This is the first book devoted to the oral sedation of children in the dental office in order to facilitate their dental care. Written by well-respected and recognized leaders, educators, clinicians and researchers in the field of sedation, it reflects the latest evidenced-based practice and clinical expertise, provides guidance and offers an abundance of consistent and helpful tips. The book i…
In this thesis, real-time evolution of the nanopore channel growth and self-ordering process in anodic nanoporous alumina are simulated on the basis of an established kinetics model. The simulation results were in accordance with the experiments on the (i) growth sustainability of pore channels guided by pre-patterns; and (ii) substrate grain orientation dependence on self-ordering. In addition…
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current issues facing scientists working on delivering drugs locally and systemically via the membranes that line the mouth. The book describes the anatomical and physiological challenges of this route for drug delivery and how they impact the design of oral mucosal drug delivery systems. It also provides a detailed description of current ora…
The Chinese government has long kept tight control on both traditional and new media to prevent potential challenges to its authority. But, for better or worse, China has now reached a stage where it is difficult to exercise political hegemony through laws and regulations and the control of the mass media. China has become a global superpower and in 2011 surpassed Japan as the world’s second …
The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop. In common with general scientific investigation, new ideas, concepts, and interpretations emerge quite spontaneously and these are then discussed, used, discarded, or subsumed into the prevailing subject paradigm. Sometimes, these innovative concepts coalesce into a new subdiscipline within the broad s…
The main purpose of this book is to present some of the old and recent results on homomorphisms and derivations in Banach algebras, quasi-Banach algebras, C-algebras, C-ternary algebras, non-Archimedean Banach algebras, and multinormed algebras. In 1940, S. M. Ulam [321] proposed a stability problem on group homomorphisms in metric groups. In 1941, D. H. Hyers [133] proved the stability of a…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2015, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in November 2015. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 was "Back to the roots", focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary c…
In the analysis and synthesis of contemporary systems, engineers and scientists are frequently confronted with increasingly complex models that may simultaneously include components whose states evolve along continuous time (continuous dynamics) and discrete instants (discrete dynamics); components whose descriptions may exhibit hysteresis nonlinearities, time lags or transportation delays, …
Presenting a comprehensive discussion of the biomechanics, assessment, diagnosis and management of injuries to the elbow ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), including video clips of selected surgical techniques, this is a thorough and practical text for any clinician seeing athletes with this increasingly common injury. The book is organized thematically, beginning with anatomy and biomechanics of…
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