Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: From Simple to Complex edited by Alexander N. Sencha, Yury N. Patrunov
English | June 29, 2022 | ISBN: 3030917630 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 425 MB
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis of a wide variety of pathologies. Sonography reliably identifies a wide range of diseases, and the efficacy of modern ultrasound has dramatically improved with contrast enhancement.

Contemporary Skull Base Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide to Functional Preservation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030993205 | 800 Pages | PDF (True) | 69 MB
This text is designed to function as a comprehensive guide/companion that will not only facilitate the decision-making process for the surgeon, but also help young surgeons build a successful career in skull base surgery. It is divided into six main sections:

Elaine Kelly, "Confronting the National in the Musical Past"
English | ISBN: 0367591308 | 2020 | 214 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis, therefore, is not so much on how national culture has been constructed, or how national cultural institutions have influenced musical production, but, rather, on the way the national has been challenged by musical practices or audience reception.

Confronting Mainstream Economics for Overcoming Capitalism
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303105850X | 497 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This book provides analytical arguments that demonstrate the necessity to go beyond not only mainstream economics but also, and especially, the capitalist economy itself. It provides a radical critique of mainstream economics, comparing it to an unscientific form of single thought, and applies this criticism to the specific fields of growth, development, the institutions, defense, or the environment. It targets both neoclassical economics and reformist "soft heterodox" currents, from neoinstitutionalists to neo-Keynesians―including Thomas Piketty or Amartya Sen, among others. In doing so, it rejects Keynes' theories of money, the crisis, and the state. It then offers a Marxist interpretation of the current crisis of capitalism, considering it as a systemic crisis without solutions internal to its own logic and dynamics, and emphasizes the links between this capitalist crisis and imperialist wars, and the destruction of the environment and natural resources by capital. The book concludes by arguing that we must find the necessary theoretical and practical alternatives in a Marxist perspective, advocating for socialist transitions away from the capitalist economy to protect humanity and the environment.

Confidential informant : law enforcement's most valuable tool By John Madinger
2000 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 0849307090 | PDF | 3 MB
While television super sleuths like Columbo and Quincy are famous for solving crimes through brilliant deductions and scientific evidence, in reality it is the use of informants that leads to the arrests and convictions of more criminals than any other investigative technique in law enforcement. This book explores the covert and clandestine world of informants -- revealing the secrets of how to find them and make the most out of them, while at the same time, avoiding the pitfalls of dealing with them. It examines all aspects of informant development and management, from the motivation of the informant to the legal problems that accompany the use of informants in criminal cases.

Computers Helping People with Special Needs : 18th International Conference, ICCHP-AAATE 2022, Lecco, Italy, July 11-15, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
by Klaus Miesenberger, Georgios Kouroupetroglou
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031086449 | 561 Pages | True ePUB | 51.6 MB

Computers Helping People with Special Needs : 18th International Conference, ICCHP-AAATE 2022, Lecco, Italy, July 11-15, 2022, Proceedings, Part I
by Klaus Miesenberger, Georgios Kouroupetroglou
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031086473 | 573 Pages | True ePUB | 52.5 MB

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2018: 18th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 2-5, 2018, Proceedings, Part V by Osvaldo Gervasi
English | PDF | 2018 | 800 Pages | ISBN : 3319951734 | 103.8 MB
The five volume set LNCS 10960 until 10964 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2018, held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2018.

Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Robert A. Kowalski, Part I by Antonis C. Kakas
English | PDF | 2002 | 688 Pages | ISBN : 3540439595 | 7.5 MB
Alan Robinson This set of essays pays tribute to Bob Kowalski on his 60th birthday, an anniversary which gives his friends and colleagues an excuse to celebrate his career as an original thinker, a charismatic communicator, and a forceful intellectual leader. The logic programming community hereby and herein conveys its respect and thanks to him for his pivotal role in creating and fostering the conceptual paradigm which is its raison d'Œtre. The diversity of interests covered here reflects the variety of Bob's concerns. Read on. It is an intellectual feast. Before you begin, permit me to send him a brief personal, but public, message: Bob, how right you were, and how wrong I was.

Ivaylo Znepolski, "Communism, Science and the University: Towards a Theory of Detotalitarianisation "
English | ISBN: 0367895684 | 2020 | 330 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The book explores the intellectual history of Bulgaria between the 1960s and the 1980s at the intersections of the country's social and political history. Based on case studies, the research delves into three areas: the control and pressure mechanisms used on science and the university; the clash of ideas while performing the formal and hidden functions of academia in a communist regime setting; the processes whereby research and academia acquire a relative autonomy and alternative academic communities are being formed amidst the eroding ideological legitimacy of the regime.