Bøker utgitt av Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

A guide for students, practitioners, academics and others interested in pharmacy law and practice in the United Kingdom. It includes discussions of socio-political influences on legal developments. It sets out the background to regulatory issues together with simple and practical statements of what a pharmacist has to do to obey the law.

Argues that knowledge in language consists of being able to use it in speaking and understanding. This work analyses a variety of languages, from English to Japanese and Swahili. It is intended for those in the disciplines of language, linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, cognitive science, law, media studies, and medicine.

A guide to the identification of marine diatoms and dinoflagellates, meant to be used with tools as simple as a light microscope. This book compiles the taxonomic names, a bibliography, and synthesis and criteria. It contains hundreds of illustrations showing critical characteristics necessary for proper identification.

Aims to fulfill the needs of academic as well as professional statisticians who want to pursue nonparametrics in their academic projects, consultation, and applied research works. This edition includes topics such as asymptotic methods, nonparametrics, convergence of probability measures, statistical inference, and others.

Offers a comparison of asthma and COPD. This title provides comprehensive review of the understanding of the basic mechanisms of both conditions, specifically comparing their etiology, pathogenesis, and treatments.

Focuses on how to assess, prevent, and manage severe nuclear accidents in the light water reactors (LWRs) that pose the most risk to the public. This title explains how developments in the field of LWR severe accidents have provided accurate determinations of risk, thereby shedding light on the debates surrounding nuclear power safety.

The conservation of marine benthic biodiversity is a recognised goal of a number of national and international programs such as the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). This book provides a synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats.

Introduces a data analysis technique that addresses long standing criticisms of the standard statistics. This title presents the mathematics and techniques underlying the method, discussing causality, modelling, and logical hypothesis testing.

The application of molecular genetic and biologic techniques to infectious disease epidemiology dramatically improves measurement of disease and putative risk factors increasing our ability to detect and track outbreaks, identify risk factors. This title examines these opportunities and methodologic challenges giving specific examples.

Describes the basics of genomics and proteomics and highlights the various chemical, physical and biological approaches to protein and gene delivery. This title covers a diverse array of topics from basic sciences to therapeutic applications of proteomics and genomics delivery. It is suitable for researchers in both academia and industry.

The devastating impacts of tsunamis have received increased focus since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the most destructive tsunami in over 400 years of recorded history. This title provides a review of the current state of tsunami detection technology. It focuses on the two main tsunami warning systems (TWS): International and Regional.

An atlas that provides anatomy of human brain white matter. It offers an introduction to and description of the methodology, the 3D anatomy of individual tracts, and a series of color-coded orientation maps to delineate white matter anatomy in a slice-by-slice manner.

Presents an insider's view of China's key energy issues and the strategy for addressing them. This title compares China's energy situation with the developed world. It details specific challenges and opportunities in China with respect to coal, oil, nuclear, natural gas, solar, biomass, hydrogen, geothermal, wind, and ocean.

Stem cells are of great interest to scientists and clinicians due to their ability to differentiate into various tissues of the body, making them a promising source of cells for regenerative medicine and drug discovery as well as a model of vertebrate development. This title features a set of protocols written by experts in the field.

The eye is a complex sensory organ, which enables visual perception of the world. Thus the eye has several tissues that do different tasks. This book presents the different animal models that are commonly used for eye research and their uniqueness in evaluating different aspects of eye development, evolution, physiology and disease.

Provides methods for evaluation of IT-based systems and solutions within healthcare. This work presents an assessment of methods addressing interactions with and effects of technology at the organizational, psychological, and social levels. It also collects a number of evaluation methods of medical informatics, and addresses metrics and measures.

Clinical Systems Engineering: New Challenges for Future Healthcare covers the critical issues relating to the risk management and design of new technologies in the healthcare sector. It is a comprehensive summary of the advances in clinical engineering over the past 40 years, presenting guidance on compliance and safety for hospitals and engineering teams. This contributed book contains chapters from international experts, who provide their solutions, experiences, and the successful methodologies they have applied to solve common problems in the area of healthcare technology. Topics include compliance with the European Directive on Medical Devices 93/42/EEC, European Norms EN 60601-1-6, EN 62366, and the American Standards ANSI/AAMI HE75: 2009. Content coverage includes decision support systems, clinical complex systems, and human factor engineering. Examples are fully supported with case studies, and global perspective is maintained throughout. This book is ideal for clinical engineers, biomedical engineers, hospital administrators and medical technology manufacturers. Presents clinical systems engineering in a way that will help users answer many questions relating to clinical systems engineering and its relationship to future healthcare needsExplains how to assess new healthcare technologies and what are the most critical issues in their managementProvides information on how to carry out risk analysis for new technological systems or medical softwareContains tactics on how to improve the quality and usability of medical devices

Viral Pathogenesis: From Basics to Systems Biology, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to cover topical advances in the evolving field of viral pathogenesis, while also providing the requisite classic foundational information for which it is recognized. The book provides key coverage of the newfound ability to profile molecular events on a system-wide scale, which has led to a deeper understanding of virus-host interactions, host signaling and molecular-interaction networks, and the role of host genetics in determining disease outcome. In addition, the content has been augmented with short chapters on seminal breakthroughs and profiles of their progenitors, as well as short commentaries on important or controversial issues in the field. Thus, the reader will be given a view of virology research with perspectives on issues such as biomedical ethics, public health policy, and human health. In summary, the third edition will give the student a sense of the exciting new perspectives on viral pathogenesis that have been provided by recent developments in genomics, computation, modeling, and systems biology.Covers all aspects of viral infection, including viral entry, replication, and release, as well as innate and adaptive immunity and viral pathogenesisProvides a fresh perspective on the approaches used to understand how viruses cause disease Features molecular profiling techniques, whole genome sequencing, and innovative computational methodsHighlights the use of contemporary approaches and the insights they provide to the field

Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion: Psychological and Clinical Implications presents updated research on stress, pain, and emotion, all key research areas within both basic and clinical neuroscience. Improved research understanding of their interaction is ultimately necessary if clinicians and those working in the field of psychosomatic medicine are to alleviate patient suffering. This volume offers broad coverage of that interaction, with chapters written by major researchers in the field. After reviewing the neuroscience of pain and stress, the contents go on to address the interaction between stress and chronic/acute pain, the role of different emotions in pain, neurobiological mechanisms mediating these various interactions, individual differences in both stress and pain, the role of patient expectations during treatment (placebo and nocebo responses), and how those relate to stress modulation. While there are books on the market which discuss pain, stress, and emotion separately, this volume is the first to tackle their nexus, thus appealing to both researchers and clinicians.Represents the only comprehensive reference detailing the link between pain, stress and emotion, covering the neuroscientific underpinnings, related psychological processes, and clinical implicationsCompiles, in one place, research which promises to improve the methodology of clinical trials and the use of knowledge of pain-stress-emotion effects in order to reduce patients'' sufferingProvides comprehensive chapters authored by global leaders in the field, the broadest, most expert coverage available

Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition, is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell; in other words, how matter translates into mind. This timely revision provides a unique introduction to the techniques for researching and understanding how the brain translates the external physical world to the internal world of sensation. The revision expands and refines coverage of the basic tools of psychophysics research and better integrates the theory with the supporting software. The new edition continues to be the only book to combine, in a single volume, the principles underlying the science of psychophysical measurement and the practical tools necessary to analyze data from psychophysical experiments. The book, written in a tutorial style, will appeal to new researchers as well as to seasoned veterans. This introduction to psychophysics research methods will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers within sensory neuroscience, vision research, behavioral neuroscience, and the cognitive sciences.Presents a large variety of analytical methods explained for the non-expertProvides a novel classification scheme for psychophysics experiments Includes a new software package for collecting and analyzing psychophysical data Disseminates the pros and cons of different psychophysical procedures Contains practical tips for designing psychophysical experiments

Focusing on the dynamics of slender bodies within or containing axial flow, this title covers fluid-structure interactions relating to shells, cylinders and plates containing or immersed in axial flow, as well as slender structures subjected to annular and leakage flows.