An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on human life, the historical development of scientific knowledge has trended toward an increasingly accu…
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography…
In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies. In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and sent light into darkness. Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to wo…
Advanced Computational Approaches for Predicting Tourist Arrivals: the Case of Charter Air-Travel
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015, in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 9 revised long papers presented together with 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers address the following two topic…
Prosiding Konferensi Internasional ke-16 tentang Peningkatan Proses Perangkat Lunak yang Berfokus pada Produk (PROFES 2015) merangkum platform dinamis bagi para praktisi, peneliti, dan pendidik untuk bertukar wawasan, inovasi, dan kekhawatiran terkait peningkatan proses perangkat lunak dengan fokus pada kualitas produk dan layanan. Diadakan di Bolzano / Bozen, Italia, di tengah suasana musim di…
The biological power of the placebo effect. The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the inter…
* Merinci komponen manajemen siklus hidup produk (PLM) dan memberikan bantuan praktis untuk implementasinya yang berhasil. * Memberikan wawasan tentang manajemen siklus hidup produk, dan mempromosikan keterampilan yang dibutuhkan untuk mengimplementasikan manajemen siklus hidup produk dengan sukses dan untuk mencapai kinerja produk kelas dunia di seluruh siklus hidup. * Mengacu pada kegiatan ko…
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin. Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate US authority on a drug's …