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Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention

• 2nd Edition
• December 1, 2024
• Victor R Preedy + 1 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-443-13868-3

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Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention presents a comprehensive look at the compounds in coffee, their benefits (or toxicity risks), and explores coffee as it relates to specific health conditions. Embracing a holistic approach, this book covers the coffee plant, the major varieties of coffee, and its nutritional and compositional properties. Coffee’s impact on human health, disease risk and prevention comprise the majority of the text. Diseases covered including Alzheimer’s, anxiety and depression, asthma cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and more. The book also covers coffee’s impact on organs and organ systems, including the cardiovascular system, the immune system, the gut microbiome, and the muscular system.Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention is the only book on the market that covers all varieties of coffee in one volume and their potential benefits and risks to human health. This is an essential reference for researchers in nutrition, dietetics, food science, biochemistry, and public health.

Tea in Health and Disease Prevention

• 2nd Edition
• December 1, 2024
• Victor R Preedy + 1 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-443-14158-4

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While there is a nearly universal agreement that drinking tea can benefit health, information on the benefits or toxicity risks of drinking tea are scattered, leaving definitive answers difficult to ascertain. Tea in Health and Disease Prevention, 2nd Edition once again addresses this problem, bringing together all the latest and most relevant information on tea and its health effects into one comprehensive resource. The book covers compounds in black, green, and white teas and explores their health implications, first more generally, then in terms of specific organ systems and diseases. With over 75% brand new content, this fully reorganized, updated edition covers a wider range of tea varieties and beneficial compounds found in tea, such as polyphenols and antioxidants.Tea in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition is an organized, efficient resource that will help readers find quick answers to questions and will help inspire further studies for those interested in tea research. This is a must-have reference for researchers in food science and nutrition, as well as nutritionists and dieticians.

Diagnosis and Management of Poultry Coccidiosis

• 1st Edition
• December 1, 2024
• John Robert Barta + 5 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21628-2

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Diagnosis and Management of Poultry Coccidiosis provides a comprehensive overview of current trends in the control of Eimeria and coccidiosis. Chicken coccidiosis cost the global economy $12.58 billion in 2016, including lost productivity and expenditures associated with prevention and treatment. As a result, chicken producers have developed several management approaches to combat coccidiosis. With consumer and regulatory pressure, nutritional interventions, and the need to identify anticoccidial alternatives that do not impair growth performance, this book contemplates the antibiotic-free future of the chicken industry.Initial chapters in this book introduce readers to chicken coccidiosis and the identification and diagnosis of the Eimeria parasite. Subsequent chapters describe innate and adaptive immune responses of poultry to Eimeria and delve into the purification of Eimeria lifecycle stages and in vitro culture systems for the study of Eimeria. The latter half of the book examines a variety of modern immunization measures, dietary interventions, and anticoccidial medications designed to combat coccidiosis.

Evapotranspiration in Agro-Ecosystems and Forestry

• 1st Edition
• December 1, 2024
• Suat Irmak
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21649-7

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Evapotranspiration in Agro-Ecosystems and Forestry: Spatio-temporal Applications presents the progress and advances made in terms of science and application of evaporation, transpiration, and evapotranspiration for various vegetation surfaces, water bodies, and bare soil under different soil and crop management (including different irrigation and tillage management) conditions. Sections on forest and wetlands evapotranspiration and grassland evaporative losses are included, as are the fundamentals of original Penman, Penman-Monteith, Shuttleworth-Wallace and ASCE-EWRI and FAO56 Penman-Monteith equations and their derivatives.The book is an excellent resource to better understand the progression and applications and dynamics of most recent evapotranspiration, evaporation and transpiration measurement and modeling technologies. Case studies will be provided in terms of how different technologies are currently deployed, how data are used for providing information and management decisions to the users.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates

• 4th Edition
• November 1, 2024
• James H. Thorp
• English
• Hardback 978-0-12-804224-3

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Each book of the series Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition is developed to be the most modern and consistent set of taxonomic keys on the region. The design of the series provides a highly comprehensive, current set of keys in one place for each of these bioregions, with all keys written in a consistent style. This book can be used to the full spectrum of interested readers, from students through to university professors and government agenciesVolume V: Keys to Fauna of the Australian Bioregion focuses on Australia and New Zealand, providing an all-in-one reference for taxonomic classifications across this diverse bioregion and indispensable for biomonitoring and other studies of environmental health.

Effects of Climate Change on Forests

• 1st Edition
• November 1, 2024
• Fabrizio D'Aprile
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-815024-5

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Effects of Climate Change on Forests: An Evidence-Based Primer for Sustainable Management of Temperate and Mediterranean Forests presents concepts, case studies and the application of theories about forest management under climate change. It provides invaluable insight to how forest planning and management tie into the ecological functioning and resilience of the forest, and does so by utilizing a concept weakly implemented in traditional forest planning: namely, by following the variability in growth, and other processes, over time. This shift in focus better incorporates the services provided by forests, and allows for better adaptation planning to help temperate forests not only survive but thrive in the face of climate change. Real-world case studies demonstrate how to effectively manage temperate forests under climate change, using the results of evidence-based research.

Applied Advanced Technologies in Marine Fish Aquaculture

• 1st Edition
• November 1, 2024
• Daniel Benetti
• English
• Hardback 978-0-12-824287-2

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Applied Advanced Technologies in Marine Fish Aquaculture provides basic guidelines, suggestions and recommendations on some of the most advanced methods for farming tropical and sub-tropical marine fish from hatchery to harvest. The book describes original technical protocols to assist the reader in most stages of project development, from inception to operation at both research and commercial levels. Written by top experts, the book conveys over 30 years of experience working with more than 20 species of commercially important marine fish species in the world. It is an ideal guidebook for aquaculturists, biologists and project managers, but is also ideal for graduate students, technicians and researchers from both the private and commercial sectors.

Insect Anatomy

• 1st Edition
• November 1, 2024
• Bernard Moussian
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-85619-5

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Insect Anatomy: Structure and Function provides both morphological and anatomical descriptions of insect tissues and organs using updated methods. Insects play important roles in diverse ecosystems, with subsequent, tremendous impacts on human society through disease, agriculture effects, and more. Both beneficial and detrimental insect species continuously challenge agriculture and medicine. Written by international experts of insect morphology and anatomy, this book offers concise descriptions of all part of an insect’s anatomy, including the brain and nervous system, tracheal system, blood, reproductive organs, and kidney system.The book also covers external insect parts such as antennae, wings and different forms of insect epidermis. Insect tissues and organs are analyzed as they relate to gene and protein function in distinct types of cells, tissues, and organs.

Horse Pasture Management

• 2nd Edition
• November 1, 2024
• Paul H. Sharpe
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95084-8

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Horse Pasture Management, Second Edition provides updated coverage on strategies for managing behavior, grouping, environments and feeding needs of grazing horses. Sections cover the structure, function and identification of forages, continuing into nutritional value of pasture plants. Management of soil, the function of a pasture ecosystem and management of plants in a pasture is covered next, followed by forage yield determination, horse grazing behavior, feed choices of horses, management of grazing horses, and how to calculate how many horses should be grazing relative to land size. Advantages of grazing more than one species of animal are described. Management of hay and silage are included since year-round grazing is not possible on many horse farms. Several chapters deal with interactions of a horse farm with the environment, including climate and weather and other living things. The book also covers strategies for managing manure, erosion, and water quality. It is ideal for researchers, scientists and students involved in animal science, specifically equine studies. Agriculturists, equine managers and veterinarians will also find this book useful.

Health Benefits of Seaweed Bioactives and Potential Food Applications

• 1st Edition
• November 1, 2024
• Amit K. Jaiswal + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95949-0

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Health Benefits of Seaweed Bioactives and Potential Food Applications explores the current development and broad application of seaweed in the food industry and beyond, including the bioactives available from seaweed, their associated health benefits, and potential applications. Broken into three parts, this book covers a range of topics, including seaweed as a source of bioactive proteins, peptides, and amino acids, anti-inflammatory properties of seaweed, and nutraceutical and functional food applications. Written for food and nutrition researchers, manufacturers, producers, and academics, this book will be a handy reference for those who want to use seaweed in high-value food products.