This book is concerned with the study of continuum mechanics applied to biological systems, i.e., continuum biomechanics. This vast and exciting subject allows description of when a bone may fracture due to excessive loading, how blood behaves as both a solid and fluid, down to how cells respond to mechanical forces that lead to changes in...

The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining. They are organized into topical sections on aspects of classification and prediction, clustering, web mining, data mining in medicine, applications of data mining, time series and frequent pattern mining, and association rule mining. Readers...