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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483334603321

Titolo

Surgery and operating room innovation / / Seiichi Takenoshita, Hiroshi Yasuhara, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-15-8979-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 131 p. 86 illus., 79 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

617.00284

Soggetti

Surgery - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Surgical devices and the operating room -- 1) Lightweight Carbon-reinforced Resin Surgical Instruments -- 2) Forceps-type palpation system for laparoscopic surgery -- 3) Ultra‑high definition (8K UHD) video system and video-assisted surgery in the near future -- 4) Monitoring of surgeon’s surgical skills using Internet-of-Things-enabled medical instruments -- Part II. Medical materials and regenerative medicine -- 5) Regenerative medicine in the operating room at present and in the near future -- 6) Surgery and Operating Room for Restoring Organs – Organ Regeneration by Tissue Engineering in The Near Future -- Part III. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality -- 7) Extended reality (XR:VR/AR/MR), 3D printing,Holography, A.I. , Radiomics, and online VR tele-medicine for precision surgery -- 8) Application of AI in endoscopic surgical operations -- Part IV. Navigation surgery -- 9) Application of ICG fluorescent endoscope systems in identifying small lung cancers on the periphery of the lungs in thoracoscopic surgery -- 10) Novel multispectral device for quantitative imaging of tissue oxygen saturation and hemoglobin as surgical navigation device -- 11) Clinical benefit of mixed reality holographic cholangiography for image-guided laparoscopic cholecystectomy -- Part V. Robotic Surgery -- 12) Development of laparoscopic surgery by means of foldable small humanoid robot handswith tactile sensation for laparoscopic surgery -- 13) Robotic surgery - Currently and in the near future.



Sommario/riassunto

This book presents cutting-edge surgical techniques and the new operating rooms supporting them, as well as their future developments. In recent years, with the advances in surgical medicine, surgical techniques have undergone great changes. However, safety and reliability are still the major requirements of the operating room, and these are closely linked to the patients’ wellbeing. The new medical instruments and medical materials being developed to perform surgery more safely, reliably and efficiently are vital technologies supporting this. “New techniques” involve the introduction of innovative medical instruments and medical materials, and these, too, are increasing in terms of performance and size every year. Surgery and Operating Room Innovation discusses these issues from the perspective of various professionals involved with operating rooms. .

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778055403321

Titolo

The foundations of non-equilibrium economics [[electronic resource] ] : the principle of circular and cumulative causation / / edited by Sebastian Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-25643-8

1-282-32489-6

9786612324895

0-203-87373-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

Altri autori (Persone)

BergerSebastian

Disciplina

330.1

Soggetti

Equilibrium (Economics)

Multiplier (Economics)

Causation

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 On competing views of the



importance of increasing returns, cumulative causation and path-dependence; 3 Cumulative causation and Northeast Asian post-war industry policy; 4 Cumulative causation and industrial development: The regional stage; 5 Nicholas Kaldor and cumulative causation: Public policy implications; 6 The principle of circular and cumulative causation: Myrdal, Kaldor and contemporary heterodox political economy; 7 Circular cumulative causation à la Myrdal and Kapp

8 Utilizing the social fabric matrix to articulate circular and cumulative causation for conceptual conclusions9 Unnatural depletion and artificial abundance: A circular cumulative causation analysis of salmon fisheries and some implications for political ecological economics; 10 Circular and cumulative causation in the classics: Anticipations, family resemblances, and the influence on Post Keynesian economics; 11 Peirce, Veblen, and the introduction of cumulative causation into economic science; 12 Veblen's cumulative causation and the origins of money in Mesopotamia; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.e. the principle of circular cumulative causation (CCC). This work presents empirical research on how the interplay of technology's increasing returns to scale, institutions, resources, and economic policy leads to virtuous circles of economic growth and development, but also to vicious circles of social and ecological degradation. In particular, evidence is provided for the important role of the ""development state"" and strategic trade policy, economies of large-scale production in manufacturi