La tesis doctoral en Medicina


Book Description

Esta es la segunda edición mejorada de un libro que tuvo gran éxito entre miles de doctorandos para elaborar sus tesis doctorales de medicina y ciencias afines, Es una guía para los candidatos a doctores y una ayuda para los directores de tesis doctorales. Es una introducción al método científico, a la investigación clínica y al diseño de investigaciones específicas: epidemiológica, de un test diagnóstico y de un fármaco. Tiene las normas para elaborar un proyecto de investigación. Sirve para iniciarse en el lenguaje y la metodología de investigación científica; en los conceptos de objetivos, variables, planteamientos metodológicos, población estadística, significación estadística y pruebas estadísticas que están indicadas en cada tipo de estudio. Incluye los criterios para la redacción de una tesis doctoral bien ordenada y para el manejo de la bibliografía de acuerdo con las normas de Vancouver; así como los consejos para la edición y la presentación de la tesis doctoral ante la Comisión evaluadora. En este libro se intenta ayudar al doctorando a buscar el camino para lograr el objetivo de realizar una tesis doctoral. El tipo de tesis y el camino a recorrer para su realización tiene que elegirlos cada uno por si mismo; pero es importante saber lo que se tiene que hacer en cada momento para lograr realizar una tesis, sin pérdidas de tiempo ni desorientaciones innecesarias. Se intenta interesar por el problema a los candidatos a doctores y que descubran que realizar una tesis es laborioso, pero fácil. Los estudios del Doctorado están sometidos a cambios permanentes; pero la tesis doctoral siempre estará presente y de ahí la necesidad de este libro que sirve al doctorando para poder usar y entender el mismo lenguaje que el director de la tesis. INDICE RESUMIDO:. El conocimiento y el método científico. El método científico. La investigación clínica. Búsqueda bibliográfica. El proyecto de investigación. Diseño de investigaciones clínicas específicas. Investigación epidemiológica. Diseño y evaluación de un test diagnóstico. Diseño y evaluación de la investigación de un fármaco. Realización del trabajo de investigación. Evaluación estadística de los resultados. Redacción de la tesis doctoral. Edición y presentación de la tesis. Publicación de los trabajos directivos de la tesis.







Discovering Light


Book Description

What is light? Where are optics and photonics present in our lives and in nature? What lies behind different optical phenomena? What is an optical instrument? How does the eye resemble an optical instrument? How can we explain human vision? This book, written by a group of young scientists, answers these questions and many more.




Engaging People in Sustainability


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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].




Inside Intuition: what We Know about Non-verbal Communication


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"How much do we communicate with words, and how much with gestures, posture, and movement? What can we learn from the study of nonverbal behavior? Is it really possible - or desirable - to "read" body language? Flora Davis set out on a one-and-one-half-year odyssey to universities and mental hospitals interviewing anthropologists, psychologists, ethologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists to find the answers to these questions. What she discovered is that words are often the least important part of a conversation. By the way people move and hold their bodies they supply a whole emotional undercurrent. They may court, or maneuver for status, or contradict what they're saying verbally. Their body movements can be a tip-off to social status and cultural differences and an expression of maleness or femaleness as well as projection of personal style. We all "read" these signals intuitively and respond to them, usually without being at all conscious that we're doing so. But now scientists working with slow-motion films have learned to translate much of this language of the body. The nonverbal "language" is as complex and subtle as the verbal one: it is not really possible to say that any one particular gesture or posture always means the same thing. Yet an awareness of the multiplicity of meanings that lies beyond words can, in Flora Davis' view, bring us into closer touch with ourselves and with one another." -- from book flap.




Pediatric Neuropsychiatry


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Pediatric Neuropsychiatry provides the most updated and clinically relevant information on psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with disturbances of brain function. Bridging the fields of psychiatry and neurology, this landmark work emphasizes the link between developmental brain biology and behavior. Major sections focus on neuropsychiatric aspects of specific psychiatric and neurologic disorders, highlighting the influence of the developing nervous system on these disorders' pathophysiology, manifestations, clinical course, treatment, and prognosis. Other sections discuss all contemporary diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Chapters include case histories, algorithms, tables, and appendices that explain the rudiments of testing.




The Praxis of Justice


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The Praxis of Justice brings together original contributions on restorative justice centering on the work of Ivo Aertsen, Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven. The work of Ivo Aertsen has impacted not only his country, Belgium, but the whole world. In recognition of a worthy life, his friends and colleagues of different generations and from all around the world have created this Liber Amicorum, as a living testament to friendship and accomplishment. The contributions in the book are both diverse and complementary as colours and motives of a tapestry, ranging from fully fledged scholarly reflections to personal anecdotes, memories and letters. The book will be especially interesting for anyone interested in restorative justice in general, and in the work of Ivo Aertsen in particular.




Smart Sensor Interfaces


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Smart Sensor Interfaces brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Smart Sensor Interfaces serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.




Learning and Collaboration Technologies


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, in conjunction with 14 thematically similar conferences. The 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. The papers cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The papers included in this volume are organized in the following thematic sections: instructional design; interaction techniques and platforms for learning; learning performance; web-based, mobile and ubiquitous learning; intelligent learning environments; learning technologies; collaboration technologies; and cultural and social aspects of learning and collaboration technologies.