Medical : Physiology

Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows presents the basic knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques necessary to carry out investigations of the cardiovascular system using modeling and simulation. Part II of this two-volume sequence, Mechanics and Medical Aspects, refers to the extraction of input data at the macroscopic scale for modeling the cardiovascular system, and complements Part I, which focuses on nanoscopic and microscopic components and processes. This volume contains chapters on anatomy, physiology, continuum mechanics, as well as pathological changes in the vasculature walls including the heart and their treatments. Methods of numerical simulations are given and illustrated in particular by application to wall diseases. This authoritative book will appeal to any biologist, chemist, physicist, or applied mathematician interested in the functioning of the cardiovascular system. more...

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This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution. Simple processes precede, coexist, constitute and surround the complex systems they generate (priority of the simple). In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones (supremacy of the complex). Contents: Creative Processes and Mathematical Models: A Research Program: A Science of Creative Processes; On the Shoulders of Giants; Mathematical Ideas: Bios and Biotic Feedback (with L Kauffman); Methods and Empirical Studies: Bios Data Analysis (with L Carlson-Sabelli, M Patel & A Sugerman); The Biotic Pattern of Heart Rate Variation (with J Messer); The Biotic Expansion of the Universe (with L Kovacevic); Novelty in DNA; A Theory of Natural Creation: Bios Hypothesis; Creation Theory; Mathematical Genesis; Co-Creation: Biotic Thermodynamics: Entropy as Diversity; The Infinite Attractor of Evolution; Biotic Evolution; Biotic Earth, Biotic Climate; Biotic Processes in Economics; Biological Priority, Psychological Supremacy; Co-Creation Practice: Education, Nursing and Psychodrama (with L Carlson-Sabelli); A Manner of Thinking: Mathematical Priority and Psychological Supremacy; Includes CD-ROM (with A Sugerman & L Kovacevic). more...

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Explores the history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. This book explores the behavioral and physiological events of waking and sleep, analyzing the realities and the future possibilities of unifying basic studies on anatomy and cellular psychology. more...

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A practical guide for health-care professionals to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of bulimia by a leading expert in the field of eating disorders. more...

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The combination of physiology, the latest evidence, and detailed methodologies and case studies, makes this an essential purchase for all undergraduates, and postgraduate students in their first years of training. more...

Price: $59.95