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  • Immunotoxicogenomics

    A Multidisciplinary Approach in Systems Toxicology
    • 1st Edition
    • Md. Naimat Ali + 2 more
    • English
    Immunotoxicogenomics... A Multidisciplinary Approach in Systems Toxicology covers the major mechanisms and effects of toxic substances on the immune system, and on the regulation of gene expression. This includes the aims, opportunities, clinical applications, recent developments, and emerging and future trends. The book begins with a discussion of the systemic approach to toxicants, but also looks at current genomic tools used to assess immunotoxicity and systems biology methods used in immuno-toxicogenomic... Other topics include genomic expression profiling, gene expression as a tool to understand and predict immunotoxicity, immunotox-icogenomic... as a screening tool, and the assessment and analysis of Immunotoxicogenomics data.This book provides a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach for researchers in the fields of toxicology, genetics, immunology, and others engaged in the study on the effects of toxic substances on immune responses.

  • Microbiology and Health Benefits of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages

    • 1st Edition
    • Jyoti Prakash Tamang
    • English
    Microbiology and Health Benefits of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages is an interdisciplinary reference for students, researchers, and academics studying anthropology and food and beverage science, especially those with interest in fermentation. Fermented beverages and alcoholic drinks are culturally and socially accepted products for consumption, drinking, entertainment, as well as for customary practices and religious purposes. Due to variation in substrates, climatic conditions, geographical locations and ethnicity, a colossal diversity of microbial community as well as major domains have been reported in the different varieties of fermented beverages of the world.This book covers the cultural context of these beverages along with their biochemistry, health benefits, and therapeutic uses. Topics include winemaking, malting and brewing of wine and beer, and culturally specific beverages and practices such as fermented palm beverages and agave.

  • Conductive Hydro Drying of Foods

    Principles and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • C. Anandharamakrishnan + 2 more
    • English
    Conductive Hydro Drying of Foods: Principles and Applications presents the current state of this emerging field, touching basics of novel drying approaches, introducing the concept of conductive hydro drying, and detailing its applications in food processing. The book explores novel drying techniques and covers the drying of various foods, including fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, and egg, spices and herbs, cereals and pulses, and other edible materials. It also brings chapters on trends and prospects, providing emphasis on the scope for low-cost drying, drying, or heat-sensitive foods. Edited by authors with interdisciplinary backgrounds and strong expertise in the field of food drying, this is a valuable resource to research and industry professionals working in allied fields.

  • Deciding with Children in Pediatrics

    Children's Participation in Healthcare Decision-Making
    • 1st Edition
    • John Massie + 2 more
    • English
    Deciding with Children in Pediatrics: Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-making provides the ethical underpinning and offers practical strategies to foster meaningful participation of children in decisions affecting their healthcare. It will assist clinicians to bring forward the perspectives and values of the child, ensuring their preferences are incorporated into decision-making or appropriately justified when this is not possible. This is to both improve healthcare delivery and serve the best interests of children— now and as decision-makers in the future.This book reviews theories underpinning the concept of deciding with children and explores how pediatric decision-making is standardly managed. It then proposes a model for making healthcare decisions with children. A panel of experienced clinicians and ethicists demonstrate, via a series of case studies, how to promote children’s participation across a variety of clinical areas, child ages, and developmental stages. It concludes with a review of questions, concerns, and challenges. Deciding with Children in Pediatrics: Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-making helps bridge the gap between philosophy and practical clinical ethics and creates a frame of reference for children’s healthcare providers.

  • Protocols in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry

    • 2nd Edition
    • Buddhi Prakash Jain + 2 more
    • English
    Protocols in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, second edition, offers clear, applied instruction in fundamental biochemistry methods and protocols, from buffer preparation to nucleic acid purification, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, and enzyme testing, and clinical testing of vitamins, glucose, and cholesterol levels, among other diagnostics. Each protocol is illustrated with step-by-step instructions, labeled diagrams, and color images, as well as a thorough overview of materials and equipment, precursor techniques, safety considerations and standards, analysis and statistics, alternative methods, and troubleshooting, all to support a range of study types and clinical diagnostics. This fully revised edition has been expanded and enriched to feature 100 protocols, as well as chapter key term definitions and worked examples. All-new protocols added to this edition include identification of lipids by TLC, lipid per oxidation measurement by thiobarbituric acid assays, determination of serum amylase, catalase activity assay, superoxide dismutase assay, qualitative analysis of plant secondary metabolites, qualitative analysis of photochemicals, quantitative estimation of secondary metabolites, estimation of chlorophyll contents, and starch determination, among others. Each protocol is written to help researchers and clinicians easily reproduce lab methods and ensure accurate test results.

  • Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems

    Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis
    • 1st Edition
    • Ricardo de Freitas Fernandes Pontes
    • English
    Cooling Towers and Chilled Water Systems: Design, Operation, and Economic Analysis is a guide to the design and operation of cooling systems within high temperature settings. The book presents various strategies to increase the turndown of cooling towers and chilled water systems and provides a toolkit for engineers to determine the use of variable frequency drivers. A guide to equipment selection for optimal design during the detailed engineering phase is provided, ensuring the reader is able to comply with the project specification within budget. Sections discuss various systems, circuits and processes for cooling tower and chiller systems before detailing design principles.Operation... and control strategies are then discussed before a thorough analysis of economic factors, making this book idea for professional engineers, graduate students and researchers working in high-temperature settings, such as power generation or chemical plants.

  • Chemical and Genomic Methods in Nucleic Acid Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 705
    • English
    Chemical and Genomic Methods in Nucleic Acid Biology, Volume 704 highlights new advances in the field of nucleic acids, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Specific chapters in this new release include A real-time FRET-based biochemical assay for DNA deaminase enzymology and inhibition, DEER spectroscopy to probe DNA wrapping by protein complexes, PAR-dCLIP: Enhancing PhotoActivatable Ribonucleoside analog-enhanced CrossLinking and Immunoprecipitation through capture of bound 5’ terminal RNA fragments, Site-specific targeting of transgene cDNA insertion, Simultaneous Profiling of the RNA Targets of Two RNA-Binding Proteins Using TRIBE-STAMP, and much more.Additional chapters cover Ensemble FRET Approach to Directly and Continuously Monitor Protein? DNA Interactions, Utilizing nuclear extracts to characterize protein-DNA interactions at the single-molecule level, RNA-Guided Protease Activation in CRISPR-Cas, Activity-based profiling of RNA modifying enzymes, Purification of Cas9 and Cas12a for Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing, Studying the intersection of nucleoside modifications and SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA transcription using an in vitro reconstituted system, and more.

  • Artificial Intelligence in Urology

    Present and Future
    • 1st Edition
    • Andrew J Hung
    • English
    Artificial Intelligence in Urology: Present and Future summarizes the cutting-edge development and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in urology. The book explores barriers that prevent the further adoption of AI technologies, provides ethical considerations, and investigates the future role AI is expected to play. In addition, it includes applications of AI technology in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers (prostate, bladder, and more) and kidney stones, and in both adult and pediatric care. This is the perfect reference for researchers developing AI technologies for clinical applications and for clinicians who aim to effectively adopt AI technologies to solve clinical questions.

  • Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Neuro-Oncology

    An Artificial Intelligence Paradigm – Volume 2: Genetics and Clinical Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Sanjay Saxena + 1 more
    • English
    Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Neuro-Oncology: An Artificial Intelligence Paradigm—Volume 2: Genetics and Clinical Applications provides readers with a broad and detailed framework for radiomics and radiogenomics (R-n-R) approaches with AI in neuro-oncology. It delves into the study of cancer biology and genomics, presenting methods and techniques for analyzing these elements. The book also highlights current solutions that R-n-R can offer for personalized patient treatments, as well as discusses the limitations and future prospects of AI technologies.Volume 1: Radiogenomics Flow Using Artificial Intelligence covers the genomics and molecular study of brain cancer, medical imaging modalities and their analysis in neuro-oncology, and the development of prognostic and predictive models using radiomics.Volume 2: Genetics and Clinical Applications extends the discussion to imaging signatures that correlate with molecular characteristics of brain cancer, clinical applications of R-n-R in neuro-oncology, and the use of Machine Learning and Deep Learning approaches for R-n-R in neuro-oncology.

  • Moving Towards Everlasting Artificial Intelligent Battery-Powered Implants

    • 1st Edition
    • Marvellous Moyo + 1 more
    • English
    Moving Towards Everlasting Artificial Intelligent Battery-Powered Implants presents the development process of new artificial intelligent (AI) charging systems for battery-powered implants that can last for a lifetime after implantation. This book introduces new strategies to address the limitations of technologies that have been employed to improve the lifespan of medical implants. This book also provides guidelines that medical implant manufacturers can adopt during their product development stages—this adds a new dimension of research on medical device implants that can be a game changer for the AI medical implants industry. Researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the elds of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science will find this text helpful as they seek to understand the potential of AI systems to help achieve sustainability in healthcare and make current medical implants relevant in the future.

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