Okechukwu F.E | Medical Imaging

By Okechukwu Felix Erondu,
Publisher: InTech | ISBN: 9789533077741, 9533077741

2011 | PDF | 412 pages | 29.9 MB

What we know about and do with medical imaging has changed rapidly during the past decade, beginning with the basics, following with the breakthroughs, and moving on to the abstract.

This book demonstrates the wider horizon that has become the mainstay of medical imaging sciences; capturing the concept of medical diagnosis, digital information management and research.

It is an invaluable tool for radiologists and imaging specialists, physicists and researchers interested in various aspects of imaging.

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Alloy Steel - Properties and Use

By Eduardo Valencia Morales
Publisher: InTech | ISBN: 9789533074849, 9533074849

2011 | PDF | 270 pages | 30.6 MB

The sections in this book are devoted to new approaches and usages of stainless steels, the influence of the environments on the behavior of certain classes of steels, new structural concepts to understand some fatigue processes, new insight on strengthening mechanisms, and toughness in microalloyed steels.

The kinetics during tempering in low-alloy steels is also discussed through a new set-up that uses a modified Avrami formalism.

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Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering

by Gregory J. Gbur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521516102 | edition 2011
PDF | 800 pages | 12 mb

The first textbook on mathematical methods focusing on techniques for optical science and engineering. Ideal for upper division undergraduates and graduates.

Strong emphasis is placed on connecting mathematical concepts to optical systems.

Essay problems based on research publications and numerous exercises strengthen the connection between the theory and its applications.

Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering

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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 8 edition

By Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Patrick Callanan,
B,,oks C,,le | 2010 | ISBN: 0495812412

587 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical best-selling text (now available with an online personalized study plan) helps students learn how to deal with and apply ethical standards. Authors Corey, Corey and Callanan provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions.

They raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and present many opportunities for readers to refine their own thinking and actively develop their own position.

The authors explore such questions as: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? And, what considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations?

Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 8 edition

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The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

Apress; 2nd edition | January 26, 2006
ISBN-10: 1590596242 | 296 pages

PDF | 50.8 Mb

Missed deadlines, death marches, unstable releases, continual overtime, and skyrocketing stress levels are legendary in the software development industry. Unlike traditional occupations such as accounting or administration, the software business is populated by programmers who are as creative and passionate about their work as musicians or artists.

For most, it is a complete surprise when they enter the business world and find that internal politics, inept management, and unrealistic marketing drive the process, rather than a structured and orderly approach based on technical issues and quality. The average programmer, having the least authority in the management chain of command, feels powerless to change these things, but suffers the consequences.

"The Career Programmer" steps through the entire sequence of events, from the decision to create a new software system to the end of the project, and explains how the individual programmer or project manager can work within the existing system to solve specific problems and regain control of the process.

Avoiding an academic approach, care is taken to offer proven, practical, hands-on solutions that are designed to work when confronted with the political and chaotic realities of the business environment. Issues are addressed from both the programmer and project manager point of view, and steps are shown from all perspectives, from large-scale teams down to single developer projects.

Management will never simply hand over the reins and allow a completely new and unfamiliar approach to be instituted. Realizing this, the reader is shown how to build on small, incremental successes that not only solve the problems at hand, but also work towards a gradual reworking of the development process by showing management a stream of results to which they can relate. For the individual programmer or project manager, the end result is less overtime, less stress, better quality software, and a more satisfying career.

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

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Advances in Molecular Toxicology, Volume 4

Elsevier; 1 edition | August 12, 2010
ISBN-10: 0444535845, 286 pages

PDF | 5.58 MB

Advances in Molecular Toxicology features the latest advances in all of the subspecialties of the broad area of molecular toxicology. Toxicology is the study of poisons, and this series details the study of the molecular basis by which a vast array of agents encountered in the human environment and produced by the human body itself manifest themselves as toxins.

Not strictly limited to documenting these examples, the series is also concerned with the complex web of chemical and biological events that give rise to toxin-induced symptoms and disease.

The new technologies that are being harnessed to analyze and understand these events will also be reviewed by leading workers in the field.

Advances in Molecular Toxicology will report progress in all aspects of these rapidly evolving molecular aspects of toxicology with a view toward detailed elucidation of both progress on the molecular level and on advances in technological approaches employed.

* Cutting-edge reviews by leading workers in the discipline.
* In-depth dissection of molecular aspects of interest to a broad range of scientists, physicians and any student in the allied disciplines.
* Leading edge applications of technological innovations in chemistry, biochemistry and molecular medicine.

Advances in Molecular Toxicology, Volume 4

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DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 9th Edition

By Richard LeBlond, Donald Brown, Richard DeGowin
MgH | 2008 | ISBN: 0071478981

944 pages | epub | 9,9 MB

The classic point-of-care guide to the undifferentiated patient -- completely revised and easier to navigate than ever!

Part physical examination primer, part differential diagnosis tool, DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination takes you a step beyond elementary physical diagnosis.

DeGowin's covers all physical examination techniques and procedures, but this highly practical point-of-care guide goes further, focusing on the meaning of signs and symptoms. It also shows you how to catalog clinical findings resulting from the physical examination--and order them into a differential diagnosis.


FEATURES
* All the essentials of the diagnosis exam procedure and patient record preparation - in one ultra-handy reference. Top-to-bottom coverage of differential diagnosis, organized by systems, signs, and syndromes .
* High-yield overviews of each organ/region/system, followed by the definition of key presenting signs and their possible origins.
* NEW! Updated content includes the latest developments in evidence-based physical examination, along with references to the popular JAMA series ?The Rational Clinical Examination?.
* NEW! 24 full-color illustrations.
* NEW! Full-text download for your mobile device

 DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 9th Edition

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Oxford American Handbook of Geriatric Medicine

By Samuel Durso, Lesley Bowker, James Price and Sarah Smith
O U P | 828 pages | English | 2010

ISBN: 0195373189
PDF | 4,5 MB

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered.

Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice on examination, investigations, common procedures, and in-patient care. These books will be invaluable resources for residents and students, as well as a useful reference for practitioners.

The Oxford American Handbook of Geriatric Medicine is the essential ready-reference to effective geriatric practice. Written in a concise, accessible style, the Handbook covers the entire range of diseases and disorders commonly encountered in the care of older adults and offers easily accessible 'how to' information to facilitate basic geriatric care decisions.

Guidance is offered concerning both ethical and clinical decision-making along with evidence-based information on key topics as well as insight into balancing competing priorities in the older patient. Tables and algorithms provide step-wise instruction for evaluation and management. This is a must have resource for all clinical settings.

Oxford American Handbook of Geriatric Medicine

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Methods and Protocols

Methods in Molecular Medicine
By Nagy A. Habib,

Publisher: Humana Press | ISBN: 0896037851
edition 2000 | PDF | 282 pages | 1,6 mb

The book focuses on gene therapy approaches, including the use of such vectors as lipids, such viruses as adenovirus and baculovirus, and virus detection assessment using electron microscopy.

It provides preclinical and clinical data on the killing of cancer cells using tumor-suppressor genes, antisense compounds to growth factors, immunotherapy (remove gene), or virus-directed enzyme prodrug therapy.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Methods and Protocols offers experimental and clinical researchers a rich source of both basic science and clinical information on today's optimal use of gene therapy to treat and manage patients suffering from hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Methods and Protocols

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Information Technologies in Medicine

By Metin Akay,
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Pres | ISBN: 0471414921

edition 2001 | PDF | 204 pages | 3,5 mb

Medicine and the biological sciences have long relied on visualizations to illustrate the relationship between anatomic structure and biologic function.

The new multidimensional imaging modalities are powerful counterparts to traditional forms of observation–surgery, postmortem examination, or extensive mental reconstruction.

VR technologies have reached unimagined levels of sophistication and utility, giving physicians and students new avenues for planning and practicing surgery and diagnostics.

Information Technologies in Medicine

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