Engineering and Medicine in Extreme Environments

Engineering and Medicine in Extreme Environments
Author: Tobias Cibis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030969215

This book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments. Contributions from biomedical engineering, information systems, medicine and physiology, and medical engineering are presented in relation to a broad range of harsh and extreme environmental scenarios, including underwater, terrestrial (both natural and man-made), and space travel. Physicians, engineers, and scientists, as well as researchers and graduate students, will find the book to be an invaluable resource. Details effects of extreme environments on human physiology; Presents human-environment interaction in different scenarios; Overview of engineering challenges and problems in extreme environments.

Polymers and Additives in Extreme Environments

Polymers and Additives in Extreme Environments
Author: Johannes Karl Fink
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2021-09-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119851521

POLYMERS AND ADDITVES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Uniquely catalogs polymers and additives for uses in extreme applications such as in high or low pressure, high or low temperature, deep water and other special applications. The book includes chapters on aqueous environments including polymeric membranes for water purification and wastewater treatment; extreme pressure environments such as oils and lubricants for combustion engines as well as materials used for deep drilling such as surfactants, scale inhibitors, foaming agents, defoamers, propellants, fracturing fluids; extreme temperatures is subdivided in high and low temperature applications including gasketing materials, fuel tank sealants, expulsion bladders, fuel cell materials, and on the other hand, cold weather articles and thermoregulatory textiles; electrical applications include solar cell devices, triboelectric generators, fuel cell applications, electrochromic materials and batteries; medical applications include polymers for contact lenses, materials for tissue engineering, sophisticated drug delivery systems; aerospace applications include outer space applications such as low temperature and pressure, also cosmic rays, outgassing, and atomic erosion, as well as materials for electrostactic dissipative coatings and space suits; a final chapter detailing materials that are used in other extreme environments, such as adhesives, and polymeric concrete materials. Audience Materials and polymer scientists working in manufacturing and plastics, civil and mechanical engineers in various industries such as automotive, aircraft, space, marine and shipping, electronics, construction, electrical, etc. will find this book essential. The book will also serve the needs of engineers and specialists who have only a passing contact with polymers and additives in industrial setting need to know more.

Extreme Medicine

Extreme Medicine
Author: Kevin Fong, M.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0143126296

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world’s environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremis, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer. Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing. Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser, Dr. Kevin Fong examines how cuttingedge medicine pushes the envelope of human survival by studying the human body’s response when tested by physical extremes. Extreme Medicine explores different limits of endurance and the lens each offers on one of the systems of the body. The challenges of Arctic exploration created opportunities for breakthroughs in open heart surgery; battlefield doctors pioneered techniques for skin grafts, heart surgery, and trauma care; underwater and outer space exploration have revolutionized our understanding of breathing, gravity, and much more. Avant-garde medicine is fundamentally changing our ideas about the nature of life and death. Through astonishing accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Fong illustrates the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme limits, where human life is balanced on a knife’s edge. Extreme Medicine is a gripping debut about the science of healing, but also about exploration in its broadest sense—and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human.

Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks

Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309451256

This is the fourth in a series of five letter reports that provide an independent review of the more than 30 evidence reports that NASA has compiled on human health risks for long-duration and exploration spaceflights.This letter report reviews eight evidence reports and examines the quality of the evidence, analysis, and overall construction of each report; identifies existing gaps in report content; and provides suggestions for additional sources of expert input.

Life in Extreme Environments

Life in Extreme Environments
Author: Guido di Prisco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1108498566

A diverse account of how life exists in extreme environments and these systems' susceptibility and resilience to climate change.

Smart Computational Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics

Smart Computational Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics
Author: Amit Kumar Manocha
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000434370

Smart Computational Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics presents state-of-the-art innovations; research, design, and implementation of methodological and algorithmic solutions to data processing problems, including analysis of evolving trends in health informatics and computer-aided diagnosis. This book describes practical, applications-led research regarding the use of methods and devices in clinical diagnosis, disease prevention, and patient monitoring and management. It also covers simulation and modeling, measurement and control, analysis, information extraction and monitoring of physiological data in clinical medicine and the biological sciences. FEATURES Covers evolutionary approaches to solve optimization problems in biomedical engineering Discusses IoT, Cloud computing, and data analytics in healthcare informatics Provides computational intelligence-based solution for diagnosis of diseases Reviews modelling and simulations in designing of biomedical equipment Promotes machine learning-based approaches to improvements in biomedical engineering problems This book is for researchers, graduate students in healthcare, biomedical engineers, and those interested in health informatics, computational intelligence, and machine learning.

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments
Author: Kent B. Pandolf
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

Describes and illustrates the medical conditions caused by heat and cold, including topics ranging from heat illness prevention to the treatment of hypothermia. Provides historical background and current information on the physiology, physical derangements, psychology, prevention, and treatment of heat- and cold-related environmental illnesses and injuries. Contains a color atlas of cold injuries and their treatment.

International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set

International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set
Author: Informa Healthcare
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1980
Release: 2000-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482298538

The first encyclopedia in the field, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors provides a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of current knowledge on ergonomics and human factors. It gives specific information on concepts and tools unique to ergonomics. About 500 entries, published in three volumes and on CD-ROM, are pre

Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments

Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments
Author: Caroline Chénard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-03-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319516868

This book explores microbial lifestyles, biochemical adaptations, and trophic interactions occurring in extreme environments. By summarizing the latest findings in the field it provides a valuable reference for future studies. Spark ideas for biotechnological and commercial exploitation of microbiomes at the extremes of life are presented. Chapters on viruses complement this highly informative book. In a vertical journey through the microbial biosphere it covers aspects of cold environments, hot environments, extreme saline environments, and extreme pressure environments, and more. From the deep sea, through polar deserts, up to the clouds in the air - the diversity of microbial life in all habitats is described, explored, and comprehensively reviewed. Possible biotechnical applications are discussed. This book aims to provide a useful reference for those who want to start a research program in extreme microbiology and, hopefully, inspire new research directions.

Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century

Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309476550

Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for delivering water, treating waste, and preventing and remediating pollution in air, water, and soil. These achievements are a testament to the multidisciplinary, pragmatic, systems-oriented approach that characterizes environmental engineering. Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges outlines the crucial role for environmental engineers in this period of dramatic growth and change. The report identifies five pressing challenges of the 21st century that environmental engineers are uniquely poised to help advance: sustainably supply food, water, and energy; curb climate change and adapt to its impacts; design a future without pollution and waste; create efficient, healthy, resilient cities; and foster informed decisions and actions.