Basic Premises of Family-Oriented Primary Care -- How Families Affect Illness: Research on the Family's Influence on Health -- Family Systems Concepts: Tools for Assessing Families in Primary Care -- A Family-Oriented Approach to Individual Patients -- Involving the Family in Daily Practice -- Building Partnerships: Promoting Working Alliances and Motivation for Change -- Family Interviewing Sk…
The Climate Dilemma -- Projected Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events in Europe -- Is the Frequency and Intensity of Flooding Changing in Europe? -- Bio-climatological Aspects of Summer 2003 Over France -- Improving Public Health Responses to Extreme Weather Events -- Cold Extremes and Impacts on Health -- Temperature Regulation, Heat Balance and Climatic Stress -- Health Impact of the…
The Ethical Debate on Evidence-based Medicine — Introduction to the Volume -- Regulating Health Care. The Development of Guidelines in Medical Practice and Health Policy -- Evidence-based Medicine and Power Shifts in Health Care Systems -- Beyond Legitimate Science: The Case for Policy-Related Science -- Teaching Evidence-based Medicine -- Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Guidelines in Ca…
Quality of Life in the Global Context: A Chinese Response -- Arts and the Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study -- Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live -- Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004 -- Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Enviro…
to Space Life Sciences -- Space Biology -- The Neuro-Sensory System in Space -- The Cardio-Vascular System in Space -- The Musculo-Skeletal System in Space -- Psycho-Sociological Issues of Spaceflight -- Operational Space Medicine -- Space Life Sciences Investigator’S Guide.A total of more than 240 human space flights have been completed to date, involving about 450 astronauts from various co…
La sclerosi multipla -- Studi sui costi di malattia: aspetti metodologici -- Costi di malattia: revisione degli studi europei e nordamericani -- Costi di malattia: revisione degli studi italiani -- Studi farmacoeconomici: aspetti metodologici -- Studi farmacoeconomici: revisione della letteratura.La sclerosi multipla (SM) rappresenta la seconda causa di disabilità neurologica nel giovane adult…
Cancer Statistics: Some Facts -- Assessing the magnitude of the problem -- The problem is growing, not going away -- What Is Cancer? -- Cancer through the ages -- Our current understanding -- How Is Cancer Treated? -- The cancer cell-kill paradigm and its corollaries -- Chemotherapy drugs -- Treatment outcomes: Dismal by any standard -- Why Does This System Persist? -- The role of the National …
Catastrophic Terrorism: Risk Assessment of the New Threats to First Responders -- Current Threats to First Responders -- Current Detection Capabilities and Their Limitations -- Current Capabilities of First Responders in Different Countries -- Future Requirements of the First Responder Community -- EU/US Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Protective Countermeasures -- The Way Forward.Sep…
Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors -- The Development and Optimisation of High Bandwidth Bimorph Deformable Mirrors -- Deformable Mirrors with Thermal Actuators -- Technology and Operation of a Liquid Crystal Modal Wavefront Corrector -- Aberration Compensation Using Nematic Liquid Crystals -- Wireless Control of an LC Adaptive Lens -- Summary of Adaptive Optics at Stanford -- Control of…
Identification of the Gene Involved in 4q25-Linked Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome, PITX2 -- Winged Helix/Forkhead Transcription Factors and Rieger Syndrome -- Rieger Syndrome and PAX6 Deletion -- The Molecular and Biochemical Basis of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome -- Role of PITX2 in the Pituitary Gland -- Expression and Function of Pitx2 in Chick Heart Looping -- The Multiple Roles of Pitx2 in Heart Deve…