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  • Bioremediation of Emerging Contaminants from Soils

    Soil Health Conservation for Improved Ecology and Food Security
    • 1st Edition
    • Prasann Kumar + 4 more
    • English
    Bioremediation of Emerging Contaminants from Soils: Soil Health Conservation for Improved Ecology and Food Security deals with current challenges of sustainable soil health using eco-friendly approaches. This book provides ways of reducing the chemical burden on the soil by maintaining balance in terms of society, environment, and economy, which are considered basic pillars of sustainability.Desig... to highlight soil health best practices for both environmental and agricultural sustainability, these approaches are also considered important for improving global food security by ensuring safe growing conditions for crops for food and feed. Presented in two parts, this book first highlights emerging contaminants and their sources. The second part explores a variety of steps and tools for addressing contaminated soils, including bio- and phytoremediation options. Case studies in each part provide real-world insights for practical application.

  • Nanobiotechnology for Food Processing and Packaging

    • 1st Edition
    • Jay Singh + 4 more
    • English
    Nanobiotechnology for Food Processing and Packaging covers nanomaterials' application as an eco-friendly, greener, cost-effective and easy handling and management approach that can help prevent various high-level physical, biological and chemical contamination in foodstuff. Written by experts from a multidisciplinary perspective, each chapter addresses nanomaterials' application as a sustainable tool for the management of uncountable food processing and packaging challenges. Sections focus on nanobiotechnology in processing and packaging, considering food quality, safety and management aspects. The book also highlights various preparative methods and antimicrobial/antifu... activities, including the mechanism of the antimicrobial action of various bionanocomposites and food toxin detection nanobiosensor nano additives.Other sections cover possible food toxin detection, food packaging, and materials such as nanomaterials, nanocomposites, carbon-based nanomaterials, polymer-based nanocomposites and various binary and tertiary nanocomposites and their mechanistic approach.

  • Current Omics Advancement in Plant Abiotic Stress Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Deepesh Bhatt + 3 more
    • English
    Current Omics Advancement in Plant Abiotic Stress Biology investigates the causal molecular factors underlying the respective mechanisms orchestrated by plants to help alleviate abiotic stress. Despite available knowledge of abiotic stresses in crop plants and high throughput tools and biotechnologies, in this book, a systematic effort has been made for integrating omics interventions across major sorts of abiotic stresses with special emphasis to major food crops infused with detailed mechanistic understanding, which would furthermore help contribute in dissecting the interdisciplinary areas of omics-driven plant abiotic stress biology in a much better manner.It focuses on the integration of multi-OMICS biotechnologies in deciphering molecular intricacies of plant abiotic stress, namely drought, salt, cold, heat, and heavy metals in major C3 and C4 food crops. Together with this, the book provides updated knowledge of a common and unique set of molecular intricacies playing a vital role in coping up severe abiotic stresses in plants deploying multi-OMICS approaches.

  • Neurovision chez l'enfant et troubles des apprentissages

    • 1st Edition
    • Michèle Mazeau + 1 more
    • French
    L'ouvrageLa vision est à la fois l’un de nos meilleurs outils pour explorer notre environnement et un ressort capital des apprentissages.Souve... masqués, ne se révélant alors que par des troubles des apprentissages, les dysfonctionnements neurovisuels sont complexes et pluriels, pouvant concerner l’attention visuelle ou visuo-spatiale, les stratégies d’exploration visuelle, l’organisation visuo-spatiale du geste ou encore l’interprétation des images rétiniennes (gnosies).Cet ouvrage aborde ainsi en trois temps les liens entre neurovision et troubles des apprentissages chez l’enfant :• l’analyse du message visuel à partir du chiasma optique, la description des voies empruntées et des connexions cérébrales ;• les méthodes d’exploration des fonctions visuelles et neurovisuelles ainsi que l’interprétation des bilans spécifiques ;• l’impact de ces troubles dans les apprentissages scolaires (dyslexies/dysorthog... dyspraxies, dyscalculies), les caractéristiques de leurs manifestations cliniques, ainsi que les principales stratégies d’aide pour un accompagnement efficace des jeunes concernés.Le publicL’objectif est ici de proposer aux psychologues-neurops... médecins (pédiatres et médecins traitants, médecins scolaires, médecins des PCO, des CRTLA, de la MDPH), rééducateurs (orthophonistes, ergothérapeutes, psychomotriciens et orthoptistes), les données qui leur permettront de comprendre et prendre en charge les troubles neurovisuels dans le cadre plus large des troubles neurodéveloppementau... auteursMichèle Mazeau est médecin de rééducation, neuropsychologie de l’enfant (TND : dys et troubles des apprentissages, https://dr-michele-m... Dalens est ophtalmologiste des hôpitaux, centre de rééducation pour déficients visuels et Sessad Victor-Duruy, Clermont-Ferrand.

  • Progress and Prospect of Nanocarriers

    Design, Concept, and Recent Advances
    • 1st Edition
    • Sushil K. Kashaw + 2 more
    • English
    Progress and Prospect of Nanocarriers: Design, Concept, and Recent Advances examines the different nanocarriers that are currently being developed for specific applications in biomedical drug delivery, disease management, diagnosis and therapy. Nanosized drug delivery systems have gained tremendous amounts of clinical interest due to their effective bio-distribution and enhanced pharmacokinetic and selective targeting capability which results in high therapeutic potential, low side effects, and the generation of cost-effective drug delivery systems. Numerous effective nanocarriers have been evolving, including polymeric nanoparticles, liposomes, microspheres, dendrimers, and carbon nanotubes.This book is a helpful reference for scientists and students in the fields of drug delivery, biomaterials and nanomedicine, as well as scientists and engineers in industrial disciplines of drug delivery and drug formulation.

  • Biocatalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis

    • 1st Edition
    • Gonzalo De Gonzalo + 1 more
    • English
    Biocatalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers of Enzymology series, offers an applied discussion on synthesizing biological catalysts using asymmetric synthesis for varying applications. Here, global experts in the field analyze a wide variety of biocatalysts and their physical states, process conditions for their asymmetric synthesis, solvents required during synthesis, and even downstream procedures for the recovery of final products. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, merging fundamental biology and its synthetic applications across industries with a wide range of practical examples, from directed evolution to biotransformation and production of novel enzymes and non-conventional catalysts. Throughout the book, the impact and application of biocatalysis in sustainable processing is considered in-depth. This book will also help non-experts in biocatalysis to apply this knowledge in their own research, providing a thorough overview of the ways asymmetric biocatalytic approaches may be adapted for different disciplines and downstream products.

  • Microbial Vitamins and Carotenoids in Food Biotechnology

    Novel Source and Potential Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Syed Amir Ashraf + 1 more
    • English
    Microbial Vitamins and Carotenoids in Food Biotechnology: Novel Source and Potential Applications provides important insights to help readers understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the microbial biosynthesis of vitamins and carotenoids. The book's chapters put forward all the latest advancements concerning the production and applications of microbial vitamins and carotenoids. It also provides a sustainable alternative to chemically synthesized compounds and presents wide coverage on the most promising sources of vitamins and carotenoids in food and pharmaceutical industries.This is a complete and unique resource beneficial for the scientific communities as well as food science and nutrition research students.

  • Integrative Omics

    Concept, Methodology, and Application
    • 1st Edition
    • Manish Kumar Gupta + 3 more
    • English
    Integrative Omics: Concept, Methodology and Application provides a holistic and integrated view of defining and applying network approaches, integrative tools, and methods to solve problems for the rationalization of genotype to phenotype relationships. The reference provides systemic ‘step-by-step’ coverage that begins with basic concepts from Omic to Multi Integrative Omics approaches followed by applications and emerging and future trends. All areas of Omics are covered, including biological databases, sequence alignment, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics and microbial omics, integrated omics for Food Science and Identification of genes associated with disease, clinical data integration and data warehousing, translational omics, technology policy, and society research. This book covers recent concepts, methodologies, advancements in technologies and is also well-suited for researchers from both academic and industry background, undergraduate and graduate students who are mainly working in the area of computational systems biology, integrative omics and translational science.

  • Cranial Surgery - Part 2

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 285
    • English
    This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century. The methods of conveying information by text and image are considered.

  • Colorimetric Sensors

    Techniques to Measure Food Safety and Quality
    • 1st Edition
    • Haroon Elrasheid Tahir + 3 more
    • English
    Colorimetric Sensors: Techniques to Measure Food Safety and Quality explores the latest advancements in colorimetric sensors/indicators and their applications. It consolidates state-of-the-art developments and current approaches in the fabrication of colorimetric sensors/indicators for cutting-edge applications. This book documents the principles of colorimetric sensors, sensor fabrication and characterization, sensitivity and detection limits of colorimetric sensors based on natural pigments, synthetic dyes, and nanotechnologies, as well as safety, quality controls, and regulatory aspects, followed by an assessment of their safety and quality. In addition, global trends in the application of colorimetric sensors in monitoring food freshness, challenges, marketing, and potential future development applications are addressed in detail. How the applications of colorimetric sensors/indicators in the analysis of cereal and cereal-based products, meat and meat products, liquid and semiliquid foods, food authentication, food toxicants, and pathogens, among others, is also discussed. This book can be used as a textbook for graduate students, a reference book for medical biologists, nanobiotechnologists... nanoengineers, agricultural scientists, and general biologists, and an inspiration for industrialists and policymakers studying smart nanomaterials. Graduate students and food scientists of all levels will also benefit.

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