Medical equipment and techniques Books

Copula additive distributional regression enables the joint modeling of multiple outcomes, an essential aspect of many real-world research problems. This book provides an accessible overview of this modeling approach, with a particular focus on its...

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition focuses on the statistical aspects ofmedicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. This...

This short guide is a valuable resource primarily for academic readers in the fields of biomedical engineering, physics, computer science, and medical imaging. Clinicians will also benefit from the discussions of applications and future research and...

A companion book for Epidemiology study design and data analysis 3rd edition. Aims to equip with sufficient knowledge to use R for practising epidemiology. Reworks the examples in epidemiology study design and data analysis using R, presenting the code...

This book introduces the ade4 package for R which provides multivariate methods for the analysis of ecological data. It is implemented around the mathematical concept of the duality diagram, and provides a unified framework for multivariate analysis...

Adaptive clinical trial designs, unlike traditional fixed clinical trial designs, enable modification of studies in response to the data generated in the course of the trial. This often results in studies that are substantially faster, more efficient,...

Principles of Animal Extrapolation addresses the conceptual basis for animal extrapolation and provides an abundance of documentation that illustrates how these principles may be applied in the selection of the more appropriate models and in the...

Fourth edition has new chapters on Bayesian survival analysis and use of the R software. Chapters extensively revised, expanded to add new material on topics that include methods for assessing predictive ability of a model, joint models for longitudinal...

This volume introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation analysis. Applications from health, social, and developmental psychology, sociology, communication, exercise science, and epidemiology are emphasized throughout...

Profoundly important and innovative, Neuropsychotherapy is a necessary know-how for professionals including psychotherapists, psychotherapy researchers, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and mental-health professionals as it

The successful implementation of evidence into practice is dependent on aligning the available evidence to the particular context through the active ingredient of facilitation. Designed to support the widely recognised PARIHS framework, which works as a...

This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for...

The world is on the threshold of a great new industrial revolution, a 1 scientific-industrial revolution. Recombinant DNA technology and hybridoma technology ("monoclonal antibodies") have already pro­ vided unique investment...

Prologue.- Helpful Little Bodies.- Inside Stalin's Empire.- The Fading of Phage Therapy.- Naked Genes.- They're Not a Panacea.- In Poland: Phages for Diabetes?.- The Renaissance of Phage Therapy.- The Startups.- Four Companies, Four Strategies.- Cows and...

Models to forecast changes in mortality, morbidity, and disability in elderly populations are essential to national and state policies for health and welfare programs. This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the ...

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality. The authors adopt a...

Cell Culture Methods for in vitro Toxicology introduces the reader to a range of techniques involved in the use of in vitro cell culture in toxicological studies. It deals with major cell types studied in the field of...

Le Journal Compl�����mentaire des Sciences M�����dicales V36 (1830) est un livre publi����� par C. L. F. Panckoucke. Ce livre est une collection de diff�����rents articles scientifiques sur le domaine m�����dical. Les sujets abord�����s dans ce livre...

Das Buch ""Ergebnisse und Studien aus der Medicinischen Klinik zu Bonn"" wurde von Moritz Ernst Adolph Naumann im Jahr 1858 ver������ffentlicht. Es enth�����lt eine umfassende Beschreibung der Ergebnisse und Studien, die in der medizinischen Klinik in...

Le livre ""Congres Periodique International V4: Des Sicences Medicales (1886)"" de Langeq est un recueil de comptes rendus et de discussions tenues lors du quatri�����me Congr�����s p�����riodique international des sciences m�����dicales en 1886. Le...

Ce livre, publi����� par G. Masson Publisher, est le quatri�����me volume des Bulletins et M�����moires de la Soci�����t����� M�����dicale des H�����pitaux de Paris pour l'ann�����e 1889. Il contient des articles et des �����tudes sur divers sujets...

""The Praxis of Urinary Analysis: A Guide to the Chemical Analysis of Urine"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by Dr. Lassar-Cohn in 1903. This book provides a detailed and practical approach to the chemical analysis of urine, including its...

This book provides essential guidance to help schools in developing countries to promote and maintain hand hygiene practices, thus reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infection that cause both illness and...

Biosafety and Biosecurity: Practical Insights and Applications for Low and Medium-Income Countries comprehensively summarizes the state and development of biosafety and biosecurity in developing and developed nations in a comparative analysis, allowing...

A young woman cries, "Please don't let me die!" Has she received the best treatment? What is the best treatment? How do we know? Life-threatening disease prompts these questions in everyone. Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof? explains the best...

This book is directed to the computer-based modeling of chemotaxis inflammation, typically resulting from an infection by a pathogen (e.g., bacteria, viruses). The book has particular relevance to the coronavirus pandemic since long-Covid neurological...

Data integrity is a global mandatory requirement for the regulated healthcare industry. It is more than a mere expectation-it's a basic element of good documentation practices, one of the most fundamental pillars of a quality management system...

For the past decade, process validation issues ranked within the top six of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) form 483 observation findings issued each year. This poses a substantial problem for the medical device industry and is the reason why the...

The Laboratory Small Ruminant details basic information and common procedures for individuals performing research with small ruminants. Details include duties of animal husbandry, regulatory compliance, and technical procedures. It is designed to assist...

It is widely believed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will revolutionize healthcare and medicine. This book provides a comprehensive overview on the recent developments on clinical decision support systems, precision health and...

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.A friend of Jacques Lacan's, Dolto believed that we...

Godwin C. Osakwe draws on his academic knowledge and painstaking research to determine if there's a link between knowledge and transmission of HIV/AIDS among youths in this important study. The author, who holds a doctorate degree in public health and a...

The study of technology and its implications in the medical field has become an increasingly crucial area of research. By integrating technological innovations into clinical practices, patients can receive improved diagnoses and treatments, as well as...

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, second edition, is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data. This part is of interest to users who need to access and visualise spatial...

Cytopreparation: Principles & Practice by Gary W. Gill fills a long-standing need for an easy-to-use and authoritative manual on the fundamentals of cytopreparation up-to-and- including microscopy, screening, and data...

Clustering and Clusters.- Disease Mapping: Visualization of Spatial Clustering.- Tests for Temporal Clustering.- General Tests for Spatial Clustering: Regional Count Data.- General Tests for Spatial Clustering : Case-Control Point Data.- Tests for...

Introduction.- First Steps in R for Phylogeneticists.- Phylogenetic Data in R.- Plotting Phylogenies.- Phylogeny Estimation.- Analysis of Macroevolution with Phylogenies.- Simulating Phylogenies and Evolutionary Data.- Developing and Implementing...

This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel’s first experiments to genome-wide association studies, the...

Multiple complex pathways, characterized by interrelated events and c- ditions, represent routes to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death. Although there are substantial data and plausibility arguments suppo- ing many conditions as contributory...

Weareenteringintoaneraofre-awakeningoftheimportanceandinterestinthe role ofaltered intermediary metabolisminthedevelopmentandprogressionof malignancy. Therefore,thisbookMitochondriaandCanceristimelyandrelevant ...

Background and Preparations.- Background in Statistics.- to Experimental Genetics.- Fundamentals of Genetics: Inbreeding, Recombination, Random Mating, and Identity by Descent.- Experimental Genetics.- Testing for Linkage with a Single Marker.- Whole...

Heat Shock Proteins.- Small Heat Shock Proteins and the Cytoskeleton.- The Role of Hsps in Neuronal Differentiation and Development.- Heme Oxygenase as a Therapeutic Funnel in Nutritional Redox Homeostasis and Cellular Stress Response.- Heat Shock...

A General Framework.- Power: Conditional, Unconditional, and Predictive.- Historical Monitoring Boundaries.- Spending Functions.- Practical Survival Monitoring.- Inference Following a Group-Sequential Trial.- Options When Brownian Motion Does Not Hold.-...

Introduction.- Motivating Studies.- Generalized Linear Models.- Linear Mixed Models for Gaussian Longitudinal Data.- Model Families.- The Strength of Marginal Models.- Likelihood-based Models.- Generalized Estimating Equations.- Pseudo-likelihood.-...

A globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history. Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology. Using case...

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding of change in governance of bioscience research. In particular it examines change as it is shaped by...