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  • Evaluating Oral Probiotics and Prebiotics

    • 1st Edition
    • Amir M. Mortazavian + 2 more
    • English
    Evaluating Oral Probiotics and Prebiotics reviews emerging applications of new probiotic strains, postbiotics, and production of key synbiotic generations. The book discusses successes and failures of viable probiotic ingestion, new trends and strains including genetically engineered probiotics, assessment of nonviable probiotics (postbiotics) and microflora benefits of prebiotic and synbiotic ingestion over probiotics.

  • The Future of Pharma Across All Sectors in the Artificial Intelligence Era

    • 1st Edition
    • Miltiadis Lytras + 5 more
    • English
    The Future of Pharma Across All Sectors in the Artificial Intelligence Era offers a thorough examination of the pharmaceutical industry's current landscape, highlighting the myriad challenges, opportunities, and trends that are poised to shape its future. Edited by experts, this book delves into transformative technological advancements, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, and blockchain. These technologies are redefining pharmaceutical research, development, and commercialization, making precision medicine and personalized therapies a reality, while integrating genomic medicine into the pharmaceutical value chain.Additionally, the book addresses educational implications for academic curricula, emphasizing the need for digital transformation in healthcare delivery models. It scrutinizes regulatory trends and compliance, offering insights into navigating complex landscapes to ensure product quality and safety. The book emphasizes the pharmaceutical industry's role in tackling infectious diseases and health disparities, promoting health equity through innovative drug development and access initiatives. Future trends and predictions are speculated upon, considering demographic shifts and evolving healthcare needs, while market dynamics and commercial strategies are analyzed to equip pharmaceutical companies with practical recommendations for navigating competitive landscapes.

  • Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

    • 10th Edition
    • Denis Gerstorf + 1 more
    • English
    Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Tenth Edition offers insights into emerging areas of research and practice in the field of aging. In addition to its comprehensive coverage of traditional topics such as cognitive aging and social dynamics, this edition highlights key contemporary issues. New to this edition are chapters dedicated to the understanding of emotion and stress regulation in older adults, the intricate relationship between technology and aging, the evolving landscape of work and retirement, and alternative age markers beyond chronological age. As with previous editions, this handbook remains committed to bridging the gap between theory and practice, offering evidence-based strategies.With its multidisciplinary perspective and practical insights, it continues to serve as an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students across various disciplines, from psychology and gerontology to public health and social work.

  • Intelligence-Based Healthcare

    An Essential Guide of Artificial Intelligence Concepts and Case Applications for Healthcare Leaders and Providers
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony Chang + 2 more
    • English
    Intelligence-Based Healthcare: An Essential Guide with Case Studies of Artificial Intelligence for the Healthcare Leader and Provider is an essential guide with an introduction to data science and artificial intelligence to provide the reader with a quick orientation and education on AI in healthcare. This book also offers a framework for success in planning, deployment, implementation, and evaluation of AI models in healthcare. In 25 chapters, Intelligence-Based Healthcare: An Essential Guide with Case Studies of Artificial Intelligence for the Healthcare Leader and Provider both introduces the reader to artificial in medicine and healthcare, and AI concepts. To render AI more understandable and relatable to the reader, case studies are used as a learning strategy to illustrate the aforementioned AI concepts. The cases implement AI in solving a very specific problem, clinical or operational, in clinical medicine or healthcare. Both cases that illustrate successful implementation of AI as unsuccessful application cases with important lessons learned are included. Each chapter can be read independently and therefore the book is a valuable resource for researchers, health professionals, postgraduate students, post doc researchers and faculty members in the fields of artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

  • Insights for Researchers and Clinicians to Navigating Kidney Stone Surgery

    A Comparative Narrative of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery for Kidney Stones
    • 1st Edition
    • Oktay Ozman + 1 more
    • English
    Insights for Researchers and Clinicians to Navigating Kidney Stone Surgery: A Comparative Narrative of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery for Kidney Stones is the ultimate resource for healthcare professionals seeking to excel in the field of kidney stone surgery. The book provides a comparative history of RIRS and PCNL, exploring their evolution from early attempts at endoscopic stone removal to the development of flexible ureteroscopy and technique refinement. It covers instrumentation, including access sheaths, ureteroscopes, energy sources, and fluoroscopy. Patient selection criteria, anesthesia techniques, and intraoperative monitoring are thoroughly examined.The book offers detailed guidance on kidney access, including transureteral and percutaneous approaches, and discusses fragmentation and stone retrieval methods, comparing their efficacy and outcomes. Complications, management strategies, postoperative care, and long-term outcomes assessment are extensively discussed, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of patient care. With its comprehensive coverage and contributions from renowned experts, the book equips healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the rapidly evolving field of minimally invasive kidney stone management.

  • Fostering Research Integrity

    A Practical Guide for Research Ethics
    • 1st Edition
    • Ashima Anand
    • English
    Fostering Research Integrity: A Practical Guide to Research Ethics, a new release in Elsevier's new series, Hot Topics in Physiology, addresses the aspects of research integrity, international normative instruments governing research integrity, and research practices. Additionally, the book covers emerging issues in ethics such as organoid research, AI, animals research, as well as data sharing and protection. Users will find this resource invaluable to any laboratory who utilizes animals in research—biology, physiology, cell biology, etc. It will also be vital to researchers involved in human research studies—universities and pharmaceuticals and would be vital for anyone doing research in any discipline.

  • Space Physiology

    From Earth to Space and Back Again
    • 1st Edition
    • Alan Hargens
    • English
    Space Physiology: From Earth to Space and Back Again provides readers with new and authoritative information about current and important topics related to risks in space. The book covers translation of Earth-based physiology to astronaut health and Earth applications of space research. Topics include adaptations of various systems to space, including bone, microcirculation, microcirculation, skeletal and smooth muscles, headward fluid shifts as well as integrated countermeasures to maintain well-being and health in space.This is a volume in Elsevier’s new series Hot Topics in Physiology, published in association with the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). It is an ideal reference for academics and researchers (space physiology and medicine, rehabilitation medicine, biochemistry and cell biology, molecular biology) at Undergrad, Masters, PhD, and Post-Doc levels.

  • Nanotechnology in Brain Tumor Treatment

    Unveiling Molecular Mechanisms and Pioneering Therapies
    • 1st Edition
    • Arun Kumar Singh + 4 more
    • English
    Nanobiotechnology in Brain Tumor Treatment: Unveiling Molecular Mechanisms and Pioneering Therapies is a groundbreaking resource that addresses the formidable challenges posed by brain tumors in oncology. This comprehensive book explores the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for brain tumors, with a particular focus on the revolutionary impact of nanobiotechnology. By integrating cutting-edge research on nanotechnology with practical applications in neuro-oncology, this book offers a unique perspective on enhancing patient outcomes and advancing brain cancer treatment strategies.By offering a comprehensive overview of nanobiotechnology in brain tumor treatment, this resource serves as a vital tool for those involved in the research, diagnosis, and treatment of brain cancers, paving the way for innovative and personalized therapeutic approaches.

  • Precision Technologies for Digital Agriculture

    Harnessing IoT, Big Data, Crop Modeling, and AI for Agricultural Production
    • 1st Edition
    • Sushil Kumar Himanshu + 2 more
    • English
    Precision Technologies for Digital Agriculture investigates the growing role of computational and connected approaches in contemporary agricultural environments, bringing together recent findings in artificial intelligence, sensing infrastructures, agroecosystem modeling, and data analytics to illustrate decisive shifts toward more accurate, forward-looking, and responsive decision-making.Earl... chapters set out the theoretical and technical underpinnings of digital and precision agriculture, addressing automation, data stewardship, privacy, and the development of dependable AI‑based tools. These foundations support a detailed overview of key technological building blocks, including remote and proximal sensing, geospatial platforms, machine vision, digital twins, and the Internet of Living Things, with emphasis on their contribution to integrated system management and optimized resource allocation.Later sections concentrate on applied methods across field operations. Topics include climate‑adaptive, smart irrigation, soil and microbial diagnostics, UAV‑enabled monitoring, and algorithmic frameworks to yield estimation and nutrient regulation. Across these chapters, attention is given to both implementation constraints and enabling factors, including interoperability, data security, and scalability.The volume concludes with regionally grounded case studies and economic assessments that explore adoption strategies, governance arrangements, and cost–benefit considerations across diverse crops and production settings. Together, these cutting-edge analyses provide a structured assessment of how digital technologies are being translated into transformative agricultural practice, and of the contextual conditions under which their effective use can be fully realized.

  • Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes

    Volume 5: Inhibitors of Proteolytic Enzymes
    • 4th Edition
    • Neil D. Rawlings
    • English
    Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Fourth Edition, Volume Five: Inhibitors of Proteolytic Enzymes is an essential reference for biochemists, biotechnologists, and molecular biologists across academia and industry. This volume offers a thorough discussion of known naturally-occurring and synthetic inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes. Each chapter includes enzyme inhibitor names, history, activity and specificity, structural chemistry, preparation, biological aspects, and distinguishing features, with color 2D and 3D structures of inhibitors, extensive references, and links to PubMed and MEROPS databases.Edited by world-renowned experts in the field, and with five volumes available for individual sale, this work provides detailed information on all known proteolytic enzymes researched to-date, with expanded coverage of metallopeptidases, cysteine peptidases, serine and threonine peptidases, aspartic and glutamic peptidases, and inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes.

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