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Intraoperative frozen section interpretation is the base for treatment for the patient within the operating room. It requires immediate answer for the surgeon's specific question and the subsequent consequences are frequently irreversible. The pathologist should be very familiar with the related differential diagnosis of the involved organ....

The insights of relativity have illuminated a century of astronomical discovery, often going beyond the phenomena that Einstein lived to see. This book shows, in nonmathematical ways, how deeply these ways of viewing the Universe have informed our interpretations of it, and how many of the amazing discoveries of these decades have made sense only...

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, AISC 2010, the 17th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2010, and the 9th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, MKM 2010. All...

Computer and Information Sciences is a unique and comprehensive review of advanced technology and research in the field of Information Technology. It provides an up to date snapshot of research in Europe and the Far East (Hong Kong, Japan and China) in the most active areas of information technology, including Computer Vision, Data Engineering, Web...

There is still much human effort needed to find and execute Web services. The authors lay the foundation for understanding the Semantic Web Services infrastructure, aimed at eliminating human intervention. Professionals, researchers and advanced graduate students should benefit from the focus on the most advanced SWS infrastructure, namely SESA....

The field of liver tumors in children has seen tremendous therapeutic advances over recent years. This has been achieved through a much better understanding of the biology of disease, improved diagnostic procedures, refined methods of pretreatment tumor staging, the implementation of highly efficient chemotherapy and surgery, detailed monitoring of...