Biomechanical Engineering: Open New Doors (Monographs in Biomedical Engineering Series) - Hardcover

Mikulecky, Donald C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814779085 ISBN 13: 9780814779088

Publisher: New York University Press, 1990

Synopsis

When investigating the intricate interactions of the human body, how can one represent bodily function and activity on paper? Most biomedical research progresses through simplifying complex systems by reducing them to smaller subsystems. Network thermodynamics generalizes techniques used in various branches of engineering, making it possible to resynthesize complex wholes from the subsystems studied. In this book, Donald C. Mikulecky makes accessible some of the most sophisticated techniques of the computer age and applies them to the most complicated of systems, the living organism. The book begins with a review of classical thermodynamic reasoning and shows what it can do and where it falls short. It then shows how network analysis revolutionized electronics by using a relatively simple methodology combining graph theory and the definitions of resistance, capacitance, and inductance. The book shows how the most complex of dynamics systems can be solved by this method, even in the areas of biofluid kinetics, pharmacokinetics, and other dynamics systems of living organisms. To date, no book such as this, combining theory and application, has been available. This book is essential for students and researchers in biomedical engineering and advanced graduate students and researchers in physiology.

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"Highly recommended."-CHOICE,

"The author explores the hybrid forms of spiritual practice that emerged in the West, especially in the United States, over the last century as a result of the encounter with Hinduism in its myriad forms."-Frank J. Korom, "Religious Studies Review"

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-Kathleen M. Erndl, author of "Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol"

Synopsis:

These proceedings include discussion of new methods of mathematical modeling, imaging, and computation as well as neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence in the context of life support and other applications. Many techniques for looking at organs and tissue, designed to perturb these structures as little as possible, are explored

About this edition

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0814779085
• ISBN 13: 9780814779088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1