Medical Specialties Books
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Neuromodulation Using Ultra Low Frequency Current Waveform Reversibly Blocks Axonal Conduction And Chronic Pain
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Novel Ultra Low Frequency (ULF™) neuromodulation inhibits pain signals in pre-clinical animal models, computational models, and in a clinical trial The mechanism of ULF™ neuromodulation is unique, enabling controlled and reversible inhibition of pain neurons through sodium channel inactivation. This mechanism of action is different than existing SCS ...
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StemJournal
StemJournal is an international, multidisciplinary publication for communicating outstanding stem cell research, including basic biology, clinical applications, disease modeling, computational and systems biology, and data science. It promises to be open new scientific contributions from the many fields of research on stem cells. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed content covering a ...
By IOS Press
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Pneuflex samples book
Founded in 2000, as the biggest manufacturer of fittings and tubing in China, Pneuflex Pneumatic Co., Limited dedicated itself to research and develop of pneumatic fittings and plastic tubing. Till year 2008, Pneuflex owns 4 professional and scholarly engineers with advanced technology and 220 well-trained workers in pneumatics field. Now Pneuflex is striking to be the leader in the field of ...
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Guidance on Application and Review of New Cosmetic Raw Materials
Guidance on Application and Review of New Cosmetic Raw Materials (revised from Guidance for the Safety Evaluation of New Cosmetic Raw Materials ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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Heart Rate Variability & Ultrafine Particle Exposures
Over the last ten years, many epidemiological studies have assessed changes in cardiac morbidity and mortality based on exposures to ambient to particles (Dockery et al., 1993, Schwartz, 1994; Samet et al., 2000; Peters et al., 1999). Exposure to particles of aerodynamic diameter <2.5 µm and <10 µm have earned considerable attention as elevated levels have been associated with lung function ...
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Biophysical and Physiological Effects of Solar Radiation on Human Skin
In an era of global warming knowledge of the effects of solar radiation on humans is of great importance and the latest discoveries in environmental photobiology are presented in this book.The Editor has brought together a wide range of world class contributors to provide the reader with information on the clinical effects of solar radiation, such as inflammation, pigmentation, ...
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Living with the Earth, Third Edition: Concepts in Environmental Health Science
Includes all the bells and whistles you and your students have come to expect It’s hard to imagine a book more innovative and groundbreaking than Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Third Edition. The first edition won the CHOICE award for Outstanding Academic Book and both previous editions became bestsellers in their own right. See what’s new and updated ...
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Geocoding Health Data: The Use of Geographic Codes in Cancer Prevention and Control, Research and Practice
In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties. However, with the advent of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can now achieve a new level of precision and flexibility in geographic locating. This emerging technology allows the mapping of many different kinds of geographies, including disease rates in relation to ...
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Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices
Get the latest information on the thermal and mechanical properties of shape memory alloys (SMA's) and metallic medical materials and devices. Eleven peer-reviewed papers: • Define the environments in body-specific locations such as the superficial femoral artery, carotid, abdominal and thoracic arteries• Develop constitutive expressions for the deformation response of nitinol via ...
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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine
In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen ...
By Island Press
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Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects
Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects reviews all aspects of anaerobic bacteria, highlighting their environmental and medical importance. The first three chapters focus on taxonomy, anaerobic metabolism and the genetic regulation of anaerobic processes in strict and facultative anaerobes. The next section includes an examination of the physiological traits of ...
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Muscle Strength
Muscle strength is an important topic for ergonomics practitioners and physiologists to understand, especially as it relates to workplace injuries. Muscle strength and function is at the heart of many injuries that lead to reduced productivity and economic strain on the worker, the company, and society as a ...
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Effects of Radiation on Materials: 21st Symposium
Fifty-nine peer-reviewed papers provide the latest international research on nuclear materials.Although the primary focus is on pressure vessel steels, including mechanical properties and microstructures, it contains papers on the latest research on fundamentals of radiation effects in materials as well as on stainless steels and nonferrous alloys. It has a truly international flavor containing ...
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Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ...
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Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services—NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and ...
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Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women"s Welfare, And The Environment
At international conferences throughout the 1990"s--in Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Cairo, and Beijing--a new vision of women"s health, welfare, and rights was created. This vision acknowledged the deep connections between support for educational, economic, social, and political opportunity for women on the one hand, and progress in stabilizing population growth, protecting the environment, and ...
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Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition, Volume I: Biological, Chemical, and Physical Agents of Environmentally Related Disease
The two-volume Handbook of Environmental Health has been a standard reference for over 23 years. The fourth edition continues to provide a basis for understanding the interactions between humans and the environment and how such interactions affect the health and welfare of individuals. Focusing on factors generally associated with the internal environment, Volume I provides a significant ...
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Biomarkers of Environmentally Associated Disease: Technologies, Concepts, and Perspectives
The end of the 20th century brought with it a revolution in molecular biology that culminated in advances such as the completion of the human genome. This has brought optimism to the fields of toxicology and environmental health, and the anticipation that molecular biomarkers might soon come of age and have a major impact on human and environmental health. Biomarker research is an area of current ...
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