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  • Microsystems for Enhanced Control of Cell Behavior Microsystems for Enhanced Control of Cell Behavior
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    Microsystems for Enhanced Control of Cell Behavior

    This handbook focuses on the entire development process of biomedical microsystems that promote special interactions with cells. Fundamentals of cell biology and mechanobiology are described as necessary preparatory input for design tasks. Advanced...
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  • Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators
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    Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators

    This book discusses the design of neural stimulator systems which are used for the treatment of a wide variety of brain disorders such as Parkinson's, depression and tinnitus.  Whereas many existing books treating neural stimulation focus on one...
    $268.00

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  • Control and Prediction of Solid-State of Pharmaceuticals Control and Prediction of Solid-State of Pharmaceuticals
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    Control and Prediction of Solid-State of Pharmaceuticals

    This thesis investigates a range of experimental and computational approaches for the discovery of solid forms. Furthermore, we gain, as readers, a better understanding of the key factors underpinning solid-structure and diversity. A major part of this...
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  • Introduction to Biosensors Introduction to Biosensors
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    Introduction to Biosensors

    This book equips students with a thorough understanding of various types of sensors and biosensors that can be used for chemical, biological, and biomedical applications, including but not limited to temperature sensors, strain sensor, light sensors,...
    $220.00

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  • Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins
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    Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins

    This book describes a new family of bio-polymergels made from cytoskeletal proteins - actin, microtubule, andtropomyosin.  The importance of the gelstate with multi-scale hierarchical structure is emphasized to utilize emergentfunctions in living...
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  • Microsystems for Pharmatechnology Microsystems for Pharmatechnology
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    Microsystems for Pharmatechnology

    This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of microfluidic approaches and applications in pharmatechnology. It is appropriate for students with an interdisciplinary interest in both the pharmaceutical and engineering fields, as well as...
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  • Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women
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    Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women

    This book discusses 'how' to respectfully and responsibly include pregnant women in clinical research. In sharp contrast, the existing literature predominantly focuses on the reasons 'why' the inclusion of pregnant women in clinical research is...
    $348.00

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  • Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
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    Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics

    This book is a timely report on current neurotechnology research. It presents a snapshot of the state of the art in the field, discusses current challenges and identifies new directions. The book includes a selection of extended and revised contributions...
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  • Bioengineering Applications of Carbon Nanostructures Bioengineering Applications of Carbon Nanostructures
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    Bioengineering Applications of Carbon Nanostructures

    This book covers the development of biotechnology based on carbon nanostructures, with a focus on nanotubes, addressing also fullerenes and amorphous carbons. The book is divided into 7 chapters, addressing tissue engineering, genetic engineering and...
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  • Dance Notations and Robot Motion Dance Notations and Robot Motion
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    Dance Notations and Robot Motion

    How and why to write a movement? Who is the writer? Who is the reader? They may be choreographers working with dancers. They may be roboticists programming robots. They may be artists designing cartoons in computer animation. In all such fields the...
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  • Prediction Methods for Blood Glucose Concentration Prediction Methods for Blood Glucose Concentration
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    Prediction Methods for Blood Glucose Concentration

    This book tackles the problem of overshoot and undershoot in blood glucose levels caused by delay in the effects of carbohydrate consumption and insulin administration. The ideas presented here will be very important in maintaining the welfare of...
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  • Implantable Medical Electronics Implantable Medical Electronics
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    Implantable Medical Electronics

    This book is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource for the latest information on implantable medical devices, and is intended for graduate students studying electrical engineering, electronic instrumentation, and biomedical engineering. It is also...
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  • Emerging Therapies in Neurorehabilitation II Emerging Therapies in Neurorehabilitation II
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    Emerging Therapies in Neurorehabilitation II

    This book reports on the latest technological and clinical advances in the field of neurorehabilitation. It is, however, much more than a conventional survey of the state-of-the-art in neurorehabilitation technologies and therapies. It was written on the...
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  • Physical Models of Cell Motility Physical Models of Cell Motility
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    Physical Models of Cell Motility

    This book surveys the most recent advances in physics-inspired cell movement models. This synergetic, cross-disciplinary effort to increase the fidelity of computational algorithms will lead to a better understanding of the complex biomechanics of cell...
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  • Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Biochips Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Biochips
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    Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Biochips

    This book describes for researchers in the fields of compiler technology, design and test, and electronic design automation the new area of digital microfluidic biochips (DMBs), and thus offers a new application area for their methods. The authors...
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  • Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications
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    Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

    This book covers a wide range of topics relating to carbon nanomaterials, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in advanced biomedical devices and systems. As they possess unique and attractive chemical, physical, optical, and even...
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  • Multispectral Biometrics Multispectral Biometrics
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    Multispectral Biometrics

    Describing several new biometric technologies, such as high-resolution fingerprint, finger-knuckle-print, multi-spectral backhand, 3D fingerprint, tongueprint, 3D ear, and multi-spectral iris recognition technologies, this book analyzes a number of...
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  • Biology in Stem Cell Niche Biology in Stem Cell Niche
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    Biology in Stem Cell Niche

    This comprehensive volume explores functions, pathologies, and applications of stem cells in relation to the niches in which they develop. Ten chapters cover the subject in depth, from a historical perspective through signaling, hormonal control,...
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  • Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine
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    Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine

    This volume presents the current state of laser-assisted bioprinting, a cutting edge tissue engineering technology. Nineteen chapters discuss the most recent developments in using this technology for engineering different types of tissue. Beginning with...
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  • Uncertainty in Biology Uncertainty in Biology
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    Uncertainty in Biology

    Computational modeling allows to reduce, refine and replace animal experimentation as well as to translate findings obtained in these experiments to the human background. However these biomedical problems are inherently complex with a myriad of...
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  • Liquid Crystals in Biotribology Liquid Crystals in Biotribology
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    Liquid Crystals in Biotribology

    This book summarizes the theoretical and experimental studies confirming the concept of the liquid-crystalline nature of boundary lubrication in synovial joints. It is shown that cholesteric liquid crystals in the synovial liquid play a significant role...
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  • Nanoporous Alumina Nanoporous Alumina
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    Nanoporous Alumina

    This book gives detailed information about the fabrication, properties and applications of nanoporous alumina. Nanoporous anodic alumina prepared by low-cost, simple and scalable electrochemical anodization process due to its unique structure and...
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  • Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation
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    Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation

    Focussing on the key technologies in developing robots for a wide range of medical rehabilitation activities - which will include robotics basics, modelling and control, biomechanics modelling, rehabilitation strategies, robot assistance, clinical...
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  • In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices
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    In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices

    Addressing the origin, current status, and future development of point-of-care diagnostics, and serving to integrate knowledge and tools from Analytical Chemistry, Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanotechnology, this book focusses on addressing the...
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  • Handbook of Trace Analysis Handbook of Trace Analysis
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    Handbook of Trace Analysis

    This handbook is unique in its comprehensive coverage of the subject and focus on practical applications in diverse fields. It includes methods for sample preparation, the role of certified reference materials, calibration methods and statistical...
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  • Biomimetics for Architecture & Design Biomimetics for Architecture & Design
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    Biomimetics for Architecture & Design

    This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. As a result of a combined effort by two internationally recognized authorities, the biologist Werner Nachtigall and the...
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  • Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy
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    Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy

    This book presents a comparison analysis of two cancer treatment therapies: carbon ion therapy and protontherapy. It is divided in 5 sections. The first ones gives the reader a brief history of Radiotherapy and types of radiation. In the second section,...
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  • Neuropsychological Formulation Neuropsychological Formulation
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    Neuropsychological Formulation

    This forward-looking reference defines and illustrates the process and themes of formulation in neuropsychology and places it in the vanguard of current practice. The book explains the types of information that go into formulations, how they are...
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  • Ambulance Services Ambulance Services
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    Ambulance Services

    This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider...
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  • Wearable Electronics Sensors Wearable Electronics Sensors
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    Wearable Electronics Sensors

    This edited book contains invited papers from renowned experts working in the field of Wearable Electronics Sensors. It includes 14 chapters describing recent advancements in the area of Wearable Sensors, Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, Protocols,...
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  • High-Resolution Profiling of Protein-RNA Interactions High-Resolution Profiling of Protein-RNA Interactions
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    High-Resolution Profiling of Protein-RNA Interactions

    The work reported in this book represents an excellent example of how creative experimentation and technology development, complemented by computational data analysis, can yield important insights that further our understanding of biological entities...
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  • Non-Biological Complex Drugs Non-Biological Complex Drugs
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    Non-Biological Complex Drugs

    The rise of bio- and nano-technology in the last decades has led to the emergence of a new and unique type of medicine known as non-biological complex drugs (NBCDs). This book illustrates the challenges associated with NBCD development, as well as the...
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  • The International Conference on Health Informatics The International Conference on Health Informatics
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    The International Conference on Health Informatics

    This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI). The conference was a new special topic conference initiative by the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), held in...
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  • New Trends in Medical and Service Robots New Trends in Medical and Service Robots
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    New Trends in Medical and Service Robots

    This book contains mainly the selected papers of the First International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2012. The high quality of the scientific contributions is the result of a rigorous selection and improvement...
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  • Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly
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    Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly

    This book presents a wealth of insights and new conceptualizations for the development of Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly. The book arranges the chapters according to important aspects of maximizing the use value in innovation...
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  • Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials
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    Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials

    This monograph presents the latest results related to bio-mechanical systems and materials. The bio-mechanical systems with which his book is concerned are prostheses, implants, medical operation robots and muscular re-training systems. To characterize...
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  • Safety of Electromedical Devices Safety of Electromedical Devices
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    Safety of Electromedical Devices

    Preface Development in the feld of medical technology has resulted in a manifold of medical devices enabling us to diagnose illnesses more reliably, treat them more effciently and compensate for handicaps more effectively...
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  • Treatment of Asthma Treatment of Asthma
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    Treatment of Asthma

    The traditional Vienna Asthma Forum was held in early June 1996 and th was the 6 in a biennial mode within 10 years. This time it was dedicated to the long-acting beta-2-agonists, which were registered (or just about to be) in...
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