Explores Russia's re-emergence as a major actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus - a re-emergence which is limited by the involvement and influence of external state and non-state actors, including China, the USA and foreign energy companies.

In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Analysing EU policies and actions, this collection sheds light on the EU's role in managing crises and peacekeeping, exploring avenues for a strategic EU vision for security and defense.

Russia has recently re-emerged as the dominant political, economic and military actor in former Soviet nations. Kanet and Freire bring together a stellar cast of contributors to consider Russia's recent return as a major regional and international actor and its likely future policy toward its neighbours.

Contents:
1. Ethical and Regulatory Approval for Human Studies A. Warbick-Cerone 2. Instrumentation, Imaging, Data Analysis and Display A.C. Perkins 3. Good Manufacturing Practice in the Preparation of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms for Scintigraphic Evaluation M. Frier 4. Drug Delivery to the Respirotory Tract J.G. Hardy 5. Scintigraphic Study of Oesphagael Transit and Retention R.J. Dansereau, R.N. Danserau and J.W. McRorie 6. Scintigraphic Study of Drug Delivery to the Stomach and Small Bowel N. Washington and C.G. Wilson 7. Scintigraphic Study of Colonic Release and Absorption J.M. Hebden, A.C. Perkins and R.C. Spiller 8. Scintigraphic Study of Ocular Drug Delivery C.G. Wilson, Y.P. Zhu and M. Frier 9. Scintigraphic Study of Drug Carriers and Conjugates M.V. Pimm

The aim of this book is to provide clear and concise information about the safe prescribing of insulin both subcutaneously and intravenously. It provides information on the different types of insulin, the delivery devices, side effects of insulin and, most importantly, on rational dose adjustment.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of three workshops and an industrial track held in conjunction with the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nanjing, China in May 2007.

The 62 revised full papers presented together with an overview article to each workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 355 submissions. The volume contains papers of the PAKDD 2007 industrial track, that promotes industry applications of new data mining techniques, methodologies and systems, the workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications (BioDM 2007), the workshop on High Performance Data Mining and Applications (HPDMA 2007), as well as the workshop on on Service, Security and its Data management for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU 2007).

In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Analysing EU policies and actions, this collection sheds light on the EU's role in managing crises and peacekeeping, exploring avenues for a strategic EU vision for security and defense.

Russia has recently re-emerged as the dominant political, economic and military actor in former Soviet nations. Kanet and Freire bring together a stellar cast of contributors to consider Russia's recent return as a major regional and international actor and its likely future policy toward its neighbours.

Explores Russia's re-emergence as a major actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus - a re-emergence which is limited by the involvement and influence of external state and non-state actors, including China, the USA and foreign energy companies.

This volume contains the set of revised selected papers presented at the 21st International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2007), which was held in Estoril, Portugal, January 23-25, 2007. The conference series started under the name of Joint Workshop on Computer Communications, in 1986. At that time, it constituted a technical meeting for researchersand engineers on - ternet technologies in East Asian countries, where several technical networking issues were discussed. In 1993, the meeting was reorganized as an international conference known as ICOIN. Recent conferences were held in Sendai, Japan (2006), Jeju, Korea(2005), Pusan, Korea(2004), Jeju, Korea(2003), Jeju, Korea (2002), Beppu City, Japan (2001), Hsin-chu, Taiwan (2000), and Tokyo, Japan (1999). In 2007, for the ?rst time since its creation, ICOIN took place outside Asia, and we were very pleased to host it in Portugal. ICOIN 2007 was or- nized by INESC-ID and IST/Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal) with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Portugal Section-Computer Society Chapter, in cooperation with the Order of Engineers CollegeofInformaticsEngineering(Portugal), IPSJ(InformationProcessing- ciety of Japan), KISS (Korea Information Science Society), and Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Germany. The papers presented in this volume were selected in two stages: 1) revi- ing and selection for the ICOIN program and 2) on-site presentation review by session chairs or by program committe