American medicine remains in the midst of a profound and wrenching transformation. The government, Wall Street, third party payers, and patients have demanded improved medical care at lower cost. Better medicine (orthopaedics) occurs when doctors practice medicine consistently on the basis of the best scientific evidence...
After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves. You can do it too!
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The first edition of Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests was well received and met our goal of appealing to a wide, varied audience of health professionals. In the second edition, we added a section to expand our discussion of lung mechanics. We emphasize the mechanical impairments faced...
Cytokines and chemokines are an important class of effector molecules that play a fundamental
role in orchestrating the innate and acquired immune responses needed to eliminate or
wall off invading pathogens. In vitro and in vivo studies have been instrumental in revealing
the complexity of the cytokine network and the many facets of...
Organizations find that it's the business process that constitutes the heart of an enterprise
and is a differentiating factor. They've found that it's the processes that make or break an
enterprise. Operational efficiency is a differentiating factor, and research shows that it's the
processes that provide operational...
In several of my earlier Kogan Page titles I have provided readers
with the opportunity to obtain a greater understanding of IQ
testing by means of practice tests in which readers have been able
to familiarize themselves with the type of questions they are likely
to encounter when taking such tests.
This volume is planned as a companion to the Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy,
and both take their place in the Routledge History of World Philosophies, a series
designed to supplement and amplify the Routledge History of Philosophy. The idea of
placing histories of Islamic and Jewish philosophy in such close proximity to a...
Have you ever been in a hurry and pounded in a nail using something other than a
hammer? Or perhaps settled an argument concerning distances with “the length of my
arm is about 20 inches, and that’s about two arm lengths...”? You might not be willing
to fall for such obviously flawed shortcuts, but...
The scientific Python ecosystem of open source libraries has grown substantially over the last 10 years. By late 2011, I had long felt that the lack of centralized learning resources for data analysis and statistical applications was a stumbling block for new Python programmers engaged in such work. Key projects for data...
While many companies are primarily defined by a business model, Thought- Works is primarily defined by a social model. We define three pillars to measure success in our business and to influence our business decisions.
In recent years, fiber optic sensors have developed from the laboratory
research and development stage to practical applications. The market for
fiber optic sensor technology may be divided into two broad categories
of sensors: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic sensors are used in medicine,
defense, and aerospace applications,...
