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Provides guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of aggregated health data - without jeopardizing confidentiality. Experts identify characteristics of health database organizations (HDOs). This work explores topics such as how HDOs can maintain the quality of data, and what policies and practices they should adopt.

Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. This work considers the scientific and medical sides of this issue and ethical issues that pertain to human-subjects research.

Provides an exploration of the biological, ethical, and funding questions prompted by the therapeutic potential of undifferentiated human cells. This book also presents an overview of the moral and ethical problems that arise from the use of embryonic stem cells.

Provides an overview of what we know about behavior, pain, and distress in laboratory animals. This volume explores topics such as stressors in the laboratory and the animal behaviors they cause and a review of euthanasia of lab animals - exploring the decision, the methods, and the emotional effects on technicians.

Presents the links between common childhood vaccines - tetanus, diphtheria, measles, mumps, polio, Haemophilus influenzae b, and hepatitis B - and specific types of disorders or death. This book discusses approaches to evidence and causality and examine the consequences - neurologic and immunologic disorders and death - linked with immunization.

Looks at how mathematical research and methods have made possible discoveries in biology. This volume explores how differential geometry, topology, and differential mechanics have allowed to explore DNA's double helix to understand the phenomenon of supercoiling. It explains how mathematical tools reveal the workings of enzymes and proteins.

Examines the complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. This book proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, and obesity.

Explores how the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can improve risk assessment practices, with a focus on implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. This volume explores the "default option" and other concepts. It is meant for the EPA and other agencies, risk managers, environmental advocates, scientists, faculty, and students.

Reviews relevant materials, describes each technique, makes recommendations in some cases for scientific research and investigation, and notes applications in military and industrial settings. This book contains techniques that address a range of goals, from enhancing classroom learning to improving creativity and motor skills.

Provides a survey of what is known about injuries, and suggests that there is a vast need to know more. This book traces findings on the epidemiology of injuries, prevention of injuries, injury biomechanics and the prevention of impact injury, treatment, rehabilitation, and administration of injury research.

Brings together the research on protein absorption by ruminants and takes a look at the calculation of optimum nutrient requirements, including bacterial digestion, in the calculations. This book also describes the parameters of nitrogen conversion in the ruminant and examines the different kinds of protein found in animal feedstuffs.

Evaluating claims based on pain poses problems for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other disability insurers. This volume covers the epidemiology and physiology of pain; psychosocial contributions to pain and illness behavior; promising ways of assessing and measuring chronic pain and dysfunction; and clinical aspects of prevention.

Examines the characteristics and composition of different types of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and discusses possible health effects of ETS. This book presents an overview of methods used to determine exposures to environmental smoke and reviews both chronic and acute health effects. It includes recommendations for areas of further research.

Examines the foundations for consumer price indexes, comparing the conceptual and practical strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of traditional "fixed basket" and COLI approaches. This book delves into a range of complex issues, from how to deal with the changing quality of goods and services.

This text present a comprehensive review of the current scientific evidence and theoretical knowledge to fully understand what is known about abrupt climate change.

As many as 20 to 25 percent of American adults - or one in every four people - have been victimized by, witnesses of, or perpetrators of family violence in their lifetimes. This book offers recommendations, such as creating education and research centers that would help raise awareness of the problem on various levels.

Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. This work looks at the behavioral and socio-economic aspects of aging; and focuses on work, retirement, and pensions; wealth and savings behavior; health and disability; intergenerational transfers; and concepts of well-being.