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Recent improvements in healthcare delivery due to innovative
technological advancements have redefined fields of biomedical
science now allowing for enhanced information management, resource
allocation, and quality assurance. Biocomputation and Biomedical
Informatics: Case Studies and Applications provides a compendium of
terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, processes, and
acronyms in this significant medical field of study. Featuring
chapters authored by leading international experts, this
unsurpassed collection provides a defining body of research
indispensible to medical libraries, researchers, and institutions
worldwide.
This book was developed with the goal of providing an easily
understood text for those users of the scanning electron microscope
(SEM) who have little or no background in the area. The SEM is
routinely used to study the surface structure and chemistry of a
wide range of biological and synthetic materials at the micrometer
to nanometer scale. Ease-of-use, typically facile sample
preparation, and straightforward image interpretation, combined
with high resolution, high depth of field, and the ability to
undertake microchemical and crystallographic analysis, has made
scanning electron microscopy one of the most powerful and versatile
techniques for characterization today. Indeed, the SEM is a vital
tool for the characterization of nanostructured materials and the
development of nanotechnology. However, its wide use by
professionals with diverse technical backgrounds-including life
science, materials science, engineering, forensics, mineralogy,
etc., and in various sectors of government, industry, and
academia-emphasizes the need for an introductory text providing the
basics of effective SEM imaging.A Beginners' Guide to Scanning
Electron Microscopy explains instrumentation, operation, image
interpretation and sample preparation in a wide ranging yet
succinct and practical text, treating the essential theory of
specimen-beam interaction and image formation in a manner that can
be effortlessly comprehended by the novice SEM user. This book
provides a concise and accessible introduction to the essentials of
SEM includes a large number of illustrations specifically chosen to
aid readers' understanding of key concepts highlights recent
advances in instrumentation, imaging and sample preparation
techniques offers examples drawn from a variety of applications
that appeal to professionals from diverse backgrounds.
New York City has the largest medical examiner's office in the
United States, and the Brooklyn division is the busiest of the five
boroughs. Charles A. Catanese received his Forensic Pathology
fellowship training in New York, and then worked full time as a
Medical Examiner in the Brooklyn office for more than 10 years. He
has personally performed more than 4000 autopsies, including over
400 homicides. Dr. Catanese has worked through several disasters,
including TWA Flight 800, AA Flight 587, and more than nine months
on the World Trade Center fatalities. He is currently the Chief
Medical Examiner of Orange County, New York. Drawing on his wealth
of knowledge and experience in solving some of the most difficult
cases a forensic examiner could encounter, he assembles hundreds of
images from his own work experience to present the Color Atlas of
Forensic Medicine and Pathology. Featuring twice the number of
images as any other forensic pathology atlas, the book is filled
with high-resolution photos that demonstrate postmortem changes of
the human body and the different types of patterns produced in
deaths caused by: Natural causes Diagnostic or therapeutic
procedures Substance abuse Poisoning Child abuse Firearms Blunt
instruments Sharp instruments Burns Asphyxia This easy-to-read
atlas, created for medical and non-medical personnel, covers basic
and advanced forensic concepts that relate to all manners of
deaths. The carefully worded, unambiguous text describing each
photo and the side-by-side comparisons of similar, yet different,
pathologies make this remarkable atlas a powerful teaching tool for
all those who must confront and solve the mystery of human demise.
A fully searchable DVD version is also available.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book presents state-of-the-art research advances in the field
of biologically inspired cooperative control theories and their
applications. It describes various biologically inspired
cooperative control and optimization approaches and highlights
real-world examples in complex industrial processes.
Multidisciplinary in nature and closely integrating theory and
practice, the book will be of interest to all university
researchers, control engineers and graduate students in intelligent
systems and control who wish to learn the core principles, methods,
algorithms, and applications.
Exam Board: CCEA Level: A-level Subject: Biology First Teaching:
September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 Reinforce students'
understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with
sample questions and answers will improve exam technique to achieve
higher grades Written by examiners and teachers, Student Guides: *
Help students identify what they need to know with a concise
summary of the topics examined in the AS and A-level specification
* Consolidate understanding with exam tips and knowledge check
questions * Provide opportunities to improve exam technique with
sample graded answers to exam-style questions * Develop independent
learning and research skills * Provide the content for generating
individual revision notes
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Concepts, Methods and Applications of Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics
- Selected proceedings of QSCP-XXI (Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2016)
(Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Yan A. Wang, Mark Thachuk, Roman Krems, Jean Maruani
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This edited, multi-author volume contains selected, peer-reviewed
contributions based on the presentations given at the 21th
International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics,
and Biology (QSCP-XXI), held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2016.
This book is primarily aimed at scholars, researchers and graduate
students working at universities and scientific laboratories and
interested in the structure, properties, dynamics and spectroscopy
of atoms, molecules, biological systems and condensed matter.
Wetlands are increasingly viewed as valuable resources rather than
wastelands and appreciated as reservoirs for species diversity.
These two companion volumes provide the naturalist and field worker
with complete descriptions and illustrations of 312 plant species
found in Adirondack wetlands and sufficient information for the
identification of many more. We hope you will take the books along
on your next outing and begin to share our fascination with wetland
plants.
The phylum Mollusca is the second largest group of animals and
occur in virtually all habitats. Many non-marine molluscs are
threatened with more recorded extinctions than all tetrapod
vertebrates combined. This two-volume set will provide the first
general account of molluscs in decades and will include hundreds of
colour figures. General chapters bring together a diverse and
extensive literature, while taxon chapters provide overviews of
their evolution, phylogeny and classification as well as more
specific and detailed coverage of their biology (reproduction,
feeding and digestion, excretion, respiration etc.), their long
fossil record, and their natural history.
This book presents the history of natural history dioramas in
museums, their building and science learning aspects, as well as
current developments and their place in the visitor experience.
From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in
cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in
response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and
expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been
to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this
is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as
learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on
their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a
wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in
developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate
change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning
process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding
and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the
natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of
societies. In the simultaneously published book: "Natural History
Dioramas - Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes,
Socio-cultural Aspects" the editors focus on socio-cultural issues
and the potential of using dioramas to engage various audiences
with - and in - contemporary debates and big issues, which society
and the natural environment are facing.
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