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Advances in our knowledge of the pathogenesis and management of portal hypertension and its complications over the last 2 decades have been astronomical. However, most of the management strategies remain palliative and serves as a bridge to liver transplantation. Despite the availability of a number of books in the field of hepatology, portal hypertension as the main life-threatening complication needs a dedicated book to link between recent advances in research and current clinical practice. This book includes dedicated chapters on gastric varices management, ectopic varices management, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, portal hypertensive bilopathy, portal hypertension as a risk factor in nonhepatic abdominal surgery, idiopathic portal hypertension, and portal hypertension in pregnancy. As all other chapters, they represent updates on the recent advances and were written by well-known experts in such areas. It also includes a self-assessment section for evaluation of the level benefit obtained from reading this book. Many illustrations, tables, lists, algorithms, figures, and colour plates are included to serve the educational purpose of this book.
"An excellent book for those who are interested in learning the current status of research and development . . . [and] who want to get a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art." —E-Streams This book provides up-to-date information on research and development in the rapidly growing area of networks based on the multihop ad hoc networking paradigm. It reviews all classes of networks that have successfully adopted this paradigm, pointing out how they penetrated the mass market and sparked breakthrough research. Covering both physical issues and applications, Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions offers useful tools for professionals and researchers in diverse areas...
This guide to multicasting routing explains the complexities of this growing technology. It provides an overview of the current state of development, analyzes its relevant protocols, and shows how they work together. Real-world examples illustrate key concepts. Specific topics include: PIM-SM and MSDP, Any-Source and Source-Specific delivery models, building dedicated multicast environments, and IGMP and its various versions. A glossary defines key terms and important acronyms. The authors are engineers and technical writers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Following the pattern of the Internet growth in popularity, started in the early 1990s, the current unprecedented expansion of wireless technology promises to have an even greater effect on how people communicate and interact, with considerable socio-economic impact all over the world. The driving force behind this growth is the remarkable progress in component miniaturization, integration, and also devel- ments in waveforms, coding, and communication protocols. Besides established infrastructurebased wireless networks (cellular, WLAN, sat- lite) ad-hoc wireless networks emerge as a new platform for distributed applications and for personal communication in scenarios where deploying infrastr...
This valuable handbook is a comprehensive compilation of state-of-art advances on security in computer networks. More than 40 internationally recognized authorities in the field of security and networks contribute articles in their areas of expertise. These international researchers and practitioners are from highly-respected universities, renowned research institutions and IT companies from all over the world. Each self-contained chapter covers one essential research topic on security in computer networks. Through the efforts of all the authors, all chapters are written in a uniformed style; each containing a comprehensive overview, the latest pioneering work and future research direction of a research topic.
This volume contains the papers presented at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2005), which took place in Marina del Rey, California, from June 30 to July 1, 2005.
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
This Book. The image of the West in contemporary Arab culture is distorted and devoid of friendliness because those who painted this image lacked free and independent thinking away from dogma or the influence of the old dominant powers in the Arab region. It is difficult to separate anti-west and anti-Jews. Hence, Jews occupy a large portion of this book, since it is the easiest and quickest way to demonize the West. The book reviews the most prominent names that contributed to “Demonizing the West” within the Arab East, over an entire century. The list includes the names of writers, poets, translators, singers, and actors in theatre and cinema. They reflect the level of thinking of the ...
From fundamentals to advanced concepts, this book provides comprehensive technical coverage of this rapidly emerging communications technology. The first section focuses on modeling, networking architecture, and routing problems. The second section examines opportunistic networking technologies and applications. Supplying detailed discussions of key research challenges and open issues, this comprehensive resource provides a clear understanding of industrial and professional standards, communication architectures, network algorithms and protocols, emerging applications, and the latest experimental studies-including simulation tools and implementation test beds.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2005, held in Waterloo, Canada in May 2005. The 105 revised full papers and 36 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 430 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer networks, Internet protocols, wireless security, network security, wireless performance, network service support, network modeling and simulation, wireless LAN, optical networks, Internet performance and Web applications, ad-hoc networks, adaptive networks, radio resource management, Internet routing, queuing models, monitoring, network management, sensor networks, overlay multicast, QoS, wirless scheduling, multicast traffic management and engineering, mobility management, bandwith management, DCMA, and wireless resource management.