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A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease

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Ego-histories of France and the Second World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Ego-histories of France and the Second World War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack, Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck, Denis Peschanski, Renée Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research. This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in contemporary France.

Economics and Ageing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 479

Economics and Ageing

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers, professionals and practitioners in gerontology, sociology, health-related sciences, and social care. This volume introduces topics in the economics of happiness, quality of life, and well-being in later life. It also covers questions of inequality and poverty, intergenerational economics, and housing. Other areas described in this book include behavioural economics, political economy, and consumption in ageing societies.

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1393

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine

The third edition of the definitive international reference book on all aspects of the medical care of older persons will provide every physician involved in the care of older patients with a comprehensive resource on all the clinical problems they are likely to encounter, as well as on related psychological, philosophical, and social issues.

Human Memory and Material Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 93

Human Memory and Material Memory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-01
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book investigates the fascinating concept of a continuum between human memory and memory of materials. The first part provides state-of-the-art information on shape memory alloys and outlines a brief history of memory from the ancient Greeks to the present day, describing phenomenological, philosophical, and technical approaches such as neuroscience. Then, using a wealth of anecdotes, data from academic literature, and original research, this short book discusses the concepts of post-memory, memristors and forgiveness, highlights the analogies between materials defects and memory traces in the human brain. Lastly, it tackles questions of how human memory and memory of materials work together and interact. With insights from materials mechanics, neuroscience and philosophy, it enables readers to understand and continue this open debate on human memory.

MultiMedia Modeling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 525

MultiMedia Modeling

The two-volume set LNCS 12572 and 1273 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2021, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in June2021. Of the 211 submitted regular papers, 40 papers were selected for oral presentation and 33 for poster presentation; 16 special session papers were accepted as well as 2 papers for a demo presentation and 17 papers for participation at the Video Browser Showdown 2021. The papers cover topics such as: multimedia indexing; multimedia mining; multimedia abstraction and summarization; multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications; semantic analysi...

Alzheimer's Disease
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141

Alzheimer's Disease

This pocketbook summarises the latest understanding of the possible causes of the disease, the methods of diagnosis and assessment, and current management techniques.

Horror on the Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Horror on the Brain

A fascinating exploration of the science and psychology behind fear, madness, and the haunting stories that linger in our minds Scientists throughout centuries have mined the depths of humanity looking for—and finding—answers to life’s most mysterious questions, but perhaps the most memorable accounts of hidden dimensions have been left to us by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick and Octavia Butler. When science discovers, science fiction writers ask “what’s next?” Horror on the Brain reveals the real science and psychology behind science fiction’s most iconic characters, from Mary Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein to the doctors of H.P. Lovecraft and even today’s horror ...

Sleep Disorders Editor's Pick 2021
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Sleep Disorders Editor's Pick 2021

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An Edited Textbook on Medicinal Properties of Bioactive Compounds in Functional Foods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

An Edited Textbook on Medicinal Properties of Bioactive Compounds in Functional Foods

Dr.Poornima Jeyasekaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Nutrition, The American College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.