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.
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 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.
Quantum gravity is one of the major open problems in theoreticalphysics. The loop and spinfoam approach, presented in this book, isa leading research program in the field. Emphasis is given toconceptual and foundational issues raised by quantum gravity,especially on the nature of space and time. This text is intendedfor researchers working in quantum gravity and, in particular,graduate students entering the field. It will also appeal tophilosophers and scientists interested in the general issue of thenature of space and time.
This collection of more than 100 jokes and riddles will have kids chuckling their way to bigger, better vocabularies! Each joke or riddle highlights a word ina way that helps families remember its meaning. It all adds up to making new words stick--and helping families discover the fun in expanding their vocabularies! Word Advantage provides an integrated approach to developing your child's vocabularymand turns word knowledge into family fun! Each step of the program offers the opportunity to learn and use new words in a variety of contexts. Use this joke and riddle book to enrich the reading experience of the Word Advantage elements: Time FliesTM books Audio CDs with read-aloud stories and sing-along songs Board game and word-of-the-day game Interactive vocabulary practice pages Cloverhill map and stickers