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Your Brain: The Missing ...
The Missing Manual
Puzzles and brain twisters to keep your mind sharp and your memory intact are all the rage today. More and more people -- Baby Boomers and information workers in particular -- are becoming concerned about their gray matter's ability to function, and with good reason. As this s...
(2008)
11 bookmarks
Pharmacogenetics: Opport...
Pharmacogenetics helps us understand the relationship between an individual’s genetic make-up and the way medicines work for each person. This book reviews the use of pharmacogenetics across all stages of the health innovation cycle from research through to uptake by doctors a...
(2009)
4 bookmarks
Medical Biotechnology
Achievements, Prospects and Perceptions
For many people, biotechnology means genetically modified organisms, alien species, toxic weapons, or hormone-treated beef. Yet it is also a tool to control plant and animal pests, preserve species, utilize genetic resources for health and nutrition, and protect the environmen...
(2005)
1 bookmarks
Complexity and Medicine
The elephant in the waiting room
This book aims to help the reader understand the difference between Linear Science and Complexity Theory, and how medicine has failed to apply the latter. It recognises the advantages of using this understanding to genereate realistic hypotheses for cause of disease.
(2010)
2 bookmarks
Atlas of Radiology of th...
The Case-Based Approach
by Joe P Morgan and Pim Wolvekamp
The totally revised second edition of this comprehensive Atlas describes and explains the uses of diagnostic radiology and provides detailed instructions on how best to apply this technique to the diagnosis of traumatized dogs and cats, including a range of emergency cases. T...
(2004)
1 bookmarks
Asian Diasporas
Cultures, Indentity, Representation
by Robbie B.H. Goh and Shawn Wong
This is designed as a textbook for medical practitioners preparing for higher qualification examinations in pain medicine, as well as a reference book for other medical and allied healthcare workers. A unique feature of the book is its multidisciplinary approach to manage pain...
(2004)
1 bookmarks
The Neuroanatomical Over...
Evidence from Lesion and Intracranial ERP Studies
The first part of this dissertation comprises theoretical, methodological and empirical background information. Chapter 1 will present a neurocognitive model of language comprehension demonstrating the complex interplay of sub-processes involved in speech perception. Furtherm...
(2009)
1 bookmarks
Modelling the human card...
by Herbert Oertel, Kathrin Spiegel, and Sven Donisi
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000005151 Abstract: In the second edition of the article a virtual heart model simulating the flow in the active left human ventricle and atrium is presented. Because in vivo myoca...
(2006)
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Modelling the human card...
by Herbert Oertel, Sebastian Kr..., and Kathrin Spiegel
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000011015 Abstract: The third edition of this article on the modelling and simulation of the flow in human hearts supplements earlier editions. It discusses the flow-structure coup...
(2009)
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Solving the inverse prob...
by Yuan Jiang
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000016052 Abstract: Heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Straightforward information about the cardiac electrophysiology can help to improve the quality of diagnosi...
(2010)
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Numerical efficiency cal...
Monte Carlo simulations of in vivo measurement scenarios for the detection of incorporated radionuclides, including validation, analysis of efficiency-sensitive parameters and customized anthropomorphic voxel models
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000017470 Abstract: Monte Carlo radiation transport codes were used with virtual models of in vivo measurement equipment. Software was coded to handle memory intensive anthropomorphic...
(2010)
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OECD Reviews of Health S...
This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows that health status has improved rapidly in Turkey in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health spending. It describes the introduction of an ambitious Health Transformation Programme in 2003 which brought...
(2009)
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Colloidal Silver Today
The All-Natural Wide-Spectrum Germ Killer
Colloidal silver is becoming the people's germ killer—cheap, easily manufactured, and effective. Thoroughly documented with the latest findings from leading researchers working with colloidal silver, this book will answer many of the questions about this amazing substance. ...
(2003)
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Creation and Governance ...
Large-scale study of populations may contribute significantly to science’s understanding of the complex multi-factorial basis of disease and to improvements in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and cure. This book summarises the proceedings of a conference on human g...
(2006)
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Medical Malpractice
Prevention, Insurance and Coverage Options
Confidence in a country’s health care system requires indemnification and deterrence systems that adequately cover liability, provide fair compensation for injury, and deter medical malpractices. Over the last years, in many OECD countries, these systems have experienced diffi...
(2006)
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OECD Reviews of Health S...
The Swiss population enjoys good health and universal access to a comprehensive range of modern health services, but policy makers are faced with considerable policy challenges, particularly to contain fast-growing health spending and improve value for money.This book analyses...
(2006)
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Achievements in Medicine...
by T.K. Chan
This commemorative volume has been prepared by the teaching staff of the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, in honour of Professor david Todd, as a tribute to his distinguished tensure as Head of the Department of Medicine from 1974-1989.
(2010)
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Anaesthesia
by Z. Lett
This recent publication is a unique contribution to the history of specialized medicine in Hong Kong. Written by two of Hong Kong's foremost practitioners and teachers of anaesthesiology, the work details the history of this specialty in Hong Kong, includ
(2010)
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Constancy of Purpose
An Account of the Foundation and History of the Hong Kong College of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong, 1887-1987
This volume relates the development of the Faculty from its beginnings and commemorates the establishment of one of the oldest and most reputable medical schools in South East Asia. It is hoped that it will be of special attraction and appeal not only to
(2010)
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Current Concepts in Para...
by Ronald C. Ko
There are twelve chapters in this book. The subjects discussed include the mechanisms of eosinophilia in parasitic infections, piscine immunity to protozoan diseases, survival strategies of trichuroid nematodes, serodiagnosis, purine and pyrimidine biosyn
(2010)
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