The purpose of this title is to address some of the complex and controversial issues posed by pharmaceutical marketing. Specifically, articles in this work will address the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs, the marketing of drugs over the Internet, pharmaceutical companies' marketing policies, and the marketing of herbal...

The geometry of lines occurs naturally in such different areas as sculptured surface machining, computation of offsets and medial axes, surface reconstruction for reverse engineering, geometrical optics, kinematics and motion design, and modeling of developable surfaces. This book covers line geometry from various viewpoints and aims towards...

Modeling and Computation in Engineering II (CMCE 2013, Hong Kong, 22-23 June 2013) includes 50 contributions on modeling and simulation technology, which were presented at the 2nd SREE Conference on Modeling and Computation in Engineering (CMCE 2013) and the 3rd SREE Workshop on Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering...

Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that...

The four volumes present more than 550 reviewed contributed and invited papers of the main conference and its 30 workshops....

So you’re in charge of the network? No worries! This handy all-in-one guide provides a bird’s-eye view of all the important stuff, like installing and configuring various network...