Online Tutorials

Health Economics Information Resources A Self-Study Course. URL http //www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/edu/healthecon/ index.html (accessed October 2005). This online course describes the scope of health economics and its key information resources highlights the sources and characteristics of healthcare financing information in the United States outlines issues relating to the quality of health economic evaluation studies and guides users in the identification, retrieval, and assessment of high quality health economic evaluation studies and related publications. The course contains a detailed bibliography of related sources. 

Pharmacoeconomics. URL http //www.dimdee.ac.uk/memo/ memoonly/PHECOO.HTM (accessed October 2005). The aim of this tutorial is to provide an overview of pharmacoeconomics and to show how it can be applied practically to decisions about drug therapy. 

Over the past few years many reports have been published on pharmacoeconomics, pricing, and reimbursement issues. Most of the major market research firms that cover the pharmaceutical industry have published on these topics. Following is a list of the more recent titles, but a search in any of the market research portals using the terms pharmacoeconomic(s), pricing, reimbursement, or health economics will usually 

Pricing and Reimbursement 200512006, Evaluating Key Strategic Issues. Visiongain. August 2005 200pp. 

Pharmaceutical Pricing Strategies Price optimization, reimbursement, and regulation in Europe, US, and Japan. Business Insights. April 2005 240 pp. 

OPTIMIZING SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY IN MASS SPECTROMETRIC PROTEOME 

Proteomics studies aim at answering questions about a biological system by characterizing all its proteins (see also Chapter 10). The proteins are typically characterized by analyzing carefully chosen samples from the biological system by mass spectrometry 

Mass Spectrometry. Edited by Ekman, Silberring, Westman-Brinkmalm, and Kraj Copyright 2009 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

In proteomics, quantitation is typically a comparison of two biological systems, for example, cells in a normal state versus cells in a transformed state. MS-based quantitation utilizes analyses of digested extracted proteins (Fig. 7.1a). The comparison 

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Used in conjunction with the online tutorials found at www.whfreeman.com/young, Exploring Genomes guides students through live searches and analyses on the most commonly used National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. 

Virtually all prior reviews and textbooks on XAFS spectroscopy begin with a derivation of the XAFS equation, coupled with a theoretical background. Given the depth and excellence of some of these reviews, we do not repeat this work here. The reader is referred to these articles (Iwasawa, 1996 Koningsberger and Prins, 1988 Teo, 1986 Teo and Joy, 1981) and to online tutorials (http //xafs.org/) only a brief synopsis of the X-ray absorption process is given here, together with the pertinent parameters that are measured in an XAFS experiment. 

ARIS Assessment, Review, and Instruction System. ARIS is a complete, online tutorial, and electronic homework system, designed for greater ease of use than any other system available. AU assignments, quizzes, and question tutorials are directly tied to text-specific materials. 

Frequently, during organic synthesis or drug metabolism studies, unknown compounds are isolated and their structure must be confirmed or, if they are totally unknown, solved using a combination of analytical techniques. Exercises of this type use qualitative spectroscopy rather than the quantitative aspects discussed so far. Whole university courses and many textbooks and online tutorials have been produced to cover elucidation of chemical structure, and a detailed treatment of the subject is beyond the scope of this book. However, a brief overview of the major techniques and their limitations may be useful. 

If you need a good place to brush up on those chemistry categories that you are having difficulties with, this site presents several online tutorials that are sure to help. There are some links to other high-school-level chemistry sites. 

Experimental Space Plasma Group. University of New Hampshire. The Interstellar Medium An Online Tutorial. Available online. URL http // www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/index.html. Accessed on November 1, 2006. 

Personal Tutor For an online tutorial on mass and weight relationships, visit glencoe.com. 

MasteringChemistry is the most effective, widely used online tutorial, homework and assessment system for chemistry. It helps instructors maximize class time with customizable, easy-to-assign, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture. These assessments can easily be customized and personalized by instructors to suit their individual teaching style. The powerful gradebook provides unique insight into student and class performance even before the first test. As a result, instructors can spend class time where students need it most. 

End of chapter questions are available, featuring immediate answer feedback. A subset of these end of chapter questions are linked to Guided Online Tutorials which are stepped out problem-solving tutorials that walk the student through the... 

For these who are at a university that subscribes to the service, there is an online tutorial at www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR. 

SmartWork an online tutorial and homework program for organic chemistry, available at wwnorton.com/smartwork. SmartWork is the most intuitive online tutorial and homework-management system available for organic chemistry. Powerful... 

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