E-book Civic Medicine : Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe

Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written inform…

E-book Euthanasia : Searching for the Full Story Experiences and Insights of …

For more than 20 years I have practiced nursing, first in oncology services, then in palliative care. As a teacher and psychotherapist for the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to continue working with nursing students in palliative care and psychi-atric services, as well as to supervise nursing teams. An ethicist by training, I belong to an ethics committee in a neuropsychiatric hospit…

E-book A Wartime Necessity

During World War II, advances in aviation became unmistakable. Many nations’ air forces entered the war flying biplane aircraft that were not much different from their predecessors of the previous world war. They were soon eclipsed by aircraft that took advantage of new designs that utilized many aeronautical advances of the interwar period such as new powerplants, stressed-skin aluminum stru…

E-book Spacecraft Structures: A Lesson in Engineering

NASA engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, along with their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry, are designing and building the next generation of rockets and spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. Known collectively as Deep Space Exploration Systems, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and ground systems at Kenned…

E-book The Seine River Basin

Water resources are indispensable for social development. Human needs shapedrivers and river basins, leading to a drastic modification of the global water cycle.Changes due to human activities are so large nowadays that they override naturalprocesses, leading to the end of a geological era and the beginning of a new onecalled“the Anthropocene”first conceptualized by Crutzen [1, 2]. Using th…

E-book Grassland use in Europe

Grass seeds include the coleoptile (shoot sheath), the scutellum, the radicula and the coleorrhiza (root sheath) (Figure1.1). The scutellum is homologous to the leaf lamina of the cotyledon and the coleoptile to the leaf sheath of the cotyledon. Co-leoptile and coleorrhiza are membranes that protect shoot and leaf meristems and the radicula, respectively, during the first step of the germinatio…

E-book The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine

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E-book Surgery: An Illustrated History

Designed like a fine art book, this beautiful work by the foremost American historian of surgery represents the finest pictorial record of the history of surgery ever assembled between two covers. Writing from a surgeon' perspective, Dr. Rutkow traces the development of surgery from its crude beginnings, from a primitive craft to one of modern society's most accomplished achievements. Brief bio…

E-book Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book.

E-book 70 Years of Levothyroxine

n the opening chapter of this book, we consider the history of the therapeutic use of levothyroxine (LT4). Recognition of the therapeutic value of LT4 emerged from experience gained from, essentially, empirical administration by physicians of crude thyroid extracts to people with advanced sequelae of hypothyroidism [1–4]. These clinical experiments arose from early studies of people w…

E-book Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

If you’re aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better? Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key ide…

E-book Cows

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E-book Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish

Complemented by more than 1,300 photographs and illustrations, a comprehensive reference for owners of freshwater and saltwater fish provides the latest information on keeping an aquarium or pond, highlighting more than eight hundred species of popular freshwater, saltwater, tropical, and cold water fish, along with information on feeding, breeding, and care. Reprint.

E-book The EBMT Handbook : Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellul…

Research efforts on how to repair radiation effects resulted from observations on radiation damage among survivors of the atomic bomb explosions in Japan (reviewed in van Bekkum and de Vries 1967). In 1949, Jacobson and colleagues discov-ered protection of mice from TBI by shielding their spleens with lead. Two years later, Lorenz and colleagues reported radiation prot…

E-book Anatomy, Histology, and Cell Biology, 3rd Edition

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E-book The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. The discussion centres on the collecting of Kory? celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of c…

E-book Life Cycle Assessment of Indoor Vertical Farms

It is becoming increasingly important to find solutions for more resilient food production methods closer to urban environments with less vulnerability to supply-chain shocks (Benke and Tomkins, 2017; O’Sullivan et al., 2020; Pulighe and Lupia, 2020). Indoor vertical farming (IVF1) systems have emerged worldwide as a result of the need for more resilient food provisioning.…

E-book Becoming A Young Farmer : Young People’s Pathways Into Farming: Cana…

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E-book Drone Aesthetics : War, Culture, Ecology

There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting, and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. News reports, leaked videos, and Hollywood movies have all made a decidedly militarised drone vision all too normal: grayscale envi-ronments seen from above, punctuated by the white intensity of body heat as figures move b…

E-book Design for the New World : From Human Design to Planet Design

Ever since humans began walk-ing upright, we have intervened in our surroundings. We have shaped tools, formed the environment, and developed structures, systems and organizations of all dimensions and levels of abstraction. Historically speak ing, one can see human ac-tivity as a gigantic design machine, producing still greater numbers of objects and…

E-book Journalism as the Fourth Emergency : Service Trauma and Resilience

Trauma in journalism is not a new phenomenon? From the battlefields to the city streets, humani-tarian crises to the courtrooms, trauma has plagued the profession whether directly or indirectly, vicariously or through lived experience, since the ink dried on the first newspaper sheets in 1566?A systematic review of studies conducted between 2010 and 2022 revealed significant numbers of journali…

E-book Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations : A Sociocultural Ex…

We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. Accordingto the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), there are 70.8million forcibly displaced people worldwide. This includes over 41 million inter-nally displaced people, 25 million refugees and 3.5 million asylum seekers. This isa challenge of historic proportions. Evolving responses having now become oneof th…

E-book Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation

My early memories are murky and, like sediment, can be reshaped and sometimes permanently obscured. Particularly my memories of mud—alluvial silt and clay delivered by water so omnipresent in a childhood of bayous and streams. I grew up in a town on the Red River, which gave my home parish (not county) the name Rapides. Before the Red River was irreparably tamed …

E-book The Biology of the First 1,000 Days

According to current estimates, 23% of the world’s children under 5 years of age are stunted, a condition that is measured using short height-for-age (see Box 1.1) [1]. Although this represents a decline from 33% in 2000, the fact that 156 million chil-dren globally still suffer from chronic undernutrition underscores the continued need for renewed efforts and inno…

E-book Special Topics in Information Technology

A fundamental pillar for the research work in the Department of Electronics,Information, and Bioengineering (DEIB) is its Ph.D. program in InformationTechnology, with more than 50 doctors graduating each year. The program ischaracterized by a broad approach to information technology, in the areas ofComputer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Controls, andTelecommunications.The ch…

E-book Advanced Memristor Modeling : Memristor Circuits and Networks

The resistance-switching phenomenon, observed in a number of amorphousmetal and transient chemical oxides, such as SiO2, Al2O3, Ta2O5, has beeninvestigated since 1970 [1]. It has been established that such oxide materials placedin a metal-oxide-metal structure have the capability of changing their conductance inaccordance to the applied voltage and memorizing their conductance for a …

E-book Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating “real” food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry professionals, the problem is not processed food or the food system itself, but misperceptions and irrational fears caused by the public’s lack of scientific understanding. In her highly original …

E-book Banking on Milk : An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations

Donor human milk banks are expanding around the world at an exponential rate, which is directly linked to global increases in premature births. The importance of human milk for prematurely born infants has been extensively identified, even among the recent social scientific work that has questioned the efficacy of human milk and health considerations. In addition, research also shows that a sig…

E-book Atlas of Petromodernity

In classical mythology, Atlas carries the weight of the world and the star-studded sky on his shoulders. Much like his brother Prometheus, Atlas, a Titan, is punished by the victorious Olym-pian gods, led by Zeus, for siding with Kronos and the humans created by the Titans in the war against them. Prometheus is also notorious for having given humanity fire. Consequently, he…

E-book Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate : Change Sustainable Management

The boreal forest is a vast biome encompassing approximately one-third (30%) of the world’s forest area. It harbors about half of the world’s remaining natural and near-natural forests and provides important ecological, economic, social, and cultural services and values that benefit human communities (Burton et al., 2010; Gauthier et al., 2015a). …

E-book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches …

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of …

E-book Timber Engineering : Principles for Design

Above all, the building authority centres on preventing dangers to the public, which may arise from the construction process. In Germany, the general conditions governing the building, alteration or demolition of structures have been a federal responsibility since the 19th century. Even so, individual tasks were transferred to the Deutsche Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt) in an agreement and thi…

E-book Gene Drives at Tipping Points : Precautionary Technology Assessment an…

In recent years, innovation in genetic engineering brought forth a number of tech-nologies to manipulate the fate of entire wild type populations. These technologiesrely on the dissemination of synthetic genetic elements within a population of sex-ually reproducing species via the germline and are identified as Self-PropagatingArtificial Genetic Elements (SPAGE). Some secure their dissemination…

E-book How to Build a Modern Tontine : Algorithms, Scripts and Tips

Australians retire with millions of dollars. It’s not that Australia is necessarilywealthier than any other country, although they certainly rank high on a per capitabasis. Rather, they happen to reach the traditional retirement age with millions ofdollars in their retirement savings accounts. The source of (and credit for) theirwealth is the Australian government who forces workers to save c…

E-book Morbidity in primary care : Epidemiologic data from Family Medicine Ne…

This website provides primary care morbid-ity data from Family Medicine Network (FaMe-Net), a practice-based research network (PBRN) located in the Netherlands. FaMe-Net is the world’s oldest and still functioning PBRN. The current network is a continuation of two well-known Dutch predecessor PBRNs from which it originated after their fusion in 2013: the Continuo…

The Art of Medicine : Seni Mendeteksi, Mengobati, dan Menyembuhkan 88 Penyaki…

Buku ini ditulis sebagai upaya menyehatkan masyarakat Indonesia. Berisi konstelasi 88 problematika kesehatan yang sering dijumpai dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, The Art of Medicine berupaya menjembatani kepentingan medis (berbasis riset dan evidence based medicine) dan pragmatis (berbasis empiris dan local wisdom). Buku ini bermanfaat untuk panduan bagi deteksi dini dan cara peningkatan dini berb…

E-book Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems: Selected papers from the …

This open access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, which was held in Hamburg (Germany), March 29th to 31st, 2023. Cyber-physical systems are characterized by their ability to adapt and to learn: They…

E-book Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness 9th Edition

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Yoga untuk Kesehatan

Yoga merupakan seni olah napas yang dipadu dengan gerakan tertentu. Ia bisa menjadi alternatif untuk mengatasi penyakit atau gangguan emosional seperti stres dan ketegangan. Pernapasan, konsentrasi, dan latihan berbagai gerak atau pose itu, diajarkan secara dominan dalam yoga ini, dengan maksud agar dicapai keselarasan jiwa dan raga. Jadi, di situ ada unsur senam atau gerak anggota badan, ada …

E-book The Brain: What Everyone Needs To Know®

What is the principle purpose of a brain? A simple question, but the answer has taken millennia for us to begin to understand. So critical for our everyday existence, the brain still remains somewhat of a mystery. Gary L. Wenk takes us on a tour of what we do know about this enigmatic organ, showing us how the workings of the human brain produce our thoughts, feelings, and fears, and answering …

Diet Sehat Golongan Darah untuk Mencegah dan Mengobati Penyakit Jantung & Kar…

Jika Anda atau seseorang yang Anda kasihi sedang khawatir tentang atau sedang diobati akibat suatu masalah jantung, maka panduan personal ini akan sangat bermanfaat. Salah satu seri "Pustaka Kesehatan Dr. Peter D'Adamo" ini memiliki serangkaian saran khusus yang tidak tersedia dalam buku-buku lainnya. Buku yang membahas tentang kesehatan kardiovaskular ini juga mencakup cara cegah dan mengobat…

E-book ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Rates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving diagnosis and medication. The disorder is painful and sometimes disabling for individuals and tremendously co…

How to use Yoga

A powerful antidote to the stresses of modern life, yoga is a practical philosophy that aims at uniting the body, mind and spirit for health and fulfilment. This book clearly explains and demystifies the art of yoga, making it accesible to everyone who would like to start to practise at home, safely and effectively. How to Use Yoga will show you how to achieve a fit and supple body through the …

E-book Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®

In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an essential guide to one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age. In concise, question-and-answer format, he explains the causes of pandemics, how they can be counteracted with vaccines and drugs, and how we can better prepare fo…

E-book Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such as the United States can destroy small targets halfway around the world with pinpoint accuracy. …

Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 2nd Edition

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the principles of the mechanical behavior of materials. Appropriate for senior and graduate courses, Mechanical Behavior of Materials is distinguished by its focus on the relationship between macroscopic properties, material microstructure and fundamental concepts of bonding and crystal structure. Courtney's second edition brings the reader up-to…

Materials Science and Engineering : An Introduction

Materials are probably more deep-seated in our culture than most of us realize. Transportation, housing, clothing, communication, recreation, and food production virtually every segment of our everyday lives is influenced to one degree or another by materials. Historically, the development and advancement of socities have been intimately tied to the members's ability to produce and manipulate m…

Eat Right for Your Type : Ensiklopedia Lengkap Diet Sehat Golongan Darah

Ensiklopedi ini menyampaikan bagian pendahuluan yang komprehensif, untuk meletakkan dasar pemahaman mengenai sejarah ilmu golongan darah dan sekaligus memberikan peneguhan terhadap teori D'Adamo yang dihasilkan oleh pemetaan baru atas gen manusia. Seluruh entri dalam ensiklopedia ini memberikan informasi khusus, yang berkaitan dengan golongan darah, tentang berbagai gangguan kesehatan dan tenta…

Dokter, Tolong… Saya Kena Kanker

"Dokter, tolong... Saya kena kanker." Inilah kalimat yang sering didengar Dr. Ang Peng Tiam selama kariernya. Dr. Ang bukan hanya dokter yang hebat, melainkan juga juru cerita yang luar biasa. Topik sulit dan "seram" seperti kanker, dipaparkannya dalam cerita-cerita kesembuhan yang memikat dan mudah dipahami. Dr. Ang juga menyampaikan berbagai hal lain, seperti pandangannya terhadap pengobatan …

Food Chemical Safety vol 2 : additives

The control of food additives has been much discussed in a newspapers and other parts of the media and yet, rather surprisingly, there have been few scientific books about additives. There have been detailed reports of the work of expert committees such as the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives and informative and commentaries on individual and legislative controls, notably those …