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Wearable Electronics and Photonics

CRC Press, 2005

Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for...

Selenium in Food and Health

Springer, 2006

Selenium is a contradictory nutrient. It has been called the essential poison—too much of it in the diet can be toxic; too little can result in chronic, and sometimes fatal, deficiency. Even health authorities have at times been confused. Although today in the USA, as in most other countries, selenium appears among the trace...

Andrology, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics, 1e (The Clinics: Internal Medicine)

Saunders, 2007

This issue of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America focuses on metabolic diseases and disorders unique to the male body, with an eye toward diagnosis and treatment options. Topics include evaluation and treatment of hypogonadism, andropause, & PADAM; erectile dysfunction=endothelial dysfunction; osteoporosis in men;...

Dynamic Electrocardiography

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Compared to many clinical methods and procedures, electrocardiography is not particularly new. The first human electrocardiogram was recorded by Dr Augustus Desiré Waller in 1887. Since that time, the development of electrocardiography was not uniform. Several waves of advancement of the physiologic understanding...

Computed Body Tomography with MRI Correlation (2 Volume Set)

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003

Completely updated to reflect revolutionary changes in technology and practice, the Fourth Edition of this best-selling reference features state-of-the-art coverage of multislice CT scanners and three-dimensional imaging, plus a new chapter on the acute abdomen and new material on CT and MR angiography, lung cancer screening,...

The Treatment of Disease in TCM V7 : General Symptoms

Blue Poppy, 2000

In this volume, the authors discuss the TCM disease causes, mechanisms, pattern discrimination, treatment principles, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal treatment of three dozen or more generalized diseases affecting the whole body. These include such complaints as obesity, emaciation, edema, jaundice, spontaneous perspiration, night sweats, and...

Tay-Sachs Disease, Volume 44 (Advances in Genetics)

Academic Press, 2001

Tay-Sachs disease is a rare hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme necessary for fat metabolism in nerve cells, producing central nervous system degeneration. In infants, it is characterized by progressive mental deterioration, blindness, paralysis, epileptic seizures, and death by age...

Business Finance: Theory and Practice

Prentice Hall, 2009

This book attempts to deal with financing and investment decision making, with particular focus on the private sector of the UK economy. Its approach is to set out the theories that surround each area of financial decision making and relate these to what appears to happen in practice. Where theory and practice diverge, the book...

Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know (Premier Reference Source)

IGI Global, 2010

Unlike many of the management movements of the last half century knowledge management has no single origin or unambiguous instantiation. Business Process Reengineering, the Balanced Score Card and the Learning Organisation (to mention but a few) all originate with a single book which then defines the field. In Knowledge Management...

Dynamic Speech Models (Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006

In a broad sense, speech dynamics are time-varying or temporal characteristics in all stages of the human speech communication process. This process, sometimes referred to as speech chain [1], starts with the formation of a linguistic message in the speaker’s brain and ends with the arrival of the message in the...

Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles: Queuing Models to the Rescue

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a corporation ’ s management chains, causing delays and disruptions of critical business functions. In trying to strengthen the links, companies spend dearly on applications tuning and sizing; unfortunately, the only deliverables of many of such ventures...

Handbook of Transcription Factor NF-kappaB

CRC Press, 2006

Recent evidence proving the molecular link between unchecked, chronic inflammation and cancer has implicated the transcription factor NF-kB as a key factor in both inhibiting apoptosis and promoting cell proliferation. Since its initial identification 20 years ago as a simple regulating factor in one small part of the immune response, NF-kB...

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