Medical research Books

Presents modern Bayesian statistical models and methods for identifying treatments tailored to individual patients using their prognostic variables and predictive biomarkers.

Healthcare is important to everyone, yet large variations in its quality have been well documented both between and within many countries. With demand and expenditure rising, it's more crucial than ever to know how well the healthcare system and all its...

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on safety monitoring methodologies, covering both global trends and regional initiatives. Pharmacovigilance has traditionally focused on the handling of individual adverse event reports however recently there...

This book discusses the why and how of each step of data-based medical research that can provide basic information to emerging researchers and medical graduate students who write theses or publish articles. The chapters are arranged in the sequence of...

Environmental chemical hazards are a highly contentious topic in modern life. Nearly every nation on earth has faced its own environmental crises, and also shares perspectives on the possibility of global catastrophes. Of the many global concerns we...

Joh. Conr. Barchusen De Medicinae Origine Et Progressu Dissertationes est liber qui a Joanne Conrado Barchusen scriptus est et anno MDCCXXIII editus est. In hoc libro, auctor de origine medicinae et progressu eius disputat. In dissertationibus suis,...

This book explores the factors which are critical in the selection of an appropriate animal species for toxicology studies and the subsequent extrapolation of the data to humans. It provides some future directions for risk assessment activities at the...

Bayesian Approaches in Oncology Using R and OpenBUGS serves two audiences: those who are familiar with the theory and applications of bayesian approach and wish to learn or enhance their skills in R and OpenBUGS, and those who are enrolled in R and...

First Integrative Medicine Conference - Mental Disorders And Dementia: A Dialogue Between Conventional, Homeopathic, Tibetan, And Chinese MedicinesBarcelona, Spain, January 2014The aim of this three-day event, the first Integrative Medicine Conference in...

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials for Predictive Medicine provides statistical guidance on conducting clinical trials for predictive medicine. It covers statistical topics relevant to the main clinical research phases for developing molecular...

El Dr. Silverio Javier Salinas Benavides es Médico Cirujano y Partero en México (CP # 1460562) logró la negativización del examen virológico R.C.P. del virus del SIDA en 1994. En 1995 pudo probar la negativización del co-cultivo de células de medula ósea...

Critical Appraisal of Medical Literature provides a step-by-step approach to help the reader reach a good level of proficiency in systematic critical appraisal of medical information. To this end, the book covers all the...

""On Hay Asthma And The Affection Termed Hay Fever"" is a medical book written by William Pirrie in 1867. The book explores the causes, symptoms, and treatment of hay asthma and hay fever. Pirrie provides a detailed analysis of the various allergens that...

This book provides the latest comprehensive methods for isolation and other novel techniques for marine product development. Furthermore, this book offers knowledge on the biological, medical, and industrial applications of marine-derived medicinal food...

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a controversial issue in medicine. This book provides the most up to date universal review of the construct known as CRPS. The authors review the history of the diagnosis and offer an evidence based criticism regarding...

As a part of Ph.D. dissertation, a study was conducted on "Sexual behaviour, Disclosure and Behaviour change of HIV infected men on ART". This explorative study was conducted in 3 Phases using non random purposive sampling method. In Phase 1, the...

Pesticides lead serious problems like pollutions, health hazards, pest resistance, secondary pest outbreak, etc. Therefore, biological control is widely accepted at global scenario as an effective alternative for pesticidal use and as eco-friendly pest...

Presently, cancer is a burning problem in this westernized 'Ultra-Modern Era'. In fact, the 'Foods or Edible Plants' can be the best measures for the remedy of cancer. The 'Medicinal Plants' (including 'Fruits and Vegetables') have versatile...

During the last few decades man has exploited the environment to such as extent that the environmental equilibrium has been highly disturbed. Exploding population, deforestation, urbanization and industrialization have all rocked the environment very...

In this comprehensive guide, I offer valuable insights tailored for data science graduate students and early career researchers stepping into the dynamic world of data science. My distinctive background merges clinical medicine with data science...

Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die Anzahl dokumentierter Stressfolgeerscheinungen stetig im Wachsen begriffen ist, stellt sich die Frage nach Kompensationsstrategien, die der Notwendigkeit von Psycho- und Pharmakotherapie vorbeugen. Entspannungsverfahren...

Reliably optimizing a new treatment in humans is a critical first step in clinical evaluation since choosing a suboptimal dose or schedule may lead to failure in later trials. At the same time, if promising preclinical results do not translate into a...

Modern astronomical research faces a vast range of statistical issues which have spawned a revival in methodological activity among astronomers. The Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II conference brought astronomers...

Survival data or more general time-to-event data occur in many areas, including medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and demography, but previously standard methods have requested that all time variables are univariate...

PrefaceForward and Backward Recurrence Times and Length Biased Sampling: Age Specific Models (M. Zelen)Difference between Male and Female Cancer Rates: How Can It Be Explained? (K. Arbeev, S. Ukraintseva, L. Arbeeva, A. Yashin)Non-parametric Estimation...

Models, Inference, and Truth.- The Open Problem.- Defining the Model and Parameter.- Super Learning.- Introduction to TMLE.- Understanding TMLE.- Why TMLE?.- Bounded Continuous Outcomes.- Direct Effects and Effect Among the Treated.- Marginal Structural...

Praise for Bayesian Thinking in Biostatistics:"This thoroughly modern Bayesian book ...is a 'must have' as a textbook or a reference volume. Rosner, Laud and Johnson make the case for Bayesian approaches by melding clear exposition on methodology with...

The concepts of estimands, analyses (estimators), and sensitivity are interrelated. Therefore, great need exists for an integrated approach to these topics. This book acts as a practical guide to developing and implementing statistical analysis plans by...

Despite sustained debate and progress the evolving thing that is evidence based nursing or practice (EBP) continues to dangle a variety of conceptual and practical loose threads. Moreover, when we think about what is being asked of students and...

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a very general and flexible multivariate technique that allows relationships among variables to be examined. The roots of SEM are in the social sciences. In writing this textbook, the authors look to make SEM...

This book explores central aspects of genetic modification of animals for scientific purposes in the context technological possibilities, regulatory issues in different regions, animal welfare implications and wider ethical issues, exemplified through...

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically. It includes recent research, innovative theories and case studies of...

This book provides original insights into how "new biology" and "translational" policies to drive a health bioeconomy are reshaping innovation ecosystems, and disrupting R&D practices, institutional and professional boundaries, and notions of "value" in...

A seminal collection of medical research papers from one of the world's most prestigious hospitals. Covering topics ranging from cardiology and oncology to pediatrics and infectious diseases, these reports represent some of the most important and...

Jac A. Nickoloff and Merl F. Hoekstra update and expand their two earlier acclaimed volumes (Vol. I: DNA Repair in Prokaryotes and Lower Eukaryotes and Vol. II: DNA Repair in Higher Eurkaryotes) with cutting-edge reviews by...

Dragonflies are very good biocontrol agents of mosquitoes, jassid and several lepidopterous pests. Hence for the utility of dragonflies on biological pest control, production techniques are given. The book contains Introduction National and...

This book investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions. Unlike purely qualitative treatments of ecology, it draws on mathematical theory and methods, equipping the reader with sharp tools and rigorous methodology. Subjects include...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with...

Through real-world datasets, this book shows the reader how to work with material in biostatistics using the open source software R. These include tools that are critical to dealing with missing data, which is a pressing...

Der Einsatz elektronischer Datenverarbeitung in Krankenanstalten erfährt in den letzten Jahren eine stürmische Entwicklung. War ursprünglich nur daran gedacht, mit Hilfe der Datenverarbeitung administrative Tätigkeiten zu...

Microbiome research has focused on microorganisms that live within the human body and their effects on health. During the last few years, the quantification of microbiome composition in different environments has been facilitated by the advent of high...

This book presents modern Bayesian analysis in a format that is accessible to researchers in the fields of ecology, wildlife biology, and natural resource management. Bayesian analysis has undergone a remarkable transformation since the early 1990s...

This textbook covers R data analysis related to environmental science, starting with basic examples and proceeding up to advanced applications of the R programming language. The main objective of the textbook is to serve as a guide for undergraduate...

The primary purpose of this textbook is to introduce the reader to a wide variety of elementary permutation statistical methods. Permutation methods are optimal for small data sets and non-random samples, and are free of distributional assumptions. The...

The goal of this book is to put an array of tools at the fingertips of students, practitioners, and researchers by explaining approaches long used by survey statisticians, illustrating how existing software can be used to solve survey problems, and...