Upkar Varshney 2009 EMR/EHR, WIRELESS and HEALTH MONITORING    

Christoph U. Lehmann • George R. Kim Kevin B. Johnson Editors 2009 Computer Applications in Child Health This book is the product of over 2 years of collaboration by colleagues who have been involved in pediatric informatics. The evolution of this community has been driven by common interests of pediatricians that have coalesced because of increasing concerns about […]

Visakan Kadirkamanathan Guido Sanguinetti Mark Girolami Mahesan Niranjan Josselin Noirel (Eds.) 2009 4th IAPR International Conference The Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB) meeting was established in 2006 under the auspices of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) to create a focus for the development and application of pattern recognition techniques in the biological domain. PRIB’s aim to […]

Peter Schlattmann 2009 Patients are not alike! This simple truth is often ignored in the analysis of medical data, since most of the time results are presented for the “average” patient. As a result, potential variability between patients is ignored when presenting, e.g., the results of a multiple linear regression model. In medicine there are more and more attempts […]

Craig John Benham · Stephen Harvey · Wilma K. Olson · De Witt L. Sumners · David Swigon Editors 2009 Propelled by the success of the sequencing of the human and many related genomes, molecular and cellular biology has delivered significant scientific breakthroughs. Mathematics (broadly defined) continues to play a major role in this effort, helping to discover […]

Thomas A. Arcury • Sara A. Quandt Editors 2009 Health, Safety and Justice  

Ronald R. Gauch 2009 The truth is, few people know the first thing about clinical research. The public reads about a medical research project that announces unbelievable results for a miraculous drug. Some years later, another investigation completely wipes out those initial favorable findings. Hormones Cut Women’s Risk of Heart Disease (San Francisco Chronicle, 1994) Hormones Don’t Protect Women from […]

edited by W. Duncan Wood Derek M. Robinson 2009 Chairman Velikhov, distinguished speakers and participants, friends and colleagues. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this NATO workshop on Radiological Security here at Woodlands Park. The concern of this workshop, Radiological Security, moves ever higher up the list of global security priorities. This fact, I know, puts […]

William Hersh 2009 The main goal of this book is to provide an understanding of the theory, implementation, and evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems in health and biomedicine. There are already a number of excellent “how-to” volumes on searching for health and biomedical information (listed in Chap. 1). Similarly, there are also a number of high-quality basic IR […]

Ronald J. Angel · Jacqueline L. Angel 2009 The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State Unlike the nations of Europe that have only recently begun to accept the fact that immigration is an integral part of their cultural and social realities, the United States has always embraced its identity as a nation of immigrants, even if […]