"Essentials of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Application of Cardio and Peripheral vascular Diseases" is intended to serve as a clinical resource for healthcare professionals who evaluate and manage patients with cardiovascular and related diseases in various forms and challenges. The author strives to provide short, focused chapters so that busy practitioners can quickly find the information they need when facing specific symptoms and manifestations of coronary heart disease, hypertension, oth...

I congratulate the 100 successful new authors who have contributed to Seniors' Stories Volume 11 who embraced the theme, Then and Now inspiring the stories within.Your submissions covered our Australian culture both past and present with your historical tales and current yarns creating a rich patchwork of topics that evoke nostalgia and for our newer Australian readers, to learn how life was in our country since the Wars.The stories have exposed the many s...

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Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power.Given these new developments, we must rethink how we analyze Chinese politics-an urgent task as China now has ...

Rentt’s past has been laid bare, but our undead hero is not one to let bygone memories stop him from moving forward. He and Lorraine head toward the reason for his homecoming: the shrine that keeps the secret of Rentt’s divinity.Rentt’s old teachers, however, have a thing or two to impart upon him now that he’s back, and they’re not afraid of beating their lessons into him—literally. The village of Hathara hides a momentous secret, but if Rentt wants to discover the truth, the stude...

This book examines the presence and patterns of posttraumatic growth in selected biblical texts in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament to show how ancient Israelites interpreted trauma, particularly the fall of Jerusalem, and how these responses reshape biblical interpretation and theology.It offers a reflection on the theological and psychological implications of trauma in the Bible, ultimately encouraging a positive approach to personal suffering and crises. In the first chapter, Li a...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to model predictive control (MPC), including its basic principles and algorithms, system analysis and design methods, strategy developments and practical applications. The main contents of the book include an overview of the development trajectory and basic principles of MPC, typical MPC algorithms, quantitative analysis of classical MPC systems, design and tuning methods for MPC parameters, constrained multivariable MPC algorithms and online optim...

Mit der Reihe Chinesische Perspektiven sollen grundlegende Werke chinesischen Denkens einem größeren deutschen Publikum zugänglich gemacht werden. Mit dem vorliegenden Band, der anlässlich des 40. Jahrestages der Aufnahme der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen China und Deutschland verfasst wurde, halten uns die Herausgeber einen faszinierenden Spiegel vor. Der chinesische, auf jeden Fall gut gemeinte Blick auf Deutschland ist auch und gerade für uns reich an Informationen und gibt Anlass...

Im spurgeführten Verkehrssystem werden die Betriebsqualität und Kapazität der Infrastruktur durch Engpässe im bestehenden Netz stark beeinflusst. Engpässe entstehen dabei häufig in Infrastrukturbereichen mit komplexen Gleisstrukturen. Diese können durch ungeeignete Nutzung der Infrastruktur oder mangelhafte Dimensionierung und Gestaltung der Infrastruktur verursacht werden. Mit den in dieser Arbeit entwickelten Bewertungsansätzen wird die bisherige Beschränkung aufgrund der getrennten Bewe...

Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, Asia, and Europe examine both the prospects for China's continuing rise and the emerge...

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers dominated China's foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included lim...

Der junge Schwertkämpfer Li steht am Beginn seiner größten Reise. Um das letzte Geheimnis seiner Herkunft zu lüften, muss er sich einem legendären Kampf stellen – nicht nur gegen einen übermächtigen Gegner, sondern auch gegen sich selbst. Episode 11: Herausforderungen Ein Schlag im Gras. Ein Name, der nicht fallen darf. Hinter einer unscheinbaren Tür klirrt Metall – und jemand zählt Steine, die heller glänzen als Wahrheit. Masken wechseln, Schwerter werden zu Spielen erklärt. Während eine ...