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Health design thinking :creating products and services for better health
A practice-based guide to applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health challenges; updated and expanded with post-COVID-19 innovations. This book offers a practice-based guide to applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health challenges that range from drug packaging to breast cancer detection. Written by pioneers in the field -- Bon Ku, a physici…
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- 9780262369299
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- 1 online resource (228 pages).
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The next 500 years :engineering life to reach new worlds
"Driven by a vision of colonizing other planets, Mason reveals unique insights into how the human body is altered during long-duration spaceflight & how genetic engineering can protect cells in space"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360055
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Extracting accountability :engineers and corporate social responsibility
"First in-depth analysis of engineers working in resource extraction, focusing particularly on those who viewed social responsibility as fundamental to their profession"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366150
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The squares :US physical and engineering scientists in the long 1970s
"Looks at how "square" engineers and scientists accomodated their work to a rapidly shifting social and political landscape in the long 1970s"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369343
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Technical debt in practice :how to find it and fix it
"A look at technical debt in software that focuses on the practical implications of technical debt for the entire software lifecycle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366304
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- 1 online resource.
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Biofabrication
"This book will discuss the principles and ethics of biofabrication, a growing field in which biological tissue is fabricated in for medical, research, technological, and even food applications"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366762
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- 1 online resource.
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The contamination of the earth :a history of pollution in the industrial age
Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions ?a l'?age industriel by ?Editions du Seuil in Paris, 2017."Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a h…
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- 0262358131
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Stereophonica :sound and space in science, technology, and the arts
"Stereophonica examines innovations in the realm of sound and space after 1850, tracing key discoveries across science, technology and the arts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361248
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- 1 online resource.
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From X-rays to DNA :how engineering drives biology
"Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies -- includin…
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- 9781461952183
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- 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) :illustrations
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Flexibility in engineering design
Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specificatio…
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- 9781613444115
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) :illustrations.
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