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Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity: An Introduction provides a unified mechanics and materials perspective on polymers: both the mathematics of viscoelasticity theory, as well as the physical mechanisms behind polymer deformation processes. Written for advanced seniors seeking graduate level courses, first and second year graduate students and practicing engineers, this volume describes the relationship between mechanical properties and the basic molecular structure and mechanisms associated with the performance of structures made from polymer based materials. Clearly written in an organized manner, readers need only basic knowledge of solid mechanics and materials science in order to use this reference successfully. Introductory material on fundamental mechanics is included to provide a continuous baseline for readers from all disciplines. Introductory material on the chemical and molecular basis of polymers is also included, which is essential to the understanding of the thermomechanical response. This self-contained text covers the viscoelastic characterization of polymers including constitutive modeling, experimental methods, thermal response and stress and failure analysis. Example problems are provided within the text as well as at the close of each chapter. Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity: An Introduction provides an excellent overview suited to cross-disciplinary engineers and scientists who need to understand the basic background of polymeric behavior to rigorous mechanics approaches to the design of structures made with polymer based materials.

Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Fluid mechanics --- Solid state physics --- Macromolecules --- Materials sciences --- materiaalkennis --- fysica --- mechanica --- polymeren --- fysicochemie --- Polymers --- Viscoelasticity --- Polymer engineering --- Polymères --- Viscoélasticité --- Génie des polymères --- Viscosity --- Viscosité --- EPUB-LIV-FT SPRINGER-B LIVCHIMI

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Plantenfysiologie --- Bomen

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Computational intelligence paradigms offer many advantages in maintaining and enhancing the field of healthcare. This volume presents seven chapters selected from the rapidly growing application areas of computational intelligence to healthcare systems, including intelligent synthetic characters, man-machine interface, menu generators, analysis of user acceptance, pictures archiving and communication systems. This book will serve as a useful resource for the health professionals, professors, students, and the computer scientists, who are working on or interested in learning healthcare systems, to overview the current stat-of-the-art of diverse applications of computational intelligence to healthcare practice.

Engineering sciences. Technology --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- analyse (wiskunde) --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- robots

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Our goal for this book is to examine the contemporary therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the increasingly important perspective of impact upon quality of life, costs and long-term health outcomes. For too long the focus has been on short­ term, symptomatic, and surrogate indicator outcomes. Yet RA is a life-long disor­der with the majority of impact on an individual patient many years following onset. Further, even in the short-term, researchers and rheumatologists have tended to emphasize measurements of disease activity such as joint counts, ESR and physi­cian's opinion as to the amount of disease activity present. It is only relatively recently that measures of structural damage, quality of life and impact on broad domains of health have been given increasing emphasis. Also, the significance of early treatment of RA in order to optimise long-term outcomes has a relatively short history [1]. We have been focussed on the disease processes as surrogates for long­ term outcomes. Until the short-term process measures are validated as surrogates of long-term effects we should also turn our attention to outcomes of disease and the impact of our management on those outcomes [2). In our view, this book is especially timely. We are at the dawn of a revolution in the management of RA and other complex immunological inflammatory disorders because their molecular, genetic and environmental mechanisms are being unrav­elled. In the process, we are revealing a substantial number of novel and significant targets for pharmacotherapy.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Medicine. --- Médecine --- Antirheumatic agents. --- Rheumatoid arthritis -- Chemotherapy. --- Rheumatoid arthritis. --- Antirheumatic agents --- Rheumatoid arthritis --- Rheumatic Diseases --- Autoimmune Diseases --- Therapeutic Uses --- Arthritis --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Musculoskeletal Diseases --- Connective Tissue Diseases --- Joint Diseases --- Immune System Diseases --- Arthritis, Rheumatoid --- Antirheumatic Agents --- Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases --- Diseases --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Chemotherapy --- Chemotherapy. --- Adjuvant arthritis --- Arthritis deformans --- Arthrosis deformans --- Rheumatic gout --- Anti-rheumatic agents --- Autoimmune diseases --- Blood hyperviscosity syndrome --- Rheumatism --- Analgesics --- Anti-inflammatory agents --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce

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Toen de Britse klimmer George Mallory in 1924 de vraag kreeg voorgelegd waarom hij de Mount Everest wilde beklimmen, luidde zijn antwoord simpelweg: 'Because It's There'. Voor het beklimmen van de Mount Everest is dat wellicht reden genoeg, maar bij het ontwerpen van opleidingen verdient het toch de voorkeur onderwijskundige wenselijkheden en mogelijkheden centraal te stellen. Toch blijkt dat niet altijd het geval te zijn, vooral wanneer het gaat om nieuwe technische ontwikkelingen. ICT-toepassingen bijvoorbeeld worden vaak met geen andere reden in een opleiding opgenomen dan omdat 'ze er nu eenmaal zijn', of omdat de concurrent dat ook doet. Dit boek is een pleidooi om de verleiding te weerstaan en onderwijs doordacht te ontwerpen, rekening houdend met visies op leren, kenmerken van de doelgroep en de organisatorische context. Het boek is geen handleiding tot het ontwerpen van onderwijs maar geeft wel te denken. En zal iedereen die te maken heeft met het ontwerpen van opleidingen en onderwijs tot steun kunnen zijn

Didactics of higher education --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- opleidingsprofiel --- didactiek --- onderwijsvernieuwing --- Matériel didactique Leermiddelen --- Plans de formation Opleidingsplannen --- Tests Tests --- 378.1 --- 458.1 --- assessment --- didactische werkvormen --- leerwerkplaats --- leren --- onderwijsorganisatie --- professioneel handelen --- 371.3 --- Didactiek (didactische werkvormen) --- 450.4 --- Onderwijsstrategieën --- organisatie van het hoger onderwijs --- Organisatie - management --- Opleidingen --- Onderwijskunde --- Onderwijs --- Leren --- Leermiddelen --- Evaluatie --- Assessment --- Ontwikkeling --- Onderwijsvernieuwing --- 450.45 --- attitude --- examinering --- informatica --- leermethoden --- leermiddelen --- leerplanontwikkeling --- onderwijs --- professionalisering --- Opleiding --- Leermiddel --- Opvoeding --- Pedagogiek --- Statistische gegevens --- Arbeidsmarkt --- Sport