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El miembro superior es indispensable para la realización de la mayoría de las actividades laborales, lo que supone una exposición permanente a factores de riesgo biomecánicos, físicos y psicosociales, que causan la aparición de lesiones en los tejidos articulares y periarticulares del hombro, el codo, la muñeca y la mano. Los autores efectúan una revisión anatómica de la extremidad superior y de los factores de riesgo presentes en el trabajo, así como de los mecanismos fisiopatológicos que explican la aparición de los desórdenes musculoesqueléticos (DME), a fin de establecer estrategias en todos los niveles de prevención (primario, secundario y terciario) y lograr que se apliquen de forma articulada en los ambientes laborales. De esta manera, buscan velar por la salud de los trabajadores expuestos y disminuir la incidencia de la enfermedad.
El miembro superior cuenta con tres nervios principales: mediano, cubital y radial. La exposición de la extremidad superior a factores de riesgo laboral puede ocasionar lesiones en estos nervios y dar lugar a neuropatías por atrapamiento. A nivel mundial, el síndrome del túnel del carpo (stc), una neuropatía por atrapamiento del nervio mediano en la muñeca, es considerado como la enfermedad laboral más significativa. El síndrome del túnel cubital (stcu) y el síndrome del túnel radial (str), de menor incidencia y prevalencia en el ámbito laboral, representan neuropatías por atrapamiento de los nervios cubital y radial, respectivamente. Los autores llevan a cabo una revisión de los factores que provocan las neuropatías en el miembro superior y proponen estrategias de prevención en los ambientes laborales, con el fin de facilitar un manejo integral, desde el diagnóstico hasta la rehabilitación.
Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012. This new volume will be a supplement to this important herpetological reference and will include new published data on snakes named and recognized since 2012. Key Features Supplements and updates Wallach et al. – Snakes of the World – the only work to cover all living snakes in the world. Includes updates for fossil snakes named since the publication of Wallach et al. Summarizes the systematic snake literature published since the appearance of Wallach et al. Genera and species are listed alphabetically for ease of reference. Related Titles Wallach, V., K. L. Williams, and J. Boundy. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species (ISBN 978-1-138-03400-6) Aldridge, R. D. and D. M. Sever, eds. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes (ISBN 978-1-57808-701-3) Caldwell, M. W. The Origin of Snakes: Morphology and the Fossil Record (ISBN 978-1-4822-5134-0)
Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is being rapidly introduced into the clinical management of early breast cancer. APBI, in fact, encompasses a number of different techniques and approaches that include brachytherapy, intraoperative, and external beam techniques. There is currently no single source that describes these techniques and their clinical implementation. This text is a concise handbook designed to assist the clinician in the implementation of APBI. This includes a review of the principles that underlie APBI, a practical and detailed description of each technique for APBI, a review of current clinical results of APBI, and a review of the incidence and management of treatment related complications.
Modern medical imaging and radiation therapy technologies are so complex and computer driven that it is difficult for physicians and technologists to know exactly what is happening at the point-of-care. Medical physicists responsible for filling this gap in knowledge must stay abreast of the latest advances at the intersection of medical imaging an
This engaging and clearly written textbook/reference provides a must-have introduction to the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of data science. It focuses on the principles fundamental to becoming a good data scientist and the key skills needed to build systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. The Data Science Design Manual is a source of practical insights that highlights what really matters in analyzing data, and provides an intuitive understanding of how these core concepts can be used. The book does not emphasize any particular programming language or suite of data-analysis tools, focusing instead on high-level discussion of important design principles. This easy...
Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.
Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.
A large general bibliography is included."--BOOK JACKET.