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Recent Developments in Nanomaterial-based Sensing of Human Pathogens

1st Edition
March 11, 2024
Seshadri Reddy Ankireddy + 1 more
English
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Recent Developments in Nanomaterial-based Sensing of Human Pathogens is a comprehensive book providing recent insights into nanomaterial-based sensing of human pathogens. The chapters cover diverse topics, including nanosensor analytical properties, the intersection of nanosensors and biological markers in pathogenic diseases, nanodevices in neurological infections, foodborne pathogen detection, viral and bacterial biomarkers, fungal disease diagnostics, mycoplasma-triggered inflammation, protozoan diseases, and mycoplasma clinical detection. This book serves as a valuable resource showcasing cutting-edge advancements in nanotechnology for pathogen detection, contributing to improved diagnosis and disease management across various domains.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

1st Edition
March 13, 2024
Joseph JY Sung + 1 more
English
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: From Ethical, Social, and Legal Perspectives provides answers on how to improve acceptance and diminish the anxiety of the use of AI-assisted medicine. Through a series of social, ethical, and legal discussions from clinicians, social scientists, ethicists, and legal experts, this important reference has coverage that includes good data custodianship and stewardship, data access, data bias, data & healthcare equity, privacy and confidentiality, algorithmic understanding, and regulatory guidance, accountability, and legal responsibility.This reference will explain to healthcare providers how AI will enhance healthcare, will introduce to scientists and researchers the ethical and social aspect of AI that needs to be addressed, and will urge policymakers and health authorities to consider the legal framework needed to implement AI technology in healthcare.

Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging

1st Edition
November 25, 2024
Marco Lorenzi + 1 more
English
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Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging brings together scientific researchers, medical experts, and industry partners working in the field of trustworthiness, bridging the gap between AI research and concrete medical applications and making it a learning resource for undergraduates, masters students, and researchers in AI for medical imaging applications.The book will help readers acquire the basic notions of AI trustworthiness and understand its concrete application in medical imaging, identify pain points and solutions to enhance trustworthiness in medical imaging applications, understand current limitations and perspectives of trustworthy AI in medical imaging, and identify novel research directions.Although the problem of trustworthiness in AI is actively researched in different disciplines, the adoption and implementation of trustworthy AI principles in real-world scenarios is still at its infancy. This is particularly true in medical imaging where guidelines and standards for trustworthiness are critical for the successful deployment in clinical practice. After setting out the technical and clinical challenges of AI trustworthiness, the book gives a concise overview of the basic concepts before presenting state-of-the-art methods for solving these challenges.

Microbial Vitamins and Carotenoids in Food Biotechnology

1st Edition
May 3, 2024
Syed Amir Ashraf + 1 more
English
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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.

Cilia Signaling in Development and Disease

1st Edition
Volume 155
November 27, 2023
English
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Cilia Signaling in Development and Disease, Volume 155 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Cilia and mTOR signaling, Cilia and Kidney, Extraciliary functions of IFT proteins, Cilia and eye stem cells, Cilia and eye development, Cryo-EM/ET and cilia structure, and Control of protein and lipid composition of photoreceptor outer segments and the implications for eye diseases.

The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates

4th Edition
December 22, 2023
George Paxinos + 2 more
English
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The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive and accurate atlas of the monkey brain. The fourth edition of this classic book is a complete revision featuring many improvements and upgrades. Constructed by the established leaders in neuroanatomical atlas development, the new edition will continue to be the indispensable resource for all scientists working on the primate nervous system.

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition

4th Edition
March 2, 2023
Benjamin Caballero
English
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**Encyclope... of Human Nutrition, Fourth Edition, a Four Volume Set, provides updated information on the foundations of nutrition science, along with the biology and functions of vitamins and other essential nutrients present in the human diet. The book's content offers a modern understanding of the links between diet and health effects, including diseases of recognized nutritional etiology. This overview of the genetic and molecular aspects of nutrient-health interrelationships includes important content on topics like nutrigenomics, metabolomics and the microbiome. In addition, the book provides global context, particularly on the issue of food production, sustainability and climate change.The new edition carries on the legacy of a reference work that comprehensively offers a one-source, integrated bank of information on all three areas – food, nutrition science and clinical nutrition.

Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly

1st Edition
Volume 37
July 19, 2023
Aleš Iglič︎ + 2 more
English
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Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, Volume 37 provides a comprehensive compilation of recent developments in a field that is in a state of rapid growth as new experimental and theoretical techniques are used on many problems, both old and new. Topics covered include related applied areas, such as atmospheric science, astrophysics, surface physics, and laser physics, with timely articles written by experts. New chapters in this updated release include Engulfment of particles by vesicles containing curved membrane proteins coupled with active cytoskeletal forces, Interaction of cells with different types of nanostructured surfaces, Solid-supported lipid bilayer formation by solvent exchange, and more.

Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology

1st Edition
Volume 48
April 3, 2023
Abdulrahman Al-Majed
English
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Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology, Volume 48 encompasses review articles and database compilations that fall within one or more of the following five broad categories: Physical Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; ADME Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; Methodology Related to the Characterization of Drug Substances and Excipients; Methods of Chemical Synthesis. There is no comparable book series that gives this crucial information in such a timely and relevant manner. The volume offers in-depth profiles of Brimonidine, Cristine, Remdesivir, Vandetanib, and Lapatinib. It also includes an additional chapter on Pharmaceutical-Based Cosmetic Serums.

Dietary Lipids: Nutritional and Technological Aspects

1st Edition
Volume 105
July 27, 2023
English
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Dietary Lipids: Nutritional and Technological Aspects, Volume 105 focuses on major dietary lipids and their minor bioactive compounds, also covering the role of these lipids in metabolic diseases and covering oil processing with clean technologies and lipidomic characterization by mass spectrometry. Specific chapters in this new release include Major Dietary Lipids in Nutrition and Health, Minor bioactive lipids, Cleaner Processing for Lipids: Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Short Path Distillation, Nutritional Lipidomics for the Characterization of Lipids in Food, We are what we eat? The Role of Lipids in Metabolic Disease, Lipid Emulsions in Clinical Nutrition: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and much more.

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