Most optimistic accounts of analogies in archaeology focus on cases where analogies lead to accurate or well-supported interpretations of the past. This chapter offers a complementary argument: analogies can also provide a valuable form of understanding of cultural and social phenomena when they fail, in the sense of either being shown inaccurate or the evidence being insufficient to determ…
In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare (DNHW) commissioned a film, eventually called Challenge. Science Against Cancer, as part of a major effort to recruit young scientists into cancer research. Both organizations feared that poor recruitment would stifle the development of the field at a time when funding for research was gr…
In Cancer with Hope, former CEO Mike Armstrong chronicles his experience with leukemia, prostate cancer, near-fatal sepsis, and a crippling autoimmune disease. Mike shares how his often difficult journey from humble beginnings to leading some of the world's top corporations taught him the importance of hope and purpose, tools that proved invaluable throughout his cancer journey. More than the t…
Cancer Treatment: Conventional and Innovative Approaches is an attempt to integrate into a book volume the various aspects of cancer treatment, compiling comprehensive reviews written by an international team of experts in the field. The volume is presented in six sections: i) Section 1: Cancer treatment: Conventional and innovative pharmacological approaches; ii) Section 2: Combinatorial strat…
This book is a marvelous compendium of eight articles that cover a wide range of topics, including breast cancer: management and survivorship, rectal cancer intersphincteric resection, head and neck cancer diagnosis and radiotherapy, synthetic peptides as antitumor agents, and recent advances in thyroid cancer. It has been a wonderful opportunity to co-edit this special edition. We are greatly …
Personalized medicine plays an important role in cancer prevention. To date, it is clear that many cancers are molecularly distinct subtypes, and different therapeutic approaches would be required for each. Indeed, the identification of cancer susceptibility genes permits identifying patients “at risk” of developing neoplasia and supports modifying individual risk behaviors or the choice of…
Buku ini menyajikan kumpulan karya akademis terkini dan lanjutan dalam topik-topik pilihan teknologi biomedis, instrumentasi biomedis, pemrosesan sinyal biomedis, dan bio-imaging. Berbagai topik ini memberikan pembaruan yang berharga bagi para peneliti di bidang multidisiplin teknik biomedis dan pengantar yang menarik bagi para insinyur yang baru mengenal bidang tersebut. Teknik-teknik yang dib…
Edisi Khusus ini memiliki, sebagai tujuan utamanya, kompilasi studi biomekanik tentang kinerja olahraga dan hubungannya dengan cedera muskuloskeletal. Ini adalah kumpulan penelitian tentang delapan cabang olahraga yang berbeda (sepak bola, bola voli, renang, bersepeda, ski, golf, atletik, dan hoki) yang mempertimbangkan cedera pada cedera umum dan spesifik seperti cedera otot hamstring, ligamen…
Rekayasa biologi adalah bidang teknik di mana penekanannya adalah pada kehidupan dan sistem pendukung kehidupan. Teknik biologi adalah disiplin ilmu baru yang mencakup teori dan praktik teknik yang terkait dan diturunkan dari ilmu biologi. Tren terpenting dalam rekayasa biologi adalah rentang skala dinamis di mana bioteknologi sekarang dapat berintegrasi dengan proses biologis. Sebuah ledakan d…
Biokatalisis terapan dan biotransformasi, yaitu penggunaan enzim dan sistem sel utuh dalam proses manufaktur untuk tujuan sintetik, telah mengalami ledakan yang jelas dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, yang menyebabkan dimulainya apa yang disebut "gelombang keempat". Faktanya, kemajuan terbaru dalam bioinformatika, biologi sistem, intensifikasi proses, dan, khususnya, evolusi yang diarahkan oleh en…