This is a carefully illustrated volume of surgical procedures. Well-known standard as well as alternative procedures in surgery of the stomach and the proximal duodenum are depicted with anatomical exactness. Possible complications, errors, and dangers and how to avoid them are discussed in detail. Each operative step is illustrated superbly and accompanied by a short, precise text. Both illustrations and text stem from the practical experience in the operating theater of the many renowned surgeons who have contributed to this volume. The book serves as an indispensable reference for surgeons; likewise, gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, and anatomists will find this volume of immeasurable value in their daily work.

"WOPPLOT 86 - Workshop on Parallel Processing: Logic, " "Organization and Technology" - gathered together experts from various fields for a broad overview of current trends in parallel processing. There are contributions from logic (e.g., the connection between time and logic, or non-monotonic reasoning); from organizational structure theory (of great importance for pyramid architecture) and structure representation; from intrinsic parallelism and problem classification; from developments in future technologies (3-D Silicon technology, molecular electronics); and from various applications (pattern storage in adaptive memories, simulation of physical systems). The proceedings show clearly that progress in parallel processing is an interdisciplinary goal; they present a cross section of the state of the art as well as of future trends. Furthermore, some contributions (in particular, those from logic and organization) deserve a broader interest also outside the field of parallel processing.

" Wer seinen Magen beherrscht, hat alle Organe ins rechte Lot gebracht." (PYTHAGORAS von Samos, etwa 580-496 v. ehr.) Die Chirurgie des Magens - uber Jahrzehnte scheinbar festgeschrieben - hat in unserer Zeit eine fruchtbare Belebung erfahren. Nach einer kurzen Phase unvermeidlicher Instabilitat wurde diese Bewegung Schrittmacher zu einem nun mehr erreichten Niveau neuer verbindlicher Orientierung und Stetigkeit. Wie so oft ist auch hier "das Neue in weiten Bereichen das bewahrte und wissenschaftlich gelauterte Alte." Die Magenchirurgie ist eine Operationslehre. Sie mochte die derzeit bewahrten chirurgischen Eingriffe an Magen und oberem Zwolffingerdarm "abgreifbar" darstellen. Orientierende Mitte sind Standard- und Ausweichverfahren des praktischen chirurgischen Alltags. Kernstuck ist das technische Detail. Die operative Technik wird in knapper Textfuhrung und in anatomisch kor rekter Illustration geschildert. Diagnostische und allgemeintherapeutische Vor- und Nachsorge, intra- und postoperative Storungen sowie die Moglichkeiten ihrer Vermeidung werden den Methoden adaquat dargestellt. Wort und Bild wurden wesentlich am Opera tionstisch entwickelt und an personlicher Erfahrung orientiert. Erfahrene in- und auslandische Chirurgen konnten zur Mitarbeit gewonnen werden. Alle Autoren haben sich fur das Hauptanliegen des Werkes - der Optimierung und Sicherung chirurgischer Techniken - engagiert."

Die jahrlich erscheinende Reihe HNO-Praxis heute bietet praxisbezogene Fort- und Weiterbildung speziell fur den niedergelassenen Arzt und den Klinikassistenten. Die Themen werden so gewahlt, dass in regelmassigem Turnus alle fur die HNO-Praxis wichtigen Bereiche je nach Aktualitat abgehandelt werden. Die zweifarbige Gestaltung sowie ein gut strukturiertes Innenlayout ermoglichen dem Leser ein schnelles Erfassen der Inhalte. Der HNO-Arzt kann sich mit dieser Reihe eine komprimierte und standig aktuelle Bibliothek der praktischen HNO-Heilkunde aufbauen, die ihm modernes Fachwissen und das notige "Know-how" vermittelt."

Since the end of the recession, the gross domestic product has grown slowly and unemployment has remained at a high level. While the economy is still recovering and in need of careful attention, there is widespread agreement on the need to look not only at the near term but also at steps that begin to change the long-term fiscal path as soon as possible without slowing the recovery. With the passage of time, the window to address the challenge narrows and the magnitude of the required changes grows. This book examines and identifies federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives which have duplicative goals or activities that may save tax dollars, enhance revenue and reduce the rapidly building fiscal pressures facing our national government.

General Information

This book will be number 18 in the list of titles within the CATA Series (Edited by A John Camm).

The aim of the CATA Series, devoted to cardiac arrhythmology, is to update the physician and cardiologist and all of those responsible for caring for patients with cardiac arrythmias about the spectacular developments in diagnostic and interventional cardiac electrophysiology. The introduction of techniques of catheter ablation have catapulted cardiac electrophysiology into the medical headlines.

Book Specific Information

In this book, well-known physicians, Bocker, Eckardt and Breithardt have put together a succinct and focused book that compliments the CATA Series well. Implantation of defibrillators has evolved dramatically since its introduction by Mirowski in 1980. Technological improvements in devices and leads included a gradual reduction in the size of the device, the introduction of the endocardial approach in 1988, the biphasic waveform and antitachycardia pacing in 1991, pectoral implantation in 1995, inclusion of DDD pacing in 1996 and the delivery of atrial therapies in 1998.

Since the first implantation, a huge body of information on the impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) on prognosis has become available, first as observational studies and later as prospective randomized trials. At the present time, there is a large evidence base from the several ICD trials, although it was not always certain that such a large body of ICD evidence would accumulate.

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and critical review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading authorities in the relevant subject, the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist with regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. Subject coverage of all volumes is very similar and publication is on an annual or biennial basis. As EPR continues to find new applications in virtually all areas of modern science, including physics, chemistry, biology and materials science, this series caters not only for experts in the field, but also those wishing to gain a general overview of EPR applications in a given area.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Volume 19 highlights major developments in this area reported up to the end of 2002, with results being set into the context of earlier work and presented as a set of critical yet coherent overviews. The topics covered describe contrasting types of application, ranging from biological areas such as EPR studies of free-radical reactions in biology and medically-related systems, to experimental developments and applications involving EPR imaging, the use of very high fields, and time-resolved methods. Critical and up-to-the-minute reviews of advances involving the design of spin-traps, advances in spin-labelling, paramagnetic centres on solid surfaces, exchange-coupled oligomers, metalloproteins and radicals in flavoenzymes are also included. As EPR continues to find new applications in virtually all areas of modern science, including physics, chemistry, biology and materials science, this series caters not only for experts in the field, but also those wishing to gain a general overview of EPR applications in a given area. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading authorities in the relevant subject areas, the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, with regular, in-depth accounts of progress in particular fields of chemistry. Subject coverage within different volumes of a given title is similar and publication is on an annual or biennial basis.

Audiologie - Otologie.- Kritisches zur Begutachtung der Larmschwerhoerigkeit.- Stoerungen der auditiven Wahrnehmung - Diagnostische Moeglichkeiten.- Rhinologie.- Aerodynamik der Nase - Physiologie und Pathophysiologie.- Hals.- Tonsillektomie - Indikationen und Ausfuhrung heute.- Sonographische Untersuchung der Schilddruse.- Allgemeine Themen.- Das atopische Kind vom Sauglings- bis Adoleszentenalter - AEtiopathogenese, Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie.- Autoimmunkrankheiten im HNO-Bereich.- Hyperbare Sauerstofftherapie bei HNO-Erkrankungen.- Die fronto- und laterobasale Duralasion - Symptomatik - Diagnostik - Therapie.- Fragensammlung zur Selbstkontrolle.- Antworten zur Fragensammlung.

High Resolution NMR provides a broad treatment of the principles and theory of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as it is used in the chemical sciences. It is written at an "intermediate" level, with mathematics used to augment, rather than replace, clear verbal descriptions of the phenomena. The book is intended to allow a graduate student, advanced undergraduate, or researcher to understand NMR at a fundamental level, and to see illustrations of the applications of NMR to the determination of the structure of small organic molecules and macromolecules, including proteins. Emphasis is on the study of NMR in liquids, but the treatment also includes high resolution NMR in the solid state and the principles of NMR imaging and localized spectroscopy.
Careful attention is given to developing and interrelating four approaches - steady state energy levels, the rotating vector picture, the density matrix, and the product operator formalism. The presentation is based on the assumption that the reader has an acquaintance with the general principles of quantum mechanics, but no extensive background in quantum theory or proficiency in mathematics is required. Likewise, no previous background in NMR is assumed, since the book begins with a description of the basic physics, together with a brief account of the historical development of the field.
This third edition of High Resolution NMR preserves the "conversational" approach of the previous editions that has been well accepted as a teaching tool. However, more than half the material is new, and the remainder has been revised extensively. Problems are included to reinforce concepts in the book.
Key Features
* Uses mathematics to augment, not replace, verbal explanations
* Written in a clear and conversational style
* Follows the successful format and approach of two previous editions
* Revised and updated extensively--about 70 percent of the text is new
* Includes problems and references to additional reading at the end of each chapter

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued. The current list of Specialist Periodical Reports can be seen on the inside flap of this volume.

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued. The current list of Specialist Periodical Reports can be seen on the inside flap of this volume.