Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "disease"

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    • Discovering Shared Dynamics in Physiological Signals: Application to Patient Monitoring in ICU 

      Lehman, Li-wei H.; Nemati, Shamim; Adams, Ryan Prescott; Mark, Roger Greenwood (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012)
      Modern clinical databases include time series of vital signs, which are often recorded continuously during a hospital stay. Over several days, these recordings may yield many thousands of samples. In this work, we explore ...

    • Erwin H. Ackerknecht: Social Medicine and the History of Medicine 

      Rosenberg, Charles (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
      Erwin H. Ackerknecht was an influential member of that small group of largely émigré historians of medicine who professionalized their field in the United States. Ackerknecht was influenced by both contemporary social ...

    • Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options 

      Lovett, Gary M.; Weiss, Marissa S.; Liebhold, Andrew M.; Holmes, Thomas P.; Leung, Brian; Lambert, Kathy Fallon; Orwig, David Alan; Campbell, Faith T.; Rosenthal, Jonathan; McCullough, Deborah G.; Wildova, Radka; Ayres, Matthew P.; Canham, Charles D.; Foster, David Russell; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Weldy, Troy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      We review and synthesize information on invasions of nonnative forest insects and diseases in the United States, including their ecological and economic impacts, pathways of arrival, distribution within the United States, ...

    • Structure of a Force-Conveying Cadherin Bond Essential for Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction 

      Sotomayor, Marcos; Weihofen, Wilhelm A.; Gaudet, Rachelle; Corey, David Paul (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      Hearing and balance use hair cells in the inner ear to transform mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. Mechanical force from sound waves or head movements is conveyed to hair-cell transduction channels by tip links, ...

    • What is Disease? In Memory of Owsei Temkin 

      Rosenberg, Charles E. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
      This essay outlines a contextual approach to disease (and thus medicine) in society. The work of Owsei Temkin is retrospectively evaluated and shown to rest on an assumed (if often implicit) contextualism. The key components ...