
Fifteen contributed chapters deal with the major aspects of the effects of exercise on the respiratory system in health and disease. The chapters are organized into a logically sequential scheme of topics: beginning with pulmonary mechanics; continuing with pulmonary gas exchange,...

This book collects the proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006, held in Xi'an, China alongside the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. The book presents 51 revised full papers...