Nitin Agarwal – författare

A Portable, Reader-Friendly Source of Knowledge for Neurosurgical TraineesNeurological surgery is a complex, highly selective specialty, so navigating a huge array of neurosurgical information can be overwhelming for medical students and residents. Neurosurgery Fundamentals, Second Edition by Nitin Agarwal is a portable reference that enables swift assimilation of neurosurgical care essentials. Pivotal elements of the book include: the roadmap to a career in neurosurgery and advice from the masters, featuring invaluable resources and insights from prominent neurosurgeons. Like the widely acclaimed prior edition, this indispensable textbook simplifies complex concepts without sacrificing depth, thereby enhancing understanding of the core principles and practices of neurosurgery.Comprehensive technical overviews are provided with topics covered on the neurological examination, neuroanatomy, neuroradiology, neurocritical care, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, degenerative and deformity spine, neurovascular surgery, neurosurgical oncology, pediatric neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, neurological infectious diseases, and interdisciplinary care. The book also includes key socioeconomic topics including training, licensure, credentialing, and advocacy. New features include Rapid Review and Holding the Pager.Key Highlights Fundamental diseases, tests, and operative approaches are summarizedTop Hits feature includes the most salient questions, aiding in retention of knowledgeHigh-yield resources are highlighted to augment identification by the readerNeurosurgical Pearls offer advice from the masters relevant to each chapterHigh-quality illustrations, photographs, and radiographs enrich understandingWith a fundamental goal to educate and empower neurosurgery trainees, this book provides medical students, advanced practice providers, residents, and fellows with the necessary knowledge and confidence to succeed in clinical and surgical settings.This print book includes a scratch off code to access a complimentary digital copy on MedOne.Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical schools in the U.S. has become increasingly difficult. In 2020–2021, only 38% of the 53,370 students who applied to U.S. medical schools were accepted. For the most prestigious medical schools, the acceptance rate was just 1.4–2%. Pre-Medicine: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Doctors by Joel Thomas, Phillip Wagner, Ray Funahashi, and Nitin Agarwal is a comprehensive roadmap that guides aspiring physicians through the rigorous process of preparing for and getting into medical school in the U.S. By bringing together multiple authors with different life experiences and perspectives, this unique book has broad appeal to students from diverse backgrounds.The text is organized by five sections: The Pre-Med Primer, Succeeding as a Pre-Medical Student, Applying to Medical School, Medical School and Career Insights, and an Appendix. This invaluable resource tackles challenging topics and addresses uncomfortable questions that necessitate engagement with multiple opposing viewpoints and careful data analysis. The first and foremost goal of this book is to provide essential information to individuals that need it to succeed in their pre-med and medical school journey. Key Features Authors graduated from the U.S. News Top 20 medical schools and/or trained at a Doximity Top 20 residency programDemystifies the lengthy and confusing medical school application process, providing practical advice and evidence-based strategies for successfully tackling each step, starting in high schoolProvides readers with a realistic and honest picture of the daily challenges and rewards that aspiring physicians face—from pre-med to residencyThis is a must-have resource for anyone who is considering a career in medicine. The no-holds-barred insights shared in this book will greatly optimize the chance of medical school applicants gaining admission to their top choice.

The Collaborative Blueprint for Creating Successful Neurosurgical Advanced Practice ProvidersNeurosurgery Fundamentals for Advanced Practice Providers, edited by Abigail G. Crum and Nitin Agarwal, is a landmark contribution that eloquently demonstrates that excellence in neurosurgical care is achieved through collaboration. At the heart of this collaborative model are advanced practice providers (APPs) - clinicians whose clinical judgment, procedural expertise, and commitment to patient care make them indispensable across all domains of the specialty. With contributions from esteemed neurosurgical providers, this book provides a strategic, practical, and a complete guide for building high-performing neurosurgical teams.The text is written through the lens of actively practicing APPs in conjunction with neurosurgeons, thereby providing a blended, comprehensive, and holistic perspective. The book starts with an introduction to neurological surgery and a roadmap to a career as an APP. Concise overviews of neuroanatomy, cerebrovascular disorders, spinal conditions, neurotrauma, tumors, functional neurosurgery, peripheral nerve disorders, pediatric neurosurgery, and radiosurgery are included. The book culminates with practical insights, including a discussion of mentorship and team dynamics.Key HighlightsProvides an insightful roadmap for a successful career as a neurosurgical APPEmphasizes the importance of collaboration, leadership, and adaptability in navigating the ever-evolving neurosurgical patient management landscapeCovers the components of the neurological examination, providing exact guidelines on how to evaluate patients effectively and make informed clinical decisions based on findingsTop Hits offers an essential resource to test knowledge gleaned from the book, with questions and answers covering key pointsSuccinct yet highly insightful, this unique textbook presents detailed, high-value, and actionable information that can be quickly accessed by novice and experienced providers. It delivers an in-depth understanding of the multifaceted role APPs play in a neurosurgical team and the pathways to entering the field.This print book includes a scratch off code to access a complimentary digital copy on MedOne.Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

High-Yield Visual Learning Resource for Medical Students and Neurosurgical ResidentsNeurosurgery Infographics edited by Nitin Agarwal and David T. Fernandes Cabral is a compilation of visual abstracts that enables quick review of high-yield neurosurgical topics. The one-stop, reader friendly guide fills a gap in the literature, sparing learners from navigating dense atlases and sprawling monographs. The unique book distills the vast and intricate complexities of neurosurgery into visuals that inform at a glance, while allowing a deeper dive into the narrative when needed.This unique resource features over 100 peer-reviewed visual abstracts that focus on learning and retaining neurosurgical knowledge. Organized by the brain, spine, and peripheral nerves, the visuals and concise text cover the most common disorders and diseases treated by neurosurgeons. This is an essential companion for medical students navigating rounds, away rotations, sub-internships, and OR preparation. It doubles as an efficient, high-level refresher of core topics for practicing neurosurgeons.Key HighlightsVisual summaries designed to prompt memory, comprehension, and application.Infographics meticulously curated and vetted through peer review reflect rigorous scholarship.High-quality images and embedded videos enable quick acquisition of vital information.This ideal reference for medical students and junior neurosurgical residents will also benefit advanced practice providers.This print book includes a scratch off code to access a complimentary digital copy on MedOne.Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance and deepen our understanding of social networks in the new generation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled by Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, to help policy-making. This interdisciplinary work provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from sociology, behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural studies, information systems, operations research and communication to share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies. Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Social Network Analysis and Mining will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from the various disciplines listed above. The text facilitates the dissemination of investigations of the dynamics and structure of web based social networks. The book can be used as a reference text for advanced courses on Social Network Analysis, Sociology, Communication, Organization Theory, Cyber-anthropology, Cyber-diplomacy, and Information Technology and Justice.

This book describes the methodologies and tools used to conduct social cyber forensic analysis. By applying these methodologies and tools on various events observed in the case studies contained within, their effectiveness is highlighted. They blend computational social network analysis and cyber forensic concepts and tools in order to identify and study information competitors. Through cyber forensic analysis, metadata associated with propaganda-riddled websites are extracted. This metadata assists in extracting social network information such as friends and followers along with communication network information such as networks depicting flows of information among the actors such as tweets, replies, retweets, mentions, and hyperlinks. Through computational social network analysis, the authors identify influential actors and powerful groups coordinating the disinformation campaign. A blended social cyber forensic approach allows them to study cross-media affiliations of the information competitors. For instance, narratives are framed on blogs and YouTube videos, and then Twitter and Reddit, for instance, will be used to disseminate the message. Social cyber forensic methodologies enable researchers to study the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the evolution of information campaign and coordination.In addition to the concepts and methodologies pertaining to social cyber forensics, this book also offers a collection of resources for readers including several datasets that were collected during case studies, up-to-date reference and literature surveys in the domain, and a suite of tools that students, researchers, and practitioners alike can utilize. Most importantly, the book demands a dialogue between information science researchers, public affairs officers, and policy makers to prepare our society to deal with the lawless “wild west” of modern social information systems triggering debates and studies on cyberdiplomacy.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First International EURO Mini Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Social-Behavioural Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2019, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2019.

Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients.

We elaborate on data collection procedures, provide resources for blog data repositories, mention various visualization and analysis tools in Blogosphere, and explain conventional and novel evaluation methodologies, to help perform research in the Blogosphere.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2022, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2022.The 14 full papers and 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: simulation of behavioral processes; modeling of sustainability; and data science and modeling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2024, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in September 2024. The 16 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.

This book is a compendium of stories from medical and non-medical personnel about what it means to survive neurosurgery. This text is a follow-up and complete update to the previous edition, Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience, and builds on previously discussed themes and introduces new topics (e.g., childhood, parenthood/raising a family, being a business owner). Through nearly 50 personal stories, hear from those who have unique hobbies to help them cope with the stresses of neurosurgery, as well as from celebrities who became neurosurgery patients and social media stars who are representing neurosurgery in the digital age. Several bodies of work exist on the technical aspects of neurosurgery, but this book stands alone as a text that captures the humanity of what it means to survive from several different aspects. Neurosurgeons handle the most complex cases in the hospital; too often a time, the work that is required to get to such a stage, maintain success, and retire, is not well-recognized. Through colorful and engaging vignettes, this book informs, educates and teaches all comers about the personal aspects of neurosurgery.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2014, held in Washington, DC, USA, in April 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2015, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March/April 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 36 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The goal of the conference was to advance our understanding of human behavior through the development and application of mathematical, computational, statistical, simulation, predictive and other models that provide fundamental insights into factors contributing to human socio-cultural dynamics. The topical areas addressed by the papers are social and behavioral sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer and information science.

This book addresses the challenges of social network and social media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. The chapters collected here tackle these issues by proposing new analysis methods and by examining mining methods for the vast amount of social content produced. Social Networks (SNs) have become an integral part of our lives; they are used for leisure, business, government, medical, educational purposes and have attracted billions of users. The challenges that stem from this wide adoption of SNs are vast. These include generating realistic social network topologies, awareness of user activities, topic and trend generation, estimation of user attributes from their social content, and behavior detection. This text has applications to widely used platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.

This book addresses the challenges of social network and social media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. These include generating realistic social network topologies, awareness of user activities, topic and trend generation, estimation of user attributes from their social content, and behavior detection.

The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance and deepen our understanding of social networks in the new generation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled by Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, to help policy-making.

This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online collective actions. More specifically, the book is intended to illuminate several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically undeveloped and largely unexplored aspects of collective action in the participatory media (e.g., social media). Through in-depth exploration of relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, applications, and case studies, the reader will gain an advanced understanding of collective action with the advent of the new generation of ICTs enabled by social media and the Internet. The developed theories will be valuable and comprehensive references for those interested in examining the role of ICTs not only in collective action but also in decision and policy making, understanding the dynamics of interaction, collaboration, cooperation, communication, as well as information flow and propagation, and social network research for years to come. Further, the book also serves as an extensive repository of data sets and tools that can be used by researchers leading to a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the crowd in online collective actions.

This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online collective actions. More specifically, the book is intended to illuminate several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically undeveloped and largely unexplored aspects of collective action in the participatory media (e.g., social media). Through in-depth exploration of relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, applications, and case studies, the reader will gain an advanced understanding of collective action with the advent of the new generation of ICTs enabled by social media and the Internet. The developed theories will be valuable and comprehensive references for those interested in examining the role of ICTs not only in collective action but also in decision and policy making, understanding the dynamics of interaction, collaboration, cooperation, communication, as well as information flow and propagation, and social network research for years to come. Further, the book also serves as an extensive repository of data sets and tools that can be used by researchers leading to a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the crowd in online collective actions.