Medical Technology category: 1603 books
Preventive Biomechanics
Optimizing Support Systems for the Human Body in the Lying and Sitting Position
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
How can we optimize a bedridden patient’s mattress? How can we make a passenger seat on a long distance flight or ride more comfortable? What qualities should a runner’s shoes have? To objectively address such questions using engineering and scientific methods, adequate virtual human body models...
Healthcare Facilities in Emerging Countries
The Challenge for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management, and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly developing countries, respecting local...
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine
From Algorithms to Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
This volume comprises the latest developments in both fundamental science and patient-specific applications, discussing topics such as: cellular mechanics; injury biomechanics; biomechanics of heart and vascular system; medical image analysis; and both patient-specific fluid dynamics and solid mechanics...
by Jaehwan Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Sensors for measuring and detecting chemical and biological substances are comprehensively used and are, for the most part, unobtrusive. They can help monitor our health through alerting us to chemical or biological changes in our bodies, our environment through checking air quality or pollution levels...
Transglutaminases
Multiple Functional Modifiers and Targets for New Drug Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This book presents basic and extensive information on the physiological and pathological significance of the protein-modifying enzymes, transglutaminases, which are involved in multiple biological events by catalyzing a unique and important posttranslational modification reaction, cross-linking of...
The NeuroMuscular System: From Earth to Space Life Science
Neuromuscular Cell Signalling in Disuse and Exercise
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The book provides fundamental new insights in the structure and function of the healthy NeuroMuscular system. Recent findings suggest that the musculoskeletal system that supports movement control on Earth is controlled by unique principles of structural, biochemical and molecular characteristics....
Rebuilding After Disasters
From Emergency to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Disasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. become disasters because of the fragile relations that exist between the natural, human and built environments. Sadly, major disasters will always occur in towns and cities in the developing world where resources...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2001
This book describes the role modern pharmaceutical analysis plays in the development of new drugs. Detailed information is provided as to how the quality of drug products is assured from the point of discovery until the patient uses the drug. Coverage includes state-of-the-art topics such as analytics...
Developing Solid Oral Dosage Forms
Pharmaceutical Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Developing Solid Oral Dosage Forms is intended for pharmaceutical professionals engaged in research and development of oral dosage forms. It covers essential principles of physical pharmacy, biopharmaceutics and industrial pharmacy as well as various aspects of state-of-the-art techniques and approaches...
by Albert Gollhofer, Dietrich Manzey, Otmar Bock
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.
The results are not only of importance to health and performance of astronauts...
Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
Current and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Human interaction with the environment remains one of the most pervasive facets of modern society. In a world characterized by rapid population growth, unprecedented global trade and digital communications, energy security, natural resource scarcities, climatic changes and environmental quality, emerging...
Differential Equation Analysis in Biomedical Science and Engineering
Ordinary Differential Equation Applications with R
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Features a solid foundation of mathematical and computational tools to formulate and solve real-world ODE problems across various fields
With a step-by-step approach to solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs), Differential Equation Analysis in Biomedical Science and Engineering: Ordinary...
Multiscale Technologies for Cryomedicine
Implementation from Nano to Macroscale
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The use of micro / nanotechnology in cell and tissue engineering, and especially for cell and tissue preservation, is at the peak of its activity now, with scientific output expected to continue growing in the coming years.
Micro and nanotechnologies have induced paradigm shifts in many scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Information technologies constitute a very important contribution to the integration of a population into its environment. Unfortunately, in most cases the development of new technologies does not consider the special needs of potentially disabled users. The Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy...