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Pediatric Nephrology
Proceedings of the Fifth International Pediatric Nephrology Symposium, held in Philadelphia, PA, October 6–10, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Proceedings of the Fifth International Pediatric Nephrology Symposia are dedicated to those who make the writing possible: the delegates; those who wanted to attend, but could not, and to our colleagues, families and friends who helped organize the meeting. with the advent of certification of...
Cardiovascular Aspects of Dialysis Treatment
The importance of volume control
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Cardiovascular complications are not only responsible for more than half of our patients' mortality, they also represent the bulk of everyday problems in a dialysis unit. Yet, the space allocated to them in the major textbooks covers only 2-8% of their total content. The origins of this book lie in...
by D.G. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book does not pretend to be a comprehensive textbook of nephrology, nor is it a guide to the management of renal disease, as space does not allow the description or discus sion of investigation and treatment. Its intention is to illustrate the diverse diseases which present to nephrologists....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This is a time in history when the concept of Quality is reaching new highs in terms of public awareness. Articles describing quality, CQI, quality tools, critical success factors, failures, and lessons learned appear in local news papers, trade journals, scientific periodicals, and professional...
The Chronically Mentally Ill
Research and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The topic of chronic mental illness has been much discussed, but there is still no widely accepted strategy of intervention for patients suffering from disorders of this kind. These patients have received little attention until recently, because they are difficult to treat effectively. Although methods...
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases
Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine.
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Brain diseases can have a large impact on patients and society, and treatment is often not available. A new approach in which somatic cells are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent cells (iPS cells) is a significant breakthrough for regenerative medicine. This promises patient-specific tissue for...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
This volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.com in February and March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to help us solve philosophical issues in the philosophy...
The Dawn of Cognitive Science
Early European Contributors
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. It focuses...
Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes
A Defense of Internal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The purpose of the book is to develop internal realism, the metaphysical-episte mological doctrine initiated by Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History, "Introduction", Many Faces). In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme....
Beyond the Inner and the Outer
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron tations with the Philosophical Investigations I was such a reader, and so, it turned out, were...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa’s profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume, it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail...
Happiness in Children
Measurement, Correlates and Enhancement of Positive Subjective Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This briefs summarizes the research on positive well-being in children, with a particular focus on their happiness. It starts with a discussion of the constructs of positive psychology (i.e., well-being, happiness and life satisfaction), and then outlines the research that shows the importance of...
Human Motivation and Interpersonal Relationships
Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume summarizes and organizes a growing body of research supporting the role of motivation in adaptive and rewarding interpersonal interactions with others. The field of human motivation is rapidly growing but most studies have focused on the effects of motivation on individuals' personal happiness...
Perspectives of Stem Cells
From tools for studying mechanisms of neuronal differentiation towards therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Stem cells are fascinating cell types. They can replicate themselves forever while retaining the potential to generate progeny with speci?c functions. Because of these special properties, stem cells have been subjects of intensive investigation, from understanding basic mechanisms underlying tissue...