Author: Committee on Radiation Source Use and Replacement
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: version, abbreviated, replacement, source, radiation
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-04-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0309110149
ISBN-13: 9780309110143

In the United States there are several thousand devices containing high-activity radiation sources licensed for use in areas ranging from medical uses such as cancer therapy to safety uses such as testing of structures and industrial equipment. Those radiation sources are licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state agencies. Concerns have been raised about the safety and security of the radiation sources, particularly amid fears that they could be used to create dirty bombs, or radiological dispersal device (RDD). In response to a request from Congress, the U.S. Nuclear Regula

Author: Karen Alletson
Publisher: Authors OnLine Ltd.
Keywords: replacement
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-02-25
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0755200748
ISBN-13: 9780755200740

1965, Brian Rollings age 16, from a farming community in Kent, sets off to join the Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion at Oswestry in Shropshire. From the time the train departs Paddington Station there is a sense that something is not quite right, a feeling that could not be just homesickness or nervous apprehension; or perhaps it is? 1940, Billy Rollings a young recruit in the Royal Artillery also from a farming community in Kent has hung himself on his seventeenth birthday at the end of a long march in the rain; mistakenly believing his two brothers had been killed at Dunkirk. Billy

Author: Sinha
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: controversies, trends, current, replacement, hip
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-07-09
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0824707893
ISBN-13: 9780824707897

Hip Replacement offers useful strategies to choose the appropriate biomaterials and implant structure avoid complications in hip replacement surgery analyze the bone-biomaterial interface perform difficult hip reconstructions track in vivo performance of hip prosthetics inhibit implant loosening and the formation of wear debris classify acetabular defects for surgical revisions Providing nearly 200 figures, pictures, and micrographs to clarify surgical procedures, Hip Replacement is a timely and state-of-the-art guide for orthopaedic and hip replacement surgeons; geriatricians; biomedical, bio

Authors:C. Jacobs, C. M. Kjellstrand, K.M. Koch, J.F. Winches
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dialysis, function, renal, replacement
Number of Pages: 1480
Published: 1996-06-30
List price: $518.00
ISBN-10: 0792336100
ISBN-13: 9780792336105

The leading textbook on the subject. A completely rewritten and up-to-date Fourth Edition, formerly edited by W. Drukker, F. M. Parsons and J. F. Maher.

Author: Emil P. Paganini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: developments, nephrology, therapy, replacement, continuous, renal, acute
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1986-03-31
List price: $212.00
ISBN-10: 0898387930
ISBN-13: 9780898387933

Authors:Walter H. Hörl, K.M. Koch, Robert M. Lindsay, C. R
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dialysis, function, renal, replacement
Number of Pages: 1606
Published: 2004-12-20
List price: $439.00
ISBN-10: 1402000839
ISBN-13: 9781402000836

The leading Textbook on the subject. A completely rewritten and up-to-date fifth edition, based upon the highly respected fourth edition, edited by C. Jacobs, C.M. Kjellstrand, K.M. Koch and J.F. Winchester. Considered THE global resource for dialysis specialists, dialysis manufacturers and scientists for over two decades, this authoritative, highly acclaimed major reference work has been completely rewritten and revised in a much-awaited 5th edition. All previous chapters have been updated to include the very latest advancements and understandings in this critical and complex field. New secti

Authors:Renée C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: american, society, replacement, organ, parts, spare
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0195076508
ISBN-13: 9780195076509