Safe and Secure Cities

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Kaija Saranto Maaret Castrén Tiina Kuusela Sami Hyrynsalmi Stina Ojala (Eds.) 2014 5th International Conference onWell-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014 The 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society (WIS) 2014, organized by the University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, and Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association, gathered researchers and developers under […]

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Trauma Biomechanics

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Kai-Uwe Schmitt • Peter F. Niederer Duane S. Cronin • Markus H. Muser Felix Walz 2014 An Introduction to Injury Biomechanics Injury is arguably one of the most under-recognized health problems facing society today. Potential injury hazards exist everywhere in our daily environments including the workplace, home, transportation, and sports and recreational settings.

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Forensic Medicine

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Reinhard B. Dettmeyer • Marcel A. Verhoff Harald F. Schütz 2014 Fundamentals and Perspectives In 2002, with its World Report on Violence and Health (Geneva 2002), the World Health Organization (WHO) presented the first comprehensive review of violence committed by man against man. Violence represents the leading cause of death in the 15- to 45-year […]

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Essentials of Autopsy Practice

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Guy N. Rutty Editor 2014 Advances, Updates and Emerging Technologies As the world continues to debate the role of cross-sectional imaging in autopsy practice, either as an adjunct or a replacement, what is becoming clear is that the autopsy will still exist into the foreseeable future. Despite the decline in academic forensic pathology, there remains […]

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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Toshiko Sawaguchi Editor 2014 From Pathophysiological Prospects Initially, this book was planned in tribute to the late professor André Kahn, who oversaw the world’s only successful physiological prospective study of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Children’s Hospital in Belgium. Although a long time has passed since Professor Kahn […]

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