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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459510803321

Autore

Langdell Cheri Colby

Titolo

Coping with vision loss [[electronic resource] ] : understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects / / Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, 2010

ISBN

1-282-93303-5

9786612933035

0-313-34665-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LangdellTim

Disciplina

617.7

Soggetti

Blindness

Medicine in literature

Vision disorders - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Blindness in World Literature; 3 Original Fiction by the Blind; 4 The Blind Writing about Blindness; 5 The Spiritual Dimensions of Blindness; 6 Current Insights into Visual Impairment and Vision Loss or Change; 7 Conclusion; Appendix: List of Useful Links and Resources; Works Cited and Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a blind executive, readers are taken into the world of the legally and fully blind, to understand the practical challenges that creates for the person experiencing vision loss, and also the family members and friends of that person. And the authors, through interviews with experts across fields, as well



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254312903321

Titolo

11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics / / edited by Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Miguel Rocha, Juan F. De Paz, Tiago Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-60816-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 330 p. 97 illus.)

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 616

Disciplina

570.285

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Bioinformatics

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Computational and Systems Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Processing 2D gel electrophoresis images for efficient Gaussian mixture modeling -- Development of text mining tools for information retrieval from patents -- Multidimensional Feature Selection and Interaction Mining with Decision Tree based ensemble methods -- Study of the Epigenetic Signals in the Human Genome -- An Ensemble Approach for Gene Selection in Gene Expression Data -- Dissimilar Symmetric Word Pairs in the Human Genome.

Sommario/riassunto

Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impressive capabilities of next-generation sequencing technologies, together with novel and constantly evolving, distinct types of omics data technologies, have created an increasingly complex set of challenges for the growing fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The analysis of the datasets produced and their integration call



for new algorithms and approaches from fields such as Databases, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Clearly, Biology is more and more a science of information and requires tools from the computational sciences. In the last few years, we have seen the rise of a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists with a strong background in the biological and computational sciences. In this context, the interaction of researchers from different scientific fields is, more than ever, of foremost importance in boosting the research efforts in the field and contributing to the education of a new generation of Bioinformatics scientists. The PACBB’17 conference was intended to contribute to this effort and promote this fruitful interaction, with a technical program that included 39 papers spanning many different sub-fields in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Further, the conference promoted the interaction of scientists from diverse research groups and with a distinct background (computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists).