Biomedical importance

This is the third in a series of short books on probability theory and random processes for biomedical engineers. This book focuses on standard probability distributions commonly encountered in biomedical engineering. The exponential, Poisson and Gaussian distributions are introduced, as well as important approximations to the Bernoulli PMF and Gaussian CDF. Many important properties of jointly Gaussian random variables are presented. The primary subjects of the final chapter are methods for determining the probability distribution of a function of a random variable.

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The biomedical engineering senior capstone design course is probably the most important course taken by undergraduate biomedical engineering students. It provides them with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in previous years; develop their communication (written, oral, and graphical), interpersonal (teamwork, conflict management, and negotiation), project management, and design skills; and learn about the product development process.

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The field of biochemistry is diverse and forms parts of diverse fields including cell biology, molecular biology and medical sciences. Biochemistry is the study of the molecules of life like proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Studying the structure, properties and reactions of these important molecules would help in better understanding life as a whole. The practical aspect along with the theoretical background would help in better understanding these mechanisms. This book tries to address and compile some of the routinely used protocols in biochemistry for easy access.

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The human body is composed of structures organized in a hierarchical fashion: from biomolecules assembled into polymers, to multimeric assemblies such as cellular organelles, to individual cells, to tissues, to organ systems working together in health and disease- each dominated by a characteristic length scale. Decades of science and engineering are now converging to provide tools that enable the orderly manipulation of biological systems at previously inaccessible, though critically important, length scales (...

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The U.S. apparel industry is large, mature, slow growing, and highly fragmented (Wagle). “Clothing that is sold in the United States is produced both domestically and internationally.” According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, domestic apparel production in 2001 approximately equaled $23.3 billion, a slight decline from $24.7 billion in 2000. Apparel imports for 2002 approximately equaled $63.8 billion and exports were $5.5 billion, a figure that is continually falling in the past two years.

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Bioinformatics is at a crossroads. We work in a field that is changing every day, increasingly moving from specific solutions created by single researchers working alone or in small groups to larger, often geographically dispersed programs enabled by collaborative computing and open software. This book represents an important development, giving the reader an opportunity to discover how the use of open and reusable Java code can solve large bioinformatics problems in a software engineered and robust way.

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Biomedical Engineering can be seen as a mix of Medicine, Engineering and Science. In fact, this is a natural connection, as the most complicated engineering masterpiece is the human body. And it is exactly to help our “body machine” that Biomedical Engineering has its niche. This book brings the state-of-the-art of some of the most important current research related to Biomedical Engineering.

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Biomedical Engineering can be seen as a mix of Medicine, Engineering and Science. In fact, this is a natural connection, as the most complicated engineering masterpiece is the human body. And it is exactly to help our “body machine” that Biomedical Engineering has its niche. This book brings the state-of-the-art of some of the most important current research related to Biomedical Engineering.

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This paper provides a review of the methods for measuring portfo- lio performance and the evidence on the performance of profession- ally managed investment portfolios. Traditional performance measures, strongly influenced by the Capital Asset Pricing Model of Sharpe (1964), were developed prior to 1990. We discuss some of the prop- erties and important problems associated with these measures.

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There are lexical, syntactic, semantic and discourse variations amongst the languages used in various biomedical subdomains. It is important to recognise such differences and understand that biomedical tools that work well on some subdomains may not work as well on others. We report here on the semantic variations that occur in the sublanguages of two biomedical subdomains, i.e. cell biology and pharmacology, at the level of named entity information.

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Through much of the 1980s and into the 1990s, deficits were a dominant topic in Washington economic policy discussions. By 1990, annual deficit forecasts exceeding $300 billion—“as far as the eye can see”—were com- mon, so that year President Bush agreed to abandon his “no new taxes” pledge and meet with Democratic leaders of Congress to fashion deficit- reduction legislation.

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Since facts or statements in a hedge or negated context typically appear as false positives, the proper handling of these language phenomena is of great importance in biomedical text mining. In this paper we demonstrate the importance of hedge classification experimentally in two real life scenarios, namely the ICD9-CM coding of radiology reports and gene name Entity Extraction from scientific texts. We analysed the major differences of speculative language in these tasks and developed a maxent-based solution for both the free text and scientific text processing tasks. ...

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Similar factors influenced a large majority of schools’ decision to participate in the Direct Loan Program, whereas the factors that led schools to leave the program varied. Four factors—(1) streamlined loan delivery, (2) greater control over loan processes, (3) timely delivery of money to students, and (4) ease of tracking loans over time—were extremely or very important in influencing 70 percent of Direct Loan schools’ decision to participate in the program.

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With Ministries of Health taking the lead, it is important for cervical cancer programmes to engage all levels of the health system while involving all non-health and private sector stakeholders as much as possible. This should take into consideration current health system structures, human resource capacity, funding mechanisms, health information systems, and access to health services. Decision-making at all levels should be evidence-based.

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Lexical classes, when tailored to the application and domain in question, can provide an effective means to deal with a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. While manual construction of such classes is difficult, recent research shows that it is possible to automatically induce verb classes from cross-domain corpora with promising accuracy. We report a novel experiment where similar technology is applied to the important, challenging domain of biomedicine.

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The part-whole relation is of special importance in biomedicine: structure and process are organised along partitive axes. Anatomy, for example, is rich in partwhole relations. This paper reports preliminary experiments on part-whole extraction from a corpus of anatomy definitions, using a fully automatic iterative algorithm to learn simple lexico-syntactic patterns from multiword terms. The experiments show that meronyms can be extracted using these patterns.

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Biomedical research has entered a new era of characterizing a disease or a protein on a global scale. In the post-genomic era, Proteomics now plays an increasingly important role in dissecting molecular functions of proteins and discovering biomarkers in human diseases. Mass spectrometry, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and high-density antibody and protein arrays are some of the most commonly used methods in the Proteomics field.

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Culture of Cells for Tissue Engineering is a new volume in the John Wiley series Culture of Specialized Cells, with focus on procedures for obtaining, manipulating, and using cell sources for tissue engineering. The book has been designed to follow the successful tradition of other Wiley books from the same series, by selecting a limited number of diverse, important, and successful tissue engineering systems and providing both the general background and the detailed protocols for each tissue engineering system.

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The novel properties of multifunctional polymer nanocomposites make them useful for a broad range of applications in fields as diverse as space exploration, bioengineering, car manufacturing, and organic solar cell development, just to name a few. Presenting an overview of polymer nanocomposites, how they compare with traditional composites, and their increasing commercial importance, Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites conveys the significance and various uses of this new technology for a wide audience with different needs and levels of understanding. ...

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Nanomaterials, which are materials with structural units on a nanometer scale in at least one direction, is the fastest growing area in materials science and engineering. Material properties become different on the nanoscale: for example, the theoretical strength of materials can be reached or quantum effects may appear. One-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional materials such as nanotubes and nanowires demonstrate many extreme properties that can be tuned by controlling their structure and diameter.

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