Can technology and innovation transform world health?Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, RebeccaRichards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedicaltechnology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social andethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case studies,including cancer screening, imaging technologies, implantabledevices and vaccines, students learn how the complexities andvariation across the globe affect the design of devices andtherapies. A wealth of learning features, including classroomactivities, project assignments, homework problems and weblinkswithin the book and online, provide a full teaching package. Forvisionary general science and biomedical engineering courses, thisbook will inspire students to engage in solving global issues thatface us all.

This book is a guide to writing scientific research proposalsfor submission to funding agencies. It approaches the topic byplacing it in the larger context of planning and carrying out aresearch project, offering guidance on selecting a suitableresearch topic, organizing and planning the project, identifying afunding agency, writing the proposal, and managing the fundedproject. The book also discusses the ethical responsibilities ofthe researcher, the proposal review process, and how to deal withdeclination of a proposal. The author's 25 years of experience asan NSF program officer lend the book a unique insider's perspectiveon the proposal writing and research funding process. Because ofthat experience, the author is able to anticipate and answer thequestions that researchers most frequently ask when preparing towrite a proposal, and also to explain how program officers thinkabout proposals when they are making funding decisions.

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Mary Somerville (1780–1872) would have been a remarkable womanin any age, but as an acknowledged leading mathematician andastronomer at a time when the education of most women was extremelyrestricted, her achievement was extraordinary. Laplace famouslytold her that 'there have been only three women who have understoodme. These are yourself, Mrs Somerville, Caroline Herschel and a MrsGreig of whom I know nothing.' Mary Somerville was in fact MrsGreig. After (as she herself said) translating Laplace's work 'fromalgebra into common language', she wrote On the Connexion of thePhysical Sciences (1834), also reissued in this series. Her nextbook, the two-volume Physical Geography (1848), was a synthesis ofgeography, geology, botany, astronomy and zoology, drawing on themost recent discoveries in all these fields to present an overviewof current understanding of the natural world and the Earth's placein the universe.

This textbook treats solids and fluids in a balanced manner,using thermodynamic restrictions on the relation between appliedforces and material responses. This unified approach can beappreciated by engineers, physicists, and applied mathematicianswith some background in engineering mechanics. It has many examplesand about 150 exercises for students to practise. The highermathematics needed for a complete understanding is provided in theearly chapters. This subject is essential for engineers involved inexperimental or numerical modelling of material behaviour.