Books in Bioengineering and manufacturing

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Advances in 3D and 4D Printing of Medical Robots and Devices

• 1st Edition
• May 1, 2025
• Ankit Sharma + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-24861-0

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• eBook 978-0-443-24867-2

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Advances in 3D and 4D Printing of Medical Robots and Devices presents the most recent innovative breakthroughs in smart manufacturing and biomedical engineering to help enhance knowledge and expertise in 3D/4D printing technologies and advancements in biomedical applications through robotics and medical devices. This book highlights the usage and importance of 3D/4D printing-based prototyping as well as the manufacturing of robotic elements such as energy generators, morphology control, and novel design strategies. This book will help readers to pursue contemporary insights into currently ongoing practices in biomedical and mechatronic engineering including the fabrication of actuators manufacturing; muscles, vibration dampers, bio-inspired structures, pre-surgical and post-surgical tooling, medical assistance robots, drug delivery, microfluidic, and wearable electronics. Academic scholars, manufacturing scientists, and commercial manufacturers of bio-devices and medical robotics will find this book to be useful in adopting competent biomaterials as well as innovative techniques for applications in biomedical engineering.

Effect of High-Pressure Technologies on Enzymes

• 1st Edition
• February 6, 2023
• Bruno Ricardo de Castro Leite Júnior + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-98386-0

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• eBook 978-0-323-98582-6

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Effect of High-Pressure Technologies on Enzyme: Science and Applications provides a deep, practical discussion of high-pressure processing (HPP) and high-pressure homogenization (HPH) technologies and biochemical approaches, applied across research and industry, with applications  ranging from food to pharmaceuticals and commercial enzyme production. Early chapters discuss foundational aspects of HPP and HPH approaches; the science of enzyme modification; and basic aspects of enzyme activity, stability, and structure as studied in biochemical processes. Later chapters consider the effect of HPP and HPH technologies and their mechanisms of controlling enzyme modification to improve enzyme performance for chosen applications. Special attention is paid to the application of HPP and HPH technologies and enzyme modifications in food processing, microbial enzyme modification, drug discovery, and production of other commercial enzymes, as well as the challenges of undesirable enzyme inactivation. The final chapter discusses future directions of the field and technologies, and expanded applications.

Modern Practical Healthcare Issues in Biomedical Instrumentation

• 1st Edition
• September 22, 2021
• Dilber Uzun Ozsahin + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-85413-9

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Modern Practical Healthcare Issues in Biomedical Instrumentation describes the designs, applications and principles of several medical devices used in hospitals and at home. The book presents practical devices that can potentially be used for healthcare purposes. Sections cover the use of biosensors to monitor the physiological properties of the human body, focusing on devices used to evaluate, measure and manipulate the biological system, and highlighting practical devices that can potentially be used for healthcare purposes. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students of biomedical engineering.

Micro and Nano Systems for Biophysical Studies of Cells and Small Organisms

• 1st Edition
• August 14, 2021
• Xinyu Liu + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-823990-2

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• eBook 978-0-12-824243-8

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Micro and Nano Systems for Biophysical Studies of Cells and Small Organisms provides a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art micro and nano systems that have recently been developed and applied to biophysical studies of cells and small organisms. These micro and nano systems span from microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidic devices to robotic micro-nanomanipulation systems. These biophysical studies range from cell mechanics to the neural science of worms and Drosophila. This book will help readers understand the fundamentals surrounding the development of these tools and teach them the most recent advances in cellular and organismal biophysics enabled by these technologies.

Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells

• 1st Edition
• May 12, 2021
• Mingyang Xie
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-823449-5

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• eBook 978-0-12-823592-8

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Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells gives a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of modeling, sensing, and control techniques or experimentally exploring emerging trends in optical manipulation of biological cell in micro/nanorobotics systems. To achieve biomedical applications, reliability design, modeling, and precision control are vitally important for the development of engineering systems. With the advances in modeling, sensing, and control techniques, it is opportunistic to exploit them for the benefit of reliability design, actuation, and precision control of micro/nanomanipulation systems to expanding the applications of robot at the micro and nano scales, especially in biomedical engineering. This book presents new techniques in reliability modeling and advanced control of robot-aided optical manipulation of biological cells systems. The book will be beneficial to the researchers within robotics, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, and automatic control society, including both academic and industrial parts.

3D Printing in Medicine and Surgery

• 1st Edition
• August 14, 2020
• Daniel J. Thomas + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-08-102542-0

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3D Printing in Medicine and Surgery: Applications in Healthcare is an advanced book on surgical and enhanced medical applications that can be achieved with 3D printing. It is an essential handbook for medical practitioners, giving access to a range of practical methods, while also focusing on applied knowledge. This comprehensive resource features practical experiments and processes for preparing 3D printable materials. Early chapters cover foundational knowledge and background reading, while later chapters discuss and review the current technologies used to engineer specific tissue types, experiments and methods, medical approaches and the challenges that lie ahead for future research. The book is an indispensable reference guide to the various methods used by current medical practitioners working at the forefront of 3D printing applications in medicine.

Intelligence-Based Medicine

• 1st Edition
• June 27, 2020
• Anthony C. Chang
• English
• Hardback 978-0-12-823337-5

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Intelligence-Based Medicine: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Cognition in Clinical Medicine and Healthcare provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence concepts and methodologies with real life applications in healthcare and medicine. Authored by a senior physician-data scientist, the book presents an intellectual and academic interface between the medical and the data science domains that is symmetric and balanced.The content consists of basic concepts of artificial intelligence and its real-life applications in a myriad of medical areas as well as medical and surgical subspecialties. It brings section summaries to emphasize key concepts delineated in each section; mini-topics authored by world-renowned experts in the respective key areas for their personal perspective; and a compendium of practical resources, such as glossary, references, best articles, and top companies.The goal of the book is to inspire clinicians to embrace the artificial intelligence methodologies as well as to educate data scientists about the medical ecosystem, in order to create a transformational paradigm for healthcare and medicine by using this emerging new technology.

Lignocellulosics

• 1st Edition
• March 14, 2020
• Ilari Filpponen + 2 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-12-804077-5

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• eBook 978-0-12-804115-4

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Lignocellulosics: Renewable Feedstock for (Tailored) Functional Materials and Nanotechnology gives a comprehensive overview of recent advances in using lignocellulosic substrates in materials science and nanotechnology. The functionalization and processing of lignocellulosics are described via a number of examples that cover films, gels, sensors, pharmaceutics and energy storage. In addition to the research related to functional cellulose nanomaterials, there has been an increased interest in research on lignin and lignocellulosics. This book explains how utilizing biomaterials as a raw material allows ambitious reconstruction of smart materials that are green and multifunctional. As lignin as a valuable material has gained a lot of attention in the last few years, shifting from purely extraction and fundamental characterization, and now also focusing on the preparation of exciting materials, such as nanoparticles, readers will find this to be a comprehensive resource on the topic.

Measuring Capacity to Care Using Nursing Data

• 1st Edition
• March 13, 2020
• Evelyn Hovenga + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-816977-3

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Measuring Capacity to Care Using Nursing Data presents evidence-based solutions regarding the adoption of safe staffing principles and the optimum use of operational data to enable health service delivery strategies that result in improved patient and organizational outcomes. Readers will learn how to make better use of informatics to collect, share, link and process data collected operationally for the purpose of providing real-time information to decision- makers. The book discusses topics such as dynamic health care environments, health care operational inefficiencies and costly events, how to measure nursing care demand, nursing models of care, data quality and governance, and big data. The content of the book is a valuable source for graduate students in informatics, nurses, nursing managers and several members involved in health care who are interested in learning more about the beneficial use of informatics for improving their services.

Pan-genomics: Applications, Challenges, and Future Prospects

• 1st Edition
• March 6, 2020
• Debmalya Barh + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-817076-2

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Pan-genomics: Applications, Challenges, and Future Prospects covers current approaches, challenges and future prospects of pan-genomics. The book discusses bioinformatics tools and their applications and focuses on bacterial comparative genomics in order to leverage the development of precise drugs and treatments for specific organisms. The book is divided into three sections: the first, an "overview of pan-genomics and common approaches,” brings the main concepts and current approaches on pan-genomics research; the second, “case studies in pan-genomics,” thoroughly discusses twelve case, and the last, “current approaches and future prospects in pan-multiomics”, encompasses the developments on omics studies to be applied on bacteria related studies. This book is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, genomics researchers and several members of biomedical field interested in understanding further bacterial organisms and their relationship to human health.