Medical Specialties Books
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Workplace Drug Testing
Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price. Using sample protocols from the transportation and nuclear power industries, Workplace Drug Testing reviews current federal regulations and mandatory guidelines for federal workplace testing programs and demonstrates practical techniques for specimen collection and laboratory ...
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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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Design Analysis of Beams, Circular Plates and Cylindrical Tanks on Elastic Foundations: Including Software CD-ROM
This book is an update of the book of the same title, providing important extensions of unique techniques of numerical analyses of beams, long strips, circular plates, and circular-cylindrical tanks resting on elastic foundations and/or unyielding/elastic supports. Elastic foundations are modelled either as Winkler springs or elastic half-space-type continua (isotropic or cross-anisotropic). The ...
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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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Working Postures and Movements: Tools for Evaluation and Engineering
In most industries, musculoskeletal injuries are the most common work-related reason for employee absences. These injuries are often caused by static postures or repetitive movements that have to be maintained for many hours a day, such as intensive use of data entry devices, assembly work, parts inspection, equipment maintenance, manual materials handling, machinery operations, and vehicle ...
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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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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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Cancer and the Environment: Gene-Environment Interactions
Click on purchase link for Table of Contents and Sample ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards - Print version
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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Consumer and Healthcare Packaging Standards -CD-ROM
AVAILABLE IN PRINT or CD-ROM! This volume contains 85 of the latest standards on consumer and healthcare packaging. Standards cover: Flammability of Aerosol Products Water Vapor Transmission of Flexible Heat-Sealed Packages for Dry Products Minimum Application Torque of Type IA Child-Resistant Closures User Applied Drug Labels in ...
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SafetyQuick Employee Newsletter
Is simple to create your own safety newsletter with this easy-to-use software. • The step-by-step program shows you how to set up your own newsletter and offers an impressive library of safety articles and illustrations that you can choose from. • You will be able to create--in just minutes--a professional newsletter with articles written by leading editors. • Attractively designed ...
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Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease
Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a ...
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Occupational Ergonomics: Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Limb and Back
Work related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) are the leading cause of worker impairment, disability, compensation costs and loss of productivity in industrialized countries. The aging of the workforce and the increased diffusion of physically demanding jobs contribute to the widespread concern about musculoskeletal ...
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Sampling and Surveying Radiological Environments
Private landowners or Federal Agencies responsible for cleaning up radiological environments are faced with the challenge of clearly defining the nature and extent of radiological contamination, implementing remedial alternatives, then statistically verifying that cleanup objectives have been met. Sampling and Surveying Radiological Environments provides the how-tos for designing and implementing ...
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Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Long-term environmental effects of chemical exposure have long been of concern and, more recently, chemicals which cause changes to the sexual development of exposed organisms have been identified. It is thought that low-level exposure to a wide range of chemicals may be affecting endocrine function, leading to a reduction in fertility and an increase in reproductive cancers. Endocrine Disrupting ...
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Effects of Radiation on Materials: 18th International Symposium
Features the most current research from an international body of leading experts on how radiation impacts the microstructure and mechanical properties of a wide range of metals. This comprehensive publication includes 71 peer-reviewed papers organized into the following key areas: radiation damage mechanisms and modeling in reactor pressure vessel steels relevant mechanical ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Standardization of Biomarkers for Endocrine Disruption and Environmental Assessment: 8th Volume
Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, 8th Volume (STP 1364) presents 29 peer-reviewed papers that provide you with the latest information on invertebrate and vertebrate endocrine disrupter screening assays and tests, in vitro endocrine disrupter testing, and an industrial perspective on endocrine screening testing. It focuses on the use of biomarker endpoints in toxicology and risk ...
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Inorganic Lead
Evaluates the risks to human health posed by exposure to lead and inorganic lead compounds. Reflecting the focus of recent research, the report concentrates on mounting evidence that exposure to low levels of lead can have significant effects on health, particularly for infants and young children. Food, beverages, and water constitute the major source of exposure for the adult general population. ...
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