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The accelerating power of deep learning in diagnosing diseases will empower physicians and speed up decision making in clinical environments. Applications of modern medical instruments and digitalization of medical care have generated enormous amounts of medical images in recent years. In this big data arena, new deep learning methods and computational models for efficient data processing, analysis, and modeling of the generated data are crucially important for clinical applications and understanding the underlying biological process. This book presents and highlights novel algorithms, architectures, techniques, and applications of deep learning for medical image analysis.

Valerius Herberger als Theologe des 17. Jahrhunderts und Pfarrer Fraustadts ist der Forschung zwar grundsätzlich gut bekannt, eine umfassende Bearbeitung hat er jedoch bisher nicht erfahren. Mit einem Fokus auf die Passionsfrömmigkeit, die sein Werk durchzieht, widmet sich Benedikt Bauer dem Kirchenlied „Valet will ich dir geben“, den Leichenpredigten und dem „Passionszeiger“ des Valerius Herberger. Auf der Grundlage von Überlegungen zu Affekten und Passionsfrömmigkeit in der Kommunikation des frühneuzeitlichen Luthertums sowie lokalgeschichtlichen Spezifizierungen geht der Autor dem Themenkomplex um Trauer, Tod und Passion nach. Dabei gestaltet sich die Passionsfrömmigkeit nicht nur als ein Verarbeitungsmuster epidemischer Situationen und der eigenen Mortalität sowie als Teil einer ars moriendi und ars (bene) vivendi, sondern kann als Zentrum von Valerius Herbergers Theologie bestimmt und als vitales und essentielles Element des frühneuzeitlichen Luthertums benannt werden.

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The overall goal of this book is to give the reader a state-of-the-art synopsis of the pharmacist services domain. To accomplish this goal, the authors have addressed the social, psychosocial, political, legal, historic, clinical, and economic factors that are associated with pharmacist services. In this book, you will gain cutting-edge insights from learning about the research of experts throughout the world. The findings have relevance for enhancing pharmacist professionalism, pharmacist practice, and the progression of pharmacist services in the future.

This reprint presents an extensive collection of research examining the multifaceted challenges and dynamics of land-use in rapidly developing regions, with a particular focus on China. It comprises 14 peer-reviewed articles investigating land-use patterns, conflicts, and management strategies in the context of urbanization and economic development. The collection explores themes including spatial–temporal evolution of land-use, carbon emissions from land-use changes, urban renewal impacts, and approaches to resolving land-use disputes. Case studies from the Yangtze River Delta and Xinjiang provide insights into managing land-use transitions during development. The reprint introduces methodological approaches, including vector-based cellular automata modeling, geographically weighted regression analysis, and frameworks for evaluating efficiency and environmental impacts of land-use. Attention is given to challenges such as environmental optimization of settlements, land-use conflict resolution, and integration of sustainability principles in planning. These studies contribute theoretical advancements and practical implications for policy-makers, urban planners, and environmental managers. The findings are relevant for regions experiencing rapid urbanization and seeking to balance economic development with environmental protection and social equity. This reprint serves as a resource for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers working in urban planning, environmental management, and sustainable development.

In 1967, a book by Guy Debord called "La Société du spectacle" came out in France, which after almost a year became the manifesto and bible of Generation 68, the 1968 student revolt, whose diagnosis of the then version of capitalism the youth considered the negative basis of the revolt. More than 50 years later, another book on the same subject appeared, growing out of an analysis of the current state of capitalism and its social systems, providing a diagnosis of this state. This book, a transcript of a dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon under the title "Liquid Surveillance," starts from the concept of the surveillance we are subjected to by large capital and market organizations of the GAFAM type.

This book presents the latest advances in assisted reproductive technologies applied to ruminants, such as multiovulation, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, and in vitro fertilization (IVF), which have been useful tools to accelerate the genetic progress in these species. The reader will find detailed studies on bisons, bovines, and goats

L’école normale William-Ponty, ouverte au Sénégal en 1903, a été pendant plusieurs décennies le creuset de l’élite politique et intellectuelle de l’Afrique occidentale française (AOF), une fédération créée en 1895 pour gérer administrativement huit colonies françaises d’Afrique de l’Ouest (appelées alors territoires). De ses bancs sont issues des figures prestigieuses et notamment ceux qu’on appelle les « Pères » des indépendances africaines : le Malien Modibo Kéita, le Nigérien Hamani Diori, le Béninois Hubert Maga, le Sénégalais Mamadou Dia, l’Ivoirien Félix Houphouët-Boigny et bien d’autres encore. Mais au-delà de ces cas célèbres, l’école William-Ponty a aussi accueilli des centaines de diplômés anonymes : plus de 2 200 entre 1903 et 1947, une toute petite goutte pour une population de l’AOF estimée à environ 16 millions de personnes à la fin des années 1940. Appelés « Pontins », ils sont instituteurs pour la majorité mais aussi commis d’administration, médecins et vétérinaires. Ce livre propose de jeter un regard nouveau sur un pan mal exploré de la situation coloniale : comment des centaines de jeunes hommes d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont, individuellement aussi bien que collectivement, investi, embrassé, contesté, transformé la manière dont s’est forgée l’appartenance à une élite instruite formée par l’autorité coloniale en AOF.

This book "New Insights into Toxicity and Drug Testing" covers all emerging technologies (profiling technologies, 3D cultures, next generation sequencing etc.), available methods and models to evaluate candidate drugs and medicinal plants with reference to toxicity, drug testing and development. This book is an original contribution of experts from different parts of the globe and the in-depth information will be a significant resource for scientists and physicians who are directly dealing with drugs / medicines and human life.

Female reproductive topics are very common and can affect the patient’s quality of life. Such topics include puberty, endometriosis, breastfeeding, subfertility, menstrual problems, polycystic ovary syndrome, problems during pregnancy, uterine fibroids, various benign and malignant conditions of the reproductive organs, various sexually transmitted infections, family planning, and contraception. Good reproductive health covers the physical, mental, and social well-being. However, to maintain it, women need to be informed and empowered to protect themselves through access to services that can help them have a fit pregnancy, safe delivery, and healthy baby. This book is intended to cover some of the female reproductive issues for all specialties involved in health care for women.

Este volume analisa a contribuição das missões de paz das Nações Unidas para a manutenção e consolidação da paz em Timor-Leste, bem como o envolvimento mais específico de Portugal nestes processos. Os contributos deste trabalho visam explicitar a multidimensionalidade que os sucessivos mandatos das missões internacionais foram adquirindo, os contextos em que estes se desenharam,os atores envolvidos, bem como as implicações que essas alterações tiveramna forma como Portugal se foi posicionando e articulando. Tudo isto tem por objetivo perceber o contributo destas missões e do envolvimento externo mais alargado, para a consolidação da paz em Timor-Leste. A explicitação de elementos visíveis e das dinâmicas invisíveis associados aos processos de intervenção permitem perceber as relações por vezes desajustadas entreo que é assumido ao nível do planeamento e a sua implementação no terreno, sublinhando a relevância de dinâmicas locais e da sua inclusão na construção de uma paz sustentável.

Studies on global human genomic variation have shown important population-based differences in allele frequencies of common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that influence the expression of genes related to nutrition and, secondarily, chronic disease. Some SNP sites have known functions or associations with diseases or other phenotype characteristics, including nutritional deficiencies and metabolism dietary components. There are many components of human diets that, when combined with the impact of diverse genetics on the metabolism of certain nutrients, have the capacity to give rise to harmful diet–gene interactions. This situation has the potential capacity to modify molecular phenotypes and clinical phenotypes, including human disease. Obesity, diabetes mellitus, chronobiology, osteoporosis, cancer, and many other diseases are fields of potential investigation in this topic area. This Special Issue will include manuscripts that focus on the complex relationship between gene polymorphisms and nutrition across all physiological and chronic diseases.

The present book analyzes the relationship between formal training programs and annual sales of Peruvian establishments considered in the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2023, incorporating business size as a comparative variable. The study adopts a quantitative approach, applied type, non-experimental design, transversal cut, and associative-comparative approach. The unit of analysis corresponds to the business establishment, and the information comes from the official base of the World Bank Enterprise Survey Peru 2023. The results showed a positive relationship, of low magnitude and statistically significant, between the presence of formal training programs and annual sales (ρ=0.235; p

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