use of lasers in otolaryngology, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, gynecology, urology, cardiovascular medicine, and orthopedic surgery. The volume opens with a 130-page chapter on basic laser physics and the interaction of laser light with soft tissues. Although this chapter is quite technical, it begins with an introduction to the use of lasers, particularly the argon, carbon dioxide, and...

The opening chapters cover muscle glycogen and endurance exercise, the insulin-like effects of muscle contraction, cardiovascular adaptations to endurance exercise, and the relationship between cardiovascular drugs and exercise. These chapters satisfactorily describe the methods involved in quantitating present and past data from animal and human studies. Wisely, the authors' conclusions from a...

Electromyography (EMG) is a procedure for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles. EMG has several clinical and prosthetic applications, which include the diagnosis of neuromuscular problems, biomechanical and motor control deficits, and other functional disorders. Moreover, it can be used as a control signal for interfacing with orthotic and/or prosthetic ...

Legionella and the Prevention of Legionellosis is much less about the former and more about the latter. The book is essentially a risk-management manual for legionellosis, modeled on the World Health Organization’s framework for providing safe drinking water. Introductory chapters on the disease and the ecology of Legionella spp. and a concluding chapter on laboratory aspects of Legionella spp....

Legionella and the Prevention of Legionellosis is much less about the former and more about the latter. The book is essentially a risk-management manual for legionellosis, modeled on the World Health Organization’s framework for providing safe drinking water. Introductory chapters on the disease and the ecology of Legionella spp. and a concluding chapter on laboratory aspects of Legionella spp....

For one who knows neither medical history nor the science of obstetrics to attempt to review such a text is manifestly presumptuous; and yet I suspect that it is for just such persons that the book is in large part designed. Surely the medical historian will have knowledge of the characters herein described, and obviously the obstetrician can not be an obstetrician if he lacks familiarity with ...

We characterize the collapse of Buss bounded arithmetic in terms of the provable collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general 1nodel theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.

Rat adjuvant (AA) and collagen-induced (CIA) polyarthritis models, and more recently the monoarticular streptococcal cell wall (SCW) model have been used to evaluate novel therapeutic approaches to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis. All three models share mechanistic and pathologic features with each other, as well as with human RA. Most notably, they are all T cell and macrophage mediated. All have b...