Publications
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Hepatic Elastography Using Ultrasound Waves - Revised Edition
(2016)
Some time ago, Schiano raised the question "To B or not to B", which means "To Biopsy or not to Biopsy" the liver for the evaluation of chronic hepatopathies. For a long period, liver biopsy (LB) was considered the "gold ...
Consanguinity – Its Impact, Consequences and Management
(2014)
Consanguineous marriages have been practiced for hundreds of years, predominantly by Moslems. Although it is generally accepted among communities that the social advantages outweigh other, the rate of congenital malformations ...
Drugs, Sex and Crime – Empirical Contributions
(2009)
This book covers some recent researches on the interface between drug misuse and crime and demonstrates that some types of violent crimes are more intimately related to alcohol and / or drug consumption. It is written for ...
The Role of Saliva Cortisol Measurement in Health and Disease
(2012)
This e-book is based on a critical evaluation of existing literature on salivary cortisol, aiming to evaluate the utility of salivary cortisol as a biomarker in various settings. It focuses on how different ways of evaluating ...
Frontiers in RNAi: Volume 1
(2014)
RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which small nucleotide sequences destroy specific mRNA molecules and, therefore, interrupt genetic expression. RNAi has rapidly developed into a widely used technique in ...
Atmospheric Flow Fields: Theory, Numerical Methods and Software Tools
(2012)
This e-book is a collection of chapters on practical and theoretical aspects of atmospheric flows over flat and complex terrain, with applications to air pollution and wind energy. It is divided into two main sections: the ...