Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap to learning the basic skills of orthopaedic surgery!Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship, and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for this audience and counterproductiv...

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world's leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning, and includes new or expanded coverage in several important areas, such as hypersonic flow, UAV's, and computational fluid dynamics. - Provides con...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2017, held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in June 2017. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.The workshop is organized in topical sections of theoretical foundations and theory of applications, namely: discrete geometry and topology; tilings and patterns; grammars, models and other technical tools for image analysis; image se...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 201st International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2022, held in Messina, Italy, in July 2022.The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are grouped into four sections.The first one consists of one invited talk. The second section contains seven papers devoted to digital geometry and topology. The third part consists of six papers discussing picture ...

Trans Biblical provides some of the most exciting new scholarly work in trans biblical interpretation to help us better understand our Bibles, our bodies, and one another in a fraught and fractious world.Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture offers a collection of wide-ranging essays exploring key issues animating trans biblical interpretation from a variety of angles and emphases. Contributors, who themselve...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2015, held in Kolkata, India, in November 2015.The 24 revised full papers and 2 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The workshop provides theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems from various areas of human practice. In contrast to traditional approaches to image analysis which implement conti...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2018.The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are grouped into two sections. The first one includes nine papers devoted to theoretical foundations of combinatorial image analysis, including digital geometry and topology, array grammars, tilings and patterns...

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Eight Edition provides concise explanations of basic concepts combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning. The book includes new examples in many chapters, expanded use of the "aerodynamics around us" boxes to help put the content into proper context for students, and more coverage and use of computational methods like...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2020, held in Novi Sad, Serbia, in July 2020.The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are grouped into two sections. The first one includes twelve papers devoted to theoretical foundations of combinatorial image analysis, including digital geometry and topology, array grammars, picture languages, digital to...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, CompIMAGE 2018, held in Cracow, Poland, inJuly 2018.The 16 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: digital geometry; digital tomography; and methods and applications.

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