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The development of new techniques as well as the refinement of established procedures has led to great progress in cardiac surgery. Providing an ideal synopsis of the growth in this area, Cardiac Surgery: Recent Advances and Techniques systematically reviews all the new developments in cardiac surgery, from transcatheter aortic valve implantation...

Alex Ross has made his home at Dynamite Entertainment for the past several years with the creation of his own universe in "Project Superpowers". Having produced many other illustrations for Dynamite comic books like "Green Hornet" and "Vampirella", and having reunited with his "Marvels" collaborator, Kurt Busiek, with "Kirby: Genesis", there can be...

This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Explanations of post-accession migration patterns, trends and mechanisms delve into the complexities of these phenomena. New groups of migrants and types of migrations are identified -- such...

In March 2009, the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, together with the University of Zurich, organized a seminar on Chinese legal culture. As a follow-up to this event, the participants and other scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America contributed essays looking at Chinese law through a variety of lenses, from its historical...

A 27-year-old Ghanaian woman presents in the emergency department with a three-day history of headache, nausea, and vague lower abdominal pain. She has no significant past medical history, but is eight-weeks pregnant with her first child. She lives in London and returned from a trip to Ghana two weeks ago. You have been assigned her initial...

A collection of peer-reviewed papers that intends to provide a forum where researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general area of Manufacturing Systems Engineering can disseminate research results and views concerning the future research directions of the field....