“…This book collects the contributions of a number of clinical psychiatrists all over the world, interested in developing basic research about anxiety and in applying it in clinical contexts. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Feature Extraction -- 9.5.2. Clinical Diagnosis and Pathological Speech Processing -- 9.5.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interface of Technologists and Care Providers - Why Humility Is Critical -- How Can Technologists Bring Humility to Clinical Users? -- Risk and Humility in Healthcare Systems -- Humility, Transparency, and the Acknowledgment of Error -- Personality Factors and Medical Error -- Solutions -- Humility as a "Use Case" for Technology Implementation -- Humility and Technology as a Physician Leader -- Humility Approaching Medicine as a Technology Expert -- Humility in Technology Implementation by the Hospital Executive -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Burnout in Information Security: The Case of Healthcare -- What Is Burnout?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.2 The Somatosensory System -- Somatosensory Receptors -- The Somatosensory Cortex -- Somatosensory Pathways -- Pain Perception -- 10.3 Vision -- Anatomy of the Eye -- The Nature and Behavior of Light Waves -- Accommodation -- Clinical Defects in Vision -- Regulating the Amount of Light Entering the Eye -- The Retina -- Phototransduction -- Rods versus Cones -- Color Vision -- Light Input to Circadian Rhythms -- Bleaching of Photoreceptors in Light -- Neural Processing in the Retina -- Neural Pathways for Vision -- Parallel Processing in the Visual System -- Depth Perception -- 10.4 The Ear and Hearing -- Anatomy of the Ear -- The Nature of Sound Waves -- Sound Amplification in the Middle Ear -- Signal Transduction for Sound -- Neural Pathways for Sound -- 10.5 The Ear and Equilibrium -- Anatomy of the Vestibular Apparatus -- The Semicircular Canals and the Transduction of Rotation -- The Utricle and Saccule and the Transduction of Linear Acceleration -- Neural Pathways for Equilibrium -- 10.6 Taste -- Anatomy of Taste Buds -- Signal Transduction in Taste -- Neural Pathway for Taste -- 10.7 Olfaction -- Anatomy of the Olfactory System -- Olfactory Signal Transduction -- Neural Pathway for Olfaction -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- 11 The Nervous System:Autonomic and MotorSystems -- 11.1 The Autonomic Nervous System -- Dual Innervation in the Autonomic Nervous System -- Anatomy of the Autonomic Nervous System -- Autonomic Neurotransmitters and Receptors -- Autonomic Neuroeffector Junctions -- Regulation of Autonomic Function -- 11.2 The Somatic Nervous System -- Anatomy of the Somatic Nervous System -- The Neuromuscular Junction -- Chapter Summary -- Exercises -- 12 Muscle Physiology -- 12.1 Skeletal Muscle Structure -- Structure at the Cellular Level -- Structure at the Molecular Level -- 12.2 The Mechanism of Force Generation in Muscle…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Differential Equations in Clinical Medicine -- C. Torricelli's Law of Fluid Flow -- D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgment -- References -- 6 The role of social media in the battle against COVID-19 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Materials and methods -- 6.3 Related reviews -- 6.4 Understanding COVID-19 data -- 6.4.1 Topic detection -- 6.4.2 Sentiment analysis -- 6.5 Misinformation identification and spreading -- 6.6 COVID-19 forecasting -- 6.7 Discussion: challenges and future directions -- 6.8 Conclusion -- References -- 7 De-identification techniques to preserve privacy in medical records -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Background -- 7.2.1 Deep learning systems -- 7.2.2 Language models and embeddings -- 7.2.3 Clinical de-identification, low-resource languages, and transfer learning -- 7.3 Material and methods -- 7.3.1 Data sets -- 7.3.1.1 The SIRM COVID-19 de-identification corpus -- 7.3.1.2 The i2b2/UTHealth 2014 de-identification corpus -- 7.3.2 System architectures -- 7.3.2.1 BiLSTM plus CRF-based architecture -- 7.3.2.1.1 Embedding layer -- 7.3.2.2 BERT-based architecture -- 7.3.3 Experimental setups -- 7.3.3.1 BiLSTM plus CRF-based systems -- 7.3.3.2 BERT-based systems -- 7.3.4 Evaluation metrics -- 7.3.5 Training strategies -- 7.4 Results and discussion -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Estimation of COVID-19 fatality associated with different SARS-CoV-2 variants -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Related work -- 8.2 Materials and methods -- 8.2.1 Data on COVID-19 infections and deaths -- 8.2.2 Data about SARS-CoV-2 variants -- 8.2.3 Models to estimate fatality -- 8.2.4 Uncertainty of available data and fatality estimation -- 8.2.5 Correlation with vaccine distribution -- 8.2.6 Hypotheses to generalize conclusions -- 8.3 Results -- 8.4 Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 9 Artificial intelligence for chest imaging against COVID-19: an insight into image segmentation methods -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Chest CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CURRICULUM AND COURSE OFFERINGS -- Curriculum at the University of Michigan -- Orientational and Instrumental Courses -- Statistics and Methodology -- Core Skills and Concepts -- Public Health Core -- Dissertation Courses -- Lessons Learned -- Course Offerings at the University of Michigan -- Course Requirements -- Orientation and Instrumental Courses -- Computer Instruction -- Introduction to Health Policy and Research -- Statistics and Methodology -- Biostatistics for Clinical Researchers -- Research and Evaluation Methods in Health Policy -- Applied Statistics -- Applied Methodology -- Core Skills and Concepts -- Organizational Issues in Health Policy -- Economics of Health Policies -- Legal Issues in Health Care Policy -- Issues in Medical Care Organization and Delivery -- Politics in Health Care Policy -- Policy Seminar in Disease Prevention and the Environment -- Public Health Core -- Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology -- Principles of Health Behavior…”

“…For decades researchers and programmers have used SAS to analyze, summarize, and report clinical trial data. Now Chris Holland and Jack Shostak have updated their popular Implementing CDISC Using SAS, the first comprehensive book on applying clinical research data and metadata to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Schwinghammer oChapter 1: Introduction: How to Use This Casebook oChapter 2: Active Learning Strategies oChapter 3: Patient Communication: Getting the Most Out of That One-on-One Time oChapter 4: The Patient Care Plan oChapter 5: Documentation of Pharmacist Encounters and Interventions oChapter 6: Pediatrics: Children Are Not Just Little Adults Level III oChapter 7: Geriatrics: Falling Frannie Level II oChapter 8: Palliative Care: Helpful Hospice Level III oChapter 9: Clinical Toxicology: Acetaminophen Toxicity: If One Is Good, More Is Better Level II oChapter 10: Cyanide Exposure: Expect the Unexpected Level II oChapter 11: Chemical Threat Agent Exposure: Name That Poison Level II *Section 2: Cardiovascular Disorders Section Editor: Julia M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Promote chronic disease management through organisational and payment incentives -- Development of clinical guidelines or disease management pathways -- Development of chronic care management programmes led by dedicated multi-disciplinary teams -- Development of bundled payments for chronic conditions -- 3.4.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Physiological Background and Clinical Applications -- 5.2.1.3. Processing of ECG -- 5.2.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Contents Forward Preface 1 -- INTRODUCTIONS AND MOTIVATION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The book 1.2.1 Objectives 1.2.2 Benefits 1.2.3 Organization 1.2.4 Book Cover 1.2.5 Impact of C-IoT 1.2.6 Summary 1.3 C-IoT Terms of References 1.3.1 Introduction 1.3.2 Need for IoT Framework 1.3.3 C-IoT Domains and Business Apps Model 1.3.4 C-IoT Roadmap 1.3.5 C-IoT Platform and Developer Community 1.3.6 C-IoT Opportunities for Business apps, solutions and systems 1.4 The Future 1.4.1 General Trends 1.4.2 Point Solutions 1.4.3 Collaborative IoT 1.4.4 C-IoT and RFID 1.4.5 C-IoT and Nanotechnology 1.4.6 Cyber-Collaborative IoT (C2-IoT) 1.4.7 C2-IoT and EBOLA Case 1.4.8 Summary 2 -- APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 2.1 C-IOT Landscape 2.1.1 C-IoT Model and Architecture Layers 2.1.2 C-IoT Model and Enabling Technologies 2.1.3 Definition of key elements 2.1.4 Requirement Considerations 2.1.5 C-IoT System Solution - Requirement Considerations 2.2 Applications Requirement - Use Cases 2.3 Health & Fitness (Lead Example) 2.3.1 Landscape 2.3.2 Health & Fitness - Sensing Requirements 2.3.3 Health & Fitness - Gateway Requirements 2.3.4 Health & Fitness - Service Requirements 2.3.5 Health & Fitness - Solution Considerations 2.3.6 Health & Fitness - System Considerations 2.3.7 Health & Fitness and Hospitals 2.4 Video Surveillance 2.4.1 Landscape 2.4.2 Video Surveillance - Across Home, Industry and Infrastructure 2.4.3 Video Surveillance - Sensing Requirements 2.4.4 Video Surveillance - Gateway Requirements 2.4.5 Video Surveillance - Services 2.4.6 Example: Red Light Camera - Photo Enforcement Camera 2.4.7 Conclusion 2.5 Smart Home & Building 2.5.1 Landscape 2.5.2 Requirement 2.5.3 Home - Sensing Requirements 2.5.4 Home - Gateway Requirements 2.5.5 Home - Services 2.6 Smart Energy 2.6.1 Landscape 2.6.2 Requirements 2.6.3 Smart Energy - Sensing Requirements 2.6.4 Smart Energy - Gateway Requirements 2.6.5 Smart Energy - Services 2.6.6 The Smart Energy App 2.6.7 Smart Energy and Network Security 2.7 Track & Monitor 2.7.1 Landscape 2.7.2 Track & Monitory - Sensing Requirements 2.7.3 Track & Monitor - Services 2.7.4 Track & Monitor - Solution Considerations 2.7.5 Track & Monitor - Examples 2.8 Smart Factory/Manufacturing 2.8.1 Factory Automation - Robot 2.8.2 Caregiver and Robot 2.8.3 Industrial Robot 2.9 Others: Smart Car, Smart Truck and Smart City 2.9.1 Smart Car 2.9.2 Smart Roadside 2.9.3 Drone 2.9.4 Machine Vision 2.9.5 Smart City 3 -- C-IOT APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 3.1 Smart IoT Application Use Cases 3.1.1 Health monitoring - Individual level (Fitness/Health Tracking wearables) 3.1.2 Health Monitoring at Business level (used in clinic) 3.1.3 Home and Building Automation - Individual level (Smart Home) 3.1.3.1 Smart Thermostat (Smart Energy Management) 3.1.3.2 Smart Smoke Alarm (Safety) 3.1.3.3 Smart IP Camera for Video Surveillance (Security) 3.1.3.4 Smart Service Robots at Consumer level - Roombas iRobot 3.1.3.5 Smart Home Gateway (Scalable for Smart Building Automation) 3.1.3.6 Smart Building Automation 3.1.4 Smart Energy and Smart Grid 3.1.5 Smart Energy Gateways 3.1.6 Industrial and Factory Automation 3.1.7 Smart Transportation & Fleet Logistics (Connected Cars - V2X: V2V, V2I) 3.1.8 Smart City 3.2 Smart IoT Platform 3.2.2 Smart IoT Software Gateway Platform 3.2.3 Smart Sensor Fusion Platform 3.3 Secured C-IoT Software Platform 3.3.1 C-IoT Security - Example on Smart Energy 3.3.2 Securing NAN (Metrology-to-Concentrator) 3.3.3 Securing Home Area Network (HAN) 3.3.4 Securing WAN (Concentrator-to-Sub Station/Utility Servers) 3.3.5 Platform Solution for Concentrator 3.3.6 Platform Solution for Sub Station/Utility Servers 3.3.7 Network Topology and IP Addressing: WAN 3.3.8 Security on the Concentrator and Utility Servers 3.3.9 Summary on C-IoT Security 4 -- IOT REFERENCE DESIGN KIT 5 -- C-IOT CLOUD-BASED SERVICES AND END DEVICE DIVERSIITY 5.1 C-IoT Cloud Based Services 5.1.1 Introduction and Drivers to C-IoT Service Platform 5.1.2 Classes of C-IoT Cloud Computing 5.1.3 C-IoT Innovative and Collaborative Services 5.1.4 The Emerging Data Centre LAN 5.2 C-IoT User Device Diversity 5.2.1 Introduction 5.2.2 C-IoT Developers/Platform 5.2.3 Wearable Devices - Individual 5.2.4 Harvesting (Self-powered nodes) - Infrastructure Applications 5.2.5 Embedded Devices and Servers 5.2.6 Performing Sentiment Analysis Using Big Data 5.2.7 Far-Reaching Consequence 5.2.8 Collaboration 6 -- IMPACT OF C-IOT AND TIPS 6.1 Impact on Business Process Productivity and Smart of Digital Life 6.1.1 Individual 6.1.2 Industry 6.1.3 Infrastructure 6.2 Considerations of developing Differentiated C-IoT Solutions 6.2.1 Software Processes and Platform 6.2.3 Standardization 6.2.4 Advertising Ecosystem Value Exchange 6.2.5 Opportunity with Industry Supply Chain for Material Handling 6.3 Practical Tips in maintaining Digital Life Style 6.3.1 Mobile and Wearable Computing 6.3.2 Robotics and Automation 6.3.3 Sensors and C-IoT 6.3.4 BIG Data and Predictive Analysis 6.3.5 The Changing Workforce 6.3.6 Sustainability 7 -- CONCLUSION 7.1 Simple C-IoT Domains and Model 7.2 Disruptive Business Applications of C-IoT 7.3 A New LifeStyle 7.4 Development Platform 7.5 C-IoT emerging Standards, Consortiums and other Initiatives 7.5.1 C-IoT Emerging Standards 7.5.2 C-IoT Emerging Consortiums 7.5.3 Forums, Workshops, and other Initiatives 7.5.4 C-IoT and Radio Communications 7.5.5 C-IoT and Nanotechnology 7.5.6 C-IoT and Security 7.6 Final Note References About the Authors Index …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shipping, and Handling of Biological Specimens -- H- LABELING OF SPECIMENS WITHIN THE LABORATORY -- I- PREVENTION OF AEROSOL AND DROPLET GENERATION -- 1- Introduction -- 2- Control of Aerosols and Droplets -- J- CONTAINMENT EQUIPMENT -- 1- Introduction -- 2- Biological Safety Cabinets -- 3- Pipetting Devices -- 4- Sonicators, Homogenizers, and Mixers -- 5- Clothing, Masks, and Face Shields -- K- BIOSAFETY IN LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION -- 1- Introduction -- 2- Organization and Responsibilities -- 3- Containment -- 4- Inactivation -- 5- Disposal -- 6- Exposure -- 7- Conclusion -- L- BIOSAFETY IN PHYSICIANS' OFFICE LABORATORIES AND OTHER SMALL VOLUME CLINICAL LABORATORIES -- 4 Safe Disposal of Infectious Laboratory Waste -- A- INTRODUCTION -- B- INFECTIOUS POTENTIAL OF LABORATORY WASTE -- 1- Risks to the General Public's Health -- 2- Occupational Risks -- C- CHARACTERISTICS OF INFECTIOUS LABORATORY WASTE -- D- RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SAFE HANDLING AND DISPOSAL OF INFECTIOUS WASTE -- 1- GENERATORS OF INFECTIOUS WASTE -- 2- Haulers and Waste Treatment Facilities -- E- WASTE HANDLING AND TREATMENT METHODS -- 1- Basic Principles -- 2- Containment -- 3- Personal Protection -- 4- Chemical Decontamination -- 5- Steam Autoclaving -- 6- Incineration -- 7- Validation of Decontamination Methods -- F- INFECTIOUS WASTE REQUIRING SPECIAL CONSIDERATION -- 1- Mixed Waste -- 2- Human Cadavers and Other Anatomical Waste -- 3- Animal Bedding materials -- 4- "Sharps -- 5 Safety Management -- A- ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES -- 1- Introduction -- 2- The Laboratory Safety Program -- a- Goals of a Laboratory Safety Program -- b- Responsibility for Laboratory Safety -- c- Safety Plans -- d- Safety Meetings and Safety Committees -- e- Safety Communications -- f- Monitoring Safety -- B- FACILITIES -- 1- Introduction -- 2- Laboratory Design…”