As reported by the Ministry of Health, Equality and Social Affairs (2021), on December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health and Sanitation Commission (Hubei Province, China) reported 27 incidences with cases of pneumonia of unknown origin, with a common manifestation in users of a...

Ebola: An In-Depth Insight for Nurses and Medical ProfessionalsBy: Brenda L. Horsley RNThis book is a comprehensive and in-depth look at the origins, pathology, and strains of the Ebola virus. It will address patient care starting with the ambulance ride throughout the patient's hospital...

Domiciliary services provide care to patients who, due to their clinical condition, remain with specific care at home. Being the user's residence a place not designed for health care, it offers additional risks to those of a hospital environment, requiring specific guidelines for this...

We present a model based on patient anatomy to predict the percentage of ipsilateral lung and/or heart volume receiving at least a certain dose in breast treatments with static tangential fields of external radiotherapy. The introduction will briefly guide us through the disease of...

Maritime medicine represents an area of medicine that has origins dating back to Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking and European times. Seafarers have been the pioneers in the exploration of new continents, they have accessed territories that have given mankind access to resources found in...

Digestive cancers, constitute a major and global public health problem, due to their frequency and severity. This is a multicenter descriptive epidemiological study from 2014 to 2018 on all cases of digestive cancers diagnosed in the East and South-East Algerian region. The gender distribution...

This book presents the Hippocrates treatise of the epidemics, followed by an essay on historic epidemics. "Epidemic denotes a spreading disease which attacks great numbers of people at certain seasons. The term Epidemic derived from two Greek words, which signify "upon the people -...

This book allows us to talk about the cases presented on epilepsy, which is a generalized epileptic seizure in children and adults, that which lasts five minutes or more, or two or more seizures without recovery of alertness in a period of 30 minutes....

Good nutrition is a factor in the growth of children and in the performance of young athletes. This book describes the different needs that make up a good diet, and the nutrition related to African specificities. What are the essential energy requirements for improved...

Peripheral arterial disease occurs due to obstruction at the arterial level. This obstruction is mainly due to atherosclerosis resulting in turn from the accumulation of lipids and fibrous material between the muscular and intimal tunica of the blood vessel wall. The risk factors are...

Quantum dots are proven powerful probes for fluorescence imaging and have distinct properties that give them unique capabilities. Currently, they are being developed for a range of additional applications including the detection of disease, fluorescent assays for drug discovery, single protein tracking and intracellular...

Author: Saleem ToroISBN-10: 3031308034ISBN-13: 9783031308031Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2023Pages: 199Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Since its first description in 1916, the spectrum of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has broadened and it is currently used to refer to a group of acute autoimmune neuropathies with different clinical phenotypes. Its spectrum is dominated by the classical phenotype characterized by flaccid paraplegia...

A Patient's Guide to Cancer was written for newly diagnosed cancer patients, their families and friends with the goal of demystifying the processes underlying the disease and explaining how recent discoveries about these processes have and continue to translate into the development of promising...

Dr. D's Practical Pain Book: Encompassing-Students to All providers -A guideBy: Baburao Doddapaneni, MD, FRCS, FACAN, DABAIn Dr. D's Practical Pain Book, Baburao Doddapaneni, MD, FRCS, FACAN, DABA, provides help to pain management medical providers and educates them on sound concepts of pain physiology....

INTRODUCTIONFor generations females have suffered, not only with the Victorian attitude towards their sexuality, but towards the attitudes that women are a lesser human being than the males of the human species. Testosterone plays a part in this, but more so does the attitude...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The Chemistry of Dyeing, written by John Kerfoot Wood and originally published in 1915, is a comprehensive guide to the science of dyeing. The book covers the chemical processes involved in dyeing natural and synthetic fibers, including wool, silk, cotton, and rayon. It also...

Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations 1905 is a book written by J. Maxwell that explores the world of paranormal and supernatural phenomena. The book is a comprehensive study of various methods and observations related to metapsychical phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and other psychic...

The Isiac Tablet of Cardinal Bembo: Its History and Occult Significance is a book written by W. Wynn Westcott. The book explores the history and significance of the Isiac Tablet, a mysterious artifact that was discovered in the 16th century and is believed to...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disorder that destructs brain functions and results in severe cognitive and emotional disturbances. It is a common reason for mortality and morbidity of human beings globally. Recent researches indicated that the transplanted mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can migrate...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

One of the important problems of modern neurology is the study of dementia. The increase in the number of older people and the change in their age index has led to an increase in the number of older people with cognitive impairment and dementia....

In this valuable treatise, Hippocrates suggested to the traveling physicians to look into the seasons of the year and their effects. He presented the health implications of the winds, the qualities of the waters, and each city's unique setting in the landscape.Author: Hippocrates of...

In the current healthcare crisis, is it possible to rethink the way we do things?Australian healthcare systems are stretched and cracking. There are never-ending reports of unacceptable delays, a lack of resources, poor culture, and skyrocketing burnout rates. The problems are overwhelming and appear...

This updated edition of Painless Evidence-Based Medicine presents basic concepts and application of research statistics in simple and practical manner creating an introductory approach to the complex and technical subject of evidence-based medicine from experienced teachers. A simplified introductory approach to the complex and...

Book 9 focuses on a new dementia type, LATE, mistaken as Alzheimer's disease until now.LATE stands for Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, the protein buildup responsible for this dementia. This book is organic, like the series, meaning we never consider our books as finished. Science...

Many people have come and gone in the Operating Room that I worked in for so many years. There are some that stand out as great victories and others that were senseless deaths. The ones I remember the most are those where the life...

An accomplished physician and medical educator looks back across his professional life, realizing that finding meaning was the key to happiness. Using his poetry, essays, and technical medical reports as mileposts along the journey, he makes the case that a true generalist takes on...

We all know obesity is a major problem for the modern world, and we have thousands of books being written trying to help people lose weight. There are countless diets and programs. People are jumping from one diet to another. Talking about the long...

The basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.Author: Otto F. KernbergISBN-10: 0876687621ISBN-13: 9780876687628Publisher: Jason AronsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

This is a candid and inspiring collection of articles depicting one ma n's struggle with cancer. The intent is to reach out to those sufferin g from terminal illnesses and let them know they are not alone.Author: Ed Madden, Edward F. Madden, MaddenISBN-10: 0867207825ISBN-13:...

A thorough update of Arnett's The Beetles of the United States, American Beetles, Volumes I and II cover the genera of beetles that occur in Alaska, Canada, and the contiguous United States. Built on the foundation of the original work and almost completely rewritten...

Meta-Analysis shows concisely, yet comprehensively, how to apply statistical methods to achieve a literature review of a common research domain. It demonstrates the use of combined tests and measures of effect size to synthesize quantitatively the results of independent studies for both group differences...

This book presents a technique for analyzing the effects of variables, groups, and treatments in both experimental and observational settings. It considers not only the main effects of one variable upon another, but also the effects of group cases. Author: Albert R. Wildt, Olli...

Loop tiling, as one of the most important compiler optimizations, is beneficial for both parallel machines and uniprocessors with a memory hierarchy. This book explores the use of loop tiling for reducing communication cost and improving parallelism for distributed memory machines. The author provides...

Stochastic Volatility in Financial Markets presents advanced topics in financial econometrics and theoretical finance, and is divided into three main parts. The first part aims at documenting an empirical regularity of financial price changes: the occurrence of sudden and persistent changes of financial markets...

Based on ideas from Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Learning To Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines presents a new approach to generating text classifiers from examples. The approach combines high performance and efficiency with theoretical understanding and improved robustness. In particular, it is highly...

Doppler Applications in LEO Satellite Communication Systems develops and presents an important class of techniques useful in the construction of little Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems. It centers on the very significant Doppler shift that attends communications through a LEO satellite and...

Over the past 25 years, applied econometrics has undergone tremen- dous changes, with active developments in fields of research such as time series, labor econometrics, financial econometrics and simulation based methods. Time series analysis has been an active field of research since the seminal...

Economic Theory, Dynamics, and Markets. The collection of essays in honor of Ryuzo Sato, written by his colleagues and students, covers the many fields of economic theory and policy to which he has contributed. The first section pays tribute to his contributions to mathematical...

Modern Solid Mechanics considers phenomena at many levels, ranging from nano size at atomic scale through the continuum level at millimeter size to large structures at the tens of meter scale. The deformation and fracture behavior at these various scales are inextricably related to...

Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth. The plateau offers an ideal region for studying of lithospheric formation and evolution, probing into the mechanism of crustal movement, and...

In Chapter 6, we describe the concept of braid equivalence from the topological point of view. This will lead us to a new concept braid homotopy that is discussed fully in the next chapter. As just mentioned, in Chapter 7, we shall discuss the...

The focus in this Second Edition is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of fit, indices of predictive efficiency, and standardized logistic regression coefficients, and examples...

This book covers the life story of Charles Clark Dugan, M.D., AA, AB, and MPH. He served in the USAF for nine years as the only available Pilot, Flight Surgeon, and Physician through those years. He was hospital commander at Barksdale AFB, LA and...