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The Addictive Behaviors
By Howard J Shaffer, Barry Stimmel. 1984
Handbook of Nutritional Supplements: Volume I: Human Use (Crc Series In Nutrition And Food)
By Miloslav Rechcigl. 1983
The Handbook is composed of two parts, the first volume covering supplements for human usewhile the second volume is devoted…
to agriculture supplements. This volume, relating to food supplements for human use, is organized on the basis of raw materials utilized in their production, as well as on the basis of target groups for which they are intended.Metabolism of Trace Metals in Man Vol. II: Genetic Implications (CRC Press Revivals)
By Owen M. Rennert and Wai-Yee Chan. 1984
A vast literature exists dealing with trace metals and a number of outstanding monographs deal with the biological, biochemical, or…
clinical effects of a specific trace metal or trace metals in general. However, newer aspects of trace metal research, i.e. the developmental aspects and generic implications, have not been systematically discussed in any existing texts. The present two volumes will summarize the present status of research in these areas and serve as milestones for future development in these areas of trace metal research.Gerontological Social Work in Home Health Care
By Rose Dobrof. 1984
Retirement Communities: An American Original
By Leon A Pastalan, Michael E Hunt, Allan G Feldt, Robert W Marans, Kathleen L Vakalo. 1984
This insightful book focuses on state-of-the-art retirement communities in the United States today. Experts from the fields of urban planning,…
architecture, and aging present in-depth profiles of a variety of retirement communities. The changing function and character of retirement communities--resulting from changes in supply and demand, alternate lifestyles, and other environmental needs of an ever-increasing aging population--are explored. The timely discussions in this useful resource offer insights into the relative strengths and weaknesses of various types of retirement communities with respect to the varying needs, abilities, and desires of older people.Activities and Action in Groupwork
By Ruth Middleman. 1983
This helpful and practical book examines the uses of innovative activities in social groupwork with a number of different populations,…
such as adolescents, school-age parents and their children, the elderly, and Hispanics.Handbook of Nutritional Supplements: Volume II, Agricultural Use
By Miloslav Rechcigl. 1983
The Handbook is composed of two parts, the first volume covering supplements for human usewhile the second volume is devoted…
to agriculture supplements. This volume, relating to agriculture supplements, covers various food byproducts and nutritional and other food supplements used in animal feeding. In addition, it also includes information on nutrition supplements for plants.Chemical Reagents for Protein Modification: Volume II
By Roger L. Lundblad. 1984
The contents of this book are focused on the use of chemical modification to study the properties of proteins in…
solution. Particular emphasis has been placed on the practical laboratory aspects of this approach to the study of the relationship between structure and function in the complex class of biological heteropolymers. As a result, little emphasis is given to the individual consideration of the functional consequence of chemical modification.Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes: Volume II
By Rene Lontie. 1984
These volumes of Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes are intended to describe the contemporary spectroscopy and other biophysical chemistry now…
being applied to copper proteins in order to determine the structures of their active sites. Several chapters of the treatise describe the functional understanding which is emerging from the new work. The authors are all major contributors to research progress on copper proteins and the volumes will be found to be definitive and authoritative.Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes: Volume III
By Rene Lontie. 1984
These volumes of Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes are intended to describe the contemporary spectroscopy and other biophysical chemistry now…
being applied to copper proteins in order to determine the structures of their active sites. Several chapters of the treatise describe the functional understanding which is emerging from the new work. The authors are all major contributors to research progress on copper proteins and the volumes will be found to be definitive and authoritative.Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
By Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer, Jerome Beker. 1983
An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend…
a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.What is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
By Peter Sterling. 2020
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on…
the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge. In this book, the eminent neuroscientist Peter Sterling describes a broader concept: allostasis (coined by Sterling and Joseph Eyer in the 1980s), whereby the brain anticipates needs and efficiently mobilizes supplies to prevent errors. Allostasis evolved early, Sterling explains, to optimize energy efficiency, relying heavily on brain circuits that deliver a brief reward for each positive surprise. Modern life so reduces the opportunities for surprise that we are driven to seek it in consumption: bigger burgers, more opioids, and innumerable activities that involve higher carbon emissions. The consequences include addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and climate change. Sterling concludes that solutions must go beyond the merely technical to restore possibilities for daily small rewards and revivify the capacities for egalitarianism that were hard-wired into our nature. Sterling explains that allostasis offers what is not found in any medical textbook: principled definitions of health and disease: health as the capacity for adaptive variation and disease as shrinkage of that capacity. Sterling argues that since health is optimal responsiveness, many significant conditions are best treated at the system level.Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain…
and its functions. David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long valued Marr's creativity, intellectual power, and ability to integrate insights and data from neuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MIT Press edition makes Marr's influential work available to a new generation of students and scientists. In Marr's framework, the process of vision constructs a set of representations, starting from a description of the input image and culminating with a description of three-dimensional objects in the surrounding environment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitive science, is the notion of different levels of analysis—in Marr's framework, the computational level, the algorithmic level, and the hardware implementation level. Now, thirty years later, the main problems that occupied Marr remain fundamental open problems in the study of perception. Vision provides inspiration for the continuing efforts to integrate knowledge from cognition and computation to understand vision and the brain.Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field: Emerging Issues and New Perspectives
By Gary Rosenberg, Dsw Helen Rehr. 1983
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Social Work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City,…
this innovative and exciting book traces the growth of the social work mission and the development of vanguard social work programs at Mount Sinai. Leading social work educators and practitioners look at where the profession is today and speculate on where it might be going. Each article is new and original to this book, and each contributor is a distinguished representative from his specialty in the field. Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field, with its wealth of historical, practical, and theoretical information, reflects today’s state of the art in selected areas and should serve as an information source not only for practitioners and administrators, but also for educators who are committed to enhancing the social work services and the quality of social health care.Occupational Therapy With Borderline Patients
By Diane Gibson. 1983
This volume discusses and reviews the current knowledge in the concept and management of activity groups designed for borderline patients,…
who are defines as those with “self-destructive and maladaptive interpersonal relations.”CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs, Second Edition
By Kenneth L. Miller. 1992
CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs, 2nd Edition, is unique in that it offers practical guidance for managing…
various aspects of radiation protection programs ranging from the daily operation of a health physics office to the preparation of radiation experts for court appearances as professional witnesses. The book also covers such topics as organization and management of nonionizing radiation safety programs (with special emphasis on laser safety programs) and management of radioactive waste, personnel monitoring programs, radiation accident victims, internal exposure, relative radiotoxicity and radiation therapy patients. Other chapters discuss handling radiation accidents and education and training requirements for radiation protection. Legal aspects covered in the book include the history of radiation court cases, legal implications of record keeping, and preparation for court appearances. CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs, 2nd Edition will be a valuable reference resource for medical and health physicists, industrial hygienists, physicians, nuclear engineers, radiation protection regulators, radiation emergency management agents, radiation safety committees, and managers of facilities using ionizing and nonionizing radiation sources.This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have become a primary method of anatomical study correlating…
structure and function in lung physiology and pathology. Detailing the evolution of anatomy as a research discipline, it explores general structural technUltrasound and Infertility
By Asim Kurjak. 1989
A comprehensive survey of the use of ultrasound in management of infertile patients is presented in this publication. Particular atten-tion…
is given to recently developed techniques such as assessment of endometrial changes, ovarian blood flow measurements, and per-cutaneous oocyte retrieval for in vitro fertilization. The very re-cent technique of transvaginal sonography is presented and richly illus-trated with original results obtained in biopsy-guided oocyte re-trieval, and in the precise delineation of follicle size and number for infertility treatment. Guidance in the interpretation of ultrasonic findings, which include potential limitations and pitfalls, is provided in each chapter. Researchers and practitioners interested in the management of infertile patients will find this volume indispensable.Handbook of Mouse Mutations with Skin and Hair Abnormalities: Animal Models and Biomedical Tools
By John P. Sundberg. 1994
Handbook of Mouse Mutations with Skin and Hair Abnormalities presents 48 mouse mutations that are all available to the biomedical…
community. Many of the mouse mutations with dermatological diseases are reviewed and illustrated in detail. This popular reference book gives you a single source to use when determining which mouse mutation will best serve your needs as a biomedical tool for sophisticated research projects. The book also includes an overview of domestic animal genodermatoses to provide alternatives to mouse models that do not exist or to complement those that do. A detailed section written by renowned experts compares the biology of human and mouse skin and skin diseases in the areas of development and the use of animal models, mammalian genetics, keratin biochemistry, epidermal and hair follicle cycles and kinetics, cytokines and growth factors, keratinocyte culture systems, cutaneous carcinogenesis, cutaneous immune system, and skin changes associated with mutations of the endocrine system.The Cryptorchid Testis
By Brooks A. Keel, Thomas O. Abney. 1989
Current knowledge concerning both morphological and functional cryptorchid-related alterations in the various testicular compartments is summarized in this valuable new…
publication. Damage to the germinal epithelium and resulting infertility in both humans and experimental animals as well as the degree of damage to the different stages of germ cell development is discussed. In addition, information concerning hormonal therapy and orchidopexy to reverse cryptorchid-related damage is provided. Morphological alterations in Sertoli and Leydig cells is discussed in terms of cellular hypertrophy and hyperplasia, alterations in organelle number and characteristics as well as changes in cell-cell junctional complexes. Changes in Sertoli cell and Leydig cell function, including gonadotropin binding, steroidogenesis and other metabolic alterations is also outlined,as well as the influence of altered testicular function on subsequent hypothalamic-pituitary changes. Vascular disruption, the potential role of paracrine substances and direct thermal damage, all of which may be responsible for the resulting detrimental changes in one or more testicular compartments, are considered.