Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450462203321
• Autore: Papel Ira D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Thieme Medical Publishers, 2006
• ISBN: 1-4237-8821-4; 1-58890-585-3
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (931 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FrodelJohn; HoltG. Richard
• Disciplina: 617.5/20592
• Soggetti: Face - Surgery; Esthetics; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures; Neck; Cosmetic Techniques; Face; Thinking; Body Regions; Therapeutics; Philosophy; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Head; Mental Processes; Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment; Anatomy; Humanities; Psychological Phenomena and Processes; Psychiatry and Psychology; Plastic Surgery; Surgery & Anesthesiology; Health & Biological Sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I - Principles of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Section II - Aesthetic Facial Surgery; Section III - Functional and Aesthetic Surgery of the Nose; Section IV - Reconstructive Surgery of the Face and Neck; Section V - Trauma; Section VI - Congenital and Pediatric Facial Plastic Surgery; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Highlighted by more than 1,800 crystal-clear illustrations and nearly 1,300 pages of text, this encyclopedic book has long been considered the definitive reference in facial plastics and aesthetic facial surgery. It is ideal for residents and fellows studying for in-service examinations, boards, and fellowship programs-and a valued clinical reference for professionals.

Entropy demystified [[electronic resource] ] : the second law reduced to plain common sense / / Arieh Ben-Naim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782225503321
• Autore: Ben-Naim Arieh <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2008
• ISBN: 1-281-96829-3; 9786611968298; 981-283-226-2
• Edizione: [Expanded ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 536/.73
• Soggetti: Entropy; Second law of thermodynamics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Programs for Simulating Some of the Games in the Book; Program 1: Binary dice; Program 2: Regular dice; Program 3: Card deck; Program 4: Simulation of expansion of ideal gas; Program 5: Simulation of mixing two ideal gases; Program 6: Find the hidden coin; Program 7: Generating the normal distribution; 1 Introduction, and a Short History ; of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; 1.1. The Non-Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 1.2. The Atomistic Formulation of the Second Law; 2 A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory, Information Theory, and all the Rest; 2.1. The Classical Definition2.2. The Relative Frequency Definition; 2.3. Independent Events and Conditional Probability; 2.4. Three Caveats; 2.4.1. Conditional probability and subjective probability; 2.4.2. Conditional probability and cause and effect; 2.4.3. Conditional probability and joint probability; 2.5. A Teaspoon of Information Theory; 2.6. A Tip of a Teaspoon of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; 2.7. A Matter of Lottery; 2.8. A Matter of Order-Disorder; 2.9. A Challenging Problem; 2.10. Answers to the Problems; 2.10.1. Answers to the roulette problems; 2.10.2. Answer to "a matter of lottery"2.10.3. Answer to "a matter of order-disorder"; 2.10.4. Answer to "a challenging problem"; 3 First Let Us Play with Real Dice; 3.1. One Die; 3.2. Two Dice; 3.3. Three Dice; 3.4. Four Dice and More; 4 Let's Play with Simpli.ed Dice and have a Preliminary Grasp of the Second Law; 4.1. Two Dice; N = 2; 4.2. Four Dice; N = 4; 4.3. Ten Dice; N = 10; 4.4. Hundred Dice; N = 100; 4.5. Thousand Dice; N = 1000; 4.6. Ten Thousand Dice; N = 104 and Beyond; 5 Experience the Second Law with all Your Five Senses; 5.1. See it with your Visual Sense; 5.2. Smell it with your Olfactory Sense5.3. Taste it with your Gustatory Sense; 5.4. Hear it with your Auditory Sense; 5.5. Feel it with your Touch (Tactile) Sense; 6 Finally, Grasp it with Your Common Sense; 7 Translating from the Dice-World to the Real World; 7.1. The Correspondence with the Expansion Process; 7.2. The Correspondence with the Deassimilation Process; 7.3. Summary of the Evolution of the System towards the Equilibrium State; 7.4. Mixing of Three Components; 7.5. Heat Transfer from a Hot to a Cold Gas; 7.6. Test Your Understanding of the Second Law; 8 Re.ections on the Status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a Law of Physics8.1. What is the Source of the Mystery?; 8.2. The Association of Entropy with "Disorder"; 8.3. The Association of Entropy with Missing Information; 8.4. Is the Second Law Intimately Associated with the Arrow of Time?; 8.5. Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics a Law of Physics?; 8.6. Can We Do Away with the Second Law?; References and Suggested Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years - entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept.Written in an accessible style, the book guides the read