Contact Dermatitis, and selected Genodermatoses.
Atlas of Adrenal Surgery
by Alexander ShifrinThis atlas is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to single surgical procedure - adrenal glands surgery. The idea of this surgical atlas is to bring expertise of adrenal surgery to all surgeons performing, or learning how to perform successful adrenalectomy procedure, and to illustrate different techniques of adrenalectomy that are performed by different renown surgeons. The atlas illustrates several different approaches to adrenalectomy, which include more commonly used anterior lateral adrenalectomy and more advanced newer techniques of posterior retroperitoneoscopic and robotic adrenalectomies. This atlas emphasizes different approaches and ways to perform the same procedure. Specifically how the same procedure could be successfully completed by different surgeons with specific details of each technique. Each approach is presented by three different expert-surgeons illustrating three different techniques of procedure, including single-site approach. Different surgeons have different “tricks” on how to perform this type of procedure successfully. Each chapter presents procedures that are performed and illustrated by a different single surgeon. All authors are members of American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and are experts in this specific technique. This atlas includes 18 chapters and illustrates traditional open approach, anterior lateral right and left adrenalectomy approaches, and more advanced state-of the-art posterior retroperitoneoscopic right and left adrenalectomies (including single port procedure) and robotic adrenalectomies. The text includes extensive illustrations and links to video of all procedures making this an interactive text. <P><P> Atlas of Adrenal Surgery represents the first single source to provide information on technique and outcomes for a diversity of endocrine surgeons, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeons, surgical oncologists, urologists and general surgeons.
Atlas of Adult Autopsy: A Guide to Modern Practice
by S. Kim SuvarnaThisatlas leads the reader through the adult autopsy process, and its commonvariations, with a large number of high-quality macroscopic photographs andconcise accompanying text. It provides a manual of current practice and is aneasy-to-use resource for case examination for consent, medico-legal andradiological autopsies. Externalrealities and checks are discussed at the beginning of the book, which goes onto cover specific body cavities and organ systems in detail. The book ends withchapters on topics including forensic autopsies, specialist sampling, toxicologyanalyses and the radiological autopsy. Atlasof Adult Autopsy is aimed at practicing pathologists, particularly those intraining grades. It may also be of interest to anatomical technicians inautopsy suites, as well as parties with a legal interest in autopsy practice.
Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery
by Constantine Mavroudis Joseph A. DearaniThis atlas comprehensively covers surgical techniques for congenital heart surgery. As the population with congenital heart defects increases more and more operations will be required to treat the residual defects, new defects, and replacement strategies such as valve replacements. Chapters are devoted to specific conditions and feature detailed descriptions of how to perform a variety of appropriate reparative surgical techniques; involving complex anatomy, reoperative surgery, and unique techniques to this speciality, enabling the reader to develop a deep understanding of how to successfully resolve situations such as left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, anomalous pulmonary venous return, and anomalous origin of the coronary arteries. Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery provides a foundational resource for practising and trainee cardiac surgeons, nurses, and healthcare associates seeking specialist training and insight to the resolution of congenital heart diseases in adults.
Atlas of Advanced Endoaortic Surgery
by Stéphan Haulon Jacques KpodonuThere is no standard textbook at this time on endovascular management of thoracic aortic pathologies. Atlas of Thoracic Aortic Endografting contains clinical case scenarios as well as controversies to highlight the use of this new technology. The various aortic pathologies are discussed, combining etiology, diagnostic tools like intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and 64 slice CT scans which are all state of the art technologies, endovascular treatment, management of endoleaks, reinterventions combined with techniques of trouble shooting. This book highlights the new changes in the management of thoracic aortic diseases.
Atlas of Advanced Shoulder Arthroscopy
by Andreas B. Imhoff, Jonathan B. Ticker, Augustus D. Mazzocca and Andreas VossArthroscopic surgery has been one of the biggest Orthopedic advances in the last century. It affects people of all ages. Total joint replacement may capture popular imagination, but arthroscopy continues to have a greater effect on more people. This Atlas provides the most up to date resource of advanced arthroscopic techniques, as well as including all the standard procedures. Beautifully illustrated and supported by online videos of the latest techniques, this Atlas will appeal to both experienced shoulder surgeons as well as the orthopedic surgeon seeking to enhance his or her knowledge of shoulder arthroscopy.
Atlas of Advanced Shoulder Arthroscopy
by Augustus Mazzocca Andreas Imhoff Jonathan Ticker Andreas VossArthroscopic surgery has been one of the biggest Orthopedic advances in the last century. It affects people of all ages. Total joint replacement may capture popular imagination, but arthroscopy continues to have a greater effect on more people. This Atlas provides the most up to date resource of advanced arthroscopic techniques, as well as including all the standard procedures. Beautifully illustrated and supported by online videos of the latest techniques, this Atlas will appeal to both experienced shoulder surgeons as well as the orthopedic surgeon seeking to enhance his or her knowledge of shoulder arthroscopy.
Atlas of Africa: New Perspectives on the Continent
by Agence Française de Développement Dunod EditeurThis innovative Atlas of Africa, by the Agence Française de Développement, offers comprehensive insights into contemporary Africa through the use of full-colour maps, charts, graphics and text which demonstrate and explain Africa’s growing importance in the world and its demographic, economic, social and environmental transformation, while also outlining the challenges that the continent faces. The three sections, offering new perspectives on the continent, comprise: Taking Full Measure of Africa – examining the major economic, demographic, social and political transformations that Africa has undergone in a short space of time. A Multifaceted Continent with Shared Challenges – looking at the major intraregional economic, demographic, environmental and social dynamics that are currently shaping the continent. Africa Inventing Itself and Taking up the Key Challenges of Tomorrow – an overview of the challenges that Africa is currently facing and will need to face in the future, including the environment and climate change, social cohesion and demographic issues, economic development and governance. Full-colour maps, charts and graphics cover such wide-ranging topics as economic development, urbanization, education, the rule of law, gender, the blue economy, regional organizations, energy and culture, to form a volume which offers a wide-ranging overview in graphic form of Africa in the world today, of interest to all those studying, working in or with Africa, and those with a general interest in the continent.
The Atlas of African Affairs
by Ieuan L.l. GriffithsThe Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardised outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps. The basic format of integrated text and maps is supplemented by guides to further reading at the end of each section as well as a series of detailed statistical tables at the end of the book.
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
by Kate CrawfordThe hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom&“Eloquent, clear and profound—this volume is a classic for our times. It draws our attention away from the bright shiny objects of the new colonialism through elucidating the social, material and political dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.&”—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial, gender, and economic inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind &“automated&” services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Atlas of Airway Surgery: A Step-by-Step Guide Using an Animal Model
by Livio Presutti Francesco Mattioli Angelo Ghidini Sergio BotteroThis superbly illustrated atlas provides step-by-step descriptions of surgical procedures to the airways based on use of the sheep as an animal model, which has been demonstrated scientifically to be comparable to the human. The procedures covered - tracheotomy, laryngotracheoplasty, slide tracheoplasty, tracheal reconstruction, partial cricotracheal reconstruction, and main endoscopic techniques - are relevant to a range of frequent surgical indications, such as stenosis, laryngotracheomalacia, and tracheal tumor. The book is the first to describe such surgery on the basis of this animal model and includes a full description of preparation of the model. The practical guidance provided will equip surgical trainees with the knowledge required before embarking on these procedures in humans, but will also be highly relevant to more experienced surgeons wishing to upgrade their skills. The book is the outcome of a successful collaboration between the Head and Neck Surgery Departments of the University Hospital of Modena and the Bambino Ges#65533; Hospital in Rome.