This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and specific measurements such as pressure-volume curves and esophageal pressure. Step by step, reade…
This book gives a self-contained introduction to the subject of asymptotic approximation for multivariate integrals for both mathematicians and applied scientists. A collection of results of the Laplace methods is given. Such methods are useful for example in reliability, statistics, theoretical physics and information theory. An important special case is the approximation of multidimensional n…
This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and specific measurements such as pressure-volume curves and esophageal pressure. Step by step, reade…
Was, warum, wie, wer und wann? Anhand dieser W-Fragen werden wichtige Methoden und Zusammenhänge zur Planung und Steuerung von Projekten vorgestellt. Das erforderliche Methodenwissen wird dabei praxisorientiert und zugleich theoretisch fundiert auf der Basis jahrelanger Lehrerfahrungen und aktueller Standards vermittelt. Eine Liste der wichtigen Begriffe in deutscher und englischer Sprache am …
This superbly illustrated atlas of breast tomosynthesis covers all aspects and applications of the technology, which reduces tissue overlap and facilitates the recognition of small cancers. After clear explanation of basic principles of the technique, individual chapters address diagnostic criteria, indications, and use of breast tomosynthesis as a screening tool. The findings obtained in the f…
This book presents up to date debates and issues in the world of breast MRI with a very practical focus on how to incorporate current understanding of breast MRI into clinical practice. The book is divided into three key sections, all of which have critical impact for the breast imager: Techniques introduces the reader to the parameters of breast MRI from standard sequences to up-to-date cutti…
Hello and welcome to the Digital Citizenship Toolkit. Have you ever wondered if your phone is listening to you? Do you ever look to the Internet for the answer to a question, and hours later, find that you are more confused than before? Have you argued with a friend or relative about a meme? Have you been tempted to share your own thoughts and feelings online, but resisted for fear of trolls? T…
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century …
Dieses Handbuch vermittelt Managern in leitenden Funktionen von Unternehmen und Organisationen einen fundierten Überblick über die erfolgsrelevanten Aspekte des strategischen und operativen Marketing-Controllings. Ebenso erhalten Wissenschaftler und Studierende wertvolle Anregungen. Renommierte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis zeigen die bewährten Instrumente des Marketing-Controlling…
The role that marketing plays in guiding corporate strategy is crucial and yet it is still the weak link for so many companies in the process that bind the customer to the organization. This book looks at the marketing assets of a business, from corporate image brand names, sales and distribution networks to supplier and customer relations and shows how marketing becomes a powerful machine for …