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Bioengineering is attracting many high quality students. This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them.Engineering is invention and designing things that do not exist in nature for the benefit of humanity. Invention can be taught by making inventive thinking a conscious part of our daily life. This is the approach taken by the authors of this book. Each author discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments and write a report. Almost everybody soon realizes that more scientific knowledge is needed, and a strong motivation for the study of science is generated. The teaching of inventive thinking is a new trend in engineering education. Bioengineering is a good field with which to begin this revolution in engineering education, because it is a youthful, developing interdisciplinary field.
Cardiology Science and Technology comprehensively deals with the science and biomedical engineering formulations of cardiology. As a textbook, it addresses the teaching, research, and clinical aspects of cardiovascular medical engineering and computational cardiology. The books consists of two sections. The first section deals with left ventricular
The objective of this book remains the same as that stated in the first edition: to present a comprehensive perspective of biomechanics from the stand point of bioengineering, physiology, and medical science, and to develop mechanics through a sequence of problems and examples. My three-volume set of Bio mechanics has been completed. They are entitled: Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues; Biodynamics: Circulation; and Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress, and Growth; and this is the first volume. The mechanics prerequisite for all three volumes remains at the level of my book A First Course in Continuum Mechanics (3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1993). In the decade of the 1980s the field of Biomechanics expanded tremen dously. New advances have been made in all fronts. Those that affect the basic understanding of the mechanical properties of living tissues are described in detail in this revision. The references are brought up to date.
Congenital and pediatric cardiology continues to advance at a rapid pace, with recent decades witnessing tremendous progress in transcatheter interventions as well as advanced 3D technologies for patient-specific therapy. Several newer devices, non-invasive image-guided therapies, and interventional techniques are appearing regularly. The novelties from the field require not only to be acknowledged but also to be broadcast within the community of interventional pediatric cardiologists. This Research Topic will highlight current strategies for the management of children and adults with congenital and structural heart disease. This Research Topic will cover a wide range of catheter-based techniques along with interventional pearls from world experts and next-generation key opinion leaders in the field of catheter-based treatment of congenital heart defects. The Research Topic will also include a comprehensive comparison of the advantages and pitfalls of commercially available devices that are designed for similar clinical applications. Attention will be drawn to important tips and tricks to assist interventionists in achieving optimal clinical and procedural outcomes.
Ch. 1. Physical mechanisms of soft tissues rheological properties / Yoram Lanir -- ch. 2. Biomechanics of an isolated single stress fiber / Masaaki Sato and Shinji Deguchi -- ch. 3. The origin of pre-stress in biological tissues - a mechano-electrochemical model : a tribute to Professor Y.C. Fung / Leo Q. Wan, X. Edward Guo and Van C. Mow -- ch. 4. How blood flow shapes neointima / Shu Q. Liu and Y.C. Fung -- ch. 5. Illuminating a path : role of biomechanics in understanding adaptive remodeling in the microcirculation / Thomas C. Skalak -- ch. 6. Computational simulations of the buckling of oval and tapered arteries / Avione Northcutt, Parag Datir and Hai-Chao Han -- ch. 7. Role of structural and signaling molecules in cardiac mechanotransduction / Anna M. Raskin, Andrew D. McCulloch and Jeffrey H. Omens -- ch. 8. A novel hemodynamic analysis of echocardiogram / Tin-Kan Hung -- ch. 9. In vitro biomechanical studies in aging human lungs / Shervin Majd and Michael Yen -- ch. 10. Modeling the oxygen uptake in pulmonary alveolar capillaries / Cheng-Jen Chuong -- ch. 11. Two bioengineering solutions for a pulmonary circulation / John B. West
This study is about experimental forms of cultural production that situate and work through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It addresses selected works of literature, autobiography and memoir by Jean Said Makdisi, Rashid al-Daif, Elias Khoury and Mai Ghoussoub, and the civil war trilogy of documentary films by Mohamed Soueid. From a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective, the book is concerned with how they give accounts of themselves as remnants, leftovers and undigested remains of the civil war, and of related trajectories of ideological attachment to symbolic mandates. Constrained to reposition their sense of self from an agent of history to a casualty of history, thei...
Biomechanics of the Gastrointestinal Tract is an up-to-date book for researchers on the study of the mechanical properties and the motor system of the gastrointestinal tract. A well-illustrated book, it provides a comprehensive overview to relevant tissue geometry, morphology and biomechanical theory. Separate chapters cover smooth muscle and nerve function including the application to animal and human studies of motility, symptoms and pain, determination of the true resting state, history-dependent properties, and tissue remodelling in disease. Several methods and diagnostic applications such as determination of in vivo length-tension diagrams and multimodal pain testing are completely new but will undoubtedly be used by many in the future. New non-invasive imaging techniques based on ultrasound, MR- and CT-scanning in combination with balloon distension are emerging as the techniques for future in vivo studies.