Innovative Analyses of Human Movement

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This book introduces mathematicians to real applications from physiology. Using mathematics to analyze physiological systems, the authors discuss models reflecting current research in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology. In particular, they present models describing blood flow in the heart and the cardiovascular system, as well as the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the respiratory system and a model for baroreceptor regulation. This is the only book available that analyzes up-to-date models of the physiological system at several levels of detail; both simple ‘real-time’ models that can be directly used in larger systems, and more detailed ‘reference’ models that show the underlying physiological mechanisms and provide parameters for and validation of simpler models. The book also covers two-dimensional modeling of the fluid dynamics in the heart and its ability to pump, and includes a discussion of modeling wave-propagation throughout the systemic arteries.

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Excellent synopsis of circulatory system models.......2005-08-04

Good compact overview of literature for heart models, circulatory system models, detailed arterial models, pulmonary as well as baroreflex models. the authors focus primarily on their own work - but the literature review is good and the fact that its consolidated is very helpful.

An Introduction to Mathematical Physiology and Biology (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)

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An Introduction to Mathematical Physiology and Biology (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)
J. Mazumdar
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Mathematical Physiology

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This textbook is concerned with the mathematical modeling of biological and physiological phenomena for mathematically sophisticated students. A range of topics are discussed: diffusion population dynamics, autonomous differential equations and the stability of ecosystems, biogeography, pharmokinetics, biofluid mechanics, cardiac mechanics, the spectral analysis of heart sounds using FFT techniques. The last chapter deals with a wide variety of commonly used medical devices. This edition includes new chapters on epidemiology, including modeling the spread of AIDS through a population. Coverage is based on courses taught by the author over many years and the material is class tested. The reader is aided by many exercises that examine key points and extend the presentation in the body of the text. All students of mathematical biology will find this book to be a highly useful resource.

Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods

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Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods

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In Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods, the path-breaking investigators who founded the field review the principles and key techniques available to begin the creation of anatomically accurate and complete models of the brain. Combining the vast, data-rich field of anatomy with the computational power of novel hardware, software, and computer graphics, these pioneering investigators lead the reader from the subcellular details of dendritic branching and firing to system-level assemblies and models. A companion CD-ROM includes software used in computational neuroanatomy, sample data files animations of the results reported in the book, high-resolution color illustrations, and links to useful websites.

Human-Like Biomechanics: A Unified Mathematical Approach to Human Biomechanics and Humanoid Robotics (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering)

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Human-Like Biomechanics: A Unified Mathematical Approach to Human Biomechanics and Humanoid Robotics (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering)
Vladimir G. Ivancevic , and Tijana T. Ivancevic
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Human-Like Biomechanics is a comprehensive introduction into modern geometrical methods to be used as a unified research approach in two apparently separate and rapidly growing fields: mathematical biomechanics and humanoid robotics. The term human-like biomechanics is used to denote this unified modelling and control approach to humanoid robotics and mathematical biomechanics, based on theoretical mechanics, differential geometry and topology, nonlinear dynamics and control, and path-integral methods. From this geometry-mechanics-control modelling perspective, "human" and "humanoid" means the same. This unified approach enables both design of humanoid systems of immense complexity and prediction/prevention of subtle neuro-musculo-skeletal injuries. This approach has been realized in the form of the world-leading human-motion simulator with 264 powered degrees of freedom, called Human Biodynamics Engine (developed in Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia).

The book contains six Chapters and an Appendix. The first Chapter is an Introduction, giving a brief review of mathematical techniques to be used in the text. The second Chapter develops geometrical basis of human-like biomechanics, while the third Chapter develops its mechanical basis, mainly from generalized Lagrangian and Hamiltonian perspective. The fourth Chapter develops topology of human-like biomechanics, while the fifth Chapter reviews related nonlinear control techniques. The sixth Chapter develops covariant biophysics of electro-muscular stimulation. The Appendix consists of two parts: classical muscular mechanics and modern path integral methods, which are both used frequently in the main text. The whole book is based on the authors’ own research papers in human-like biomechanics.

Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems 1997 (including Biological Systems) (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)

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Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems 1997 (including Biological Systems) (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)

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ASIN: 0080426018

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This volume contains the 90 papers presented at the 3rd IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems held in Warwick, UK from 23-26 March 1997. Significant work in the field of biomedical systems analysis and design is taking place throughout the world and the opportunities for technological interchanges offered by symposia like this one are extremely valuable for the progress and stability of effort and vision in this important human-centred field.

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This comprehensive volume is a graduate-level text in human biodynamics, written in the unified categorical language of modern differential geometry and topology. Combining mathematics, physics and robotics with human physiology, this is the first book that describes all levels of human biodynamics, from musculo-skeletal mechanics to the higher brain functions. The book develops and uses a variety of research methods, ranging from chaos theory and Hakens synergetics, through quantum mechanics, to nonlinear control and artificial intelligence, to provide the means to understand, predict and control the behavior of human-like systems in their full neuro-musculo-skeletal complexity. The applications of this unique scientific methodology range from prediction of human neuro-musculo-skeletal injuries to brain-like control of humanoid robots.

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Slave of Northern Abolitionist but free

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The North Wasn't Much Better

Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson , Gabrielle Foreman , and Reginald Pitts
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (The Penguin American Library)

ASIN: 0142437778

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Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle- class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her.

Wilson combined and subverted two literary styles, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, in writing Our Nig, which was drawn from her real-life experience. Her sardonic treatment of abolitionists in the novel has long perplexed scholars and readers; Foreman and Pitts explain this puzzle in their Introduction and recount Wilson's life and career after the 1859 publication of Our Nig.

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Slave of Northern Abolitionist but free.......2007-05-07

This book was written by a woman who was supposed to be a free Black woman. In fact she was treated like a slave, a Black wage slave. She was oppressed by a family of who were Northern Abolitionists. Yet, she was treated like a slave. Succeeding generations of whites studying the book denied her and her class the ability to write such a book: they claimed the book had to have been written by a white person and that it was a novel, not real.

Millions of Black women who have slaved in white kitchens and cleaning white homes during and since slavery have a spokesperson in Harriet E. Wilson. This book helps us understand not just to pity them, but to understanding their ability to fight back with their minds.

buy it with the Foreman & Pitts introduction.......2005-05-08

Though I currently have the 1983 edition with the introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr (whose name is in the introduction for almost every important Af-Am text in circulation, it seems), I plan on getting this latest edition.

Until recently, biographical details on Wilson were limited. Indeed, they seemed to trail off soon after the publication of her book (a death certificate for her son six months after its printing has suggested to some that her call for support went unheard). This introduciton offers new and happier information, showing that Wilson lived a long life--in part as a successful lecturer on the Spiritualist circuit.

In any edition this is a great book. Really, "great" isn't superlative enough to cover how important and interesting it is. But if you're going to buy it, get this edition.

The North Wasn't Much Better.......2000-09-15

The female child of a white female outcast and a black freeman, the author gives a detailed account of what it was like being raised by a white family in the pre-Civil War North of the United States (a household where she was abandoned by her mother at 3). This biography gives a general idea of what a Negro's life in the North was like -- and it was not much different from that life of a slave in the South. The mistress of the house was brutal beyond measure, but many of the other family members were reasonably kind (though not kind of enough to put a stop to the abuse), and it makes one shudder to think of what could have happened in a family who had nothing but Negro-haters in it. Still, she recounts how she got a small measure of schooling, and how she eventually became a Christian (something which the lady of the house -- a Christian herself -- opposed) and her eventual marriage. An upsetting story, it is nevertheless of much more value than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it was told from the point of view of the victim and not a sympathetic white.

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Dover African-American Books)

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Seminal autobiographical novel, believed to have been the first published by an African-American woman, describes the life of a young mulatto girl named Frado, who, after the death of her mother, is exploited first by a terrifying Northern family for whom she worked and then by an opportunistic husband.

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In A Two-Story White House, North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There.

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Generally recognized as the first African American novel published in the United States, Our Nig offers a harrowing portrait of the sadistic maltreatment of Alfrado, a young, African American female working as a bond servant.

Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there.

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Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there.

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Our Nig
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Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.(Book Review): An article from: African American Review

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Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.(Book Review): An article from: African American Review
Eric Gardner
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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by African American Review on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1965 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.(Book Review)
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Date: December 22, 2004
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