Nowadays ultrasound is a very powerful diagnostic imaging tool. There is no need for preparation and as a non-invasive technique it can be performed for almost every disease.The purpose of this Atlas is to enable surgeons to get used to the echographic anatomy of the neck and also to how this simple technique can help us in our daily work.All the images published in this Atlas are originally from patients treated in our Department. The machines we have used to obtain the images are the Aloka prosound alpha 5 with the UST-5410H transducer (some images are obtained with the UST-MC11-8731, intra-operative probe that obtain a lower quality in this images) and the BK Profocus UltraView with the 8870 transducer.
Nowadays ultrasound is a very powerful diagnostic imaging tool. There is no need for preparation and as a non-invasive technique it can be performed for almost every disease.The purpose of this Atlas is to enable surgeons to get used to the echographic anatomy of the neck and also to how this simple technique can help us in our daily work.All the images published in this Atlas are originally from patients treated in our Department. The machines we have used to obtain the images are the Aloka prosound alpha 5 with the UST-5410H transducer (some images are obtained with the UST-MC11-8731, intra-operative probe that obtain a lower quality in this images) and the BK Profocus UltraView with the 8870 transducer.
Investments by Spanish firms in Latin America have grown since the early 1990s by taking over many of the state-owned firms put out to tender. Second only to the United States, these investments make Spain one of the largest markets of foreign direct investment for Latin America. This multidisciplinary volume focuses on the emergence of Spanish multinational enterprises in this region. Furthermore, it analyzes the sociological and political consequences of these investments and exhibits several theoretical and methodological approaches that make the book a useful aid for teaching. It is essential reading for those who want to understand structural reforms, their consequences and the international impact of economic reform.
After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’, Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Following a decade of stagnation, however, Trump’s victory presents a timely opportunity to reconsider North American integration and evaluate NAFTA’s democratic track record in Mexico. In this book, Pablo Calderón Martínez presents a detailed analysis of NAFTA’s influence as a political tool for democracy in Mexico. Extending beyond a mere economic or social exploration of the consequences of NAFTA, Calderón Martínez uses a three-tiered analysis based on causality mechanisms to explain how the interactions between internationalisation and democratisation unfolded in Mexico. Calderón Martínez’s analysis demonstrates that Mexico’s internationalisation project under the framework of NAFTA gave shape to, if not made, Mexico’s democratisation process. An original and timely resource for scholars and students interested in understanding how – in cases like Mexico where transitions to democracy are characterised by a finely poised balance of power – small influences from abroad can make significant long-lasting differences domestically.
Over 100 years ago Harald Bohr identified a deep problem about the convergence of Dirichlet series, and introduced an ingenious idea relating Dirichlet series and holomorphic functions in high dimensions. Elaborating on this work, almost twnety years later Bohnenblust and Hille solved the problem posed by Bohr. In recent years there has been a substantial revival of interest in the research area opened up by these early contributions. This involves the intertwining of the classical work with modern functional analysis, harmonic analysis, infinite dimensional holomorphy and probability theory as well as analytic number theory. New challenging research problems have crystallized and been solved in recent decades. The goal of this book is to describe in detail some of the key elements of this new research area to a wide audience. The approach is based on three pillars: Dirichlet series, infinite dimensional holomorphy and harmonic analysis.
This book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, author of A History of Latin America
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