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Get the best instruction on occupational analysis, group process,
and therapeutic media - all from one book! Using a matter-of-fact
style to share their experiences, successes, and failures, expert
authors Jane Clifford O'Brien and Jean W. Solomon provide you with
effective therapeutic media; sample activity analyses useful in
current health care contexts; practical guidance in play, leisure,
and social participation areas of occupation; strategies for
effective group management and processes; and overviews of theories
supporting best practice. Comprehensive content covers the material
taught in group process and occupational analysis courses
thoroughly and completely for the OTA. Logically organized content
that's written in a matter-of-fact style helps you better
understand and retain information. Clinical pearls emphasize the
practical application of the information. Therapeutic Media are
tried-and-true methods pulled from the author's extensive
experience.
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering introduces the fundamental
concepts and translational applications of musculoskeletal tissue
engineering, in combination with emerging technologies and
materials. Sections discuss Tissues and Technologies, covering a
range of musculoskeletal tissues, including bone, cartilage,
ligament and more. Each chapter in this section details core tissue
engineering principles specific to each tissue type. Next, a
Technologies section looks at the range of biomaterials used in
musculoskeletal tissue engineering, focusing on biocompatibility of
materials and interactions at the material-tissue interface. Other
chapters cover nanotechnology, 3D printing, gene therapy, tissue
chips, and more. This book offers an advanced reference text for
researchers in biomedical engineering, materials science and
regenerative medicine.
State of the Art on Grammatical Inference Using Evolutionary Method
presents an approach for grammatical inference (GI) using
evolutionary algorithms. Grammatical inference deals with the
standard learning procedure to acquire grammars based on evidence
about the language. It has been extensively studied due to its high
importance in various fields of engineering and science. The book's
prime purpose is to enhance the current state-of-the-art of
grammatical inference methods and present new evolutionary
algorithms-based approaches for context free grammar induction. The
book's focus lies in the development of robust genetic algorithms
for context free grammar induction. The new algorithms discussed in
this book incorporate Boolean-based operators during offspring
generation within the execution of the genetic algorithm. Hence,
the user has no limitation on utilizing the evolutionary methods
for grammatical inference.
The Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Standards were
published in 2013 to fulfil a need for national guidelines to
reduce the risks of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
of healthcare workers. Significant strides have been made in SPHM
research, education, training, and advocacy, since the first
edition of the Standards. But patient handling and mobility-related
injury rates have not been reduced significantly. This means that
our work is not done. One goal of the second edition is to
communicate the continued need for standardized SPHM programs and
resources and re-ignite SPHM discussions and improvements. There
are eight overarching standards featured in the book, each one
outlined and explained in detail: Culture of Safety Sustainable
SPHM Program Ergonomic Design Principles SPHM Technology Education,
Training, and Maintaining Competence Patient-Centered Assessment
Reasonable Accommodation and Post-Injury Return to Work
Comprehensive Evaluation System Nurses and all other healthcare
workers must continue to use technology, do research, and discover
new and unique ways to promote the value of SPHM to keep themselves
and their patients safe.
Tissue Engineering Using Ceramics and Polymers, Third Edition is a
valuable reference tool for both academic researchers and
scientists involved in biomaterials or tissue engineering,
including the areas of bone and soft-tissue reconstruction, repair
and organ regeneration. With its distinguished editors and
international team of contributors, this book reviews the latest
research and advances in this thriving area and how they can be
used to develop treatments for disease states. New sections cover
nanobiomaterials, drug delivery, advanced imaging and MRI for
tissue engineering, and characterization of vascularized scaffolds.
Technology and research in the field of tissue engineering has
drastically increased within the last few years to the extent that
almost every tissue and organ of the human body could potentially
be regenerated with the aid of biomaterials.
Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications, Second Edition,
provides an updated guide to the diverse range of biomedical
applications of porous silicon, from biosensing and imaging to
tissue engineering and cancer therapy. Across biomedical
disciplines, there is an ongoing search for biomaterials that are
biocompatible, modifiable, structurally sound, and versatile.
Porous silicon possesses a range of properties that make it ideal
for a variety of biomedical applications, such as controllable
geometry, tunable nanoporous structure, large pore volume/high
specific surface area, and versatile surface chemistry. This book
provides a fully updated and detailed overview of the range of
biomedical applications for porous silicon. Part One offers the
reader a helpful insight into the fundamentals and beneficial
properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and
stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification,
protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on
the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using
porous silicon, from bioimaging and sensing to drug delivery and
tissue engineering. This new edition also includes new chapters on
in-vivo assessment of porous silicon, photodynamic and photothermal
therapy, micro- and nanoneedles, Raman imaging, cancer
immunotherapy, and more. With its acclaimed editor and
international team of expert contributors, Porous Silicon for
Biomedical Applications, Second Edition, is a technical resource
and indispensable guide for all those involved in the research,
development, and application of porous silicon and other
biomaterials, while providing a comprehensive introduction for
students and academics interested in this field.
Biomaterials in Endodontics offers an up-to-date overview of
endodontic biomaterials and their applications in regenerative
medicine and tissue engineering. This book details the key
biomaterials used in clinical endodontics and the benefits and
challenges of using these materials, from root canal obturation
materials to alloys for endodontic files and hand instruments.
Chapters also offer a unique insight into the regenerative
applications of endodontic biomaterials, such as the use of stem
cells and growth factors for bone regeneration. Biomaterials in
Endodontics is a useful resource for researchers working in
biomedical engineering, regenerative medicine, and materials
science with an interest in dentistry and bone regeneration. This
book is also a helpful guide for endodontists, dentists, dental
scientists, and clinicians with an interest in biomaterials for
endodontics.
Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Generating
Electricity from Human Walking provides the state-of-the-art,
recent mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy harvesters based
on piezoelectric stacks. The book discusses innovative mechanism
designs for energy harvesting from multidimensional force
excitation, such as human walking, which offers higher energy
density. Coverage includes analytical modeling, optimal design,
simulation study, prototype fabrication, and experimental
investigation. Detailed examples of their analyses and
implementations are provided. The book's authors provide a unique
perspective on this field, primarily focusing on novel designs for
PZT Energy harvesting in biomedical engineering as well as in
integrated multi-stage force amplification frame. This book
presents force-amplification compliant mechanism design and force
direction-transmission mechanism design. It explores new mechanism
design approaches using piezoelectric materials and permanent
magnets. Readers can expect to learn how to design new mechanisms
to realize multidimensional energy harvesting systems.
Data Science for COVID-19, Volume 2: Societal and Medical
Perspectives presents the most current and leading-edge research
into the applications of a variety of data science techniques for
the detection, mitigation, treatment and elimination of the
COVID-19 virus. At this point, Cognitive Data Science is the most
powerful tool for researchers to fight COVID-19. Thanks to instant
data-analysis and predictive techniques, including Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, and
computational modeling for processing large amounts of data,
recognizing patterns, modeling new techniques, and improving both
research and treatment outcomes is now possible.
Storage Systems: Organization, Performance, Coding, Reliability and
Their Data Processing was motivated by the 1988 Redundant Array of
Inexpensive/Independent Disks proposal to replace large form factor
mainframe disks with an array of commodity disks. Disk loads are
balanced by striping data into strips-with one strip per disk- and
storage reliability is enhanced via replication or erasure coding,
which at best dedicates k strips per stripe to tolerate k disk
failures. Flash memories have resulted in a paradigm shift with
Solid State Drives (SSDs) replacing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) for
high performance applications. RAID and Flash have resulted in the
emergence of new storage companies, namely EMC, NetApp, SanDisk,
and Purestorage, and a multibillion-dollar storage market. Key new
conferences and publications are reviewed in this book. The goal of
the book is to expose students, researchers, and IT professionals
to the more important developments in storage systems, while
covering the evolution of storage technologies, traditional and
novel databases, and novel sources of data. We describe several
prototypes: FAWN at CMU, RAMCloud at Stanford, and Lightstore at
MIT; Oracle's Exadata, AWS' Aurora, Alibaba's PolarDB, Fungible
Data Center; and author's paper designs for cloud storage, namely
heterogeneous disk arrays and hierarchical RAID.
The last decade has seen enormous upheaval within all aspects of
health care, and the gastrointestinal/ gastroenterology (GI)
service has been no exception. Increasing demand for new and
established diagnostic and interventional procedures has encouraged
innovative models of service delivery, resulting in a range of
health professionals crossing traditional practice boundaries. In
particular, nurses and radiographers have seized the opportunity to
develop their scope of practice, managing a range of procedures
including colonoscopy, barium studies and CT colonography. This
has, in many cases, freed both radiologists and gastroenterologists
to take on new roles in the interventional service. The development
of new procedures and new ways of working has promoted a renewed
enthusiasm for critical evaluation of the GI service as a whole. As
practitioners and clinicians learn new skills and extend their
scope of practice it is essential that they have a thorough
understanding of the basis of safe, effective and evidence based
practice. This book offers the reader a detailed overview of the
range of imaging procedures that may be employed in the
investigation of gastrointestinal tract pathology, and explores
current practice related to the subsequent patient care pathways
and treatment options. It has been designed as a detailed reference
guide for all health professionals who have a direct involvement in
the GI tract and its imaging, including those who may be referring
patients for GI radiological investigation, those professionals who
are performing and subsequently reporting the procedures, and the
clinicians responsible for the subsequent patient management. This
book offers a unique insight into the rapidly changing radiology
service, and offers introductory chapters which provide the
fundamental underpinning knowledge required for safe and effective
GI practice. Subsequent chapters discuss the evidence base related
to a range of imaging procedures suitable for investigation of
upper and lower GI symptoms, supported by key pathology chapters.
The book also explores the range of treatments available for the
more common GI tract pathology. Multi professional authorship.
Detailed evidence-informed explanations of a range of individual GI
procedures, including suggestions for problem solving and
adaptation of technique. With extensive illustrations, medical
images, boxes and tables. References and further reading. /ul>
Biosignal Processing and Classification Using Computational
Learning and Intelligence: Principles, Algorithms and Applications
posits an approach for biosignal processing and classification
using computational learning and intelligence, highlighting that
the term biosignal refers to all kinds of signals that can be
continuously measured and monitored in living beings. The book is
composed of five relevant parts. Part One is an introduction to
biosignals and Part Two describes the relevant techniques for
biosignal processing, feature extraction and feature
selection/dimensionality reduction. Part Three presents the
fundamentals of computational learning (machine learning). Then,
the main techniques of computational intelligence are described in
Part Four. The authors focus primarily on the explanation of the
most used methods in the last part of this book, which is the most
extensive portion of the book. This part consists of a
recapitulation of the newest applications and reviews in which
these techniques have been successfully applied to the biosignals'
domain, including EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) focused
on P300 and Imagined Speech, emotion recognition from voice and
video, leukemia recognition, infant cry recognition, EEGbased ADHD
identification among others.
Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems: Pharmaceutical, Clinical, and
Regulatory Aspects offers a comprehensive overview of the
technical, clinical, regulatory and industrial perspectives on
these drug delivery systems. The book follows a sequential order,
beginning with the current technical state-of-the-field and moving
on to more clinical, industrial and regulatory topics. Opening
chapters describe the current needs and potential applications of
implantable and long-acting therapeutic approaches. The book goes
on to describe established and novel long-acting systems, with a
focus on the materials used to prepare these systems and their
biocompatibility. Importantly, applied topics such as scale-up
manufacturing, products under clinical trials and regulatory
aspects are covered, offering the reader a holistic view of this
rapidly growing field.
Modern Practical Healthcare Issues in Biomedical Instrumentation
describes the designs, applications and principles of several
medical devices used in hospitals and at home. The book presents
practical devices that can potentially be used for healthcare
purposes. Sections cover the use of biosensors to monitor the
physiological properties of the human body, focusing on devices
used to evaluate, measure and manipulate the biological system, and
highlighting practical devices that can potentially be used for
healthcare purposes. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate,
graduate and post-graduate students of biomedical engineering.
As old age is increasing globally, some challenges arise such as
multimorbidity, a unique medical condition that has multiple
potential complications and thus needs high-quality care directed
by qualified healthcare providers. Multimorbidity is an important
daily challenge to internists worldwide due to its many
difficulties. Junior physicians dealing with multimorbidity must
have the knowledge to practice high-quality care for their elderly
patients. Cases on Multimorbidity and Its Impact on Elderly
Patients considers approaches to manage multimorbidity and its
unique complications and challenges to aid in appropriate daily
decision making. Covering key topics such as weight loss, aging,
and frailty, this reference work is ideal for medical
professionals, nurses, policymakers, researchers, scholars,
academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Understanding medicines management is central to the nursing role.
As a nurse, you will need to make informed decisions about medicine
use and optimisation, tailored to each patient. This book equips
you with the theoretical and practical foundation to do just that.
It covers all key components of medicines management, using a
scenario-based approach to illustrate how each topic relates to
your practice. Key features * Fully mapped to the NMC standards of
proficiency for registered nurses (2018) * Scenarios and activities
help you to translate the theory into nursing practice * Acts as a
stepping stone to support your readiness to undertake a prescribing
qualification upon registration
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