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...

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...

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...

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 contains the extended version of the works that have been presented and discussed in the Second International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2015) held during May 23-25, 2015 in Kolkata, India. The symposium has been jointly organized by the AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland; Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy and University of Calcutta, India. The book is divided into volumes and presents dissertation works in the area...

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 ...

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the 9th International Symposium on Applied Computing for Software and Smart systems (ACSS 2022), to be held during September 09–10, 2022 in Kolkata, India. The book presents innovative works by undergraduate, graduate students and as well as PhD scholars. The emphasis of the workshop is on software and smart systems and research outcomes on other relevant areas pertaining to advancement of computing.