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  • Advances in Applied Microbiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 137
    • English
    Advances in Applied Microbiology presents the latest developments and innovative research in applied microbiology, covering topics such as microbial biotechnology, environmental applications, industrial processes, and medical advancements. It offers valuable insights into the practical uses of microorganisms in solving real-world challenges, making it an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and students in microbiology and related fields.
  • Advances in Catalysis

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 79
    • English
    Advances in Catalysis series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
  • Insect Pathology

    • 3rd Edition
    • Nemat Keyhani + 2 more
    • English
    Insect Pathology, Third Edition offers the most comprehensive research on the topic of insect pathology, spanning the diversity of insects with a more diverse array of microbes. This book provides a full update on new approaches for studying the genetics, development, evolution, and ecology of insect pathogens. Written by leading researchers and experts, the book includes coverage of revolutionary genome editing tools, such as CRISPR-Cas9, which have been developed for multiple insect pathogen systems and provides insights into the molecular underpinnings of insect pathogens and their hosts. This book also updates modern molecular techniques, “omics” approaches, and newly applied findings. These new and revised topics are critical for understanding current perspectives in the field, making this book a needed reference for insect pathologists, entomologists, microbiologists, mycologists, nematologists, protistologists, ecologists, and practitioners of biological control of insect pests. New and long-time students of insect pathology will also find this new edition useful.
  • Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease – Part A

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 191
    • English
    Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, Volume 191 in the International Review of Neurobiology series, presents current advances and comprehensive reviews on the development and application of circulating biomarkers in neurodegenerative disorders. It brings together contributions from an international panel, highlighting emerging strategies for early detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Chapters explore a wide range of topics, including the Diagnostic Potential of Exosomes in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Cancer, Blood Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, GFAP and the Genetic Code of Astrocyte Activation in Alzheimer’s Disease, and much more.Additional chapters cover Blood-Based Emerging Biomarkers in Early Detection and Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, Advances in Nanomaterial-Based Biomarker Detection for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Blood-Based Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease: From Molecular Pathology to Therapeutic Potential, Blood-Based Biomarkers and Their Role in AD/PD Diagnosis, The Emerging Landscape of Circulatory Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease, Biofluid-Based Biosensors, Biomarkers of Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Silent Clues in Blood: Proteomic Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease, and more.
  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 88
    • English
    Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 88 continues this highly regarded series, highlighting recent developments in the field. This volume features authoritative reviews written by an international board of authors, providing advanced researchers with comprehensive and fully referenced content. The focus of this new release centers around Lantern-Type Complexes of the Frist Row Transition Metals: Experimental and Computational Insights into Ground State Metal-Metal Bond Lengths and Bond Orders.As with previous volumes, the book includes an index and serves as an indispensable reference in inorganic chemistry.
  • Lightweight, Real-time Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Tina Babu + 2 more
    • English
    Lightweight, Real-time Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications addresses the pressing need for deploying efficient artificial intelligence models in clinical environments constrained by limited computational resources. As AI adoption accelerates in healthcare, this reference targets the gap between advanced deep learning research and practical real-time applications, emphasizing model optimization, privacy, and regulatory compliance. The content comprehensively covers model compression techniques such as pruning, quantization, knowledge distillation, and neural architecture search, alongside federated learning frameworks and real-time inference optimization. Detailed chapters present hardware-aware strategies, security considerations, continuous learning, and regulatory validation. The book also provides extensive case studies and implementation blueprints demonstrating practical deployment on devices like Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, and mobile health platforms. This book benefits researchers, clinicians, and healthcare technology professionals by offering practical solutions to develop, validate, and implement AI models that maintain diagnostic accuracy while meeting clinical constraints. It equips students and educators with theoretical foundations and hands-on examples to foster innovation in biomedical AI, ultimately enhancing diagnostic capabilities and patient care in diverse healthcare settings.
  • Technology-Assisted Physical Gait Rehabilitation

    How Robotics, Data Science, and Neuroscience are Changing Modern Physical Therapy
    • 1st Edition
    • Tomislav Baček + 3 more
    • English
    Technology-Assisted Physical Gait Rehabilitation: How Robotics, Data Science, and Neuroscience are Changing Modern Physical Therapy explores computational modeling techniques, robotic assistance, data science, and other technological tools and how they can be jointly used in driving and guiding physical gait therapy in impairments such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and incomplete spinal cord injury. This book gathers experts in robotics, human biomechanics, physical therapy, neuroscience, engineering, and medicine, presenting their ongoing work and discussing their views on the future direction of technology-assisted gait therapy. It showcases the latest advancements in the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field of technology-assisted gait therapy and strives to outline the developments in the coming years that are needed/likely to make the next big breakthrough in the field.
  • Therapeutic Applications of Phytoconstituent Nanomedicines

    • 1st Edition
    • Prashant Kesharwani
    • English
    Therapeutic Applications of Phytoconstituent Nanomedicines provides an overview of the development of phytoconstituents and nano-phytoconstituen... as a leading therapeutic agent in the management of various diseases. This book reviews the mechanisms and properties of phytoconstituents while also describing recent developments in emerging drug delivery systems derived from nanotechnology. The content will help readers design and develop novel nano-drug delivery systems and devices for the delivery of phytoconstituents, while also providing insights and analysis of regulatory and clinical aspects. It will be a useful reference for researchers in the fields of materials science, pharmaceutical science, tissue engineering, and nanotechnology.
  • Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44
    • English
    Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, Volume 43 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Content in this new release covers Engineered probiotics for producing phosphoinositol-sn-l... as biosurfactant modulators: Their hydropathy, in potentiating surface tension and scaffold properties into model emulsions.
  • Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Biomechanics

    Sources and Methods of Uncertainty and Variability Analysis - Volume 2
    • 1st Edition
    • Gerhard A. Holzapfel + 2 more
    • English
    Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Biomechanics: Sources and Methods of Uncertainty and Variability Analysis addresses the increasing need to incorporate uncertainty and variability into computational biomechanics. As biomechanical modeling becomes more central to clinical decision-making, deterministic approaches are no longer sufficient to describe biological complexity. This reference provides a systematic treatment of uncertainty quantification, enabling more reliable, patient-specific models in cardiovascular and soft tissue applications. The volume is structured into four main sections. It begins with probabilistic fundamentals and sensitivity analysis, establishing core principles for uncertainty-aware modeling. It then explores sources of uncertainty, including vascular modeling, imaging reconstruction, MRI, ultrasound elastography, and biological variability such as sex differences. The third section focuses on computational methods such as multi-fidelity modeling and Bayesian parameter identification. The final section presents practical applications in vascular systems, cardiac mechanics, and diagnostic techniques, emphasizing clinically relevant case studies.Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Biomechanics: Sources and Methods of Uncertainty and Variability Analysis provides researchers and engineers with rigorous tools to assess model reliability and variability. By combining foundational theory with applied methodologies, it supports the development of robust, predictive biomechanical simulations, advancing translational research and precision medicine in healthcare engineering.