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  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50
    • Ephraim M. Sparrow + 2 more
    • English
    Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 50, provides in-depth review articles from a broader scope than in traditional journals or texts, with this comprehensive release covering chapters on Heat Transfer in Rotating Channels, Advances in Liquid Metal Science and Technology in Chip Cooling and Thermal Management, Heat Transfer in Rotating Cooling Channel, Anomalous Heat Transfer: Examples, Fundamentals, and Fractional Calculus Models, and much more.

  • Muscle and Exercise Physiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Jerzy A. Zoladz
    • English
    Muscle and Exercise Physiology is a comprehensive reference covering muscle and exercise physiology, from basic science to advanced knowledge, including muscle power generating capabilities, muscle energetics, fatigue, aging and the cardio-respiratory system in exercise performance. Topics presented include the clinical importance of body responses to physical exercise, including its impact on oxygen species production, body immune system, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, cardiac energetics and its functional reserves, and the health-related effects of physical activity and inactivity. Novel topics like critical power, ROS and muscle, and heart muscle physiology are explored. This book is ideal for researchers and scientists interested in muscle and exercise physiology, as well as students in the biological sciences, including medicine, human movements and sport sciences.

  • Pouchitis and Ileal Pouch Disorders

    A Multidisciplinary Approach for Diagnosis and Management
    • 1st Edition
    • Bo Shen
    • English
    Pouchitis and Ileal Pouch Disorders: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Diagnosis and Management provides much needed information on the evolution of pouch surgery, pouch surgery techniques, and surgery-associated complications, including inflammatory, functional, neoplastic, and metabolic complications. The book provides information on the anatomy of the pouch, pathogenesis of pouchitis and other pouch disorders, proper diagnostic modalities, and medical, endoscopic and surgical options for those disorders. The information has been compiled from a panel of national and international leading experts in the field, including basic scientists, gastrointestinal (GI) pathologists, GI radiologists, gastroenterologists, and more.

  • Imaging in Movement Disorders: Imaging in Atypical Parkinsonism and Familial Movement Disorders

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 142
    • English
    Imaging in Movement Disorders: Imaging in Atypical Parkinsonism and Familial Movement Disorders, Volume 142, addresses the use of imaging modalities across the spectrum of movement disorders and dementias. Over the last decades, advances in neuroimaging tools have played a pivotal role in expanding our understanding of disease aetiology and pathophysiology, identifying biomarkers to monitor disease progression, aiding differential diagnosis and in the identification of novel targets for therapeutic intervention. This updated volume covers PET Molecular Imaging in Atypical Parkinsonism, SPECT Molecular Imaging in Atypical Parkinsonism, Structural MRI in Atypical Parkinsonism, Functional MRI in Atypical Parkinsonism, and more.

  • Electrocardiography of Laboratory Animals

    • 2nd Edition
    • Jeffrey W. Richig + 1 more
    • English
    Electrocardiography of Laboratory Animals, Second Edition, is the only publication covering electrocardiography of laboratory animals. With countries instituting requirements for the care of laboratory animals in research, this publication offers a standard on performing and analyzing ECGs. Topics covered include safety electrocardiography, toxicology, safety pharmacology, and telemetry, all important areas of discussion for biological and medical researchers, veterinarians, zoologists, and students who need to understand the electrocardiography of five species of animals used in research: canines, nonhuman primates, mini pigs, rodents (rats and mice), rabbits and cats.

  • Non-Enzymatic Protein Modifications in Health, Disease and Ageing

    • 1st Edition
    • Izabela Sadowska-Bartosz + 1 more
    • English
    Non-Enzymatic Protein Modifications in Health, Diseases and Ageing discusses each type of non-enzymatic protein, introducing non-enzymatic protein modifications, reviewing the state-of-the-art, and presenting updates and current trends. The book covers various aspects of the subject, including the formation and removal of modified proteins, their roles in disease, preventative methods, and possible roles in cellular signaling. This book not only provides well-established facts, but also discusses current hypotheses and controversies.

  • Brain-Computer Interfaces for Neuroadaptive Human-Computer Interaction

    • 1st Edition
    • Thorsten O. Zander + 1 more
    • English
    Brain-Computer Interfaces for Neuroadaptive Human-Computer Interaction provides comprehensive and rigorous coverage of human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology, neuroscience, engineering, and brain-computer interfaces (BCI). This leading-edge book provides researchers in the field with an understanding of the relevance and application of BCI methods and solutions in the context of HCI and human-machine systems. BrainComputer Interface provides readers with a broad survey of relevant themes, as well as comprehension of the underlying concepts. Furthermore, the book provides fundamental skills necessary to design and set up experiments, and evaluate the results. To this end, the book comprises theoretical sections, as well as explicit instructions, discussions of important questions, summaries, and exercises. Specific points are illustrated using examples of actual experiments and applications, and coverage includes neurophysiological concepts that are relevant to BCI, a history of BCI ideas, methods, and research, fundamentals of experimental BCI research and design, the why and how of applying BCI in HCI contexts, as well as signal processing and machine learning methods using open-source toolboxes.

  • Changing Climate and Resource use Efficiency in Plants

    • 1st Edition
    • Amitav Bhattacharya
    • English
    Changing Climate and Resource Use Efficiency in Plants reviews the efficiencies for resource use by crop plants under different climatic conditions. This book focuses on the challenges and potential remediation methods for a variety of resource factors. Chapters deal with the effects of different climatic conditions on agriculture, radiation use efficiency under various climatic conditions, the efficiency of water and its impact on harvest production under restricted soil moisture conditions, nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency, nitrogen use efficiency in different environmental conditions under the influence of climate change, and various aspects of improving phosphorus use efficiency. The book provides guidance for researchers engaged in plant science studies, particularly Plant/Crop Physiology, Agronomy, Plant Breeding and Molecular Breeding. In addition, it provides valuable insights for policymakers, administrators, plant-based companies and agribusiness companies.

  • Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Changes and Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Isidor Segal
    • English
    Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges provides an in-depth examination into the rise of western digestive diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For those interested in the causes of the major diseases of the ‘West’, the patterns in Africa have always reflected on the emergence of western diseases and elucidated the pattern of these conditions and their clinical course. Coverage includes the present epidemiology of GI diseases in SSA, the trends that are occurring, and the context of other emerging diseases. Appropriate for researchers, gastroenterologists and internists, this book brings together the latest research in a single, complete volume.

  • Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 240
    • English
    Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C, Volume 240, reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for, and perform at, peak levels under the demands of competition. Topics discussed in this new release include The influence of challenge and threat states on affect, perceived exertion, attention, and performance during a competitive sprint cycling task, Prior self-control exertion and perceptions of pain and task importance during a physically demanding task, Enhancing cardiac vagal activity in sport psychology, The influence of cardiac vagal activity on peripheral perception performance under pressure, and much more.

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