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Organ Printing
(Hardcover)
Dong-Woo Cho, Jung-Seob Lee, Falguni Pati, Jin Woo Jung, Jinah Jang, …
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R2,834
Discovery Miles 28 340
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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This book introduces various 3D printing systems, biomaterials, and
cells for organ printing. In view of the latest applications of
several 3D printing systems, their advantages and disadvantages are
also discussed. A basic understanding of the entire spectrum of
organ printing provides pragmatic insight into the mechanisms,
methods, and applications of this discipline. Organ printing is
being applied in the tissue engineering field with the purpose of
developing tissue/organ constructs for the regeneration of both
hard (bone, cartilage, osteochondral) and soft tissues (heart).
There are other potential application areas including tissue/organ
models, disease/cancer models, and models for physiology and
pathology, where in vitro 3D multicellular structures developed by
organ printing are valuable.
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 (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 re-examines the rationale for public policy, concluding
that the prevailing 'public knowledge' model is evolving towards a
networked or distributed model of knowledge production and use in
which public and private institutions play complementary roles. It
provides a set of tools and models to assess the impact of the new
network model of funding and governance, and argues that
governments need to adapt their funding and administrative
priorities and procedures to support the emergence and healthy
growth of research networks. The book goes on to explain that
interdependencies and complementarities in the production and
distribution of knowledge require a new and more contextual,
flexible and complex approach to government funding, monitoring and
assessment. The chapters in this book issue a series of challenges
to the next generation of science and technology policy. The need
for new systems of governance in science and innovation make a
single, all encompassing rationale for public funding unnecessary
and irrelevant. The new policy questions that matter concern the
means and mechanisms for intervention - the use of policy to
harness, support and expand the interaction and dynamism of
research networks composed of public and private actors.
Electromagnetics is by no means an easy subject to grasp. Teaching
materials in the discipline must be carefully prepared and
organized to help guide students to success. Not only should such
materials offer comprehensive mathematics and strong physical
insights, they should also present alternative ways of viewing and
formulating problems. Electromagnetics is wonderfully unique in its
approach. With thorough examples, summary tables, figures,
alternative formulations, and homework problems, this volume takes
the electromagnetics student step-by-step through the intricacies
of the subject, and builds up comprehension and application
gradually. Examples are used to delineate a basic approach and to
guide students from start to solution through complex problems.
Special cases are considered to draw analogies, and to offer
physical insights and interpretations. Finally, the book's large
problem set enables instructors to teach the course for several
years without repeating problem assignments. During their many
years of teaching electromagnetics, Adams and Lee became interested
in the discipline's historical aspects and found it useful to
incorporate stories of the basic discoveries into the classroom.
This book explores such rarely covered aspects of the subject.
Included is a fascinating account of what Michael Faraday did when
unexpected events occurred. With its lively description, this book
helps students to imagine themselves taking the same steps as
Faraday.
What is the influence of software systems on an organization's
ability to create knowledge, learn, adapt to change and innovate?
While organization, management and innovation theory has primarily
focused on the impact of software on measures such as process
efficiency and speed, this book argues that integrated systems and
digital technologies offer even more fundamental implications for
the innovating firm. A series of detailed case studies provides the
foundations for a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of
the nature and dynamics of software, knowledge, organization and
their complex interactions. The author demonstrates how software
induces the radical reconfiguration of organizational knowledge and
learning dynamics, including an organization's ability to create,
store, transfer and integrate knowledge across heterogeneous
organizational boundaries. The book provides a unique perspective
on what organizations know and how they use that knowledge to
build, sustain and renew their capabilities. This includes
understanding how information systems can be designed or
implemented in such a way as to favour innovation and adaptation,
and to prevent unfavourable patterns of behaviour. The book
represents an in-depth and systematic attempt to characterize the
fundamental influence of software over the processes that underpin
an organization's ability to create and manage knowledge. Scholars
and students interested in innovation, technological change and
information technology, and managers in software and other hi-tech
industries will find this an insightful and highly rewarding study.
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