Healthcare engineering : proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on Pathways to Sustainability

• Corporate Author: CAETS Convocation New Delhi, India
• Other Authors: Shorey, Rajeev (Editor), Ghosh, P., 1947- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer, [2017]
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering > Congresses.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811031113; 9789811031106
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on 'Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering' that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineeri...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Preface; Preamble; Recommendations; Energy; Mobility; Health Care; About the Book; Contents; About the Editors; 1 Ethics-Based-Engineering: Importance of Academy's Initiative Toward Human Security and Well-Being; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Engineering and the Creation of Human Artifacts; 3 Human Ethics; 4 Ethics of Engineering; 5 Specific Ethical Issues of Engineering; 6 Conclusion: What Should Engineering Academies Worldwide Do About Ethics?; Acknowledgments; 2 Scalable Medical Devices: Personal and Social; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Scaling Traditional Diagnostics.
• 3 Measuring Social ContextReferences; 3 Therapeutic Platforms for Ischemic and Traumatic Brain Injuries Across National-Level Neuroimaging Grids; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 3 Results; 4 Discussion; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Next Generation Devices and Technologies Through Regenerative Engineering; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Rising Healthcare Spending: Is Technology the Solution?; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 A New Paradigm for Healthcare R 3 Reducing Time in the Hospital Through Efficient In-House Surveillance.
• 4 Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies5 Conclusion; References; 6 Big Data Analytics and Molecular Medicine; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Next Generation Sequencing; 3 How Does NGS Work?; 4 NGS Applications; 5 Case Studies; 5.1 A Rare Inherited Disorder; 5.2 Treating a Rare and Deadly Cancer; 6 Conclusions; References; 7 Can Life Sciences Progress Without Engineering?; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Basics of Molecular Biology; 3 Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology; 4 Important Tasks in Computational Biology; 5 Engineering and Computational Challenges in Biology.
• 6 ConclusionReferences; 8 Evaluation of BMP-2 Mediated Bone Formation Using Enzymatically Crosslinkable Injectable Hydrogels: An In Vivo Study Using Transgenic Fluorescent Reporter Mouse Model; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 3 Results and Discussion; 4 Conclusions; References; 9 Supporting the Diagnosis of Childhood Pneumonia in Low Resource Settings; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 3 Methods; 4 Conclusions; References; 10 Adoption of Personalized Medicine: Towards Identifying Critical Changes; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Results; 4 Conclusion.
• 11 Biophysics-Based Markers Surpassing Biochemical Markers in Screening of Ageing-Related Neurodegeneration and Cognitive ImpairmentAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 3 Results; 4 Conclusion; 5 Discussion; References; Author Index.