TILTED is a bold, irreverent, and deeply informed look into the world of dysautonomia-told from the dual perspective of a doctor who lives with it. Dr. Khalid Saeed, D.O., brings both clinical authority and lived experience to this uniquely styled medical memoir, offering readers a blend of personal insight, scientific explanation, and defiant humor that's rarely found in health literature.The book explores the daily realities of life with postural orthostatic tachycardia ...

Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Sense of Humor).When Dr. Khalid Saeed, D.O.-a board-certified physician and certified snack enthusiast-diagnosed himself with Type 2 diabetes, he didn't just tweak his diet. He staged a full-blown rebellion. Armed with sarcasm, science, and a blood sugar monitor that betrayed him regularly, he went from metabolic disaster to low-carb ninja. The Glucose Rebellion is a hilarious, hard-hitting survival...

THE COOKBOOK BIG CARB DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READIf you've counted points, cut fat, followed "heart-healthy" guidelines, or filled your plate with whole grains-yet still watched your glucose spike like a roller coaster-you weren't the problem. The advice was.The Glucose Rebellion Cookbook is your tactical guide to rebuilding metabolic health with real science, real food, and a dose of unapologetic snark. Written by Dr. Khalid Saeed, ...

Tilt Happens is a comprehensive, physiology-based guide to understanding dysautonomia through proper autonomic nervous system testing. Written by a board-certified physician who both diagnoses autonomic disorders and lives with dysautonomia, this book provides clarity where routine medical evaluations often fall short.Rather than relying on symptom lists or vague explanations, Tilt Happens focuses on measurable physiology. It explains how everyday stressors such as standing, heat e...

Authoritative, clear and concise, this highly acclaimed book continues to be an essential text for all medical, surgical and allied health professionals who are seeking a quick and respected guide to systematically reviewing the literature. The third edition features a new chapter on 'Publishing systematic reviews’ and numerous new case studies covering the latest developments in the field, including umbrella reviews, reviews of test accuracy, qualitative evidence and prognostic studies, a...

First published in 1998, this second edition includes the 10 published essays and 3 working papers collected in the first edition, as well as additional writings on sustainable development penned by Saeed and his students over the subsequent six years. Two of the original working papers were revised and published between editions and their published versions now appear. Lastly, the conclusion has been reformulated and the introduction contains insights from extended research. Part I compri...

The book focuses on an image processing technique known as binarization. It provides a comprehensive survey over existing binarization techniques for both document and graphic images. A number of evaluation techniques have been presented for quantitative comparison of different binarization methods. The book provides results obtained comparing a number of standard and widely used binarization algorithms using some standard evaluation metrics. The comparative results presented in tables and...

This Springer Brief presents a comprehensive survey of the existing methodologies of background subtraction methods. It presents a framework for quantitative performance evaluation of different approaches and summarizes the public databases available for research purposes. This well-known methodology has applications in moving object detection from video captured with a stationery camera, separating foreground and background objects and object classification and recognition. The authors id...

This book provides an insight on different types of hardware and software-based caries detection methods and their limitations from treatment perspective. The different chapters are motivated to address some of the important gaps in the prevailing approaches and suggest suitable solution to them. Overall, it helps the reader to understand the caries detection methods to identify interproximal and occlusal caries. This also assists the practitioners. The book identifies multiple research is...

Biometrics and Kansei Engineering is the first book to bring together the principles and applications of each discipline. The future of biometrics is in need of new technologies that can depend on people’s emotions and the prediction of their intention to take an action. Behavioral biometrics studies the way people walk, talk, and express their emotions, and Kansei Engineering focuses on interactions between users, products/services and product psychology. They are becoming quite ...

The book focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of communication technology, computer science and information security. This two volume book contains the Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. These volumes bring together academic scientists, professors, research scholars and students to share and disseminate information on knowledge and scientific research works related to computing, networking, and informatics to dis...

This book features extended versions of selected papers that were presented and discussed at the 8th International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2021), held in Kolkata, India, on April 9–10, 2021. Organized by the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology at the University of Calcutta, the symposium’s international partners were Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Bialystok University o...