Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) refers to translational movements which within a given voxel and during the measurement time present a distribution of speeds in orientation and/or amplitude. The concept was introduced in 1986 together with the foundation of diffusion MRI because it had been...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will. Nobel had an active interest in medical research. He came into contact with Swedish physiologist Jöns Johansson through Karolinska Institute around 1890. Johansson worked for a brief period in Nobel's...

This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences....

This volume is a selection of invaluable papers by P-G de Gennes -- 1991 Nobel Prize winner in Physics -- which have had a long-lasting impact on our understanding of condensed matter. Important ideas on polymers, liquid crystals and interfaces are described. The author...

This invaluable book is based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. It consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due...

"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussion instruments would not have advanced anywhere near so far without the tireless enthusiasm and passion of...

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient's life, he discovered that the...

This version contains black and white images. Can you imagine waking up every Thursday morning to an engaging email containing an essay of gratitude? Better yet, could you envision finding this thank you note coming from your boss? For a year, Nicholas Kartsonis took...

This is an introduction to logical structure specifically as it relates to clinical medicine. Doctors use logic every day in clinical medicine, but many have had no formal training in the field. This book solves that problem. Symbolic logic uses symbols to create logical...

Dear Friend, Have you tried to learn as much as you can about the subject of diabetes?Maybe you have tried but haven't been so successful with all the different information out there?The success of the learning what's correct requires more than just a few...

Inverse boundary problems are a rapidly developing area of applied mathematics with applications throughout physics and the engineering sciences. However, the mathematical theory of inverse problems remains incomplete and needs further development to aid in the solution of many important practical problems. Inverse Boundary...

Adequate health and health care is no longer possible without proper data supervision from modern machine learning methodologies like cluster models, neural networks, and other data mining methodologies. The current book is the first publication of a complete overview of machine learning methodologies for...

Have you ever wondered why you seem to feel tired every day, regardless of how much you sleep? Are your relationships or your work suffering because of this? Has medicine done little to help you so far? If you answered yes to any of...

Dr. Hubertus Strughold was an early pioneer of aerospace medicine. He was the Director of the Aeromedical Research Institute of the German Air Ministry in Berlin during World War II. After the war, he was brought to the U.S. as a part of "Operation...

Most people suffer with a mouth ulcer every now and then. They're extremely common and usually painful, appearing as little craters in the lining of the mouth. Mouth plays a significant role in moment-to-moment living. And even a minor oral problem can cause significant...

Numerous diverse drugs are capable of causing histologic and cytogenetic damage In vivo mammalian system. The potential of similar effects in man is obvious. It is important to determine if drugs to which man may be exposed are capable of inducing cytogenetic and histopathological...

The first comprehensive comparative analysis of Chinese Medical and Reichian theories of life-force has uncovered nearly 60 significant parallels between the theories. Two areas of theoretical difference are also outlined. The comprehensive cross-over between the theories may indicate that the Chinese concept of Qi...

Much of the research on transformation/transition in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) focuses on macroeconomic issues (inflation, economic growth, employment ...). Little research has been devoted so far to microeconomic analysis. Recently the issue of new enterprises and firm founders has moved to...

Because of the correspondences existing among all levels of reality, truths pertaining to a lower level can be considered as symbols of truths at a higher level and can therefore be the "foundation" or support leading by analogy to a knowledge of the latter....

The book introduces new techniques that imply rigorous lower bounds on the com- plexity of some number-theoretic and cryptographic problems. It also establishes certain attractive pseudorandom properties of various cryptographic primitives. These methods and techniques are based on bounds of character sums and num-...

Scientific Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Medicine - Anatomy, Physiology, Cytology, grade: 1st, Imperial College London, language: English, abstract: Immune tolerance is the inhibition or absence of an immune response leaving only protective and beneficial immunity intact. Tolerance reduces response to...

The properties of soft-matter thin films (e.g. liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science. They are also very exciting with respect to fundamental questions: In thin films, liquids and polymers may be considered as trapped in a...

This Pathology and Immunology textbook contains principles that you need to understand pathology and immunology if you are a beginner at a College or University studying Pathology and immunology for the first time. The principles contained in this book helps you to understand the...

The Thyroid gland is the largest endocrine gland that affects all metabolic reactions in body because of its secretions. According to statistical evaluations the major dysfunction in thyroid is hypothyroidism that usually treated with levothyroxine. In this book at first the precise function of...

The current book aimed to provide a short guide for establishing a Medical Diagnostic Laboratory. The guide was concerned with the types of medical laboratories, essential medical instruments, laboratory samples and laboratory Quality control. The most important to know is the basics of constructing...

This book is based on the role of co-morbid disorder; beta thalassemia minor with iron deficiency anemia in the promulgation of beta thalassemia gene. This book explain the pathophysiology of co-morbid condition and its effect on hematological parameters and Hb-A2 levels. This book is...

A comparative study of cardio protective activity of nebivolol, carvedilol and metoprolol was carried out on doxorubicin-induced cardiac toxicity in rats. The degree of protection was assessed both in vivo by short axis echocardiography measuring ejection fraction (EF), fractional shortening (FS), left ventricular systolic...

Tropical countries shoulder a disproportionately large share of the global burden of epilepsy, largely attributable to a high prevalence of cysticercosis. The role of albendazole in solitary cerebral cysticercosis, a form of the disease common in the Indian subcontinent, is debated: the fact that...

This book compared the effectiveness of sequential therapy to standard triple therapy in the eradication of Helicobacter Pylori which is the main known cause of gastritis gastro-duodenal ulcer disease and gastric cancer. However, after more than 20 years of experience in H. pylori treatment,...

The book will launch a new skylight for those who are inquisitive for acquiring knowledge in the field Medical science. By dint of this book one can get access to know that rheumatoid arthritis leads to long term damage resulting in chronic pain, loss...

Anal fissure is a crack or tear in the squamous epithelium of the anus located just distal to the mucocutaneous junction that may progress to form a chronic linear ulcer. It's a common and painful condition but is usually dismissed as a minor complaint....

Imaging methods are progressing in a rapidly manner, but the problem which we, as the health providers always encounter with, is the expensive costs of different devices and our limited budget to provide them. Conventional radiographies are still keeping their role in our diagnostic...

This Book describes the utilization of data collected at community level using community based health information system by various stakeholders and its effectiveness in decision making. A Community based health Information System (CBHIS) is a type of health information system that is based in...

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that is known to produce various dysfunctions in the body. Increased oxidative stress and reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability are key features of diabetes mellitus that may result in vascular dysfunctions (Capellini et al., 2009). The sustained hyperglycemia leads...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Other, Johns Hopkins University, language: English, abstract: A more aggressive strategy "test and treat" is predicted to reduce AIDS-related mortality, increase the life expectancy of people living with HIV and is cost-effective. However,...

"It is not thought as such that can move anything, but thought which is for the sake of something and is practical." This discerning insight, which dates back more than 2000years to Aristotle, seems to have been ignored by most psycholo- gists. For more...

This volume contains most of the invited papers presented at the International Work- shop on Synergetics, Schloss E1mau, Bavaria, May 2 to.May 7, 1977. This workshop fol- lowed an International Symposium on SynergetiGS at Schloss E1mau, 1972, and an Inter- national SUl11l1erschoo1 at Erice,...

The term Dian Xue describes an ancient martial art of attacking vital points on the human body. Striking these points can cause unconsciousness, severe injury, or even immediate death. This work tries to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of vital points and to answer the...

This volume is a survey/monograph on the recently developed theory of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Basic techniques such as the method of optimal control, the 'Four Step Scheme', and the method of continuation are presented in full. Related topics such as backward stochastic...

It is gratifying that this textbook is still sufficiently popular to warrant a third edition. I have used the opportunity to improve and enlarge the book. When the second edition was prepared, only two pages on algebraic geometry codes were added. These have now...

Mumford's famous Red Book gives a simple readable account of the basic objects of algebraic geometry, preserving as much as possible their geometric flavor and integrating this with the tools of commutative algebra. It is aimed at graduate students or mathematicians in other fields...

Not only was E.P. Wigner one of the most active creators of 20th century physics, he was also always interested in expressing his opinion in philosophical, political or sociological matters. This volume of his collected works covers a wide selection of his essays about...

Due to the popularity of knowledge discovery and data mining, in practice as well as among academic and corporate R&D professionals, association rule mining is receiving increasing attention.The authors present the recent progress achieved in mining quantitative association rules, causal rules, exceptional rules, negative...

Vortices are quantized flux lines which are formed in superconductors, Bose-Einstein condensates and neutron stars. This book summarizes the current knowledge in this field. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students.Author: R. P. HuebenerISBN-10: 3540423362ISBN-13: 9783540423362Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2002Pages: 363Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.21h...

Symplectic Manifolds.- Symplectic Forms.- Symplectic Form on the Cotangent Bundle.- Symplectomorphisms.- Lagrangian Submanifolds.- Generating Functions.- Recurrence.- Local Forms.- Preparation for the Local Theory.- Moser Theorems.- Darboux-Moser-Weinstein Theory.- Weinstein Tubular Neighborhood Theorem.- Contact Manifolds.- Contact Forms.- Contact Dynamics.- Compatible Almost Complex Structures.- Almost Complex Structures.-...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Its Applications, NAA 2000, held in Rousse, Bulgaria in June 2000.The 90 revised papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during the two rounds of...

Slightly more than 25 years ago, the first text devoted entirely to sieve meth- ods made its appearance, rapidly to become a standard source and reference in the subject. The book of H. Halberstam and H.-E. Richert had actually been conceived in the mid-1960's....

Bond markets differ in one fundamental aspect from standard stock markets. While the latter are built up to a finite number of trade assets, the underlying basis of a bond market is the entire term structure of interest rates: an infinite-dimensional variable which is...

The aim of this book is twofold: to provide an introduction for newcomers to state of the art computer simulation techniques in space plasma physics and an overview of current developments. Computer simulation has reached a stage where it can be a highly useful...

The American Cattle Doctor - A complete work on all the diseases of cattle, sheep, and swine, including every disease peculiar to America, and embracing all the latest information on the cattle plague and trichina is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...