In-depth study of internet-enhanced healthcare services Complete and thorough survey of the most promising e-health technologies Presents numerous real world examples Emphasis on international health-informatics topics, such as better access of states / countries to modern e-health technologies deve[...]

Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specif[...]

Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker, and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy. In this new addition to the Directors' Cuts series, Ma[...]

Presents an overview of the status of controlled/living polymerization, combining the synthetic, mechanistic and application-oriented aspects. This title is suitable for polymer and organic chemists, plastics technologists, materials scientists and chemical engineers.[...]

This book brings together various aspects of the nuclear fission phenomenon discovered by Hahn, Strassmann and Meitner almost 70 years ago. Beginning with an historical introduction the authors present various models to describe the fission process of hot nuclei as well as the spontaneous fission of[...]

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the countries in Central and Eastern Europe has undergone profound transformations. However, in most research on these changes the cultural dimension of transition has been neglected. This book aims to repair this deficiency, and presents case studies from former C[...]

The ship slowly approached the ferry dock at Galtby, stern first. A large crowd of spectators had assembled on the shore. That was on 31 May 1959. Many realised that they were witnessing an important event in the history of shipping. After this, nothing was to be the same as before, in passenger tra[...]

Interest in control of climbing and walking robots has remarkably increased over the years. Novel solutions of complex mechanical systems such as climbing, walking, flying and running robots with different kinds of locomotion and the technologies that support them and their applications are the evid[...]