This book addresses the question: to what extent is it advisable to apply the American concept of disease management in the Netherlands? It does so in relation to five diseases and patient groups: cystic fibrosis, diabetes , depression, heart failure and palliative care. The authors draw on a review of the literature on disease management, visits to examples of disease management in the United ...

BRIEFING 1 2 <1032> Design and Development of Biological Assays. This General Chapter 3 Design and Development of Bioassays <1032> is one of an integrated group of new 4 General Chapters that provide guidance across several complementary bioassay topics. 5 The others include Biological Assay Validation <1033>; Analysis of Biological Assay 6 <1034>; and an as-yet unnumbered " roadmap " chapter t...

however, it is well written, with excellent transitions from one chapter to the next, and the historical approach used by the authors makes the book timeless. I recommend that everyone interested in understanding the mechanisms of G-protein signal transduction read this volume. Pariza notes in the preface that legislative and regulatory initiatives aimed at controlling or eliminating carcinogen...

This paper aims to review our recent results on exploring the capabilities of nonquantum field theory as a possible tool for describing single photon-like objects, considered as massless timestable spatially finite physical entities with compatible translational-rotational dynamical structure. It consists of five chapters and includes 22 sections and subsections.

This chapter gives an introduction to the oculomotor system, thus providing a framework for the subsequent chapters. This chapter describes the characteristics, and outlines the structures involved, of the five basic types of eye movements, for gaze holding ("neural integrator") and eye movements in three dimensions (Listing's law, pulleys).