Die Bioinformatik ist in kurzer Zeit zu einer unverzichtbaren Grundlage für die biologische Forschung - insbesondere auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie und Genetik - geworden. Dennoch werden die fertigen Softwarepakete meist nur benutzt, ohne die Verfahren hinter den Methoden zu verstehen.

Offering expert recommendations and selected color illustrations, this guide furnishes readers with state-of-the-art information on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of AVMs. Offering a ultidisciplinary approach, this book spans a wide array of therapeutic options and surgical approaches with step-by-step presentations of each procedure covered in the text.

The failure to respect, protect, or fulfill human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justice. Practically speaking, however, we are still struggling to understand what this major organizational shift means. The term rights-based approaches (RBAs) has become so familiar that we tend to assume that it is well-understood and that it is a foregone conclusion that rights-based approaches offer more potential for sustainable impact.

Providing safe perioperative management for thoracic surgical patients remains one of the most consistently challenging areas both technically and intellectually within the specialty of anesthesiology.

This two-part issue of Clinics in Perinatology examines Cesarean Delivery, with an emphasis on topics of special interest to neonatal and maternal fetal medicine specialists.

Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with carotid disease representing an important contributory risk factor. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the pathogenesis and management of carotid disease with specific focus on the role imaging has to play in the early recognition of symptomatic and asymptomatic disease as well as the treatment of the developed condition.