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  • Contemporary Review of Prenatal Care, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50-3
    • Sharon T. Phelan
    • English
    In this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, guest editor Dr. Sharon T. Phelan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Prenatal Care. Prenatal care can help prevent complications and inform women about important steps they can take to protect their infant and ensure a healthy pregnancy. This issue not only provides timely updates but also touches on current issues in this fast-changing field, including social determinants of health care, health care disparities, and advocacy for the underserved pregnant patient.
  • Polymers in Electronics

    Optoelectronic Properties, Design, Fabrication, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Zulkifli Ahmad + 3 more
    • English
    Polymers in Electronics: Optoelectronic Properties, Design, Fabrication, and Applications brings together the fundamentals and latest advances in polymeric materials for electronic device applications, supporting researchers, scientists and advanced students, and approaching the topic from a range of disciplines. The book begins by introducing polymeric materials, their dielectric, optical, and thermal properties, and the essential principles and techniques for polymers as applied to electronics. This is followed by detailed coverage of the key steps in the preparation of polymeric materials for opto-electronic devices, including fabrication methods, materials design, rheology, encapsulation, and conductive polymer mechanisms. The final part of the book focuses on the latest developments in advanced devices, covering the areas of photovoltaics, transistors, light-emitting diodes, and stretchable electronics. In addition, it explains mechanisms, design, fabrication techniques, and end applications. This is a highly valuable resource for researchers, advanced students, engineers and R&D professionals from a range of disciplines.
  • Concept of Zero Liquid Discharge

    Innovations and Advances for Sustainable Wastewater Management
    • 1st Edition
    • Vidya Shetty Kodialbail + 1 more
    • English
    Concept of Zero Liquid Discharge: Innovations and Advances for Sustainable Wastewater Management provides fundamental and in-depth knowledge on the need for ZLD and conventional and modern technologies, along with the various strategies available to achieve ZLD. The book covers various wastewater treatment technologies that lead to ZLD, integrated wastewater treatment approaches, challenges faced by industries in meeting ZLD goals, and solutions leading to cleaner technologies. In addition, it presents the state-of-the-art technologies and multidisciplinary research underway in the field to address existing challenges and provide future directions. This will be an important reference for postgraduate students in environmental science and engineering as well as high-level researchers, professors, experts and engineers who conduct research and practices in the area of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) approaches, sustainable wastewater management and related fields.
  • Women’s Mental Health, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46-3
    • Susan G. Kornstein + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editor Drs. Susan G. Kornstein and Anita H. Clayton bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Women’s Mental Health. Each year, one in five women in the U.S. experience a mental health condition. Many of these conditions affect more women than men or affect women in different ways. In this issue, top experts discuss new research findings in women’s mental health, enabling readers to make informed, thoughtful clinical decisions.
  • Crash Cards: OSCEs and History Stations for Medical Finals and UKMLA

    • 1st Edition
    • Ayesha Ahmad + 3 more
    • Philip Xiu + 1 more
    • English
    These unique new flashcards are designed to optimise the time medical students spend studying, re-reading and highlighting notes in preparation for OSCE examinations.The Crash Course book series has been a trusted favourite for generations of medical students having sold over 1 million copies internationally and translated in 8 different languages. New to Crash Course, these unique ‘Crash Cards’ comprehensively cover all the key scenarios commonly seen in OSCE exams. High yield patient cases, clinical skills, clinical examinations, procedures, and communication stations to cover even the most difficult OSCE scenarios.Flashcards are a fantastic aid for active recall and mimic the ‘grilling’ faced during ward rounds. These simple-to-use ‘Crash Cards’ will help you better manage your time, remember key facts, apply knowledge to practical scenarios – and pass your exams with ease. In addition, the printed pack also comes with access to the complete deck in electronic format, for even easier quick reference, anytime, anywhere.
  • Solid Organ Transplantation Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 61-5
    • Amir A. Borhani + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.
  • Fundamentals of Hydrogen Production and Utilization in Fuel Cell Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Seyed Ehsan Hosseini
    • English
    Fundamentals of Hydrogen Production and Utilization in Fuel Cell Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the complex and interdisciplinary issues surrounding the use of hydrogen fuel cells in the global transportation system. With a particular emphasis on the commercialization and implementation of hydrogen fuel cells, the book deals with production, utilization, storage and safety, and addresses the application of fuel cells in the road, rail, maritime and aviation sectors. For each sector, the book discusses the fundamentals of fuel cells, the current technical, environmental, safety, and economic performance, the main barriers to implementation and how to address themThis book is an invaluable reference for researchers, graduate students and industry engineers across the fuel cells and transportation sector, but is also ideal for policymakers involved in the energy transition.
  • 4-Membered Heterocycle Synthesis

    • 1st Edition
    • Navjeet Kaur
    • English
    Four-Membered Heterocycle Synthesis offers a comprehensive approach to these unstable organic compounds, providing a systematic introduction to the synthesis and reactions of all common four-membered heterocycles and illustrating different methods to prepare specific four-membered heterocycles. Four-membered heterocyclic compounds are known as a class of unstable organic compounds because of their strain characteristics, which make them very beneficial as precursors for the formation of a broad range of complex heterocyclic molecules and for synthetic elaboration.
  • Thoracic Surgery Atlas

    • 2nd Edition
    • Mark K. Ferguson
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Thoracic Surgery**Thoracic surgery has evolved substantially in recent years, with tremendous advancements in minimally invasive surgical procedures, novel techniques for sublobar resection, perioperative management, and more. Thoracic Surgery Atlas, 2nd Edition, written by Dr. Mark K. Ferguson, brings you fully up to date with all aspects of this fast-changing field. Comprehensive and highly illustrated, this general thoracic surgery text covers procedures involving all chest organs (lungs, esophagus, trachea, mediastinum, chest wall, and diaphragm), offering authoritative guidance on virtually any thoracic operation you’re likely to perform—from cancer surgery to management of a variety of benign conditions, including esophageal disorders, empyema, tracheal stricture, and much more.
  • Urban High-Technology Zones

    • 1st Edition
    • Ahoura Zandiatashbar
    • English
    Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography. Using a combination of advanced geospatial data-driven techniques with evidence-based insights, the book provides quantitative measures on high tech cluster’s social, environmental and economic impacts. While findings are from drawn cities in the US, the book’s spatial analyses, methodology, research conclusions and literature reviews are generalizable to cities around the world. Users will find numerous insights and guidance on the role high-tech clusters play in how cities reach their economic growth and social equity goals, making it a useful resource for academic research and policy guidance.