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    • How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Marjorie R. Jenkins + 1 more
      • English
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      How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, is an essential resource for primary care clinicians seeking to integrate sex and gender differences into their practice. This edition emphasizes the unique framework that assists practitioners in providing personalized care. It aligns sex and gender medicine with precision medicine, helping healthcare providers attract patients who value clinicians that understand the nuances of sex and gender in healthcare.How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, includes updates on the evidence-based information on disease prevalence, diagnosis, testing, and treatment, as well as a new chapter on the sex and gender aspects of pain. Each chapter reflects how sex and gender impact disease presentation, physical examination, testing, treatment, and clinical decision-making.
    • Nanomedicine and Nutrigenomics

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Yugal Kishore Mohanta + 2 more
      • English
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      Nanomedicine and Nutrigenomics: Pioneering the Future of Health offers a comprehensive introduction to nanomedicine and nutrigenomics, ensuring readers grasp the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications. The book provides an overview of nanotechnology, nanomaterials, and gene-nutrient interactions, paving the way for understanding the potential healthcare applications of these groundbreaking methodologies. It emphasizes the synergy between nanomedicine and nutrigenomics, showcasing how they can optimize health outcomes and delving into nanotechnology's role in enhancing drug delivery systems, diagnostics, and therapeutics, while also highlighting personalized nutrition interventions based on genetic makeup. The book addresses future advancements, ethical implications, and challenges, presenting a holistic view.
    • Viral Proteases

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 58
      • November 1, 2025
      • English
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      Viral Proteases, Volume 58 in The Enzymes series, presents a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the structural and functional understanding of viral proteases and their potential as drug targets. This new volume includes chapters covering a wide range of topics, including Viral proteases as targets for antiviral drugs, Structural biology of viral proteases, Computational approaches for designing viral protease inhibitors, The peptidomimetic approach for the design of viral protease inhibitors, HIV protease and its inhibition, and much more.Additional sections cover Hepatitis C virus (HCV) proteases: structure, function and inhibition strategies, Coronaviruses main proteases and their inhibitors, Coronaviruses papain-like proteases, Flaviviruses proteases (Zika, West Nile, Dengue), Bacteriophage endolysins, and Challenges for developing selective viral protease inhibitors as anti-infectives.
    • Medical Devices in Modern Healthcare

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Sougata Jana + 1 more
      • English
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      Medical Devices in Modern Healthcare: Current Research on New Materials and Engineering, Device Evaluation and Regulatory Implications provides a comprehensive approach to existing and future technological developments in medical devices and their role in biomedical engineering. In particular, the book looks at the fabrication/manufact... of medical devices across a wide range of device sectors. Importantly, regulatory perspectives and implications are considered in detail.
    • Viral Hepatitis

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Esaki M. Shankar + 2 more
      • English
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      Viral Hepatitis: New Paradigms in Disease Pathogenesis offers a comprehensive exploration of numerous mechanisms and emerging concepts in the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis. By integrating interdisciplinary perspectives and addressing emerging research questions, this book includes insights and practical solutions, bridging the gap between theory and application. The incorporation of the latest research findings and the unveiling of new insights within the content enriches the knowledge base of readers, positioning it as the ideal reference for viral hepatitis researchers. It offers a comprehensive overview of the subject matter, bridging research gaps and saving valuable time, while stimulating fresh research ideas.Moreover, it serves as an invaluable resource for clinicians, providing evidence-based research to support effective clinical decision-making, accurate diagnosis, and efficient management of viral hepatitis in the patient population.
    • Spatial Statistics and Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Anzhelika Antipova
      • English
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      Spatial Statistics and Analysis: Techniques and Applications is an essential resource for anyone interested in the theory and application of spatial statistics. This comprehensive text delves into the principles, tools, and methods used in spatial analysis, making it invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals across various fields including geography, public health, engineering, and social sciences. With hands-on exercises, the book guides readers through complex topics and ensures a deep understanding of spatial data analysis. In addition to covering key terms and tools, this valuable resource explores scales of measurement, data distributions, and spatial dataset visualizations.Other sections examine spatial statistical relationships, point and areal pattern analysis, complex spatial patterns, and geostatistical analysis. The text also addresses spatial error and uncertainty and includes practical applications of Markov chains. Supplementary resources such as instructional slides, lab activities, data sets, and graphic illustrations are provided to aid both teaching and learning.
    • Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Helen E. Nuttall + 2 more
      • English
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      Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia reviews the effects of hearing loss on the brain and examines the most up-to-date perspectives on the possible causal relation between hearing loss and cognitive impairment. Through this synthesis, the book explores the links between hearing loss and the brain to improve understanding and promote better hearing for better brain health.
    • Handbook of Endocannabinoid Function in the Central Nervous System

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 33
      • November 1, 2025
      • Olivier J. Manzoni + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of Endocannabinoid Function in the Central Nervous System, a new release in the Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience series, offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the role of the endocannabinoid system in functions of the central nervous system. This new volume brings together the most influential and internally recognized experts in the field to provide a detailed overview of the physiological and pathophysiological roles of endocannabinoids in CNS activity. It covers the history, functional anatomy, and neurophysiology of the endocannabinoid system, moving on to assess endocannabinoid roles across human lifespans, and in behavioral control.Final sections of the book explore the use of endocannabinoids in psychiatric and neurological disorders. This is a vital resource for neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists... and neuropathologists, as well as any researcher seeking detailed discussions of brain endocannabinoid functions.
    • The Handbook of Non-Invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation in the Cognitive Domain

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 34
      • November 1, 2025
      • Vincent Van Waes + 4 more
      • English
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      The Handbook of Non-Invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation in the Cognitive Domain serves as an essential resource, capturing the latest advancements and scientific insights into non-invasive brain stimulation methods. This comprehensive volume delves into various techniques such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and low-intensity transcranial electrical stimulation. It highlights their application in understanding psychophysiology and enhancing cognitive performance in both experimental models and healthy individuals. Such methods offer substantial promise in unraveling the complexities of neural network dynamics and cognitive functions. In addition to discussing foundational methods and experimental models, the book also explores therapeutic applications for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.These multimodal brain stimulation approaches present innovative avenues for potential treatments. By integrating both theoretical and practical perspectives, this handbook not only reviews existing data but also opens new horizons for future research and clinical applications, providing invaluable insights for professionals in the field.
    • Video Health Monitoring in Hospitals

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Wenjin Wang + 3 more
      • English
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      Video Health Monitoring in Hospitals discusses the emergence of camera-based, contactless physiological measurement as a groundbreaking solution in healthcare monitoring. The book highlights the technology's non-invasiveness, capacity for continuous and long-term monitoring, and its ability to capture not only vital signs but also contextual information and behaviors. A unique aspect of this book is its rich set of compelling healthcare applications that will attract broader audiences (including researchers, engineers, clinicians, and students) from multidisciplinary fields.Finally, the book discusses the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing healthcare applications and aims to engage the healthcare industry in adopting this innovative approach to improve patient care and outcomes.