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  • Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks

    Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies
    • 1st Edition
    • Aryan Kaushik
    • English
    Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies presents the principles, methods, and algorithms of ISAC, an overview of the essential enabling technologies, as well as the latest research and future directions. Suitable for academic researchers and post graduate students as well as industry R&D engineers, this book is the definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field that is being seen as a technology to enable emerging applications such as vehicular networks, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, IoT, smart cities.Importantly, ISAC has been identified as an enabling technology for B5G/6G, and the next-generation Wi-Fi system. ISAC brings together a range of technologies: radar sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic surfaces through to high frequency terahertz, PHY security, channel signaling, multiple access, and machine learning.

  • Transplant Oncology

    A Frontier in Multidisciplinary Cancer Care
    • 1st Edition
    • Maen A. Abdelrahim
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Transplantation Surgery**Transplant Oncology: A Frontier in Multidisciplinary Cancer Care summarizes new and evolving scientific findings and discoveries in the field of cancer and transplants and gives guidance on future directions and related research. With a strong focus on transplant oncology, the book examines new and evolving topics, including the utilization of immunotherapy in special patient populations as well as the clinical updates on new concepts in the field such as using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a tool for minimal disease detection, surveillance, and treatment response evaluation as well as rejection assessment and detection in transplant patient for oncological indications.Sections cover applications of transplant medicine and surgery in oncology to improve patient survival outcome and quality of life. The book gives insight into anticancer strategies, such as initiating studies in genomics and cancer immunogenomics based on new insights in liver cancer.In addition, it describes how the adoption of surgical transplantation techniques in oncology has improved conventional resection and bridged the gap between tumor and transplant immunology. This is a must have reference for all those that want to be familiar and up-to-date with the dynamic changes in the field including practicing physicians, scientists, and trainees.

  • Quality Analysis and Packaging of Seafood Products

    • 1st Edition
    • Ashutosh Kumar Shukla + 1 more
    • English
    Quality Analysis and Packaging of Seafood Products provides information on basics of packaging and novel packaging technologies and their potential application for fishery products. Dealing specifically with the seafood packaging and quality aspects, the book is a complete resource for ensuring better quality of fish products.Divided into three parts, the title deals with seafood nutrition and quality, packaging options, including new technologies and smart and edible, biodegradable packages. In addition, it covers the quality aspects, such as biochemical quality and hazards associated with processing and packaging of fishery products. The book also includes standard guidelines and regulations on the use of packaging materials for fishery products, besides covering sustainability aspects which are crucial for the future fishery industry.Edited by global experts in the area of seafood processing and packaging, this book is the ultimate guide on conventional and advanced packaging technologies and their potential applications in fish preservation. It is dedicated to all researchers and specialists in seafood processing and technology, as well as packaging materials, besides food companies and fish processing industries.

  • Modeling and Control of Dynamic Spatially Distributed Systems

    Pharmaceutical Processes
    • 1st Edition
    • Yizhi Wang + 1 more
    • English
    Modeling and Control of Dynamic Spatially Distributed Systems: Pharmaceutical Processes provides a balanced approach to help readers to get started quickly in the field of biochemical pharmaceuticals. From a theoretical perspective, dynamic spatially distributed systems are introduced to address their industrial applications. After identifying problems, the book provides readers with modeling and control system design techniques via a novel fuzzy set (class of objects with a continuum of grades of membership, to describe the grade of the object belonging to this fuzzy set) and intelligent computation methods.From an application perspective, the book provides a thorough understanding of Good Manufacture Practices (GMP) and the importance of identification, modelling, and intelligent control of such systems, reducing the test-and-error cost, and the R&D design time cycle of original drug development.

  • Immuno-oncology and immunotherapy Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 190
    • English
    Immuno-Oncology And Immunotherapy – Part B Volume 190, in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. In this update, chapters include Machine learning methods to assess metastatic burden, Development of pre-clinical models, Tumor microenvironment analysis by multiparametric flow cytometry or/and mass cytometry, Measure of therapy induced cell senescence, and much more.

  • Understanding the Pandemic

    Pathophysiology, Transmission, and Treatment of COVID-19
    • 1st Edition
    • Shampa Chatterjee + 7 more
    • English
    Understanding the Pandemic: Pathophysiology, Transmission, and Treatment of COVID-19 aims to cover all aspects of COVID-19 infection from the virus, transmission, pathogenesis, immune-inflammation response, systemic injury, organ damage, associated factors, and comorbidities that drive mortality. Organized into ten sections, the book aims to provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of COVID-19. The book begins a review of coronaviruses, their structure and mechanism of action. The book goes on to discuss the immune response to the virus and its effect on various organs. It examines clinical cases based on an observations and postmortem studies.Other topics include the long-term effects of COVD-19, vaccines, and public health response.

  • Nongenetic Information and Evolution

    • 1st Edition
    • Nelson R Cabej
    • English
    Nongenetic Information and Evolution investigates the origin and nature of nongenetic information and its role in the mechanisms of evolutionary change. This book opens with an introduction to the theoretical background and forms of nongenetic information, alongside its relationship with genetic information. It then explores nongenetic information across the biological kingdoms, including animals, nonneural organisms, plants, and unicellulars.It also covers epigenetics as a form of nongenetic information, exploring DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and miRNA expression in this context. This book closes with a discussion of nongenetic information in evolution, considering evidence demonstrating its inheritance and hereditary impact.This book provides a detailed overview of the origin and evolutionary impact of nongenetic inheritance, delivering a basis for further understanding the occurrence of hereditary phenomena and transgenerational phenotypic changes that do not involve genes. This is a useful reference for researchers in the field of epigenetics, evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and cellular and molecular biology.

  • Medicinal Biotechnology

    Methods and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Dev Bukhsh Singh + 1 more
    • English
    Medicinal Biotechnology: Methods and Applications covers a wide range of topics from traditional herbal medicine to recent plant and animal biotechnology approaches used for the production of vaccines, hormones, enzymes, edible medicinal products, herbal therapeutics, and other secondary metabolites. The book opens with a historical perspective of medicinal biotechnology which includes a discussion of successive development in the field of medicine, starting from early civilization up to current and advanced approaches and strategies.The book also provides a wide range of topics that include: a discussion engineering approaches in medicinal biotechnology, metabolomics, extraction of metabolites, personalization approaches, and strategies for the effective use of medicinal product and drugs; explanation of engineering approaches in medicinal biotechnology, metabolomics, extraction of metabolites, personalization approaches, and strategies for the effective use of medicinal product and drug; and coverage of specific knowledge on the production and use in vaccines, antibodies, and hormones.

  • Substance P

    From Pain to Cancer
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Vink
    • English
    Substance P: From Pain to Cancer, a volume in the Molecular Mediators in Health and Disease: How Cells Communicate series, provides a complete discussion of substance P biology, its role in normal physiology and a variety of diseases.The volume provides an introduction to substance P and its pharmacology, followed by exploring its role across the human body including cardiovascular function, micturition, learning and memory, emesis, respiration and sleep. It then discusses the critical role of substance P in several disease states including acute brain injury, neurodegeneration, seizures, depression and anxiety, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders, and viral infection, including COVID-19. The book closes with a look towards future perspectives for substance P.Substance P: From Pain to Cancer is an ideal reference for researchers across the life sciences interested in understanding the role of this multi-functioning mediator and its biological significance.

  • Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19

    A Promising Response to the Global Unprecedented Pandemic
    • 1st Edition
    • Nabeelah Bibi Sadeer + 1 more
    • English
    Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19: A Promising Response to the Global Unprecedented Pandemic presents comprehensive coverage of the pharmacological effects of natural products on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Sections provide traditional medicine approaches and their potential to prevent and treat COVID-19 infection, including traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, Persian, and Kampo medicine, alongside an overview of nutritional regimens and their therapeutic potential. Other sections cover natural molecules such as flavonoids, saponins, coumarins, alkaloids, terpenes, polysaccharides, and several microbial natural products of relevant action against viruses. Final chapters cover nanotherapeutic approaches.This is a valuable resource for researchers and academics in the fields of herbal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy and for professionals in the pharmaceutical industries and anyone interested in natural products and their application for therapeutic purposes.

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