Understanding The Human Machine: A Primer For BioengineeringWorld Scientific Publishing Company, 7 ott 2004 - 412 pagine This introductory book for undergraduate students poses a question: What is bioengineering all about? After offering a reference frame and defining the objectives (chapter 1), “physiology” (chapter 2) is presented as a source material followed by “signals” (chapter 3) and “signal pick up” (chapter 4). Chapter 5 deals with the biological amplifier. Reading the signal and the need for mathematical models are the subject matter, respectively, of chapters 6 and 7; they only provide guidance. The last chapter tries to look ahead. Sometimes, the subject is treated in relative depth; at times, the visit is more superficial. Formation rather than information is favored. Historical shots supply background material and spicy insights. Style is light, sprinkled with a little humor. There are exercises which allow students to learn independently. |
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... response, a therapy is instituted, a relationship is uncovered or discovered, a mathematical model can be set, thus starting a fruitful feedback loop (Chapter 7). Thus, feedback is meant here in a very wide sense and context. The final ...
... response, a therapy is instituted, a relationship is uncovered or discovered, a mathematical model can be set, thus starting a fruitful feedback loop (Chapter 7). Thus, feedback is meant here in a very wide sense and context. The final ...
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... responses (that is, weaker contractions). Study subject: Find the difference between tropism and trophism. Search for a few examples in physiology. They are important concepts. 2.2.1.5. Laws of the heart: Starling's and Laplace's But ...
... responses (that is, weaker contractions). Study subject: Find the difference between tropism and trophism. Search for a few examples in physiology. They are important concepts. 2.2.1.5. Laws of the heart: Starling's and Laplace's But ...
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... response to epinephrine". What is such response? Think in terms of an athlete who is getting ready to act. Do you remember Hooke's Law of elasticity? Try to correlate it with eq. (2.11) above. Another characteristic of the circulatory ...
... response to epinephrine". What is such response? Think in terms of an athlete who is getting ready to act. Do you remember Hooke's Law of elasticity? Try to correlate it with eq. (2.11) above. Another characteristic of the circulatory ...
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Sommario
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What They Are | 217 |
4 Signal Pick Up | 271 |
5 Biological Amplifier | 299 |
Reading the Signals | 337 |
The Need of Mathematical Models | 349 |
8 Rounding Up and Looking Ahead | 359 |
References | 365 |
Index | 383 |
List of Figures | 393 |
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Understanding the Human Machine: A Primer for Bioengineering Max E. Valentinuzzi Anteprima limitata - 2004 |
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