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This book presents a set of experimental studies and numerical simulation of cancellous bone material, the goal being to promote the development of artificial cancellous bones. In the development context, two major factors need to be considered: the integrity of the overall structure and its permeability. The challenge is to mimic and develop synthetic cancellous bone to offer performance that is comparable to natural cancellous bone structures, especially for load-bearing applications. Product details Format Paperback | 116 pages Dimensions 155 x 235mm ...

This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions. The volumes cover a very important topic in pain medicine, since muscle pain is very common and can often be dif?cult to diagnose and treat effectively. Furthermore, chronic pain involving muscle and other components of the musculoskeletal system increases with age, such that it is a common complaint of those of us who are middle-aged or older. Indeed, as changing population demographics in "west- nized" countries result in higher proportions of the population living longer and being middle-aged and elderly, chronic muscle pain will likely become even more of a health problem. In the case of acute muscle pain, this can often be very intense, and in the short term can limit or modify...

Die Entwicklung von Methoden zur Diskriminanzanalyse hat sich bisher in vier Stufen vollzogen. Am Anfang stand der intuitive Ansatz von Fisher, der von Welch, Rao und anderen auf eine proba- bilistische Stufe gehoben wurde. Die Entscheidungstheorie von Wald brachte schlieBlich einen theoretischen AbschluB. Immer wurde bei der Entwicklung von Methoden jedoch eine zugrun- deliegende multivariate Normalverteilung vorausgesetzt. Erst sehr vie I spater kamen auf der vierten Stufe nicht-parametrische Diskriminanzanalyseverfahren hinzu. Heute stehen wir auf der funften Stufe: der Entwicklung von Verfahren fur gemischte Daten. In den meisten Anwendungsfallen von Verfahren der Diskriminanz- analyse sind die Merkmale von unterschiedlichem Typus. Quantita- tive und qualitative GraBen treten gemischt auf. Der Bedarf gerade an Regeln fur gemischte Daten ist groB - es gibt jedoch wenig Ansatze zur Lasung des Problems. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der aus theoretischer Sicht vielversprechende Ansa...

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels. First, at the level of zoonosis, to which HIV and Ebola, as well as H1Nn, MERS-CoV, and SARS belong, and which promise to continue to emerge. Second, at the level of the spread of these across bio-, ecological and political boundaries and borders, particularly nationally. These present challenges not only in terms of immunities, but also in terms of rights - who is eligible for treatment under whose responsibility? Finally, at the international level of global administration, presenting a challenge in terms of coordinated public health, legal, political, and economic response. The book develops coordinated policy recommendations for meeting these challenges in a globalized world, and examines the unique opportunities and challenges associated with the co-administration of the good of public health by both nation states and non-state actors. This book will be valuable read for students ...

This book provides detailed practical guidelines on how to develop an efficient pathological brain detection system, reflecting the latest advances in the computer-aided diagnosis of structural magnetic resonance brain images. Matlab codes are provided for most of the functions described. In addition, the book equips readers to easily develop the pathological brain detection system further on their own and apply the technologies to other research fields, such as Alzheimer's detection, multiple sclerosis detection, etc. Product details Format Paperback | 214 pages Dimensions 155 ...

For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J. Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea of essential (another) thinking, the questions of translation and existential expressions of the turn of Heidegger's thought, the intersection of politics and language, the philosophic significance of Jacques Lacan, and several essays on science and technology. All show the influence of Richardson's first study. A valuable emphasis appears in Richardson's interpretation of Heidegger's conception of die Irre, interpreted as Errancy, set in its current locus in a discussion of Heidegger's debacle with the polit...

This monograph provides a comprehensive and up-to-date approach on biomineralization. The topical focus of the book lies on the question of how matrix proteins and cells catalyze and regulate mineralization in organisms. Recent advances in the understanding of biomineralization help to better understand biomaterials, in particular their mechanical properties. The target audience primarily comprises practitioners and research experts in the field, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students. Product details Format Paperback | 64 pages Dimensions 155 x 23...