The Scientific Basis for Multigeneration Safety Evaluations

Pharmacogenetics: The Scientific Basis

The scientific basis for postoperative respiratory care.

Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are common and expensive. Costs, morbidity, and mortality are higher with PPCs than with cardiac or thromboembolic complications. Preventing and treating PPCs is a major focus of respiratory therapists, using a wide variety of techniques and devices, including incentive spirometry, CPAP, positive expiratory pressure, intrapulmonary percussive ventila...

Scientific Basis for Polygraph Testing

Published scientific literature is reviewed for comparison question polygraph testing and its application to diagnostic and screening contexts. The review summarizes the literature for all aspects of the testing procedure including the pretest interview, test data collection, test data analysis, and a proffer of the physiological and psychological basis for polygraph testing. Polygraph accuracy...

The Scientific Basis of Forestry

Over the past two decades forestry in the United States has diverged into two approaches with quite different objectives and scientific priorities. The management focus of most industrial lands is on increasing productivity of wood fiber via plantations and various cultural tools, especially genetic selection, fertilization, and control of noncrop vegetation. Federal forest management has shift...

The Scientific Basis of Medicine

many editions and which has regained its youth by complete revision has many advantages. There must be few words, except those pertaining to the most specialised branches of medicine, which are not included with their derivation and meaning in well-tried terms. The illustrations, both the text figures and the plates on the art insets, have also attained a clarity and usefulness not usually expe...