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  • Electrocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

    Looking Beyond Left Ventricular Mass
    • 1st Edition
    • Ljuba Bachárová + 1 more
    • English
    Electrocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Looking Beyond Left Ventricular Mass provides an innovative perspective on electrocardiograms (ECGs) usage for evaluation of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). It links contemporary research results with clinical practice in order to advance application of this cornerstone technology. Specifically, it highlights how standard ECGs can provide unique information on the cardiac electric field in LVH patients.This book recognizes and fulfills the urgent need to change the classical diagnostic paradigms of ECG diagnosis in LVH. To do so, it turns attention to so-called false-negative ECG findings that in truth provide valuable information that largely overlooked. When used to their fullest potential, these results can be used for enhanced diagnosis, selection of targeted therapy and cardiovascular risk assessment.

  • Numerical Methods

    Using MATLAB
    • 5th Edition
    • George Lindfield + 1 more
    • English
    Numerical Methods Using MATLAB®, Fifth Edition continues to provide a clear and rigorous introduction to a wide range of numerical methods that have practical applications. The authors’ approach is to integrate MATLAB with numerical analysis in a way which adds clarity to the numerical analysis and develops familiarity with MATLAB. MATLAB graphics and numerical output are used extensively to clarify complex problems and give a deeper understanding of their nature. The text provides an extensive reference providing numerous useful and important numerical algorithms that are implemented in MATLAB to help researchers analyze a particular outcome.By using MATLAB it is possible for the readers to tackle some large and difficult problems and deepen and consolidate their understanding of problem solving using numerical methods. Many worked examples are given together with exercises and solutions to illustrate how numerical methods can be used to study problems that have applications in the biosciences, chaos, optimization and many other fields. The text will be a valuable aid to people working in a wide range of fields, such as engineering, science and economics.

  • Appetite Interrupted

    The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety
    • 1st Edition
    • James A. Carr
    • English
    Appetite Interrupted: The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety examines the mechanisms that suppress feeding in vertebrate animals within the physiological and ecological contexts that drove their evolution. It emphasizes the role of predation as a selective pressure, noting that the adaptive significance of these inhibitory mechanisms may help identify novel neuroendocrine pathways in future research. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book systematically explores behavioral ecology, evolutionary pressures, physiological processes, and stressors that impact foraging and feeding behaviors in vertebrates. Early chapters address why animals stop eating, reviewing the selective pressures that drive the evolution of both slow and rapid mechanisms for suppressing hunger and appetite. Central chapters delve into the physiological controls that have evolved to inhibit feeding, including the immense impacts of stress, anxiety, and fear on food intake. The book concludes with an examination of these pathways in humans and the evolution of obesity. While Appetite Interrupted comparatively approaches the mechanisms controlling food intake, predation, and hunger from an ecological perspective, its coverage of disordered satiety translates to practical and clinical applications of human nutrition. It is therefore an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and industry professionals across broad animal science and healthcare fields.

  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 60
    • English
    Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 60 presents the latest in a serial that highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Sample chapters in this new release include A Thermal Performance Improvement Study on a Novel Heat Sink Design and Innovative thermal management solutions for high-performance electronics: Advanced simulation techniques and practical applications.

  • Handbook of Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • Rosario Moratalla + 1 more
    • English
    The Handbook of Parkinson’s Disease Mechanisms offers an integrated overview of the fundamental research devoted to understanding its causes and mechanisms, highlighting recent advances and clinical significance. With a strong focus on cellular and animal model studies, this book also examines the etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and underlying symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.Written with an interdisciplinary approach, this book provides thorough research that will be of interest to researchers, clinicians and graduate students interested in neurodegenerative diseases.

  • Perovskite Optoelectronics

    Part 2
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 120
    • English
    Perovskite Optoelectronics, Part Two, Volume 120 offers a comprehensive introduction to perovskite materials and their optoelectronic properties, along with comparisons to other state-of-the-art semiconductors developed for high-performance optoelectronic devices. The book also presents cutting-edge research on the use of machine learning to accelerate the development of high-quality perovskite materials and devices. Readers will find in-depth coverage of advanced applications—includi... LEDs, photodetectors, X-ray detectors, lasers, and photocatalysts—explo... their working principles, recent progress, current challenges, and future prospects.

  • Human-Machine interfaces in Medical Robotics

    • 1st Edition
    • Yanpei Huang + 6 more
    • English
    Human-Machine Interfaces in Medical Robotics presents essential and advanced information on developing intuitive human-machine interfaces (HMI) for robotic surgery and rehabilitation. This book provides extensive coverage of multidisciplinary information needed to develop efficient HMI, discussing core technologies of the field, including hand-free control strategies, sensory feedback, data-driven approaches, human-robot shared control, autonomous control, human motor adaption, training, and learning.Arranged in three parts, including interfaces in medical robotics, intelligent machines, and human users, this book provides potential solutions to open questions like what the optimal interface and efficient interaction mode is to facilitate a surgeon’s operation, a patient’s motor control, or human augmentation.

  • Extracellular Vesicles: Advances and Perspectives in Treatments, Therapies, and Vaccination

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 96
    • English
    Extracellular Vesicles: Advances and Perspectives in Treatments, Therapies, and Vaccination, Volume 96 explores the field of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their potential applications in treatments, therapies, and vaccination. Covering a broad range of topics from EV-based biomarker detection to vaccine development and theranostic applications, this new release in the series includes chapters on Extracellular Vesicles: Advances in Treatments, Therapies, and Vaccination, Extracellular Vesicles: Advances in Therapies and Vaccination in virus, Products of excretion-secretion and extracellular vesicles derived from zoonotic helminths: a two-face response, and more.Additional sections cover Extracellular Vesicles in Fungal Pathogenesis: Mechanisms and Implications, Extracellular vesicle-based vaccines: a promising approach for parasitic diseases, Extracellular Vesicles as Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases, EVs and images, Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: Potential and Applications in Next-Generation Vaccines, Theranostic application of extracellular vesicles in breast cancer, and much more.

  • Starchy Crops Waste Valorization

    Recovery and Treatment
    • 1st Edition
    • Marney Pascoli Cereda + 1 more
    • English
    Starchy Crops Waste Valorization: Recovery and Treatment, the fifth volume in the Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin series, provides information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas with South American origin. The book presents collecting information about products that are generally considered as waste and can therefore cause serious pollution problems in starch-processing industries. Edited by experts with a solid background in starch extraction research, the books in this series are aimed at anyone involved in research and development, new technology processes, quality control, and legislation. The Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin book series brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas that have South American origin. As the final volume in the series, Starchy Crops Waste Valorization: Recovery and Treatment enables stakeholders to valorize waste by transforming it into by-products that can reach the market and reduce processing costs. It also explains how to reduce or eliminate problems of environmental contamination. Residues covered are of two types: crop residues and industrial residues.

  • Viral Proteases

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • English
    Viral Proteases, Volume 58 in The Enzymes series, presents a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the structural and functional understanding of viral proteases and their potential as drug targets. This new volume includes chapters covering a wide range of topics, including Viral proteases as targets for antiviral drugs, Structural biology of viral proteases, Computational approaches for designing viral protease inhibitors, The peptidomimetic approach for the design of viral protease inhibitors, HIV protease and its inhibition, and much more.Additional sections cover Hepatitis C virus (HCV) proteases: structure, function and inhibition strategies, Coronaviruses main proteases and their inhibitors, Coronaviruses papain-like proteases, Flaviviruses proteases (Zika, West Nile, Dengue), Bacteriophage endolysins, and Challenges for developing selective viral protease inhibitors as anti-infectives.

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