Bubble size distribution (BSD) is relevant to the design of gas-liquid systems, as it determines the interfacial area available in heat and mass transfer processes. Although data on BSD in stirred ...aerated tanks are available, a systematic comparison of alternative modeling functions for these data is lacking. In this work, BSDs obtained in air-water dispersions in a stirred aerated tank with a Rushton turbine and BSDs available in the literature for similar systems were modeled by 14 empirical probability density functions (PDFs). It was found that both the distribution of Nukiyama-Tanasawa with three adjustable parameters and the Rosin-Rammler distribution with two adjustable parameters reasonably fit original and literature BSDs. It is also concluded that it is possible to correlate the PDF parameters with the power dissipated by the agitator in the liquid phase, allowing the BSD to be modeled with only two parameters in a range of dissipated power from 0.5 to 2.3 kW/m
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The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about ...illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book crosses disciplinary boundaries by engaging with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism, and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked.
Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in ...New York's infamous Rikers Island jail—two in solitary confinement—while awaiting trial. After his case was dismissed in 2013, Browder returned to his family, haunted by his ordeal. Suffering through the lonely hell of solitary, Browder had been violently attacked by fellow prisoners and corrections officers throughout his incarceration. Consumed with depression, Browder committed suicide in 2015. He was just 22 years old.
In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound health risks associated with incarceration. From neglect and sexual abuse to blocked access to care and exposure to brutality, Venters details how jails are designed and run to create new health risks for prisoners—all while forcing doctors and nurses into complicity or silence.
Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with behavioral health problems and people of color. He also presents compelling data on alternative strategies that can reduce health risks. This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated.
Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead of preventive. The result is diagnoses that are too ...late and outcomes that are far worse than our level of spending should deliver. In recent years, U.S. life expectancy has been declining. Fundamental to realizing better health, and a more effective health care system, is advancing the disruptive thinking that has spawned innovation in Silicon Valley and throughout the world. That's exactly what Stanford Medicine has done by proposing a new vision for health and health care. In Discovering Precision Health, Lloyd Minor and Matthew Rees describe a holistic approach that will set health care on the right track: keep people healthy by preventing disease before it starts and personalize the treatment of individuals precisely, based on their specific profile. With descriptions of the pioneering work undertaken at Stanford Medicine, complemented by fascinating case studies of innovations from entities including the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, GRAIL, and Impossible Foods, Minor and Rees present a dynamic vision for the future of individual health and health care. YouÂll see how tools from smartphone technology to genome sequencing to routine blood tests are helping avert illness and promote health. And you'll learn about the promising progress already underway in bringing greater precision to the process of predicting, preventing, and treating a range of conditions, including allergies, mental illness, preterm birth, cancer, stroke, and autism. The book highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases, while emphasizing the need to devote more attention to social, behavioral, and environmental factors that are often the primary determinants of health. The authors explore thought-provoking topics including: * The unlikely role of Google Glass in treating autism * How gene editing can advance precision in treating disease * What medicine can learn from aviation * Discovering Precision Health showcases entirely new ways of thinking about health and health care and can help empower us to lead healthier lives.
What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a complicated way? Can we ...use mathematical or statistical techniques to simplify the comparison problem in a way that has economic meaning? What does it mean to measure inequality? Is it similar to National Income? Or price index? Is it enough just to work out the Gini coefficient? This book tackles these questions and examines the underlying principles of inequality measurement and its relation to welfare economics, distributional analysis, and information theory. The book covers modern theoretical developments in inequality analysis, as well as showing how the way we think about inequality today has been shaped by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines. Formal results and detailed literature discussion are provided in two appendices. The principal points are illustrated in the main text, using examples from US and UK data, as well as other data sources, and associated web materials provide hands-on learning.
This text gives an interesting and useful blend of the mathematical, probabilistic and statistical tools used in heavy-tail analysis. It is uniquely devoted to heavy-tails and emphasizes both ...probability modeling and statistical methods for fitting models.
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Your all-in-one companion for health personnel World Health Systems details different health systems, including their related health insurance and drug supply systems, in various parts of the world ...with both macro- and micro- perspectives. The book is arranged in five parts: the first part presents, from multidisciplinary perspectives, outlines of various health systems throughout the world, as well as current trends in the development and reform of world health systems. The second and third parts expound on the health systems in developed countries, discussing the government's role in the health service market and basic policies on medication administration and expenses, before analyzing the health systems of Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Poland, USA, Singapore, Hongkong (China), and Taiwan (China). The fourth and fifth parts discuss health systems in less developed countries and areas, typically the BRICS and other countries in Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Armenia, and Kyrghyzstan), Africa (Egypt, Morocco), Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria) and South America (Cuba, Chile, and Mexico), summarizing their past experiences, while making assessments of their current efforts to shed light on future developments. * Details a variety of health systems throughout the world * Compares their fundamental features and characteristics * Discusses their respective strengths and shortcomings * Provides insight from an author who holds multiple impressive titles in the health sector Public health professionals and academics alike will want to add World Health Systems to their library.
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a public charge, or ...a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to pay back benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform.Park argues that the notions of public charge and public burden were reinvigorated in the 1990s to target immigrant women of reproductive age for deportation and as part of a larger project of disciplining immigrants. Drawing on nearly 200 interviews with immigrant organizations, government agencies and safety net providers, as well as careful tracking of policies and media coverage, Park provides vivid, first-person accounts of how struggles over the public charge doctrine unfolded on the ground, as well as its consequences for the immigrant community. Ultimately, she shows that the concept of public charge continues to lurk in the background, structuring our conception of who can legitimately access public programs and of the moral economy of work and citizenship in the U.S., and makes important policy suggestions for reforming our immigration system.
This book examines the role of everyday technology throughout the life cycle in order to demonstrate the wide acceptance and impact of everyday technology and how it is facilitating both ...practitioners and patients in contemporary practices. In response, then, this text speaks to a number of audiences. Students writing for undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations/proposals will find the array of works insightful, supported with a vast number of references signposting to key texts. For academics, practitioners and prospective researchers this text offers key empirical and methodological insight that can help focus and uncover originality in their own field.
We anticipate that readers will find the collection of empirical examples useful for informing their own work, but also, it attempts to ignite new discussions and arguments regarding the application and use of everyday technology for enhancing health internationally.
Explores the multifaceted use and application of each ‘everyday technology’ that impact on diagnosis, treatment and management of individuals.
Examines an array of everyday technologies and how these that can either enhance and/or hinder patient/service user outcomes i.e. handheld devices, computer workstations, gamification and artificial intelligence.
Discusses technologies that are intended to facilitate patient diagnosis, practitioner-patient relations, within an array of health contexts.
Provides readers with an overview with future direction of everyday technologies and its limitations.
Section 1 Introductory Perspective
1. Everyday Technology in Healthcare: An Introduction
Christopher M. Hayre, Dave J. Muller, and Marcia J. Scherer
Section 2 Contemporary Applications in Healthcare
2. Therapy through Play: Advancing the Role of Robotics in Paediatric Rehabilitation
S. Lindsay, L. Rampertab, and C.J. Curran
3. Alzheimer’s and mHealth: Regulatory, Privacy and Ethical Considerations
Bonnie Kaplan and Sofia Ranchordás
4. Exergaming for Health and Fitness Application
Maziah Mat Rosly, Hadi Mat Rosly, and Mark Halaki
5. Technology Solutions and Programs to Promote Leisure and Communication Activities with People with Intellectual and
other Disabilities
Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, and Jeff Sigafoos
6. Using Digital Photography to Support the Communication of People with Aphasia, Dementia or Cognitive-Communication
Deficits
Karen Hux and Carly Dinnes
7. Common and Assistive Technology to Support People with Specific Learning Disabilities to Access Healthcare
Dianne Chambers and Sharon Campbell
8. Pervasive and Emerging Technologies and Consumer Motivation
David Banes
9. Feedback-Based Technologies for Adult Physical Rehabilitation
Leanne Hassett and Natalie Allen, Maayken van den Berg
10. Engaging Young Children in Speech and Language Therapy via Videoconferencing
Stuart Ekberg, Sandra Houen, Belinda Fisher, Maryanne Theobald, and Susan Danby
11. Digital Communication and Social Media for People with Communicative and Cognitive Disabilities
Margret Buchholz, Ulrika Ferm, and Kristina Holmgren
12. Mobile Technology to Facilitate Self-Management and Independence among Adolescents and Young Adults with
Disabilities – Best Practices and the State of the Science
Michelle A. Meade and Marisa J. Perera
13. Principles and Practical Uses of Virtual Reality Games as a Physical Therapy Strategy
Lorena Cruz, Felipe Augusto dos Santos Mendes, Silvia Gonçalves Ricci Neri, and Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro
14. Project Career: The Matching Person and Technology Model and Everyday Technology in Action
Deborah Minton, Elaine Sampson, Amanda Nardone, and Callista Stauffer
15. Everyday Communication and Cognition Technologies Jerry K. Hoepner and Thomas W. Sather
16. Mobile Technology in Aphasia Rehabilitation: Current Trends and Lessons Learnt
Caitlin Brandenburg and Emma Power
17. Technology Acceptance, Adoption, and Usability: Arriving at Consistent Terminologies and Measurement Approaches
Lili Liu, Antonio Miguel Cruz, and Adriana Maria Rios Rincon
18. Artificial Intelligence
Hadi Mat Rosly and Maziah Mat Rosly
'This book does have use for the intended readers. Its main utility lies in the comprehensive list of references specifically tied to different areas of research. Researchers looking for a large range of research on one of these topics would find this book a great jumping off point for further reading.' - Alexander Barry, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
Dr. Hayre is currently a lecturer in diagnostic radiography at the University of Suffolk. He has published both qualitative and quantitative refereed papers in the field of diagnostic radiography. He founded the Journal of Social Science & Allied Health Professions and remains Editor-in-Chief. He is currently writing a book chapter surrounding sustainable practices in medical imaging and is currently a visiting lecturer at the Odisee University in Brussels.
Professor Muller is currently Editor of the CRC series with Professor Marcia Scherer on Rehabilitation Science in Practice. He was founder Editor of the Journal Aphasiology and is currently Editor in Chief of the Journal Disability and Rehabilitation. He has published over forty refereed papers and has been involved either as Series Editor, Editor or author of over fifty books. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Marcia Scherer is a rehabilitation psychologist and founding President of the Institute for Matching Person & Technology She is also Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Rochester Medical Center where she received both her Ph.D. and MPH degrees. She is a past member of the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health, and is Editor of the journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. Dr. Scherer is Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA). Dr. Scherer has authored, edited, or co-edited nine books and has published over seventy-five articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as thirty book chapters on disability and technology. Her research has been cited more than 4500 times by others.
