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45 certainty about Federal policy concern the University of Alabama cardiac in ing the support of training contribute tensive care monitoring system on "ob to these difficulties. The problems are solete 1800 computers." Another re too broad and too complex to address sponded most efficaciously pointing out here. They are difficult for both aca that it is too bad that people lose sight of demia and government, and warrant the fact that a system on which a pro the active concern of the entire research gram is developed will always be able community. to do the job; change is not indicated Dr. Robert Macey introduced to the until the system ceases to be appropri ate. conference the exciting world of model development describing an application In another vein, the question opens to the area of membrane transport. The up a wide range of problems that can be discussion of his paper exposed the prob summarized as problems in the diffusion lern the modeler has of gaining ac of computer-based technology. At this ceptance of his particular approach, but juncture biomedical computing joins all mainly it provided a taste of the intellec the rest of biomedicine. The problems of tual excitement that modeling generates diffusion of advances in health research, among both doers and observers.
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COMPUTER S IN LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH FASEB MONOGRAPHS General Editor: KARL F. HEUMANN Volume 1 • THE SCIENCE OF LIFE: Contributions of Biology to Human Welfare Edited by K. D. Fisher and A. U. Nixon Volume 2 • COMPUTERS IN LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH Edited by William Siler and Donald A. B. Lindberg Volume 3 • BIOLOGY OF AGING AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by G. jeanette Thorbecke A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. COMPUTERS IN LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH Edited bv \Villian1 Siler University of Alabama in Birmingham and Donald ~c\. B. Lindberg University of Missouri SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry und er title: Computers in life science research. (FASEB monographs; v. 2) Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Bio1ogy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. "The material in this book original1y appeared in Federation proceedings, volume 33, no. 12, December 1974." Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Life sciences-Data processing-Congresses. I. Siler, William, 192011. Lindberg, Donald A. B. III. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Bio1ogy. IV. United States. National Science Foundation. V. United States. National Institutes of Health. VI. Series: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Bio1ogy. FASEB monographs; v. 2. [DNLM: 1. Biomedica1 engineering-Congresses. 2. Computers-Congresses. Wl F202 v. 2/QT34 C738) QH324.2.C65 1975 574'.028'54 75-34075 ISBN 978-1-4757-0548-5 ISBN 978-1-4757-0546-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-0546-1 The material in this book originally appeared in Federation Proceedings Volume 33, No. 12, December 1974. First published in the present form by Plenum Publishing Corporation in 1975. Copyright© 1974 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally pub1ished by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Bio1ogy 1974 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 19 74 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilrning, recording, or otherwise, without written permissi