This handy guide is packed full of information to support medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals in making an accurate diagnosis in relation to different presenting complaints. Now in its fifth edition, the Pocketbook takes the reader through the key steps of narrowing a differential diagnosis, including history, examination and investigation findings. It has been fully updated to cover the full range of common presenting problems facing clinicians today. This book is easy-to-read and logical, making it useful for all clinicians within a variety of settings, from the classroom to emergency department and primary care. This Fifth Edition covers 125 common presenting problems in both medicine and surgery in a consistent format. Each topic includes a list of all potential causes of the condition, colour coded to indicate common, occasional or rare causes. Important geographical variations are also highlighted. Two sections cover the differential diagnosis of biochemical and haematological disorders which provide a ready check when reviewing abnormal results The text includes a targeted guide to the relevant general and specific follow-up investigations which should be carried out as appropriate. Each topic ends with a box highlighting important learning points, or indicating symptom and signs suggestive of significant pathology which require urgent action. A new authorial team have thoroughly revised the contents and ensured the coverage is entirely appropriate for the book's readership.

Pharmaceutical wastewater is now a major concern due to the improper legislation around the globe and the poor implementation of existing laws. This book covers the various aspects of pharmaceutical sources, treatment technologies, and the harmful effect on the natural environment. The book will also highlight the concept of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) as applied to the treatment and resource recovery systems for pharmaceutical treatment. The different innovative technologies will deal with reducing the energy requirements, the physical space requirements and impacts of treatment plants . Some case studies are included in order to fully understand the practical aspects of the treatment and modelling.

Numerical simulations of flow induced vibration has gained a great of attention over the past decade. With the advancement in the field of aero-elasticity it is now possible to obtain computational prediction of vibrations due to the flow conditions. However challenges are due to complexities in the description of flow physics and non-linearity.

Middleware eases the development of distributed applications. Expansion in the enterprise world entails integration of heterogeneous products, and there is a demand for a balance between performance, interoperability and security in the distributed applications. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) offers a technology to build service-oriented, secure, reliable and interoperable distributed applications. The current literature contains few studies comparing the performance of WCF with other technologies, but it does not address the performance of WCF in a cross-technology communication. This book experimentally evaluates the performance of WCF in unsecure and secure variants. It evaluates the performance in on-machine and cross-machine communication, and it addresses the performance of WCF's interoperability with ASMX and Java clients. The experiments are conducted using client and service applications in a laboratory setting. We have measured the performance in terms of throughput, response time, processor and memory utilization during the experiments.The book should help the research/industry practitioners to understand the efficient technology and promote the research flow.

Recent advancements in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems have augmented research in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) capable of providing unprecedented high precision and high fidelity sensory data. Success of a deployed WSN largely depends on whether the network can provide desired sensory area coverage with acceptable network lifetime. This task becomes even more challenging if we consider the constraints of wireless sensor networks such as low processing power and bandwidth, limited memory and battery life, and short radio ranges. This book addresses the problem of area coverage estimation and enhancement in its entirety from deployment to the operational stage of network. A hybrid sensor network, where only a few of the nodes are mobility capable is proposed to reduce the overall cost of the network while providing the necessary re- configuration capabilities to reach an adequate coverage level. This book provides design and evaluation of pragmatic solutions that would help lower the technical barriers in the real world deployment of long-lived hybrid WSN.