Published September, 2011
By Van C. Mow, Anthony Ratcliffe and Savio L-Y. Woo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Later, Hippocrates (circa 400 BC), who claimed to have learned from Asklepios, used the term arthritis in reference to joint diseases: "When the disease of arthritis strikes, acute inflammation and pain attacks the joints of the body ...

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Published September, 2011
By Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Rudiger Kramme, Robert Steven Pozos and Robert Pozos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This concise, user-oriented and up-to-date desk reference offers a broad introduction to the fascinating world of medical technology, fully considering today's progress and further development in all relevant fields. It is also meant for graduate and post graduate students in hospital management, medical engineering, and medical physics.

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Published September, 2011
By Timothy M. McGloughlin and Tim McGloughlin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
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The contributors to this volume bring together a unique blend of expertise in experimental, computational and tissue biomechanics relating to aneurysm behavior and enable the reader to gain a fresh understanding of key factors influencing aneurysm behavior and treatment.

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Published September, 2011
By R. Jayakumar, M. Prabaharan and Riccardo A. A. Muzzarelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Polymer Science
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Polymeric Nanoparticles of Chitosan Derivatives as DNA and siRNA Carriers, by Y. Jayakumar.- Chitosan and Thiolated Chitosan, by F. Senel.- Multifunctional Chitosan Nanoparticles for Tumor Imaging and Therapy, by J.

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Published September, 2011
By Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, Fang-Gang Zeng, Fan-Gang Zeng and Arthur Popper
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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However, due to the newness of the ideas and technology, the volume did not cover any emerging applications such as bilateral cochlear implants, combined acoustic-electric stimulation, and other types of auditory prostheses, nor did it review brain plasticity in responses to electric stimulation and its perceptual and language consequences.

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Published September, 2011
By Habib Ammari
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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This volume reports on recent mathematical and computational advances in optical, ultrasound, and opto-acoustic tomographies. It outlines the state-of-the-art and future directions in these fields and provides readers with the most recently developed mathematical and computational tools.

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Published September, 2011
By Marc Thiriet
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems
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The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

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Published September, 2011
By Panos M. Pardalos, H. Edwin Romeijn and Panos Pardalos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications
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Devoted to examining the dramatic increase in the application of optimization techniques to delivering health care, the articles, written by leading exerts, focus on models and algorithms that have led to more efficient and sophisticated treatment of patients.

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Published September, 2011
By Anne-Marie Caminade, Cedric-Olivier Turrin, Regis Laurent, Arnelle Ouali, Beatrice Delavaux-Nicot, Armelle Ouali and A. Caminade
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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The definitive reference book on the subject, Dendrimers: Towards Catalytic, Material and Biomedical Uses focuses on the properties and uses of dendrimers and dendrons. Providing a unique overview of existing research, with numerous references and illustrations, it emphasizes the role of nanometric size and multiple functions of dendrimers.

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Published August, 2011
By Lodewijk Bos, Kanagasingam Yogesan, Leonard Goldschmidt, Adrie Dumay and Griet Verhenneman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics
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This second volume of the "Handbook of Digital Homecare" reviews the attempts to develop new ICT services for digital homecare, i.e. The book highlights the successful projects as well as failures of Digital homecare and provides several "lessons learned" to the wide audience of Health and ICT professionals.

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