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... “primitive” AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge This book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about theAIDS epidemic in the 1980s and shows the broader cultural assump-tions on which this knowledge ... its modes of transmission, and the nature of the infectious agentis taken as reliable ground for specifying other aspects and implications4 AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge of “risk.” “AIDS ... they are confronted with the fears and anxieties oftheir citizens. A major social institution that should alleviate fears and 10 AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge restore trust is science...

... forces and external forces. To handle the difculties of concavity and sensitivity during initialization, classic snakes, balloon model (Cohen and Cohen 1993) and gradient vector ow (GVF) (Xu and ... Registration for Biomedical Information Integration and functional changes caused by disease progression and treatment, variances and differences across subjects, and complex deformations and motions ... boolean multiplication (AND) and boolean addition (OR) or their negations NAND and NOR. Linearly non-separable two-argument boolean func-tions are only two: equivalence (EQV) and non-equivalence...

... circularly permuted LOO10-GFP construct (beta strand10 omitted) and introducing two synthetic forms of strand 10, the wild-type strand and astrand with a mutation to cause yellow-shifted fluorescence, ... contains a central alpha-helical segment) consists ofthree anti-parallel three-stranded beta-meander units and a two-stranded beta-hairpin© 2013 Crone et al.; licensee InTech. This is an open access ... structural and biophysicalinformation to fully randomized approaches such as error-prone PCR [23] and DNA shuf‐fling [24]. By mutating the chromophore residue serine 65 to a threonine (S65T) and phenyl‐alanine...

... ofInfection,andPathogens 45415.3.1 PatientExample(Part1) 45415.3.2 Fusion of Data and Knowledge for Calculation ofProbabilities for Sepsis and Pathogens 45615.4 CalculationofCoverage and TreatmentAdvice ... 448References 44915 A Probabilistic Network for Fusion of Data and Knowledge in Clinical MicrobiologySteen Andreassen, Leonard Leibovici, Mical Paul, Anders D. Nielsen,Alina Zalounina, Leif E. Kristensen, ... Conventions and Notation 491Index 495Part IProbabilistic ModelingAdvanced Information and Knowledge Processing1A Leisurely Look at Statistical InferenceDirk HusmeierBiomathematics and Statistics...

... academic interest and discussions are held along with the clinician and pathologist.A minimum of 75% attendance is mandatory for Junior, Associate and Senior Consultants, Residents and DNB students.Interactive ... seminars, journal club and introductory lectures. The Department also participates in the Journal Clubs and Grand Rounds of the Departments of Paediatrics, Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. ... (JR) and Intern from the department and also, at time residents from Department of Medicine join in.Besides, the Grand Round/Journal Club from Department of Medicine and allied specialities and...

... mathematicalprobabilities11. But as medical knowledge advances in the post-genomic erawe will learn more and more about the genetic basis for disease, and much ofwhat we learn will be about susceptibility and risk. ... symptoms, social circumstances and so on. Thebenefits are obvious. A standardised vocabulary would avoid confusion and ambiguity. Eradicating synonyms, slang and shorthand would simplifythe compilation ... medicine cold and impersonal.Clinicians and their patients generally believe that medicine needs a humantouch, that patients have to be treated as individuals and that an understand-ing of the...

... Let us make man to our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that ... world? It were idle for Him to give us the knowledge of His will and then to stand by and let us disfigure His fairest designs; to bid us do what is right, and then let us do wrong without exacting ... are for the use of man, for his food and clothing, his mental and physical improvement, and even his reasonable recreations. Man can lawfully hunt and fish and practise his skill at the expense...

... the health and functional status of the elderly, the likely effects of new medical advances and treatments on morbidity and mortality among the elderly, and the likely costs of new medical treatments. ... in ADL, and nursing home residence: • Men tend to have higher risks of cancer and heart disease and lower risks of hypertension, arthritis, and disability than do women. • Blacks and Hispanics ... of the elderly, the likely effects of new medical advances and treatments on morbidity and mortality among the elderly, and the likely costs of new medical treatments. In what we later refer...

... IOP Publishing Ltd Medical Science Series MEDICAL PHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGB H Brown, R H Smallwood, D C Barber,P V Lawford and D R HoseDepartment of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering,University ... LtdPREFACEThisbookisbaseduponMedicalPhysicsandPhysiologicalMeasurementwhichwewrotein1981.ThatbookhadgrowninturnoutofabookletwhichhadbeenusedintheSheffieldDepartmentofMedicalPhysicsandClinicalEngineeringforthetrainingofourtechnicalstaff.Theintentionbehindourwritinghadbeentogivepracticalinformationwhichwouldenablethereadertocarryoutaverywiderangeofphysiologicalmeasurementandtreatmenttechniqueswhichareoftengroupedundertheumbrellatitlesofmedicalphysics,clinicalengineeringandphysiologicalmeasurement.However,itwasmorefulfillingtotreatasubjectinalittledepthratherthanatapurelypracticallevelsoweincludedmuchofthebackgroundphysics,electronics,anatomyandphysiologyrelevanttothevariousprocedures.Ourhopewasthatthebookwouldserveasanintroductorytexttograduatesinphysicsandengineeringaswellasservingtheneedsofourtechnicalstaff.Whilstthisnewbookisbasedupontheearliertext,ithasamuchwiderintendedreadership.Wehavestillincludedmuchofthepracticalinformationfortechnicalstaffbut,inaddition,aconsiderablygreaterdepthofmaterialisincludedforgraduatestudentsofbothmedicalphysicsandbiomedicalengineering.AtSheffieldweofferthismaterialinbothphysicsandengineeringcoursesatBachelor’sandMaster’sdegreelevels.Atthepostgraduatelevelthetargetreaderisanewgraduateinphysicsorengineeringwhoisstartingpostgraduatestudiesintheapplicationofthesedisciplinestohealthcare.Thebookisintendedasabroadintroductorytextthatwillplacetheusesofphysicsandengineeringintheirmedical,socialandhistoricalcontext.Muchofthetextisdescriptive,sothatthesepartsshouldbeaccessibletomedicalstudentswithaninterestinthetechnologicalaspectsofmedicine.Theapplicationsofphysicsandengineeringinmedicinehavecontinuedtoexpandbothinnumberandcomplexitysince1981andwehavetriedtoincreaseourcoverageaccordingly.Theexpansioninintendedreadershipandsubjectcoveragegaveusaproblemintermsofthesizeofthebook.Asaresultwedecidedtoomitsomeoftheintroductorymaterialfromtheearlierbook.Wenolongerincludethebasicelectronics,andsomeoftheanatomyandphysiology,aswellasthebasicstatistics,havebeenremoved.Itseemedtousthattherearenowmanyothertextsavailabletostudentsintheseareas,sowehavesimplyincludedtherelevantreferences.Therangeoftopicswecoverisverywideandwecouldnothopetowritewithauthorityonallofthem.Wehavepickedbrainsasrequired,butwehavealsoexpandedthenumberofauthorstofive.RodandIverymuchthankRodHose,PatLawfordandDavidBarberwhohavejoinedusasco-authorsofthenewbook.Wehavereceivedhelpfrommanypeople,manyofwhomwereacknowledgedintheprefacetotheoriginalbook(seepagexxiii).NowaddedtothatlistareJohnConway,LisaWilliams,AdrianWilson,ChristineSegasby,JohnFennerandTonyTrowbridge.Tonydiedin1997,buthewasasourceofinspirationandwehaveusedsomeofhislecturematerialinChapter13.However,westartwitharecognitionoftheencouragement ... enjoyed joint University and Hospitalactivities in medical physics and biomedical engineering. The result of this is a large group of professionalswith a collective knowledge of the subject...