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  • Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Muhammad Sajid Hamid Akash + 3 more
    • English
    Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development summarizes key concepts and the latest developments of biotechnology applied to the development of biopharmaceuticals. Chapters present a comprehensive collection of introductory biotechnology technologies and their modern concepts and cover pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic behavior of biopharmaceuticals and modification techniques of amino acids and nucleic acid. Other sections focus on topics such as gene therapy, immunological preparations and nanoparticles which are the major contributions of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Final chapters discuss emerging techniques in the field of pharmaceutical biotechnology to meet current patient and health care demand. This book is an essential reference useful for pharmaceutical scientists, clinicians and academic researchers who want easy access to up-to-date practices of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Corporate researchers will also benefit from this book’s succinct and objective content structure.
  • Spectral Properties of Certain Operators on a Free Hilbert Space and the Semicircular Law

    • 1st Edition
    • Ilwoo Cho + 1 more
    • English
    In Spectral Properties of Certain Operators on a Free Hilbert Space and the Semicircular Law, the authors consider the so-called free Hilbert spaces, which are the Hilbert spaces induced by the usual l2 Hilbert spaces and operators acting on them. The construction of these operators itself is interesting and provides new types of Hilbert-space operators. Also, by considering spectral-theoretic properties of these operators, the authors illustrate how “free-Hilbert-space” Operator Theory is different from the classical Operator Theory. More interestingly, the authors demonstrate how such operators affect the semicircular law induced by the ONB-vectors of a fixed free Hilbert space. Different from the usual approaches, this book shows how “inside” actions of operator algebra deform the free-probabilistic information—in particular, the semicircular law.
  • Robotics for Cell Manipulation and Characterization

    • 1st Edition
    • Changsheng Dai + 2 more
    • English
    Robotics for Cell Manipulation and Characterization provides fundamental principles underpinning robotic cell manipulation and characterization, state-of-the-art technical advances in micro/nano robotics, new discoveries of cell biology enabled by robotic systems, and their applications in clinical diagnosis and treatment. This book covers several areas, including robotics, control, computer vision, biomedical engineering and life sciences using understandable figures and tables to enhance readers’ comprehension and pinpoint challenges and opportunities for biological and biomedical research.
  • Microbial Bioprocesses

    Applications and Perspectives
    • 1st Edition
    • Pratyoosh Shukla
    • English
    Microbial processes are involved in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, energy, and new-material industries. Over the past 2 decades, new or more efficient industrial processes involving microorganisms have been launched, yielding purer, less expensive products or substances not available using classical chemical methods. Microbial Bioprocesses aims to give an overview of established and successful processes and discusses the trends and perspectives in industrial microbiology which, along with tremendous progress in genetic and metabolic engineering in recent years, are once again becoming an area of innovation and emerging technologies. Microbial Bioprocesses covers the unique areas like microbial volatiles (MVOCs), microbial bioinoculant development, bacterial nanocelluloses production, and processes for remediation by fungi and actinobacteria.
  • Rivers of North America

    • 2nd Edition
    • Michael D. Delong + 3 more
    • English
    Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river science: hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. This new edition expands upon the interactive nature of these disciplines, showing how they define the organization of a riverine landscape and its processes. An essential resource for river scientists working in ecology, hydrology, and geomorphology.
  • Advances in Bioenergy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English
    Advances in Bioenergy, Volume Eight highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Chemical synthesis of platform chemical from lignocellulosic biomass for fuels and polymers application, Current technologies and applications of CO2 utilization into bio-products, Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate... (PHA) from renewable resources, Biocomposite, Production and application of biochar, Conversion of biomass to functional materials, MSW characterization and preprocessing for biofuels and bioproducts, and Thermal chemical conversion of municipal solid waste to fuels and chemicals.
  • Agricultural Biotechnology

    Genetic Engineering for a Food Cause
    • 1st Edition
    • Vidya Venkataram + 1 more
    • English
    Agricultural biotechnology and the production of GM crops have been controversial despite being practiced in both developed and developing countries, the major reason being their potential negative impact on human / animal health or environment. Also prevalent is the view that it is simply unethical to engineer different forms of life in the laboratory, especially when it comes to consuming food generated through genetic engineering. GM crops have been introduced into the agricultural landscape more than 2 decades ago which has allowed us to study their effects on economy, health and the environment. Agricultural Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering for a Food Cause is a compendium of information, practices, observations and discernible insights on agriculture, biotechnology and sustainable development. The book begins by descriptions of genetic engineering practices and strategies for producing GM crops, their importance in the food chain and advantages of GM crops over non-modified crops. Followed by chapters on the strategic genetic applications and the use of synthetics microbiology and microbial symbiosis, Agricultural Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering concludes with an insight of the Future of microbiotechnology in agricultural practices. Agricultural Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering for a Food Cause fills a gap by summarizing the available literature in a wide variety of topics under one single volume, being accessible to audiences in academic, government and industry spaces.
  • Nematode Diseases of Crops and Their Sustainable Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Mujeebur Rahman Khan + 1 more
    • English
    Nematode Diseases of Crops and their Sustainable Management focuses on methods to recognize and identify nematode attackers in agriculturally important crops, offering ecologically sustainable and economically viable strategies and measures for the management of nematode infestations and diseases. The book analyzes nematode pests as major constraints in global crop production and explores the limitations of existing nematode management technologies. It offers comprehensive information through individually focused chapters on major nematode problems in internationally important food, fiber and beverage crops as well as in mushrooms, polyhouse agriculture and forest flora with regard to distribution, and much more.In view of the highly damaging nature of the disease complexes and complexity in their management, independent chapters on nematode-fungus and nematode-bacteria disease complexes and their management are also presented.
  • Advances in Applied Microbiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 122
    • Geoffrey M. Gadd + 1 more
    • English
    Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 122 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology. Users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topic of microbiology. This release includes updates on BioMateriOME: to understand microbe-material interactions within sustainable, living architectures.
  • Economic Evaluation in Genomic and Precision Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • English
    Economic Evaluation in Genomic and Precision Medicine provides an in-depth examination of essential concepts, protocols and applications of economic evaluation in genomic and precision medicine. Contributions from leading international medical geneticists and health economists compile new ways to effectively assess the costs and outcomes of different genomic care pathways, implement cost-effective medical interventions, and enhance the value of genomic and precision healthcare. Foundational chapters and discipline-specific case studies cover topics ranging from the economic analysis of genomic trial design, to health technology assessment of next-generation sequencing, ethical aspects, economic policy in genomic medicine, and pricing and reimbursement in clinical genomics.