Neurology 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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Computational Models of Argument
The investigation of computational models of argument is a rich and fascinating interdisciplinary research field with two ultimate aims: the theoretical goal of understanding argumentation as a cognitive phenomenon by modeling it in computer programs, and the practical goal of supporting the development of computer-based systems able to engage in argumentation-related activities with human users ...
By IOS Press
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Aging and Vulnerability to Environmental Chemicals
Many of the world's societies face an unprecedented demographic challenge. They are aging at such a rapid rate that it threatens to overwhelm their resources and economies. Of all the problems this creates, the foremost is declining health. As populations age, they place rising demands on medical care systems but no longer produce the wealth required to sustain them. Aging is not a disease. We ...
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Auditory Processing and Mental Workloads
Broad in scope, this book thoroughly examines the intersection of auditory processing and mental workload requirements, highlighting the information processing demands of auditory signals. The author provides background information before going on the explore methodologies and design issues. He provides extensive coverage of audition in human factors, cognitive aspects of auditory processing ...
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Residual Stress Effects on Fatigue and Fracture Testing and Incorporation of Results into Design
Eleven peer-reviewed papers, written by experts in their field, provide an understanding of residual stresses, fatigue crack growth, fatigue lifetime predictions, and their effect on structural integrity. Residual stresses can be present due to processing and manufacturing of materials and structures, so it is imperative to understand how and why they can influence the test data that we used in ...
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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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Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools
The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and explain differences in human and animal tool use from the perspective of cognitive ...
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The Psychology of Safety Handbook
You cannot improve your organization´s safety performance to enviable levels without addressing human behavior and attitude effectively. The only comprehensive reference on the psychology of the human dynamics of safety, The Psychology of Safety Handbook shows you how to apply psychology to improve safety and health in your organization. Dr. Geller provides theory, procedures, and tools to guide ...
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Healthy and Productive Work: An International Perspective
The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop floor workers. The cost to business is seen in absenteeism, reduced productivity, compensation claims, health insurance and direct medical costs, which in the US cost approximately $150 billion a year. Stress related absences are about ten time more ...
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Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Behavior of Materials: Third Volume
20 papers from leading experts on the thermal and thermo-mechanical fatigue of structural alloys expose the deformation and damage mechanisms in thermo-mechanical fatigue in all materials. Includes papers on the study of stress-strain response in a number of technologically important materials, damage mechanisms in thermo-mechanical fatigue (creep, oxidation effects), microscopic investigations ...
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Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, 30th Volume
STP 1360 provides advanced state-of-the-art techniques for predicting fracture and fatigue, as well as applications and engineering problem solving in a number of key industries. Over 30 comprehensive, peer-reviewed papers from the world's leading experts address topics in fracture mechanics, fatigue, and applications. Areas of fracture mechanics covered include: • Effects of geometry ...
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Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: 29th Volume
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: 29th Volume (STP 1332) provides advanced, state-of-the-art techniques for predicting fracture and fatigue, as well as applications and engineering problem solving in a number of key industries. Over 50 comprehensive, peer-reviewed papers from the world's leading experts are divided into three major categories: Fracture Mechanics areas explored include: ...
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Structural Integrity of Fasteners
The first publication of its kind offering the latest information on fatigue and fracture behavior, as well as evaluation standards and design criteria for safe, sturdy industrial fasteners. Features current data from leading designers, researchers and analysts active in the field. Thirteen peer-reviewed papers cover a comprehensive range of topics including fatigue, fracture mechanics, stress ...
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Chevron-Notched Specimens: Testing and Stress Analysis
Twenty papers in this volume are presented in three sections, including stress analysis, test method development, and fracture toughness measurements. One purpose of this volume, given the precracking and other differences in chevron-notched testing compared with existing tests, is to identify conditions that will yield reproducible ...
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Complex Medical Engineering
In the twenty-first century, applications in medicine and engineering must acquire greater safety and flexibility if they are to yield better products at higher efficiency. To this end, complex science and technology must be integrated in medicine and engineering. Complex medical engineering (CME) is a new field that merges medical science and technology, and includes biomedical robotics and ...
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Cooperation in Primates and Humans - Mechanisms and Evolution
Cooperative behavior has been one of the enigmas of evolutionary theory since the days of Charles Darwin. The contributions to this book examine the many facets of cooperative behavior in primates and humans as some of the world’s leading experts review and summarize the state of the art of theoretical and empirical studies of cooperation. This book is thus the first to bridge the gap between ...
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Introduction to Biosemiotics - The New Biological Synthesis
This book is addressed to students, researchers and academics who have barely heard of the emerging young science of Biosemiotics, and who want to know more about it. Written by many of the field’s major contributors, it provides a highly qualified introduction to Biosemiotics and illustrates the most recent views in its background and development. Combining research approaches from biology, ...
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Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines
Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines is an interdisciplinary study, reflecting the recent emergence of various particular forms of 'phenomenological philosophy of ...'. Included are such fields as psychology, social sciences and history, as well as environmental philosophy, ethnic studies, religion and even more practical disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, politics, and ...
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User Behavior and Technology Development
Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. Some approaches stress the importance of technology and technological innovation, while others focus on behavioral change. Each approach has its limitations, however, since technology and behavior often appear so closely intertwined. Human behavior results not only from intentions and deliberate ...
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Artificial Mind System
This book is written from an engineer's perspective of the mind. "Artificial Mind System" exposes the reader to a broad spectrum of interesting areas in general brain science and mind-oriented studies. In this research monograph a picture of the holistic model of an artificial mind system and its behaviour is drawn, as concretely as possible, within a unified context, which could eventually lead ...
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