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  • Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems

    Volume 1
    • 1st Edition
    • Frede Blaabjerg
    • English
    Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems examines the theory behind power electronic converter control, including operation, modeling and control of basic converters. The book explores how to manipulate components of power electronics converters and systems to produce a desired effect by controlling system variables. Advances in power electronics enable new applications to emerge and performance improvement in existing applications. These advances rely on control effectiveness, making it essential to apply appropriate control schemes to the converter and system to obtain the desired performance.
  • Protein-Protein Interactions in Human Disease, Part A

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 110
    • English
    Protein-Protein Interactions in Human Disease, Part A, Volume 110 aims to promote further research and development in the protein interaction network as a means to not only identify the critical proteins involved in the etiology of human diseases, but also identify new protein targets for drug development. Sections cover such topics as protein-protein interaction modulators for epigenetic therapies, intrinsic disorder, protein-protein interactions and disease, targeting protein-protein interactions in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, the proteomics of occupational diseases, and computational methods in predicting the impact of SNPs in protein-protein network, amongst other topics.
  • International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 336
    • English
    International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology. Volume 336 reviews and details current advances in cell and molecular biology. The IRCMB series has a worldwide readership, maintaining a high standard by publishing invited articles on important and timely topics that are authored by prominent cell and molecular biologists. This updated volume includes specific chapters on Membrane trafficking in autophagy, Targeting the metabolism of leukemic cells, Autophagic flux in Alzheimer's disease, Transcriptional alterations associated with celiac disease, and the Regulation of antitumor immunity by IDO1, amongst other timely topics. The articles published in IRCMB have a high impact and an average cited half-life of 9 years. This great resource ranks high amongst scientific journals dealing with cell biology.
  • Advances in Cancer Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 137
    • English
    Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 137, the latest release in this ongoing, well-regarded serial provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This volume presents original reviews on research bridging oncology and gene expression, with this volume covering unconventional approaches to modulating the immunogenicity of tumor cells, tumor dormancy and immunoediting, the emerging role of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins in chemoresistance, Beclin-1 and autophagy, MDA-7/IL-24, and nanotechnology and medicine.
  • Food Quality: Balancing Health and Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu + 1 more
    • English
    Food Quality: Balancing Health and Disease, Volume Thirteen in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, provides essential information for researchers, scientists and students on the relationship between the quality of foods and disease at the biological level. It presents different technological approaches to detect food properties and their capabilities for balancing health and disease to deliver high-quality products to consumers. This volume explores the dynamic potential of how food bioengineering can improve traditional foods through modern methods to make a positive impact on human health and foster innovation.
  • Interval Finite Element Method with MATLAB

    • 1st Edition
    • Sukanta Nayak + 1 more
    • English
    Interval Finite Element Method with MATLAB provides a thorough introduction to an effective way of investigating problems involving uncertainty using computational modeling. The well-known and versatile Finite Element Method (FEM) is combined with the concept of interval uncertainties to develop the Interval Finite Element Method (IFEM). An interval or stochastic environment in parameters and variables is used in place of crisp ones to make the governing equations interval, thereby allowing modeling of the problem. The concept of interval uncertainties is systematically explained. Several examples are explored with IFEM using MATLAB on topics like spring mass, bar, truss and frame.
  • The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence

    Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology
    • 1st Edition
    • Michael C. Newman
    • English
    The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social and mathematical sciences, the book emphasizes how pollutant-related evidence is gathered, assessed, communicated and applied in decision-making. Each chapter begins with a real-world example before exploring fundamental cognitive, social, statistical or natural science concepts to explain the opening example. Methods from other disciplines for recognizing, reducing or removing the influence of impediments in wise decision-making are highlighted in each chapter. Misreading evidence by the scientific community, and miscommunication to regulators and the public, remain major impediments to wise action in pollution issues. Which evidence comes to dominate the dialogue among scientists, regulators and decision makers depends on social and scientific dynamics. Yet psychological and sociological factors that influence the movement of evidence through scientific communities to regulators receive cursory discussion by professionals unfamiliar with the sociology literature. Toxicologists, environmental scientists, psychologists and professionals and students across the sciences will find the book useful for understanding how evidence is generated, assessed and communicated in their own fields.
  • Skin and Arthropod Vectors

    • 1st Edition
    • Nathalie Boulanger
    • English
    Recent research on skin immunity and the skin microbiome reveals the complexity of the skin and its importance in the development of immunity against arthropod-borne diseases. In diseases such as malaria, borreliosis, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, etc., the skin interface has been shown as an essential site for pathogens to hide from the immune system, and as a potential site of persistence. Only very few vaccines have been successfully developed so far against these diseases, likely because of an insufficient understanding on the development of skin immunity against pathogens. Skin and Arthropod Vectors expands our knowledge on the role of the skin interface during the transmission of arthropod-borne diseases and particularly its immunity. This work may support researchers who strive for developing more efficient diagnostic tools and vaccines. It also gives scientists and advanced students working in related areas a better insight on how humans and animals are attractive to arthropods to develop better repellents, or to set up transgenic arthropods.
  • Apprentices to Genius: A tribute to Solomon H. Snyder

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 82
    • English
    Apprentices to Genius: A tribute to Solomon H. Snyder, a volume in the Advances in Pharmacology series, presents a tribute to Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, highlighting chapters submitted from a broad range of his students. It covers many different areas of neuroscience and pharmacology, with this volume exploring how receptor binding and drug discovery, the emerging role of glutamate in the pathophysiology of mental illness, nitric oxide signaling in neurodegeneration and cell death, carboxypeptidase E and the identification of novel neuropeptides as potential therapeutic targets, the regulation of mitochondrial functions by TSPO, clozapine and its translational investigation, and more.
  • Fe-S Cluster Enzymes Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 599
    • English
    Methods in Enzymology, Volume 599 is the second of two volumes focused on Fe-S cluster enzymes. Topics of interest in this new release include steps towards understanding mitochondrial Fe/S cluster biogenesis, iron sulfur clusters in zinc finger proteins, electrochemistry of Iron-sulfur enzymes, NRVS for Fe in biology and its experiment and basic interpretation, methods for studying iron regulatory protein 1, an important protein in human iron metabolism, the characterization of glutaredoxin Fe-S cluster binding interactions using circular dichroism spectroscopy, fluorescent reporters to track Fe-S cluster assembly and transfer reactions, methods for studying the Fe-S cluster containing base excision repair glycosylase MUTYH, and more.