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Relational Medicine: Personalizing Modern Healthcare
The Practice of High-Tech Medicine as a RelationalAct
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In this book, we present a novel framework of high-tech modern medicine. Patients going through major high-tech medical interventions, e.g. Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and heart transplantation, must integrate scientific and...
by Jan-Thorsten Schantz, Dietmar W Hutmacher
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The emerging field of regenerative medicine has led to a paradigm shift in therapeutic procedures. Scientific discovery in stem cell biology and material sciences, as well as in genetics have resulted in clinical concepts that focus on regeneration rather than repair. Also, translational research...
Nuclear and Radiation Physics in Medicine
A Conceptual Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Modern physics, radiation, atomic and nuclear physics have revolutionized medical diagnosis and the treatment of cancer. The work of the scientists whose discoveries fuelled this revolution is an important part of our scientific and cultural heritage. Using basic physics and simple mathematics this...
Advanced Textbook on Gene Transfer, Gene Therapy and Genetic Pharmacology
Principles, Delivery and Pharmacological and Biomedical Applications of Nucleotide-Based Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
This unique advanced textbook provides a clear and comprehensive overview of gene delivery, gene therapy and genetic pharmacology, with descriptions of the main gene transfer vectors and a set of selected therapeutic applications, along with safety considerations. The second edition features new groundbreaking...
Proofs that Life is Cosmic
Acceptance of a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This is a revisit of a radical theory of cometary panspermia and cosmic life that was first proposed by Chandra Wickramasinghe and the late Sir Fred Hoyle in 1982. In its earliest form the theory of cosmic life started off as a speculation in 1974 after the first discovery of complex organic molecules...
One Hundred Years of General Relativity
From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity(Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development,...
by Wei-Tou Ni
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development,...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 7: Colliders
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideröe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953. The first three colliders — AdA in Italy, CBX in the US, and VEP-1 in the...
by Rubem P Mondaini
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This is a book on interdisciplinary topics of the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The treatment is both pedagogical and advanced in order to motivate research students as well as to fulfill the requirements of professional practitioners. There are comprehensive reviews written by senior experts...
Intelligible Design
A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book provides realistic answers to hotly debated scientific topics: Science is about quantitative aspects of natural realities (physical, chemical, biological) but it is the result of human intellectual inquiry and therefore not “per se” materialistic.
This book, with contributions...
Western Biomedicine and Eastern Therapeutics
An Integrative Strategy for Personalized and Preventive Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Modern Western Medicine (MWM) and Ayurveda/Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can be considered two extreme paradigms to complex systems. The microscopic and reductionist approach of the West prevails in acute and single-gene conditions such as infection and Mendelian disorders. The macroscopic and...
Legitimacy
Ambiguities of Political Success or Failure in East and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2005
This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable. Legitimacy is specifically political, rather...
Crystal Chemistry
From Basics to Tools for Materials Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Devoted to a diverse group of solid state scientists, the book has two objectives, both relating to structural chemistry: (i) a progressive analytic familiarization with the main parameters that govern the organization of crystallized matter and related crystal structures, (ii) a study of what are...
by David Warburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are fast moving fields with vastly transformative implications for the future of health care and capital markets. This book will show the state of the art in the translational fields of stem cell biology, tissue engineering and regenerative...