Comprehensive coverage of the applications & advantages of breast ultrasound in the evaluation of breast disorders. Topics include sonographic anatomy of the breast; sonographic criteria for the differential diagnosis of masses; appearance of inflammatory, benign & malignant lesions; color Doppler ultrasound for the evaluation of vasculature; & the use of ultrasound in interventional procedures.
The correct focus: All the Doppler applications for obstetrics and gynecology in one volume Support for all phases of study Ideal for all stages of continuing education Stepwise course instruction with complete curricular content (basic, clinical, advanced) All obstetric and gynecological applications Effective examination Specific uses of all relevant Doppler procedures Optimal settings, probe positioning, strategies for improved display, more. Overview of important diagnostic criteria presented in tabular form Over 400 figures showing all vascular applications, the course of examinations, probe position, anatomical sketches, and more. Information instantly to hand Clear arrangement and rapid orientation Logical chapter structure, tables showing diagnostic criteria, sample displays, application, more. Clinically oriented, focused on practice-related subjects; placental insufficiency, evaluation of obstetric risk, criteria for post-term pregnancy, and more.
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the effect of imperial politics, this book focuses on a global trading firm as an exemplary case of the actors responsible for conducting economic transactions in a multicultural business world. The study focuses on the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., which was one of the most important trading houses in British India after the late nineteenth century and became one of the biggest cotton and coffee traders in the world after decolonization. The book examines the following questions: How could European merchants establish business contacts with members of the mercantile elite from India, China or Latin America? What role did a shared mercantile culture play for establishing relations of trust? How did global business change with the construction of telegraph lines and railways and the development of economic institutions such as merchant banks and commodity exchanges? And what was the connection between the business interests of transnationally operating capitalists and the territorial aspirations of national and imperial governments? Based on a five-year-long research endeavor and the examination of 24 public and private archives in seven countries and on three continents, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market goes well beyond a mere company history as it highlights the relationship between multinationally operating firms and colonial governments, and the role of business culture in establishing notions of trust, both within the firm and between economic actors in different parts of the world. It thus provides a cutting-edge history of globalization from a micro-perspective. Following an actor-theoretical perspective, the book maintains that the global market that came into being in the nineteenth century can be perceived as the consequence of the interaction of various actors. Merchants, peasants, colonial bureaucrats and industrialists were all involved in spinning the individual threads of this commercial web. By connecting established approaches from business history with recent scholarship in the fields of global and colonial history, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market offers a new perspective on the emergence of global enterprise and provides an important addition to the history of imperialism and economic globalization.
Doppler sonography has significantly extended the possibilities of prenatal and perinatal medicine. This book covers the analysis of blood flow during pregnancy, umbilical cord complications, fetal venous circulation, and more. Criteria for evaluating placental insufficiency, obstetric risk, and others are included as well. Valuable tips and strategies for improved display, optimal settings, probe positioning, and more.
Mathematical models are the decisive tool to explain and predict phenomena in the natural and engineering sciences. With this book readers will learn to derive mathematical models which help to understand real world phenomena. At the same time a wealth of important examples for the abstract concepts treated in the curriculum of mathematics degrees are given. An essential feature of this book is that mathematical structures are used as an ordering principle and not the fields of application. Methods from linear algebra, analysis and the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations are thoroughly introduced and applied in the modeling process. Examples of applications in the fields electrical networks, chemical reaction dynamics, population dynamics, fluid dynamics, elasticity theory and crystal growth are treated comprehensively.
Beiträge des Symposiums "Das Alte Testament und die Kultur der Moderne" anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags Gerhard von Rads (1901-1971), Heidelberg, 18.-21. Oktober 2001
Beiträge des Symposiums "Das Alte Testament und die Kultur der Moderne" anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags Gerhard von Rads (1901-1971), Heidelberg, 18.-21. Oktober 2001
Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge des Kolloquiums 'Das Alte Testament - ein Geschichtsbuch?', das am 20. und 21. Oktober 2001 im Rahmen des Symposiums 'Das Alte Testament und die Kultur der Moderne' anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags Gerhard von Rads in Heidelberg statt fand. Die Beiträge behandeln folgende Themenkreise: Geschichten und Geschichte in der Hebräischen Bibel (Christof Hardmeier, Jean-Louis Ska), Der Pentateuch: Tora oder Geschichtswerk? (Alexander Rofé, John Van Seters), Alttestamentliche 'Historiographie' im antiken Vergleich (Erhard Blum, Hubert Cancik, Baruch Halpern), Die Chronik als Geschichtswerk (Sara Japhet, Georg Steins) sowie Geschichten und Geschichte in der neuzeitlichen Lebenswelt (Aleida Assmann, Christian Link).
English summary: This volume of essays contains works from three decades of research activities and outlines the way to a performative theology in the Bible. This theology is based on understanding biblical texts as written recorded orality of remembering and talking about God. Christof Hardmeier's studies deal with the dynamic variety of this talking, using examples, examine the communicative action structures in the texts, in order to reveal their sociohistorical and performative-theological functions. The articles focus on four main subjects: narration as a basic form of witnessing faith, unique aspects of the deuteronomistic torah, the discursive and pragmatic qualities of written prophecies and of the Psalms and the biblical-systematic starting-points to a performative theology in the Bible. German description: Der vorliegende Aufsatzband vereinigt Arbeiten aus drei Jahrzehnten Forschungstatigkeit und zeichnet in der Einfuhrung wissenschaftsbiographisch den Weg zu einer performativen Theologie der Bibel nach. Konstitutiv fur diese Theologie ist das Verstandnis der Bibel als verschriftete Mundlichkeit. Sie greift systematisch-theologische Fragen der Wort-Gottes-Theologie auf und verankert die Hermeneutik des Sprachgeschehens sowohl textanalytisch als auch historisch-exegetisch in den Textzeugnissen des Alten Testaments. Christof Hardmeiers Studien widmen sich der dynamischen Vielfalt des Erzahlens und Redens von Gott und fragen exemplarisch nach den kommunikativen Handlungsstrukturen in den Texten, um ihre soziohistorischen und performativ-theologischen Funktionen zu erschliessen. Die Beitrage gruppieren sich um vier Schwerpunkte: um das Erzahlen als Basisform der Glaubensbezeugung (narrative Theologie) und der theologischen Reflexion sowie um singulare Aspekte der deuteronomistischen Tora, insbesondere ihre Vertragsmetaphorik, ihre Erinnerungspadagogik und ihre geschichtstheologische Einbettung. Drittens geht es um diskurspragmatische Eigentumlichkeiten in der Schriftprophetie und im Psalter, wahrend der Schlussteil biblisch-systematische Ansatzpunkte einer performativen Theologie der Bibel beleuchtet.
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