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  • Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Bioactive Materials, Properties, and Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu + 1 more
    • English
    Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Bioactive Materials, Properties, and Applications introduces the reader to a broad range of the different types of bioactive materials used in biomedical engineering. All the main types of bioactive materials are discussed, with an emphasis placed on their synthesis, properties, performance, and potential for biomedical applications. Key chapters on modeling and surface modification and methods provide the step-by-step information needed by researchers. Important applications of bioactive materials, such as drug delivery, cancer therapy and clinical dentistry are also highlighted in detail. Final sections look at future perspectives for bioactive materials in biomedical engineering.

  • Empowering the New Mobility Workforce

    Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals
    • 1st Edition
    • Tyler Reeb
    • English
    Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape. Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million workers—1.2 times the current transportation workforce—in the next decade. The book explores how leaders in education, industry and government can work together to create an ecosystem that facilitates learning and upskilling for emerging and incumbent transportation workers. Readers will learn how to conduct labor market analyses and develop competency models to adapt their workforce. This book will empower readers to establish ongoing communities of practice that cultivate sustainable career pathways that respond to ever-evolving socioeconomic trends and transformational technologies.

  • Advanced Biosensors for Health Care Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Raju Khan + 3 more
    • English
    Advanced Biosensors for Health Care Applications highlights the different types of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers associated with cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, brain and retinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, bacterial infections, as well as various types of electrochemical biosensor techniques used for early detection of the potential biomarkers of these diseases. Many advanced nanomaterials have attracted intense interests with their unique optical and electrical properties, high stability, and good biocompatibility. Based on these properties, advanced nanoparticles have been used as biomolecular carriers, signal producers, and signal amplifiers in biosensor design. Recent studies reported that there are several diagnostic methods available, but the major issue is the sensitivity and selectivity of these approaches. This book outlines the need of novel strategies for developing new systems to retrieve health information of patients in real time. It explores the potential of nano-multidisciplina... science in the design and development of smart sensing technology using micro-nanoelectrodes... novel sensing materials, integration with MEMS, miniaturized transduction systems, novel sensing strategy, that is, FET, CMOS, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Diagnostic-on-a-Chip (DoC), and Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC), for diagnostics and personalized health-care monitoring. It is a useful handbook for specialists in biotechnology and biochemical engineering.

  • Nanostructured Polymer Composites for Biomedical Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Sarat Kumar Swain + 1 more
    • English
    Nanostructured Polymer Composites for Biomedical Applications addresses the challenges researchers face regarding the creation of nanostructured polymer composites that not only have superior performance and mechanical properties, but also have acceptable biological function. This book discusses current efforts to meet this challenge by discussing the multidisciplinary nature of nanostructured polymer composite biomaterials from various fields, including materials science, polymer science, biomedical engineering and biomedicine. This compilation of existing knowledge will lead to the generation of new terminology and definitions across individual disciplines. As such, this book will help researchers and engineers develop new products and devices for use in effective medical treatment.

  • Transportation and Public Health

    An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation
    • 1st Edition
    • M. D. Meyer + 1 more
    • English
    Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation helps current and future transportation professionals integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning, thus supporting sustainability and promoting societal health and well-being. The book defines key issues, describes potential solutions, and provides detailed examples of how solutions have been implemented worldwide. In addition, it demonstrates how to identify gaps in existing policy frameworks. Addressing a critical and emerging urgent need in transportation and public health research, the book creates a coherent, inclusive and interdisciplinary framework for understanding. By integrating principles from transportation planning and engineering, health management, economics, social and organizational psychology, the book deepens understanding of these multiple perspectives and tensions inherent in integrating public health and transportation planning and policy implementation.

  • Taking the Temperature of the Earth

    Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change
    • 1st Edition
    • Glynn Hulley + 1 more
    • English
    Taking the Temperature of the Earth: Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change presents an integrated, collaborative approach to observing and understanding various surface temperatures from a whole-Earth perspective. The book describes the progress in improving the quality of surface temperatures across different domains of the Earth’s surface (air, land, sea, lakes and ice), assessing variability and long-term trends, and providing applications of surface temperature data to detect and better understand Earth system behavior. As cooperation is essential between scientific communities, whose focus on particular domains of Earth’s surface and on different components of the observing system help to accelerate scientific understanding and multiply the benefits for society, this book bridges the gap between domains.

  • Principios de bioquímica clínica y patología molecular

    • 3rd Edition
    • Álvaro González Hernández
    • Spanish
    Obra de referencia en el campo de la bioquímica clínica que edición tras edición se convierte en una herramienta ideal para la toma de decisiones clínicas.Abarca desde los conceptos preanalíticos y metodológicos, de interpretación de pruebas, y de calidad y gestión, hasta la aplicación de las magnitudes bioquímicas en el estudio de las alteraciones de órganos y sistemas. Se mantiene la estructura general de las dos ediciones anteriores, aunque con diversas modificaciones; se ha incluido un capítulo dedicado en exclusiva a la Biología Molecular y se describe la utilidad del análisis de ADN circulante en diversos contextos clínicos. También se han incorporado nuevos capítulos dedicados al análisis farmacocinético, evaluación y comparación de métodos y análisis de cabecera del paciente. Por otra parte, con el fin de mantener la extensión del libro, se han fusionado algunos capítulos dedicados a la patología molecular. Nuevas preguntas de autoevaluación y casos clínicos, y cuatro capítulos adicionales acerca de metodología analítica, incluyendo un capítulo de técnicas de biología molecular.

  • Gray. Guía fotográfica de disección del cuerpo humano

    • 2nd Edition
    • Marios Loukas + 2 more
    • Spanish
    Nueva edición de esta incomparable guía anatómica, enteramente actualizada, que se vale de magníficas fotografías en color para orientar a los estudiantes más eficazmente en la sala de disección, señalando además la relevancia clínica de cada estructura anatómica objeto de estudio. Herramienta indispensable para poder realizar una correcta disección, ya que a través de más de 1.000 imágenes clínicas de cadáver se detallan de forma minuciosa los pasos que deben seguirse para preservar todas las estructuras anatómicas. Contine referencias cruzadas con las últimas ediciones de Drake, Gray Anatomía para estudiantes y Netter, Atlas de anatomía humana. Comprende las bases anatómicas relevantes de más de 30 procedimientos clínicos habituales, como la punción lumbar o la aspiración de la rodilla, incluyendo instrucciones detalladas sobre la localización exacta de las incisiones. El material online incluye acceso a una colección de 68 vídeos de disección (en inglés).

  • New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering

    Microbial Secondary Metabolites Biochemistry and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Vijai G. Gupta + 1 more
    • English
    New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Microbial Secondary Metabolites Biochemistry and Applications examines the areas of biotechnology and chemical engineering, covering aspects of plants, bacteria and machines, and using microbes as factories. The book is aimed at undergraduates, post-graduates and researchers studying microbial secondary metabolites, and is an invaluable reference source for biochemical engineers working in biotechnology, manipulating microbes, and developing new uses for bacteria and fungi. The applications of secondary metabolites in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical device development are also extensively covered. The book integrates the aforementioned frontline branches into an interdisciplinary research work to satisfy those working in biotechnology, chemical engineering, alternative fuel development, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. Chapters related to important research work on applications of microbial secondary metabolites are written by specialists in the various disciplines from the international community.

  • Rehabilitación geriátrica

    • 1st Edition
    • David X. Cifu + 2 more
    • Spanish
    Manual que proporciona los conocimientos necesarios para diseñar y aplicar un programa de rehabilitación práctico dirigido a personas de edad avanzada con situaciones funcionales diferentes. Manual con un enfoque práctico y transversal que hace que sea un contenido de referencia para los miembros del equipo multidisciplinar encargado de la atención de pacientes con edad avanzada. Así, especialistas en rehabilitación, geriatras, psiquiatras y fisioterapeutas se beneficiarán de esta obra. Todos los capítulos siguen una estructura homogénea que presenta la información de manera estandarizada y haciendo hincapié en las recomendaciones clínicas más relevantes, siempre haciéndose eco de los problemas que afectan con más frecuencia a este grupo poblacional. Los autores recogen información práctica y actualizada sobre distintas estrategias de rehabilitación aptas para personas de edad avanzada. Entre ellas están las referentes a problemas nutricionales y de deglución, deterioro auditivo, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, pacientes polimedicados, deterioro cognitivo y trastornos psiquiátricos, entre otros.

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