Human project

So much about the vision - what about the route The Physiome Project will - like the Genome and Visible Human projects - crucially depend on the ability to develop the necessary tools for its own successful implementation. Apart from obtaining useful data and building representative databases, this primarily includes the capacity to devise appropriate algorithms to model physiological function. 

Many of the science-fiction books listed in Appendix B were suggested by Dr. Sten Odenwald. The twisted bottle in Figure 5.10 is courtesy of artist/writer Paul Ryan of the Earth Environmental Group and was drawn by Gary Allen. Figures 3.3, 3.8b, and 5.2 and are courtesy of the National Library of Medicine s Visible Human Project. Don Webb is the author of the poem, Reflections on aTesseract Rose. ... 

Clearly, the GMNSS can answer these questions. But, its use presumes the availability of comprehensive databases and knowledge from different scientific branches. By using a modeled biosphere instead of the biosphere itself we can get answers about the consequences of changes to natural systems as a result of human projects. 

Aiming to bring the benefits of advanced technology to the healthcare profession, other NLM programs, like the Visible Human Project, offer new opportunities to study human anatomy and options to further medical research. The Visible Human Project " is essentially a database of electronic transverse CT, MRI, and cross section images from an entire female and male human cadaver. 

The Visible Human Project is a three-dimensional representation of the male and female body. The current phase deals with transverse CT, MR, and cryosection images at 1-mm intervals. 

Going further up the scale from molecular modeling, here are some pioneering papers in relation to medical modeling. For the current status, look, for example, at the Visible Human Project on http //www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/data2knowledge.html, and the Digital Human Project on http //www.fas.org/dh/. 

The use of interactive 3D atlases on medical workstations is primarily focused on education and surgery. As an example, K.-H. HOhne s pioneering Voxel-Man series of atlases (H6hne 2004) was initiated by the visible human project " (Fig. 9.6). Atlases for brain surgery (e.g. the Cerefy Brain atlas family Nowinski et al. 2005) now become probabilistic, based on a large number of patient studies. 

Matthys, K. (2007). Pulse wave propagation in a model human arterial network assessment of 1-d numerical simulations against in vitro measurements. Journal of Biomechanics 0(15), 3476-3486. National Library of Medicine (1986). The visible human project, www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/ visible human. html... 

Other Digital Humanities projects have used a similar kind of approach. For instance, a team in Stanford built Orbis, a travel service mimicking the functionalities of standard online travel-route services but for the Roman Empire (http //orbis.stanford.edu). 

Visible Human Project http //www.nhn.nih.gov/research/visible/visible gallay.html (accessed June 17, 2010). The National Library of Medicine s database of digital images of complete, anatomically detailed, three dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Of interest to practitioners of clinical medicine and biomedical... 

Waldby, C. (2000) The Visible Human Project Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine, London Routledge. 

Identify and pursue new human projects in the context of a planetary consciousness and a personal and communal awareness of global responsibility,... 

In order to characterize the chemist s relationship to materials, it is useful here to refer to the notion of affordance developed by Rom Harre, because this concept combines the intrinsic potential of matter with a human project.In this technical sense affordances are dispositions that bring together two sets of causal powers the powers of the material stuff organized or informed as an instrument or apparatus and the power of the world realized in the relevant phenomena as directed by... 

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